You are not so much a part of the machine as you are the reason the machine runs at all.A.J. Marini spent thirty years building video games (boss fights, difficulty curves, exploits). Then his own game glitched. A studio collapsed, a career trajectory crashed, a father died. He started wondering if the rules he'd been coding into other people's worlds were running quietly underneath his own.Fixing the Sim is what came out of that. Part physics, part philosophy, part the tru...

I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of t...

**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFeatured in Entertainment Weekly, People, The Millions, and USA TODAY“An unforgettable and resplendent novel which will take its place among the great historical fiction written about World War II.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife**A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas refuge they had b...

From the internationally bestselling author of The German Girl, an unforgettable, “searing” (People) saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children—perfect for fans of Lilac Girls, We Were the Lucky Ones, and The Alice Network.Seven decades of secrets unravel with the arrival of a box of letters from the distant past, taking readers on a har...

Your Ultimate Guide to Book 1 in 3 Cold Calls"The #1 reason for failure in sales is an empty pipeline. And the #1 reason your pipeline is empty is that you avoid cold calling. In this book, Armand & Nick inspire you to get past your mental hangups, pick up the phone, and start cold calling. Read it now. Your bank account will thank you!"- JEB BLOUNT, bestselling author of Fanatical ProspectingCold calling is painful and uncomfortabl...

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby i...

Book Two of the "Barboza Brothers" series. Look for Book One "Fresh Temptation" - FREE - here at Kobo.Contemporary, steamy romance...Their secret wedding should have been the happiest event of their lives. Armando Barboza and Katie McCormack were both eighteen years old and fresh out of high school when Katie's father brutally ripped them apart.Ten years later, a simple phone call turns Armando's life upside down and sends him running home ...

In the vein of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware, a bold and suspenseful psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered—from the author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn’t been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhatt...

“ A literary grandmaster.” —TimeFirst published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third edition was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the imperialist, capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons.Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney—curiously parentless, marginalized, always short of cash—Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart d...

'It's the kind of f***-up that would normally have Malcolm Tucker, Number 10's Communications Director, the master of spin and the "Matrix" spitting blood ... No, the guilty party in this instance is none other than Tucker himself. The man who likes to keep an iron grip on every news item in the media and every policy announcement that comes out of the government, has only gone and LEFT A CONFIDENTIAL FILE ON A TRAIN: The DoSAC Files.'Based around the idea that Ki...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This practical and easy-to-use guide offers simple, evidence-based strategies for managing intrusive thoughts and reducing their impact on your life. Drawing on the latest research in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the book provides practical tips and exercises to help you challenge and overcome your intrusive thoughts.You'll learn how to identify the triggers that lead to your intrusive thoughts and develo...

For readers whose hearts were broken by The Tattooist of Auschwitz'Correa’s prose is atmospheric, but what’s most fascinating about this novel is his portrayal of terrified yet strong female characters' New York TimesNew York City, 2015: Eighty-year-old Elise Duval is a French Catholic who arrived in New York after the Second World War. When a woman from Cuba visits with letters written in German to Elise ...