'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day . . . At six in the morning, she's strangled, not in her room, but in the basement locker room'Below stairs at a glamorous hotel on the Champs-Élysées, the workers' lives are worlds away from the luxury enjoyed by the wealthy guests. When their worlds meet, Maigret discovers a tragic story of ambi...

Your favorite horror anthology is back with another issue of tantalizingly gruesome original stories!Brock’s unsettling journey continues in “The Arrangement Part Two,” where he’s become overwhelmed by the physical changes from his pregnancy. But Dr. Alan reassures him everything’s completely normal, stabbing pains and all! You won’t believe what happens next in this gut-wrenching body horror tale from writer Mark Bouchard and arti...

Amid the current firestorm of interest in women’s basketball, Natasha Howard reveals the tremendous obstacles she overcame to become a three-time WNBA champion who continues to excel on the hardwood.The past three years have seen a worldwide explosion of interest in women’s basketball and the rise of young superstars like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers. As the audience grows exponentially, the public is hungry to know more about som...

He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming swollen. The beams of the lighthouses joined in the sky. The moon had just risen and the judge's house emerged from the darkness, all white, a crude, livid, unreal white.Exiled from the Police Judiciare in Paris, Maigret bides his time in a remote coastal town of France. There, among the lighthouses, mussel farms and the eerie wail of foghorns, he ...

Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes region as an ontological and epistemological project shaped by—and resistant to—Euroce...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Linda Howard comes a thrilling and sensual new novel of romance, suspense, intrigue . . . and memories that can kill.Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and makes a terrifying discovery: She doesn’t recognize the face she sees in the mirror. She remembers what she looks like, but her reflection is someone else’s. To add to the shock, two years seem to have disappeared from her life. Someone has gone to great...

How do we ensure that AI makes the world better for us all, not just a select few?Dr. Ayanna Howard, who works in robotics and identifies as a Black woman, is accustomed to the ways systems and networks tend to serve the few at the expense of the many. In her groundbreaking new book, she argues that AI, including robotics, is not built with a moral center. That means that if we want it to serve all humanity, we must provide the compass.In this call to actio...

Serves as both a source for international business information and as a guide to finding and accessing global resources.Significant changes have occurred in the content and delivery of business information, thanks to the growth and availability of information on the Internet. This up-to-date volume provides guidance in these critical areas: company information; market and industry research; investments, trade, and currencies; and country analysis.This timel...

Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to general readers. In this edition, Marks's wisdom is joined by the comments, insights, and counterpoints of four renowned investors and investment educators: Christopher C. Davis (Davis Funds), Joel Greenblatt (Gotham Capital), Paul Johnson (Nicusa Capital), and Seth A. Klarman (Baupost Grou...

The road has brought Timothy to Corinth—but the journey is changing him.In one of the Roman world's busiest cities, Timothy serves alongside Paul and Silas as a church takes root. Through friendship and opposition, daily labor and growing responsibility, he learns that ministry requires more than following where Paul leads. He must learn to care for believers, answer their questions, and serve faithfully even when his mentor is not beside him.Then reports a...

Snuggle up with a hot mug of cocoa because this collection of horror shorts is ICE COLD!Witness the final act of Mark Bouchard and Val Halvorson’s "The Arrangement" as another kind of miracle child is born on Christmas, ushering in a new age of horror.Tini Howard and Savanna Mayer bring "Marian Heretic" home for the holidays in the final installment of this...

The Sad Book is a funny and heartfelt picture book that gives sadness a voice—and helps children see that sad feelings don’t last forever.Everyone feels sad sometimes—even this book! The Sad Book speaks directly to the reader, at first moody and uncooperative, then slowly opening up about its feelings.With humor, honesty, and gentle vulnerability, the book itself becomes the main character, guiding children to recognize sa...