This book reflects the resurgence of interest in the quantum properties of black holes, culminating most recently in controversial discussions about firewalls. On the thermodynamic side, it describes how new developments allowed the inclusion of pressure/volume terms in the first law, leading to a new understanding of black holes as chemical systems, experiencing novel phenomena such as triple points and reentrant phase transitions. On the quantum-information side, the reader learns how ba...

'Suspense gegarandeerd.' de VolkskrantEen zwaar verminkt lijk wordt ontdekt in de kluis van een zilverwinkel. In eerste instantie denkt de politie dat het lichaam dat van eenveroordeelde crimineel is, maar niet iedereen is het met die theorie eens. Decima Mullins roept de hulp in van privédetective Cormoran Strike en zijn zakenpartner Robin Ellacott. Ze is er namelijk zeker van dat het lichaam in de zilverkluis dat van haar plotseling verdwenen vriend is – de vader van haa...

“When it comes to true romance, no one does it better than Nora [Roberts],” (Booklist). And in The MacGregors’ novel One Man’s Art, the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a story of how one woman’s love gives a man the strength to let go of his haunted past.A lighthouse keeper on the shores of Maine, Grant Campbell convinced himself he was content with being alone, free of the harmful entanglements that bind people. Then Genevi...

‘Suspense gegarandeerd.’ de VolkskrantEen zwaar verminkt lijk wordt ontdekt in de kluis van een zilverwinkel. In eerste instantie denkt de politie dat het lichaam dat van eenveroordeelde crimineel is, maar niet iedereen is het met die theorie eens. Decima Mullins roept de hulp in van privédetective Cormoran Strike en zijn zakenpartner Robin Ellacott. Ze is er namelijk zeker van dat het lichaam in de zilverkluis dat van haar plotseling verdwenen vriend is – de vader van haa...

From USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author Robert Swartwood, the entire four-book series in the best-selling Man of Wax series: Legion, Man of Wax, The Inner Circle, End Game. Nearly 1,600 pages of page-turning suspense!"Man of Wax grabs you by the throat in the first chapter and never lets go. A suspense-filled thrill ride with plenty of shocks along the way. Read it!" —F. Paul Wil...

“[A] riveting novel with a vivid sense of place . . . Anyone who enjoys a well-written, fast-paced, noirish thriller with a great aha! moment shouldn’t miss The Forgotten Man.”—The Boston GlobeIn an alleyway in Los Angeles, an old man, clutching faded newspaper clippings and gasping his last words to a cop, lies dying of a gunshot wound. The victim claims to be P.I. Elvis Cole’s long-lost father—a stranger who has always haunted his son.As...

The Calhoun Women return in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’s A Man for Amanda. Home renovations get complicated when a woman finds herself in unfamiliar territory with a skillful, hands-on contractor.To keep their family mansion, the Towers, standing tall on the coast of Maine, the Calhouns have hired local architect Sloan O’Riley to perform long-needed repairs. Amanda Calhoun is responsible for overseeing Sloan’s work, and whil...

AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIMESometimes you find what you're looking for just when you least expect it...A slow drawl was all Amanda Calhoun heard when she walked into the wall of denim and muscle that was Sloan O'Riley. The handsome architect has been hired to renovate The Towers - the Calhoun family's beloved but crumbling mansion. Known as the responsible Calhoun sister, Amanda finds Sloan's easygoing, almost arrogant attitude infuriating, but his irresistible sm...

The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. As the city exploded in a fury of revolution, few knew about the six American embassy staff who escaped into hiding. For three months, Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador to Iran—along with his wife and embassy staffers—concealed the Americans in their homes, terrified that Ayatollah Khomeini would find out and exact deadly consequences.January 28, 2010, mark...

'O****ne of today's best detective series' LA TIMESThe minefield of Elvis Cole's past is coming back to haunt him - with a vengeance...Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriend's ten-year-old son, Elvis Cole is slowly coming back to life - when he receives an ominous phone call from the LAPD. An unidentified body has been found in a seedy Los Angeles alley. The only clue the cops have is a packet of n...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend - the father of her newborn baby - who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.

Op een mooie augustusdag in 1913 neemt Ulrich, de man zonder eigenschappen, het ferme besluit een man mét eigenschappen te worden – vooral als hij in de krant heeft gelezen dat zelfs een renpaard ‘geniaal’ kan zijn; daar wil hij niet bij achterblijven. Hij raakt betrokken bij de ‘Parallelactie’, de organisatie die de viering van het zeventigjarig regeringsjubileum van keizer Franz Josef I voorbereidt en tevens wil proberen het dertigjarig jubileum van de Duitse keizer de loef af te steken....