Nine stories of holiday cheer gone awryReasons to think twice before kissing under the mistletoe:An accidental trip through space and timeThe zombie apocalypseA stranger in the woodsThe VHS that never should have been rentedA moonshine recipe from outer spaceUnwanted midnight visitorsThe new drug all the kids are doingWet snowballs to the faceAn incredibly awkward office partyMonday Nig...

***"Quirky, wicked, morose … an inspired, surprising anthology." - BookLife"From shadow selves and horrible beasts to casual culinary reincarnations and the bureaucracy of heaven, these writers tumble into afterlife premises and discussions of mortality with grace, creativity, and wit." -Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★★***What happened to Annabell?She left poor instructions.She outgrew her manufacturing specs.She defrauded an international brewing company...

The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface between artistic work and art education.

On May 8, 2025, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost left the papal conclave—a gathering of the College of Cardinals to select the new pope of the Catholic Church—as Pope Leo XIV.He is the first pope from the United States, and he is also a citizen of Peru. As a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, Pope Leo XIV values community within the Catholic Church, missionary work, and service to others. This proved especially true during the decades he spent living in Peru, f...

**Psykologisk thriller om begäret efter det perfekta livet»Se till att göra plats i kalendern om du börjar läsa den här förföriskt ondskefulla historien. Briljant och makaber.« | Sunday Mirror»En psykologisk bladvändare med ett slut som dröjer sig kvar långt efter sista sidan.« |Irish Times**Lydia Fitzsimons bor i det perfekta huset med sin make, den framgångsrike advokaten Andrew, och deras son Laurence. Det är egentligen bara en enda sak hon läng...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Speeches of Note by Shaun Usher, compèred by Richard Cordery, and with speeches read by a variety of narrators.SPEECHES OF NOTE: seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else’s shoes.From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller LETTERS OF NOTE, comes an obsessively curated, richly illustrated and sumptuously produced collection of speeches from throu...