It began with an empty tomb.When Eliora discovers ancient writings that challenge everything she has been told, her search leads her into the forgotten history of a world built on fear and half-truths.Seeking answers, she leaves Bergvalla's walls and joins six companions, each carrying their own gifts, questions, and wounds. Together they enter cities of masks, silent passages, hidden orders, and places where truth has been buried for far too long.B...

The first three gripping thrillers in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.The HypnotistDetective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and is comatose with shock. With a killer on the run and Linna running out of time, a hypnotist who vowed never to practice again is brought in to the investigation unfurling ...

These ships were numerous and played a very active role in Pacific naval combat but have never been the subject of a book in English until now.During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy used the term kaibōkan to refer to several classes of ships. The kaibōkans slotted below Imperial Japanese destroyers, comparable to the British Royal Navy's frigates and corvettes or American destroyer escorts. A total of 171 vessels were completed in ...

Based on years of in-depth reporting and sources from every corner of his life, Brady is the definitive biography of the life, career, and retirement of one of football’s most legendary figures, Tom Brady.New York Times bestselling author and former Sports Illustrated journalist Lars Anderson plunges into Tom Brady’s childhood to discover the origins of what Brady later described as his “sickness”: his category-five obsession with the gam...

In 1912, two brothers are sent into the forest to fend for themselves, forging a bond through hunger, freedom and endurance. Before the summer is over, a decision fractures that world, leaving a scar that will mark their family for generations. The wondrous, profound and deeply moving debut novel by one of Norway's finest artists, Lars Elling…'This gorgeous bildungsroman also delivers a gripping historical novel … as tactile and eternal as one of the autho...

In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse ‘sea-wolves’ followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev and clashed with mighty Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.But there is...

This textbook provides an introduction to the physics of life science, focusing on applying physics thinking to understanding biological systems such as whole organisms, organs, single cells, biomolecules, or materials of biological origin (e.g. foodstuffs).It is divided into three parts, the first explores macroscopic physics. Chapters discuss motion, force, and energy and apply these concepts to solid and liquid materials as well as organs and whole organisms. The second part of ...

Hegemony and Woke Strategy explores how wokeism functions as a distinct ideological force within the contemporary culture war, challenging liberal and socialist traditions through strategic uses of identity politics.Grounded in Gramscian theory and informed by post-structuralist and Marxist scholarship, Lars Erik L. Gjerde analyses how cultural struggle operates as a bid for hegemony. He moves beyond defining wokeism to examine its tactics, such as cancellations, language ...

SOME NIGHTMARES YOU CAN'T WAKE UP FROM . . .The stunning new crime thriller from the master of Scandinavian noir, Lars Kepler - available now!An alarm sounds in the middle of the night for a burglary in progress at a winter-closed campsite in Bredäng, outside Stockholm.The police spot a light in one of the farthest caravans and when the officers open the door they are greeted by a horrific sight. Floors, walls and furniture are comp...

A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogyButangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once hung in the village's centuries-old stave church.The ...

This is a novel on the Vatican, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and the School of Night, based on research results and historical data.The story kicks off at the end of April,1982, when Beatrice Algheri - a young Latinist from Cambridge University doing research work in the Vatican manuscript reading room - by coincidence lays her hands on an officially unknown, thus never published, 11th century manuscript in Latin, revealing the blueprints of several Sh...

In the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what appeared to be a fool’s mission: marching several thousand miles into enemy territory to reconquer Jerusalem for Christendom. Against all odds they succeeded, creating a Christian outpost in the heart of the Islamic world that lasted for the better pa...