Nick's first memory, at the age of three, was a feeling of absolute peace that he spent his whole life looking for. His life, however, turned out to be one of conflict, revenge, sadness and joy, made up of seven acts – each a victim of a small demon, forcing him to find a new and completely different path each time. A massive game of snakes and ladders.

Flesh will fail. The Aether will burn.In a decaying world where magic is a highly regulated, volatile utility, the Synthesis Guild holds absolute power. By violently fusing cybernetics with the raw, chaotic energy of the Aether, the Guild's immortal elites hoard the light in their pristine Spire, leaving the lower castes to starve in toxic, neon-lit slums.Kael is just a scavenger trying to survive another day in the chemical rain. But when a desperate escap...

Rilke’s Early Poetry investigates the process of creative labor in Rilke’s earlier poetic works. Using themes that are present in The Book of Hours, The Book of Images, and Eleven Visions, Nicholas Reynolds shows Rilke’s underlying theory of creative labor, which requires the artist to uncover the unconscious, i.e., the self beyond conceptualization. Each chapter highlights a central gesture in Rilke’s works. Through a careful analysis of gestures, langu...

Why the underrepresentation of the working class in political office is an inevitable side effect of electoral democracy itselfWhy do so few working-class people go on to hold elected office? In the average democracy, working-class jobs make up about seventy percent of occupations, but only two percent of national legislators come from working-class jobs. In Keeping Workers Off the Ballot, Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu show that this disparity is not becau...

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**A fascinating inquiry into why beauty matters and how it has played an evolutionary role in our understanding of the world.From a pioneering neuropsychologist and the winner of the Mind and Brain Prize.**Why do we love beauty? And why is the world so full of it? From rainbows and mountain landscapes to piano sonatas and Cézanne paintings, much of what we find beautiful seems to serve no practical purpose, despite our instinctive attraction to it. In this path-breaking boo...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth SenseCOMING SOON AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN AND STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND PHOEBE DY...

Nick was supposed to wake with everyone else.Instead, his cryogenic pod opens thirty-one years early.Now he is alone aboard the colony ship Artemis, surrounded by thousands of sleeping passengers and a ship that is slowly beginning to fail.Nick is a maintenance engineer, not a commander. He can repair machinery, reroute power, and keep the ship alive—but he cannot wake the crew, cannot return to cryogenic sleep, and cannot reach Emily, the woman he was supposed to s...

LAMY: The Woman Who Created Her Own World is the story of one of fashion and art's most difficult-to-label figures.Michèle Lamy has been called a lawyer, dancer, restaurateur, designer, producer, performer, musician, curator, and boxer. None of those words is the whole story. Born in France's Jura region in 1944, she left a legal career, crossed the Atlantic, and built a series of worlds that others wanted to enter: a clothing label in Los Angeles, a legendary Hollywood garden rest...

An injured Navy doctor meets two extremely important women whose secrets will change the course of his life in this moving love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook.**"Heartwarming." —**BookPageTrevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked sent him home from Afghanistan with...

In a fractured world suspended above a toxic void, magic is not a gift. It is a deadly resource, and humanity has built an empire of cruelty to control it.Varis is a low-ranking conduit technician living in the gutters of the Pure-Strain Syndicate's floating citadel. His life is a brutal cycle of siphoning volatile magic to keep the aristocrats' palaces in the sky. To survive the lethal atmospheric storms, he relies on Rax, a massive, bio-engineered beast-hybrid known as a Forged. ...

Two guarded survivors. One failing dock. A storm that will wash away all their secrets.Maeve Lindqvist is drowning in debt and desperate to save her late father's commercial boatyard. For six years, she has kept Highwater Marine afloat through sheer willpower and punishing manual labor, refusing to let anyone close enough to see the guilt she carries over his death. She does not have time for distractions, and she certainly does not have time for the cold, arrogant...