*GOLD AWARD WINNER* -- Nonfiction Authors Association★★★★★ -- Readers' Favorite"Lively, appealing, and instructive; perfectly targeted to the millennial demographic." -- Kirkus Review"Be HAPPY"Find your inner happiness!Are you tired of people telling you to "be happy"? Are you exhausted from dating ap...

*GOLD AWARD WINNER* -- Nonfiction Authors Association★★★★★ -- Readers' Favorite"Lively, appealing, and instructive; perfectly targeted to the millennial demographic." -- Kirkus Review"Be HAPPY"Find your inner happiness!Are you tired of people telling you to "be happy"? Are you exhausted from dating ap...

This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle—what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941.Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grotesque consequences of a Third Reich triumphant. In this terrifyingly plausible scenario, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow on September 30th, 1941—and the Soviet Union collapses.Although Russian r...

The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it.The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is s...

We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things – a constantly expanding 'infosphere' of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives.Byung-Chul Han's critique of the infosphere highlights the price we are paying for our growing preoccupation...

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut.Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents hi...

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."Thomas Mann's acclaimed novel, The Magic Mountain, is a dizzyingly rich novel of ideas in which a Swiss sanatorium becomes a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe, playing with the elasticity of time, engaging in philosophical dialogue and ideological discourse, and blending personal growth with historical tragedy.Hans Castorp, a young German engineer, arrives at a luxurious Alpine sanatorium to visit h...

In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity – even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life.For Byung-Chul Han, inactivity constitutes the human. Without moments ...

A grieving detective on the edge. A missing woman. And a serial killer hunting in the shadows of Stockholm's cobbled alleys.Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt – known as Ravn – is adrift after the brutal murder of his wife. Once a relentless detective in Copenhagen's special crime unit, he is now forced on leave, living in self-imposed exile on his neglected boat, with his grumpy Old English Bulldog.But when a friend pleads for help finding a missing young woman, Ravn ...

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s and follow the logical clues to the most famous detective ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes, in Victorian London. Along the way you'll also meet Josephine Tey's formidable Inspector Alan Grant, as-well as G. K. Chesterton's beloved Father Brown, as they solve crimes in wondrously i...

"When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys."Shooting an Elephant is an autobiographical essay set in colonial Burma where Orwell had served as a police officer. The story of the Englishman forced to shoot a rampaging elephant and then to kill it, even when it is no longer a threat, is used to explore themes of imperialism, power, and personal conscience, and functions as a powerful metaphor for the destructive nature of imperialism.Born E...

The inspiration for a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Kormákur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson."Delicate, absorbing...as satisfying as it is moving." — VogueA mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man’s search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades beforeWhen the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even a...