There is a place that is not Heaven or Hell, its name is Limbo…One Friday evening Daniel de Luc, an elusive crime writer, disappears from his Cape Town apartment. His wife Paola, beyond worried after days of hearing nothing, is contacted by an eccentric woman who claims she was Daniel’s psychotherapist, though she knew him as “Gabriel,” and warns Paola not to look for him.Like any good, and desperate, wife, Paola ignores the warning and embarks on a full-bl...

A heartwarming historical novel set on the Homefront during World War Two. For fans of Kathryn Hughes.Land Girl Connie Carter thought she’d finally left her past behind once and for all when she married Henry Jameson, Helmstead’s vicar and the love of her life. Headstrong Connie and mild-mannered Henry might be different as chalk and cheese, but she’s determined to be the best wife she can be and prove the village gossips wrong! But Connie doesn’t really b...

Look up on a clear night far from city lights and you will see about 6,000 stars. That is less than 0.00001 % of the stars in the Milky Way alone, which holds 100 billion to 400 billion suns. This book opens 100 doors into that scale, each is a strange but true fact that makes the sky feel less like a ceiling and more like a map you can read.You start with the nearest furnace, the Sun, a middle aged yellow dwarf that holds 99.8 % of the solar system's mass and turns 4 million tons ...

A Reflection Is Always a Reflection, Old School vs. New Generation, and Blessing by Roland Lott is a gritty, fast-paced urban drama anthology that explores street culture, family loyalty, generational conflict, redemption, and ambition. Told through interconnected stories set in Atlanta, Jacksonville, and New York, the book follows hustlers, rappers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders as they navigate crime, fame, love, and survival.From the rise of Juju in the music industry, to...

For adult readers only. This book contains strong language and descriptions of sexual encounters.This is a slow-burner that builds up to chaos that ensues after Todd Fletcher's position is replaced by artificial intelligence, and the only job he can find is at an AI company that isn't as interested in data as it is in the research of human behavior, libido, and instincts.Soon, Todd realizes that he is learning about himself and his hidden desires, and begins to question his...

Commodity option markets demand models that respect the realities of storage, seasonality, mean reversion, and abrupt supply shocks—features that make standard equity-style intuition unreliable. This book is written for quantitative analysts, traders, structurers, and risk managers who need a practical yet rigorous framework for pricing and managing options across energy, metals, and agricultural markets. It is especially suited to practitioners building or validating pricing libraries, vo...

A deeply personal memoir from founding member and primary songwriter Roland Orzabal of iconic English band Tears for Fears, known for their smash hits “Shout,” “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” and “Break It Down Again.” Weaving themes of identity, love, and the complexities of fame, Welcome to Your Life explores the formative experiences and complex worldview of a creator, his creations, and his personal life.Thirty million ...

In FX options, the difference between a usable surface and a misleading one often lies in conventions, quote translation, and model discipline. This book is written for practitioners who need to get those details right: derivatives quants, structurers, traders, risk managers, and developers working on currency options and exotics desks. It provides a desk-level guide to how FX volatility is actually quoted, transformed, calibrated, and used in pricing and risk.The book takes the re...

'Roland's compelling account is highly readable.'Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Professor of History, University of ExeterAnyone wishing to understand the nature of evil can do no better than look within the pages of this book. When Hitler's 'thousand-year Reich' collapsed after twelve years of increasing repression, how were those responsible to be punished? Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels took their own lives to evade justice, but that still left Hermann ...

A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook help change the way you think? In this wide-ranging history...

'Roland's compelling account is highly readable.'Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Professor of History, University of Exeter'No one can deny Paul Roland is a complete master of his subject.'Colin Wilson, author of A Criminal History of MankindAnyone wishing to understand the nature of evil can do no better than look within the pages of this book. When Hitler's 'thousand-year Reich' collapsed after twelve ye...

A torrid tetralogy begins! When a young professional football player is chosen to attend a sports clinic in the Florida Keys, he doesn’t know quite what to expect. Gable submits to Dr. Glen Byrd, who subjects him to a strict regimen of hard weight training, carefully monitored diet, and treatments with an experimental anabolic steroid substitute of the doctor’s own invention. Gable enjoys the rigorous workouts, and socializing with his fellow athletes. But the supposedly harmless drugs he’...