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**AN eye opening documentary of a myth built on money, media, and manipulation—**Mirage of Genius dismantles the illusion of Donald Trump, from fake billionaire to post-truth president.For decades, Donald Trump branded himself as a self-made tycoon and political outsider. In reality, he inherited wealth, engineered deception, and transformed the U.S. presidency into a performance. Mirage of Genius is a searing forensic investigati...

In "Romain Rolland: The Man and His Work," Stefan Zweig offers a profound exploration of the life and contributions of the French writer and Nobel laureate, Romain Rolland. The book is distinguished by Zweig's elegant prose, deftly weaving biographical insights with critical analysis of Rolland's literary output. Zweig not only chronicles Rolland's journey as a writer and thinker, but also examines his moral and philosophical convictions, especially in the context of the tumultuous early 2...

Gustave Flaubert's *Madame Bovary* is a landmark of nineteenth-century realism and a searching critique of romantic illusion. It follows Emma Bovary, a provincial woman whose longing for passion, luxury, and social distinction collides with the banality of marriage and bourgeois life. Flaubert's celebrated impersonal style—marked by exact physical detail, irony, free indirect discourse, and painstakingly controlled prose—allows Emma's fantasies to merge unsettlingly with the narrator's per...

What if the greatest military mind of our generation was born to a people who are already supremely conditioned to wage war, who know nothing but violence from birth and must continually adapt to new predators in order to survive? This action-packed book contains the full story of a city that declares war on a brilliant young woman pushed to the edge. Collects PILOT SEASON: GENIUS #1 and GENIUS #1-5.

The greatest military mind of her generation returns in the follow-up to the winner of TOP COW 'S PILOT SEASON. Seventeen-year-old Destiny Ajaye took on the LAPD in her South Central Siege and paid for it not with her life, but with her freedom. Now, Destiny is sequestered in the Madrasa Institute, a government school for prodigies. But will she use her gifts to wage war at the military 's behestor is she already planning another revolution? Collects GENIUS: CARTEL #1-5

In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family’s castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in several ways: An imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears. The Empire is convinced ...

From a USA Today bestselling author comes a new kind of textbook...Do you want to master French? Do you like fantasy novels? Are you tired of reading boring textbooks in order to learn French?If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, this is a book you should consider. We introduce a one-of-a-kind learning tool that will enhance your reading comprehension, improve your French vocabulary and grammar, and let you enjoy reading a fantasy novel fro...

The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over — and terrorizing — the hapless population with their bizarre inventions and unchecked power, while the downtrodden dream of the Hetrodynes' return.At Transylvania Polygnostic University, a pretty, young student...

In Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas crafts a brisk yet panoramic life of the Emperor, tracing Bonaparte's rise from Corsican outsider to architect of Empire and his eclipse on St Helena. Written in the energetic cadence of the feuilleton, the book fuses documentary extracts and novelistic tableaux—Austerlitz gleams, Moscow burns, the Hundred Days race. Dumas balances campaign narrative with civic transformation: the Code, the concordat, and plebiscitary propaganda. Within nineteenth‑century Roman...

The complete Girl Genius Trilogy, containing Agahtha H. and the Airship City, Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, & Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle.

The book consists of Beginner and Elementary courses with parallel French-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The method utilizes the natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The second and the following chapters of the Beginner course have only about thirty new words each. The audio tracks are available inclusive on www...

The most exciting road trip in history begins! In this action-packed, New York Times bestselling adventure, twelve-year-old twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on a family vacation you'll have to read to believe.Coke McDonald and his twin sister, Pepsi, think their family’s cross-country RV vacation is nothing to get excited about...until they’re chased off a cliff, locked in a burning school, and receive mysterious messages in codes and ciphers. From California to Wisconsin, it’s...