On the night shift, the ward trusts the nurse.Between February 2003 and July 2004, Stephan Letter, a young nurse on a geriatric internal medicine ward at Klinik Sonthofen in the Bavarian Alps, killed at least twenty-nine patients using pharmacological agents stolen from the hospital's own medication stores. Sedatives to disable. Neuromuscular blockers to stop the heart. Deaths that looked, to every clinical eye, exactly like what they were supposed to look like: the natural endings...

Emma Shaw is a modern woman with a classic problem.Eight years ago, Emma put her career and family above her own needs. She’s cut out the man she loves, is exhausted from carrying the emotional load for her family, and her dream career as an editor is on the brink of disaster. Now she has to face the man she gave up eight years ago in order to keep her career.When her ex’s book launch is in crisis, her bosses coerce Emma to step in to save it even if that’s...

Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to general readers. In this edition, Marks's wisdom is joined by the comments, insights, and counterpoints of four renowned investors and investment educators: Christopher C. Davis (Davis Funds), Joel Greenblatt (Gotham Capital), Paul Johnson (Nicusa Capital), and Seth A. Klarman (Baupost Grou...

Even the afterlife gets decided in a committee.The afterlife is more like a large retirement community than a fiery pit where even collecting souls has been automated. Death has nothing on his to-do list until his co-worker, the Devil, tells him she’s retiring. For years he’s relied on her to keep the ever-growing population of Patala running smoothly. After five hundred years he needs to replace the most important woman in his life.To avoid mutiny from the...

**A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERNamed one of the Best Business Books of 2018 by Business Insider**The legendary investor Howard Marks shows how to identify and master the cycles that govern the markets.We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in? The answer is never black or white, but is best reached through a keen understanding of the reaso...

Underneath the library, something waits. It takes. It never lets go.Jessica Martin has spent her life watching her town swallow women whole. It starts small—dreams dismissed, voices ignored, power quietly drained away. But when the local librarian vanishes without a trace, Jessica refuses to let her name be whispered away like all the others.The deeper she digs, the worse it gets. No one who has ever worked in that library has been seen again. Every attempt...

'Incredibly addictive… It's fast-paced, exhilarating and I was totally there for every last word' ★★★★★'Totally bonkers, and that is a such a good thing' ★★★★★Maisie Baxter finally has it all. She’s killing it at work, literally, her friendships have never been stronger and, best of all, there’s gorgeous new boyfriend Will. After overthrowing a global conspiracy together, they’re well and truly in the honeymoon phase.So why can’t she shake the feeling she’s doing ev...

Laurie Marks’ Elemental Logic series introduced readers to the realm of Shaftal, an intricately imagined land whose people operate within the boundaries of their basic natures—here defined as logics—which sometimes bequeath them with access to magical, elemental powers and sometimes embroil them in unsolvable internal conflicts.Fire Logic centers around the strong female character Zanja Na’Tarwein, a fighter and last survivor of her people in an occupied c...

An exciting visual record of the greatest battles and warriors in Japanese history!This book describes the momentous battles in Japanese history and the renowned Samurai who fought them, as seen in over 300 great works of art by leading artists, including Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige and Utagawa Kunisada. Art historian Andreas Marks has scoured museum archives and private collections worldwide to present the finest prints and colored folded screen...

For much of the twentieth century, research on Black families was dominated by narratives of deficits and dysfunction. This groundbreaking book tells a different story—one of strength, resilience, and adaptive processes within Black marriages and families. Drawing on decades of scholarship and original research, it highlights how Black couples and families navigate stress, racism, and adversity through faith, social support, fictive kin networks, and community ties. Through compelling inte...

The Elemental Logic series continues with its third novel in the series, Water Logic, where the patterns of history are made and unmade.Laurie Marks’ Elemental Logic series introduced readers in Fire Logic to the realm of Shaftal, an intricately imagined land whose people operate within the boundaries of their basic natures—here defined as logics—which sometimes bequeath them with access to magical, elemental powers and sometimes embroil them in u...

♥♥Ivory Bellows fell down a well. Ivory Bellows woke up in hell. Better listen to the big blue giant, zip your lip, and hush. Better not stare at his son who makes you blush.♥♥Imagine if you were a giant, fifteen-foot alien from another planet and found a strange being unconscious in a foreign object...a flying pod. The creature is tiny enough to be a child and you'd have such a big heart, you'd want to adopt this poor orphaned child, right?Only...what if the full-grown huma...