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A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to replace all our jobs, even creative ones, like doctors, teachers and care-workers? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans at everything?The answers to these questions, as the expert authors of The AI Con make clear, are 'no', 'they wish', 'LOL', and 'definitely not'. In fact, these fears are all symptoms of the hype being used by tech corporations to justify data theft, motivate surveillance capitalism, and devalue human creativity so they can replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines. Meanwhile, across healthcare, education, media, government and law-enforcement, ‘AI’ products are already being introduced that are unreliable, ineffective, unjust and dangerous.Packed with real-world examples, pithy arguments and expert insights, The AI Con arms you to spot AI hype in all its guises, expose the exploitation and power-grabs it aims to hide, and push back against it at work and in your daily life.
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From the author of Natural Beauty, set in the fiercely competitive art world, a novel about an obsessive friendship upended by a cutting-edge technology purported to enhance empathy and connection Enka meets Mathilde in art school. Mathilde is a dizzyingly talented yet tortured artist whose star is on the riseand Enka, struggling to make art that feels original, is immediately drawn to her. The two strike up an intense bond that soon turns codependent. But when Mathildes fame reaches new heights, Enka becomes desperate to keep her best friend closeno matter the cost. Enka quickly falls in love with and marries a billionaire whose familys company is funding an unconventional technology purported to heighten empathy, which could allow someone else to inhabit Mathildes mind and absorb the trauma from her brain. Soon, the boundaries between Mathilde and Enka begin to blur even further, setting in motion a disturbing series of events that forever changes their lives. Blisteringly smart, thought-provoking, and shocking, Immaculate Conception deftly navigates big questions of art, technology, authorship, and what makes us human. Ling Ling Huang offers us a portrait of close friendshipachingly tender and twistedthat captures the tenuous line between love and possession that will haunt you long after you turn the final page.
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Rival engineers dabble in personal chemistry while at a tropical company retreat in this smart and steamy romcom - perfect for fans of Ali Hazelwood, Nisha Sharma and Elena Armas. Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of colour to smash the glass ceiling at WMC Purcell, but after years of dealing with white male privilege and blatant nepotism, she watches her hard-earned promotion go to her nemesis, Rafe Gallagher - the boss's son. Teetering on the edge of burnout, Tris is stunned when she's picked to attend WMC's corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii. It's a chance to revive her stalled career and compete for a coveted spot in an executive training program - plus, three weeks in paradise! The only downside? Rafe is her co-attendee.Tris plans to avoid Rafe entirely, but when she arrives in Maui, a booking error has them stuck sharing the honeymoon suite - with only one bed . . . Sure, it's not all torture. Rafe is a smoldering ten - okay fine, an eleven - but after years of competition, they can barely stand being in the same time zone. As they vie against each other during aptitude tests and team-building exercises, Tris begins to realize Rafe might not be the villain after all. With her dreams at stake, can she learn to trust the man who might have been standing in her corner all along?
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Real-life, hard-won wisdom on how to start, run and grow a successful business, from the founder of The Sweaty Startup.If you ask the average person who an entrepreneur is, they’ll probably say people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. But the truth is, you don’t need to know how to code or raise VC money to start a business. There are hundreds of millions of small business owners globally, with most creating simple, straightforward services that customers need.Nick Huber, founder of The Sweaty Startup and several million-dollar businesses, challenges the prevailing Silicon Valley wisdom by demonstrating that success as a small business owner is based on the essential principle of doing common things uncommonly well. In The Sweaty Startup, Nick offers readers the simplest, easiest, and lowest-risk path to reclaiming entrepreneurship, generating value, and forging a new path to get ahead on their own terms. By returning to the most foundational business tactics, this book is a refreshing burst of clarity and simplicity in a world that’s obsessed with technology startups, the suffocating squeeze of digital innovation, and the elusive lure of billion-dollar payouts.Filled to the brim with practical insights, inspiring real-life stories, and actionable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, Nick will reveal how to create a business that succeeds on the most essential level: making money, consistently and predictably over the long term. His book will redefine entrepreneurship and become the go-to handbook for years to come.
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From the Olivier award-winning playwright of Prima Facie Suzie Miller comes her first novel, where power, patriarchy and morality diverge.‘This is not life. This is law.’Tessa Ensler is a brilliant barrister who's forged her career in criminal defence through sheer determination. Since her days at Cambridge, she’s carefully disguised her working class roots in a male-dominated world where who you know is just as important as what you know. Driven by her belief in the right to a fair trial and a taste for victory, there’s nothing Tessa loves more than the thrill of getting her clients acquitted.It seems like Tessa has it made when she is approached for a new job and nominated for the most prestigious award in her field. But when a date with a charismatic colleague goes horribly wrong, Tessa finds that the rules she’s always played by might not protect her, forcing her to question everything she's ever believed in . . .
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Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.It's been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah haslong since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted ... or is it?After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former Deputy Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth.But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues. Filled with page-turning suspense and Jeneva Rose's signature twists and turns, this sequel will have readers wondering: Can Bob and Sarah achieve the perfect divorce? Or will it be '''til death do us part''?
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From a dazzling new talent, a gripping debut novel following a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood as she returns to the family home one summer.How much of our lives are ours alone?Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family’s lush backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes but her family life requires careful prudence. Then one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed and the simple pleasures of girlhood slip away.Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents’ bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her. She’s newly divorced and navigating life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new boyfriend. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush from all those summers ago, punched out of time. She must now reckon with the echoes between the past and the present, what it means to keep a child truly safe, and the family she carries inside herself as she builds a family of her own.Beautiful, unflinchingly human and life-affirming, Sleep is about the burden of love and what lies on the other side of silence: the world, rich in possibility.
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Venice, June 2020. The city has returned to the Venetians during a merciful pause in the Covid pandemic, and few overseas visitors are to be seen. Yet Dominic Vicari, a British private investigator haunted by loss, has travelled across Europe to the tiny island of San Francesco del Deserto. The ancient monastery there, it is said, was founded by St Francis himself in the 13th century. Its population now consists of five Franciscan brothers and three pilgrims on retreat. Or, rather, two pilgrims and a dead man.Nathan Sutherland is called in when Vicari's broken body is found at the base of the campanile, his death seemingly nothing more than a terrible accident. But Nathan isn't so sure and sets out on an investigation that will reunite him with an old friend and an old adversary, and the discovery of a terrible secret hidden at the heart of the lagoon.
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The new historical novel from literary legend Isabel AllendeEmilia del Valle was always destined for great things.Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life's passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man's name.When Emilia lands a position as a journalist for the Daily Examiner, her unwavering sense of adventure - and new-found determination to survive in her own name - leads her to seize the chance to cover a brewing civil war in Chile alongside another talented reporter.But the assignment offers Emilia more than just an opportunity to prove herself as a writer. Before long she embarks on a treacherous, life-changing journey in a homeland she never knew, to uncover the truth about her father - and herself.A masterclass in historical storytelling from Isabel Allende, My Name is Emilia del Valle is a powerful tale of love and war, discovery and redemption, told by a valiant young woman who confronts monumental challenges, survives and reinvents herself along the way.
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All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing stunning new revelations, about the biggest band the world has ever seen.In 1980-1981 former COO of Apple Corp, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines interviewed everyone in the Beatles' inner circle and included a small portion of the transcripts in their international bestselling book The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. But left in their archives was a treasure trove of unique and candid interviews that they chose not to publish, until now. A powerful work assembled through honest, intimate, sometimes contradictory and always fascinating testimony, All You Need is Love is a one-of-a-kind insight into the final days, weeks, months and years of the Beatles phenomenon.
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¡Al abeeerdaje!El capitán Pezuña y su tripulación de ovejas piratas se dirigen a casa con su dorado botín hasta que...¡ZAS!¡CRAS!¡BAM!Allá van todas las ovejas,AL MAR DE CABEEEZA.¡Es una maldición! ¡Es su perdición! ¡Nunca llegarán a casa! Entonces, un pirata desaparecido tiempo atrás saca a flote al trasquilado rebaño y lo ayuda a llegar a buen puerto.
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Ten wrongful conviction cases.Twenty-one innocent people.Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction.John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to exonerating innocent people, to uncover stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice. All the cases in this book are simply extraordinary. And all are true.Joe Bryan suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife's murder, only to be tried and found guilty of the crime himself - despite being 120 miles away at the time it was committed.Clarence Brandley spent nine years on Death Row, coming to within six days of execution, before new evidence cleared him of all charges.And in the case of the Norfolk Four, police and prosecutors continued to arrest innocent people until not one but four men were behind bars.Impeccably researched and told with page-turning conviction, in Framed, these cases are finally laid bare.Most importantly, they show how truth can prevail and how freedom can be won when all seems lost.
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The second bestselling book from 'the most joyous and brain-enhancing podcast out there' (The Times) - also including puzzles and a quiz!Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through Baghdad to discover the origins of the Arabian Nights and head to Sicily to witness the first face-off between Carthage and Rome.Along the way you'll find the answers to questions like:- Was Henry V's great-grandfather, Edward III, the biggest lad in British history?- Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her girlish crush, Adolf Hitler?- Who are history's top 10 monkeys?- Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction?Dust off your tricorne hat, grab your lasso and get ready for a rollicking rollercoaster ride through the past . . .
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A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death―and what might follow―by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger travelled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived.This experience spurred Junger―a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical―to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when we are forced to reckon with such existential questions?In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
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El capità Peülles i la seva tripulació d’ovelles pirates tornen a casa amb el seu tresor d’or. Però... CATACRAC! PLAFFF!PAM!El ramat pateix un NAUFRAGI LLANUTEstan maleïts! Perduts per sempre! No arribaran mai a casa! Fins que... un pirata oblidat els ajuda a calmar-se i a veure que les coses no són tan doleeentes com semblen.
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La segunda parte de la emocionante serie Traición. ¿Y si cumplir tus sueños se convirtiera en una pesadilla? Tally tenía un sueño: ser perfecta. Ahora ya lo ha hecho realidad y ha perdido, como consecuencia, casi todos los recuerdos de su pasado. Su única preocupación es ser admitida en la mejor pandilla de la ciudad, y para lograrlo solo tiene que ganarse la aprobación de Zane -el chico más popular y deseado- durante una peculiar fiesta de disfraces que se celebrará en Nueva Belleza. Pero la noche de la fiesta, un encuentro fugaz hará que el mundo de Tally se tambalee...Reseña:«Nunca me cansaré de recomendarla».Stephenie Meyer, autora de Crepúsculo
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Si te gustaron LOS JUEGOS DEL HAMBRE, no puedes perderte Traición, primera parte de una emocionante serie. Solo hay un camino: la rebelión. Como todos los chicos de su edad, Tally está impaciente por cumplir los 16 años, porque entonces las autoridades la someterán a una operación estética para convertirla en perfecta. Pero, justo antes de su cumpleaños, su mejor amiga, Shay, huye para unirse a la resistencia, un grupo de imperfectos que viven en una ciudad secreta. Entonces las autoridades le ofrecen a Tally la peor de las disyuntivas: o ir en busca de Shay y devolverla al mundo civilizado o permanecer imperfecta para siempre...Reseña:«Nunca me cansaré de recomendarla».Stephenie Meyer, autora de Crepúsculo
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«Una carta de amor al libro para cualquiera que haya encontrado consuelo entre sus páginas.» Library JournalLa bibliotecaria Chloe Sampson lleva tiempo luchando por cuidar de sus tres hermanos menores desde que su madre se fue y los dejó solos. Está a punto de llegar al límite de sus fuerzas cuando se topa con una edición rara de un libro de los años sesenta. Intrigada, Chloe examina el ejemplar y encuentra unas notas garabateadas en los márgenes, intercambiadas por dos jóvenes amantes cuando todavía era nuevo. No tiene dudas de que se trata de una señal del destino y se lo lleva a casa. Cuando le habla a su vecino cascarrabias sobre el libro que ha encontrado, se sorprende de que este se ofrezca a comprarlo por una suma exorbitante. ¿Acaso él es uno de los enamorados? Pronto, descubre que no es el único libro antiguo de la ciudad con notas románticas en los márgenes. Esto da inicio a una búsqueda del tesoro literaria que Chloe está decidida a llevar a cabo hasta el final.La biblioteca de los corazones prestados es un homenaje a los libros y al poder transformador de la literatura.
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Un secreto inconfesable, dos corazones heridos y un lugar inesperado para sanar. Esta novela te enseñará el valor del amor y la importancia de cuidar de la salud mental.¿Hay algo más vulnerable que un corazón que no ha sanado? ¿Cuántas veces puede decir una persona que está bien sin estar bien consigo misma? Kirsten está en el último curso de bachillerato. Es el momento de decidir su futuro. Pero ¿cómo puede avanzar si todavía no ha superado un trauma del pasado que le provoca ansiedad e inseguridad? Tras tocar fondo, Kirsten se encuentra con un desconocido que decide ayudarla. Ella teme conocerlo, él quiere saberlo todo sobre ella, pero sus paseos se convertirán en un lugar seguro donde se sentirán libres para compartir lo que no son capaces de hablar con nadie más. Sin embargo, cuando un secreto amenace con echar abajo ese refugio que tanto les ha costado construir, ¿podrán cicatrizar juntos o se abrirán nuevas heridas?
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UNA FASCINANTE NOVELA INSPIRADA EN DOS JÓVENES LATINAS QUE VIVIERON EN EL SIGLO XVII, CONOCIDAS COMO «LAS JUSTICIERAS DE POTOSÍ».Durante el día, Eustaquia «Kiki» de Sonza y Ana Lezama de Urinza son unas auténticas señoritas del siglo XVII, pero cuando cae la noche, cambian la seda y el encaje por espadas y mosquetes, y se aventuran por las calles ajetreadas, bulliciosas y plagadas de delincuencia de Potosí, en el virreinato de Perú del Imperio español. Se pasan la noche peleando, apostando y enamorándose la una de la otra.Entonces, la noche en la que se anuncia el compromiso de Kiki con el hijo del virrey, alguien comete un asesinato. Las dos jóvenes se embarcan inmediatamente en una vertiginosa investigación que las lleva desde los burdeles más modestos de Potosí hasta los niveles más altos de la aristocracia española.«La historia de amor repleta de acción de Grey ofrece una versión fresca y diferente de Los tres mosqueteros con una trama trepidante y personajes bien desarrollados. Kiki y Ana no son las típicas damas en apuros que se desmayan ante la menor provocación violenta, sino que son las heroínas justicieras que todo patriarcado necesita».-BOOKLIST, reseña destacada
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Tras el éxito de Neurodivina y punto, Sara Codina da el salto a la ficción con una novela lúcida, entrañable y divertida sobre el día a día de una mujer autista con diagnóstico tardío. Lucía está harta de aguantar a su compañero de trabajo trepa. De vivir entregada a la soltería para no caer en otra relación tóxica. De esforzarse por encajar en un mundo que la excluye por sistema. Su diagnóstico de autismo a los cuarenta y tantos, lejos de hundirla, ha sido un revulsivo para empezar a tomar decisiones. Lo que lleva años soportando ya no le vale. Comparte su camino de autoconocimiento con sus amigas Isabela y Sofía, expertas en el noble arte de la insultoterapia, quienes la animan a hacer cosas impensables para ella como abrirse un perfil en una aplicación de citas, y con Noa, su sobrina adolescente, también autista, cuyas vivencias le permiten conectar con la niña que fue y entender mejor su propia condición. Lucía ya no se conforma con estar, Lucía quiere ser, y las posibilidades son infinitas. --- Las lectoras han dicho de Neurodivina y punto: «Me ha encantado de principio a fin. Para mí ha sido como leer un resumen de mi vida vista desde un espejo. Encima es superameno de leer, ya que está escrito con humor y sin 'palabros' raros. Gracias a este libro he podido profundizar y poner nombre a aspectos de mi vida que no entendía.» «Lectura obligatoria si te han diagnosticado autismo en la edad adulta o si tienes un familiar o amigo en esta situación. También lo recomendaría a personas que quieran aprender lo que es vivir en primera persona siendo autista y no saberlo, con todas las consecuencias que acarrea.»
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Quan t'enfrontes al perill, no hi ha altre remei que fer servir la força interior i l'enginy. No hi ha res més poderós que el desig de sobreviure. Tot passa tan de pressa, que, quan la Dafne s'adona que l'han segrestat, ja és dins d'una furgoneta que s'allunya del seu món a tota velocitat. Té por, ràbia. Només es pot compadir de si mateixa i de la mala sort: és cega, ha perdut el pare, amb prou feines passa temps amb la mare perquè treballa molt… i l'acaben de separar del seu únic amic, el seu gos Orfeu, per segrestar-la.
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Disfruta con Summer y Nate, los protagonistas de la trilogía más fresca y atrevida.Nate conoce a una chica misteriosa con la que pasa la noche más mágica de su vida. Y cuando ya piensa que nunca más volverá a encontrarla, lo hace donde menos se lo espera. Summer es la chica del eterno adiós. Pero ese año todo es distinto, por primera vez conoce a dos personas a las que desea conservar para siempre. Incluso aunque las consecuencias se lo pongan difícil. Una historia de amor, magia, música y sueños, de perderse y de saber encontrarse.
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Un fantástico spinoff de Mutafukaz rebosante de acción delirante. Criada por su madre y sin rumbo fijo, Guada se siente frustrada y busca su camino en la sucia megalópolis conocida como Dark Meat City. Un sorprendente viaje por carretera pondrá a la joven en el camino hacia su futuro y tras la pista de su pasado, incluso si eso significa conocer a algunos personajes tan inusuales como poco probables de encontrar.
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It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spends her weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment. Her mission: was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike.Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken. She recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters and daughters. She saw rights she'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know.This book is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution.It is a story about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.
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1954. Nineteen years old, beautiful and blind since birth, Caritá has taken control of her life by leaving home and working in Mrs Gulliver's reputed and exclusive brothel. On her first night there she meets Ian Drohan, a young and wealthy idealist who falls madly in love with her, and is determined to save her from this employment. But does Caritá need saving?A delightful entanglement of star-crossed lovers, gangsters and chase across tropical paradise, Mrs Gulliver is an entertaining escapade of two women forging their place in the world.
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Through exclusive interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secrets to ABBA's success.More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world over dance and sing their hearts out. After interviewing the four members for an article in 2013 - at which time the band had not been interviewed for over thirty years - Jan Gradvall was granted unique access to them for the next decade. In The Book of ABBA, the band share their thoughts and opinions more openly than ever before, while Jan reveals the context in which their sound developed - and shows how the story of ABBA is also the story of Sweden and the globalisation of pop culture.From their chart-topping ABBA Voyage - their first album in forty years - to the two-million-ticket-selling concert-experience of the same name, it is undeniable that, in the history of pop culture and music, there has never been a group like ABBA. With remarkable intimacy, Gradvall's book brings readers closer than ever to one of the world's most notoriously private music icons.
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From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the worldIn this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir’s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir’s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of his destruction.Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance. Once again, Joyce Carol Oates has written a spellbinding novel confirming her position as one of our celebrated American visionaries of the imagination.
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The Instant Sunday Times #1 Bestseller – a moving, life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from Booker Prize winner Salman RushdieOn the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black – black clothes, black mask – rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are.What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey of healing and recovery. This is an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art – and finding the strength to stand up again.
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Thea Fox is just twelve years old when her parents are brutally slain. With Thea's help the police are able to put their murderer - a psychotic serial killer called Ray Riggs - behind bars for life. Changed forever, Thea slowly learns to come to terms with the events of that terrible night and builds a new life in a small country town where she can breathe in the smells of pine, fresh bread and her grandmother's homemade candles.But the connection that helped Thea put her parents' killer behind bars will come to haunt her. Though her Grandmother calls it a gift, to Thea it feels more like a curse because Ray feels the connection too and though Thea may try to move on, Ray isn't willing to let her go quite so easily...
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Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious dalliance with the elegant Major de Châteaufort. However, the sudden reappearance of an old admirer, M. Darcy, who has returned from Turkey with a tale of breathtaking derring-do and chivalry to add to his charms, reawakens in Julie a forgotten passion, and convinces her to pursue a rash and dangerous course, one that will have tragic consequences.Described as a masterpiece of psychological insight and a minutely observed social satire, A Slight Misunderstanding is here accompanied by other short stories: The Etruscan Vase, The Vision of Charles XI, Tamango, The Blue Room, A Hanging.Alma Classics is committed to making available a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics.
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One fae prince. One deadly bargain. And a mortal caught between desire and damnation.Crescent City meets the mafia in this totally addictive, slow burn enemies-to-lovers romantasy series by TikTok sensation Geneva Lee.Cate thought she knew darkness. As a trauma nurse, she had witnessed the worst of humanity. But nothing - not the blood, the violence, or the despair - could have prepared her for the fae underworld. A realm where beauty is a weapon, desire is a trap, and mortals who stray too far don't return.She almost didn't.Until Lachlan Gage - shadowed, ruthless, and feared even among his own kind - bound her to him with a deadly bargain. As the prince of New Orleans and ruler of the Nether Court, he is as much a curse as he is salvation. And with the Wild Hunt at his heels and war stirring between the fae courts, even his protection may not be enough to save her.Because Cate is more than just his reluctant mortal. She is wanted. Coveted. And the prince of the Hallow Court will do anything to claim her.But something ancient is rising in the dark, warping fae magic into something unnatural and cruel. It has nothing to do with Cate's past - or so she tells herself. Even though the ring left behind by her mother whispers otherwise.There is only one thing more dangerous than the fae who would kill for her.The fae who would die for her.And Lachlan Gage has never been one to lose.This is book two in the deliciously dark and totally addictive new romantasy series from the internationally bestselling author of Filthy Rich Vampires, set in the dark and deadly fae world of New Orleans. Perfect for fans of A Touch of Darkness and Sarah J Maas.
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'I shall be a thousand different Marys and, in such manner, shall find the one I wish to be...'Mary longs for adventure, freedom and love. When her powerful father schemes to marry her off to a foolish aristocrat, she has to find a man who will offer her the independence she craves Never one to fear a scandal, she elopes with Edward Wortley Montagu.Mary uses her charm and connections to live a life less ordinary – befriending poets, playwrights, and politicians. Securing a position for her husband as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, she travels east, where she discovers a medical miracle.But this new adventure will come at a cost, for Mary’s inability to abide by the rules and her outspoken opinions have gained her powerful enemies…
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This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and flat places, or the landscape is cleared away - logged, graded, levelled, tunnelled through - but to stick to these roads is to miss what else is out there. In her writing and activism, Rebecca Solnit has sought the pathless places in order to celebrate indirect and unpredictable consequences, and to embrace slowness and imperfection, which, she argues, are key to understanding the possibilities of change.In her latest essay collection, the award-winning writer explores responses to the climate crisis, as well as reflections on women's rights, the fight for democracy, the trends in masculinity, and the rise of the far right in the West. Incantatory and poetic, positive and engaging, these essays argue for the long-term view and the power of collective action, making a case for seeding change wherever possible, and offering us all a path out of the wilderness.
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Morgane grew up at sea, daughter of the fierce pirate captain of the Vengeance, raised to follow in her footsteps as scourge of the Four Chains Trading Company. But when Anna-Marie is mortally wounded in battle, she confesses to Morgane that she is not her mother.The captain of the enemy ship reveals he was paid to kill Anna-Marie and bring Morgane home to France and her real family. Desperate to learn the truth about her lineage, Morgane spares him, leaving the Vengeance and everything she knows behind.Her quest reveals a world of decadence and darkness, in which monsters vie for control of royal courts and destinies of nations. She discovers the bloody secrets of the Four Chains Trading Company, and the truth about her real mother’s death, nearly twenty years before...
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Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure she’s not spending too much time on YouTube? Is she talking fondly of dictators? Has she suddenly started quietly muttering in the Aldi queue about the ''Jewish Space Lasers'' she’s heard are setting wildfires around the world to make sure everyone believes in climate change? When was the moment the world began to believe anything?Danny Wallace, million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me, has fallen down the modern rabbit hole of lies, conspiracies and disinformation. Along the way, he encounters families torn apart by accusations and fake news, journalists putting themselves on the frontline of the disinformation war, reformed conspiracy theorists, influencers who see profit in stoking paranoia, and the shadowy nameless, faceless trolls on the other side of our screens. He discovers how disinformation and well-told lies can ruin a year or a whole life, how they can affect our family, our street, our community. How they can spread across a country, a continent, even the world. How they take hold of our imaginations and make us feel both helpless and powerful.And Danny asks: can you do anything to stop it – even with the truth on your side?
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