A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces from the bestselling author.'Vivid and moving... It would be hard to find a better writer than Petterson' Irish TimesIn 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that took his parents and two of his brothers.Existence has become a question of holding on to a few firm things. Loud,...

Raised by Buddhist monks in Delhi after his mother’s untimely and tragic death, Eshaan sets out on the challenging quest to feed and nourish the hungry so they do not suffer her same fate. His attempts to achieve this monumental goal are constantly thwarted. And when his former girlfriend returns from Europe with a handsome fiancé in tow, his life becomes even more complicated.A sliver of hope appears in the form of a local TV cooking competition. Winning would offer the solution t...

“I don’t master the mountain, I master speed.” Coming from Bode Miller, this isn’t boasting, it’s just the way he lives: fast, honest, and wide open. In this candid book, the two-time Olympic medalist and champion skier shares his story, the secret of his success, and his philosophy of life.Born and raised “off the grid”–without electricity or indoor plumbing–in the cabin built by his father in the woods near Franconia, New Hampshire (pop. 850), Bode is unconventional to the core. ...

Discover the hidden treasures of biblical literature with "The Ethiopian Bible Complete Apocrypha."This captivating book takes you on an extraordinary expedition into the forgotten realm of the Ethiopian Apocrypha, shedding light on the often overlooked but profoundly enriching texts that have shaped Ethiopian Christianity for centuries.In this meticulously researched and beautifully written book, you will embark on a voyage of exploration, tracing the orig...

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. "Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for." Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. A...

In the past twenty years, we have seen the rise of digital effects cinema in which the human performer is entangled with animation, collaged with other performers, or inserted into perilous or fantastic situations and scenery. Making Believe sheds new light on these developments by historicizing screen performance within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in Hollywood filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras....

Once upon a time, in a small town called Sunnyville, there lived two best friends named Bode and Asher. Bode had curly black hair that bounced as he ran, and Asher had curly brown hair that always seemed to be full of energy. They loved going on adventures together and imagined all the wonderful things they could do.

From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard’s unborn daughterIn Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it anew. While new life is on the horizon, the earth is also in hibernation, waiting for the warmer weather to return. In his i...

Over the past decade Gender Ideology or transgenderism has gone from a niche school of thought that few knew about to becoming a highly polarizing issue that has gripped much of modern western society. This straightforward and informative book defines gender ideology, explains how it is wrong and dives into the negative effects gender ideology has inflicted onto society. This book also proposes methodology to treat gender dysphoria, the mental illness that gender ideologues use to push tra...

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 80 %, University of Glamorgan, language: English, abstract: This essay provides a short survey of the different tax structures prevailing in the UK, Germany and Switzerland. By doing so, the basic differences and the substantial similarities within and between these three covered countries are presented. This essay commences by outlining the tax history of Germany and Switzerland. Following, the third...

In Life Lessons @ 40, which is about 100 pages long, the author shares real, heartfelt reflections shaped by four decades of living. These are not lofty theories or overused clichés, but practical insights you can apply to your everyday life — whether you're navigating career shifts, managing relationships, recovering from failure, or seeking clarity in your next steps.

The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture given by the event’s keynote speaker.In Inadvertent, internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard reveals his beginnings as a writer and his literary influences, ...