Octavius came from nothing. Now, he had it all except, the one.Teresa grew up with everything. Yet, had nothing she wanted.Two contracts changed it all.

Craig, a wealthy businessman with questionable practices, surreptitiously accompanies his accountant, Bethany, on an ocean cruise. He has desires for her, and ambitions of getting to know her better.On-board the cruise ship, romance does indeed bloom, between both alike and unlike couples. One romance is built on abundance and opulence whilst another is more down to earth, built on the couple enjoying an array of public ship activities.A jacket, a corpse, and a coat hanger ...

Three hundred prisoners are marched out of Auschwitz, only one returns.This is a factual story about a death march endured by a prisoner of Auschwitz during World War II. It was told to the author by the survivor who is still alive today, he turns 95 years old in 2014. He is the grand father of the author's wife and endearingly known to all as "oppi".A testament to oppi's ability to survive, this story is but one of the many stories he shares with whomever is willing to len...

This is not a poem.It's barely even a book.It's one page making fun of poems that aren't poems.And now it’s a 42-second audiobook too! Perfect for those long road trips and the busy individual with no time to sit down with a book.

This book charts the shifting boundaries of Judaism from antiquity to the modern period in order to bring clarity to what scholars mean when they claim that ancient texts or groups are “within Judaism,” as well as exploring how rabbinic Jews, Christians, and Muslims have negotiated and renegotiated what Judaism is and is not in order to form their own identities. Belief in Jesus as the Messiah was seen as part of first-century Judaism, but by the fourth or fifth century, the boundaries had...

Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction explores contemporary maternity both within and in light of these late-twentieth century understandings. Employing a variety of femin...

Michael Cunningham (The Hours) sits down with Stacey D'Erasmo to discuss his novel Specimen Days. Isaiah Sheffer reads an excerpt.

Among the landmark occasions in the legendary history of Berkshire Hathaway and its iconic co-leaders, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, was a 1996 symposium held in New York at Cardozo Law School. The focus of the symposium was Warren's letters to Berkshire shareholders. The format was a series of panels with two dozen different experts dissecting all the ideas in the letters, about corporate governance, takeovers, investing, and accounting. Intellectual sparks illuminated the two-day af...

A profile of Berkshire Hathaway, the keys to its success, and how it can survive beyond its iconic chairman and CEO, Warren Buffett.In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual prosperity. Riveting stories of each subsidiary's origins, triumphs, and journey to Berkshire reveal how managers generate economic value from intangibles like thrift...

In this engaging collection of stories, 43 veterans of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting explain why throngs attend year after year. Beyond the famous Q&A with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, these experts reveal the Berkshire Meeting as a community gathering of fun, fellowship and learning.The contributors whisk readers through the exciting schedule of surrounding events – book signings, panel discussions and social gatherings – and share the pulse of this dist...

Keller was the only detective in the city who could read minds, and the only A-2. Radcliffe was a man with a mystery to solve—the murder of his wife. Will Keller be able to solve the crime by entering Radcliffe’s mind? And who is ‘The Man Who Flew’?

The subject of this little memoir was so well known to her neighbours, and to the many young persons with whom she associated, that I have felt sure a short account of her would not be unacceptable to them. They knew her quiet, virtuous, consistent, pious walk, and they will, I am sure, bear witness, that I do not over-state the blameless character which she maintained. This, as it was an example to Others, so it must be a cause of heartfelt rejoicing to her friends now that she has finish...