She: a very hot 30 something Swedish woman. He: a native of Berlin, on vacation in rural Sweden, seeking solace for his broken heart. They meet. He finds her irresistible. But before their relationship can get off the ground, she vanishes mysteriously, having apparently been abducted. So Martin sets out to rescue Liv from her captors, with the aid of two Swedish detectives in a race against time – and across Sweden. In so doing, Martin an...

The main character, 11-year-old TOM TREADWELL, is obsessed with a wildly successful adult TV quiz show, the PUZZLE TRAIN, where teams of 6 contestants move from carriage to carriage solving difficult puzzles using clues, while racing against the clock.Tom watches every show, cheering the contestants on and getting frustrated when they take too long to solve clues. He and his best friend ISABELLE message each other constantly to discuss the clues and the contestants’ progress – or l...

It is the ninth of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. The morning breaks lowering and stormy, a fitting prelude to the great and tragic drama that is about to startle the world. It is not yet four o’clock, and the sun is hardly above the horizon, but in the fair Indian city of Meerut there is an unusual stir. The slanting rays of the rising sun, as they fall through the rifts of hurrying storm-clouds, gild the minarets and domes of the numerous mosques for which t...

Holeo's Quest in the Land of HaddBy: James Edward SchubertHoleo is on a quest of his life. He has been asked to quest for nine globes, each full of valuable knowledge. Holeo's journey requires him to soul search and evaluate all of the globe's different and significant meanings, challenging his morals, virtues, and ethics. An adventurous story full of wizards, dragons, and fairies, join Holeo as he discovers his strength from within.About the AuthorJames Edw...

Winner, 2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, MSA First Book PrizeIn Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate a materialist theory of trauma. Ford highlights the dark proletariat’s emergence from the multitude apposite to white supr...

What I see happening in America and Virginia is much like a dam on a river, maybe even the James River, which I have come to love even after many official trips along the river chasing juvenile escapees. I cut my teeth while hunting on small streams and rivers, such as the Bush, Briery, and Buffalo Rivers in Prince Edward County, and the Tongue Quarter and Willis Rivers in Buckingham County. All of these are secondary or primary tributaries to the James River, so the way I see it my destin...

Painful Birth is the astounding story of how Chile narrowly escaped becoming a Leninist/Stalinist slave state in the early 1970s and over a relatively short historic period was transformed into the near paragon of freedom and prosperity that it is today. The book not only narrates the events but also explains the economic policies, institutional transformation, and ideological change involved. Painful Birth provides an invaluable case study in economic growth, international relations, poli...

They were thirteen. They were identical. And on August 17, 1974, they vanished.Sarah and Rebecca Martinez rode their bikes to the library one sunny Saturday morning in Millbrook, Alabama. They never came home.When their bodies were discovered seventeen days later, the evidence was clear. Witnesses had seen things. Forensics pointed in obvious directions. But somehow, the investigation stalled. Evidence disappeared. Witnesses went silent. Powerful people loo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Everyone knew Jeffrey Epstein was a billionaire. The problem? He probably wasn't.For decades, Jeffrey Epstein operated as a phantom financier—a man whose wealth was legendary but whose actual sources of income remained invisible. While prosecutors pursued him for sex crimes, the more sinister question went largely unexplored: Where did the money really come from, and what did it buy?The Money Illusio...

What does it cost to become a legend?She possessed the most powerful voice in American music. She conquered addiction, poverty, and an industry that tried to break her. But the real Etta James—the woman behind "At Last"—remained a mystery even to those who loved her most.At Last! The Etta James Chronicles reveals the untold story of a five-year-old gospel prodigy who became a teenage R&B sensation, lost everything to heroin, and clawed her way back...

Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander is a lucid, classicizing chronicle of the Macedonian's campaigns from the Hellespont to the Hyphasis. In measured, Xenophontic prose, it marries crisp battle narratives—Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela—to analyses of logistics, siegecraft, and provincial settlement, with ethnographic asides and sparing speeches. Rejecting the sensational Cleitarchan stream, Arrian foregrounds Ptolemy and Aristobulus to craft a sober, administratively minded history within the Secon...

A prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World WarIn September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the fortress city of Przemysl, the Hapsburg Empire's most important bulwark against invasion. For six months, against storm and starvation, the ragtag garrison bitterly resisted, denying the Russians a quick victory. Only in March 1915 did the city fall, bringing occupation, per...