This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.John Carver was just a civilian contractor, used to the quiet hum of space, until he stepped aboard the Wellington, a massive, automated carrier designed by the United Nations Space Force to outwit the relentless Zarzan Empire. Built to fight without risking human lives, it was humanity’s bold new weapon: a fleet of automated ships meant to shift the tide against an enemy forged from our own past. But when the Wellington

Everyone has to pay for shelter. Generally, there are two ways to do this - rent or own. This book is about how this decision, because it is one of your largest expenses throughout life, has an enormous impact on your personal finances.Myths are debunked and intuitions are challenged while considering all financial aspects of this important decision.

Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequalityexplores and critiques the widespread perception in the United States that one’s success or failure in life is largely the result of personal choices and individual characteristics. As the authors show, the distinctively individualist ideology of American politics and culture shapes attitudes toward poverty and economic inequality in profound ways, fostering social policies that de-emphasize structural remedies. D...

A veteran Florida police officer dismisses all thoughts of an easy evening when a minor traffic stop reveals human body parts in the bed of an old friend's pickup truck. Belenton detectives thought they'd seen everything. The case soon rocked prosecutors, then Florida's notorious prison system, then the FBI parachuted in. The investigation circles an old drunk, his bar, The Bucket of Blood, and a kindly undertaker. Soon, a steamy Florida Gulf Coast town is siphoned into a major murder inve...

Whispering Out Loud unlocks a treasure chest of short stories and vignettes. It's a chameleon-style literary voyage with each piece summoning the reader to journey to different periods of time and storybook settings. Among the accounts, travel from modern-day Boston to sleepy New England villages and wartime Vietnam. In between, visit a Sci-Fi creation with an alien friend then the horrible times of Nazi Europe. In Norman Rockwell settings, share a breakfast vigne...

In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture--one that marijuana built.Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might receive a knowing grin. The name is infamous, and yet the place, and its inhabitants, have been nearly impenetrable. Until now.Humboldt is a narrative exploration of an insular community in Northern Californ...

1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century.1999: Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and is lumbered with surveillance duties. He is assigned th...

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenesTHE NEW YORK TIMES’S BEST THRILLER OF THE CENTURY • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ...