The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper?This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their ...

Is duty enough reason to live a lie?When John meets Savannah, he realises he is ready to make some changes. Always the angry rebel at school, he has enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Now he's ready to turn over a new leaf for the woman who has captured his heart.What neither realises is that the events of 9/11 will change everything. John is prompted to re-enlist and fulfil what he feels is his duty to his country. But the lovers are young and...

They’re not-quite enemies. They’re not-really friends. They’re definitely not lovers.But they’re absolutely going to be one of those things when this is over.He really doesn’t want to want this woman.Or her otters.And no, “otters” is not a euphemism.She has otters. And she wants him to take care of them. And he’s going to say yes.Is that going to get him laid?Probably.Is that...

a prequel to Gotta Be Bayou, book one in the Badges of the Bayou seriesShe’s so not his type. But he’s been thinking about her for almost a year now.He needs to figure out a way to get over her.Though kissing her at their friends’ wedding probably isn’t it…FBI agent Spencer Landry is looking for a sweet, bubbly sunshine at home to balance out all the darkness he sees in his work.Investigative journalist Max Keller is anythin...

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in...

In this latest edition of THE WORLD'S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find cutting-edge stories by such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Alison Littlewood, Graham Masterton, Michael Marshall Smith, Damien Angelica Walters, Reggie Oliver and Than Niveau, amongst many others. You'll also find the usual Introduction: Horror in 2018 and Necrology of those who have left us.

Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last - but one day he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. The diary was written by a new mother, as a keepsake for her baby son. In it she touchingly recounts the initial romance between herself and the child's father, and the unparalleled joy that motherhood has brought her. As Katie reads this moving account, it becomes clear that the lover who has left her is the same man as the husband and father in the dia...

HOW I MADE $2,000,000 IN THE STOCK MARKET - A Wall Street Classic, The Darvas System for Stock Market Profits (Plus BONUS Entire Audio Narration)** This Ebook Features Dynamic Chapter Linking and Professional Formatting for a Premium Reading Experience.Before emigrating to America, Darvas studied economics at the University of Budapest. Arriving in the US in 1951, Darvas trained with his half-sister, Julia, to be a ballroom dancer, becoming extreme...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS *Robin Smith was one of England's most popular cricketers of the 1990s. The Judge, as he was known to all, took on some of the most dangerous fast bowlers of all time with a skill and fearlessness that ensured hero status. His savage square cut drew roars of approval from fans all around the world, especially those of his beloved England and Hampshire. But when he was prematurely dumped from the England set-up at t...

A friends to lovers romance…and then some.Run a pie shop with her sisters for a year. Date for the first time at age twenty-nine. Don't be terrified.Well, she's got the first thing under control at least. Mostly.But this is exactly what a best friend is for. Advice, pep talks, matchmaking, sex education…So what if her best friend is a guy? A very hot, tattooed, ex-Marine, mechanic guy? He's definitely well-versed in everything she needs to know. And...

Becca has been the annoying girl next door since they were ten.She'd gotten pretty at about aged fifteen. She'd gotten beautiful around sixteen-and-a-half—not that he'd been keeping track. Thank God, she hadn't gotten gorgeous until she was eighteen.But she's always been annoying.Especially when she's calling him out on his B.S.And punching him in the nose.Yeah, annoyance... that's what he's feeling when she comes down in one costume after another, s...

The novel is a complete revision and rewrite of my book a God of Foreign Lands. The story itself is a literary, character-driven tale with elements of humor, adventure, mystery, and a touch of Egyptian mysticism; think Elizabeth Peters meets Christopher Moore.Professor Lawrence Taylor is the current but soon to be ex-head curator of the University Museum of New York City. Doctor Roth, Professor Taylor's soon to be replacement wants him out and forgotten, even though the fact that Pr...