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I is Another follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers-two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life.

King Crow has survived a televised death sentence, a medical death cult, and a war between predators and prey. Halfway through Toroth-Gol, the dungeon finally offers him a break. That's how he knows something is wrong. In the Library of the Lost, King Crow finds an orb in a glass case that, for...

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious...

Make work meaningful—and unleash your organization's full potential. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on leading with purpose, listen to this book. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you define, communicate, and...

The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers—two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life.

Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements—both of which display allegations of "pseudoscience" on all sides—there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation. Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation.

Investing in ETFs for Dummies has all the basics you need to make calculated and profitable choices when investing in exchange-traded funds. ETFs make it possible for investors to quickly and easily gain exposure to wide swaths of the market. There are funds that are linked to popular market indices like the S&P 500, there are quirky thematic funds that allow you to invest in stuff like video game technology or breakfast commodities, and there's everything in between.

Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers collects a variety of Friedman's papers on topics in economics that were originally published in the Journal of Political Economy. Opening with Friedman's 1977 Nobel Lecture, the volume spans nearly the whole of his career, incorporating papers from as early as 1948 and as late as 1990. An excellent introduction to Friedman's economic thought, Milton Friedman will be essential for anyone tracing the course of twentieth-century economics and politics.

This gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane. New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan's hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time in prison, all he wants is...

Jonathan DeYoe invested a small sum in stocks at a young age—and then watched his money grow. Now a financial adviser and longtime meditator, he understands that stress plagues many would-be investors, and he has seen countless people make investment decisions driven by fear and wishful thinking. That mindset leads to costly mistakes, such as chasing "hot" stocks, buying when prices are high and selling when low, and racking up transaction fees and taxes in the process.

A holiday ultimatum. Twelve dates I didnt ask for and one man I cant ignore.Evie Holliday has everything she thought she wanteda thriving career as an architect in the charming town of St. Augustine, her sweet but spirited cat, Raven, and her ever-faithful best friend and roommate, Lanie. But...

A letter from the past. A dead man in the dirt. And Sherman heading straight into hell. When a cryptic message surfaces about his father's past, Frank Sherman heads to a remote coastal town. What he finds is a place rotting from the inside—run by a smuggler family, protected by silence, and...

Apparently, being forgettable is more dangerous than I thought. My coworkers call me "Cart Guy". Even my parents forget my name. It's Elias Cooper by the way. My crowning achievement is shelving books for years, and only getting tased by security oncefor trespassing at my own job. I've spent...

WARBORN EARTH I THE MOON HAS SPOKENA Post Apocalyptic LitRPGFor fans of Warborn, this is where Earth fell. Same universe as the main series. (NOW ON KU)Six months ago, fifty thousand people vanished in pillars of blinding light. Among the missing were Jebediah Stone and his Cane Corso, Bose...

They framed his sergeant. Sherman's not buying it. When Sergeant Raylan Gournsey is arrested for murder in Equatorial Guinea, it looks open and shut: Naked. Drugged. A body beside him. The local police waste no time calling it solved. But Captain Frank Sherman doesn’t believe in coincidences...

Welcome back to Space Station Halcyon! Joey Mumbai had a hell of a time saving his space station from a code inspector. Who knew that running the place would be ten times worse? A mob boss just dropped a little job on Joey's doorstep: take out a rival's shuttle bus when it docks at the station...

Welcome to Space Station Halcyon! (Management is not responsible for anything that happens to you) Joey Mumbai's down on his luck and over his head. To pay off his gambling debts, he's forced to run an old space station at the end of the galaxy as a "legitimate business" for the mob. All Joey...

Lodespace is a collection of worlds dominated by the Fessenog Fleet trade empire. Thanks to the Voyalten portals, alien civilizations from all over the universe can gather for glorious trade. For the wealthy, there has never been a more lucrative circle. But the Fleet is hiding something from...

Van Lopez and his brother Andy have enough to do keeping their truck running and the local criminal gang happy to be concerned about nuclear tests. Van has dreams, or-he's not sure what to call them-that he cannot explain or forget, but when he sees mysterious lights in the sky, he struggles to make sense of what now feel like his earliest memories.

College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight hundred miles from home. Social and gregarious, studying fashion and rooming with friends, Lauren embraced her new adventure with the zeal of a young woman who suddenly had everything she desired. But there was a dark side that she and her inner circle kept secret. And one warm June evening, after heading out with friends, she seemingly vanished.