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Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories. Now, in the tradition of Moby Dick comes a New York Times best seller destined to become a modern classic. Written by journalist Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm combines an intimate portrait of a small fishing crew with fascinating scientific data about boats and weather systems.

Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. She vanishes without a trace from her doctor's office during treatment. Four years later Josy's father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island in order to deal with the tragedy. Then he's paid a surprise visit by a beautiful stranger. Anna Glass is a novelist who suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: All the characters she creates for her books become real to her.

This was to be her last day alive. The renowned criminal psychologist Ira Samin prepared her suicide thoroughly. The death of her eldest daughter had weighed too heavily on her conscience for her to carry on and she yearned for one last drink to raise a toast to oblivion. Her morbid plans are interrupted and she is called in to negotiate a gruesome hostage situation at a radio station where a psychopath is playing a morbid game.

Cat Sebastian’s long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series. Read by award winning audiobook narrator, Joel Leslie. Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running...

Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don’t coexist easily: we value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs. In this intricately crafted and thought-provoking book, Sebastian Junger examines this tension that lies at the heart of what it means to be human. 

Matthew Hanson is a forensic phonetician and the best audio profiler in America. He is able to create a psychological and visual profile of people using only tones, noises, dialects and voice colours. Thanks to him, some of the most dangerous criminals are in jail. Blackmailers, hostage-takers, assassins, the critical evidence that brought them to justice - short audio recordings. Hanson is fascinating, charismatic, difficult to see through. And: he is in solitary confinement.

Basándose en el inicio de las carreras de los empresarios más aventurados de todos los tiempos, el historiador financiero Sebastian Mallaby nos explicará en este libro cómo se fundaron las compañías más exitosas del mundo como Google o Alibaba, y cuáles son las probabilidades de éxito...

Basándose en el inicio de las carreras de los empresarios más aventurados de todos los tiempos, el historiador financiero Sebastian Mallaby nos explicará en este libro cómo se fundaron las compañías más exitosas del mundo como Google o Alibaba, y cuáles son las probabilidades de éxito...

Libérate de las rutinas religiosas vacías y experimenta una verdadera transformación espiritual. Desarrolla un ritmo de vida marcado por la obediencia profunda, la santidad y el servicio a los demás, que te guíe hacia un discipulado auténtico y una vida llena de sentido. En 17 reglas de un...

Dayana follows a group of children taken by force from the world. There, she learns their future is filled with lifelong suffering. A secret is hidden away deep within their DNA, one that she herself carries. Through her journey, another heartfelt revelation unlocks her past. Veno is taken on a tour, guided by a disturbed scientist. New developments in weapon technology are eagerly flaunted. A few minor altercations with her unhinged guide give her no chance to show off her hand-to-hand combat prowess. Her cover at the moment is of utmost importance.

KI Hands on ist der Podcast für alle, die im Mittelstand wirklich etwas mit KI bewegen wollen – ohne Hype, dafür mit steilen Thesen, echten Praxisbeispielen und konkreten ersten Schritten. In diesem Podcast sprechen Artur Heidt (CEO, KAMIE Solution Factory), Dr. Sebastian Diziol (Lead AI Architect & Consultant, KAMIE Solution Factory) und Nils Betting (Co-Founder, Start your Flame) über das, was zwischen KI-Hype und Unternehmensalltag liegt: die ehrliche Frage, wie aus Lizenzen und Leuchtturmprojekten echter Mehrwert wird. Statt allgemeiner Trend-Floskeln stellen die drei in jeder Folge ...

Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall, by Sebastian Payne – an award-winning journalist and Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times. The Times Political Book of the Year A Daily Telegraph...

1968 New York City News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at night—news in general might be keeping Patrick up at night—but he's doing fine. He's sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights merrily sleeping his way...

Every year, on the winter solstice, the small town of Melcombe observes an annual custom, the roots and meaning of which are lost in the mists of time. A torch-lit procession to the ancient tomb of Cairndale Knapp, overlooking the town, puts the old sun to bed, and greets the new sun in the...

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could...

With no police to investigate and no escape, could it be the perfect setting for a crime? Martin Schwartz (Beesley) is an undercover detective who is recovering from his wife and sons' bizarre disappearance from a cruise ship 5 years ago. He is a desperate man willing to take big risks. Martin never wanted to step onto a cruise ship again until he receives a call which can't be ignored. On average, 23 people per year disappear without a trace from cruise ships. Never before has someone come back... until now.

In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, goes to occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman called Peter Gregory, who has gone missing in action.

An Instant New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company Even by the...

In the heat of the French summer, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford travels to France and falls in love with his host's wife, Isabelle Azaire. When the world stops, their affair falters, and Stephen signs up. In a maze of tunnels under the trenches, Stephen finds the courage this war demands from the men in his command. And it is here that he will fight for everything he has ever known and loved.

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his...