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Timeless Wisdom Meets Revolutionary Vision in Epic Political ThrillerWhat would an ideal world actually look like? Can humanity move beyond endless conflict? Is there a god, and what is its nature? The Third Phase grapples with these eternal questions, reconciling historical polemics from Plato to Nietzsche. Drawing from classical philosophys most influential work on justice, this modern allegory offers both inspiration and roadmap.From Olympic champion to world leader, Carlos Smiths extraordinary journey spans eight decades of personal, political, and spiritual transformation. When a missionarys son becomes the most famous athlete on Earth, he discovers his true calling: answering civilizations most urgent questionhow do we build a just society?Fans of Brave New World, Cloud Atlas, and The Ministry for the Future will be captivated by this sweeping saga. Blending the ancient philosophical wisdom of Platos Republic with the political intrigue of Orwells 1984, Adams crafts a pragmatic vision of humanitys potentiala direct answer to Nietzschean nihilism.Through Carloss "Core Team"brilliant strategists battling tyrannywe witness True Democracys birth across Palestine, Latin America, China, and Africa. But political revolution demands spiritual awakening. As Carlos confronts corrupt cartels, authoritarian regimes, and entrenched power, he must choose: can love conquer fear? Can wisdom defeat nihilism?Echoing Churchill, Mandela, and Gandhi, Carlos bridges divided cultures, proving transformationboth personal and civilizationalis possible.The Third Phase shows us the world we could build, if we dare.

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In this vulnerable and inspiring memoir, the CEO of Its a 10 Haircarethe only Latina-owned worldwide beauty brandshares the surprising twists and life lessons behind building a name brand, one bottle at a timeEmbroiled in a years-long legal battle with her former business partner and ex-husband, Carolyn Aronson bought him out and went $100 million into debt, staking her career on the future of the companya risky gamble for a solo female CEO in an industry dominated by men.The result was a miracleor Miracle Leave-In, Carolyns 10-in-1 wonder product that has become a go-to haircare line for beauty salons, stylists, and millions of consumers around the world. In Lift, Hold, Shine, Carolyn traces her business success through the invaluable life lessons that shaped her business savvy today. After two years as a foster baby, adopted into a loving family at age two, and raised in Michigan, her quest to reconnect with her birth family and Puerto Rican heritage became a personal touchstone, informing her sense of integrity and deep appreciation for identity. And as she navigates setbacks, single motherhood, skeptics, and complex partnerships, Carolyn chronicles the hustle and gumption it took as an up-and-coming CEO to keep the company on track, and the bold swings that led to the winning formula and iconic branding behind Its a 10. Told with candor, practical takeaways, and radiant optimism, Lift, Hold, Shine celebrates a life shaped by family, identity, unwavering hard work, and the mindset to create miracles both small and spectacular.

The shocking story of conspiracy to quash democracy in the US and abroad, from investigative journalist and the author of Code Over Country.Matthew Coles riveting Princes and Thieves delivers a real-time expose of the hidden forces and secret scandals that have been, and continue to be, at play in the Middle East, around the world, and within the United States of America itself. Featuring tough as nails mercenaries, ruthless royals, deadly assassins and inept moguls whose bizarre partnerships have devastating consequences, readers will be on the edge of their seats. At the heart of this shocking true story lies a secret slush fund financing actions that have already resulted in a trail of seemingly disparate wreckage. A startling reframing and understanding of our recent history and foreign policy, in these pages, Matthew Cole reveals how the truth is stranger than fiction.

A bad lawyer pursues her dreams of viral rap stardom, at any cost.Prue is a thirty-year-old attorney who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the second is to experience success as a rap artist. Her life is good on paper: she has an easy government job and a nice girlfriend who gets her in to all the right shows, but she wants to truly thrive. When Prue is introduced to music producer Jax Jameson, a human disco ball as manic and unpredictable as he is talented, they instantly vibe. Prue joins Jaxs Kingdom, a collective of musicians and artists who share Prues aesthetic sensibilities and lust for escapism. Soon, shes off her meds, closing her law practice, and becoming entangled with a suspect crew of heavy drug users. The group they form, Shiny AF, quickly reaches cult status and using the stage name Vagablonde, Prue finds herself in a new reality dependent on self-commodification and her growing fandoms approval. An existential exploration of the toxicity of viral fame, Vagablonde is an exhilarating and tumultuous portrait of life in Los Angeles and announces Anna Dorn as a fierce new voice in contemporary fiction.

For fans of Cheryl Strayed and Glennon Doyle, a raw and redemptive memoir of surviving generational trauma, caregiving, and spiritual awakening that chronicles one womans journey from southern survival to West Coast freedom.When her elderly mother shoots her abusive husbandDeborahs fatherin their Arkansas home, Deborah is thrust into a storm of media frenzy, grief, and caregiving. As she fights for justice, supports her paralyzed wife, and battles personal demons, Deborah begins to unravel a deeper legacy of generational traumaand realizes the need to rescue herself.Told with gripping honesty, Grace Through Fire follows Deborahs odyssey through murder trials, chronic illness, financial collapse, and spiritual reckoning. From the chaos of the rural South to the stillness of yoga studios and the healing waters of Lake Powell and Crater Lake, Deborah rediscovers her strength, sobriety, and purpose.This is a narrative of transformation and fierce resiliencea memoir for anyone who has ever questioned their worth, carried the pain of their family, or longed for a fresh start. At the heart of it all is a bold love story, a leap of faith, and one womans courageous choice to create a life of freedom, service, and light on the California coast.

International hotelier, Worth Avenue Association Historian and Palm Beach aficionado Rick Rose releases the 3rd edition of his best-selling guide: Palm Beach: The Essential Guide to Americas Legendary Resort Town. The full-color illustrated guide to Palm Beach, published by Pineapple Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is a rich and beautifully curated collection of destinations, must-sees, and restaurant and shopping recommendations in what has become known as Americans First Resort Destination. Leading 2,000 visitors a year on public and private tours of Worth Avenue and Palm Beach Island and hosting thousands of guests a year at his boutique inn and vacation homes, Rose was inspired to write a local guide to help visitors make the most of their visit to Palm Beach. The first edition was released in 2017 and quickly became the most widely distributed curated guide to The Palm Beaches. The completely revised and updated 2nd edition of Palm Beach: The Essential Guide to Americas Legendary Resort Town features a foreword from celebrated designer and author Steven Stolman, as well as new content, such as a scenic walking tour, information about private clubs, birding tips and new local attractions. The book offers insights on island-appropriate attire, tips on self-guided tours, recommended regional road trips, horse show 101, and so much more, providing a complete overview of everything Palm Beach. The guide is the ultimate resource for those who know the city intimately, wish to visit, or just have an appreciation for the cultural destination that is Palm Beach. Throughout the community, Roses expertise is wildly hailed. This guide highlights all of those special places in Palm Beach for visitors and residents alike, said Danielle Hickox Moore, Mayor of Palm Beach. Rick Roses Palm Beach The Essential Guide has become truly essential for anyone visiting or relocating to the Palm Beaches. His attention to historical facts and their influence on who we are today is outstanding Jorge Pesquera, President & CEO of Discover the Palm Beach.

Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the master of the locked room mystery.After Angus Campbell falls to his death from a high window, his family is summoned to his Scottish manor to settle the estate. Just before his death, Campbell took out several large life insurance policiesall of which are voided in the event of suicide. The door to the room from which he fell was locked and the tower was too tall for anyone to climb in or out, so the insurers are threatening to do just that, despite the familys insistence that Angus would not have killed himself. Enter Dr. Gideon Fell, the amateur sleuth whose deductive wit is revered across the land. He quickly confirms that Campbell was murdered but before he can identify the culprit another impossible crime is committed. Will he be able to determine whodunit and prevent the killer from striking again?An ingenious puzzler from the celebrated master of the locked room mystery, The Case of the Constant Suicides is an entertaining mix of humor, atmosphere, and bafflement. It is among the most celebrated of the cases of Gideon Fell.

In this provocative reimagining of what it is to be a plant, an evolutionary biologist draws on a lifetime of research to offer an original and beguiling behind-the-scenes perspective on how plants really workand how we truly depend on leaves for our survival. For readers of Entangled Life and An Immense World.Leaves are so familiar that they are easy to overlook. Yet it is through leaves that plants perform their magicnot least building towers of wood from the unlikeliest of raw materials: a rare gas, a shower of rain, a heap of dung, and some sunlight. Everything we eat that comes from the land began as a leaf. The air we breathe is cleaned by leaves. Many of the rainfall patterns of the earth depend on tree cover. As evolutionary biologist Jonathan Silvertown shows in this eye-opening book, the most basic questions about leaves remain unasked and have surprising answers. With leaves so vital to plant life, why did land plants have none for the first 50 million years of their evolution? Today, there are easily more leaves on Earth than stars in our galaxy. What changed? Silvertown explains how they grow, the ways they protect themselves against invaders, and the reasons they take such diverse shapes, sizes, and color. By looking at the leaf as a solar panel, a rainmaker, a lunch box, a chemistry set, a shapeshifter, a soil-maker, a geometric designer and more, Silvertown provides a behind-the-scenes look at the foliage that makes all of life possible.

A clear-eyed examination of why modern media lost public trustand what it will take to earn it back. Trust in journalism is collapsing. Social platforms reward outrage over truth. Algorithms, advertisers, and billionaires shape what we see, think, and share. Now artificial intelligence is unleashing a flood of cheap content, raising an urgent question: what kind of media can still earn public confidence? In How to Save the Media, journalist and Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie traces, from inside the industrys transformation, how journalism reached this breaking pointand what the current moment reveals about what comes next. Blending cultural history, political economy, reportage, and first-person insight, McKenzie explores the collapse of the advertising-driven media model and the emergence of new ways of organizing journalism around direct relationships between writers and readers. Through vivid stories of legendary journalists, independent writers, local reporters, and new media pioneers, he shows how power is shifting away from institutions and platformsand back toward individuals and communities who can own their work, their audiences, and their values. This is not a tactical creator playbook. It is a big-idea book about journalism, democracy, and civic life in the age of AI. McKenzie argues that media is not just content, but civic infrastructure: the system societies rely on to think together, argue productively, and decide what is credible. Rebuilding it requires rethinking incentives, ownership, and responsibility in a media environment shaped by automation and scale. Clear-eyed but ultimately hopeful, How to Save the Media argues that todays chaos is not the end of serious journalism, but a turbulent transitionone in which the choices made by journalists, institutions, and readers alike will shape what comes next.

Ratnip visits the flea market to go treasure-hunting in this ninth story in the chapter book series from the author of Good Dog.Ratnip loves visiting the flea market, where knickknack-collecting critters gather from all over the City. Tonight, hes got his sights set on a very rare treasure. But no matter what Ratnip offers, the owner doesnt want to trade! Will Ratnip have to leave the market empty-pawed?With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, Ratnip chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.

A British spy in East Germany, codename Thistle, uncovers a hidden USSR underwater base with a terrifying secret, blending deep-sea dread and psychological horror in a high-stakes thriller that will captivate fans of S.A. Barnes and Daniel Kraus.December 1984. SIS field asset Heidi Sperling (codename Thistle) exfiltrates from East Berlin with the sole copy of a critical intelligence leak: a naval log containing a solitary message received from a previously unidentified Soviet submarine.Incredulouslyimpossiblyit seems the vessel, known only as TK-15, has been sitting motionless and undetected in the waters between Scotland and Iceland for three whole years. And now this latest message reads: ACTIVE.Picked up by the Royal Navys submarine HMS Viking, Heidi is thrust into a black ops mission: find TK15 and neutralize it at any cost. But as her only ally on board the Viking falls sick, she realizes this modified vessel is far more than a Soviet experiment to gain an upper hand in the nuclear arms race. Here, in the crushing depths of the North Atlantic, it seems something darker has awokensomething that cannot be contained by any superpower.As Heidis own reality twists around her, an unknowable force cripples the Vikings defenses and drives its crew to madness. Trapped in the deep, Heidi has no choice but to find a way to save the remaining crew and stop TK-15 for good, before it steals whats left of her mind

Bash must haunt a hardy household right out of their home to pass his exam in this third book in the sweet and spooky chapter book series by acclaimed author Jarrett Lerner.Its time for the annual Excursion Exam at Scare School, and for Bash, his assignment is a doozy: he must spook every member of the Jones family badly enough that they flee their home! Thats nine humans, a dog, and a cata tall order for a young ghost. Even worse, when Bash arrives at the house for the big event, nothing he tries frightens the Joneses! Can he muster up a good enough scare to pass his test?

More exciting than second breakfast! Don Marshall, the Obscure Lord of the Rings Facts Guyloved by so many onlineis back with a compendium of fascinating facts, little-known connections, and incredible insights about the enduring trilogy that launched the modern high fantasy genre!Packed with obscure details and Tolkien tidbits, this book offers a collection of 99 vignettes that invite readers to join the adventure and dive deeper into the world of Middle-earthbeyond the well-traveled paths of the characters that fans know and love. Explore the creation of Fangorn Forest, uncover the origin story of the Elves, learn more about Shakespeares influence on Mount Doom, and so much more. With details about the different adaptations of Tolkiens works and the myths and legends that helped shape Tolkiens universe, readers will gain a new understanding of his lasting legacy. From the origins of Middle-earth through the impacts of the War of the Ring and what happened after the trilogy ended, this book has it all!

From the author of Hopelessly Teavoted comes a witchy, sapphic rom-com about a mischievous runaway bride and her prim-and-proper Witchery Council rival that must fake-date in order to catch a would-be murdererand accidentally fall in love.Priscilla Hart does not do regretexcept maybe for the small matter of fleeing her own wedding in a cloud of magical fireworks. Now the towns most infamous runaway witch, shes determined to rebuild her reputation on the Witchery Council and prove shes more than a scandal in heels. Agatha Vanderbilt Voisin, the newly elected council president, is everything Priscilla cant stand: composed, proper, and infuriatingly perfect. But when a string of dangerous magical explosions points to Priscilla as the culprit, Agatha makes an impulsive moveannouncing that theyre datingto save her from exile. Faking a relationship in public should be simpleuntil late-night arguments turn into slow-burn attraction, and the two discover that something wicked is brewing in Hallowcross. To survive the magicand their feelingstheyll have to stop pretending and risk falling for real.

From the acclaimed author of Our Babies, Ourselves comes an illuminating and thought-provoking look at the nature of family across time and cultures.Family is the most ubiquitous and persistent human social group. Everyone across the world has a family, even if that family has been lost, broken, or transformed. Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, author of Our Babies, Ourselves, examines the very roots of the family and why this particular type of connection is so fundamental to all cultures and all peopleand how this understanding can help us navigate our rapidly changing world.Previous books about family are self-help books designed to start, build, or repair broken families. Family: How the Human Need for Beloning Shapes Our Lives is something different. Small seeks to understand why this particular form of social organization is the bedrock of human interaction. Why do we form families? Why do people place such importance on their family relationships? And what is the reality of family lifedoes it live up to our expectations? What do families provide for each of us at all the stages of our lives?Small takes the reader on a journey from the evolutionary roots of family three million years ago to its present-day varied expression. We read that there is fossil evidence of human groups that could be called families, and extensive archaeological finds that when humans settled down and started to grow their own food and build villages and cities, they did so as families. But within this common framework of a family, there are also complex iterations of the way families are formed and operate. Across the globe, various forms of marriage, parenting, and types of family differ from the Western template of a family of Mom+Dad+kids. People have developed families of all stripes, adapting the notion of family to their own worldview, religious beliefs, and economic necessities.In a narrative that is both sweeping and intimate in scale, we see how family is not a fixed notion, but something has evolved with us as a species, as varied as the human experience itself. Illuminating and though-provoking, Family shows how our innately human need for belonging can be drawn upon to navigate the uncertainties of todays world.

A new and characteristically innovative work from the School for Advanced Researchs Seminar Series.This groundbreaking volume explores how dynamic interactions between human actors, material objects, and metaphysical beliefs shaped and sustained empires. From Han Chinese water management to Xiongnu drinking vessels, from Hittite royal imagery to Teotihuacan animal sacrifices, from Andean anti-imperial resistance to ritual rebirth in Travancore, the case studies reveal how materials and metaphysics intertwined to both enable and constrain imperial ambitions. The contributors examine how assemblages of artifacts, resources, animals, and landscapes actively shaped power relations across diverse imperial formations, while sometimes facilitating resistance to them. Moving beyond conventional political histories, the volume illuminates how things helped constitute imperial authority. In examining these material-political assemblages, the authors provide new theoretical frameworks for understanding empire-building as an emergent process involving both human and non-human actors, while raising crucial questions about archaeologys ethical obligations in studying imperial power.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoriaan epic new history of royal women, from Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, that shatters the myths we have built around them.In this enthralling historical journey, celebrated historian Kate Williams leads us into the world of queens, empresses, princesses, mistresses and ladies-in-waiting. Stories about royal women form some of our most foundational myths about femininity, and yet their legacies have been almost entirely constructed by the words and images of men. From the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia to the opulent courts of medieval Europe, this book delves deep into the lives of these remarkable women, lifting the veil on both their trials and triumphs as they navigate political intrigue, family rivalries and personal sacrifices. From Hatshepsut and Cleopatra, through Tudor queens Catherine of Aragon and Lady Jane Grey, via Queen Victorias contemporaries Yaa Asentewaa of Ghana and Queen Liliuokulani of Hawaii, and right up to Princess Diana, this is an unmissable history that unlocks why we think about women, politics and power in the ways that we do.

A gripping and powerful supense story of love, loss, and the mysteries of memory by internationally bestselling author Joanne Harris.Out on the moor, in the snow, a house stands beneath a pylon. It is a house full of memories, and full of old things. And, in the dark, when the pylon sings in the wind, it is a house full of ghosts and fading memories . . . The house, Kirkhill, has a new occupantjust moved in, fresh from a bitter divorce and looking for a fresh start. The moor is the perfect place for it: isolated, beautiful in the changing seasons, peaceful, and with just enough of the previous owners belongings that its a perfectly self-contained and cosy home. Only as the nights start to draw in, and the weather takes a turn, so does the house. The cosy isolation becomes menacing, animals begin acting strangely, and it seems someone could be watching the house . . . and the diaries of the previous owners begin to reveal a terrible tragedy which befell Kirkhill - one which its new occupant may be unable to escape . . .

A sharp, funny fantasy that proves magic isnt the real problemfamily is. Malachite Moon blends humor, heart, and chaos into a story that invites young readers in and keeps them turning pages.When your grandmothers magic fizzles, and your dragon-cat eats forbidden cookieswhats a girl to do but accidentally break a curse?Kara Midthorn is is trying to survive high school, keep her grandmother from burning down the apartment (again), and stop her two-pound Pygmy Draaline, Zabi, from snacking on magical delicacies. But when an oozing box, a memory-challenged witch, and a boy who hasnt bathed since the last century crash into her life, Karas normal gets tossed out the windowright along with the gnome dung.Now, with the citys magic on the fritz and her own mysterious powers making her the hottest gossip since the last royal scandal, Karas stuck dodging cranky faeries, and awkward family secrets. The only thing standing between her and total magical meltdown? A snarky, time-lost boy named Milo, a talking lizard-cat, and a plan as shaky as a pixie on espresso.Full of banter, magical mishaps, and unexpected friendships, Malachite Moon is a whirlwind for anyone who loves wild wit, and found-family chaos. Ready for a fantasy where the most dangerous thing isnt the magicits your familys recipe for disaster?