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Tthe scale of the deceptionbeggars belief (New York Post) in this definitive account of historys largestand longest-runningfinancial fraud by Bernie Madoff by renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar.Some $68 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoffs epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi shemes exposure. Others went to prison. But there has never been a satisfying accounting for how Bernie got away with so much, for so long. Until now. Richard Behars relationship with Madoff began in 2011 with a simple email request from the conman. By the time Madoff died in 2021, he had sent Behar more than 300 emails and dozens of handwritten letters, participated in some fifty phone conversations, and sat for three in-person jailhouse interviewsa level of access provided to no other reporter. Behar also established relationships with hundreds of regulators, prosecutors, FBI agents, investors, Wall Street experts, ex-employees of Madoffs, family members, school classmates, and others. The result is the final word on the criminal behind historys most enduring fraudand on those who believed him, covered for him, or locked him up. Behar illuminates not only the frauds originsdecades earlier than Madoff claimed in his confessionbut also the complicity of investors, Wall Street insiders, family members, and some of the largest banks in the US and Europe. Shocking, infuriating, riveting (and at times absurdly funny), Madoff shows us how Bernie ensnared thousands of investors. As Behars dogged reporting over the last fifteen years makes clear, however, there arent many innocents left standing by the end of this tale. Just about everyone involved is guilty, at a minimum, of humanitys most consistent weakness: greed.

"Powerful, poetic, transformative."Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance"Henry Shukman is one of the wisest and most poetical teachers of dharma we have today. In an increasingly fragmented world, he is unusually good company."Sam HarrisNew York Times bestselling author of Waking Up and host of the Making Sense podcast, he essential meditation guide for the twenty-first century: renowned Zen master and mindfulness teacher Henry Shukman replaces the concept of original sin with original love, teaching us to tap into the love that shapes our world and can transform who we are.An increasing number of people today feel disconnected, disengaged, and lonely. Many of us are seeking solace, beginning with ourselves. Original Love is the secular spiritual handbook for inner peace we need to ease our troubles and find the highest possible happiness.Henry Shukman, spiritual director of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, provides a way forward based on four pathsMindfulness, Support, Absorption, and Awakeningthat promote spiritual growth and healing through meditation for practitioners of any level. And it works! Shukman includes inspiring stories from the students of his Original Love program that reveal how it has transformed their lives.Urgently needed, Original Love helps us create peace for ourselves and our times by reducing stress, anxiety, and depression; relaxing the mind and body; easing feelings of worry, regret, anger, and irritation; and improving decision-making and executive functioning. Finding a sense of love is a critical purpose of meditation. Finding your way back to the loving peace that lives at the center of things is Original Love.

Now a major movie starring Paul Mescal and Josh OConnorTriumphantThe TimesStellarDaily MailExceptionally accomplishedThe ScotsmanSublimeObserverExquisiteSunday PostIn twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattucks ingenious collection, each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed, history is refracted, and deep emotional connections are woven through characters and families.The haunting title story recalls the journey of two men who meet around a piano in a smoky, dim bar, only to spend a summer walking the Maine woods collecting folk songs in the shadow of the First World War, forever marked by the odyssey. Decades later, in another story, a woman discovers the wax cylinders recorded that fateful summer while cleaning out her new house in Maine. Shattucks inventive, exquisite stories transport readers from 1700s Nantucket to the contemporary woods of New Hampshire and beyondinto landscapes both enduring and unmistakably modern. Memories, artefacts, paintings, and journals resurface in surprising and poignant ways among evocative beaches, forests, and orchards, revealing the secrets, misunderstandings, and love that linger across centuries.Written with breathtaking humanity and humor, The History of Sound is a love letter to New England, a radiant conversation between past and present, and a moving meditation on the abiding search for home.

Lana has mastered the art of the spicy romcom ALI HAZELWOODA hockey player and a baker shoot their shot in this steamy new romance by Lana Ferguson, USA Today bestselling author of The Nanny.This time theyre both playing for keeps . . .When a very public breakup becomes a PR nightmare for Ian Chases team, he hopes to focus on his game, but that suddenly seem less likely than a hat trick. With his career and the teams image in jeopardy, Ian is surprised to find a solution through none other than Delilah Baker, his best friend and teammates little sister . . . who isnt so little anymore.Delilah Baker is known as the darling of baking on her local cable show, and being in the public eye is her bread and butter. But with her numbers dwindling and her producers turning up the heat, Delilah offers up the half-baked idea to collaborate with her brothers team to entice the hockey fans of Boston to tune in to her show. Delilah thinks it will be a piece of cake - until the team sends Ian Chase, her brothers best friend and the object of a decade-long crush that shes never quite gotten over. Delilahs and Ians teams think its a true win-win situation - gaining higher numbers for Delilahs show and casting Ian in a more positive light. And viewers are eating them up like a cupcake, sparking the idea to play up their relationship for the goal of good press. With more than just their careers on thin ice, the line between whats real and whats for show begins to blur, but one things for certain: This PR stunt will either be a total game changer - or leave them both totally pucked.Praise for Lana FergusonIt is no secret that I have and will always devour anything Lana Ferguson writes ELENA ARMASLike if Ali Hazelwood and Tessa Bailey had a smutty baby. I devoured every page RUBY DIXONSmart, fun, sexy, and sizzling with romantic tension SARA DESAI Unique, atmospheric, playful and so hot . . . her books are everything TARAH DEWITT Tropes brothers best friend hockey romance slow burn spicy fake dating she calls him cupcake friends to lovers

Henri Matisse described the Chapel of the Rosary, the chief labour of his final years, as the gathering together of his lifetimes work. Although widely known as Matisses Chapel, the buildings remarkable modern design and decoration emerged from a surprising friendship and artistic engagement with a group of Dominican sisters and brothers keen to see the Church embrace Modern Art and modern artists. With the advantage of hitherto unexplored archive and printed materials this study highlights that mutual encounter and explores how their shared artistic adventure became for Matisse himself an opportunity to express his religious vision of art and to rediscover his natal Catholic Faith in its post-war avant-garde form.

**All Characters are of course 18 years old or older*** Linh, Trang and Hoa continue to wage vicious sexual warfare over the crown, Hoas mysterious involvement slowly becoming revealed as she proves herself to be a true threat for her enemies in sweat, cum and tears! When Hoa corners Linh in her hotel room the shower ensures their gorgeous forms are wet and ready for the task; and when a press converence turns too hot for the cameras Hoa and Trang sneak away to the sauna in order to tear each other apart in the hot, steamy privacy of closed doors! Pain and pleasure quickly become one in both these desperate struggles as the gorgeous models frantically tear each other apart over the right to the crown...slowly edging towards the showdown all three of them have so furiously wanted! Wet Heat has all three models filthy and dripping...and youll be sweating too reading about jealous beauties battling it out over the title (and your pleasure) in all the bitter ways they know how!

DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE LOVE STORY THAT HAS CAPTURED HEARTS AND TAKEN TIKTOK BY STORMThis book broke me into pieces constantly and then put me back together, it was an emotional rollercoasterReader ReviewAll the tears, it made my soul cry ... A Hue of Blu healed something inside of meReader Review***How much pain are you willing to endure for someone you love?Bold, charismatic, and charming Blu Henderson wears a fake smile every day, pushing through life because she has to - not because she wants to.Quiet, introverted, and mysterious Jace Boland catches her eye the second she sees him. After that, its game over - not just for Blu, but for Jace as well.Drawn together by inexplicable attraction, a whirlwind connection forms that persists and torments, mends and breaks, and forces both Blu and Jace to confront the traumas of their past while trying to make their relationship work.A Hue of Blu explores how two broken hearts can find comfort in tragic losses, how two broken souls can find peace in pain, and how loving yourself may be the only way to love another...No matter the consequence.***WOW!! Just wow!! I am left completely speechless Reader ReviewFrom the start I was captivated and I couldnt put this book down until I finished it Reader ReviewI am so overwhelmed. This was a gut wrenching read that has changed me, and healed parts of me I had no clue were even damaged Reader ReviewThis book is so heartbreakingly beautiful Reader ReviewTW: Alcoholism, toxic relationships, mental health (specifically depression and BPD), body image, self-harm, mentions of OW/OM, and loss of a parent.

A book that stays with you and widens your perception of how people and place intertwine MATT COLLINSFor over five decades, Beth Lynch has been repeatedly drawn to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast, where her earliest memories are rooted in idyllic family holidays. Following the deaths of her parents, strange occurrences around the cove leave Lynch questioning how well she truly knows this place of slate that so irresistibly calls to her. Why has it become so unsettling? Is she safer staying away?Through encounters with quarrymen, wartime women and an enigmatic archaeologist - along with JMW Turner, Tennyson, Trollope and the Hardys - The Cove reflects lyrically on change: in ourselves, in places and in the transformative dance between the two.

Fully revised edition with updated information on the surviving members of the orca pod. In 2014, marine biologist Dr Natalie Sanders joined the crew of the research vessel Silurian to seek out Britains West Coast Community of orca and study them before we lose them forever. Though this orca pod has delighted scientists and whale watchers for years, we still know relatively little about them, and what we do know comes mostly from citizen science and chance encounters. But what is abundantly clear is that pollution, entanglement, military sonar and climate change continue to have an enormous impact on whales and dolphins and other marine life throughout the worlds oceans. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the marine world in this age of climate change. A captivating yet poignant account, it takes the reader from the Western Isles of Scotland to Vancouver Island and elsewhere. It also delves deep into the history of our relations with these beautiful and sentient creatures to explain what their loss means and how we can avoid similar tragedies in the future.

Avec Frêle bruit, Michel Leiris clôt La Règle du jeu. Il a consacré trente-cinq ans à la rédaction d’un ouvrage dont le premier propos est de lier des données tirées de sa vie intime. Ce chercheur ob

"Pendant que je me déshabillais, je vis Antoine qui fixait mon dos. Il me convoitait, encore, toujours, et il se méfiait de moi. Avec son regard, je me regardai : jétais belle et menteuse. Je ne me regardai pas au visage, je regardai mon corps. Javais un beau corps, je lai encore. Peu de femmes ont de beaux seins : je suis de ces femmes. Encore moins de femmes ont des seins beaux et emouvants : je suis de ce peu de femmes. Mon corps avait des liens avec cet appartement, et avec Antoine ; il setait façonne a tout cela. Javais le corps soigne, aise, epanoui dune belle femme riche, de plus flattee par les caresses dun homme qui avait de belles dents, de la fougue, de ladresse."

"Dans un temps, Manosque était appelée la ville des hirondelles. Cest, de tout le pays des collines, la ville qui en abrite le plus dans ses génoises. On les voit tout dun coup surgir par milliers et on ne sait pas dou elles viennent. Buffon dit quelles passent lhiver au fond des lacs, des etangs et des rivieres."

HENRY AND VIOLET FELL IN LOVE IN THE ORANGE HOUSE. AND SO WILL YOU. Henry and Violet first met in the garden of The Orange House on the beautiful island of Mallorca. They promised their lives to each other, poured their love into restoring the house and built the foundations of their marriage within its walls. First it was their private idyll, then a place to escape with their son, Luke - but now it has become a battleground. As the years have passed, cracks have appeared and secrets have built barriers between them. Finally, on the brink of divorce, they have come back to Mallorca to sell up. Will this final summer together be the end - or a new beginning?Twenty years ago, The Orange House brought them together.Now, will it be reason they part? YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS ARE FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE ORANGE HOUSE...A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel of love lost and gainedMILLY JOHNSONPowerful, moving, evocativePAIGE TOONDeeply moving and full of heartLUCY DIAMONDYou can feel the warmth coming off the pages ... the most immersive, evocative love storyDAISY BUCHANANA rich family drama, suffused with sunshine and hope. Isabelle Broom is a wonderful storytellerLUCY CLARKE

No other writer has ever made me laugh and cry as much as Catherine GrayDaisy May CooperTender, lush and electric; a wild, heartbreaking, exhilarating rideDaisy BuchananExquisite, stunning, executed brilliantlyPoorna Bell____Do we become who we are because of our parents, or in spite of them?Ferns mother is a social climber and a former ballet dancer who lives a plush life in a London townhouse.Ferns father only climbs if theres a bottle at the top, has an IQ of 133 and lives hand-to-mouth in Californian motels.Aged fourteen, Fern has spent equal time with each of her parents. That is, until an unexpected visitor triggers a life-changing dilemma: whether she should get on a plane to London to be with her mother, or stay in California with her father. Here, Ferns narrative splices in two.Two possible lives, one person. Each Fern will grow in wildly different, but eerily similar directions. Both must determine who they want to be - and how they deal with a thorny problem which threatens to undo them all: a murder.Warm and brilliantly wise, this is the irresistible fiction debut from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober.______ Readers are loving Versions of a Girl: What a fabulous book - read in 3 days which hasnt happened a long time! This isnt just a book-its an experience that sticks with you I cant think anyone who wouldnt enjoy this book... a damn good read

A fantastic and fascinating exploration of the life of a great champion... Full of compelling insight. - Tom HiddlestonThis book captures the deep complexities in Novaks mind and his life and how hes dealt with them in a thoughtful, soul-searching way. - Chris EvertA fascinating insight into the greatest tennis player of all time. - Evening Standard tennis correspondent, Matt MajendieAn absorbing insight into the story behind the greatest player of all time. - The Times tennis correspondent, Stuart FraserMark Hodgkinson goes memorably deep on Novak Djokovic - from his hard-luck beginnings to his gluten-free diet to his unorthodox mind - helping us better understand one of the most fascinating figures in sports. - Christopher Clarey, author of The MasterMeticulously-researched. - Simon Cambers, author of The Federer EffectREVISED AND UPDATED FOR 2025. INCLUDES NOVAKS HISTORIC OLYMPIC TITLE.No man or woman has won more Grand Slam singles titles than Novak Djokovic, who took his 24th major at the 2023 US Open. Based on fresh interviews with people close to Djokovic - including his friends and mentors, along with his former coaches and his rivals - this is an in-depth exploration of the psyche of one of the most fascinating and controversial sporting characters ever. From a bomb shelter in Belgrade to an immigration detention centre in Melbourne, and everywhere in between, this book uncovers his relentless pursuit of perfection and the unconventional beliefs that have propelled him to greatness. Rage. Forgiveness. Shame. Pride. Love. Searching for Novak examines the psychological and emotional side of rewriting tennis history.

ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDINGAND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of Civilisation left off. From the Arab uprisings and the Syrian civil war to Israels conflicts with Palestine and Lebanon, Fisk condemns the Wests ongoing hypocrisy and interference while revealing the horrific truth of life on the ground. Unafraid to criticise authority and unpick complex truths, hecreates a compelling narrative of passionate and engaging journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting. With a Postscript by Nelofer Pazira-Fisk and a foreword by Patrick Cockburn, Night of Power delivers an essential and prophetic account of the last twenty years, which exposes the inescapable consequences of colonial oppression and violence in the Middle East. This is a masterly work by a unique and gifted historian of the present, who was unafraid to criticise authority while revealing the horrific realities of life and death on the ground Conor OClery, Irish TimesEvery sentence of Robert Fisk radiates his loathe of wars and the inevitable dehumanization they produce, which makes his (sadly) last book an everlasting warning, beyond its value as a meticulous historical recount and analysis of todays events Amira Hass, journalist, Haaretz Fisks reporting is clear-eyed and unflinching, a model for what journalists should aspire to practice in their ever more important and widely threatened craft Anthony Arnove, editor, Iraq Under Siege and author, Iraq: The Logic of WithdrawalI was at the funeral of a friend of mine, in Kilternan cemetery I came across Robert Fisks grave. Someone has to bear witness to the unspeakable, and he did it, whatever the cost to himself Neil Jordan, film director and writer

The dead tell no tales . . .Hollows Bend is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate zero is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett.The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She cant or wont answer any questions. She wont even tell them her name.While the girl is in protective custody, the officers are called to multiple crime scenes leading them closer and closer to a lake outside of town that doesnt appear on any map . . ._________________________________________PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSONIts no mystery why James Patterson is the worlds most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: nobody does it better. JEFFERY DEAVERNo one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. LEE CHILDPatterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. Its what fires off the movie projector in the readers mind. MICHAEL CONNELLYJames Patterson is The Boss. End of. IAN RANKINThe master storyteller of our times. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTONOne of the greatest storytellers of all time. PATRICIA CORNWELLJames Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged. STEVE BERRY The 24th Hour by James Patterson was a No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller 17/03/2024

One of the funniest books I have ever read HADLEY FREEMAN A masterpiece SATHNAM SANGHERAThe read of the summer THE SUNDAY TIMESBrilliant funny and moving ADAM KAY A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mothers idiosyncratic sex life, and his fathers dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny. On the surface, David Baddiels childhood was fairly standard: a lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count, which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing memorabilia salesman. Davids detailing of the affair including a hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings leads to the inescapable conclusion that Sarah Baddiel was a cross between Jack Niklaus and Erica Jong. Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his familys past, his fathers memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his mothers affair, there is both comedy and poignancy to be found: laughter is a constant presence, capable of transforming the darkest of experiences into something redemptive. My Family: The Memoir is David Baddiels candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents.An extraordinary, hilarious book OBSERVER I lost count of how many times I gasped CAITLIN MORANOutrageously funnyprofoundly thoughtful THE SUNDAY TIMES Explosively funny, brilliantly written DAVID WALLIAMS Infernally funny HOWARD JACOBSON A triumph NINA STIBBEBaddiel has done his parents proud GUARDIANHad me howling PANDORA SYKES

Why do teenagers act as they do?BrilliantPANDORA SYKESFascinating, moving ... clear-eyedDAILY MAILWise and revelatoryGUARDIAN** A GUARDIAN AND TELEGRAPH BEST PAPERBACK PICK **What we experience during adolescence shapes us for life, but psychologist Lucy Foulkes shows that too often we fear, dismiss or even try to prevent aspects of it that are crucial to our development. Drawing on decades of psychological research, and including profoundly moving interviews, Coming of Age gets beneath the recent myths and age-old stereotypes of adolescence to reveal the real reasons why teens behave the way they do.Above all, Foulkes shows that adolescents have an extraordinary capacity for resilience, empathy and mutual support, and that even the most challenging encounters are part of an essential process of self-discovery.Foulkes is steeped in knowledge about, as well as respect for, teenage lifeOBSERVERA wonderful and deeply moving bookMARK HADDONReveals adolescences unwritten rulesJO BRAND

Set in the buried streets of Georgian London and the outrageous underworld of the molly houses, a carpenter hiding a double life searches for a traitor who is betraying the secrets of the mollies. The devastatingly beautiful, brutal, raucous and tender historical thriller a Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller!`Heartbreaking, beautiful, lyrical. I was captivated you wont want to put it down Catriona Ward`Utterly thrilling Elizabeth MacNeal`An immersive, illuminating and exceptionally entertaining novel Matt Cain`Stunning and powerful Youll never forget Thomas True Janice Hallett`A clever mystery, a powerful love story affected me more than anything Ive read in a long time Gareth Brown**WINNER OF THE HWA DEBUT CROWN****THE TOP TEN Sunday Times BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED for Booksellers Association Author of the Year**_________________The only sin is betrayalIt is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of Londons hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses.Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the mollys stoic guard. When a young man is found murdered, he realises there is a rat amongst them, betraying their secrets to a pair of murderous Justices.Can Gabriel unmask the traitor before they hang? Can he save hapless Thomas from peril, and their own forbidden love?Set amidst the buried streets of Georgian London, The Betrayal of Thomas True is a brutal and devastating thriller, where love must overcome evil, and the only true sin is betrayal__________________`Quite simply divine had me in all sorts of tears Jennie Godfrey`A vivid exploration of a largely forgotten aspect of Londons past as compelling as Wests debut The Times`A darkly thrilling romp that simmers with sinister menace and illicit temptation Susan Stokes-Chapman`An unforgettable combination of historical thriller, love story and heartbreaking tragedy Heat`Ingeniously plotted, vivid and memorable Historical Novel Society`Electric an unputdownable read Attitude Magazine`An epic adventure of love in a time of danger Hallie Rubenhold`An exuberant, moving story Rosie Andrews`Vivid, impressive and utterly immersive I was weeping by the final pages. Masterful D.V. Bishop`A devastating story told with great power Christopher Stephens`You are instantly immersed in the perilous, hot, exciting, plot-swirling world of Mollies Felice Picano`Youll smile, youll gasp, youll cry Essie Fox`Hugely entertaining Anna Mazzola`Bursting with memorable characters and stunning imagery Sean Lusk`Brilliantly researched and lavishly written Emma Stonex`Like a modern Fielding Kate Griffin`Hypnotic. A hurtling tale of deception and self-discovery James Cahill`Very, very good Stephen Fry`There has never been a book that made me cry until today Suzie Edge`Fierce, funny, and fabulous an important and deeply moving story Jonathan Harvey `A beautiful, dark love story set in the fetid streets of Georgian London unputdownable Gareth Russell`A beautifully told story that broke my heart and energised my soul Tracy King`The wit of Wilde still lives! Gyles Brandreth