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Our new favorite trope: Childhood friends. To enemies. To lovers. In a chemistry-filled debut romance.Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson's last conversation-fourteen years ago at summer camp-ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated next to each other on a plane, and bitterly pick up right where they left off. At least they can go their separate ways again after landing... That is, until Daniel's marketing firm gets hired by the Chicago museum where Liyah works as a junior curator, and they're forced to collaborate with potential career changing promotions on the line.With every meeting and post-work social gathering with colleagues, the tension (and chemistry) between Daniel and Liyah builds until they're forced to confront why they broke apart years ago at camp. But as they find comfort in their shared experiences as Jews of color and fumble towards friendship, can they ignore their growing feelings for each other?With sexy charm and undeniable wit, Rachel Runya Katz's sparkling debut, Thank You For Sharing, proves that if you're open to love, anything is possible."[An] excellent, multilayered look at the experiences of Jews of color in this deftly woven story...Katz successfully portrays how romance meets real life in this terrific debut." - Library Journal (starred review)"Rachel Runya Katz's Thank You for Sharing is a magical love story. This is a poignant, sharp and sexy romance with the kind of complex, big-hearted characters and emotional honesty readers will adore. I loved it!" - Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After"This book wrapped a fist around my heart and refused to let go. Gorgeously written, with two magnetic leads, an irresistible group of friends, and a warmth that radiates from every page. Rachel Runya Katz is a true talent." - Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk"Impossible to put down! A delicious pressure-cooker-style slow burn of a romance, Thank You for Sharing contains the greatest 'only one bed' scene I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Not only is the romance delightful, but Rachel Runya Katz handles the complexity of grief and trauma with the tenderest of touches, creating a safe, welcoming space for her characters and readers alike. I have no doubt that readers will fall head over heels for Liyah and Daniel!" - Alexandria Bellefleur, bestselling, Lambda award-winning author of Written in the Stars and The Fiancée Farce

"Enriching" -Publisher's Weekly"Excellent and illuminating"-Wall Street JournalIn the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival.Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It's how life progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material to nation states. But given what we know about evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all the genes in the body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkats care for one another's offspring? Why do babbler birds in the Kalahari form colonies in which only a single pair breeds? And how come some reef-dwelling fish punish each other for harming fish from another species? A biologist by training, Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves. She reveals that the species that exhibit cooperative behaviour most similar to our own tend not to be other apes; they are birds, insects, and fish, occupying far more distant branches of the evolutionary tree. By understanding the problems they face, and how they cooperate to solve them, we can glimpse how human cooperation first evolved. And we can also understand what it is about the way we cooperate that makes us so distinctive-and so successful.

Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural event.Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett's unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett's best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O'Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War. Of course there is Scarlett. Katie Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett's: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she'll ever know...Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, Rhett Butler's People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by Gone With The Wind.

John Dies at the End is a genre-bending, humorous account of two college drop-outs inadvertently charged with saving their small town-and the world-from a host of supernatural and paranormal invasions.This updated special edition includes commentary from the characters and the author!"[Jason Pargin] has updated the Lovecraft tradition and infused it with humor that rather than lessening the horror, increases it dramatically. Every time I set the book down, I was wary that something really was afoot, that there were creatures I couldn't see, and that because I suspected this, I was next. Engaging, comic, and terrifying." -Joe Garden, Features Editor, The Onion"[Pargin] is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King... 'page-turner' is an understatement." -Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I-V, Bubba Ho-tepSTOP. You should not have touched this book with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.The important thing is this: The sauce is a drug, and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. Unfortunately for us, if you make the right choice, we'll have a much harder time explaining how to fight off the otherworldly invasion currently threatening to enslave humanity. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: None of this was my fault.

Mission Nouvelle Terre tome 2Piégés sur une Terre en fin de vie, les derniers survivants de l'humanité n'ont qu'une issue: envoyer des vaisseaux à la recherche d'une nouvelle Terre pour assurer la survie de l'espèce. Le voyage durera plusieurs siècles. Waverly et Kieran sont nés à bord d'un des vaisseaux, et ont toujours vécu la tète dans les étoiles. Jusqu'au jour où tout bascule. Comment s'enfuir, comment survivre, quand on habite au beau milieu de l'espace ? Avec Spark, Amy Ryan propose une suite éblouissante au roman Glow, qui a fait son succès, ménageant son suspense avec une précision diabolique. Les amateurs de thriller et d'aventures ne pourront que succomber à cette série qui emmène le lecteur au-delà de la voie lactée.Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Alice Delarbre

Mission Nouvelle Terre tome 3 Alors que la Terre menace de disparaître, deux vaisseaux ont été envoyés dans l'espace afin de coloniser la Nouvelle Terre. Durant le voyage qui doit s'étendre sur plusieurs décennies, les deux vaisseaux entrent en conflit. À leur bord se trouvent Waverly et Kieran, deux adolescents qui vont voir leur vie changer à jamais. La guerre, la destruction, la traîtrise et la manipulation font maintenant partie de leur quotidien. Alors que leur vaisseau d'origine a explosé lors de la dernière bataille, tous deux se retrouvent en territoire ennemi. Comment survivre, piégé au beau milieu de l'espace, quand on ne sait pas à qui faire confiance? Si Kieran se rapproche de la troublante Anne Mather, pasteur et capitaine du vaisseau, Waverly préfère s'en méfier et suivre les conseils d'un vieil homme qui a juré la perte de leur dirigeante. L'un et l'autre apprendront vite que les jeux du pouvoir sont à manier avec précaution.Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Alice Delarbre

T.1 de Mission Nouvelle TerreAlors que la Terre menace de disparaître, deux vaisseaux sont envoyés pour un long voyage dans l'espace afin de coloniser la Nouvelle Terre. À bord de l'Empyrée, Kieran et Waverly, seize ans, se préparent à se marier pour accomplir leur mission: donner naissance aux nombreux enfants qui peupleront la terre promise. En effet, le voyage doit s'étendre sur plusieurs décennies et il est primordial d'assurer le renouvellement des générations sur les deux vaisseaux. Si l'Empyrée a largement atteint son objectif, le Nouvel Horizon est quant à lui menacé d'extinction. En désespoir de cause, l'étrange pasteur Anne Mather décide d'attaquer le vaisseau et d'enlever toutes les jeunes filles qui s'y trouvent. Alors que les adultes de l'Empyrée s'élancent à leur poursuite, leur navette disparaît dans l'espace, laissant les garçons, dont Kieran, seuls maîtres du vaisseau. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Alice Delarbre

The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical evidence, and pervasive racial prejudice the case was closed without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed it, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Years later, Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the case, ultimately convicting one of the bombers in 1977. Another suspect passed away in 1994, and US Attorney Doug Jones tried and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002, representing the correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice nearly forty years in the making. Jones himself went on to win election as Alabama's first Democratic Senator since 1992 in a dramatic race against Republican challenger Roy Moore.Bending Toward Justice is a dramatic and compulsively readable account of a key moment in our long national struggle for equality, related by an author who played a major role in these events. A distinguished work of legal and personal history, the book is destined to take its place as a canonical civil rights history.

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Reads of 2024 Hollywood glamor meets "'Tis the Damn Season" in this irresistibly buzzy sapphic romance, perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Casey McQuiston. Katie Price is known in every living room in America. A small-town Wisconsin girl who became an A-list star, she rarely makes it home, but this year is different . . . Little does she know it will lead her straight into the piercing blue-eyed gaze of Wil Greene. A lot has happened in the decade since those cold Wisconsin nights when Wil and Katie drove around in Wil's Bronco senior year. Since then, Wil's law career hasn't taken off. Her father passed away. And what started as a personal challenge--kissing a new person twice a week, every week--has made her a growing sensation, but her life is still stuck in phase one. Through the years, the two have never left each other's thoughts and desires, but now suddenly, they are back in each other's lives. Their reconnection is instantaneous, and the passion is palpable...but can it stand the test of time? Witty, emotional, and steamy, Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous is an unforgettable romantic read for everyone who almost kissed their best friend. And then finally did. "Sweetly tender and arrestingly sexy." --Kate Clayborn, author of Georgie, All Along

"Irresistible, deft, sparkling...The Sunset Crowd is cool sans hangover, which makes it a perfect addition to your summer luggage." --The Washington Post"Super juicy." --Rolling StoneFame. Fortune. Love. You can't have them all.Meet LA darling Evra Scott. The daughter of an Oscar-winning director and a Brazilian bombshell actress, Evra is the city's reigning style queen. By day, she's at the helm of Sunset on Sunset, the store beloved by Hollywood's young and beautiful. By night, she's on the arm of Kai de la Faire, Hawaii's hottest export, and the screenwriter of the moment.Enter Theodora Leigh. The twenty-something Paramount assistant looks like a big screen star, but her sights are firmly set behind the scenes, as she fights to become a movie producer in a town where sex and sexism sell. Theodora's got the talent and instincts, but she's not willing to wait. Luckily, getting ahead by any means necessary is LA's mantra.Observing it all is Bea Dupont, a photographer for Rolling Stone and Vogue, who never misses the party, but always keeps to its fringes. A Manhattan blue blood turned West Coast bohemian, Bea holds Evra's Sunset crowd together. She's also Kai's oldest friend, and she's harbored a not-so-secret flame for him since they met at an elite Swiss boarding school.But in Hollywood, no one stays on top forever. And it's not long before Theodora's unrelenting ambition sets in motion a dramatic quest for power in an industry that is as glamorous as it is duplicitous.From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, Karin Tanabe's The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and reinvention, of faking it until you make it, and the glittering appeal of success and stardom, as it seeks to answer that timeless question¿who gets to have the American dream?

Now in paperback: In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell the larger-than-life stories of Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell the larger-than-life stories of Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life--until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard explore the lives, legacies, and tragic deaths of three of the most famous people of the 20th century. Each experienced immense success, then failures that forced them to change; each faced the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth; and finally, each became isolated, cocooned by wealth but vulnerable to the demands of those in their innermost circles. Dramatic, insightful, and immensely entertaining, Killing the Legends is the twelfth book in O'Reilly and Dugard's Killing series: the most popular series of narrative history books in the world, with more than 18 million copies in print.

200 of the easiest New York Times crossword puzzles, perfect for beginnersWhy stress out when you could take it easy? Here's another great big volume of easy breezy New York Times crossword puzzles to pass the time. Like its popular predecessors, this collection features:- 200 Monday and Tuesday puzzles- The easiest crosswords published in The New York Times- Big grids for easy solving

Sharpen your mind with crosswordsCrosswords are a great way to challenge your mind any time you need a little focus time. This collection includes big grids with large-print type, making it perfect for crossword solvers of any age. Features:- 120 easy-to-read New York Times crossword puzzles- All levels of difficulty- Puzzles edited by crossword maven Will Shortz

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GLOBE...Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On the edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself...IN THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH...A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf, has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines, and someone else...THE HEAT IS ON...First comes a horrific firefight. Then comes a plunge into a drowning pool filled with killer whales. Next comes the hard part, as a handful of survivors begin an electrifying, red-hot, non-stop battle of survival across the continent and against wave after wave of elite military assassins -- who've all come for one thing: a secret buried deep beneath the ice...

"Anson is a fierce Dragon King, a dragon shapeshifter born and bred to protect his own. But when a rogue tech company hacks into their world, he must join forces with the unlikeliest of allies: a human female. Her name is Devon Abrams. A rising star at the firm, she has no idea that her boss is in league with the sinister Fae and their secret war against humanity. If Anson gains her trust, he can defeat the enemy from within. But first he must fight his own attraction to this exquisitely beautiful mortal"--Amazon.com.

A New York Times bestseller, Night Watch is a thrilling Kendra Michaels novel from Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen A VIEW TO A KILL Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life in darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by the Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly developed senses--honed during her years in the dark--combined with her newfound vision have made Kendra a formidable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But in her newest case she uncovers the stunning truth about the shadowy organization that has given her so much. IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE... Kendra is surprised when she is visited by Dr. Charles Waldridge, whose groundbreaking experiment gave her her vision. But the brilliant surgeon is troubled by something he can't discuss. . .and when he disappears the very night he visits her, Kendra jumps on the case. With the help of government agent-for-hire Adam Lynch, Kendra follows a twisted trail that leads to a gruesome discovery: the corpse of one of Dr. Waldridge's associates. But it's only the first casualty in a white-knuckle confrontation with an enemy who will push Kendra to the limits of her abilities. Soon she must fight for her own survival as she tries to stop the killing--and unearth the shocking deadly secret of Night Watch. This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.

From NYT bestseller Brenda Novak comes the next installment of Dr. Evelyn Talbot and her murderous home for psychopaths in Hello Again.SHE CAN MAKE SENSE OF A COMPLEX CRIMINAL MIND. Evelyn Talbot, a psychiatrist at a maximum-security prison in Alaska, studies some of the world's worst serial killers. But she's about to meet her most elusive patient at Hanover House yet: Dr. Lyman Bishop, AKA the Zombie Maker given his fondness for performing ice-pick lobotomies on his victims. A brilliant cancer researcher, Bishop is either the most cunning psychopath Evelyn has ever encountered--or he is wrongly convicted. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A CRIMINAL CAN SEE INTO HER OWN? When a new ice-pick fatality occurs, it seems Bishop really was wrongly convicted. Except...Evelyn has a personal connection to the victim and that suggests the killer may be someone from her own past: Jasper Moore, her high school boyfriend who tortured her and left her for dead when she was only sixteen. Jasper also murdered three of her friends--and was never caught. Is he trying to send a message with this copycat crime? The only thing Evelyn knows for sure is that if Jasper is on her trail, she might not be able to escape again . . .

WHY WAS AN OLD WOMAN KILLED BRUTALLY THE NIGHT BEFORE 9/11? "" WHY THE SUCCESSFUL BANKER OF ONE OF NEW YORK`S TOPMOST BANK WAS NOT SURPRISED WHEN HE RECEIVED THE LEFT EARLOBE OF A WOMAN? "" WHY WAS THE TOPMOST ATTORNEY WORKING ONLY ON ONE CASE AND THAT TOO WITHOUT CHARGING ANYTHING? "" WHY DID THE YOUNG BUSINESSWOMAN STEAL ONE OF THE PICTURES OF VAN GOG, WHEN SHE WAS NOT A THIEF? WHY WAS THE SPORTSWOMAN GIVEN 10 MILLION DOLLARS BEHIND EVERY EVENT OF THE OLYMPICS IN WHICH SHE WAS PARTICIPATING, DESPITE OF HER NOT HAVING ANY ACCOUNT IN THE BANK? WHY DID THE YOUNG GIRL SEEK A SECRETARIAL JOB WHEN SHE HAD INHERITED A HUGE SUM? THE JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN WAS SEEKING HAPPINESS IN DONATING 10 BILLION DOLLARS TO A WOMAN WHOM HE HAD MET JUST ONCE, `WHY?` DO YOU WANT TO FIND OUT ANSWERS TO ALL THESE QUESTIONS? YOU WILL SURELY COME ACROSS THEM DURING THE JOURNEY FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON, LONDON TO BUCHAREST, TOKYO AND LASTLY A SMALL VILLAGE IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF ENGLAND, ALONG WITH JEFFREY ARCHER IN `FALSE IMPRESSION`. LASTLY, YOU WILL COME ACROSS WITH THE `SELF PORTRAIT WITH BANDAGED EAR` AND THE SECRET IT IS HOLDING, MYSTERIOUS, SHOCKING, UNFORGETTABLE... ९/११ च्या आदल्या रात्री एका वृद्धेचा अमानुषपणे खून का करण्यात आला? न्यूयॉर्कच्या एका यशस्वी बँकरला सकाळच्या डाकेनं बाईचा कापलेला डावा कान मिळूनही आश्चर्य कसं वाटलं नाही? एक सर्वोत्कृष्ट वकील फक्त एकाच अशिलासाठी काम करत होता अन् तेही पैसे न घेता? चोर नसतानाही एका व्यावसायिक तरुणीने व्हॅन्गॉगच्या अप्रतिम चित्राची चोरी का केली ? बँकेत कोणत्याही प्रकारचं खातं नसताना ऑलिम्पिक स्पर्धेत गाजलेल्या एका खेळाडू स्त्रीला प्रत्येक कामगिरीमागे दहा लक्ष डॉलर्सप्रमाणे पैसे का दिले गेले? वारसाहक्काने मुबलक मिळाले असतानाही एका तरुणीने सेक्रेटरीची नोकरी का पत्करावी? केवळ एकदा भेटलेल्या स्त्रीला पन्नास दशलक्ष डॉलर्स देण्यास स्टील उद्योगातील एका जपानी उद्योजकाला आनंद वाटणार होता, का बरं? या सर्व प्रश्नांची उकल होईल जेफ्री आर्चर यांच्या `फॉल्स इम्प्रेशन' या नव्या पुस्तकात! मात्र, न्यूयॉर्क ते लंडन, लंडन ते बुखारेस्ट, टोकियो आणि अखेरीस इंग्लंडमधील एक सुस्त गाव असा श्वास रोखून धरणारा प्रवास केल्यानंतरच. मग सामोरं येईल व्हॅन्गॉगच्या `सेल्फ पोट्र्रेट वुईथ बॅण्डेज्ड इअर' या चित्राचं खास रहस्य. धक्कादायक आणि अविस्मरणीय धाग्यांनी गुंफलेली विलक्षण अशी ही कादंबरी....

A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers an explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known."An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer."-The Los Angeles Review of Books For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn't been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama, that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the USA.American Kleptocracy examines just how the United States' implosion into a center of global offshoring took place: how states like Delaware and Nevada perfected the art of the anonymous shell company, and how post-9/11 reformers watched their success usher in a new flood of illicit finance directly into the U.S.; how African despots and post-Soviet oligarchs came to dominate American coastlines, American industries, and entire cities and small towns across the American Midwest; how Nazi-era lobbyists birthed an entire industry of spin-men whitewashing trans-national crooks and despots, and how dirty money has now begun infiltrating America's universities and think tanks and cultural centers; and how those on the front-line are trying to restore America's legacy of anti-corruption leadership-and finally end this reign of American kleptocracy.

A "quintessential American voice" (Vogue), returns to the Western frontier in this captivating love story of a Wyoming school teacher and a High Plains cowboy.1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year's time she's fallen in love-both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together, their relationship growing stronger with each shared success, and each deeply felt tragedy. Ellen finds purpose in her work as a rancher's wife and in her bonds with other women settled on the prairie. Not all of them are so lucky as to have loving husbands, not all came to Wallace willingly, and not all of them can survive the cruel seasons. But they look out for each other, share their secrets, and help one another in times of need. And the needs are great and constant. The only city to speak of, Cheyenne, is miles away, making it akin to the Wild West in rural Wallace. In the end, it is not the trials Ellen and Charlie face together that make them remarkable, but their love for one another that endures through it all.

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated-and often brutal-harnessing of data.It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's "War on Terror," and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As ethnic minorities in a border region strain against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. But across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where technology helps optimize everything from traffic patterns to food safety to emergency response.Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through the new world China is building within its borders, and beyond. Telling harrowing stories of the people and families affected by the Party's ambitions, Surveillance State reveals a future that is already underway-a new society engineered around the power of digital surveillance.

Can't sleep? Grab a crossword puzzle!When insomnia strikes, don't lay in bed and count sheep-grab a pen and get puzzling! This collection, edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz, features:- 150 easy to hard crossword puzzles- A portable package that's perfect for solving on the go- Fresh, fun wordplay from the pages of The New York Times

A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there.We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.Through Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with these people who see death every day, she asks: Why would someone choose this kind of life? Does it change you as a person? And are we missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? A dazzling work of cultural criticism, All the Living and the Dead weaves together reportage with memoir, history, and philosophy, to offer readers a fascinating look into the psychology of Western death.