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Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with dramas set in motion by loneliness and displacement and revealing stories of passion and desire where less astute observers might fail to detect the humanity that roils beneath the surface. Sometimes these dramas are found in ordinary, mundane situations; sometimes they are triggered by a fateful encounter or a tragic decision. At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each other and cling to love when and where it can be found.

His life devastated by tragedy, privateer Captain Kieran Merrick, youngest son of a famed New England seafaring family, sets sail for his childhood home to confront bittersweet memories. When he encounters a merchant ship adrift in the Caribbean, he discovers something he never expects...a pistol-wielding red-haired virago hiding in its cabin. Rosalie McCormack can sail a ship, shoot a gun, and run a business. But she’s fleeing scandal, and now savage pirates who seized her family’s merchant ship have something both she and her handsome rescuer want.

When a flurry of forgeries appear in museums and among collectors, the members of the Agora, a society dedicated to the betterment of man, take it upon themselves to stop the rogues. But among the members, there is a traitor. Among the forgers, there is a murderer. As friends betray their own and souls are sentenced to death, suspicions and tensions mount. Only one man, Carl Brooke, has the knowledge and expertise to stop the murderer. But will he succeed?

The last word spoken by 17-year-old Toekin Salazar's mother was, "Hide!", and as far as hiding goes, the deadly Seivo Sangue tree is the unlikeliest of places. But there was no hiding from loneliness. After six feral years of forest solitude Toekin longs for human contact, though he fears it even more. People are dangerous. He passes his time ambushing taxation carts and redistributing the spoils to the less fortunate - though he often wonders if killing Abbadon Guards is really about aiding the needy, or avenging his parents.

In this fast-paced, passionate tale of love, high stakes, and adventure set in the summer of 1805, Maeve Merrick, the notorious Pirate Queen of the Caribbean, cruises the seas in her beautiful schooner, Kestrel, with her band of women warriors. Burned by the treachery of men and nursing a painful betrayal from her past, Maeve wants for nothing...but when the sea delivers a handsome castaway to her remote island, the fierce and fiery she-wolf finds that her own heart has become a pirate’s plunder.

When a stranger from Dublin comes to his coastal village looking for a boat ride to the Great Blasket Island, Tom McBride isn’t anxious for the job. He has enough to handle, working the farm that will one day be his inheritance and dealing with a contentious father who’s threatening to withhold it. Tom agrees to the trip, curious about the man's purpose in visiting such a desolate spot. Steering his uncle’s fishing boat toward it, Tom thinks he’s prepared for whatever it has to offer, but nothing could prepare him for Brigid O’Sullivan.

Continue the thrilling adventure across a world of Dark & Day! Jono Wyer is training new powers at the Windom Academy as the world struggles to recover from disaster and build a new path toward peace! A secret terrorist organization known as the Tombs is plotting to unleash a long lost plague! Who knows who can be trusted when anyone could be a traitor in hiding? Jono and his friends will need to fight against the scars of old prejudice and fear if they are going to uncover the Tomb's plot before its too late!

Welcome to the wonderful world of AI. AI Unveiled is meant to be a primer on AI by providing an overall introduction into AI and its associated technologies.

Even after nearly a decade since that fateful night, one that forever changed Katy's world, it still haunted her. Sure, her new life was full of new and exciting opportunities, not to mention a whole new family, but still. Knowing the ones who were responsible still roamed freely left her living in fear of their return. That was, until they did.

Noble and strong, Captain Lord Dorian de Wolfe wants no ties whatsoever to the infamous pirate ancestor who bore the same name. But when he finds himself injured and stranded in enemy territory, the Sea Wolfe must make a decision whether or not to take what he wants.

Spiggot is catapulted into his second worst nightmare when, on a stakeout to catch criminal mastermind, his soul is sent by means of an ancient artifact into a mad axe murderer's body, who is held captive in a maximum security residential hospital for the criminally insane... Sheez, you couldn't make it up. His only hope of redemption is to rely on his partner to help catch the villain. The trouble is he's in a nutcase's body, Trout didn't like him in the first place, he's got an insane copper after him and he's afraid of pirates.

Kenneth Fuller, MD, an avid weekend warrior and leading psychiatrist, shares his performance enhancement skills to lead you to better, more enjoyable golf. This established authority on mental triumph delivers a methodology that uses autosuggestion to help you master your thoughts and induce a conditioned reflex. The human brain creates focus and finds the best performance zone. Playing only with the body limits the golfer. A genuine golfer plays with body and mind. The golf artist plays with mind, body, and heart. The professional golfer trusts every element unconsciously.

Written in the first four months of the war in Ukraine, fuelled by anger towards mindless violence, Jan Němec’s stories tackle the present moment and confront what really matters at times of abundant destruction. A Czech man in Ukraine in search of his alter ego. A gang of homeless kids driven from a cellar by tenants using it as a shelter from the war. A German couple who ‘rented a womb’ in Ukraine, whose child is now stuck in Kyiv. A teenager partnered with a Valkyrie for the distribution of lavash in besieged Mariupol delays his flight until it is too late.

The piano was a gift, a symbol of enduring love, but from the moment she began playing it, Melody's nights became filled with terrifying visions. Visions of an ancient city in ruins where the streets run red with blood and winged creatures watch lustfully from high above. Visions of murder, betrayal, and madness. She knows that her night terrors are inextricably entangled with the piano and its troubling history, but she must keep playing...searching for that one melody that will quiet the haunting voice that threatens her very sanity.

Caught in time, Meryn watches on as his world burns. The lord's daughter, Avalyne, disappears while traveling to visit her betrothed. Tick is thrown into prison after being accused of stealing. Meryn’s broken leg leads to the discovery of a strange new ability….The kingdom erupts into seemingly unrelated chaos, and the king’s guard are left fighting an uprising of disguised insurgents—pretenders in their ranks. For all that is good, the king’s guard must get to the bottom of the dark plot of the Black Hand and save the kingdom before it’s too late.

The day, April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday, and then a series of transfers of power, April 30, was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would for ever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army occupied Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker, and, in San Francisco, the United Nations was being founded.

In a broken world there exists a strange and sinister eating establishment unlike anything known or imagined - referred to in some quarters as Cafe Grotesquerie - where only the most discriminating and well-connected are privileged enough to enter its doors and devour its dark delicacies. Once inside, however, status still reigns supreme, and for one particular couple - Audrey and Aubrey - a hunger for power proves far more desirable than anything on the menu. But when confronted by the suspicious disappearance of their waiter, and civilization collapsing all around them, will they even be able to make it through dessert?

Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspective—"calibrated"—against this historical monstrosity. Kluge’s newest work is a book about bitter fates, both already known and yet to unfold. Above all, it is about the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people.

Julian Cole is a passionate young environmentalist trying to define his place in the world. He volunteers with the oceanic conservation organization, Trident Legion, only to have his romantic idea of activism confronted by the brutal reality of human survival. In this high sea adventure, Julian participates in harrowing rescues, compassionate animal rights advocacy, and the occasional monkeywrenching of local fishing outfits—which ultimately threaten his mortality.

Best friend ever? Bullies love to hate Clod. Not just because he’s bigger, clumsier, and uglier than his classmates - he’s also the only student in his school without magic. In a world where all magic is possible and everyone else is born with great gifts to do amazing things, Clod is alone. Living with his mum in a broken-down cottage on barely enough, the only thing Clod has to play with is the clay she occasionally brings him. To call his life bleak would be an understatement.