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The crash course on life nobody gave you — until now. You did everything right. Followed the rules. Worked hard. And still, something isn't adding up. Cost of Life: Modern World-Fare is the book about life that doesn't flinch. No inspirational garbage. No wellness theater. Just brutally honest, research-backed truth about the systems quietly working against you — and the critical lessons that help you navigate them. This isn't the life skills manual they should have handed you in school. It's the one you need right now. Across 27 chapters, you'll learn what they don't teach you in ...

Unaware of the forces marshaled against him, Captain Phinneus Shae and the crew of the Talion are headed into uncharted waters. With a doggedly determined killer from his past on his trail and cold-blooded pirates all around him, Shae’s contract to recover the treasure from a sunken ship seems destined to fail. But other, more nefarious individuals are after that same treasure, and whatever it is, it is destined to change the future of the Iron Kingdoms. Whether for good or ill all depends on who finds it first and who is buried at the bottom of the sea in the end....

What if almost everything modern culture says about Taoism is wrong? Taoism Is What? is not a soft-focus wellness book and it is not a collection of vague quotes about “going with the flow.” It is a sharp, readable, deeply researched guide to what Taoism actually is: where it came from, what the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi are really doing, how ideas like wu wei, yin and yang, ziran, qi, and immortality have been misunderstood, and why this tradition still speaks so directly to burnout, control, power, grief, aging, and modern life. This book cuts through the myths and presents Taoism as ...

The Harrowing of Hell is an epic poem that engages the imagination of the listener. It is an exploration of spiritual truths, all the while rendering a faithful depiction of Christ as revealed in the New Testament and Eastern Christian Tradition. It is history and theology expressed with poetic adoration. This cosmic event was proclaimed in Ancient Creeds, the New Testament, and portrayed in various forms of art throughout the centuries.

The Water Margin is one of the most popular classics of early Chinese literature. It tells the vigorous story of 108 characters who, falling foul of the established state authorities, are forced to become outlaws. They form a bandit community in Liangshan Marsh, becoming such a formidable force in their own right that they threaten the power of government itself.

A fearless, gripping, and brutally honest journey through the most powerful book ever written. For two thousand years, the Bible has commanded loyalty, sparked wars, shaped governments, comforted the dying, terrified the living, and defined morality for entire cultures. It has been praised as perfect, divine, untouchable. This book asks the question almost nobody is allowed to ask out loud: What if the Bible is exactly what it looks like when humans try to explain the universe? Moving from Genesis to Revelation, this is not a polite Sunday school retelling. It is a bold, chronological ...

DEATH HORROR is an extreme psychological horror anthology that explores the precise moment when the human mind, moral order, and sense of safety collapse beyond repair. This disturbing horror collection contains thirteen standalone stories that blend psychological horror, supernatural terror, religious horror, and extreme human cruelty into a single, unrelenting experience. These are not traditional monster stories. The true threat in DEATH HORROR is familiarity. Husbands. Neighbors. Communities. Angels. Authority. All of them capable of becoming something unrecognizable. Each story in this...

You hung up the phone and sat there for a second. Nothing dramatic happened. No blowup, no obvious wound. Just that familiar hollowness you've carried since childhood and never quite found a word for. This book is the word. It isn't about monster parents or nightmare childhoods. It's about something far more common and far more confusing — the parent who loved you and still couldn't see you. Who sacrificed and controlled in the same breath. Who made it exhausting to be known by them, and sent you into adulthood fluent in everyone else's emotions but a stranger to your own. Emotionally ...

You've seen the cherry blossoms. You've admired the bullet trains. You know about the anime, the sushi, the inscrutable vending machines. You think you understand Japan. You don't. Not yet. This is the book that takes the beauty seriously and the mythology apart simultaneously. From the Jomon people who built the world's oldest pottery 14,000 years ago, to the nine million empty houses quietly emptying across the modern countryside, Japan tells the complete story of one of history's most remarkable civilizations — without smoothing over the parts that don't fit on a tourism poster. This ...

Every year, thousands of people lose their homes, businesses, savings, and families not because they were wrong, but because they didn't understand how the legal system actually works. They trusted a process that was never designed to be fair. They hired lawyers without knowing the warning signs. They signed documents they didn't understand. They walked into courtrooms unprepared and got destroyed. This book exists because nobody teaches you what really happens when legal conflict enters your life. What You'll Discover Inside: This is a brutally honest, insight on navigating lawyers, courts...

"This Young Adult book is a scream to listen to."—The Berkshire Eagle This program features multicast narration as well as an author's note and acknowledgements read by the author. 13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies First includes...

You already know something is off. You have known for a while. Maybe you felt it standing in a grocery store holding something ordinary while fluorescent lights hummed overhead, surrounded by strangers performing the choreography of modern life, and for one clear, terrifying second, none of it made any sense. Most people spin around and sprint from that moment. They buy something. They argue online. They book a wellness retreat and call it healing. This book is for the ones who stayed. Nihilism Is God is not a self-help book. It is not a philosophy lecture dressed up in a paperback spine. ...

The bestselling introduction to the field, updated and expanded Construction Management Jumpstart is the definitive introduction to the field, providing a detailed walkthrough of each stage of a project from the construction manager’s perspective. Authoritative coverage of fundamental concepts and practices clearly delineates the manager’s role, while step-by-step guidance provides valuable instruction for essential management duties.

Game Drama: Retro Consoles, Games & The People Who Made Them Matter is a deep, narrative-driven exploration of the era when video games stopped being simple entertainment and started becoming cultural milestones. This book is not a surface-level nostalgia trip. It is a carefully researched, thoughtfully written examination of the games, systems, and creators that reshaped how an entire generation experienced interactive media. Spanning iconic hardware like the Super Nintendo and the original PlayStation, landmark titles such as Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 4, Silent ...

Welcome to the Apocalypse. With the world in turmoil from the effects of the viral infection, chaos reigns supreme. Those that remain uninfected attempt to eke out a means of long-term survival while combating the hordes of infected. ODA-141, The Outlaws, and what remains of 1st Group have established Firebase Cascade, a fortified safe haven. The SEALs of Shark Platoon, on a mission to rescue survivors, are forced into a pitched battle against the infected. Contact is made with an unlikely ally but at a cost. The Safeguard group ventures out to the City of Clovis with unexpected results. ...

After a trauma at age one, Jay J. Jackson experienced parallel memories that revealed he'd been in two separate hospital settings as an infant, and his distress over these conflicting memories caused his lifelong struggle. As an adult, Jay sought treatment only to be chased out of multiple doctors' offices, doctors who branded him immoral for suggesting circumcision is harmful. Jay passionately details his experiences with circumcision sexual trauma and exposes the history behind how it became common in America. Listen to this blistering exposé into history's most loathed body part.

Near destitute after the sudden death of her wastrel husband, Lady Pipworth must find a way to support herself and her young nieces until her brother returns home to assume his role as head of the family. Thanks to her three brothers who raised her, Adalia's one outstanding skill in life is gambling, and with a dower house now at her disposal, plans to fill the coffers - scandal begetting or not - begin to take shape.

Fight. Survive. Run! As the virus sweeps the globe, governments collapse and the military chain of command is in chaos. Those that survived the initial outbreak must now face the horror as 99% of the world's population has been mutated into flesh-craving psychotics. There is no safe haven.

"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I’m so glad it's here." — Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation to...

Through this collection of essays, author and activist Reagan Jackson chronicles her journey into the world of journalism. Art, cinema, social justice, feminism, Black reparations, health & reproductive rights, dance, education—while Jackson’s subjects range far and wide, her writing brings an intimacy & immediacy to all.