What starts off as a lighthearted competition to live without modern technology for a year turns into a fight for survival in this unputdownable young adult thriller by New York Times bestselling author Jarrod Shusterman and debut author Sofía Lapuente. It was never meant to happen this way. Things were never supposed to get this out of hand. After a cyberbullying incident at her school goes viral, Luna Iglesias finds herself at the heart of a brewing controversy. When the social media company Limbo—who are also implicated in the scandal—sweeps in with an offer that sounds like an opportunity to turn over a new leaf and receive a scholarship to the college of her dreams, she's happy to jump on the new trend. It's called the Retro Challenge, where contestants live without modern technology, wear vintage clothes, party as if the future weren't already written, and fall in love as if they were living in a movie. At first, the challenge is fun. But then things get dangerous. Kids start disappearing, including Luna's friends. There are voices in the woods. Bloodred markings on the trees. And Luna increasingly begins to wonder if all these strange happenings are connected with the Retro Challenge. Secrets. Lies. Betrayal. The weight of her family on her shoulders. There's so much on the line for Luna, not to mention she's falling in love with the last guy she expected. Unless she can figure out the truth behind who's sabotaging the challenge, the next person to disappear may be Luna herself.

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman." Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might go from here.

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman." Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might go from here.

When war-haunted Tristan takes a job guarding Mark's exclusive kink club, everything shatters with the arrival of Mark's fiancée, Isolde. Inside Lyonesse, Mark curates control, Tristan guards the door, and Isolde tests every forbidden boundary as tangled desires ignite between all three in this sizzling romance from USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone. Tristan Thomas is lost. After leaving the army, the young former soldier is in limbo. Until, that is, he's hired to guard Mark Trevena, the owner of DC's ultra-secret club, Lyonesse. Slowly, he's drawn into Mark's dark, seductive world of power and desire, , even though Mark is everything Tristan knows he shouldn't want: cruel and wicked and shamelessly amoral. But protecting Mark isn't Tristan's only duty. Soon, Mark asks him to guard his bride-to-be as she travels home from Ireland on Mark's yacht. Tristan is obsessively jealous, but the former soldier in him is made to obey orders, and as it turns out, Isolde Laurence is nothing like he expected. Young, sharp, and bewitching, she's being pushed into this marriage by her family, and as the two travel back to America, Tristan finds himself enraptured with the woman behind the reserve. One night, while sailing under the cold stars, Isolde and Tristan share a searing kiss. From there, it's a fast fall into the forbidden for all three of them. In a world where every touch is a negotiation and every secret fuels temptation, pleasure and power blur until one reckless choice sets a love affair on fire.

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When war-haunted Tristan takes a job guarding Mark's exclusive kink club, everything shatters with the arrival of Mark's fiancée, Isolde. Inside Lyonesse, Mark curates control, Tristan guards the door, and Isolde tests every forbidden boundary as tangled desires ignite between all three in this sizzling romance from USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone. Tristan Thomas is lost. After leaving the army, the young former soldier is in limbo. Until, that is, he's hired to guard Mark Trevena, the owner of DC's ultra-secret club, Lyonesse. Slowly, he's drawn into Mark's dark, seductive world of power and desire, , even though Mark is everything Tristan knows he shouldn't want: cruel and wicked and shamelessly amoral. But protecting Mark isn't Tristan's only duty. Soon, Mark asks him to guard his bride-to-be as she travels home from Ireland on Mark's yacht. Tristan is obsessively jealous, but the former soldier in him is made to obey orders, and as it turns out, Isolde Laurence is nothing like he expected. Young, sharp, and bewitching, she's being pushed into this marriage by her family, and as the two travel back to America, Tristan finds himself enraptured with the woman behind the reserve. One night, while sailing under the cold stars, Isolde and Tristan share a searing kiss. From there, it's a fast fall into the forbidden for all three of them. In a world where every touch is a negotiation and every secret fuels temptation, pleasure and power blur until one reckless choice sets a love affair on fire.

'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.' JANICE HALLETT 'Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell.' S J BENNETT Hello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I'm Dr Miriam Price . . . and I'm dead . The local police, who couldn't investigate their own nostrils, think I drank myself into an early grave. The nerve! I was murdered. I was just too plastered to know whodunnit, that's all. Unless I prove to my inquest this week that my death was no 'misadventure', I'm condemned to 50 years in Limbo. I have to find my killer - but I can't communicate with any living human. Well, there's one, but she barely qualifies . . . Winnie - my neighbour and nemesis. It seems the dying can interact with the dead, which is helpful news for me, if not stellar for Winnie. Oh well. She'll live. Maybe. Suspects? How long have you got? My saintly husband, who'd reached his limit? My best friend, who was anything but? My secret lover, or his wife? My disgruntled colleague? The mother who wrongly holds me responsible for her child's death? Professor Plum? Your guess is as good as mine. So Winnie - slap on your deerstalker and strap on your granny pants. Let's catch a killer! Assuming we don't kill each other first . . . 'A triumph...there are also moving moments amid the hilarity' DAILY MIRROR 'Splendidly offbeat whodunnit....Evans knows how to make an unlikely plot seem entirely believable' DAILY EXPRESS 'Sometimes a book comes along that reminds you why you fell in love with reading. Imaginative, witty and original...an absolute joy!' WOMAN & HOME

'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.' JANICE HALLETT 'Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell.' S J BENNETT Hello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I'm Dr Miriam Price . . . and I'm dead . The local police, who couldn't investigate their own nostrils, think I drank myself into an early grave. The nerve! I was murdered. I was just too plastered to know whodunnit, that's all. Unless I prove to my inquest this week that my death was no 'misadventure', I'm condemned to 50 years in Limbo. I have to find my killer - but I can't communicate with any living human. Well, there's one, but she barely qualifies . . . Winnie - my neighbour and nemesis. It seems the dying can interact with the dead, which is helpful news for me, if not stellar for Winnie. Oh well. She'll live. Maybe. Suspects? How long have you got? My saintly husband, who'd reached his limit? My best friend, who was anything but? My secret lover, or his wife? My disgruntled colleague? The mother who wrongly holds me responsible for her child's death? Professor Plum? Your guess is as good as mine. So Winnie - slap on your deerstalker and strap on your granny pants. Let's catch a killer! Assuming we don't kill each other first . . . 'A triumph...there are also moving moments amid the hilarity' DAILY MIRROR 'Splendidly offbeat whodunnit....Evans knows how to make an unlikely plot seem entirely believable' DAILY EXPRESS 'Sometimes a book comes along that reminds you why you fell in love with reading. Imaginative, witty and original...an absolute joy!' WOMAN & HOME

Endlich die finale 5. Staffel der Kult-Zombieserie! Hier wird gekonnt die Härte von The Walking Dead mit dem Humor aus Dawn of the Dead und dem Flair aus Mad Max vermischt! Aufgrund des Erfolges gibt es mit dem Prequel BLACK SUMMER jetzt auch schon einen neuen Serien-Quoten-Hit! Alle 13 Folgen der finalen fünften Staffel in der ungeschnittenen US-Unrated Fassung auf 4 DVDs oder 4 Blu-rays mit deutscher und englischer Tonspur! Zwei spektakuläre Gastauftritte runden den tollen Cast ab: Katy O'Brian ("The Walking Dead") und 80er/90er Jahre Filmstar Mario Van Peebles ("Heartbreak Ridge", "Damages - Im Netz der Gewalt", "New Jack City")! In der fünften Staffel bekommen es die Helden der Serie mit einem neuen Zombie-Phänomen zu tun: dem Talker, einer sprechenden und denkenden Zombie-Gattung! Warren (Kellita Smith) kommt nach dem Drohnen-Crash langsam wieder zu Kräften und erhält Hilfe vom mysteriösen Cooper (Mario van Peebles). Währenddessen erreicht die Gruppe um Doc (Russell Hodgkinson) und Murphy (Keith Allan) "Newmerica"- dort kämpft eine Frau namens George (Katy O'Brian) für die friedliche Ko-Existenz zwischen Talkern und Menschen. Doch nicht jedem gefällt diese Vorstellung, was schon sehr bald zu einer ganzen Reihe von Problemen und gefährlichen Ereignissen führt… EPISODEN: DISC 1 Folge 1: Vereint leben wir (OT: Welcome to the new Apocalypse) 41 Min. Folge 2: Die redenden Toten (OT: A new life) 41 Min Folge 3: Flucht aus Altura (OT: Escape from Altura) 40 Min. Folge 4: Pacifica (OT: Pacifica) 40 Min. DISC 2 Folge 5: Zombiebomben (OT: Killing all the Books) 39 Min. Folge 6: Alles oder Nichts (OT: Limbo) 41 Min. Folge 7: Originalrezept (OT: Doc's Stoned History) 41 Min. DISC 3 Folge 8: Ankunft in Heartland (OT: Heartland) 40 Min. Folge 9: Die Hüter des Wassers (OT: Water Keepers) 41 Min. Folge 10: Zu viel Lithium (OT: State of Mine) 41 Min. DISC 4 Folge 11: Hackerville (OT: Return to Mercy Labs) 40 Min. Folge 12: Um jeden Preis (OT: At all cost) 41 Min. Folge 13: Das Ende (OT: The Black Rainbow) 42 Min. Ein echter Irrsinn.

Torino, 1993. Ludovica e suo fratello Edoardo frequentano il liceo, vivono in una casa piena di begli oggetti, libri e opere d'arte, indossano vestiti di marca e hanno fiducia nel futuro. Sono figli di Arturo Montella, segretario regionale della Democrazia Cristiana, un uomo affascinante e carismatico la cui aura aleggia su di loro anche quando è assente. Credono nelle vite lucenti dei genitori - stelle che brillano lontane -, nella loro cultura, nella stabilità e nel benessere che incarnano. Poi, un giorno, Arturo Montella viene arrestato. I ragazzi scoprono dalla televisione che il padre è coinvolto nell'inchiesta Mani pulite: è accusato di corruzione e finanziamento illecito al partito. Il perno su cui si reggeva la famiglia Montella crolla da un giorno all'altro: mentre il padre è in carcere e la madre si adopera in ogni modo per tirarlo fuori, Ludovica e Edoardo rimangono soli e senza punti di riferimento, combattuti tra la vergogna e la rabbia. L'unico estraneo ammesso nel limbo di casa Montella è Tommaso, il miglior amico di Edoardo. E in quella bolla di tempo sospeso lui e Ludovica si scoprono attratti l'uno dall'altra. Ma Ludo sa che se il fratello indovinasse il sentimento che le esplode nel petto, rischierebbe di perdere anche lui. All'inizio di questa storia, che la segue fino all'età adulta, Ludovica non ha ancora diciott'anni, ma l'impatto destinato a deviare per sempre la traiettoria della sua vita è già avvenuto. Dopo aver dedicato il suo primo libro al mondo della scuola, Laura Marzi si addentra ora, con lo sguardo obliquo e profondo della romanziera, in un momento della storia italiana recente, gli anni Novanta di Tangentopoli, che ha segnato la fine di un'epoca, e lo racconta dalla prospettiva di chi alla caduta di quella classe politica ha assistito dal basso e ne ha raccolto i detriti: la generazione dei figli. contributori LE Giada Capo

Endlich die finale 5. Staffel der Kult-Zombieserie! Hier wird gekonnt die Härte von The Walking Dead mit dem Humor aus Dawn of the Dead und dem Flair aus Mad Max vermischt! Aufgrund des Erfolges gibt es mit dem Prequel BLACK SUMMER jetzt auch schon einen neuen Serien-Quoten-Hit! Alle 13 Folgen der finalen fünften Staffel in der ungeschnittenen US-Unrated Fassung auf 4 DVDs oder 4 Blu-rays mit deutscher und englischer Tonspur! Zwei spektakuläre Gastauftritte runden den tollen Cast ab: Katy O'Brian ("The Walking Dead") und 80er/90er Jahre Filmstar Mario Van Peebles ("Heartbreak Ridge", "Damages - Im Netz der Gewalt", "New Jack City")! In der fünften Staffel bekommen es die Helden der Serie mit einem neuen Zombie-Phänomen zu tun: dem Talker, einer sprechenden und denkenden Zombie-Gattung! Warren (Kellita Smith) kommt nach dem Drohnen-Crash langsam wieder zu Kräften und erhält Hilfe vom mysteriösen Cooper (Mario van Peebles). Währenddessen erreicht die Gruppe um Doc (Russell Hodgkinson) und Murphy (Keith Allan) "Newmerica"- dort kämpft eine Frau namens George (Katy O'Brian) für die friedliche Ko-Existenz zwischen Talkern und Menschen. Doch nicht jedem gefällt diese Vorstellung, was schon sehr bald zu einer ganzen Reihe von Problemen und gefährlichen Ereignissen führt… EPISODEN: DISC 1 Folge 1: Vereint leben wir (OT: Welcome to the new Apocalypse) 41 Min. Folge 2: Die redenden Toten (OT: A new life) 41 Min Folge 3: Flucht aus Altura (OT: Escape from Altura) 40 Min. Folge 4: Pacifica (OT: Pacifica) 40 Min. DISC 2 Folge 5: Zombiebomben (OT: Killing all the Books) 39 Min. Folge 6: Alles oder Nichts (OT: Limbo) 41 Min. Folge 7: Originalrezept (OT: Doc's Stoned History) 41 Min. DISC 3 Folge 8: Ankunft in Heartland (OT: Heartland) 40 Min. Folge 9: Die Hüter des Wassers (OT: Water Keepers) 41 Min. Folge 10: Zu viel Lithium (OT: State of Mine) 41 Min. DISC 4 Folge 11: Hackerville (OT: Return to Mercy Labs) 40 Min. Folge 12: Um jeden Preis (OT: At all cost) 41 Min. Folge 13: Das Ende (OT: The Black Rainbow) 42 Min. Ein echter Irrsinn.

Sobre la Atlántida (ese imperio o confederación misterioso), en la que en esta obra se prefiere denominar Imperio Atlante o Imperio Euroatlan-tonorafricano (una denominación puramente geográfica), se han escrito muchísimos libros desde numerosos puntos de vista, pero el misterio sobre su existencia se mantiene en el limbo de lo desconocido. Cuando escuchamos la palabra Atlántida casi inmediatamente nos aparece mentalmente la imagen de una cultura poderosa, avanzada y muy antigua. Es un tema fascinante en la que, modestamente, el que ha escrito este libro intenta poner su granito de arena para intentar revelar algo de la verdad. Con esta obra el autor no pretende tener la exclusiva de la verdad absoluta, respeta a las demás hipótesis sobre el asunto y es respetuoso con otros autores; pero cree en su humilde opinión que es la hipótesis que se acerca más a la realidad. En esta época en que tanta importancia se da a lo material, muchos opinan que la historia no sirve para nada; una respuesta a este punto de vista podríamos hallarla en una famosa cita: Los pueblos que olvidan su pasado están condenados a repetir los mismos errores de antaño; las naciones que no recuerdan su pasado no conocen realmente su identidad (es decir sus cualidades y sus flaquezas), no se conocen a sí mismas y vuelven a tropezar con la misma piedra. Muchos, muchísimos investigadores lo que buscan son las ruinas o restos materiales del Imperio Atlante, pero para el autor de este libro lo principal es dar a conocer la probable existencia de una gran confederación o imperio con una alta cultura que existió hace miles de años. Sin menospreciar otras obras sobre el tema en este libro no aparecen naves intergalácticas, armas nucleares ni aparatos voladores. Se ha hecho un trabajo de investigación importante y serio que esperemos dé sus frutos.

Endlich die finale 5. Staffel der Kult-Zombieserie! Hier wird gekonnt die Härte von The Walking Dead mit dem Humor aus Dawn of the Dead und dem Flair aus Mad Max vermischt! Aufgrund des Erfolges gibt es mit dem Prequel BLACK SUMMER jetzt auch schon einen neuen Serien-Quoten-Hit! Alle 13 Folgen der finalen fünften Staffel in der ungeschnittenen US-Unrated Fassung auf 4 DVDs oder 4 Blu-rays mit deutscher und englischer Tonspur! Zwei spektakuläre Gastauftritte runden den tollen Cast ab: Katy O'Brian ("The Walking Dead") und 80er/90er Jahre Filmstar Mario Van Peebles ("Heartbreak Ridge", "Damages - Im Netz der Gewalt", "New Jack City")! In der fünften Staffel bekommen es die Helden der Serie mit einem neuen Zombie-Phänomen zu tun: dem Talker, einer sprechenden und denkenden Zombie-Gattung! Warren (Kellita Smith) kommt nach dem Drohnen-Crash langsam wieder zu Kräften und erhält Hilfe vom mysteriösen Cooper (Mario van Peebles). Währenddessen erreicht die Gruppe um Doc (Russell Hodgkinson) und Murphy (Keith Allan) "Newmerica"- dort kämpft eine Frau namens George (Katy O'Brian) für die friedliche Ko-Existenz zwischen Talkern und Menschen. Doch nicht jedem gefällt diese Vorstellung, was schon sehr bald zu einer ganzen Reihe von Problemen und gefährlichen Ereignissen führt… EPISODEN: DISC 1 Folge 1: Vereint leben wir (OT: Welcome to the new Apocalypse) 41 Min. Folge 2: Die redenden Toten (OT: A new life) 41 Min Folge 3: Flucht aus Altura (OT: Escape from Altura) 40 Min. Folge 4: Pacifica (OT: Pacifica) 40 Min. DISC 2 Folge 5: Zombiebomben (OT: Killing all the Books) 39 Min. Folge 6: Alles oder Nichts (OT: Limbo) 41 Min. Folge 7: Originalrezept (OT: Doc's Stoned History) 41 Min. DISC 3 Folge 8: Ankunft in Heartland (OT: Heartland) 40 Min. Folge 9: Die Hüter des Wassers (OT: Water Keepers) 41 Min. Folge 10: Zu viel Lithium (OT: State of Mine) 41 Min. DISC 4 Folge 11: Hackerville (OT: Return to Mercy Labs) 40 Min. Folge 12: Um jeden Preis (OT: At all cost) 41 Min. Folge 13: Das Ende (OT: The Black Rainbow) 42 Min. Ein echter Irrsinn.

He's one bad hit away from blowing his career. She's one heartbreak past trusting again. Declan Murphy: The ice used to be the only place I felt steady—where I could hit hard, keep my head down, and pretend the past wasn't catching up. But now I'm one bad decision away from losing it all. My spot on the team. My place in the league. My grip on who I'm becoming. And the one person I can't seem to avoid? Avah Johansson—my teammate's sister and the woman who sees straight through me. Sparring with her used to be harmless. Safe. But when everything starts to unravel, it's Avah who ends up in the middle of my mess... in more ways than either of us planned. Avah Johansson: After my world shattered, I ran to New York for a fresh start. I didn't expect to find myself stuck in emotional limbo—or spending half my time snapping at one of my brother's teammates just to feel something again. Declan Murphy is loud, infuriating, and everything I swore I didn't want. But when circumstances force us into a marriage of convenience, I begin to wonder if God's using the most unlikely person to bring me back to the healing I've been avoiding. Now, stuck between pretend and something real, we're facing more than just a fake marriage—we're facing the truth. About pain. About forgiveness. And maybe... about grace we both still need to find. *From Ice to Grace is a closed-door, christian, hockey romance. It blends faith, grace, and big heart moments into a story you wouldn't be able to put down. It's the second book in the series, but can be read as a stand-alone.

An immigration journalist and her wife trace their family’s intertwined past to unearth a history of how hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews survived Hitler’s Holocaust at the brutal hands of Stalin — a story that sheds light on the enduring power of hope and love. Daniela Gerson and her wife, Talia Inlender, met at a picnic in Los Angeles, not knowing that 75 years earlier, their grandparents had left homes only blocks away from each other in a small Polish town, and fled east to Ukraine. The Gersons and the Inlenders would go on parallel odysseys of 5,000 miles to survive the Holocaust—journeys that would, after a deceitful loyalty test from Stalin, put them on cattle cars to a Soviet Gulag, trap them for years in limbo in Central Asia, and would end, after a decade on the run, with new lives built on secrets and lies. For years, Daniela and Talia simply accepted this painful shared history as a sign that they were b’shert; meant to be. Their families’ refugee past fueled their work: Daniela as an immigration journalist; Talia an immigration attorney. But as Daniela uncovered more, she realized that their grandparents shared this escape path in the Soviet Union with most Polish Jews who survived; a group—sometimes collectively called “the Wanderers”—that is almost entirely absent from popular understanding of World War II. And unlike most Holocaust sagas that focus on the exceptionality of the Nazi genocide, theirs was also a universal story of refugees making impossible decisions when forced to seek safety, protect their children, and find new homes. This is a story that, to the dismay of the world, remains relevant each time a political upheaval wreaks havoc on individual lives. Part genealogical detective story, part gripping history, part contemporary reporting on war-torn territories, The Wanderers chronicles Daniela’s journey to unearth this past with her wife, and reveal its echoes in still-contested lands from Ukraine to Israel. The Wanderers is a groundbreaking narrative history, and a meditation on how a home left behind and a desperate journey to survive reverberates across borders and through generations.

She's loved by all who meet her But someone wants her gone... Alec Salter doesn't seem worried when his wife, Charlotte, fails to attend his 50th birthday party and, with most of their small village in attendance, it's hours before anyone realises she's missing. As the days pass and still no sight, Charlotte's daughter, Etty, and her sons, Niall, Paul and Ollie, all struggle to understand her disappearance. Left in limbo with no answers, the Salter children try and go on with their lives, all the while suspecting their mother's potential killer could be very close to home. Thirty years later, Etty helps move Alec, stricken with dementia, into an elder care facility. But when her childhood friends, Greg and Morgan Ackerley, start a surprisingly popular true crime podcast investigating Charlotte's presumed death, the town's buried secrets - and the Salters' - might finally come to light. With the podcast turning the case into national news, Inspector Maud O'Connor is dispatched to investigate. Frustrated by the sexism and incompetence of her colleagues, Maud will stop at nothing to uncover the terrible truth of what really happened to Charlotte Salter. A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed. PRAISE FOR NICCI FRENCH: 'Fantastic - a breathless drumbeat of dread and suspense . . . no one does it better than Nicci French' LEE CHILD 'Expertly paced, psychologically sharp, thoroughly enjoyable' LOUISE CANDLISH 'One of their very best. Compelling, moving, and beautifully written ... an absolute winner' OBSERVER 'Perfection' SOPHIE HANNAH 'Classic Nicci French: an unputdownable missing-persons thriller that's also a searing examination of family, memory and grief ... Heart-thumping, head-scratching, nail-biting stuff' ERIN KELLY 'No-one does the dark distortion of good intentions like Nicci French' CARA HUNTER 'An absolute masterclass of crime writing' KATE RHODES 'As well as a fantastic mystery, Nicci French has written a powerful, moving and wise story about the damage that loss does to families, with characters you can't forget. I loved it' JO CALLAGHAN

She's loved by all who meet her But someone wants her gone... Alec Salter doesn't seem worried when his wife, Charlotte, fails to attend his 50th birthday party and, with most of their small village in attendance, it's hours before anyone realises she's missing. As the days pass and still no sight, Charlotte's daughter, Etty, and her sons, Niall, Paul and Ollie, all struggle to understand her disappearance. Left in limbo with no answers, the Salter children try and go on with their lives, all the while suspecting their mother's potential killer could be very close to home. Thirty years later, Etty helps move Alec, stricken with dementia, into an elder care facility. But when her childhood friends, Greg and Morgan Ackerley, start a surprisingly popular true crime podcast investigating Charlotte's presumed death, the town's buried secrets - and the Salters' - might finally come to light. With the podcast turning the case into national news, Inspector Maud O'Connor is dispatched to investigate. Frustrated by the sexism and incompetence of her colleagues, Maud will stop at nothing to uncover the terrible truth of what really happened to Charlotte Salter. A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed. PRAISE FOR NICCI FRENCH: 'Fantastic - a breathless drumbeat of dread and suspense . . . no one does it better than Nicci French' LEE CHILD 'Expertly paced, psychologically sharp, thoroughly enjoyable' LOUISE CANDLISH 'One of their very best. Compelling, moving, and beautifully written ... an absolute winner' OBSERVER 'Perfection' SOPHIE HANNAH 'Classic Nicci French: an unputdownable missing-persons thriller that's also a searing examination of family, memory and grief ... Heart-thumping, head-scratching, nail-biting stuff' ERIN KELLY 'No-one does the dark distortion of good intentions like Nicci French' CARA HUNTER 'An absolute masterclass of crime writing' KATE RHODES 'As well as a fantastic mystery, Nicci French has written a powerful, moving and wise story about the damage that loss does to families, with characters you can't forget. I loved it' JO CALLAGHAN

Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution, and their status as outsiders, even though many of have lived and worked in this country for years, has left them vulnerable to the most extreme forms of state power. Although the rhetoric surrounding these individuals is extreme, the US government has been locking up immigrants since the late nineteenth century, often for indefinite periods and with limited ability to challenge their confinement. Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an "insane" Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation. Young shows how foreigners have been caged not just for immigration violations, but also held in state and federal prisons for criminal offenses, in insane asylums for mental illness, as enemy aliens in INS facilities, and in refugee camps. Since the 1980s, the conflation of criminality with undocumented migrants has given rise to the most extensive system of immigrant incarceration in the nation's history. Today over half a million immigrants are caged each year, some serving indefinite terms in what has become the world's most extensive immigrant detention system. And yet, Young finds, the rate of all forms of incarceration for immigrants was as high in the early twentieth century as it is today, demonstrating a return to past carceral practices. Providing critical historical context for today's news cycle, Forever Prisoners focuses on the sites of limbo where America's immigration population have been and continue to be held.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Past Lives in this gripping, emotional story of two childhood friends navigating the fallout of one erasing their memory of the other, from acclaimed author Sarah Suk. Seventeen-year-old Yena Bae is spending the summer in Busan, South Korea, working at her mom’s memory-erasing clinic. She feels lost and disconnected from people, something she’s felt ever since her best friend, Lucas, moved away four years ago without a word, leaving her in limbo. Eighteen-year-old Lucas Pak is also in Busan for the summer, visiting his grandpa, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. But he isn’t just here for a regular visit—he’s determined to get his beloved grandpa into the new study running at the clinic, a trial program seeking to restore lost memories. When Yena runs into Lucas again, she’s shocked to see him and even more shocked to discover that he doesn’t remember a thing about her. He’s completely erased her from his memories, and she has no idea why. As the two reconnect, they unravel the mystery and heartache of what happened between them all those years ago—and must now reckon with whether they can forge a new beginning together. She remembers everything. He remembers nothing. Second Chance Romance: He erased their entire history, but fate brings Lucas and Yena back together. Can they rebuild what was lost, or will the truth of why he forgot her tear them apart for good? Best Friends to Strangers: They were inseparable, sharing secrets and dreams. Now, Yena has to face the boy who was her everything but treats her like he’s never seen her before. Amnesia Romance: Yena works at a memory-erasing clinic, but she never imagined she’d be the one erased. She must unravel the mystery behind Lucas’s choice without revealing the secret that could break him. Summer in South Korea: Set against the vibrant backdrop of Busan, this K-drama inspired love story explores the heartache of what-ifs and the hope of a new beginning.

Journey into Dante’s nine circles of Hell in the epic poem, Inferno, with this elegant, unabridged edition featuring the classic translation by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). The Divine Comedy, written in the early fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri, continues to be essential reading for lovers of literature . The Inferno is the first part of Dante’s masterpiece, The Divine Comedy . In this epic poem, Dante is led by the poet Virgil into the nine circles of Hell—limbo; lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery—culminating in a meeting with Satan himself. Along the way, he meets a number of interesting figures. Complete and unabridged, this beautifully designed, hardcover edition with jacket features an introduction by Renaissance literature and history scholar John Lotherington and a biography detailing the life and times of Dante Alighieri . Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft; Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Complete Novels of Jane Austen; Complete Sherlock Holme; Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; Complete Works of William Shakespeare; Divine Comedy; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales; The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Call of the Wild and White Fang; Moby Dick; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; The Essential Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Emma; The Great Gatsby; The Secret Garden; Anne of Green Gables; The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; The Phantom of the Opera; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Wuthering Heights; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women