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Meta wants to silence her voice. You can hear her words. 'Devastating . . . funny . . . highly enjoyable . . . A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations' The Times 'Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome' Financial Times Sarah Wynn-Williams...

Pour Milan, les ordinateurs sont plus simples à comprendre que les femmes. Aimer? Il ignore ce que c’est, lui qui compte rester célibataire toute sa vie. Quand son grand-père vieillissant l’incite à se marier afin de pouvoir mourir en paix, Milan angoisse. Il tient à rassurer son grand-père, mais comment est-il censé procéder? Heureusement, sa sœur accepte de l’aider. Elle en parle à son amie Simone, qui a besoin d’argent… Une relation sous contrat? C’est ce dont ils ont besoin! Après avoir été trahie par son ex, Simone décide que les affaires de cœur ne lui réussissent pas.

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battleground is the Internet. On one side the alt-right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, struggle sessions and virtue signaling lurk behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures.

Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life–working hard all day and partying all night–until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose–to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked.

Hidden in the depths of 18th-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary’s fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious 12-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries.

A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below.

The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it’s made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers, including Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, to join him in finding someone doing an interesting job for the government and writing about them.

Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books’ previous owners—an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors, Hemi and Belle, tell conflicting sides of a tragic romance.

From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite.

Do you need listening practice for the TOEFL test? Have you taken the TOEFL iBT before and been disappointed by your score? TOEFL Listening Practice Tests by Exam SAM can help! The book contains three complete TOEFL listening practice tests. Each of our practice test has six tasks each, just like the real exam, so there are 18 listening tasks in total in the audiobook.

The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags.

In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately. Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive.

Sira Quiroga é uma jovem costureira que, na Madri dos anos 1930, se apaixona por Ramiro. Ainda que mal o conheça, decide deixar o país por aquele novo amor. Mas o destino lhe reserva uma série de surpresas, a começar pelo desaparecimento de Ramiro pouco depois de chegarem ao Marrocos. A partir daí, a jovem se converte, quase sem se dar conta, numa peçachave na luta contra o fascismo europeu - da ditatura franquista em sua Espanha natal ao nazismo na Alemanha.

API Design Patterns lays out a set of design principles for building internal and public-facing APIs. Google API expert JJ Geewax presents patterns that ensure your APIs are consistent, scalable, and flexible. You’ll improve the design of the most common APIs, plus discover techniques for tricky edge cases. Relevant examples and detailed scenarios make every pattern clear and easy to understand.

The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors, Elizabeth of York, wife to Henry VII. Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville - the White Queen - the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to the House of York, and choose between her mother's rebellion and her husband's tyranny. Then she has to meet the Pretender, whose claim denies the House of Tudor itself.

Embark on a captivating journey through myriad mysteries, ever-changing landscapes, diverse encounters, and varied experiences. Along the way, you will encounter moments of joy and sorrow, moments of being lost and then found.

You don’t live around plastic. You live inside it. From childhood toys to water bottles, from Tupperware to your bloodstream — plastic didn’t just change the world. It became it. Foreverland is the story of the synthetic substance that reprogrammed reality. What started as a miracle material became a cultural operating system — reshaping taste, convenience, economics, nostalgia, and even human biology. Funny, haunting, and eye-opening, this book will make you see the modern world for what it really is: Plastic. And it’s not going away.

In When Mothering Is Hard and No One Sees, you will feel seen for your own motherhood struggles and challenges. This book helps you gain a new sense of how God views you as you move toward the hope He has revealed to Shalene: a bigger picture of being a mom with an impact that ripples throughout eternity. In creation and in redemption, you were made—and remade—to mother.

A New Titan: Deep Seek's Rapid Ascent in the AI Arena.... of artificial intelligence. Deep Seek, a Chinese AI company founded in May 2023, has quickly emerged as a significant contender, challenging the dominance of established players with its powerful and cost-effective large language models. Backed by the private resources of the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, Deep Seek has pursued an ambitious research and development trajectory, culminating in a suite of models that have captured the attention of professionals across various sectors.

Als Faye den Antiquitätenladen von Waydine Hill übernimmt, stolpert sie über ein Fundstück, das ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellen wird: ein mysteriöses Buch voller uralter Liebesrituale. Für ihre Tochter Miranda ist es eine klare Mission: Mit Hilfe des Buchs wird sie ihrer Mom den perfekten Mann herbeizaubern! Doch wer taucht plötzlich im Laden auf? Tyler. Ausgerechnet Tyler! Der muskelbepackte Eishockeyspieler, mit dem Faye seit Jahren eine innige Feindschaft pflegt, kann ja wohl kaum der Märchenprinz sein, oder?