Resultado narrado por "Nathaniel Priestley" em Todas as categorias

At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company to Apple. But here John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system’s critics.

Finmere Tingewick Smith was abandoned on the steps of the Old Bailey. Under the guardianship of the austere Judge Harlequin Brown and the elderly gentlemen of Orrery House, Fin has grown up under a very strange set of rules. On his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. The Judge is killed, stabbed in the chest with a double-edged sword that's disturbingly familiar, and from that moment on, Fin is catapulted into an extraordinary adventure. The Knights of Nowhere have kidnapped the Storyholder, the keeper of the Five Eternal Stories which weave the worlds together.

The London Stone has been stolen and the Dark King rules the Nowhere. Only Mona and the new Seer dare to stand against him, leading an underground rebellion in the frozen wasteland. If they can recruit a banished race to their cause, maybe Fin and his friends can force a final battle against the Dark King. It will come down to three friends, standing together against all odds.

They're there for the Initiation of the new Knights of Nowhere. In the Nowhere, something is moving through the streets, attacking people - random victims - and leaving them mad and disfigured. The Prophecy is coming alive. The battle lines will be drawn between even the closest of friends, for the fight is on. The Dark King is rising.

George Mahood is not a philosopher, scientist, theologian or psychologist – he’s just a regular guy trying to figure life out. Like most of us, he wanted to be healthier, happier, and maybe a little less stressed. But after reading a mountain of self-help books, he found himself frustrated and underwhelmed. So, he decided to take matters into his own hands. Why sift through hundreds of confusing, contradictory, and overly serious self-help books when George has already done it for you?

When opposition MP Harry Colbey uncovers a corrupt plot between senior government ministers and a big tech organisation intent on enriching its owners, he finds himself the target of a strange form of harassment. His train pass and credit cards won't work, his phone won't get signal and every traffic light he comes to is red. Only his colleague, Esme Kanha, believes him. She's investigating the suspicious death of another anti-corruption MP.

Stranded in an untamed jungle kingdom ruled by a theocratic order, he is hunted as an outsider and burdened with a past that refuses to let him go. To return home, Dante must strike a deal with the enigmatic rebel priest, Marek, who promises him a way back—but only if he helps steal an artifact of unfathomable power: The Veil of Dhar.

When DCI Finnegan’s team is called to investigate the apparent suicide of a farmer’s wife, DI Kumar's intuition tells her something more sinister is at play. As she delves into the woman’s past, she's horrified to discover a world of emotional coercion, servitude, and tawdry sexploitation. Angered, and unwilling to let the deceased woman become just another statistic, DI Kumar is determined to find the truth. But is she searching for a killer, or simply searching for justice?

“Have you found your new beginning yet?” Peace in Abra’am has ended. Power has switched hands. Though the leaders of Xenith and Sadie fight to maintain order, resistance stirs, proving sometimes those who fight the hardest do so without crowns. It’s unclear who works to heal the world and who profits from its pain. The War of Fire created an illusion of order. For many, the illusion has shattered. But the past does not have to shape the future. From the ashes, something better can rise.

Idonea knows the only thing her human blood is good for is its role in strengthening the Star Elves when the comet returns every two hundred and fifty years. Her whole life has been meant for the moment she marries Olaug and finally gets it right, and not even the king can stop her perfect marriage. The day Idonea was chosen to be part of the Cometa Couple, King Nyrunn was condemned to watching the love of his life spend the rest of hers in the arms of someone else. And he is powerless to stop it.

When a police officer is gunned down in cold blood, DCI Finnegan and his right-hand man, DS Stoker, are in no mood to follow the rule book. With emotions running high, and Finnegan’s brightest officer, DI Kumar, suspended pending an external investigation, the unprovoked shooting is proving baffling. While Finnegan and Stoker lean on old-fashioned methods to solve the case, DI Kumar uses her intuition to uncover a neo-Nazi link leading to stolen WWII relics. The three officers must hunt for the unknown assassin to unravel a mysterious web of lies.

As a roving merchant—or peddler, as many call her—Avery lives a life of freedom that few ever experience. She can navigate the enchanted landscapes of six kingdoms, and she’s an expert at finding unique items and matching them with the right customer. If her traveling lifestyle means she doesn’t have any close friends, at least she can help communities in need. And it’s worth it not to be tied down. She might be alone, but that doesn’t mean she’s lonely.

Long ago defiled by the Imperium of Man, the eldar maiden world of Dûriel was once a glittering jewel in the crown of the Valedor System. As the tyranids of Hive Fleet Leviathan sweep through the sector consuming everything in their path, wayward Prince Yriel of Iyanden discovers that the farseers have inadvertently brought a greater threat to bear – a fragment of Hive Fleet Kraken, hurled into the warp to save the craftworld, has returned. The tyranid fleets cannot be allowed to combine, or their genetic legacies will merge into something even more terrible.

D accompanies a convoy delivering a vampire Noble to face public trial for his crimes against humanity. However, the Noble's enemies have targeted the men and women of the convoy, and they are out for vengeance!

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

Long ago, The Lord Aiduel emerged from the deserts of the Holy Land, possessed with divine powers. He used these to forcibly unite the peoples of Angall, before His ascension to heaven. Over eight hundred years later, in a medieval world which is threatened by war and religious persecution, four young men and women begin to develop supernatural abilities. These forbidden and secret powers will shatter the lives that they have known, and will force each of them to confront the mystery of the ethereal Gate which haunts their dreams.

When the naked body of a man is found lashed to Black Nab, a rock off the coast of Whitby, DCI Finnegan and his team are soon on the case. They immediately realise whoever the killers are, they're sending a brutal warning - vengeance! As the body count rises, Finnegan suspects a link between the deaths and a recent case involving two missing schoolgirls. But who is committing the murders... and why?

Tor is the youngest son of Harald Hardrada, King of Norway and leader of the Viking fleet, whose countless victories have been woven into song, his prowess the stuff of legend. Kata knows little of her parents, but her heart yearns for something beyond the small world of her Anglo-Saxon village south of the great city of York.

When an elderly hiker fails to return home, DCI Finnegan assigns the task to his brightest officer. What initially turns out to be a missing persons case soon becomes far more suspicious. Meanwhile, DS Zac Stoker is on an undercover operation aimed at disrupting the importation of illicit drugs by sea. He’s supposed to be a back-up. Another set of eyes and ears, helping an unwholesome character from Police Scotland. But he’s soon dragged into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences.

The unsolved murder of a local woman. A spate of armed robberies on petrol stations. Two missing schoolgirls. They say bad things come in threes, but this is challenging the resilience of battle-hardened Yorkshire copper, DCI Frank Finnegan. With a new, and feisty, street-smart female officer joining his ranks, will it be the boost he needs to solve the crimes? When the grieving husband of the murdered woman offers up vital information relating to the missing schoolgirls, things swiftly escalate.