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Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the best seller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.

Gerald the giraffe longs to go to the great Jungle Dance, but how can he join in when he doesn't know how to tango or two-step? Everyone knows that giraffes can't dance...or can they? With lots of music to boogie along to, this fun-filled audiobook is guaranteed to get little ones dancing!

From South Park to Kathy Acker, and from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. Rees traces the fascinating evolution of this demonization, considering how calling the "c-word" obscene both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Rees demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of the vagina's puzzlingly "covert visibility".

For 12-year-old Ottilie Finch, London is an exciting playground to explore. Her family have recently arrived in Hampstead from Durham, under a cloud of scandal that Otty is blissfully unaware of. The only shadow over her days is her mother’s mysterious illness, which keeps her to her room. When young local girl Mabs is offered the chance to become Mrs Finch’s companion, it saves her from a desperate life on the canals. Little does she know that all is not as picture-perfect as it seems.

One morning Gwen Thomas takes a short walk with her Siberian husky in the outskirts of the Welsh town she calls home. She is drawn to a desolate area where, some 20 years ago as a teenager, she was brutally attacked and her friend killed. Disorientated by a sudden rush of memories, she has a fall. Later, recovering in hospital, she begins to recollect the events that led up to her friend’s death.

Matthew Fairchild is the Consul’s son and the golden-haired boy of the Nephilim. He has the love of his family and his parabatai James Herondale, and nothing to wish for, except excitement and artistry and beauty that do not seem to fit in with a warrior’s way of life. Matthew gets more than he bargained for at the Shadow Market, where he commits the greatest sin of his life - something he can never tell his parabatai, or any of the honorable Shadowhunters around him.

Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion who dreams of getting the proper training he could never afford. After earning a place on the elite Kings Row fencing team, Nicholas must prove himself to his rival, Seiji Katayma, and navigate the clashes, friendships, and relationships between his teammates on the road to state championships - where Nicholas might finally have the chance to spar with his golden-boy half-brother.

How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters able to perpetrate this horror? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly—often enthusiastically—oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In The Nazi Mind, bestselling historian Laurence Rees seeks answers to some of the most perplexing questions surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust.

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Wild and beautiful, spoilt and wilful, Sovay finds that her cosseted life in rural England has not prepared her for life as a highway robber, for defending the honour of her family or for trying to save herself from corruption and evil. As Sovay becomes more and more embroiled in adventures she could scarcely have imagined, a story of dark intrigue, thwarted passions, and sinister intentions is revealed to her. Will she be able to survive, and if she does so, at what cost?

Hace sesenta años el mundo se horrorizó con el descubrimiento de la realidad de Auschwitz, el escenario de la mayor matanza de la historia humana: un millón cien mil seres humanos asesinados, incluidos más de doscientos mil niños. Pero, más allá de las imágenes y de los testimonios de las víctimas, la realidad de lo que Auschwitz fue y significó ha seguido escapando a nuestra percepción.

No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant pop-culture sound of the late 1970s and '80s was not in fact the smash and sneer of punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of rock and R&B that was first staked out on Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees. That album was shaped in large part by the founding members of Toto, who were emerging as the most in-demand elite session muso-crew in LA, and further developed on the band's self-titled three-million-selling debut smash of 1978.

England 1897. Rowena Blythe är både rik och vacker. Hon ska snart fylla tjugofyra år och familjen räknar med att hon ska gifta sig med rätt sorts man. Rowenas föräldrar vill stärka sin dotters rykte som en skönhet och ber därför en konstnär att måla ett porträtt av henne. Men konstnärens assistent Bartek visar sig vara helt olik alla män Rowena träffat förut vild, romantisk och bohemisk. Medan omgivningen väntar på besked om hennes förlovning med en man i hennes ställning faller hon i stället för Bartek.

London 1895. Olive Westallen lever ett priviligierat liv i familjens hem i West Hampstead, om än ett ensamt liv. Vid 28 års ålder anses hon för gammal för giftermål, men Olive tänker inte gråta över vad hon missat. Hon har radikala planer för familjen Westallens framtid, planer som kommer att chockera den societetsvärld hon rör sig i.

Året är 1831 när åttaåriga Aurelia Vennaway hittar ett övergivet spädbarn i snön på herrgårdens ägor. Hon tar med sig hittebarnet hem, till föräldrarnas stora förfäran. Men Aurelia övertalar dem att låta barnet stanna, och hon döper henne till Amy Snow. Amy växer upp bland tjänarna, avskydd av Aurelias aristokratiska föräldrar, men för Aurelia är Amy som en syster. En innerlig vänskap som abrupt tar slut när Aurelia dör, endast tjugotre år gammal, och den obeveklige godsägaren skickar Amy på porten.

Timglaset är en varm roman om att hitta kärleken och om en plats som döljer familjehemligheter. Bästsäljande författaren Tracy Rees skriver med känsla om människor och deras längtan efter att hitta hem.

They're about to make off with millions in stolen diamonds - until someone beats them at their own game. Three thieves have been planning the perfect diamond heist for months. They're finally ready to make the hit, and everything is set to go off without a hitch - until a rival crew shows up to steal the diamonds at the exact same time.

The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray.

Laurence Rees, in his magnum opus, combines largely unpublished testimony with the latest academic research to create the first accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust in over three decades. Rees argues that whilst hatred of the Jews was always at the epicentre of Nazi thinking - and the Holocaust was the most appalling crime in history - what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside other Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well.

Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes - good and bad - are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and best-selling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.