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If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships-or a tragedy like 9/11-all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical...

*One of Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels That Will Sweep You Away* “Michaela Carter’s training as a poet and painter shines through from the first page of this vivid, gorgeous novel based on the lives of Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst. Told with all the wild magic...

From one of Japan’s most acclaimed writers comes a lyrical and poignant meditation on marriage, and the ways in which the most romantic gestures are often the quietest ones. Before the hospital, we had often raised our hands towards one another as we’d gone through life together. A man sits...

An investigation into our complicated 8-decade-long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste. From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity’s struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with...

Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization," at least in the conventional story of Rome's collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive.

Push your German to new heights. Take the challenge at the Advanced level. Welcome to Advanced German: Volume 2. The advanced series dives straight into dialogue about anything and everything German. This series is focused on exposing you to native speaking style. Start speaking German in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Advanced German. Our native German hosts break down all the sentences, grammar and more in a simple, easily understandable way!

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

A year after Germany's defeat, Gregor Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for power and influence with Berlin's new masters. When a man is found slain in a broken-down tenement, Reinhardt embarks on a gruesome investigation.

Rome, 1518. The church is tarnished by greed. Peasants are rebelling. Tumultuous times demand drastic recourse - before the devil gets his due. Johann Faust is a renowned magician, astrologer, and chiromancer traveling through Germany with his successful troupe: the orphaned juggler Greta and his loyal companion Karl. The avaricious Pope Leo X now requires Johann’s services to replenish the papacy’s drained coffers through alchemy. But the devil, with whom a regretful Johann once agreed to an unholy trade for fame, wants something else.

This six-session guide is perfect for travelers looking to quickly learn and apply key Austrian German phrases during their trip to Austria. The course is designed with practicality in mind, focusing on common words and expressions that will be useful in a variety of everyday situations. No previous experience in Austrian German is needed.

"I thought the nation was coming to an end,’ wrote Khushwant Singh, looking back on the violence of Partition that he was witness to over half a century ago. He believed then that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the violence in Gujarat in 2002, he had reason to...

A charmingly exuberant comic debut from an exciting new literary voice, and a “quirky, hilarious, elegantly written farce” (The Daily Telegraph), The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe is the globetrotting story of a trickster from rural India and his...

Are you looking for a fun way to teach your child new words? Then you are in the right place! Perfect for young learners! Bonus — they learn some first-aid too! Suchen Sie nach einer unterhaltsamen Möglichkeit, Ihrem Kind neue Wörter beizubringen? Dann sind Sie bei uns genau richtig. Perfekt für kleine Lerner! Bonus — sie lernen auch etwas über Erste Hilfe! After watching his dad do heart surgery, Maxx goes to play soccer with Arielle and Lucas. While warming up, Lucas gets slammed in the head by a soccer ball causing a bloody nose. Lucas is a mess!

BECOME A MILLIONAIRE BY INVOKING THE UNLIMITED POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MINDYour subconscious works nonstop to align your outer reality with your inner beliefs. It's impossible to become successful without success-oriented beliefs, so the first rule of success is to know exactly what you want...

Discover a innovative approach to German language learning that mirrors how native speakers naturally acquire fluency. This audio course presents authentic real-world scenarios, each delivered first in German by a native speaker, then in English, allowing learners to build understanding through context and repetition.

While watching her Chinese immigrant son-in-law learn the English language, it became apparent to the author that prepositions are one of the most difficult concepts to comprehend. Therefore, The Dance of the Caterpillars was written as a fun way to teach prepositions. This exciting bilingual German-English children's book contains 22 prepositions, one two-word multiple, and two three-word multiples. It is destined to become a valuable learning tool for children as well as English as a second language students.

The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown. “In the pantheon of American history, it’s very hard to...

“Friendship takes a dark turn in this sexy, seductive thriller.” —People Two couples. One dark, twisted game of love and obsession. Suspend your disbelief on this roller-coaster ride of a domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister...

Focus your English learning on the most frequently used verbs. Learn just the 100 verbs you need for everyday life to talk about the past, the present, and the future. One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. All the unknown verbs get the same attention. Actually, to communicate you need only 100 verbs in any language. These verbs are the most frequently used and can be defined using an algorithm that provides the ranking.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Christms Box and A Christmas Memory comes a story tracing the lives of a family through reflective diary entries on love, loyalty, and forgiveness. April 3, 1912. "Is this life, to grasp joy only to fear its escape? The price of happiness is the...