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<i>Behind every great fortune, lies a great crime</i> - Honore de Balzac<br/><br/>New Bethlehem, Connecticut. Picture-perfect lawns, manicured hedges, multi-million dollar homes. But beneath the designer yoga gear and country club memberships lies a darker reality.<br/><br/>In this world of excess, Devon and Belle have it all - beauty, money, status. But they want something more. Something dangerous. Something that makes them feel alive. Their solution? A party - a meticulously curated gathering of New Bethlehem's elite, from a desperate ex-NFL quarterback to a hockey coach with a penchant for married women, and a ruthless Wall Street 'closer' who wields his wealth like a weapon.<br/><br/>One night. Multiple betrayals. And a murder that will shatter New Bethlehem's carefully constructed facade.<br/><br/>Fans of <i>The White Lotus </i>and <i>Big Little Lies </i>will be drawn into the dark underbelly of the American Dream - a world where money can buy anything, until it ruins everything.

<b>'A vivid and compelling picture of the broader fashion landscape between 1960 and the present day. Anecdotes? The book is full of them.' <i>The Times</i><br/><br/>'Dazzling from start to finish.' Joanna Lumley</b><br/><br/>In this insightful memoir, Zandra shares her life story for the first time. Told through a variety of mementos collected over the years, it is <b>a vibrant account filled with rockstars and royalty</b>, of life-changing friendships and poignant reflections on her personal triumphs and tragedies, as well as the fears, sacrifices and pressures that come with being an era-defining designer.<br/><br/>Full of poignant reflections and life lessons on <b>achieving success while defying convention</b>, Zandra recounts being inspired by her avant-garde mother to her time at the<b> Royal College </b>alongside<b> David Hockney</b>; from a road trip to Rome with<b> Ossie Clark</b> and <b>Celia Birtwell</b>, to opening her first London store thanks to a loan from <b>Vanessa Redgrave</b> with <b>Joe Cocker</b> singing <i>With a Little Help From My Friends </i>to the assembled crowd of London's 1960s fashion scene; from hanging out with <b>Andy Warhol </b>and <b>Halston</b> in New York's <b>Studio 54</b> to lifelong friendships with legends such as <b>Karl Lagerfeld</b> and <b>Diana Vreeland</b>; from designing for everyone from <b>Freddie Mercury </b>to <b>Diana Ross</b>, <b>Princess Diana</b> to <b>Barbra Streisand </b>to founding the <b>Fashion and Textile Museum</b>.<br/><br/>Capturing the rich and unexpected life of a <b>British icon</b>, this memoir explores what it is to defy the norm.<br/><br/><b>'Zandra Rhodes has changed the course of fashion history.' </b><b>Suzy Menkes, fashion journalist</b>

Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.<br/><br/>We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were<br/><br/>In her non-fiction work, Joan Didion not only describes the subject at hand - her younger self loving and leaving New York, the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion - but also offers a broader vision of the world, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.

Yuji Itadori is resolved to save the world from cursed demons, but he soon learns that the best way to do it is to slowly lose his humanity and become one himself!<br/><br/> In a world where demons feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryoma Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of Jujutsu Sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the undead!<br/><br/> Yuji Itadori is high schooler who spends his days visiting his bedridden grandfather. Although he looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Club. One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object, but little do they know the terror they'll unleash when they break the seal...

<b>Book 2 in the exhilarating paranormal romance trilogy from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, No.1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Inheritance Games</i> series.</b><br/><br/>Bryn has the usual worries: a new boyfriend, a new school and a new home. But she has one major concern that her friends don't have: she is an alpha - a human girl in charge of her own werewolf pack.<br/><br/>When Bryn and her closest friends, Dev and Lake, broke from the werewolf Callum's pack, it had felt right. Together with Chase, Bryn's new love, they had rescued some newly made female werewolves from a dangerous master and established their own pack, with Bryn as leader.<br/><br/>Yet Bryn has always resented the rules of this life - the constant bowing to authority and submission to the alpha. And she is determined to live differently, to be better leader.<br/><br/>Then one night, a badly beaten werewolf shows up on her territory. He desperately needs help. But taking him in could violate the rules, and no one knows better than Bryn the costs of challenging them.<br/><br/><b>Obedience is law in pack life, but is Bryn ready to break the rules again?</b><br/><b><br/>Read more of Bryn's story in <i>Taken by Storm.</i></b>

<b>A <i>WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST,</i> AND <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i> BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR<br/></b><b><br/>In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?</b><br/><br/>AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.<br/><br/> In this provocative, utterly original work of "scientific fiction," Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of <i>AI Superpowers</i>, joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, set twenty years in the future, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings:<br/><br/> In San Francisco, a new industry, "job reallocation," arises to serve displaced workers<br/> In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship<br/> In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI gets in the way of romance<br/> In Seoul, virtual teachers offer orphaned twins new ways to learn and connect<br/> In Munich, a rogue quantum computer scientist's revenge plot imperils the world<br/><br/> By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, <i>AI 2041</i> offers urgent insights into our collective future-while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.

William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the chances of seeing a dead or dying body on the way home from the theatre were high. It was also a time of important scientific progress. Shakespeare kept pace with anatomical and medical advances, and he included the latest scientific discoveries in his work, from blood circulation to treatments for syphilis. He certainly didn't shy away from portraying the reality of death on stage, from the brutal to the mundane, and the spectacular to the silly. <br/><br/>Elizabethan London provides the backdrop for Death by Shakespeare, as Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die. Was death by snakebite as serene as Shakespeare makes out? Could lack of sleep have killed Lady Macbeth? Can you really murder someone by pouring poison in their ear? Kathryn investigates what actual events may have inspired Shakespeare, what the accepted scientific knowledge of the time was, and how Elizabethan audiences would have responded to these death scenes. Death by Shakespeare will tell you all this and more in a rollercoaster of Elizabethan carnage, poison, swordplay and bloodshed, with an occasional death by bear-mauling for good measure.