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Naitikate Samagrate Mattu Samarthya: ನೈತಿಕತೆ ಸಮಗ್ರತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯ
by S. V PatilNaitikate Samagrate Mattu Samrthya is a practical guide for civil service aspirants, simplifying ethics and values through examples, stories, and case studies. It helps develop ethical decision-making skills and integrity essential for good governance.
Jnaana Samhita Masapatrike August 2025
by Sharada and Mitrajyothi Teamವಿಷಯಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ನಿಯತಕಾಲಿಕೆ-ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಜ್ಞಾನ, ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ವ್ಯವಹಾರಗಳು, ಪಾಕವಿಧಾನಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಜೋಕ್ಸ್.
Jnaana Samhita Masapatrike July 2025: ಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಹಿತಾ, ಜುಲೈ 2025
by Sharada and Mitrajyothi Teamವಿಷಯಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ನಿಯತಕಾಲಿಕೆ-ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಜ್ಞಾನ, ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ವ್ಯವಹಾರಗಳು, ಪಾಕವಿಧಾನಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಜೋಕ್ಸ್.
Jnaana Samhita Masapatrike June 2025: ಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಹಿತಾ, ಜೂನ್ 2025
by Sharada and Mitrajyothi Teamವಿಷಯಗಳ ಸಂಗ್ರಹದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಒಂದು ನಿಯತಕಾಲಿಕೆ-ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಜ್ಞಾನ, ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತ ವ್ಯವಹಾರಗಳು, ಪಾಕವಿಧಾನಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಜೋಕ್ಸ್.
Bhashana Kale-Tvaritha Mattu Sulabhavada Maarga: ಭಾಷಾ ಕಲೆ-ತ್ವರಿತ ಮತ್ತು ಸುಲಭವಾದ ಮಾರ್ಗ
by Kalyanಭಾಷಣ ಕಲೆ – ತ್ವರಿತ ಮತ್ತು ಸುಲಭವಾದ ಮಾರ್ಗ” ಪುಸ್ತಕವು ಪರಿಣಾಮಕಾರಿಯಾದ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಭಾಷಣ ಕೌಶಲ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿಪಡಿಸಲು ಪ್ರಾಯೋಗಿಕ ಮಾರ್ಗದರ್ಶಿಯಾಗಿದೆ. ಇದು ವೇದಿಕೆ ಭಯವನ್ನು ಗೆಲ್ಲಲು, ಆಲೋಚನೆಗಳನ್ನು ತ್ವರಿತವಾಗಿ ಸಂಘಟಿಸಲು ಮತ್ತು ವಿಭಿನ್ನ ಸಂದರ್ಭಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟ, ಆತ್ಮವಿಶ್ವಾಸದಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ ಭಾಷಣಗಳನ್ನು ನೀಡಲು ಸರಳ ವಿಧಾನಗಳನ್ನು ವಿವರಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.
Adhunika Bharatiya Rajakeeya Chiintakaru Mattu Sarvajanika Neeti Vishleshane: ಆಧುನಿಕ ಭಾರತೀಯ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಚಿಂತಕರು ಮತ್ತು ಸರ್ವಜನಿಕ ನೀತಿ ಸಂಶೋಧನೆ
by Ramesh Sankaraddiಇದು ಹೊಸ ಪಠ್ಯಕ್ರಮದಂತೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯಗಳ BA 6ನೇ ಸೆಮಿಸ್ಟರ್ ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಾಧ್ಯಮ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕ ಪಠ್ಯಪುಸ್ತಕವಾಗಿದೆ.
Homeopathy at Home: Everyday Treatments for Common Complaints
by Marcus FernandezYour health is in your hands with this easy guide to homeopathy, offering expert, actionable wisdom to help you take control of your wellbeing.Discover how to treat everyday acute issues confidently and safely using homeopathic remedies at home. By matching the characteristic symptoms of common complaints with the correct homeopathic treatment, you can unlock your body&’s incredible natural ability to heal.Homeopathy at Home offers a comprehensive A–Z of homeopathic remedies for a wide range of complaints – from common colds, coughs, allergies and infections, to cuts, bruises, acne and PMS. It also provides useful substitutions that can easily be found in your kitchen or garden – so you&’ll always have a natural remedy to hand.With this book, you&’ll have everything you need to address everyday health issues naturally and effectively.
Thriving Beyond Fifty (Expanded Edition): 111 Natural Strategies to Restore Your Mobility, Avoid Surgery and Stay Off Pain Pills for Good
by Will Harlow BSc, MSx, MCSPm Cert. MATHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERRebuild strength, flexibility and confidence through proven exercises to target the causes of aches, pains and strains that come with age.What if growing older didn&’t have to mean growing weaker? If you&’ve been told that pain in your back, shoulders or knees is just part of ageing, it&’s time to rethink what&’s possible. Thriving Beyond Fifty is a warm, expert-led guide to restoring mobility, improving flexibility and building natural strength – using simple exercises you can do at home.Written by physiotherapist Will Harlow, this book offers 111 safe, targeted stretching and movement routines designed specifically for those over 50 to treat a range of common conditions. Whether you&’re managing arthritis, recovering from injury or just feeling stiff from years of sitting, these gentle methods help you feel stronger, more comfortable and more confident in your everyday life.You&’ll discover how to:· Address common causes of back, shoulder, neck, hip and knee pain· Improve your posture, balance and mobility with step-by-step home exercises· Protect your joints from arthritis and inflammation with smarter movement tips· Boost your energy and resilience using natural stretching and strengthening routines· Build a daily practice that supports long-term flexibility, independence and vitalityThriving Beyond Fifty is more than a fitness book – it&’s a compassionate guide to reclaiming your body and re-engaging with the life you love. Whether your goal is to improve your walking, garden without strain or simply get up from the floor with ease, this guide meets you where you are and helps you move forward – one stretch at a time.
The Trading Game: A Confession
by Gary Stevenson#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • &“The Best Wall Street Book of 2024&”—BloombergA &“vivid&” (Financial Times) rags-to-riches memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a &“darkly funny&” (Guardian) tale of Citibank&’s one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up &“Darker than [Liar&’s Poker], but if anything even more of a rollicking read . . . the clearest account I&’ve ever read of how trading desks really work.&”—Felix Salmon, AxiosIn development as a limited series • Longlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the YearIf you were gonna rob a bank and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers.At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called &“The Trading Game.&” The prize?: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank. A place where you could make more money than you&’d ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional geniuses and insecure bullies yet start to feel like family. Where against the odds you become the bank&’s most profitable trader, closing deals worth nearly a trillion dollars. A day.Soon you are dreaming of numbers in your sleep—and then you stop sleeping at all. But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? You&’re making a killing betting on millions of people becoming poorer—like the very people you grew up with. The economy is slipping off a precipice, and your own sanity starts slipping with it. You want to stop, but you can&’t. Because nobody ever leaves.Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?The Trading Game is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world—the trading floor—from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
The Children's Bach: A Novel
by Helen GarnerThe New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia&’s greatest writers • "It&’s high time American readers knew her generous, category-defying imagination."—New York Times"The Children&’s Bach is [Garner&’s] masterpiece."—Public BooksSet in suburban Melbourne in the early 1980s, The Children&’s Bach centers on Dexter and Athena Fox, their two sons, and the insulated world they&’ve built together. Despite the routine challenges of domestic life, they are largely happy. But when a friend from Dexter&’s past resurfaces and introduces the couple to the city&’s bohemian underground—unbound by routine and driven by desire—Athena begins to wonder if life might hold more for her, and the tenuous bonds that tie the Foxes together start to fray.A literary institution in Australia, Helen Garner&’s perfectly formed novels embody the tumultuous 1970s and 1980s. Drawn on a small canvas and with a subtle musical backdrop, The Children&’s Bach is &“a jewel&” (Ben Lerner) within Garner&’s revered catalogue, a beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern letters, a finely etched masterpiece that weighs the burdens of commitment against the costs of liberation.
Midnight: A Thriller
by Amy McCullochIn this pulse-pounding thriller, a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica—to camp beneath the legendary midnight sun—becomes a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to follow their prey to the ends of the earth."Midnight is a clever mystery, a twisting page-turner, and a blistering adventure." —Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the EndTHE SUN NEVER SETS AND THIS KILLER NEVER SLEEPSIn the frigid summers of the Antarctic continent, the sun never sets, and Olivia Campbell has long dreamed of spending a sunlit night in this beautiful, remote place. So when her boyfriend—a high-powered art dealer with a taste for the finer things in life—decides to stage an ostentatious, career-making auction aboard a luxury cruise liner to Antarctica, Olivia can hardly believe her luck. That is, until the ship sets sail and her boyfriend is nowhere to be found, and she is left to manage both the auction and her own creeping fear of the open ocean entirely alone. And as though that weren't enough, the first bodies turn up soon after. It seems like a terrible accident. This is the Drake Passage, after all, one of the most notorious bodies of water on the planet, and there are always risks in such extreme conditions. But as the situation deteriorates, it soon becomes clear that there is real danger on board—and that the closest help is hundreds of miles away. With tensions rising and temperatures plummeting, Olivia wonders whether she's booked a fabulous adventure . . . or a one-way ticket to her own destruction.
The Other Half (Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp #1)
by Charlotte VassellYou know how they live. This is how they die... A STUNNING DEBUT FROM YOUR NEXT FAVORITE MYSTERY WRITER • Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's—catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. &“A perfectly modern whodunnit.&” —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Will Find YouWho killed Clemmie? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair? Or was it the result of something else entirely?All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who.Or is it 'whom'? Detective Caius Beauchamp isn't sure. He's sharply dressed, smart, and thoroughly modern—he discovers Clemmie's body on his early morning jog. As he searches for the dark truth beneath the luxurious life of these London socialites, a wall of staggering wealth and privilege threatens to shut down his investigation before it's even begun. Can Caius peer through the tangled mess of connections in which the other half live—and die—before the case is wrenched from his hands? Bitingly funny, full of shocking twists, and all too familiar, The Other Half is a truly stunning debut.
Butcher: A novel
by Joyce Carol OatesFrom one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women&’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the worldIn this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, &“Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,&” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir&’s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir&’s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of his destruction.Narrated by Silas Weir&’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father&’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance. Once again, Joyce Carol Oates has written a spellbinding novel confirming her position as one of our celebrated American visionaries of the imagination.
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.&“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.&”—The Economist&“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI and automated content production. . . . Masterful and provocative.&”—Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming WaveFor the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.
The Hypocrite: A Novel
by Jo HamyaONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • DAKOTA JOHNSON&’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation&’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father&’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter&’s voice.&“A sharp book, beautifully written.&” —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind and Entitlement"Excellent...I enjoyed the novel hugely...Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family, and the damage done by charming but complacent men. But The Hypocrite is a strikingly original book too. I tore through it, shoulders clenched but full of admiration." —David Nicholls, author of One Day, in Electric LiteratureAugust 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father&’s verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven&’t aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might have hoped, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. Sophia&’s play has been met with rave reviews, but her father has studiously avoided reading any of them. When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation. Set through one staging of the play, The Hypocrite seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed.
Hexed: Book Two of The Iron Druid Chronicles (The Iron Druid Chronicles #2)
by Kevin HearneIn the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O&’Sullivan faces off against witches, Bacchants, and a ravenous fallen angel.&“A page-turning and often laugh-out-loud-funny caper through a mix of the modern and the mythic.&”—Ari Marmell, author of The Warlord&’s LegacyAtticus O&’Sullivan has had cause to mistrust witches in his storied past, but he&’s willing to live and let live with the Sisters of the Three Auroras, a legendary local coven, even going so far as to sign a non-aggression treaty with them. But that treaty is tested immediately when a deadly new coven sweeps into town seeking to take over, along with some Bacchants from Las Vegas and a fallen angel who&’s decided to snack on high school students like they were trail mix.It&’s more than Atticus can handle alone and he must enlist the trickster Coyote, the headhopping abilities of the witch Laksha Kulesekaran, and his neighbor&’s illegal arsenal if he wants to keep the city safe from diabolical takeover. He must also exchange favors with his vampire attorney, Leif Helgarson, in a deal that might prove to be the worst of his long life—for Leif doesn&’t want to be paid by the hour.To defeat the mortal hexes of this new coven and keep his apprentice—and his city—safe, Atticus must think fast, make promises, keep his sword handy, and hope he&’ll survive to fight another day.Don&’t miss any of The Iron Druid Chronicles:HOUNDED | HEXED | HAMMERED | TRICKED | TRAPPED | HUNTED | SHATTERED | STAKED | SCOURGED | BESIEGED
Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel (13) (Harry Hole Series #13)
by Jo NesboNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • This killer will get inside your head. • Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer who is murdering young women in Oslo in the next novel in the internationally best-selling series."One of today's most interesting thriller writers." —Lee Child, author of the #1 best-selling Jack Reacher seriesTHE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again.THEY'RE FACING A KILLER UNLIKE ANY OTHER. And exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone—fired from the force, drinking himself to oblivion in Los Angeles. It seems that nothing can entice him back to Oslo. Until the woman who saved Harry's life is put in grave danger, and he has no choice but to return to the city that haunts him and track down the murderer.CATCHING HIM WILL PUSH HARRY TO THE LIMIT. He'll need to bring together a misfit team of former operatives to accomplish what he can't do alone: stop an unstoppable killer. But as the evidence mounts, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than meets the eye...
Pig Years
by Ellyn GaydosThis captivating memoir is a &“startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals&” (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See), as an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth.Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as &“engrossing&” and &“a marvel.&” As a farmer in Upstate New York and Vermont, Ellyn Gaydos lives on the knife edge between loss and gain. Her debut memoir draws us into this precarious world, conjuring with stark simplicity the lifeblood of the farm: its livestock and stark full moons, the sharp cold days lives near to the land. Joy and tragedy are frequent bedfellows. Fields go barren and animals meet their end too soon, but then their bodies become food in a time-old human ritual. Seasonal hands are ground down by the hard work, but new relationships are formed, love blossoms and Gaydos yearns to become a mother. As winter&’s dark descends, Pig Years draws us into a violent and gorgeous world where pigs are star-bright symbols of hope and beauty surfaces in the furrows, the sow, even in the slaughter.In hardy, lyrical prose that recalls the agrarian writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, Gaydos asks us to bear witness to the work that sustains us all and to reconsider what we know of survival and what saves us. Pig Years is a rapturous reckoning of love, labor, and loss within a landscape given to flux.
Halcyon: A novel
by Elliot AckermanA daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (&“An expert juggling act.&” —Stephen Markley, New York Times Book Review)Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the Virginia estate of renowned lawyer, family patriarch, and World War II hero Robert Ableson. It&’s 2004, and Gore is entering his second term as president, when news breaks that scientists have discovered a cure for death. Suddenly, Martin is forced to question everything he thought he understood about the world around him. Who is Ableson, really? Why has Martin been drawn into the Ablesons&’ most closely guarded family secrets? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?From pivotal elections to crumbling marriages, from the Civil War to the Battle of Saipan, Halcyon is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on the dual foundations of remembering and forgetting.
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
by Helen GarnerThe New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • The engrossing true-crime classic from one of Australia&’s most acclaimed writers, that follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure •"This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood."—Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Shrines of GaietyOn the evening of Father&’s Day, 2005, separated husband Robert Farquharson was driving his three young sons back to their mom&’s house when the car veered off the road and plunged into a dam. Farquharson survived the crash, but his boys drowned. Was this a tragic accident, or an act of revenge? The court case that followed became a national obsession—a macabre parade of witnesses, family members, and the defendant himself, each forced to relive the unthinkable for an audience of millions.In This House of Grief, celebrated writer Helen Garner tells the definitive and deeply absorbing story of it all, from crash to final verdict. Through a panoply of perspectives, including her own as a member of the public, Garner captures the exacting procedure and brutal spectacle of Australia&’s criminal justice system. The result is a richly textured portrait—of a man and his broken life, of a community wracked by tragedy, and of the long and torturous road to closure.Considered a literary institution in Australia, Helen Garner&’s incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. Brisk, candid, and never dismissive of its flawed subjects, This House of Grief is a masterwork of literary journalism.
Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five (The Iron Druid Chronicles #5)
by Kevin HearneAfter twelve years of secret training, Atticus O&’Sullivan is finally ready to bind his apprentice, Granuaile, to the earth and double the number of Druids in the world. But on the eve of the ritual, the world that thought he was dead abruptly discovers that he&’s still alive, and they would much rather he return to the grave. Having no other choice, Atticus, his trusted Irish wolfhound, Oberon, and Granuaile travel to the base of Mount Olympus, where the Roman god Bacchus is anxious to take his sworn revenge—but he&’ll have to get in line behind an ancient vampire, a band of dark elves, and an old god of mischief, who all seem to have KILL THE DRUID at the top of their to-do lists.Don&’t miss any of Kevin Hearne&’s phenomenal Iron Druid Chronicles novels: HOUNDED | HEXED | HAMMERED | TRICKED | TRAPPED | HUNTED | SHATTERED | STAKED
Hounded: Book One of The Iron Druid Chronicles (The Iron Druid Chronicles #1)
by Kevin HearneThe first novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles—the hilarious, action-packed tales of a two-thousand-year-old Druid pursued by ancient gods in the modern world&“A page-turning and often laugh-out-loud-funny caper through a mix of the modern and the mythic.&”—Ari Marmell, author of The Warlord&’s LegacyAtticus O&’Sullivan is the last of the ancient druids. He has been on the run for more than two thousand years and he&’s tired of it. The Irish gods who want to kill him are after an enchanted sword he stole in a first-century battle, and when they find him managing an occult bookshop in Tempe, Arizona, Atticus doesn&’t want to uproot his life again. He just wants everything to end one way or another, but preferably the way in which he can continue to enjoy fish and chips.He does have some small hope of survival: The Morrigan, the Irish Chooser of the Slain, is on his side, and so is Brighid, First Among the Fae. His lawyer is literally a bloodsucking vampire, and he has a loyal Irish wolfhound with opinions about poodles.But he&’s facing down some mighty enemies: Aenghus Óg, a vengeful Irish god, plus a coven of witches and even the local police. On top of all that, Aenghus has a direct line to the firepower of hell. Atticus will need all the luck of the Irish and more if he&’s going to stay alive.Don&’t miss any of The Iron Druid Chronicles:HOUNDED | HEXED | HAMMERED | TRICKED | TRAPPED | HUNTED | SHATTERED | STAKED | SCOURGED | BESIEGED
The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Everyday Luxury and Elevated Entertaining
by Meredith HaydenNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn to cook, host, and eat like a private chef with 100 recipes from Meredith Hayden of Wishbone Kitchen.Inspired by years working as a chef in New York City and the Hamptons, as well as her childhood summers on Nantucket, Meredith Hayden makes food that is both unfussy and elegant—often with a touch of whimsy. In The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook, Meredith teaches you to cook like a professional hostess (and have fun while doing it). This is the kind of food to celebrate every season of life; the kind of cooking you don&’t start until you&’ve made yourself a drink first. Recipes range from 20-minute meals to show-stopping centerpieces, all fit for your next dinner party.Here you&’ll find big salads (Blueberry BBQ Grilled Chicken Salad) and sharable sammies (the Ultimate Italian); there are your starters, your grazers, your chatting-with-friends snackers like Hot Crab Dip and Really Good Guac. Serve the Pink Lemon Pasta when friends come over after work or pack up the Farro Broccoli Salad for lunch the next day. Snack on an Heirloom Tomato Galette and veg out on Asparagus Fries with Feta. Your authority on all things seafood, Meredith shows you the easiest way to break down a lobster so that you can use it in a number of recipes like the Lobster Avocado Salad and Wok Lobster. Or how to shuck oysters so you can enjoy them grilled or with a yuzu kosho mignonette. Throw your own Nantucket Clam Bake, why not?With sharp, witty commentary, themed menus, and gorgeous imagery, The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook will inspire you to rediscover the joy in cooking, romanticize your grocery hauls, and find any excuse to celebrate with friends and family.
Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four (The Iron Druid Chronicles #4)
by Kevin HearneDruid Atticus O&’Sullivan hasn&’t stayed alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. So when vengeful thunder gods come Norse by Southwest looking for payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote, lets them think that they&’ve chopped up his body in the Arizona desert.But the mischievous Coyote is not above a little sleight of paw, and Atticus soon finds that he&’s been duped into battling bloodthirsty desert shapeshifters called skinwalkers. Just when the Druid thinks he&’s got a handle on all the duplicity, betrayal comes from an unlikely source. If Atticus survives this time, he vows he won&’t be fooled again. Famous last words.Don&’t miss any of Kevin Hearne&’s phenomenal Iron Druid Chronicles novels: HOUNDED | HEXED | HAMMERED | TRICKED | TRAPPED | HUNTED | SHATTERED | STAKED
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
by H. W. BrandsFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.The first party, the Federalists, formed around Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and their efforts to overthrow the Articles of Confederation and make the federal government more robust. Their opponents organized as the Antifederalists, who feared the corruption and encroachments on liberty that a strong central government would surely bring. The Antifederalists lost but regrouped under the new Constitution as the Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson, whose bruising contest against Federalist John Adams marked the climax of this turbulent chapter of American political history. The country&’s first years unfolded in a contentious spiral of ugly elections and blatant violations of the Constitution. Still, peaceful transfers of power continued, and the nascent country made its way towards global dominance, against all odds. Founding Partisans is a powerful reminder that fierce partisanship is a problem as old as the republic.