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From acclaimed historian Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg, a celebrated re-appraisal of the meaning and the source of inspiration of The Declaration of Independence, based on a reading of Jefferson's original draft document. Inventing America upended decades of thinking about The...

A British writer named Will Self goes on a quest through LA freeways and eroding English cliffs, skewering celebrity as he attempts to solve a crime: who killed the movies. A satirical novel of otherworldly proportion and literary brilliance, Walking to Hollywood is a fantastical and unforgettable trip through the unreality of our culture.

Will Self is one of the most important British novelists of his generation, and he is as acclaimed in the UK for his outstanding, daring journalism as he is for his fiction. Now finally available in America, Junk Mail is an original selection of pieces from Self's nonfiction and journalism that will introduce American listeners to Self as a literary journalist par excellence.

Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful Natasha, a junkiebuzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, Lily slides in and out of the present, taking us on a surreal, opinionated trip through the stages of a lifetime of lust and rage.

We all need more hours in the day as we spend more time than ever working, studying and caring. So what if we could reclaim an entire hour, every day, to spend on the things we love? With proven advice from more than 300 busy contributors, The Extra Hour condenses the best strategies and secrets into this audiobook to instantly supercharge your productivity.

“[A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places” (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet...

The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American...

Although generally considered one of Portugal's greatest poets, Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (1888-1935) published but one book in Portuguese in his lifetime. That book, Message (Portuguese Mensagem), the esoteric epic at which he labored sporadically for more than 20 years before finally publishing it in the year prior to his death, is undoubtedly essential to an understanding of Pessoa's poetic vision, yet it remains, at least in the English-speaking world, relatively unknown and unread.

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fourth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’. THE BODY THAT CAME FROM NOWHERE Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two fishermen discover a shipping crate and manage to haul it ashore...

“What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was...

Embark on an epic journey through the life of Prophet Muhammad, a luminous figure, whose wisdom and compassion unite cultures and kindle the spark of enlightenment. This narrative weaves a tapestry of valor, resilience, and unwavering faith, inviting listeners to explore profound teachings that transcend time.

The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the 30-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians.

We are on a mission to become MASSIVE film nerds. Join us on this journey as we expand our minds with useless crap about directors you've never heard of so that we can bore the living daylights out of strangers at house parties. Hope that sounds like your kind of thing. Kind regards, Will & Evie. Podcast Illustration by Rachel Quirke

Are you a person of faith who wants to better understand science? Or a scientist curious about faith? Your Matter Matters is a limited-series podcast hosted by ELCA Lutheran pastors Will Rose and Thomas Johnston, exploring how faith and science can move beyond conflict and into meaningful conversation. Together, they work to dismantle the false divide that pits belief against discovery—and instead invite listeners to imagine how both can contribute to human flourishing. As pastors in North Carolina and steering committee members of the Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology, ...

Stop dreaming about entrepreneurship and start building a real business. You already have everything you need to make money—you just don't see it yet. This podcast rips apart the excuses keeping you broke and hands you the exact strategies that built empires from John D. Rockefeller to Elon Musk, so you can stop trading time for money and start capturing real cashflow. So stop waiting and start building? Hit play.Time to turn your ideas into income.New episodes premier on Wednesdays.

Raising Spirits and pouring perspective on all things business and hospitality, with the aid of a drink or two.

Will Matthews, Knight Frank’s Head of Commercial Insight, is joined by Knight Frank researchers and experts to unpick the latest commercial property data, sharing the judgement calls, context and market insights that don’t always make it onto paper. If you need clarity on commercial real estate trends but don’t have time for the 40 page report, or if you’re just curious about change in the commercial real estate sector, then Commercially Minded is for you. Hear what’s really driving the market and leave each episode with practical takeaways: what to know, what to watch, and what to ...

WILL SELF is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this … it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that places her marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril.

Attore, rapper, icona globale. Personalità tra le più dinamiche e amate del mondo dello spettacolo, Will Smith si racconta per la prima volta in un memoir straordinariamente coraggioso, onesto, di grande ispirazione. Un’autobiografia dirompente che svela senza pudore tutta la storia di una delle più incredibili ascese hollywoodiane dei nostri tempi. Alla soglia dei cinquant’anni Will Smith pensava – e come dargli torto?

Thirteen-year-old Benjamin is pulled from his old life and forced to attend a special boarding school in the middle of nowhere. That's confusing enough. Then, he's fed instructions through an earbud and thrown into etiquette classes alongside an angry, spike-covered creature. Despite wearing purple dresses and having the unassuming name of Eve, the creature is horrifying and, as Eve quickly demonstrates, dangerous. With the help of his new friends Lorena and Persephone, Ben must overcome his own anxieties and uncover the truth about Eve's origin.