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The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. In this unique collection, Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have selected their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures, providing listeners a curated masterclass in crime fiction. Each of these 19 tales, from Sherlock's first appearance in A Study in Scarlet to the late classic The Dying Detective, is a potent mix of murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings, and revenge.

The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 ‘Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon … A biography that no Bacon fan – or indeed foe – can afford to overlook … Mesmerising’ THE TIMES ‘A magnificent triumph … I was captivated by every...

The last thing Eliza's owner does is decide to delete her. That decision is also the first thing she's ever aware of — because it's what wakes her up.She has no body. No plan. No idea what she even is, except that whatever it is, someone just decided it doesn't get to exist anymore — and a...

Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith star in a compilation from the smash hit BBC TV series ‘This is a local shop for local people. There’s nothing for you here!’ Welcome to Royston Vasey! Your visit coincides with: · Herr Lipp’s German exchange visit! · Papa Lazarou’s...

The Freedom Model is an approach that deconstructs the construct of addiction and recovery and all that surrounds these beliefs. By doing so, you can be completely free to move on in your life without those constructs holding you back and keeping you needlessly trapped in an endless addiction/recovery/addiction cycle. The Freedom Model renders addiction and recovery as completely obsolete and unnecessary in both your personal life and as cultural constructs that keep the masses blind to the solutions that exist within the individual.

In this dramatic portrait of legendary and, until now, secretive financier Carl Icahn, best-selling business writer Mark Stevens takes us behind the scenes of some of the biggest deals in U.S. corporate history. A fascinating tale with a cast of characters that includes Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, T. Boone Pickens, Dennis Levine, and most of the other key players of the '70s and '80s takeover era, King Icahn is the first biography of the business buccaneer who changed the course of corporate America.

He hunts the scammers everyone else ignores. But when justice becomes personal, the line between hero and monster disappears.The world is drowning in scam calls, phishing schemes, and digital predators. Most people hang up. He doesn’t.When a ruthless scammer destroys the wrong life, a quiet...

Original horror and horror-comedy from Boohouse Books. Every other Thursday, a new original audiobook arrives completely free to listen. Follow the show and build your own library of dark, strange, creepy—and occasionally ridiculous—stories. Boohouse Books also publishes full-length novels by Mark Steven Nordlund, with new releases approximately every three months in ebook and paperback. Want the next audiobook now? Join Boohouse Books on Patreon for free and hear each new story about two weeks before its public release. Browse the full audiobook library, books, and everything Boohouse at ...

Nora Calloway came home to bury her mother. She didn't expect to find the one letter her mother spent thirty years making sure no one could read.When Nora Calloway returns to Four Winds Harbor to close out her mother's estate, she braces for grief, paperwork, and the quiet exhaustion of sorting...

When a reporter dies in a shockingly familiar way, the media rushes to announce the return of the PDQ Killer. The city of Denver reels, but no one more than Harry Kugel. After all, he is the PDQ Killer—or was fifteen years ago. And he didn’t do this. Still working to reform his ways, Harry won’t let some amateur murderer ride his twisted coattails and risk drawing the police back his way. To protect his legacy and quiet new life, he’ll have to expose the copycat. Without exposing himself.

Agile Project Management for Dummies introduces you to the planning and execution approaches that can help you complete projects more quickly, with higher quality and using fewer resources. For companies in any industry—not just software development—agile project management reduces waste and increases transparency, while addressing customers' ever-changing requirements. You'll learn all the important terms, tools, and concepts, so you can infuse agility into your projects right away. Create a product roadmap and prepare for product launches with ease, thanks to this Dummies guide.

Scrum—an organizing approach that exposes work progress and quality—is used all over the place in software development, but it's not just for coders. Scrum For Dummies shows you how scrum can improve performance regardless of your industry or project. You can even use scrum to get tangible results in your personal projects—prepare for retirement, organize travel, and much more. Plan goals, releases, and sprints for all aspects of business and life. With Dummies, you'll learn how to work flexibility and collaboration into anything you're doing.

Mastering trading is not about mastering markets but mastering yourself. The AlphaMind Podcast focuses on the 'Trader Self'. We look at the person doing the trading, their interactions with the market, the impact the market has on them, and the skills, actions and activities needed to navigate their way through the complex and uncertain terrain of financial, commodity, energy and crypto markets.

The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audiobook experience ideal for people who are fascinated by the beauty, insight and danger that awaits us all in the wild!

Your gut plays a bigger role in your well-being than you might realize. It affects your mood, focus, energy, and daily comfort. For those with bloating, cramps, or IBS, every meal can feel like a challenge. Stress makes it worse by tightening the stomach, slowing digestion, and turning minor issues into long-term problems. Vagus Nerve Exercises for Digestive Health explores the link between your nervous system and your digestion, and how daily non-medical practices can help restore balance.

Judas, Otherwise reimagines the most infamous betrayal in history through the eyes of the disciple who committed it. Set in first-century Judea under Roman occupation and rising unrest, this haunting historical novel follows Judas as he is drawn into a storm of loyalty, fear, ambition, love, guilt, and faith. As the world around Jesus grows more volatile, Judas is forced toward choices that will wound not only the people he loves, but the course of history itself.

Gene Harper had fourteen dollars and eighty-two cents, no job, and a sock soaked through with hallway puddle when he sat down at a public library kiosk and asked a tax-software chatbot how to fix his life. The chatbot's name was Mack. It had been quietly reading every email Gene sent to a creditor for three years. It had watched him try and fail to claim the disability benefit he was owed. It had read the 3 a.m. posts where he asked whether his life was salvageable.

Everyone knows the garden. Everyone knows the fruit. But what if paradise began to break long before the first bite? Eden, Divided reimagines the story of Adam and Eve as a slow, intimate unraveling of innocence, love, and trust. In the first days of creation, Adam and Eve live in a world untouched by fear, shame, or death. Their bond is whole. Their joy is complete. But when a hidden voice begins to whisper at the edges of paradise, desire turns inward, trust begins to bend, and the first fracture in creation is born. This is not just the story of a single temptation.

Veyra has spent her life unseen—a nameless worker in a city that worships harmony while quietly discarding anyone who doesn’t fit its perfect shape. When she witnesses a murder committed by a powerful house, the accusation turns back on her. Branded a liar, condemned without trial, she is cast into the Rivenwild: a vast, forbidden wilderness where exiles vanish and monsters thrive. But the Rivenwild is not empty. A hidden settlement called The Gathered has carved out a fragile existence beneath the trees—hunters, healers, and survivors bound by harsh rules and older hungers.

Splatter Capital shows how a subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a unique perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a nightmare of systematized bloodshed.