When Julia realizes her horoscope foretold her husband's death, she begins to spiral. Then a letter arrives, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa - but her benefactor is a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. In Tuscany, Julia is horrified to discover that Rossi was a paranoid recluse with delusions of grandeur, who believed herself a descendent of a legendary Renaissance ruler. Julia is stunned by her uncanny resemblance to both of these women, then unearths eerie parallels between them, including an obsession with astrology. Before long, Julia suspects she's being followed. When events turn deadly, she breaks with reality. Julia's harrowing struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and a question of her very survival.

 

Step into the shoes of a detective and investigate the most mysterious crime of your career. There's been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect. Gather the evidence and examine the clues. Choose who to interview next, and who to accuse as your prime suspect. But remember that every decision you make has consequences, and some of them will prove fatal.

When Cynthie gets her first real acting job, there is only one problem: Cynthie's arrogant and annoyingly handsome costar Jack hates her. While they may be at war behind the scenes, their on-screen chemistry is palpable, and the studio has the two young stars fake a romance. Thirteen years later, Cynthie and Jack have kept their promise to stay far away from one another, until a surprising offer comes to make a sequel to the cult classic that launched their careers. But there's a catch: they must also rekindle their pretend relationship, and this time there's a documentary crew following their every move. Cynthie and Jack both desperately need this film to work, but can two ex-rivals ever trust each other? And what happens when the roles they’re playing start to feel real?

 

by Adam Aleksic

 

The internet has ushered in an unprecedented linguistic upheaval.  New slang emerges and goes viral overnight. Accents are shaped or erased on YouTube. Grammatical rules, loopholes, and patterns surface and transform language as we know it. Our interactions, social norms, and habits- both online and in person- shift into something completely different. As Aleksic uses original surveys, data, and internet archival research to usher us through this new linguistic landscape, he also illuminates how communication is changing in both familiar and unexpected ways. Algospeak is an energetic, astonishing journey into language, the internet, and what this intersection means for all of us.

by Deborah Baker

 

In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Before the weekend was over, a neo-Nazi had driven a car into a throng of counter-protesters, killing a young woman and injuring dozens. Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker has written a riveting and panoptic account of what unfolded that weekend. Clergy, activists, and organizers saw what was coming and, at great personal risk, worked to warn and defend their city. In her research she discovers an uncannily similar event that took place decades before when an emissary of the poet and fascist Ezra Pound arrived in Charlottesville intending to start a race war.

This comprehensive cookbook shares seven barbecue types and one hundred gourmet recipes enjoyable year-round. Hailing from Quebec and currently residing in France, pitmaster BIG T invites you to challenge the notion that barbecue is limited to grilled meats and summer cookouts. Since opening his celebrity-frequented Bootgrill restaurant in Nice, he has championed the art of gourmet cooking over coals. Join him in becoming a "serial griller" and embrace the endless possibilities that barbecuing has to offer. 

Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so needed health insurance fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia. He transported chicken feed to grandmothers living alone in the mountains and forded a creek with a refrigerator on his back. But he carried more than just the mail, including a family legacy of rage and the anxiety of having lost his identity along with his corporate job. And yet, surrounded by a ragtag but devoted band of letter carriers, Grant became a lifeline for lonely people, providing fleeting moments of human contact. He embraced the thrill of tackling new challenges and doing a small, good thing for his community.