A series of theoretical essays and interviews develops a practice of mapping social and psychic territories that rejects Oedipal psychoanalysis in favor of a schizoanalytic approach emphasizing multiplicity, machinic assemblages, and lines of flight; it proposes concrete cartographies of desire and subjectivity that reveal how capitalism, institutions, and technological systems shape individual and collective experience while also pointing to transversal practices and micro-political resistances that open new forms of ethical and political becoming.

Norsemen sail across the Channel into the realm of the great Frankish emperor and confront a massive Crusader force. Aboard a dragon ship an English monk guards a book wrapped in cloth whose true worth is known only to him. At their leader's side is Raven, with a blood spot in his eye and magic in his soul, and he and Cynethryth, the runaway daughter of an English king, plunge into an epic clash of men and faiths.

Emily Brand, a physicist, makes a major energy discovery and then disappears. Her research partner dies in a plane crash and a brutally ambitious oil executive, David Lucci, uses NARCON to prevent her from going public. He resorts to torture, blackmail, and murder to make her pay for what she did to him over twenty years ago.

A year after his best friend Sam died, Oliver still texts Sam's number and cannot stop, especially as the anniversary approaches. When he accidentally calls, someone else answers: Ben, an astronomy student in Seattle who has been reading Oliver's private messages after the number was reassigned. They meet and feel an undeniable spark, but Oliver discovers something strange that could keep them apart.

En el texto, un ateniense acusado de corromper a la juventud y de impiedad se defiende ante el tribunal mediante un discurso en el que explica su método de cuestionamiento, desmonta las acusaciones formales y populares, reivindica la búsqueda de la verdad y la obediencia a una voz interior que lo guía, y argumenta que su vida dedicada a examinar a los demás beneficia a la ciudad; frente a la posibilidad de la muerte mantiene la calma, rechaza el temor infundado y propone alternativas más nobles que la sumisión al error, aceptando finalmente la sentencia con tranquilidad moral y dejando una reflexión sobre la naturaleza de la justicia y el deber cívico.

A Korean adoptee from Denmark travels repeatedly to South Korea over several years to meet her Korean family. She cannot speak Korean and the family cannot speak English, so she relies on a Danish-Korean interpreter who accompanies her. When the family discovers that the interpreter is also her girlfriend, tensions arise as she confronts questions of language, love, queerness, and belonging while seeking to recover family, culture, and her own voice.

Alex Horne challenges his father to a yearlong competitive birdwatching contest running from January 1 to December 31, 2006. They each attempt to see as many bird species as possible under simple rules: birds must be wild, alive, and actually seen, and travel anywhere is allowed. The year follows outings from early home sightings to trips to Romania, Wales, and South Africa, as Alex seeks to understand his father and the appeal of birdwatching.

Princess Natasia is the eldest child of Emperor Andreth of the Four Realms, but as a girl she is expected to marry so her father can shape a male successor. An unknown would-be assassin nearly takes her life, revealing that someone seeks to destabilize the Empire, with suspects including Western lords, eastern barbarians, or the mysterious Cult of Culo. With palace intrigue growing dangerous, the Emperor considers Natasia as a possible heir and the reckless, rebellious princess must learn to lead before the Empire falls.

A compact narrative tracing the emergence and development of the common-law system from its medieval origins through its institutionalization and spread, explaining how royal courts, procedural forms, and judicial decision-making gradually displaced local customs and alternative legal traditions to produce a coherent body of precedent-driven law; it examines the influence of canon and Roman law, the growth of equity as a corrective, the transformation of remedies and forms of action, and the reforms of the nineteenth century that modernized courts and procedure, while also surveying the transplantation of common law to the colonies and its enduring principles such as stare decisis and the central role of judges in shaping doctrine.

A compassionately reported oral history that gathers voices from all walks of life to explore how people confront death, mourning, and the rituals that give loss meaning; through interviews with clergy, undertakers, family members, children and others, it traces the fears, faith, humor and practicalities that shape responses to dying and bereavement, revealing cultural differences, personal reckonings and moments of grace and resilience.

A collection of essays arguing that when evidence cannot settle a genuine, forced, and momentous choice, it is permissible — and sometimes necessary — to decide on the basis of one’s passional nature; the book blends psychology, ethics, and pragmatist philosophy to defend faith, moral commitment, and free will against strict evidentialism and determinism, while exploring how belief shapes experience and guides action in human life.

A collection of philosophical lectures and essays that articulate core transcendentalist ideas: trust in the individual’s intuition and conscience, the spiritual primacy of nature, moral self-reliance, and resistance to conformity; delivered in concise, aphoristic prose that blends literary criticism, moral exhortation, and metaphysical reflection to encourage intellectual independence and moral courage.

Gilbert Gosseyn, a man with baffling gaps in memory and an uncanny knack for surviving assassination attempts, discovers that his mastery of non-Aristotelian logic is his only tool for untangling a vast conspiracy that reaches across planets and secret societies. As he probes attempts to control, duplicate, and manipulate human identity and power, he is forced to reevaluate what is real, who he truly is, and what kind of future human reasoning can create or destroy, leading to a tense clash between cold formal logic and raw, primal forces shaping society's destiny.

A fast-paced corporate chronicle of the rise and dramatic fall of the company that pioneered the smartphone era, tracing how visionary engineering, a fiercely loyal user base and tight relationships with carriers propelled two entrepreneurs from a small Canadian firm to global dominance — and how strategic mistakes, internal power struggles, complacency about consumer trends, and the shock of the iPhone and Android ecosystems led to rapid decline. The narrative follows technical battles over security and operating systems, boardroom infighting, failed product bets and legal and financial pressures, showing how one company’s culture and decisions that once created an advantage ultimately undermined its ability to adapt to a new market.

In a bleak, tightly controlled society an unremarkable Party member who works rewriting history at the Ministry of Truth grows privately rebellious, beginning a forbidden relationship and daring to hope for resistance against the omnipresent surveillance, propaganda, and Thought Police; he is eventually betrayed, arrested, and subjected to brutal physical and psychological torture designed to erase independent thought and force absolute conformity, culminating in his surrender to the Party’s reality and the destruction of his inner resistance.

A lonely eighth-grade half-vampire struggles to keep his true nature secret while navigating bullies, a loyal friend, and the humiliations of middle school; as mysterious threats and his own violent urges intrude on everyday life, he must confront painful secrets from his past and make difficult moral choices about who he will become.

Henry Hayes Middleton is a staunch product of a proper education who seeks a career in the Foreign Office. While pursuing that professional path he unconsciously conducts a spiritual search that runs alongside his ambitions. That search is ultimately completed through the intervention of a woman who would seem an unlikely influence. The story follows how his inner search and his professional ambitions intersect and evolve.

A low-level Party member named Winston Smith struggles to maintain his sense of truth and individuality in a totalitarian state where omnipresent surveillance, propaganda, and constant historical revisionism control citizens’ thoughts and memories. Secretly rebelling by keeping a diary and entering a furtive relationship with Julia, he seeks human connection and objective reality but is betrayed and arrested by the Thought Police. Subjected to systematic psychological and physical torture and manipulation by the Inner Party, he is forced to betray Julia and ultimately relinquish his resistance, accepting the Party’s imposed reality and professing love for its leader. The story is a stark examination of power, language, memory, and the obliteration of personal freedom.

Thel Riley is a veteran big game hunter. He is hired by a wealthy Eastern businessman to guide the man and his son on a treacherous hunt. Riley leads the businessman and his son into the hunt and acts as their guide throughout the dangerous outing. The book follows Riley as he guides the father and son through the treacherous hunt.

Elizabeth Lange arrives at a spa in Pebble Beach, California, still grieving her sister Leila, who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse. Dashing millionaire Ted Winters stands accused of murder, but Elizabeth doubts his guilt and sets out to uncover the truth. Along the windswept cliffs of the Monterey coast and among luxurious bungalows, uneasiness stalks her as glimpses of Leila's life and of Elizabeth herself begin to surface. An ominous threat from an unexpected source builds around her.

A searing, epistolary account in which a mother writes to her estranged husband to trace their son’s life from infancy to the moment he orchestrates a school massacre, examining her ambivalence toward motherhood, the unraveling of family life, and the wrenching questions of nature versus nurture, responsibility, and the social consequences of violence.

R.J. Misner is a cynical Jewish woman and one of Hollywood's best female comedy writers. She reluctantly falls in love with a younger man, David Malcolm, a handsome and charismatic man born to wealth and power. The story follows their unlikely relationship and the tensions between her guarded cynicism and his privileged background. Their romance is reluctant.