Love, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live among native peoples in Greenland, both books explore the reaches of the human heart through their complex and unforgettable characters.Henrik Pontoppidan, the Danish Nobel laureate, is admired for the concentrated force of his novellas as much as for long, populous, world-encompassing novels like A Fortunate Man, and here are two of those novellas, newly and brilliantly translated by Paul Larkin.The White Bear follows the fate of the odd, gangly, red-bearded Thorkild Müller. Born in rural Jutland and destined for the ministry, Thorkild proves to be a poor student and is assigned to a remote Inuit tribe in Greenland. There, with his mythic-looking staff and dogskin skullcap, he becomes known as the White Bear—a beloved legend among the locals and...

Welcome to Murders Under the Sun, a podcast that pulls back the curtain on the dark side of sunny Southern California. I'm Molly Shure, and last March, I stumbled upon a chilling pattern—seven crimes, all linked, but their connection buried in the shadows. Each season, we'll peel back the layers of one case, exposing secrets no one was meant to find. When Willow elopes with Jonathan, she's ushered into a fairytale—a prince, a grand estate, a seemingly perfect life. But something is wrong at Sunset House. Jonathan's bond with his twin sister unsettles her, and the family's secrets whisper from empty rooms. Three deaths in three weeks push her from concern to fear. When she discovers a hidden journal filled with tales of abuse and captivity, the fear becomes terror. As the walls close in, Willow realizes she's not part of the family—she's prey. Trapped in a gilded cage, she must play the role of a lifetime to survive,...

A dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human bodyWhat is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today's world of blinding technological change, of artificial intelligence and deepfakes and Chat GPT, it is easy to forget that we have always had complicated relations with technology—whether that technology is computers, player pianos, and even eyeglasses.In this wide-ranging and fascinating study, Vanessa Chang takes us on a historical tour of the interactions between our bodies and machines, showing that the advent of new technologies has always been met with varied reactions, from misplaced fear to tragic over-optimism. The result is cultural critique of the highest order and a profound demonstration of the eternal truth that in order to understand the future, we must look to the past.

"Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None gets a wicked update." —Publishers WeeklyThree courses. Seven guests. One card.It's a deadly evening they'll never forget.Seven strangers meet for an anonymously hosted dinner party. As the evening winds down, seven cards appear, one in front of each of the guests. On the card is a number – the age at which they will die. Thinking it an elaborate prank, the guests disperse into the night, hoping to forget the morbid evening forever.Two weeks later, one of them is dead at exactly the age the card predicted.It must be a coincidence. But as more guests die, each one dead at the same age as their card, it soon becomes clear that something much more sinister is afoot. Now, it's up to the quickly dwindling group to figure out who (or what) was behind that fateful dinner party, before their numbers catch up with them.Told from the perspectives of...

Sometimes the truth can set you free — Sometimes it can kill you…Detective Dawn Grave never expected to return to the remote rural town she fled as a teen. But when the cold case surrounding her brother's suspicious death is reopened, she's sucked back into a terrifying past.Tackling her demons, she begins clearing out her brother's belongings, exposing a secret that local police officer Rick Constable has kept close to his chest for too long. It might explain Rick's instant animosity toward her, but it could implicate him in her brother's death. She needs to interview him to discover more.There's only one problem…Rick's car has been discovered near a remote outback tourist resort, abandoned, with blood inside—leaving Dawn wondering if Rick is a murderer, or the killer's next victim...

In a game built for men, I came to make history. As the only girl on an all-male Division I hockey team, I’m not a novelty—I’m a threat. A spark in a powder keg of testosterone. But I didn’t come to play nice. I came to dominate. I didn’t expect them… The golden boy captain who carries the team on his shoulders. The brooding guardian with a darkness that calls to me. The hot and cold viper who kisses me breathless in dark corners—then acts like it never happened. And the quiet bruiser who speaks my language in video games. I live with them. Train with them. Compete against them. They’re temptation wrapped in danger— And the first ones to ever look at me like I belong. But this game has enemies off the ice too. And someone wants to break me for good. Let them try. Because I’m not just here to play. I’m here to rewrite the rules and claim my legacy. *** Stick It is an enemies to lovers, forbidden, ice hockey romance where the FMC ends up with more than one love interest. The series consists of interconnecting standalones that can be read in any order.