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<strong>'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' <em>OBSERVER</em></strong> <br/><br/> <strong>'Reads like a thriller'<em> THE SUN</em></strong> <br/><br/> <strong>The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.</strong> <br/><br/>For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and wall, tank traps, minefields, watchtowers and men with dogs, stretched for 4,300 miles from the Arctic to the Black Sea. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the conflict would be fought in the psychological sphere. It was a battle for hearts, minds and intellects. <br/><br/>No one understood this more clearly than George Minden, the head of a covert intelligence operation known as the 'CIA books programme', which aimed to win the Cold War with literature. <br/><br/>From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden's global CIA 'book club' would infiltrate millions of banned titles into the Eastern Bloc, written by a vast and eclectic list of authors, including Hannah Arendt and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell and Agatha Christie. Volumes were smuggled on trucks and aboard yachts, dropped from balloons, and hidden in the luggage of hundreds of thousands of individual travellers. Once inside Soviet bloc, each book would circulate secretly among dozens of like-minded readers, quietly turning them into dissidents. Latterly, underground print shops began to reproduce the books, too. By the late 1980s, illicit literature in Poland was so pervasive that the system of communist censorship broke down, and the Iron Curtain soon followed. <br/><br/>Charlie English tells this true story of spycraft, smuggling and secret printing operations for the first time, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who risked their lives to stand up to the intellectual strait-jacket Stalin created. People like Miroslaw Chojecki, an underground Polish publisher who endured beatings, force-feeding and exile in service of this mission. And Minden, the CIA's mastermind, who didn't waver in his belief that truth, culture, and diversity of thought could help free the 'captive nations' of Eastern Europe. This is a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free.

<strong>"Brilliant new vampire lore.... Spine-tingling!"<br/>-L.J. Smith, #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of </strong><em><strong>The Vampire Diaries</strong></em><br/><br/><strong>Preorder now to get a deluxe limited edition of <em>Hollow</em>! This special-edition hardcover will include beautifully designed endpapers and sprayed edges, a gorgeous foiled cover, and a brand-new author's note.</strong><br/><br/><strong>From TikTok sensation Celina Myers comes a fresh, intriguing novel about a woman who finds her destiny and her family after being turned into a vampire.</strong><br/><br/>Mia Adair isn't even twenty-five yet, but she's starting to wonder if her peak has already passed. She's spent years working at her local bookstore, a job that was supposed to be temporary. As a kid, she experienced a strange sort of fame within the paranormal community thanks to her inclusion in a book that revealed Mia's ability to talk with the dead. But that was then, and Mia's "gift" dried up once adolescence set in. These days, she feels like she's nobody special.<br/><br/>Until she dies in a tragic car crash and reawakens as a vampire...<br/><br/>Forced to leave behind everything she knew, Mia must choose to live with one of two rival vampire families. The Bellamy and Sutton clans share a dark, complicated history that spans centuries. As Mia learns about their age-old traditions and extraordinary powers, along with their forbidden romances and betrayals, she's drawn toward two very different loves. And as she feels her gift returning, more potent than ever before, Mia realizes she'll need it to protect innocent lives-and save the only family she has left.

Dragon Cursed [Bok / Inbunden]

<strong>A <em>NEW YORK TIMES </em>BESTSELLER * NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW </strong><br/><br/><strong>The epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from Rachel Reid, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S.</strong><br/><br/><strong>"The book that got me into hockey romance." -NPR's <em>Weekend Edition</em></strong><br/><br/>Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander's game.<br/><br/>Now that he's captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won't let anything jeopardize that-definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate.<br/><br/>Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane's not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he's as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him-except Shane. Publicly, they're enemies. Privately, they can't stop touching each other.<br/><br/>The smart thing to do? Walk away, once a few secret hookups turn into a struggle to keep their relationship out of the press. The truth could ruin them both. But for Shane and Ilya, secrecy is soon no longer an option...<br/><br/><strong>Game Changers</strong><br/><ul><li><strong>Book 1: <em>Game Changer</em></strong></li><li><strong>Book 2: <em>Heated Rivalry</em></strong></li><li><strong>Book 3: <em>Tough Guy</em></strong></li><li><strong>Book 4: <em>Common Goal</em></strong></li><li><strong>Book 5: <em>Role Model</em></strong></li><li><strong>Book 6: <em>The Long Game</em></strong></li></ul><br/><br/><strong>Need more Reid?! Check out these other standalones from your favorite MM hockey romance writer:</strong><br/><ul><li><em><strong>Time to Shine</strong></em></li><li><em><strong>The Shots You Take</strong></em></li></ul>

<b>Your boss asked you for a chat, and you just knew you were going to be fired</b><br/><i>You didn't sleep all weekend, and you weren't fired</i><br/><br/><b>Someone answered your message with a thumbs-up emoji and you just knew they hated you</b>.<br/><i>So you stopped talking to them, they eventually stopped texting, and now you miss them like crazy</i><br/><br/><b>Someone went for a bathroom break mid-film, and you just knew it's because they think your taste in films is terrible</b><br/><i>You were so upset you missed the rest of the film, and they left early</i><br/><br/>Rejection is physically painful for you. Even the most minor criticism stings. And why wouldn't it? By the time you were 12, you'd received 20,000 negative messages about yourself, your brain and your unique ADHD way of living life.<br/><br/><i>20,000.</i><br/><br/>Alex Partridge knows how it feels to live with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), the state of emotional dysregulation experienced by almost everyone with ADHD. Throughout his journey from successful entrepreneur to neurodiversity campaigner and host of the hugely successful ADHD Chatter, Alex has been haunted by the fear of rejection, labelled 'over-sensitive', and fought constantly against the desire to people-please and protect himself from emotional harm.<br/><br/>In <i>Why Does Everybody Hate Me?</i> Alex draws on his own experience of RSD, and shares how it's coloured every aspect of his life, from his days as founder of the global social media content brands UniLad and LadBible, to his adult relationships, his mental health struggles and his terrible imposter syndrome. He'll use the insights he's gained from the world's top experts on ADHD to share with you some simple steps to regaining your boundaries, your confidence and your self-belief.<br/><br/>You are not 'too sensitive' - nor are you broken. You were always enough.

The Wings That Bind (deluxe Edition) [Bok / Inbunden]

<b>Ringo Starr's eventful and remarkable life laid bare in a first-of-its-kind mosaic biography of one of the greatest musicians of all time.</b><br/><br/> Often overshadowed by his former bandmates, Starr's remarkable story is no less compelling. 'Ringo: A Fab Life' highlights a life so jaw-droppingly eventful that one is left wondering how he also had time to become one of the best musicians on the planet.<br/><br/> Through an episodic, mosaic format critically acclaimed author Tom Doyle takes readers through the ride of a lifetime, from Starr's brushes with death as a child bought up in poverty, through to dizzying heights of fame and success with The Beatles and beyond. By examining pivotal moments, anecdotes and cautionary tales, we see Starr soar as part of the biggest band in the world - and then try and cope with life outside of it: a film career, misadventures with friends, children's TV narrator, furniture designer, marriage to a Bond girl, before eventually finding peace and sobriety as one of the elder statesmen of rock.<br/><br/> So much more than another Beatles related biography, we follow Starr's career far beyond the rose-tinted sixties, through the various addictions and career left turns in the seventies and eighties, before reaching the 1990's, his legacy and reputation intact.<br/><br/> The life of Richard Starkey is long overdue a proper inspection and this book - with exclusive new interviews conducted by Doyle with, amongst others, Starr himself - provides a never-before-seen level of detail that will delight hardcore fans and curious readers alike.<br/><br/><i>Ringo: A Fab Life</i> - hilarious, moving, insightful and constantly surprising - is the definitive account of one of the greatest living musicians and the uncontested best drummer in The Beatles.