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*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*`Extraordinary¿ The Observer`A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read¿ New Yorker`Lewis¿s storytelling is as good as ever¿ The EconomistFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX an...

Daddy, What is Love? Is a simple, heartfelt story of a father's love for his daughter. Bailey is curious about many things and says to her daddy, "I like clouds and magic and birds and space, but I don't luuvvvvvv them." She continues, "I love you and mommy, but how do I know?" Daddy then takes her on a descriptive journey of what he loves about her, in an effort to show her what love really is. Sweet, imaginative anecdotes are used to describ...

1969: Blackleigh is an elite public school for boys in Yorkshire, established nearly seventy years ago. Despite the idyllic setting and the school's excellent reputation, prejudice and hatred are never far below the surface.

For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Thorndike Press/Gale, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in western fiction. Travel back in time with these fourteen new stories that explore the individual courage and strength the tumultuous American frontier required. These stories are written by award-winning authors and the most exciting new voices in historical fiction. Fortitude and...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read." --Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker "Going Infinite is an instant classic." -- Helen Lewis, The Atlantic "The sort of skillfully told story we've come to expect from Mr. Lewis." --Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal "A wry, engaging writer and a gifted storyteller." --Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times "It may be easy to take for granted how entertainingly [Mi...

`Extraordinary¿ The Observer`A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read¿ New Yorker`Lewis¿s storytelling is as good as ever¿ The EconomistFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question o...

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This book isolates three moments within the epidemic¿`the Science, ¿ non-pharmaceutical intervention, and pharmaceutic remedies¿and shows how each of these unities came to immunise itself against alternative proposals. Michael Lewis demonstrates the auto-immune and counter-productive effects of this approach.

When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to ...

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Written from experiences over 20 years, family practice physician, Dr. Michael Lewis, takes an authentic look at the barriers to delivering compassionate medical care and how they affect the doctor-patient relationship. From HMOs to the (un)Affordable Care Act to egregious instances of cruelty and judgment, no stone is left unturned as he examines the demise of compassion in medicine.

If you had a chance to hear directly from some of our greatest and most influential minds the kind of advice that will change your life-would you pay attention? "Michael S. Lewis, M.D.'s book distills the life experience of some of the world's legendary wise humans in a way that motivates all of us to cultivate and harvest our wisdom for the common good."-Chip Conley, NY Times bestselling author and founder and CEO of the Modern Elder Academ...

The Environmeddlers brings the world of environmental protest from monkey wrenching to the digital age. In this high-spirited adventure, Clovis, a reformed Sierra Club organizer, teams up with an animal rights advocate, an unrepentant defender of raw wilderness and a Taoist computer geek to make a difference in an uncaring world where industrial growth, pollution, and habitat destruction continue unchecked. "We need a new story, something ...

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86 pages of short prose poems written from 1992-1997. Poetry of War, Death, Life, and love. "You can live a dream for awhile, living in the mind of a child." Titles for this book include, Witchcraft, Vampire, The Funeral, Love Poem, Whiskey, and a Play about a Witch, and a Poet, and many more poems that fill the imagination with horror, peace, and seduction.

Short prose poems of love, death, horror, and religion.

El aclamado C. S. Lewis sobre la práctica transformadora de la lectura, brindando gozo y orientación en nuestra vida diaria.

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The poets style allows him to manipulate rhythm in order to rouse the reader to become one with the composition. there are several characters that this literary Work is attributed to, for BreAnna, B. M.L. December's child and I blame me, are works describing the birth and problems he faced with his daughter at birth in 1993. "A Pastor after his own heart" was written in 1984 for two Pastors he served under. "Ode to Danita" was written in 1976,...