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From vast glaciers to steaming volcanic lakes, experience the land of the midnight sun with Rick Steves. Inside Rick Steves Iceland you'll find:

• Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Iceland
• Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites
• Top sights and hidden gems, from the stunning northern lights to hidden hikes and cozy bookstores
• How to connect with culture: Soak in hidden hot springs, sample smoked fish, and chat with locals in welcoming rural towns
• Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight
• The best places to eat, sleep, and relax
• Self-guided walking tours of lively Reykjavík and incredible museums as well as mile-by-mile scenic driving tours
• Detailed maps for exploring on the go
• Useful resources including a packing list, a historical overview, and helpful Icelandic phrases
• Over 500 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down
• Complete, up-to-date information on Reykjavík, the Ring Road, the Reykjanes Peninsula, the Golden Circle, the South Coast, the Westman Islands, West Iceland, the Eastfjords, and more

Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Iceland.

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From #1 Amazon and USA Today Bestselling Author Bella Matthews comes an enemies to lovers, forced proximity, sports romance.

Rome Beneventi is a walking, talking bad decision-six feet, five inches of tattoos, temptation, and trouble wrapped in a smirk and dipped in sin. This MMA champion should come with a warning label . . . or at the very least a disclaimer.
I sell books, and he breaks bones.
We are not on the same page.

At least not until he discovers my secret and instead of keeping it, blackmails me into fake dating him.

Now I'm living in his house.
Lying to my family and friends.
Playing nice for the cameras.
And trying not to melt every time he calls me "baby" like it's more than a show.

I told myself I'd never fall for him.
That I was too smart to love the devil in designer clothes.
But the thing about enemies?
Sometimes they're the only ones who see you clearly.

And faking it with Rome Beneventi?
Yeah . . . it stopped feeling fake a long time ago.

Si trabajas profesionalmente en el campo del autismo o eres parte de la vida de una persona en el espectro, este libro es esencial en tu bibliografía. Su redacción sencilla, pero no por ello falta de datos objetivos, te acerca a los conocimientos más profundos de una forma de vivir y de ser única. No solo te ayudará a entender mejor el autismo, sino que se convertirá en ese manual esencial para el análisis que cualquiera puede necesitar para comprender a la persona autista.

Writing alongside the specter of premature death, Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black women's interior lives and domestic spaces through meditations on literature, cinema, installations, and archival research to reaffirm her own way of being.

In the long aftermath of her mother's death, Tisa Bryant's Residual retrieves and catalogs what remains of her home, her psyche, and her creative practice. She filters through the remnants of her mother's everyday life asking, what else is an archive--a bookshelf, a dresser drawer, a relationship, a secret? Drawing on personal memories and impressions as well as archives of renowned Black women, who also died prematurely, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry and science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, Bryant's hybrid memoir details the intimate accretion of ephemera, outrage, intention, impressions, and failure in the wake of loss.

Monica Nassif didn't just build a brand--she bottled a legacy.

I Bottled My Mother is the gritty, hilarious, heartfelt origin story behind Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day, the cult-favorite cleaning line inspired by Monica's real-life mom, Thelma Meyer: a whip-smart, no-nonsense Midwesterner who raised nine children with little more than elbow grease, common sense, and a garden full of geraniums.

Part startup manual, part memoir, this is the candid story of how one woman turned domestic skills into corporate strategy, and a small soap company into a household name. From a chaotic Iowa childhood to a career in brand building and product development, Monica brings us inside the messy business of entrepreneurship--one that began on her kitchen floor and grew into a national retail presence with shelves in Target, Whole Foods, and beyond.

Told in short, sharp chapters with warmth and wit, this is a story about motherhood, business, and the power of building something honest, authentic, and good. For anyone who's ever asked: "How do I make my way in the world using what I already have?"--this book is your bottle of encouragement.

Is Is Enough begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia. The collection flickers through and locates in distorted realities, loss, and gentling. By haunting the past, the author reweaves and reorients against a continual vanishing. Ordinary situations begin to seem like joy in reverse, a treatise on the honesty of the present.

Admiral Dennis Blair, USN: "The Vietnam War literature and cinema are dominated by the angry and the anguished. Bud Cole's book speaks for those who did their duty with dedication and courage, but without illusion. It also should remind leaders who send to war their young men, and now their young women, of its human cost, even for those who are willing to pay it."

General John Allen, USMC: "About the time you think there's no space remaining for another work on the VietNam war, along comes Goin' to Nam a rich and thoroughly engaging historical novel by Captain Bernard "Bud" Cole. From the moment I started Bud's book, I knew I was along for the ride, one where I was painfully reminded of the realities of the human factors of combat, but also of the soaring heights of the best of humanity in war. David Kagan, the protagonist in Bud's narrative, is all of us who've ever gone to war, and the arc of his life and his experiences are at once familiar and meaningful. As a former Commandant of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy, I'd have made this required reading for the midshipmen in their leadership program. In Goin' to Nam, Bud Cole has done us all a great service."

Senior Foreign Service Officer(ret.) Richard Virden: "Bud Cole tells this compelling Vietnam story in the authentic voice of someone who lived it. In convincing and readable style, he takes you back to that time and place to better understand what the war was truly like for the warriors who fought it and grew up in it."

When life gives you cats, open a café.

When a spell gone wrong brings more than just magic to Theo Brylar's life, things in Adenashire get a little...purrplexing. Suddenly, cats of all shapes and sizes are drawn to him, much to the amusement of Faylin, the forest lynx (and Theo's "house cat"). But when Faylin suggests opening a cat café next to Arleta's bakery, Theo finds himself juggling more than feline antics.

Between his long-lost father reappearing, his mother's distaste for that fact, and the lingering grief of his brother's death, Theo's family drama surfaces at the most inconvenient time. With Arleta pregnant and facing her own fears, Theo must untangle his emotions and reconcile with his past--all while keeping his cat café (and family) from spiraling out of control.

Escape to Adenashire for a heartfelt, cozy fantasy filled with warm drinks, the healing power of love, friendship, and furry companions.

This thrilling sci-fi/fantasy series welcomes you to Japan, a top-ten destination for extraterrestrials looking for refuge, relaxation, a good time, or just to raise a little hell!

Join one unsuspecting Tokyoite as he discovers that intergalactic tourist relations can prove to be a lot more dangerous than they seem!

A wave of alien abductions is sweeping Tokyo, but this time it's Earthlings at risk of being kidnapped! Those responsible for the abductions are running a black market auction and selling Earthlings to the highest bidder. When AMO trainee Akira Gunji becomes one of their captives, his partner, Sho Tenkubashi, turns to the informants Yuen and Meimei for help. Unfortunately, rescuing Akira may come at a very steep price--Tenkubashi's life.

All the while, Akira is imprisoned and growing more anxious the longer he's at the aliens' mercy. The AMO higher-ups have long suspected that Akira's body is host to an alien, and the time may have finally come for it to emerge!

In the middle of the night, Daniel and his mother flee their burning home in Mississippi for a bus bound to Chicago. There they find brief peace and safety at his grandparents' house. But Daniel's mother cannot resist the siren call of a tumultuous relationship and soon abandons Daniel to go back to her abusive partner.

At thirteen, Daniel believes he's almost a man. So it's his responsibility to rescue his mother. When an ancient spirit attached to his family becomes interested in his quest, their partnership will both test and temper the love between family members and the lengths they're willing to go to save one another.

A gentle alien saloon owner. An artist searching for a softer life. And the love that neither of them ever dared to hope for...

Capitalism and chronic illness are not a good mix. When my debilitating migraines get me fired from my factory job, I'm desperate. For a change. A chance. The space to think, rest, and paint like I've always wanted. I've never managed to make money from my art or secure a patron. So this new mail-order bride program on Zabria Prinar One now feels like the best (and only) way to escape my imploding life.

I sign up as a participant even though marriage is the last thing on my mind.

But then I meet Rivven, the quiet, lonely alien saloon owner who takes care of me when yet another migraine strikes. He's sweet, strong, and generous beyond belief - offering me his bed to sleep in and his best bucket to barf in.

There are other men, too. Xennet and Dorn. Record snowfall has delayed their arrival at the saloon, but they should be here within a week.

In just a few days, I'll have to choose which alien cowboy I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. I need to give each of them a fair chance.

Even though I think I might already be smitten by one...

The unbelievable insider stories of how they 'got the shot'!

Cinematic Immunity tells the story of New York City's movie industry from the crew members who created the sets, lit the scenes, and shot the film. Focused on the golden age (1950-1990) of New York filmmaking, Cinematic Immunity covers On the Waterfront through The Sopranos.

The East Coast film industry, thousands of miles from the Los Angeles executives, existed by its own rules and with little oversight. It was a close-knit and freewheeling community of movie technicians that took on the most outrageous challenges to get every shot perfect. Behind-the-scenes documentaries and books feature "above the line" talent--actors, producers, directors, and writers. For the first time, readers will hear the unvarnished truth of the New York movie industry--tales about union politics, labor strikes, movie families, dangerous locations, difficult shots, volatile directors, anecdotes about actors, pranks, friendships, rivalries, generational shifts, substance use and abuse, technical feats, and more.

Readers will hear never heard before stories about classic (and not so classic) films and television shows including: Midnight Cowboy, The Warriors, The French Connection, The Exorcist, The Godfather, The Wiz, The Taking of Pelham 123, Annie Hall, Cruising, Do The Right Thing, When Harry Met Sally, Home Alone 2, The Sopranos, and Law and Order.

Expect to discover secrets about how your favorite scenes were shot and the outrageous characters with outsized talents whose personalities sometimes dwarfed actors and directors. Tales of their exploits, what they saw (and did) on these sets was previously only passed among themselves as showbiz lore but now, readers learn of Marlon Brando's pranks on the set of The Godfather, how crews kept William Friedkin from killing them, the actors, and himself, and how consummate New Yorker Sidney Lumet was the angel to Friedkin's demons.

Author Michael Lee Nirenberg has worked as a scenic artist in New York since 2006, and in many cases, alongside many of the people featured in the book. This book is a labor of love comprised of over 150 interviews and hundreds of hours of recordings. Cinematic Immunity includes hundreds of behind-the-scenes images from studio archives and from the technicians who were there.

"Cinematic Immunity chronicles the wild behind
the scenes tales from the legendary films made in dirty old New York... but told
from an entirely new perspective. Not the usual stars, directors and
publicists but from the people who did all the work and can actually tell the
truth - the below the line crews who know where all the bodies are
buried! Fascinating, funny and impossible to put down." -- Larry
Karaszewski, Academy Award winning screenwriter, Ed Wood, Dolemite,
Big Eyes.
"Michael Nirenberg's writing about film is as funny, incisive, gritty, and thrilling as the films whose lore he is diving into. He knows where to get the real scoop, the stories too good to be true, and gives them to us with all the wit, wisdom, and insanity we could hope for." Lena Dunham
"Cinematic Immunity addresses filmmaking and all the
resulting lore borne out of it in a book that flips our perception of who
cinema's true "insiders" actually are. Excavating a secret history of the last
50 years in movies via interviews with the crews that made them, Nirenberg
presents a book that is riotously fun, full of gossip, and worthy of any
world-class cinema studies program." Alissa Bennett, Writer and Director of the Gladstone
Gallery

"They tell some great stories. The appearance of
light-weight Arriflex cameras having made location shooting
possible, these NY crews were thrown into diabolically dirty and dangerous
and polluted locations where no film was ever shot before... A film could
not be shot that way today. It shouldn't. And yet Pelham 123 remains a
very good film." -- Alex Cox, director, Repo Man, Dead Souls, Walker, and
actor, An Unknown Enemy.
"In amassing these superb, often eye-popping accounts of the
Golden Age of New York film, Michael Nirenberg has dug deep under the skin of a
scene that was as gritty, inventive and character-filled as the city itself.
Cinematic Immunity contains some rollicking stories - camera crews on the
tracks dodging subway trains, Albert Finney betting on camel racing, a wild car
ride with James Gandolfini - but the shared thread is a burning passion for the
craft of filmmaking, even if the realities of this work were rarely as
glamorous as the end product seen on screen." -- Oliver Milman, Staff writer, The
Guardian "This book is a dream! Nirenberg gives us the real, juicy,
behind-the-scenes lore from all the best movies that New York City gave birth
to in the second half of the twentieth century, straight from the mouths
of the people who actually made them happen. Fantastic." -- Naomi Fry, Staff writer, The New Yorker
"Michael Nirenberg dresses like a drug dealer - trenchcoat,
sunglasses indoors - and his Cinematic Immunity is pure, uncut dope for
cinephiles, full of real drugs and fake blood. It's equally entertaining
documenting established classics (The Exorcist, Do The Right Thing)
and forgotten curios (Izzy & Moe). Reading it made me want to make a
movie, score some drugs, and buy a time machine." -- Matthew Danger Lippman,
musician and actor.
"Michael Lee Nirenberg makes art from the everyday. Expanding
his decades of years and deep well of connections, he's assembled the definitive
history of New York films and those who make them, which are also--of course--one
and the same. Cinematic Immunity will help anyone who's never
stepped on a set just how much work goes into the dream factory, all told with
the blunt talk only offered by those who trust you'll keep a lid on it."

-- Nick Newman, Managing Editor, The Film Stage, Star
and Co-Creator of Fellas.
"From the harrowing to the heartwarming, Michael
Nirenberg's Cinematic Immunity is more than a simple film history book.
This book is about human connection and the amount of blood, sweat, tears, and
toil it takes to bring a work of multimedia art to life. It's easy to focus on
the directors and stars, but when it comes to cinema, no one can afford to be
an island. Whether you're a cinephile or simply a lover of non-fiction
storytelling, Cinematic Immunity is vital reading." -- Heather Drain, Cultural Archeologist and writer.

Make every shot count

After dealing with gangsters, terrorists, and crooked cops, Erin O'Reilly isn't too worried about her latest enemy. Would-be mobster Richard O'Malley is doing his best to fill his dad's shoes, but he'll never be anything but a small-caliber hoodlum. However, even a tiny bullet can be lethal, and Erin knows Richie wants to kill her, so she's keeping a close eye on him.

But the surveillance goes horribly wrong. An assassin guns down Richie's family in broad daylight with a gun belonging to Erin. Multiple witnesses identify Erin as the killer. Instead of investigating the crime, she is now the prime suspect.

Suspended from duty, stripped of her authority, Erin knows she's the target of a sadistic scheme. As she and her faithful K-9 Rolf scramble behind the scenes to disarm their mysterious enemy, she must fight not only killers but the NYPD itself. Revenge and loyalty collide in a final showdown pitting an unlikely alliance of rogue cops and reformed criminals against a brilliant and deadly opponent.

A powerful shadow warrior ventures deep into darkness to save his home in this action-packed progression fantasy from the author of the Pilgrim series.

Attica was born to slay monsters. As a Vanguard of the Shadowborn, he grew up hunting the radiant horrors--terrifying light beasts known as Flashwraiths--that stalk the Spiralrealm. Armed with a living Shade, he prowled the gloom between tiers, culling the unnatural to protect his people.

But when the settlement falls to a devastating Flashwraith assault, Attica is cast into the abyss he once defended against. His sole opportunity for redemption is via a doomed mission. He must retrieve the shattered Crown of Shadows and destroy the prophesied Child of Light.

Meanwhile, the Spiralrealm is unraveling. Power is shifting. And the only path forward is through monsters, madmen, and something far worse: the truth.

Dark Souls and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 meets The Last of Us in the first volume of Shadowborn Exile, a gripping LitRPG series set in a world of twisted beasts, primordial forces, and brutal choices.

From the novelist hailed as one of Britain's best working authors (TLS) comes an end of life reckoning with a toxic mother-daughter bond, grief, and the damage done throughout the years.

Helen Grant is a mystery to her two daughters. Growing up, Bridget and her older sister Michelle were kept at a distance by their mom's caginess and flair for the dramatic. Meanwhile, their Saturdays were spent with their father, a serial liar whose boasts and bluster were exhausting.

Now Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees her mother once a year for a shared birthday dinner, they text occasionally about Mad Men and Ferrante to feign a shared interest, and they have settled into a strained peace. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems Bridget's childhood struggle will have to be replayed. And as it becomes clear that her mother's life might end sooner than she thinks, Bridget struggles to know what forgiveness entails, and whether it's possible to find meaning in a vanishing past and a relationship that never was.