The cofounder of BET and first African-American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph - an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self and at last finding happiness in her work and life.
TikTok has taken over the world in just a few short years. What does its success mean for the future of technology? Journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker tells the inside story of the Chinese app, with unprecedented access to key company figures.
From the New York Times bestselling author of <i>An Enchantment of Ravens</i> comes an "enthralling adventure" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.
<b>It is not necessary to believe in ghosts to appreciate a good ghost story. We all believe in death. </b>AUDREY NIFFENEGGER<br><br>In 1928, Eric and Mabel Smith arrived from India to take over the lonely parish of Borley on the northern border of Essex. When they moved into Borley Rectory, Mrs Smith made a gruesome discovery in a cupboard: a human skull. Soon the house was electric with ghosts. Within three months, the Smiths had abandoned it and the Rectory became notorious as the 'most haunted house in England'.<br><br>Some months later, Reverend Lionel Foyster moved into the Rectory to find a further explosion of poltergeist activity with an increasing violence directed at his attractive young wife. Marianne Foyster was a passionate and sensuous woman isolated in a village haunted by ancient superstition and deep-rooted prejudice. She would be accused not only of faking the ghosts but of adultery, bigamy - and even murder.<br><br> The haunting, sensationally reported in the tabloid press, gripped the nation. It was then investigated by Harry Price, a self-made 'psychic detective'. With the instincts of a journalist rather than a scientist, Borley was the case that would make Price's name as the most celebrated ghost-hunter of the age. He recorded the evidence of two hundred witnesses to over two thousand supernatural incidents. This surely confirmed that not only did ghosts exist but, finally, here was proof of life after death. With the pace and tension of a thriller and the uncanny chills of a classic English ghost story, Sean O'Connor vividly brings the story of Borley Rectory to life as an allegory for an age fraught with anxiety, haunted by the shadow of the Great War and terrified of the apocalypse to come.
<b>From #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the high-flying sequel to his groundbreaking young adult novel <i>Miles Morales: Spider-Man</i> about the adventures of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man.</b><br>
<b>The first in a villainously funny, highly illustrated young middle-grade series from author-illustrator Ryan Hammond. </b><b>For fans of <i>Amelia Fang</i>, <i>Dog Man</i> and <i>Grimwood</i>.</b>
President of the Rockefeller Foundation Raj Shah's playbook for identifying the roots of any problem and creating transformative change, inspired by his decades of service tackling some of the world's biggest problems at the Gates Foundation, as Obama's administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and more.
<b>When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things-your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key.<br> <br>It is time to find the way back home.</b>
<b><b>From Jeannette Walls, the<i> </i>bestselling author of <i>The Glass Castle</i>, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia</b></b>
