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Lightlark
Alex Aster
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Boy Parts
Eliza Clark • 2020
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid • 2022
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong • 2019
Bunny A Novel
Mona Awad • 2020
<b><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER <br><br>Soon to be a major motion picture<br><br>"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter<br><br>"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." <i>—</i>Michael Schaub, <i>Los Angeles Times </i></b><i><br><br></i>"Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, <i>The Washington Post</i><br><i><br>The Vegetarian </i>meets <i>Heathers</i> in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of <i>13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl </i>and <i>Rouge</i></b><br><br><i>"We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?"</i><br><br>Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. <br><br>But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. <br><br>The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, <i>Bunny </i>is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.<br><br><br><b>Named a Best Book of 2019 by <i>TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature</i>, and The New York Public Library</b>
A Dowry of Blood
S. T. Gibson • 2021
The Dare
Harley Laroux • 2021
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx • 2020
Normal People
Sally Rooney • 2019
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan • 2021
Kingdom of Ash
Sarah J. Maas • 2023
Lightlark
Alex Aster • 2022
Kingdom of the Cursed
Kerri Maniscalco • 2021
<p><b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes the sizzling, sweepingly romantic sequel to <i>Kingdom of the Wicked.</i></b><br><br><b><i>One sister.<br> Two sinful princes.<br> Infinite deception with a side of revenge . . . Welcome to Hell.</i></b><br><br> After selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath, where she's introduced to a seductive world of vice.<br><br> She vows to do whatever it takes to avenge her beloved sister, Vittoria . . . even if that means accepting the hand of the Prince of Pride, the king of demons.<br><br> The first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. With back-stabbing princes, luxurious palaces, mysterious party invitations, and conflicting clues about who <i>really</i> killed her twin, Emilia finds herself more alone than ever before. Can she even trust Wrath, her one-time ally in the mortal world . . . or is he keeping dangerous secrets about his true nature? <br><br> Emilia will be tested in every way as she seeks a series of magical objects that will unlock the clues of her past and the answers she craves . . . </p>
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross • 2023
The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King
Carissa Broadbent • 2023
Prison Healer (Band 3) - Die Schattenerbin
Lynette Noni • 2023
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco • 2016
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 1)
Sarah J. Maas • 2020
<p><b>The sexy, action-packed first book in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series from </b><b>global phenomenon</b><b> Sarah J. Maas.</b><br><br>When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. <br><br>At least, he's not a beast all the time. <br><br>As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever.<br><br>From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.</p>
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab • 2023
Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas • 2018
From New York Times Bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new forbidden love story...JORDANHe took me in when I had nowhere else to go.He doesn't use me, hurt me, or forget about me. He doesn't treat me like I'm nothing, take me for granted, or make me feel unsafe. He remembers me, laughs with me, and looks at me. He listens to me, protects me, and sees me. I can feel his eyes on me over the breakfast table, and my heart pumps so hard when I hear him pull in the driveway after work. I have to stop this. It can't happen. My sister once told me there are no good men, and if you find one, he's probably unavailable. Only Pike Lawson isn't the unavailable one. I am. PIKEI took her in, because I thought I was helping.She'd cook a few meals and clean up a little. It was an easy arrangement. As the days go by, though, it's becoming anything but easy. I have to stop my mind from drifting to her and stop holding my breath every time I bump into her in the house. I can't touch her, and I shouldn't want to. The more I find my path crossing hers, though, the more she's becoming a part of me. But we're not free to give into this. She's nineteen, and I'm thirty-eight. And her boyfriend's father. Unfortunately, they both just moved into my house. *BIRTHDAY GIRL is a stand-alone, contemporary romance suitable for ages 18+.
Alchemised
TBA. 343760 • 2025
Darkest Minds, The (The Darkest Minds series Book 1)
Alexandra Bracken · 2012
This Idea Is Brilliant
John Brockman • 2018
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers • 2021
I Hate Men
Pauline Harmange • 2022
The Virgin Suicides A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
Jeffrey Eugenides • 2018
Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung • 2021
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig • 2021
Ugly Love A Novel
Colleen Hoover • 2014
Verity
Colleen Hoover • 2021
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover • 2016
The Shadows Between Us
Tricia Levenseller • 2020
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 2022
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid • 2016
All The Young Dudes
Ms King Bean 89 • 2022
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Eric LaRocca • 2021
Conversations with Friends A Novel
Sally Rooney • 2018
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2018
Destroy Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2022
Unravel Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2013
Fracture Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2013
Ignite Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2014
Restore Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2018
Shadow Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2019
Defy Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2019
Reveal Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2019
Believe Me
Tahereh Mafi • 2021
Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo • 2018
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo • 2015
Punk 57
Penelope Douglas • 2016
From New York Times Bestselling Author, Penelope Douglas, comes the latest standalone love-hate romance..."We were perfect together. Until we met." MishaI can't help but smile at the lyrics in her letter. She misses me.In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed.It didn't take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever...And that was the start. For the next seven years, it was us.Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Sometimes there's one a week or three in a day, but I need them. She's the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am.We only had three rules. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. We had a good thing going. Why ruin it?Until I run across a photo of a girl online. Name's Ryen, loves Gallo's pizza, and worships her iPhone. What are the chances?F*ck it. I need to meet her.I just don't expect to hate what I find.RyenHe hasn't written in three months. Something's wrong. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha, neither would be a stretch.Without him around, I'm going crazy. I need to know someone is listening. It's my own fault. I should've gotten his phone number or picture or something.He could be gone forever.Or right under my nose, and I wouldn't even know it.*Punk 57 is a stand alone New Adult romance. It is suitable for ages 18+.
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 3)
Sarah J. Maas • 2020
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, 2)
Sarah J. Maas • 2020
Credence
Penelope Douglas • 2020
From New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Douglas, comes a new standalone!Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue...Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The shadow of her parents' fame followed her everywhere. And when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But has anything really changed? She's always been alone, hasn't she?Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of eighteen. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them. And as a part of them. She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. One of them has her. The other one wants her. But he...He's going to keep her.*Credence is a full length, stand-alone romance suitable for readers 18+.
Prison Healer (Band 2) - Die Schattenrebellin
Lynette Noni • 2022
Prison Healer (Band 1) - Die Schattenheilerin
Lynette Noni • 2022
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent • 2022
"Human or vampire, the rules of survival are the same: never trust; never yield. And always-- always-- guard your heart. As the adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself. But winning won't be easy against the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival. Everything about Raihn is dangerous. He is a ruthless vampire, an efficient killer, an enemy to her father's crown... and Oraya's greatest competition. Yet, what terrifies Oraya most of all is that she finds herself oddly drawn to him. But there's no room for compassion in the Kejari. War for the throne of House of Night brews, shattering everything that Oraya thought she knew about her home. And Raihn may understand her more than anyone -- but their blossoming attraction could be her downfall, in a kingdom where nothing is more deadly than love" --
Ruin and Rising
Leigh Bardugo • 2015
Siege and Storm
Leigh Bardugo • 2014
Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo • 2012
Icebreaker
Hannah Grace • 2022
Hunting Adeline
H. D. Carlton • 2022
Haunting Adeline
H. D. Carlton • 2021
"The Manipulator. I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. The Shadow. I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that I have, I can't stay away. I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves. The way she undresses... I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine. And once she is, I'll never let her go. Not even when she begs me to." --
Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco • 2020
<b>A James Patterson Presents Novel</b> <b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> and <i>USA Today </i>bestselling author of the <i>Stalking Jack the Ripper </i>series comes a new blockbuster series.</b> <b>Two sisters.</b><b>One brutal murder.</b> <b>A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself...</b> <b>And an intoxicating romance.</b> Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are <i>streghe</i> -- witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia's side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women's murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems...
Crescent City - Wenn ein Stern erstrahlt
Sarah J. Maas • 2022
Crescent City - Wenn das Dunkel erwacht
Sarah J. Maas • 2021
Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout • 2020
Nightbane
Alex Aster • 2023
The seductive and action-packed follow-up to Alex Aster’s instant #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and internationally bestselling novel, Lightlark<br/><br/>Isla Crown has secured the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that plagued the six realms for centuries, but few know the true origins of her powers.<br/><br/>Now, in the wake of a crushing betrayal, Isla finds herself hungry for distraction, preferring to frequent Lightlark’s seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. Worse, her fellow rulers haven’t ceded victory quietly, and there are others in Isla’s midst who don’t believe her ascent to power was earned.<br/><br/>As certain death races toward Lightlark and secrets from the past begin to unravel, Isla must weigh her responsibility to her people against the whims of the most dangerous traitor of all: her heart.<br/><br/>Alex Aster’s intricate world expands after the riveting culmination of the Centennial games, delving more deeply into Isla’s memories of her past, as her future hurtles toward two possible fates.
A Curse for True Love
Stephanie Garber • 2023
The Ballad of Never After
Stephanie Garber • 2022
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber • 2023
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros • 2023
<p><b>A #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller • TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society • Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 • NPR “Books We Love” 2023 • Audible Best Books of 2023 • Hudson Book of the Year • Google Play Best Books of 2023 • Indigo Best Books of 2023 • Waterstones Book of the Year finalist • Goodreads Choice Award Winner • Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Books of 2023 • Paste Magazine's Best Books of 2023</b><br><br><i>"Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy."</i> —<i><b>Booklist</b></i><b>, starred review</b><br><br><i>"</i>Fourth Wing<i> will have your heart pounding from beginning to end... A fantasy like you've never read before."</i> <b>―#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout</b><br><br><br><b>Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Rebecca Yarros</b><br><br>Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: <i>dragon riders</i>.<br><br>But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.<br><br>With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.<br><br>She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.<br><br>Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.<br><br>Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: <i>graduate or die</i>.<br><br>The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order.<br>Reading Order:<br>Book #1 Fourth Wing<br>Book #2 Iron Flame<br>Book #3 Onyx Storm</p>
Golden Son
Pierce Brown • 2015
Red Rising
Pierce Brown • 2014
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake • 2020
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller • 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab • 2020
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang • 2018
Tower of Dawn
Sarah J. Maas • 2023
Empire of Storms
Sarah J. Maas • 2023
Queen of Shadows
Sarah J. Maas • 2023
Heir of Fire
Sarah J. Maas • 2023
Crown of Midnight
Sarah J. Maas • 2023
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas • 2023
The Assassin's Blade
Sarah J. Maas • 2014
To Read
The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 1992
Reading
Morning Star
Pierce Brown • 2016
