Wendy Higgins, the author of the New York Times bestselling Sweet Evil series, reimagines a classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale with The Great Hunt, a dramatic, romance-filled fantasy with rugged hunters, romantic tension, and a princess willing to risk all to save her kingdom.When a monstrous beast a[...]
Now available in paperback from Wendy Higgins, author of the Sweet Evil series, the New York Times bestselling The Great Hunt reimagines the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Singing Bone" in a dramatic, romance-filled fantasy with rugged hunters, romantic tension, and a princess willing to risk all to[...]
A young man's moving story of war, friendship, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West.Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen, to a pair of middle[...]
In 1966, a group of respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. Aerospace and defence journalist Nick Cook considers the possibility that America did indeed crack the gravity code, examining German weapons technology along the way.[...]
Bob "the Nailer" Swagger finds himself back in a warzone situation 25 years after the end of the Vietnam War, but this time the confrontation is in the remote mountains of Idaho. The Russian sniper with whom he duelled in the jungle has tracked him down. But why? Is it revenge or something more?[...]
A-Haunting We Will Go! After a schoolboy's suicide, the team at Shibuya Psychic Research must unravel mysteries at a local high school. As fires break out in an empty office and a stinky smell sickens an entire classroom, the ghost hunters' job will take both courage and a strong stomach. The team a[...]
For mechanical and chemical engineers working for engineering construction as well as process manufacturing companies with responsibility for plant layout, piping, and construction; and for engineering students. Based on the authors' collective 65 years of experience in the engineering construction[...]
An introduction to the field of Pharmacology, applied to Nursing and Health, this text guides you through how drugs act within the body coupled with their clinical application. It covers social, legal and professional issues alongside the scientific principles of pharmacology. It considers drug grou[...]
The #1 Step-by-Step Guide to Search Marketing Success...Now Completely Updated with New Techniques, Tools, Best Practices, and Value-Packed Bonus DVD! "My copy of the first edition of Search Engine Marketing, Inc. is ratty and dog-eared from extensive use. It's full of coffee stains and my own scrib[...]
"The definitive master class in performance tuning Java applications!if you love all the gory details, this is the book for you." --James Gosling, creator of the Java Programming Language
Improvements in the Java platform and new multicore/multiprocessor hardware have made it possible t[...]
Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of[...]
This story is all about a very clever white bear and his magic pencil. Everything Bear draws becomes real! He draws a circle and it becomes a hole through which he can escape. He even draws a rope that he can swing on. And when two bear hunters are after him, his magic pencil comes in very handy![...]
Can Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny and Lily Bobtail find Jemima's egg before Mr Tod or sneaky Samuel Whiskers have it on toast for tea?With beautiful spring-time scenes from the number-one-rated animation, this fun and fresh story is simply told for very young children. Featuring favourite characters [...]
Moomin and the Great Treasure Hunt is an exciting and extraordinary pop-up adventure story. When Moomintroll finds a mysterious map in the attic of the Moominhouse, he and his friends follow it on a treasure hunt which takes them to the furthest corners of Moominvalley, and beyond...Told with glorio[...]
A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an intense, up[...]
"A modern voyage of discovery." --Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of "The Lightness of Being "
The Higgs boson is one of our era's most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, "The God Particle," was a bestseller.[...]
A moving debut novel about a foster child learning to open her heart to a family's love
Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carl[...]
Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This authoritative volume of "My Inventions" includes three additional articles by Tesla which were published i[...]
The sixteenth Sicilian mystery in the irresistible "New York Times"-bestselling Inspector Montalbano series
In "Treasure Hunt," Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building--gun in hand--to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly after, the inspector begins t[...]
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom--and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine We[...]
In recent years, several of America's leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at t[...]
The brand new Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary is an easy home and school reference tool. It supports the teaching of reading and spelling through synthetic phonics. Supported by the Floppy's Phonics Sounds and Letters Programme, it follows the Alphabetic Code Chart showing the sounds and alternat[...]