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‘Christ! You guys look like a couple of Feds.’ 1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J. J. Wedick and Jack Brennan, two fresh-faced FBI agents, were about to go undercover. Their target: the charismatic, globe-trotting con man Phil Kitzer, who was responsible for swindling (and spending) millions of...

The working-class painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast. Nearing sixty and with modest means, he has retreated to a small island. The island seems to be a closed, cold place. As the seasons turn, Terry comes to see that he is...

Sixteen-year-old Odile Ozanne is an awkward, quiet girl, but everyone knows she's destined to land a coveted seat on the Conseil. In her apprenticeship, she competes to become one of the judges to decide who amongst the town's residents may travel across the border. If she earns the position...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of “our funniest writers alive” (Allison Pearson): a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything—including her own children. Her...

Waldo, a onetime LAPD superstar, now lives in solitude deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than one hundred possessions. He has left behind his career and his girlfriend, Lorena, to pay self-imposed penance for an awful misstep on an old murder case. But the old ghosts...

A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting 1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their...

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed...

Before writing the Conan stories, Robert E. Howard wrote an alternate history of the world that included the origins of the various races and countries that formed the background of his most famous heroic character. This history shows where the Cimmerians originated and the tribes they fought to establish their kingdom. How did the backward skin-wearing Picts overrun an empire? The answers are here. Fans of the Conan stories will enjoy this grand view of the history of the Hyborian Age.

Before AA… Before The Twelve Steps… Soul Surgery defined personal work, was the foundation of sponsorship and step work, and bridged the Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous. The practical evangelical method covers: - Confidence, gained through trust and discretion - Confession of moral...

Defense attorney Audra Reynolds left her small hometown years ago to escape being defined as "the fire chief's daughter." Now she's back to defend a local businessman accused of arson. A case that puts her directly at odds with Maliek Coleman, her father's protégé and the fire department's lead investigator. As they reluctantly work together to uncover the truth, professional boundaries blur and old sparks reignite. But in a town where everyone has secrets, Audra and Maliek discover that the most dangerous flames aren't the ones that destroy buildings.

In this groundbreaking work, renowned media executive Howard Blumenthal (Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?) and leading education researcher Robert C. Pianta challenge everything we think we know about schooling. Drawing from interviews with students across more than seventy countries, along with parents, teachers, and learning experts, Kids on Earth presents a revolutionary "New School" framework that moves beyond traditional educational reform to complete reinvention.

As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects, Howard A. Husock explains how we got here, detailing the tragic rise and fall of public housing and the pitfalls of other subsidy programs. He takes us inside a progressive movement led by a group of New York City philanthropists, politicians, and business magnates who first championed public housing as a solution to urban blight.

An unusual love story, but it happened. An undercover Angel meets the figure of Death and they are drawn to each other. Then, an alien hacker finds a weak link into Life's Database and enters to change some dates of death. This gets the Boatman in trouble. When the Devil discovers the hackers abilities, makes plans of his own. Now, both the Boatman and the Hacker are on the run. Finding Angel at a crucial time is a stroke of luck... or is it? Follow the Angel and the Boatman to an unnatural conclusion. Even in the face of death, anything can happen!

Por que as grandes mudanças da vida costumam vir acompanhadas de crise e confusão? Em Os Deuses da Mudança, o renomado astrólogo e psicólogo Howard Sasportas explica como os trânsitos de Urano, Netuno e Plutão agem como forças de transformação profunda, impulsionando crescimento e renovação.

Instinct: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Previously published asMurder Games Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally--he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book...

Art galleries and casinos, mansions and brothels, billionaires and thieves—only the world’s #1 bestselling author, James Patterson, could create a triple-cross this decadent and suspenseful. Imagine everyone’s surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart’s Abnormal...

Forty years of feminism and still women do the majority of the housework. Why? In fact, while women are making slow but steady gains on gender disparities in the workplace, at home the gap is widening - in the UK, the average heterosexual British woman puts in 12 more days of household labour...

Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul . . . He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of...

Cecilia Murray has been wishing for a dog for as long as she can remember. And when a cute pug named Potato is brought in to Orphan Paws, the shelter where she volunteers, she knows he is the dog she's been waiting for. There's just one problem: Eric Chung - a popular, arrogant boy from school - adopts Potato first. What's worse, he hopes to train the little tater to become a show-dog superstar.  

An alien computer whiz hacks into Life's Database and changes history getting the Boatman (a figure of Death) in trouble with Celestial Management. Soon he and the Boatman are on the run from the Devil's goons when an Angel working undercover discovers their dilemma. Follow the Angel and the Boatman in this exciting thriller based on metaphysical truths. Even in the face of death, anything can happen! One thing for sure: You've never heard anything like it.