"When I'm faced with a Pilkey fan looking to branch out, this graphic novel is the first book I reach for... If eight books aren't enough, the spinoff series, Agents of S.U.I.T., continues the fun." ―The New York TimesWith more than four million copies in print, #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Patrick Green's goofy graphic novel series is a colossal comics hit! Join super spy alligator duo MANGO and BRAS...

"When I'm faced with a Pilkey fan looking to branch out, this graphic novel is the first book I reach for... If eight books aren't enough, the spinoff series, Agents of S.U.I.T., continues the fun." ―The New York TimesWith more than four million copies in print, #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Patrick Green's goofy graphic novel series is a colossal comics hit! Join super spy alligator duo MANGO and BRAS...

Detective Cadillac Holland is handed a case no one dares to talk about — a child found buried in a landfill, inconveniently missing from Hurricane Katrina's official death toll. With the parents missing and every witness carrying their own storm-related trauma, Holland must navigate a city still fighting to rebuild itself to piece together a tragedy no one is prepared to face. As the investigation drags him deeper into the wreckage of other people's trauma, it threatens to crack open his o...

1750 England: a prejudice, slaveowner's daughter, Henrietta (Etta) Murray, has a displeasing friendship with his property, Sophie.Six-year-old Etta is an adolescent when a family friend's abuse of a female slave is understood as sinful. Etta is the first woman to study psychiatry, joins a women's coalition to help educate slaves, the mentally disturbed, and women's inequality. Yet, a blasphemous relationship with...

Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain.Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed 69 Exhibition Road. In this new volume, focusing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her days as a ball room dancing tutor in South Kensington, drumming and touring with infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV, exploring London and New York City...

A long overdue reckoningWith one critical eye on criminology's problematic past and a second hopeful eye on a better future, Anti-Racist Criminology offers a clear vision for how criminologists can transform their work while resisting the racist logics that have informed harmful policies and practices in the criminal legal system.Drawing a historical line from the eugenicist ideas of Cesare Lombroso and other foundational theorists to contemporary ...

Get better outcomes from every negotiation.If you read nothing else on negotiation, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you prepare for high-stakes conversations, achieve win-win results, and secure favorable deals.This book will inspire you to:Control the negotiation before it beginsNegotiate with confidence for a bigger role, a more impressive ...

The hitman hero of the acclaimed Cinemax series comes out of retirement for another nail-biting suspense thriller from the New York Times best-seller, MWA Grandmaster and award-winning author of Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins.YOU'RE CORDIALLY INVITED TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF MURDER…Since his first appearance in 1976, Max Allan Collins' quintessential killer-for-hire, Quarry, has starred in 17 novels, two films, a graphic novel, and a Cinemax TV series...

Not far from Bristol, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present.It belongs to families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here, such as the boy Lanny, and his mum and dad.But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to ...

You've felt it...That sick moment when you realize you need cash and everything you own is locked in an asset you refuse to sell...but you sell anyway, and at the worst possible time. You pay taxes on gains you weren't ready to realize, you watch the market recover without you and you swear you'll never let it happen again....BUT WILL YOU? Because life doesn't care about your conviction. Tax bills come due, other opportunities come across your desk and emergencies don't wait for bu...

‘THE helicopter book on Vietnam’ — Mike CarltonThe Mekong Delta was one of the most dangerous and fiercely contested theatres of the Vietnam War. Into this volatile arena came a small group of Australian Navy aviators, embedded with the US Army’s 135th Assault Helicopter Company.Operating as an experimental unit known as the EMUs, these Australians flew combat missions at the sharp end of the war, commanding American helicopter crews into heavily defended l...

In the final years of Soviet rule, a single decision-to leave-reshapes the fate of an entire family. Emigrants follows their journey through the labyrinth of OVIR, where every form, every delay, and every interrogation threatens to extinguish hope. Yet within this oppressive system, small acts of courage and loyalty illuminate the path forward. As they prepare to cross borders both visible and invisible, the family confronts the weight of memory, the ...