Jay is thrust into a fight for survival as the virtual world of Apocalypta begins to leak into reality in this heart-pounding teen thriller from award-winning author SJ Wills.Apocalypta is the hardest game Jay has ever played, so when a cheat link pops up on his screen mid-battle he can’t resist downloading it. With the help of Life Hack, Jay races ahead of his friends to the final level. But when he spots an NPC acting strangely, an unse...

A missing shipment of weapons for China and the murder of an aspiring scientist kick-start a madcap dash through the world of seances, prizefighting, cutting-edge technology, Holmesian cameos, and many disguises.London, 1924. Judge Cheng Gao Shang has been sent by Sun Yat Sen’s government to look into the death of Dee Ren Jie, the larger-than-life investigator who had kept the local Chinese community safe. But Dee isn’t dead; he’s hiding out with his friends Lao Sh...

Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, draws tens of thousands of tourists annually. Many attempt to climb its nineteen thousand feet snow-covered peak, an arduous trek that can span several days. Like the climbers who scale Everest, they are aided by local porters, cooks, and guides. But unlike Everest’s Sherpas, who have been extensively documented and profiled, the Chagga people of the Kilimanjaro mountain crews remain nearly anonymous.The Chagga people, who were the first ...

Alex Rider for a new generation.When Zac and the other agents of Python infiltrate an exclusive birthday party on Italy's Amalfi Coast, they expect to be laying low and gathering intelligence. Instead, they find themselves wrapped up in a plot to murder the guest of honour.Stuck between two rival families, Zac, Jameela, Ted and Nikos must identify and stop the potential killer before midnight, or risk triggering an all-out gang war.But with danger c...

Explores the great diversity of Catholic people and musical styles in the early American Republic from the wilderness of Maine, through the bustling cities of Boston to Baltimore, among immigrants from France and Haiti, to the rolling hills of KentuckyAs the first comprehensive look at Early American Catholic musical culture, The Wilderness and Cities Raise Their Voices provides a broader perspective than earlier studies of specific hymn collections. It th...

The first collection of late philosopher William J. Richardson’s essays, underscoring his deep and expansive scholarly interests in continental philosophy, and containing his interpretation of key issues in phenomenology, the philosophy of religion, and psychoanalysis.Being, Desire, and God brings together the scholarly articles of William J. Richardson in one place for the first time. Richardson maintained a reputation as a foremost scholar of Heidegger’s...

There's nothing more exclusive than murder.Tommy Baxter arrives on an exclusive island in the Caribbean ready for a week of extreme luxury and unrivalled pleasures. He’s part of a very select, international group of teens whose close-knit families are the world’s most elite … and most powerful.Except he’s not really Tommy Baxter. He’s a con artist looking to uncover dirt on these glitterati so he can extort them for big money. But “Tommy” soon real...

Christine Lucas once woke every morning with no memory of the day before.Her name, her past, her family – all of it vanished overnight. Every morning, she had to piece together her life again, never knowing what to trust, never realising the danger was far closer than she could ever imagine.She survived. Just.Now, years later, Christine is living under an assumed name, in an isolated cottage where no one can find her. She tells herself she is safe. She tells herself...

**THE BEST THING HE NEVER WANTED***A Standalone MacFarland Ranch Novel**A heartwarming, later-in-life, grumpy-sunshine romance*Among the MacFarlands, Blane is the big, stone-faced one who guards everyone he loves from the corner of the room—and would sooner face down an enemy combatant than admit he has feelings.He's never wanted a wife, a cozy home, or anyone waiting up to ask why he's late.He likes...

Catching feelings six months before graduation is inconvenient. What's disastrous is choosing to act on them.Dean: I've always been a guy with a plan. Make it through college, get my degree, and move back home. Tutoring Nick Russell wasn't in the cards, and crushing on him definitely wasn't. But that sweet, smirking baseball player digs right under my skin, and I don't stand a chance at resisting him. All I want is to get my hands...

TEQUILA AND TULIPSThe Hamiltons, Book ThirteenElliott has always been the easygoing one.The charming pilot. The shameless flirt. The man with a grin, a wink, and exactly the right line for every situation.But after spending a year watching his father die, the smile doesn’t come quite as easily as it used to.Delaney makes a living helping people see what they’re worth. She takes struggling wineries, overlooked artists...

I need to stop crushing on the hot new guy. Asking him to move in with me is the last thing I should do.Ian: My main goal for sophomore year is to survive with my bruised heart intact. That looks a lot like avoiding anything that could hurt me, at least until Callum Cross shows up. He's so quiet, it's like he doesn't want people to notice him, but Callum is too tall, too built, and too damn good-looking to hide from anyone, especi...