This book explains how mortgages work. It has been researched and written exclusively for home buyers and young couples starting out in life. This book enables the reader to make an informed decision about a lifetime of serious debt. So for anyone taking out a new mortgage, reading this ebook really is a matter of life and debt. There are thousands of such books already out there on this subject, but none are “easy read” ebooks that that be read and understood in less than an hour. This li...

A young reporter has some sharp lessons to learn when he gets sent to cover a tree that might make wishes come true.Hope, race, love and redemption play out amid a media circus in this laugh-out-loud comedy of ill manners.

Urban Agriculture is packed with ideas and designs for anyone interested in joining the new food revolution. First-time farmers and green thumbs alike will find advice on growing healthy, delicious, affordable food in urban settings. From condo balconies to community orchards, cities are coming alive with crops. Get growing!

A hard-boiled Buddhist thriller about love, loss and revolution. A fading sportswriter sent to Sri Lanka to cover an international soccer tournament gets derailed by a live rebellion that threatens to turn personal.

A unique response to the fraud frenzy we live in!The Fraud Prevention (FP)101 Handbook is a thoughtful and easy to read book enabling consumers to protect themselves from fraud. This first of its’ kind handbook is a creative combination of great explanatory writing and graphics that will create fraud awareness in the user. It’s especially written for people who do not have any financial training or background. That is actually the vast majority of people. The Fleisch-Kincaid reading level ...

A guide to greening cities -- with or without permissionThe term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to al...

It's a dangerous time for Daniel X in this heart-pounding novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author—and when he's cast in an evil director's TV show, he must fight to stay alive.Daniel X thought he'd seen it all in his dangerous days of hunting outlaws—but there's no business like show business, and Number Five on his list of deadly targets is the most appalling criminal yet. An intergalactic reality television producer has orchestrated the extermination of mill...

When a tsunami rages through their coastal home in India, sisters Ahalya and Sita are left orphaned and alone. Searching for protection in a devastated landscape, they are thrust into a seamy world of violence and underground commerce.In Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke, facing his own personal and professional crisis, makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical in Mumbai, India, with a non-profit organization that prosecutes the region’s human traffickers.

In this action-packed continuation of the bestselling Daniel X series, the alien hunter takes on a deadly duo of vile videogamers from outer space!When Daniel X discovers that a duo of evil extraterrestrials is plotting to control kids around the world through videogames, he's determined to take them both out of commission. This pair of wicked game masters wants to destroy the human race by turning brainwashed videogamers into an unstoppable army of doom! They're a...

The delightful, amusing, and deeply mysterious second novel to feature Vish Puri, a man after Hercule Poirot's heart, in a series that has already won diehard fans on three continents.The bizarre murder of an Indian scientist in public by the goddess Kali is no laughing matter. Yet Dr. Suresh Jha, best known for unmasking fraudulent swamis and godmen, dies in a fit of giggles at his morning yoga class when the hideous deity appears from the mist and plunges a sword into his chest. ...

For Larison, a man off the grid and on the run, the Lost Coast seems like a perfect place to disappear for a while. But when three twisted locals decide Larison looks like an easy target, they unleash a vengeful and dangerous predator with a personal score to settle. By internationally bestselling author Barry Eisler, THE LOST COAST is a dark short story featuring rogue black-ops soldier Daniel Larison, last seen in Eisler's INSIDE OUT, which Op-Ed News called a "th...

Named Best Debut of the Year by Suspense Magazine and the winner of the Barry Award for Best Debut NovelIn this “sophisticated international thriller” (The New York Times Book Review), an American antiques-dealer-turned-reluctant-private-eye must use his knowledge of Japanese culture to unravel a major murder in San Francisco—before he and his daughter become targets themselves.San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Br...