**“Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.” —Financial Times“The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won’t soon shake.”—Chicago Review of BooksFrom a provocative literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past**We meet our ill-tempered protagonist—the titular “brat”—at ...

**“Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.” —Financial Times“The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won’t soon shake.”—Chicago Review of BooksFrom a provocative literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel grappling with grief, inheritance, and the ghosts of his past**We meet our ill-tempered protagonist—the titular “brat”—at ...

This book, with its colorful plumage, tells of the uniqueness of the individual and aims to bring new, brilliant ideas into your life. It describes the origin, arrival, and growth of humans in a world they do not understand. It attempts to explain the causes of human misery and its entanglements in everyday life. It seeks to make it understandable why longed-for peace gives way to chaos and desired happiness is supplanted by misfortune. This book, with its content, has the potential to ope...

Learn how to write grants that win funding fast!The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and phila...

Hugo has one goal - to conquer the Impossible Thing.At the edge of the forest stood the Impossible Thing. All the animals in the forest often wondered what was beyond the Impossible Thing, but since everyone said getting through it would be impossible, no animal ever tried.Until a brave little dog named Hugo decides he just might be up to the challenge. With determination and some unexpected help from his friends, Hugo learns that what may seem impossible m...

Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher General of the city. Molina was an outstanding Quechua speaker, and his advanced language skills allowed him to interview the older indigenous men of Cuzco who were among the last surviving eyewit...

The honest, entertaining and brilliantly relatable Sunday Times bestseller.Kate Lawler has never been maternal. And yet here she is: mother to Noa, after years of going back and forth about having children at all. This is the story of her journey from parentally undecided to early motherhood, via raging hormones, sleepless nights, emergency hospital trips, mum guilt, unspoken regrets and post-natal depression.This book is not a parenting manual. It...

The 50 most important structures and systems in the human body, each explained in half a minute. The bestselling 30-Second series offers a new approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Every title takes a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, is explained using a mere two pages, 300 words, and one picture: all easily digested in only half a minute. 30-Second Anatomy of...

In the corporate world, the ability to craft proposals that are so compelling that prospects feel compelled to say yes may frequently be the difference between success and failure. The most comprehensive manual for learning this skill is "Unlocking the Secrets to Unmatched Business Success.". This book, written by a business expert who took their company from failing to making over $150 million, offers insider tactics and potent techniques that will completely change the way you approach s...

In "The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G.C.B," the author presents a vivid and engaging account of his military career and personal experiences during the British colonial period. Smith's narrative is characterized by its candid reflections, striking anecdotes, and a tone that oscillates between earnestness and the bravado typical of the Victorian military memoir. Rich with historical context, he details key events from the First Anglo...

**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERDetective Elise King investigates a man’s disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other in this suspenseful new novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Widow.**Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing—the week...

Before the fall of 1999, Siobhan, Carmen and Tremaine didn't know the first thing about being or having real friends. Between dysfunctional home lives, daily struggles of making ends meet, and the uncertainty of life after high school, this group of misfits forms an unlikely bond in hopes of making it through their senior year with their sanity intact.As the new guy in town, Louisiana native and reformed bad boy, Tremaine Johnson, wants nothing more than to keep a low-profile at hi...