The median personal income in the United States of America in 2015 was $30,240. This collection of now doubtless second hand paper in your hand promises to save you well over that amount in your first year in the greatest American city on earth. Over $37,000 in fact.New York City is one of the most expensive cities in the world, yet has countless secret entrances to free movies with complimentary beer and chances to meet A List stars, to the best seats at Yankee Stadium; Save Your ...

SEMI-PRO-AM is the untold true story of a Basketball Reality you never knew existed. A world where NBA All Stars matchup against Footlocker Employees, where FIBA World Champions face High School Wannabes and where the salary of one team's twelfth man equals that of this team's entire roster. Faced with a physically torturous and spirit crushing season like no other, fifteen men battle the opposition, each other and themselves to succeed simultaneously against everyone from the Sport's Bott...

An ancient tribe who respects the spirits of nature in sky and sea is decimated by a smallpox outbreak on the island of Vahilele in 650 AD. The survivors question the potency of their traditional beliefs and turn to the leadership of shipwrecked sailors cast on their shore in a storm.

Cherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times bestselling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children who overcome mortal dangers to improve their lives and the lives of others.A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching wat...

FIRST PRIZE FOR FICTION, Los Angeles Book Festival. "A stunning tale of love and loss amid a magnificent wilderness and its myriad animals, and a deadly manhunt through savage jungles, steep mountains and fierce deserts as an SAS commando tries to save the elephants, the woman he loves and the soul of Africa itself."With Africa's last elephants being killed for their ivory, Kenya rancher and ex-SAS officer Ian MacAdam leads a commando squad to hunt down the poachers. Pursuing them ...

Year of the Hyenas is a brilliant, original, and unique murder mystery, set in ancient Egypt at the height of that kingdom's glory and power. It is at once a strikingly insightful portrait of a mysterious, complex, and sophisticated society, reminiscent of Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings in its wonderful detail and feel for the past, and a fast-paced detective story that reads like the best of twenty-first-century thrillers.From the oldest known c...

An unforgettable tale of literary magical realism from a critically acclaimed Indonesian writer who has been compared to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mark TwainLonglisted for the International Man Booker, this “supernatural tale of murder and desire fascinatingly subverts the crime fiction genre” as it tells the story of a half-man, half-magical female white tiger (Huffington Post).A wry, affecting tale set in a smal...

A child is born who will overthrow a king...After the leader of a great African kingdom hears that a baby has been born who will destroy him, he hides behind a mighty army and surrounds himself with magical charms. There remains only one way to kill him.Concealing this secret weakness from the world, the ruler clings to power. But when the sister of his enemy seduces him, lust overwhelms the king. And as he lies beside her in the night, desperate to know her body, he foolis...

This book is based upon real characters of the eleventh dynasty and specifically on a real ruler, Menchu-hotep, the founding and unifying king of ancient Kemet’s (Egypt) Eleventh Dynasty and Classical Age who ruled for fifty-four years. Because he is an obvious black African from the south, very little is written about him even when he is a giant in ancient history. As an African cultural custodian, I come to shine light where there is darkness. Amen-Ra.

Scarab and her brother Smenkhkare are in exile in Nubia but are gathering an army to wrest control of Egypt from the boy king Tutankhamen and his controlling uncle, Ay. Meanwhile, the kingdoms are beset by internal troubles while the Amorites are pressing hard against the northern borders. Generals Horemheb and Paramessu must fight a war on two fronts while deciding where their loyalties lie--with the former king Smenkhkare or with the new young king in Thebes.Smenkhkare and Scarab...

The battle has been won, but the war is just beginning.Although at long last Razia Khan has found peace with herself and love with her prince, Arjun, her trials are far from over. In order to save her prince and his city from certain destruction, Razia made a deal with the devil--her father, the Sultan of Nizam. Now the bill has come due.Razia must secure the province of Zindh, a land surrounded by enemies, and loyal to a rebel queen who has survived her fa...