When the nation's most prestigious pickleball championship turns deadly, amateur sleuth and former sports journalist Maya Chen must navigate a web of bitter rivalries and long-buried secrets to catch a killer. The pristine courts of the Palm Springs Tennis and Pickleball Resort shimmer under the desert sun, but beneath the cheerful facade of enthusiastic players and cheering spectators lies a dangerous undercurrent of obsession and betrayal. Maya thought she'd left investigative reporting ...

When beloved therapy dog Buddy vanishes from the prestigious Willowbrook Rehabilitation Center, veteran counselor Maya Chen discovers that behind the facility's healing facade lies a web of deception that threatens to destroy everything she's worked for. Maya has dedicated her life to helping trauma survivors rebuild themselves through animal-assisted therapy, but when Buddy's disappearance coincides with a series of mysterious accidents targeting her most vulnerable patients, she realizes...

A WAKING NIGHTMARE! Mule has been kidnapped by the combined forces of the Sanjo family and the demonic cult’s Fairlady faction. Hiiro and his friends infiltrate the enemy hideout and launch a surprise attack, successfully rescuing the dorm manager…or so they think. The Queen of Branding uses her Magic Eye to trap Chris and Hiiro in a dream world, and finding a way out is the pair’s only shot at survival!

When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities.Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first century, making iPhones and baby clothes, hand-stitching football shirts and cutting plastic into radios. Here, Xiao Hai reveals the alienation...

A dream-come-true scenario quickly becomes a nightmare when a yuri fanboy discovers that he’s been reincarnated into one of his favorite yuri games—as Hiiro, an annoying male character whose only purpose is to get between the heroines. Realizing that he’s destined for ruin in a world where men are at the bottom of the pecking order, Hiiro scrambles to get stronger and avert his fate. But his desperate efforts end up making the game’s heroines—Princess Lapis, Snow the maid, and the protagon...

A pithy guide to the Buddha's instructions to unlock the powerful insights that make us "great"—by wise, warm, and humorous Brother Phap Hai, the most senior Australian Dharma teacher ordained by Thich Nhat HanhIn this essential sutra for sincere practitioners, the Buddha says, "If you would like to be enlightened, take on these eight subjects for meditation and apply their corresponding insights to your daily life." Brother Phap Hai's lively, down-to-earth explana...

The captivating story of the first face transplant at Mayo Clinic.For years, they came in on weekends to plan and practice—nearly sixty surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists, preparing to harmonize in a vast medical symphony. For the team at Mayo Clinic, it was their most complex surgery to date: a face transplant.At the heart of this event was Andy Sandness. He grappled with feelings of isolation and shame after a disfiguring suicide attempt but was dete...

An insightful and comprehensive exploration into the burgeoning field of sugarcane-based biofuels and the green technology revolution, this book delves deep into the multifaceted role of sugarcane in addressing the global energy crisis, offering a panoramic view of the latest advances, challenges, and prospects in the realm of sustainable energy. The book summarizes the production, management, and socioeconomic impact of sugarcane as well as its related sustainability issues. It focuses on...

The higher a seagull flies, the further it can see; the higher a person stands, the broader is his view. The more we understand our inner nature, the fewer obstacles we have. Within our lifetime, more or less we will want to explore riddles like: "Where do I come from?", "Why do I come here?" and "Where will I eventually go?" These questions significantly affect us each time we have to make a critical decision in life. To satisfy such a longing, some people devote themselves in their caree...

This is a love story of a pseudo-loli crossing time and space to save the broken world. As a demon, Tang Xiaotang's mission was to travel between different worlds in order to maintain order in her world.At the same time, he would receive a portion of the quest's objective, emotion, as reward. And so, there was: the underworld Family Head with his little wild cat, Gui Wang with his mask, the daughter of the domineering CEO's little lovely wife … Tang Xiaotang: Our g...

In Nothing To It, Brother Phap Hai brings his characteristic warmth and humor to explore the many different gates to transformation offered by Buddhism. A gate is a teaching, practice, or way of looking at things. Each gate is an invitation to consider a new frame of reference through which we can consider our situation, an opportunity to look at things differently. Readers who enjoyed Bhante Gunaratana's Mindfulness in Plain English will delight in this new explanation f...

**NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG STARRING RUSSELL CROWE AND RAMI MALEKIn 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil“The book is a page turner.”—NPRA New York Times Bestseller**In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run dete...