Edited by Harvey Stanbrough. This is an eclectic collection of twelve short stories that combine to form a pleasing if occasionally troubling mixture. Here you will find professional and amateur detectives, strung-out criminals and a kindly neighborhood grandmother, a moonlighting real estate agent, absurdity, quiet terror and a great deal more. There are twists galore. You'll visit past-Earth, a country preacher, a parish priest, a space station under seige and a troubling distant future ...

“All that have ever tried to impose change in their organization will immediately recognize and truly value the in-depth knowledge and experience captured in this book. It contains a collection of eye-openers that is a treasure chest for pioneers of new organizational ideas, A fantastic toolbox for use in future missions!”—Lise B. Hvatum, product development manager, Schlumberger“If you have need of changing your organization, and especially of introducing n...

63 New and Updated Patterns for Driving and Sustaining Change“The hard part of change is enlisting the support of other people. Whether a top manager interested in improving your organization’s results or a lone developer promoting a better way of working, this book will give you tools and ideas to help accomplish your goal.”–George Dinwiddie, independent coach and consultant, iDIA Computing, LLC“Keep the patterns in this book and Fearless ...

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new perspective on motivationMost people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards—known as the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others.In this provocative and persuasive new book, Pink asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction at work, at sc...

A powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past set in the Castle Rock universe from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls “Sara Laughs,” Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway.There, he fi...

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison discovers that buried secrets can be deadly in this riveting thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write “brilliant, page-turning fiction” (Stephen King).An ID Book Club SelectionClay Edison has his hands full. He’s got a new baby who won't sleep. He’s working the graveyard shift. And he’s trying, for once, to mind his own business. Then comes the first call. Workers demolishing a local park h...

The widely praised New York Times bestseller, and Mosley's first new series since his acclaimed Easy Rawlins novels...Leonid McGill is an ex-boxer and a hard drinker looking to clean up his act. He's an old-school P.I. working a New York City that's gotten a little too fancy all around him. But it's still full of dirty secrets, and as McGill unearths them, his commitment to the straight and narrow is going to be tested to the limit...

This anthology of 20 short stories features some of today's best mystery authors—from Lee Child to Jeffrey Deaver and Joyce Carol Oates.For the 2015 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories, guest editor James Patterson presents twenty tales with all the tension, drama, and visceral emotion of Oscar-worthy cinema. These stories features characters who must make desperate choices: an imaginative bank-robbing couple, a vengeful high school shooter, a lov...

“Damn, this book is good.”—**Jon Stewart“A biting, darkly hilarious collection of personal essays that begs to be read aloud.”—Chicago Tribune**Emmy Award–winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies and cable television, including HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show. While courageously admitting to being “euphorically antisocial,” Resnick plunges readers deep into his ...

**"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year."--Lee ChildLos Angeles Homicide Detective Elouise Norton encounters her toughest case yet in City of Saviors, the fourth installment in the critically acclaimed mystery series from author Rachel Howzell Hall.**After a long Labor Day weekend, seventy-three-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. At first ...

This book has been serialized into 3 parts – this is PART 2 of 3. TRY THIS THRILLER AT A SPECIAL PRICE. A nail-biting new novel featuring Detective Carson Ryder.Carson Ryder thought he’d seen everything …A specialist in twisted crimes, Detective Carson Ryder thought he’d seen the lowest depths of human depravity. But he’s barely started his new job in Miami when called to a horrific scene: a concrete pillar built of human remains, their agony forever frozen in stone.

Discover dark mysteries nestled in every borough of the Big Apple in this collection of five noir short story anthologies.New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set collects the five NYC borough installments in our award-winning Akashic Noir Series into a single e-book edition: Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin, Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block, Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan, Queens Noir, edited by Robert K...