On the beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh, armies of men reduce the world's unwanted ocean vessels to scrap - using nothing more than torches, hacksaws, and muscle. On desperately poor shipbreaker, Mohit, dreams of a better life, though that vision seems ended when a foreman dies in an explosion. But was the death an accident? Mohit tracks the killer through his shantytown, confronting bosses, criminal gangs, and laborers no different than himself.

In the sixteenth century, at the peak of Ottoman power, young boys were forcibly collected from all over the empire to serve in the army of the Sultan. One is Ozaner, taken from his family in Albania at the age of eight, never to return from Constantinople. When his father hears of Ozaner's death in unexplained circumstances, he travels to the distant capital to find out what happened. Court intrigue, the color and bustle of daily life, and a father's grief are the backdrop of this story o...

Japan's lost decade has left thousands of people homeless, scraping by in parks and cardboard boxes throughout Tokyo. When one of these forgotten men is murdered, his brother hires a private investigator. To find the killer, he must confront police indifference, hostility from the crime syndicate yakuza, and the closed silence of the down-and-out themselves.

In Die Hard style, Silas Cade takes his atypical brand of "auditing" from Wall Street to Main StreetFans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher and Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp will want to add Silas Cade to their lineup.Cade, the tough-guy auditor antihero introduced in Clawback, employs a brand of financial reform that comes with plenty of firepower. Needing a respite from Wall Street, Cade jumps at a job opportunity in western Pennsylvania—but finds that Main...

The acclaimed author of the Silas Cade Thrillers introduces Finn, a thief who's about to learn that when you steal big, there's always a downside.In an age of cybercrime, Finn is the last hardhat. He's a professional thief with a unique specialty: He only steals big things—autoracks, factory lines, machinery. You might call what he does "heavy lifting." And he's no stranger to the downside of his chosen profession; he's done seven years' hard time to prove it....

The medieval world of Neven is the last place 12-year-old twins Archer and Mimi Price want to be. They'd rather shoot selfies in their 21st-century hometown of Marshton than arrows in Neven.During a dinner with Mum and Nan, Archer asks questions about their missing grandfather. After 30 years, Nan still misses him. Or so it seems.Convinced that clues about Grandad's disappearance are in Nan's attic, Archer, the intellectual, talks Mimi, the sportsperson, into investigating....

A tough, topical financial thriller that exposes the dark underbelly of Wall Street.After a stint in the Middle East, black ops vet Silas Cade becomes an "accountant"-the go-to for financiers who need things done quickly, quietly, and by any means necessary. Silas is hired by a major player to pay a visit to a hedge fund manager to demand clawback: the mandatory return of compensation paid on a deal that goes bad. But before Cade can tell his client that he got his...

LIVING A LIFE BEYOND BELIEFWilliam Whitecloud's Secrets of Natural Success is unlike any self-transformation book you have ever read. Best selling author and Creative Development trainer William Whitecloud dispenses with the usual approaches of fixing, self-manipulation or relying on mystical forces to get ahead in life. Instead, he offers a highly original insight into how your level of creativity determines your level of natural success in life, and a st...

Science is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of matter. In this panoramic book, acclaimed historian of science Peter Dear uncovers the roots of such beliefs, revealing how they constitute a natural philosophy that has been developed and refined over the course of centuries—and how the world as we have come to know it was by no means inevitable.

Author William Whitecloud brings a dazzling range of knowledge and experience - from a childhood in Swaziland immersed in supernatural worldviews to hermetic philosophy and esoteric speculation on the financial markets - to bear on the practical and magical look at what we really want , and how to get it.Mark Vale is besieged by financial and marital turmoil when he meets a group of contemporary alchemists. They take him on a journey and teach him to transform difficult situations ...

Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama recreates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tu...

Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,” body po...