This original anthology of noir fiction set in Maryland's Charm City includes new stories by David Simon, Laura Lippman, Jim Fusilli, and more.As fans of the HBO series The Wire have known for years, Baltimore is home to a rich and diverse underworld that is matched by an equally rich and diverse literary tradition. This is the city where Dashiell Hammett worked as a Pinkerton agent. It's also where Zelda Fitzgerald came...

Broke, recently divorced, and a total deadbeat, Bob Wells has spent his life as a psychiatrist only doing good in the world. When one of his patients with clear paranoid delusions starts to lose a grip, Bob has no choice but to intervene. Emile Bardan is haunted by demons, and he believes that someone is trying to steal his most prized possesion, the legendeary Mask of Utu. Bob thinks it’s all part of Emile’s imagination until he discovers that Emile is telling the truth a...

When a mysterious sailor enters his fathers inn looking for lodgings and rum, young Jack Hawkins finds himself involved in a high seas adventure full of pirates, maroons, distant islands and treasure. But just who is the one legged man that the sailors were so afraid of?This widely loved classic by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1883, is one of the most dramatised in literature and is credited with forming much of the public perception of pirates and adventures on the h...

When a mysterious sailor enters his fathers inn looking for lodgings and rum, young Jack Hawkins finds himself involved in a high seas adventure full of pirates, maroons, distant islands and treasure. But just who is the one legged man that the sailors were so afraid of?This widely loved classic by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1883, is one of the most dramatised in literature and is credited with forming much of the public perception of pirates and adventures on the h...

Children of the SpindleAwakening and DiscoveryWhen the colony ship Eos wakes, nothing is as it should be. Mechanical whispers become fractures, clocks slide out of sync, and life-support margins thin to a brittle edge. Captain Lyra is revived into a ship that is literally unraveling—its diagnostic AI, Pygmalion, insists on protocols and audit trails even as hidden conduits bleed power into a sealed archive of bioluminescent pods: the Spindle.Forced to make impossible...

Robert Ward has always enjoyed travelling, especially on foot. When he discovered the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago in Spain, he felt compelled to walk and experience this historic road. From his first journey along the Camino de Santiago, Ward fell in love with the pace, landscape, history, art, and romance of this old pilgrimage path. Above all, however, Ward fell in love with the people of the Camino – both the welcoming Spaniards and the pilgrims who come from all over the world...

A fed's debt to a sexy snitch leads to a darkly funny nightmare of double-crosses and sinister motives: "Ward is simply the best" (Michael Connelly).All FBI Agent Jack Harper wants is a heavenly vacation in Baja: sand, surf, and fishing. Then he gets a phone call from hell: it's his for-lack-of-a-better-word girlfriend, Michelle Wu. The hot con-artist, and irresistible chop-shop queen needs Jack's help in finding her kidnapped sister, a nurse working a posh Taos he...

L.A. FBI agents are up against an unstoppable cop killer in this thriller by the PEN West Award–winning author Four Kinds of Rain.Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But they've met their match in diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach. Arrested during a sting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will kill them all. Coming from a man who's about to go to prison, it sounds like an empty threat. The...

Do You Believe In Dragons? In This Practical Guide On Dragons Untold Secrets About Dragon Bound, Dragon's Oath, Dragon Breath, Chinese Dragons and Dragon Facts Will Be Revealed.

An introduction to the complex world of options that every investor can useToo many books on options trading make the mistake of assuming that readers can already tell a delta from a sigma summation. Options and Options Trading breaks the code that envelops the often-foreign language of options, providing an accessible introduction into how the options market works as it explains the rules that traders must understand if they hope to take part in this high...

In "Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology," Robert DeCourcy Ward presents a meticulously structured exploration of fundamental meteorological concepts through hands-on exercises. This work articulates complex atmospheric principles in an accessible manner, employing a pedagogical style that encourages active engagement and critical thought. Set against the backdrop of an early 20th-century scientific context, Ward's text intertwines empirical data with theoretical underpinnings, ma...

When Red Baker, a Larmel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Red’s angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his basketball-star son, Ace; his lifelong friend Dog, a casualty of the layoff; and Crystal, the go-go dancer at Lily’s bar who embodies Red’s fantasies of escape. Red Baker is a classic American novel about a man with no i...