Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered. His brother, Paul, wants to find out who did it and why. It’s clear that Michael was working with cyanobacteria, the bacteria that crack water molecules and release free oxygen. It’s less clear why this would get anybody killed.Accompanied by a beautiful industrial spy, Elena Sandoval, Paul follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along the way, the truth emerges: Michael had found a way to get cyanobacteria t...

Winner of Booky Award for top 10 book of the year 2011Finalist - USA Best Book Awards for mystery/suspense and cover design Fiction 2012Finalist - Best Audiobook Award 2012Katharine can't believe what she's seeing. Her world has always been planned and orderly, but now, she's petrified that she's going insane, and she's equally afraid that she's not. What if the strange creatures she's seeing really are disappearing...

“In one respect, men are all alike; they hate to see a woman in tears.”Paired with Blackstone’s and Skyboat Media’s production of Wilkie Collins’s The Evil Genius, Skyboat Media presents the dramatic adaptation of the novel, also by Wilkie Collins. Although both versions of the story were written at the same time, the play has never before been published and was only ever performed once on the stage. In fact, it is almost entirely unknown and is otherwise ...

A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab worldCultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the polit...

Dr. Julie Walker wakes on a summer morning in San Francisco to find a city in chaos. Today Californians are voting on a controversial ballot initiative that will change history. With the future of the state and the nation uncertain, the streets have erupted into violence.Injured, Julie must make her way across the city by foot to the Veterans Administration Hospital, where her sister, recently returned from Afghanistan, is in labor. At the hospital a brutal scene is unfolding as a ...

Available only on audio, this exciting collection features original stories by Adam-Troy Castro, some never before published.The stories collected here include The Assassin’s Secret; Narrow Escape of Zipper-Girl; A Place without Portals; The Hour In Between; Greetings, Humanity! Welcome to Your Choice of Species; Her Husband’s Hands; The Refrigerator in the Girlfriend; Big Stupe and the Buried Big Glowing B...

Max Maguire, a twenty-nine-year-old female detective with the New York Police Department, flies to France to attend the wedding of her friend, Chlo├®Marceau, at a grand estate east of Paris in the Champagne region. There Max meets an older man, the urbane Olivier Chaumont, and experiences a fairy-tale evening. But when Chlo├®'s widowed aunt, the beautiful and successful L├®a de Saint-Pern, is found murdered, Max and Olivier are snapped back into their professional roles. To Max's chagrin, ...

A gripping debut novel about friendship, loss, and love—a confession of what passed between two women who met as girlsComing of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California, during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers' narrow expectations. Their struggle to define themselves against the backdrop of an American cultural revolution unites them early on, until one sweltering evening the summer before their l...

When parenting authorities Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish sat down to write the national bestseller How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, they found that the could not contain their chapter on sibling rivalry. No matter how much they tried to pare down their advice, they found the subject inexhaustible—and parents agreed!Siblings Without Rivalry guides the way to family peace and tranquility with humor and compassion for both parents and chil...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**We used to think of failure as a problem, to be avoided at all costs. Now, we're often told that failure is desirable - that we must ‘fail fast, fail often’. The trouble is, neither approach distinguishes the good failures from the bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well.Here, Amy Edmondson – the world’s most influential organisational psycholo...

Submerse yourself in five tales of mystery, murder, revenge, dark fantasy and the supernatural. Five women find themselves at a crossroad in their lives as the investigate murders, seek revenge and rebel against the status quo as they hunt killers through back alleys, at Universities, through small town American, the City of Angels and on a world millennium in the future. Meet Belle Lopez, former street worker and now a neophyte private investigator obsessed with solving the murder of her ...

Winner of the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn between two ...