“A fast-moving classic crime novel” (John Sandford) crafted by the veteran screenwriter and showrunner for the acclaimed police procedural series Blue Bloods, Johnny Careless is Kevin Wade’s razor-sharp debut novel.Police Chief Jeep Mullane has been bounced back home to Long Island’s North Shore by a heartbreaking case that both earned him his NYPD detective’s shield and burned him out of the Job. Now heading up a small local police department, he finds hi...

Private online digital currency systems offer people accessible, convenient, and inexpensive everyday financial tools outside of traditional bank-owned and operated platforms. Digital currency systems facilitate local and international fund transfers, online and offline payments, and simple cash-to-digital everyday financial products without the need for a conventional bank account of any retail bank product. Over the past several years, Bitcoin has grown into an efficient person-to-person...

“Pirhalla, an experienced architect of suspense, gives this audiobook considerable zing.”—AudioFile“A fast-moving classic crime novel” (John Sandford) crafted by the veteran screenwriter and showrunner for the acclaimed police procedural series Blue Bloods, Johnny Careless is Kevin Wade’s razor-sharp debut novel.Police Chief Jeep Mullane has been bounced back home to Long Island’s North Shore by a heartbreaking case that b...

After Johnny Careless, the “fast-moving classic crime novel” (John Sandford), comes the lively next installment in the Jeep Mullane series from veteran screenwriter and Blue Bloods showrunner Kevin Wade.As a hurricane makes landfall on Long Island’s Gold Coast, Police Chief Jeep Mullane responds to a plea for help at the estate of his longtime friend Jenny Racine, who has been violently assaulted in a home invasion. Jenny was the girl next door gr...

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens.An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizing Therapy illuminates that all therapy is—and always has been— inherently political. To better understand the mental health oppression and institutional violence that exists today, we must become familiar with the root of disembodiment from our histories, homel...

This book shares the story of the men of Two Charlie and their fight for survival in the Arghandab River Valley, the Devil’s Playground.“The Devil’s Playground” was anything south of the second canal to the men of Charlie Company’s 2nd Platoon—Two Charlie—during their 2009–2010 deployment to the Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan. The valley had been a notorious hot spot throughout history, with the Russians unable to maintain a foothold in the 80s and Coalition...

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola delineate a transformative journey of spiritual renewal and discernment. Written by the founder of the Jesuit Order, St. Ignatius of Loyola, these exercises guide individuals through a series of meditations, prayers, and reflections designed to deepen their relationship with God and discern His will in their lives. Through contemplation of scripture and personal introspection, practitioners are invited to cultivate a profound sense of inner...

'This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book ... It doesn't go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens' Howard Jacobson___________________Discover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens.From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters?What was Dickens's...

Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm favourites with reading groups. He reveals the rich resources of novelistic technique, settingrecent f...

'Any new book on Jane Austen raises the urgent question, Would I get more pleasure from reading this than from re-reading my favourite Jane Austen novel? If you decide to give What Matters in Jane Austen? a chance you'll know after a few pages that you've made the right choice' John Carey, Sunday Times'Almost as good as finding an unpublished novel' The LadyIs there any sex in Jane Austen?Why do her plots r...

Captain John Mullan is one of the unsung heroes of the American Northwest. He has 42 markers, including 12 statues, 12 stone or pyramid monuments, 12 road signs, and 6 historical markers scattered from eastern Washington to central Montana, for explorations and road construction in 1853 to 1862, all by horseback. No other man has as much historical recognition for what had been accomplished in the great Northwest of America. Americans owe their ability to see this beautiful corner of the c...

A disciplined path to interior clarity and radical spiritual surrender.The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola remains one of the most enduring guides to igniting the Christian soul with purpose, prayer, and discernment. In this classic work, Ignatius lays out a structured journey that leads the reader from self-examination to transformation - a method not merely for reflection, but for total re-orientation toward God.Through meditations, contemplative prompts, mo...