An Instant USA TODAY Bestseller!In this laugh-out-loud murder mystery, three women dating the same man band together to get revenge, but when they discover his body, they'll need to solve his murder before they go down for it.The body in the closet was going to be a problem. Kathryn Hu knew it. Yes, Tucker Jones was a cheating scumbag, and yes, she’d agreed to meet Olivia and Elle—Tucker’s other girlfriends—to exact reveng...

Plantations are major drivers of biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and climate change. They find root in (neo)colonial logics of mastery and progress that position nature as a passive resource, exploited to serve (certain) humans' ends. Yet the rise and fall of plantations have never been determined entirely by those humans and institutions who claim to create and control them. Rather, plantations are animated by entangled processes of multispecies extraction, extinction, and emergen...

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'BURSTING WITH PERSONALITY' XIRAN JAY ZHAO'ABSOLUTELY ROOTING FOR LADY JING FOREVER' HANNAH KANER'THE MUST-READ DEBUT' TASHA SURI'A GRITTY, GLITTERING TALE' SAARA EL-ARIFIA richly told adult fantasy debut teeming with Chinese deities and demons cavorting in jazz age Shanghai.Half vampire, half fox-spirit, and all tr...

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club is back with a twist in this smart, hilarious mystery by USA TODAY bestselling author Gloria Chao.Kathryn Hu is not getting into the business of solving murders. Yes, she and her friends Olivia and Elle figured out who killed their cheating ex-boyfriend. But now Kat can get back to her usual, murder-free existence.Then she gets an unexpected plea for help. Mandy Thorne has ruined countless lives through her re...

**A swoony rivals-to-lovers romance . . .Family secrets that can't stay buried . . .A globe-spanning treasure hunt with puzzles to solve . . .This latest YA novel by acclaimed writer Gloria Chao takes readers on a soaring adventure through love, loss, and the lively streets of Taiwan.**For Gemma's whole life, it has always been her and her mom against the world. As far as she knew, all her grandparents—and thus her ties to Taiwanese culture—were dead. Until on...

Geotechnical design confronts uncertainties from incomplete subsurface knowledge, natural variability, geomaterial properties, construction errors, and differing solution models. Traditional approaches use conservative factors of safety or pre-calibrated partial factors to address uncertainties indirectly. Reliability-based design incorporates uncertainties directly but requires full statistical characterization, which is often unattainable in practice. Robust geotechnical design offers an...

Luka harbored feelings for Leandro, his boss, and it didn't seem that Leandro was indifferent to this. But everything changed when Luka refused to do something that went against his principles, leading Luka to draw a line with his boss—no more flirting; they were just boss and employee. Leandro quickly found a new lover, so everything seemed to work, at least for a while. However, his boss is always after him!What can he do to avoid falling into the mafioso's clutches?

Everyone is learning AI tools. But when everyone has the same tools — what makes you different?ChatGPT. Claude. Copilot. OpenClaw. The tools are everywhere, and everyone has access to them. Yet most people still feel lost, replaceable, and unsure of their next move.That's because the real advantage was never about the tools. It was always about the person using them.While parents worry their children will graduate into a world with no jobs, while students wonder if ...

The beloved classic—now back in print. A gold mine of simple and authentic Chinese cuisine that's a must-have for everyone who loves delicious food.Let these glowing reviews tell you how this old-school cookbook revealed the secrets of Chinese cooking and culture and made itself at home in 20th-century American households . . ."Something novel in the way of a cookbook . . . [It] strikes us as being an authentic account of the Chinese culinary system, which ...

Elio Mancini was just a young man who dreamed of becoming a veterinarian, but due to the difficulties his family faced, he had to abandon his studies and work. Despite this, he led a peaceful life with his family until a chance encounter with Vicenzo Di Marco changed the course of his destiny.Due to the debts his father left behind when he died, Elio is forced to accept the marriage proposal of Vicenzo, the most feared mafia boss in Italy. However, this is not the biggest of his pr...

Adrien Gautier persistently pursued Carlo Mancini, a successful journalist, in the hope that one day he might return his feelings. He didn't care about Carlo's disdain or cold words, nor did he mind losing his dignity; he even bound him with a contract—he wanted him at any cost. But when they grow distant and compromising photos of Carlo with a woman fall into Adrien's hands, Adrien begins to reconsider the nature of his relationship with Carlo, ultimately deciding to set him free. But why...

Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty, and moreAn unlikely duo—Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent philosopher and professor of bioethics, and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei, a Taiwanese Buddhist monastic and social activist—join forces to talk ethics in lively conversations that cross oceans, overcome language...