Makoto's favorite childhood memories are of playing baseball with his best friend and former teammate Shusuke, the catcher of his baseball team. When Shusuke suddenly moved away, Makoto was left devastated, but he clung to the promise of the two of them someday reuniting for the championship game at Koshien Stadium. Now in high school, Makoto is the ace pitcher of the baseball team, and he and Hokuto, the team's catcher, are an all-star duo. But then Shusuke suddenly transfers back to Mako...

Makoto, the ace pitcher of his high school baseball team, has had a long, one-sided crush on his former battery partner and childhood friend, Shusuke. But when Makoto gathers the courage to tell Shusuke how he feels, he is ultimately rejected. In an attempt to get over Shusuke, Makoto tells his current battery partner, Hokuto, that he plans on leaving the team after the summer. Seeing Makoto look so dejected, Hokuto can't keep his feelings bottled up any longer… Meanwhile, Shusuke has been...

A cult hardboiled noir classic of crime, punishment and the search for a meaningful life, with an Introduction by Stuart Evers‘Tough and vital … Hard Rain Falling roars through dim Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight’ The New York TimesWhen small-time teenage criminal Jack Levitt becomes friends with Billy Lancing, a young Black pool hustler, neither imagines they will meet again years later ...

The definitive guide from the world's best-known sailboat maintenance expertDon Casey’s Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual combines six core volumes into a single, utterly dependable resource that answers every frequent question, explains every major system, and helps you keep your boat and its components shipshape.More than 2,500 clear and detailed illustrations guide you step by step through every procedure. Casey’s technical virtuo...

A Hutterite is murdered and two worlds collideWhen a young Hutterite man is found murdered in a luxurious home in the city, Detective Michael Shelter is pulled into a case like none other. To find the killer, Shelter must win the trust of a rural Hutterite colony where the faithful live apart from the outside world, following a devout way of life passed down for 500 years.How could a leader of a strictly pacifist farming community end up murdered in an expe...

The Weinstein affair in Hollywood has grabbed the headlines for months. Controlling behaviour, particularly of men towards women, is far more common, in all walks of life, than we have been led to believe. In this easy-to-read guide, best-selling author Don Hennessy offers advice to all those dealing with violent or controlling behaviour in their own lives, based on his experience of dealing with hundreds of such people in a therapeutic setting. Most important, he explains to the reader ho...

April 9, 2010 Approximate Local Time – Midnight in Afghanistan Twenty-five hundred feet over Taliban-held territory in southern Afghanistan, three U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft droned through the inky black sky. The mission of the forty-eight U.S. Army Special Forces, Third Battalion, Seventy-Fifth Rangers aboard the airplanes was to engage in direct action with the enemy. The Air Force crews' mission – insert the Army troops close to their objective, a landing zone (LZ) ...

In the midst of the Great Depression, the townsfolk of Port Eddy are looking forward to the annual diversion: a horseshoe tournament against nearby Petroleum City. When a ringer, a hotshot outsider illegally brought in to help the City win the contest, is murdered, Constable Stan Garrett, the recently appointed village cop, is surprised that he might be involved in something more than jaywalking. However, when the uncle of his new lady friend, Susan Shaw, is suddenly arrested by the City p...

“Based on his days as a fly in the mosh pit of the nascent punk scene in Toronto and decades of drumming for some of my favorite beat groups, you would think that Don Pyle has a lot of great stories to tell and insight to share. You are not wrong. Come for the Guelph Riot, and then see if you can guess which Shadowy Man tossed a lovingly compiled Grateful Dead cassette from a moving vehicle.” — Ira Kaplan, co-founder, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter from Yo La Tengo

This beloved illustrated classic tells the tale of Archy, a philosophical cockroach, and Mehitabel, a cat in her ninth life.Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis. Marquis's satirical free-verse poems, which first appeared in his New York newspaper columns in 1916, revolve around the escapades of Archy, a philosophical cockroach who was a poet in a previous life, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was onc...

Drill music is a subgenre of hip-hop that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s. It is characterized by its dark, violent lyrics and heavy use of trap beats. The genre has been associated with gang violence in Chicago, with some rappers using their music to glorify gang activity and taunt rival gangs. This is a short story of how life can quickly spiral out of control if you do not maintain focus.

Blood, bass, and betrayal. From Kingston's zinc alley ways to London's concrete jungle of tower blocks and estates, this is the saga of dons, sound systems, and soldiers who turned music into warfare and riddim into ritual.Edmond "Eddy Bus Shot" moves like a ghost with a grudge , loyal to Bandolero, bound by codes of silence, caught between empire and emotion. Bandolero, once Leeman Wong, returns as a phantom of frequency, a warlord with riddims, rewriting the streets with bassline...