An all-powerful psychic is helpless when faced with a treasure hunter from Earth.When Rysdal Ampir, a psychic powerhouse, receives news that his family is in danger, his fear is unlike anything he’s ever known before. Now he must find a way to protect his loved ones from harm.Aliya Donovan thought her trip to an alien planet would be an adventure of a lifetime. Instead, she finds herself entangled in a deadly pursuit and falling for a cold alien with an edg...

Jester Prince is the story of The Flying Karamazov Brothers comedy/theatre/musical/juggling troupe and their rise from San Francisco street corners and Renaissance Fairs to Broadway, television, film, and Carnegie Hall. It traces how the author's Ashkenazi and Scots-Irish ancestry launched him into a childhood in suburban Los Angeles just as the Hippie Revolution exploded, inspiring a biology prodigy to take up the juggling balls that would change the course of his life and open unexpected...

A lone samurai, zombies, and a hundred outlaws to kill! During feudal Japan’s first zombie onslaught, a samurai’s village and family are taken by ruthless outlaws as his fate is sealed by a single savage bite. To save his loved ones, he must embrace his terrifying undead powers before succumbing to the ravenous hunger and become another mindless monster in the rampaging zombie horde.

This book explores how certain early modern Italian portraits sought to directly engage the minds and memories of their viewers. Analyzing portraits made between the mid-Quattrocento and the mid-Cinquecento and by artists largely trained and working in the central and northern Italian peninsula, the case studies here demonstrate how these artworks succeeded in preserving both the external appearances and the inner qualities of their sitters.By examining specific portrait forms and ...

Maigret must wade through a media frenzy when news of a body found in a stove spreads across Paris. Who is the corpse, and how is the case connected to Madame Maigret?A gruesome mystery has the whole of Paris agog: who is “the corpse in the stove”? The stove’s owner, a reclusive Belgian bookbinder detained in the Santé prison, isn’t saying. His ambitious young lawyer, meanwhile, keeps giving combative press interviews, stoking public fascination to a fever pitch. A...

In his own words, Maigret reflects on his legacy—and storytelling itself—in this metatextual meditation on narrative, policing, and truth.Is the real Inspector Maigret the mentally agile, physically ponderous detective of Georges Simenon’s famous novels? Or is this character a distorted facsimile of an actual person? In a startling turn of events, the original Jules Maigret of the Paris Police Judiciaire now takes the reins from Simenon and reveals, with self-effac...

FELIX LEITER – JAMES BOND'S TRUSTED FRIEND AND ALLY – TAKES CENTER STAGE IN A BRAND NEW ADVENTURE BY LEGENDARY BOND NOVELIST, RAYMOND BENSON.It is 1952. Felix has lost his job at the CIA and finds himself working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. What starts as a simple surveillance job turns into anything but when Felix stumbles upon a murder and a cabal of spies embedded in Manhattan. Hired to transport the impossibly beautiful and impossibly secretive Dora from New York to Tex...

To be human is to be biased, especially with today's technologies and politics reinforcing our unconscious reactions.Most people do not see themselves as biased towards people different from themselves, yet disparities and dangerous prejudices still run rampant. Why is that? And is there anything we can do about it?Building on the transformational lessons of the bestselling Everyday Bias, Howard J. Ross and Jake Ross reveal how bias is bui...

Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized.Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began raising concerns that white media outlets consistently elevated only one Black writer at a time, thus limiting the broader success of multiple Black authors. Drawing on literary data work and analyzing sources like ...

A bold new vision of religious horror and rebellion!Sister Marian is many things: a Mother Superior, a witch hunter, and a devout follower of a Goddess the Holy Father Church refuses to acknowledge.When the Church declares her order heretical, Marian agrees to serve as its personal enforcer—delivering nightly judgment across the city of Vespers in exchange for her Sisters’ survival.But with every soul she condemns, Marian feels her own slipping furt...

From the internationally bestselling author of 56 Days, a page-turning thriller about two women whose shattered lives come crashing together around a house whose secrets could bury them both.If these walls could talk, they’d scream...When Ellie moves to 1 Delaney Row, she hopes to find a fresh start—a place where no one knows her name, her history, or her secrets. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone

Howard Zinn’s classic account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United StatesSNCC: The New Abolitionists has influenced generations of readers seeking to learn from the successes and failures of SNCC organizers. Zinn’s documentation of the process of social change remains an indispensable resource for activists who are conti...