A damsel in distress. A dangerous dame. A metric-ton of coffee...Private Investigator Frank Harken’s worldwide fame has only made him more cynical. And living in a giant mall covering the entire USA only serves to drive him nuts on a daily basis. So when a femme fatale barges in asking Harken to track down her sister, he knows when he’s heard an offer too good to be true.Puzzled by the sudden arrival of Arjay, a sentient coffee-making robot he never ordered...

A nefarious blackmail.An attempted murder.Another metric ton of coffee…Someone is trying to blackmail one of The Great American’s biggest influencelebs, and Frank Harken—private investigator—along with his trusty coffeebot, Arjay, will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of it*.As they follow the clues, the two are pulled deeper and deeper into the giant mall’s secret machinations, and with every twist and turn the case provides, it becomes c...

**FINALIST in the award for LEADERSHIP: The Australian Business Book AwardsHack your leadership and improve your approach**With rapid change and hybrid workplaces becoming the new way of working, leaders are struggling to achieve their outcomes. How do you stay ahead in the face of constantly shifting priorities, competitors, and deadlines? With this fully revised and updated edition of Leadership Hacks, you’ll discover how to cut through the madness and get back t...

A lifesaver for those drowning in the demands of leadershipLeadership Hacks is the business leader's guide to getting things done. Over the years, the leader's role has expanded to encompass more duties, more responsibility, and more accountability—yet we're still stuck with the same twenty-four hours in every day. The evolving business environment leaves many of us struggling to achieve against constantly shifting priorities, competitors, and deadlines, a...

One lonely plumber. One bad decision. One trillion lives upended.This is the story of Roy, the architect of an epic crisis that paralyzed the largest space station in the universe. The aftermath created a legend, but the lunacy behind it remained a mystery. That is, until now. With the aid of footage and eyewitness accounts, this book reveals the outrageous truth behind the greatest pandemonium ever recorded.Roy is a Readers' Favorite® 5-St...

Aliens have landed in New York City—and they're here to contact Earth's most intelligent life forms: house cats.Welcome to the East Village, where a cosmic visitor throws one peculiar neighborhood into chaos. There's Ollie, a struggling musician with a missing cat and a crumbling bookstore job. Zara, his sharp-tongued bandmate. A rabbit-obsessed neighbor. A ghost-chasing widow. A cursed super. And a rooftop-dwelling creature that definitely wasn't invited to the pa...

A darkly funny satire of corporate greed, sexual desire, and crime from "the slightly more well-adjusted offspring of Hunter S. Thompson and James Ellroy" ( Los Angeles Times).The boy genius of the foreign exchange desk, Bryan LeBlanc is surrounded by acolytes of the free market, the true believers, the U.S. Marines of capitalism—"the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves." He soon realizes that being honest at a dishonest job is not the path t...

A novice Scotland Yard detective chases his nemesis through the London underworld in this “extravagant and thoroughly enjoyable” historical mystery debut set in Victorian England (The Scotsman).Before Sherlock Holmes, there was Campbell Lawless . . .London, 1859. Great exhibitions. Foreign conquests. Underground trains. The era of Victorian marvels is also the time of the Great Stink. Beneath the respectab...

“I’ll never forget the words my granddad said before he kicked the bucket. He said ‘Grandson, watch how far I can kick this bucket.’”“The key to any marriage is spontaneity. You’ve got to be ready to leave at any time.”Bringing together some of the funniest, wittiest, and most cutting jokes the world over, Grant Tucker’s volume is the definitive collection of the quips comedians call “one-liners.” Short, sweet, and undeniably clever, one-liners hold a special place in the hi...

An A-to-Z treasury of dumb, disastrous, and hard-to-believe human behavior from the New York Times-bestselling author of Stupid History!* A doctor's actual diagnostic notation: The patient is married but sexually active.* "Shooting Reported at Firing Range" — The State, Columbia, South Carolina, August 4, 2006* Arrested for public urination in Bowling Green, Ohio: Mr. Joshua Pees. — The Sentinel-Tribune, Bowling G...

A ghostly mystery of love, loss, and second chances—set in a 1950s New York ruled by cats and dogs.When beloved reporter Flint Lockford turns up dead in Greenwich Village, rookie detective Morton Digby is assigned to the case. But Flint's fiery fiancée, Bianca Moon, isn't waiting around for answers. Determined to hunt down his killer herself, she's willing to risk every one of her nine lives.Meanwhile, Flint's ghost wakes up in Ghosthall—an abandon...

A Broadway stagehand and an aspiring actress lead double lives in this absurd comedy of masked mayhem and mistaken identity.Would-be actress Cassandra never meant to be a thief. But after a near-death scare on the subway—and a timely rescue by a stranger—she reinvents herself as the Cat Burglar, determined to even the score with the city's fat cats.Timid stagehand Wilfredo always dreamed of being the hero, but he is blindsided when a viral video of his run-...