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The hotly anticipated fourth installment in the action-packed thriller series guaranteed to appeal to Matthew Reilly fans. Water promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th...Lachlan Fox has made a career out of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. As a shore assault specialist in an Australian Navy Clearance Diver Team, he often came up against bad guys and even worse odds.

"Este tipo de generación de narrativas de golpe a veces se ha conectado en Latinoamérica con golpe, golpe, golpe de Estado, y esta idea de los niños con cáncer que no tienen medicamentos cada vez la vemos más posicionada como parte de una campaña, más allá del país, de los grupos de derecha internacionales, que están buscando crear esta ola de simpatía en la ciudadanía mexicana, ya con una visión casi golpista [...]", Hugo López-Gatell, Subsecretario de Salud.

The nightmare comes true. Murder hornets have reached US soil, and the first to experience their deadly wrath is the small Texas town of Sweet. With the body count mounting and time of the essence, it’s up to disgraced entomologist Jason Barker and overzealous Sheriff John Sumners to save the town from an agonizing death, no matter the cost.

Before every fight (amateur and professional), fighters are told to "protect yourself at all times." In 2016, former boxing manager Adrian Clark co-opted the term for this novel educational system to teach amateur and professional fighters the business of boxing. His revolutionary book, Protect Yourself at All Times: A Guide for Professional Boxers, made its mark in the same year Forbes magazine recognized.

For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, "Treasure Island" has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.

Based on a real-life event, a moneyed client at a progressive law firm pressures the partners to drop a pro bono case they passionately believe in. Will they choose the easy path to preserve their business or keep fighting for what they believe is right?

A través de un relato de exploración interior, Andrés Ruzo da vida al profundo anhelo que sienten todos los seres de conectarse con un poder superior. Esta urgencia de buscar la luz en la oscuridad ha persistido desde las sociedades antiguas hasta nuestros días.

Well-known as Pete in Gavin & Stacey, Adrian Scarborough is also known for his roles in The History Boys and The King’s Speech as well as his accomplished theatre career. Adrian talks to us about his role as the cruel Dennis in The Darkwater Bride, tells us what Pete in Gavin & Stacey has in common with Shakespeare’s Richard III and remembers his voice-over training back in drama school.

What does a good prison look like? Over eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years’ experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he asks whether there is a better way to achieve what society wants from its prisons.

The Church of Armes of the Light has battled the forces of Darkness for as long as anyone can remember.

The quest for long-lost relics is not always what it used to be. Margaret and Philip are two of the best space archaeologists at the Royal Institute of London. While being sent to retrieve some valuable relics, they stumble upon an unknown space object, which brings them to a rogue planet, filled with green lush vegetation. Facing the unknown, they decide to explore further, and to their surprise, they find an inhabited city.

This book is equal parts self-help and hilarious reality written by a funny lunatic - the last guru you will ever need, folks, right in this book. Adrian, yup that’s me, writing in the third person like well...a crazy person (calm down it's OK for you to laugh at my crazy) - he has written an inspiring tale of survival and not becoming just another victim or statistic. This book details serious childhood and adulthood trauma from physical, verbal, and sexual abuse to bullying in school and growing up poor with a tyrant of a father in the hot streets of Miami....

In March, 2018, I had a psychological breakdown that ultimately resulted in me committing myself to a mental institution. This novelized memoir, inspired by the pages of my psych ward journal, is my attempt to record and understand the events that took place both before and during my stay. This is a tale of madness, humor, friendship, and reflection, as told by a floundering mind trying to understand itself.

Eloise Lawrance, a beautiful and dedicated ballerina, is on the cusp of achieving her dreams when her career is abruptly left in tatters. Enigmatic gambling tycoon Caesar King approaches her with an alluring proposition she can't refuse - to dance as inspiration for the top-ranked men's tennis player for two years. Cleverly manipulated by the ruthless Caesar, she is plunged into a world of supreme athleticism where dominance prevails and winning dictates absolute power on the court - and in the bedroom.

My name is Kasia Maier. Most girls my age are preparing for college, learning at summer jobs, and trying not to mess up dates. Not me. I'm preparing for life underwater, learning that my voice hypnotizes people, and trying not to kill guys with a kiss. I'm still human… for now. Several things could change that in the next few days.

Imagine a future in which consciousness can be exchanged between bodies and the wealthy old can pay the young to die for them. Raymond Mettler, a man whose unrelenting terror of dying prevents him from living, is given just such a shot at immortality. Marcus Takana, a desperately poor young man accepts a future contract for Ray's mind to take over his body upon Ray's death in exchange for fabulous wealth, enduring youth, and unprecedented knowledge.

As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last 200 years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Reach for the Skies is my look at the history of flight through the stories and people who have inspired me throughout my life. It is a story of pioneers, and of course it includes the world-famous Montgolfiers and the Wright brothers, but I also want to describe some of the lesser-known trailblazers.

Richard Branson, at his brilliant and motivating best, reveals how with his exciting new vision for the future. It is time to turn capitalism upside down - to shift our values, to switch from a profit focus to caring for people, communities and the planet. With inspiration for everyone, Screw Business As Usual shows how easy it is for both businesses and individuals to embark on a whole new way of doing things, solving major problems and turning our work into something we both love and are proud of.

John Ilhan: A Crazy Life tells the fascinating story of John Ilhan - a working-class immigrant who overcame incredible odds to become one of the richest men in Australia. Founder of the phenomenally successful mobile telephone company Crazy John's, Ilhan tragically passed away in 2007 at the age of 42. As told through the eyes of his family, friends and colleagues, this poignant biography reveals new insights into the man behind Crazy John's, the wife and four children he left behind and his David and Goliath battle with Telstra.

As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries, dreamers and, yes, crackpots. Some have called them irresponsible, even dangerous. But I have met many of them. I have worked with them, and funded them, and flown with them.