Product Description: Book by Dan Smith, Christina Koomen Smith, Christian Moody

A comprehensive and easy-to-use reference that provides a global overview of conflicts and military trends at the start of the 21st century.

Product Description: A clear, concise, illustrated guide to the workings of the global economy. Money is big news. Banks have collapsed, the property bubble has burst and national debts are at unimaginable levels. The Book of Money will help readers understand what is happening and how it affects them...read more

Product Description: Burning the Furniture, Dan Smith's third book, is an off-beat creative memoir of growing up in the Old South in a large family amid poverty, alcoholism, racism and the very real joys of being a boy at a time when "creative play" was an activity and not a psychologist's directive...read more

Product Description: Shea Burke, a new FBI agent, is assigned to investigate eight cold cases of missing teenage girls. The local police had considered each girl a runaway, but Shea becomes convinced that one person-one monster-is responsible. She finds a seemingly harmless local man, Stanley Stonebridge, very interesting...read more

In the tradition of City of Thieves and Child 44, a troubled First World War veteran races across the frozen steppe of 1930s Ukraine to save a child from a shadowy killer with unthinkable plans. Luka is a war veteran who now wants only to have a quiet life with his family. His village has, so far,remained hidden from the advancing Soviet brutality. But everything changes the day the stranger arrives,pulling a sled bearing a terrible cargo.When the villagers’ fear turns deadly, they think they have saved themselves. But their anger has cursed them: in the chaos, a little girl has vanished. Luka is the only man with the skills to find who could have stolen a child in these frozen lands―and besides, the missing girl is best friend to Luka’s daughter, and he swears he will find her.Together with his sons, Luka sets out in pursuit across lands ravaged by war and gripped by treachery.Soon they realize that the man they are tracking is no ordinary criminal, but a skillful hunter with the child as the bait in his twisted game. It will take all of Luka’s strength to battle the harshest of conditions, and all of his wit to stay a step ahead of Soviet authorities. And though his toughest enemy is the man he tracks,his strongest bond is a promise to his family back home.

Product Description: Eb McCourry’s final year at a tiny Appalachian school is rushing at a frantic pace toward showdowns on all fronts. Living in a children’s home, he’s struggling for an identity at his new school and finds it with the football and square dance teams and with an English teacher who forces him to write better than he thought he could...read more

Product Description: Book by Evans, Larry, Swanberg, Nancie West

Product Description: Ready To Learn The Best WOD’s? Cross Training is not just any other workout fad. It was developed to be a physical philosophy, merging many different sports, disciplines and movements in the course of their workouts. The benefits of Cross Training have gained much popularity over the years, and now this exercise is being practiced in thousands of gyms all around the world...read more

Product Description: Ready To Learn The Best WOD’s? Cross Training is not just any other workout fad. It was developed to be a physical philosophy, merging many different sports, disciplines and movements in the course of their workouts. The benefits of Cross Training have gained much popularity over the years, and now this exercise is being practiced in thousands of gyms all around the world...read more

After caring for his mother in her last days, Alex has gone off round the world - with no plan other than to travel and maybe recapture some of his lost youth. Beginning his travels in Indonesia, the idea of finding himself sounds appealing...but soon, he finds himself in real trouble. It starts with a bus crash on a terrifying mountain road. Lucky to escape with his life, Alex loses everything else - even his identity. But then he meets Domino, a beautiful girl who takes Alex under her wing. At first it's an intoxicating adventure, but Alex starts to realise that danger seems to follow her around. As they approach the magnificent Lake Toba, and head to the remote community of free spirits that Domino calls home, it seems there's trouble in paradise. The ideals of the camp seem honourable - a simple life, shared by friends in a beautiful place hidden from the world. But Domino has no answers for the questions that are forming in Alex's mind: Why do the local villagers hate them so much? Why are people leaving the camp in the dead of night? And what are the strange shapes lurking just beyond the clearing? A taut, atmospheric and emotive thriller, DARK HORIZONS transports you to the lush landscapes of Sumatra, and the twisted ideals and deadly secrets lying in wait there...

A journey through the shadowy heart of Brazil and the even darker mind of a killer, in the new literary thriller by critics' favorite Dan Smith. Leaving behind his life of violence in Brazil's darkest shadows, Zico is determined to become a better man. But it seems his old life isn't quite done with him yet when he's tasked with making one last kill. It's one that could get him everything he has ever wanted; a house, some land, cash in his pocket, a future for him and his girlfriend, Daniella. But this one isn't like all the others. This one comes at a much higher price.The Darkest Heart is a journey through the shadowy heart of Brazil and the even darker mind of a killer, where fear is a death sentence and the only chance of survival might mean abandoning the only good thing you've ever known.

Product Description: Designed for students studying an advanced course in data and knowledge base systems, this text shows the reader how straightforward techniques for logical and physical design can be used to reason about the many complex issues and trade-offs involved in designing and implementing data-intensive systems...read more

Product Description: This "action set" contains cardboard dinosaurs and prehistoric plants to press out and assemble in a giant diorama, with active volcano. Children can colour the dinosaurs and find descriptions in the detailed dictionary. There is also a geological time line-chart for added information...read more

Drawing on such disparate sources as Heart of Darkness and tales of the American West, a powerful and moving debut novel of one man's search for redemption deep in the badlands of South AmericaOn the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies São Tiago, a place poised between the old ways and the new, fought over by gangsters and big business. It's a town for people with nowhere else to run; a place where Sam, a former priest, has ended up. He left England to help people, but what he's seen has scarred him, and now he cares about nothing except drinking and fishing on the great river. But one night changes all that, when a man lies bleeding on a dirt floor, and what starts as a fight to save a life becomes a battle with São Tiago's dark heart. Caught between friends and enemies, and entangled in the affections of an ex-prostitute and a predatory landowner's wife, Sam realizes that in a place where life is cheap, love can be deadly. As the long dry season stretches out ahead, Sam must face his past if he is to forge the chance of a future and survive in a town without a soul. Steeped in violence and rich in atmosphere, this is a novel of shocking strength, populated with vivid characters, wild settings, and raw emotion.

Product Description: Roger Clements uses the computer to steal from the bank where he works, which changes his life in surprising ways. The poet Richard Wilbur says "...ordinariness of language combined with acuity of insight becomes contributory to a flavor of touching comedy."