Killer secrets. Killer crimes - the unmissable new DS McAvoy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author\"McAvoy is a true original\" Mick Herron DS Aector McAvoy is on a well-deserved family holiday when the news reaches him that he\'s been attacked and left for dead on one of Hull\'s most well-to-do streets. It comes as something of a shock. But not as much as the discovery

Trapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape, and discover what led them to this point. All are from parallel universes where small changes in history led to different realities, and the tensions between the groups are rising. But some changes were not small.

Exploring Modeling with Data and Differential Equations Using R provides a unique introduction to differential equations with applications to the biological and other natural sciences. Additionally, model parameterization and simulation of stochastic differential equations are explored, providing additional tools for model analysis and evaluation. This unified framework sits at the intersection of

We rarely give thought to our bodies until faced with a physical challenge or crisis. We have somehow internalized the unbiblical idea that the immaterial aspect of our being (our soul or spirit) is inherently good while the material aspect (our body) is at worst inherently evil and at best neutral--just a vehicle for our souls to get around. So we end up neglecting or disparaging our bodies, seeing

Murder Squad, a group of award-winning crime and mystery writers, celebrate their twenty-first birthday with a bang in this criminally good collection of short stories. A dawn swim turns deadly in a brand-new short story starring DCI Vera Stanhope . . . Two bored cell-mates play a game with chilling results . . . A hen night in an isolated cottage brings new meaning to \'I will survive\' . . . A train

Gail Simone says, \"...brilliantly written, gorgeously illustrated. This is why I am in love with comics.\" When Queen Elizabeth I is kidnapped, only the dramatic duo of William Shakespeare and William Page in their superhero alter-egos, THE BARD and PAGE can save her! Written in iambic pentameter, No Holds Bard is a throwback comedy adventure 400 years in the

At a time when women were finding their voices comes Hell Cat of the Hague: The Nel Slis Story, the remarkable tale of a female journalist who became the Associated Press\' first correspondent in The Hague after WWII. This story delves into the origins and follows the adventures of a larger-than-life character, fighting her way to make her mark in the world as a lone woman journalist and forming enduring

Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of expressive arts with poetry and poetics. The book offers both a guide and poetic encouragement for using poetry in expressive arts work. Within this arts context, poetry is offered as a way to create hope and

Are you ready to solve medium to hard Sudoku puzzles? Sudoku should be a progressive game. It should be used to challenge your knowledge of numbers and your understanding of patterns. When you play, you hone your logic skills and memory. You also improve your re-focus skills. So go ahead and play Sudoku

Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection--one of Calvino\'s earliest--take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storyteller\'s later style. A trio of gluttonous burglars invade a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family

Billy and his sister want new bicycles, but they don\'t have any money. Then their grandmother has an idea. There\'s a competition in Palace magazine. The first prize is GBP500. \'What do you think?\' Billy asks his sister. \'We can buy two new bicycles for GBP500,\' she

Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen\'s novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the world\'s enduring affection for the headstrong, often misguided Emma Woodhouse and her many romantic schemes. Like the previous volumes in Harvard\'s celebrated annotated Austen series, Emma: An Annotated Edition

In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully

If you\'re confused by commas, perplexed by pronouns, and plain terrified by tenses, English Grammar For Dummies will put your fears to rest. Packed with expert guidance, it covers everything from sentence basics to rules even your English teacher didn\'t know - if you want to brush up on your grammar, this is the only guide you\'ll ever

Practical, concise, and approachable, Audio Engineering 101, Second Edition covers everything aspiring audio engineers need to know to make it in the recording industry, from the characteristics of sound to microphones, analog versus digital recording, EQ/compression, mixing, mastering, and career skills. Filled with hand-ons, step-by-step technique breakdowns and all-new interviews with active professionals,

\"Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.\"--New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler\'s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes

\"Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being,\" writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic form of the tanka into its own innovative contemporary tradition. What was originally a five line 5-7-5-7-7-syllable verse form Ishii writes

An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematicsIntegers and permutations--two of the most basic mathematical objects--are born of different fields and analyzed with separate techniques. Yet when the Mathematical Sciences Investigation team of crack forensic mathematicians, led by Professor Gauss, begins its autopsies of the victims of two seemingly unrelated homicides, Arnie

Learn how to draw and color your own adorable world with the simple illustrations and easy-to-follow drawing steps in How to Draw Super Cute Things with Bobbie Goods. Perfect for beginners of all ages and bursting with humor, sweetness, and imagination, this book is sure to put a smile on your face! Get cozy, grab a pencil and your markers, and draw anything you can imagine in the most adorable art