An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate" (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap).As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering. But what are the facts behind the headlines?Drawing on three decades of research, migration expert Hein de Haas destroys the myths that politicians, interest gr...

The American TeacherTwo months after 9/11, an American teacher arrives in Muscat with little more than a contract and a suitcase.What follows is a year that changes him forever. And changes everything he thinks he knows about Muslims, the Middle East and the world.DiscoveryThrown into an Arabian kingdom still half a step from the Middle Ages, he discovers a world most outsiders never see — modern cities and exotic cultures, ...

The Rainier ParadigmMelissa Ross, a hardworking University of Washington grad student from the Olympic Peninsula, gets tangled in a forbidden romance with a charismatic, rock-star-status professor from the powerful Powell family.Real Estate DealThat relationship pulls her into a secret Deep State project called The Rainier Paradigm — a plan by an elite secret society (the Minderburgers) to detonate Mount Rainier, "thin out"...

Guidance and ChucklesHeinessights will not only enlighten you, this book will enlighten and amuse you at the same time.Take for example, this observation about life in the Army:★ “In the 82nd Airborne, they said everyone should be, “high and tight.”★ "It took a long time before I realized they were talking about my hair and not my underwear.”Heinessights: Wisdom for the Ages is for Everyone!You will ...

In this New York Times bestseller, Detective Michael Bennett must race against time to save New York City from chaos by tracking down the source of two mysterious attacks.New Yorkers aren't easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly: why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI's Emily Parker, have to catch the shadowy criminals...

Cherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times bestselling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children who overcome mortal dangers to improve their lives and the lives of others.A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching wat...

Detective Mike Bennett takes on a chilling man trying to play god as he threatens New York with a terrifying epidemic in this gripping novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author.A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York's elite, it is...

**From #1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver comes a riveting, race-against-the-clock mystery, told in reverse."Might well be Deaver's most fiendish thriller ever." ―New York Times Book Review"Deaver is a master of manipulation and The October List is a small but powerful book."―Associated Press**The shocking end is only the beginning ...Gabriela waits desperately for news of her abducted daughter.At last, the door o...

Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region’s long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics.Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah’s Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia.Author Rick Antonson joined...

In this thrilling story from the world’s #1 bestselling author, a criminal behavior expert must team up with an NYPD detective to track down a deadly killer terrorizing New York City—before it’s too late.Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally: he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene—along with a threatening message from the killer—it looks like someone has ...

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter was “back at the top of his game” (Publishers Weekly) with I, Sniper. And in Dead Zero Hunter kicks it up another notch, as Bob Lee Swagger must track down an AWOL Marine sniper hell-bent on completing his last mission.Who was Staff Sergeant Ray Cruz?To the grunts of 3-1-3, at war in the remote mountains of northern Afghanistan, he was a hero, a marine's marine, a sniper's ...

In this thrilling story from the world's #1 bestselling author, when a man falls to his death, it looks like a suicide—but Detective Michael Bennett finds evidence suggesting otherwise.A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide, except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett.BookShots—original, lightning-fast stories by James Patterson, designed to be...