Robert Ward has always enjoyed travelling, especially on foot. When he discovered the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago in Spain, he felt compelled to walk and experience this historic road. From his first journey along the Camino de Santiago, Ward fell in love with the pace, landscape, history, art, and romance of this old pilgrimage path. Above all, however, Ward fell in love with the people of the Camino – both the welcoming Spaniards and the pilgrims who come from all over the world...

This original anthology of noir fiction set in Maryland's Charm City includes new stories by David Simon, Laura Lippman, Jim Fusilli, and more.As fans of the HBO series The Wire have known for years, Baltimore is home to a rich and diverse underworld that is matched by an equally rich and diverse literary tradition. This is the city where Dashiell Hammett worked as a Pinkerton agent. It's also where Zelda Fitzgerald came...

Stock market is where millions of pounds are made and lost in a year. I am sure you would have heard stories of people making a killing at the stock market and be tempted to invest in the UK stock market.I am an investor based out of London and have invested and made money in the share market. I cannot say that I have not lost in shares however I have done reasonably well on the London Stock Exchange. Of course there was no one to help me out so trial and error was my best friend i...

L.A. FBI agents are up against an unstoppable cop killer in this thriller by the PEN West Award–winning author Four Kinds of Rain.Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But they've met their match in diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach. Arrested during a sting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will kill them all. Coming from a man who's about to go to prison, it sounds like an empty threat. The...

A fed's debt to a sexy snitch leads to a darkly funny nightmare of double-crosses and sinister motives: "Ward is simply the best" (Michael Connelly).All FBI Agent Jack Harper wants is a heavenly vacation in Baja: sand, surf, and fishing. Then he gets a phone call from hell: it's his for-lack-of-a-better-word girlfriend, Michelle Wu. The hot con-artist, and irresistible chop-shop queen needs Jack's help in finding her kidnapped sister, a nurse working a posh Taos he...

New, complete Sasha Pieterse. This book is your ultimate resource for Sasha Pieterse. Here you will find the most up-to-date 42 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Sasha Pieterse's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: List of characters in Heroes - Amanda Strazzulla, Inherent Vice (film) - Cast, G.B.F. - Plot, Family Affair - Revi...

Finally become the teacher you always dreamed of—and the teacher your students always needed.This is the book every educator has waited for! A current classroom teacher honestly and empathetically addresses the struggles and frustrations teachers face today, while also offering straightforward, realistic solutions and sound strategies to meet those challenges head on with renewed confidence, enthusiasm, and efficacy.This book illustrates a commonsense, multi-dimensional teach...

An examination of a post–war novelist, actor, and playwright whose personal life parallels his award-winning worksUnderstanding James Leo Herlihy is the first book-length study of one of America's most neglected post–war writers. Herlihy (1927–1993), an occasional actor, made his professional mark in life as a playwright and novelist. Herlihy produced a significant body of work, which includes numerous plays, two collections of short stories, and three nov...

An introduction to the complex world of options that every investor can useToo many books on options trading make the mistake of assuming that readers can already tell a delta from a sigma summation. Options and Options Trading breaks the code that envelops the often-foreign language of options, providing an accessible introduction into how the options market works as it explains the rules that traders must understand if they hope to take part in this high...

A fictional memoir about the writer's grandmother, a Civil Rights activist in Baltimore.

Geopolitical stresses in the Indo-Pacific are increasing and intensifying. These stresses derive from China’s more assertive regional behaviour; growing alignments between China and Russia on the one hand and Russia and North Korea on the other; and most recently from the apparent recalibration of United States foreign policy under the second Trump administration. They have magnified Japan’s significance as a strategic actor both in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.As such, it is of glo...

When Red Baker, a Larmel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Red’s angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his basketball-star son, Ace; his lifelong friend Dog, a casualty of the layoff; and Crystal, the go-go dancer at Lily’s bar who embodies Red’s fantasies of escape. Red Baker is a classic American novel about a man with no i...