*The brand new novel in The San Diego Case Files series from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose*'High wire suspense that keeps you riveted' Lisa Gardner*When homicide Detective Kit McKittrick and psychologist Sam Reeves discover a mutilated body in the desert outside San Diego, any number of people could be on their suspect list. The murder victim, local Councillor Brooks Munro, was a hated figure.Following the kill...

The brand new thriller in the San Diego Case Files series from Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Rose'High wire suspense that keeps you riveted' Lisa GardnerHomicide Detective Kit McKittrick and psychologist Sam Reeves arrive at Mary Sherman's house after she fails to turn up for an arranged meeting with Kit's foster sister Akiko. Three weeks earlier, Akiko received a call from Mary out of the blue claiming she had informatio...

It was the summer of 2014, and the true horrors of the Rising were only just beginning to reveal themselves. Fans from all over the world gathered in San Diego, California for the annual comic book and media convention, planning to forget about the troubling rumors of new diseases and walking dead by immersing themselves in a familiar environment. Over the course of five grueling days and nights, it became clear that the news was very close to home . . . and that most of the people who pic...

Edinburgh, 2014. Two writer friends, Damaris and Oliver Pablo, escape London, the city that killed his brother. They spend their days trying to get to the library, bickering over their tanking bitcoin, failing to write or resist the sadness. Then they meet Diego, a poet. He tells them he is named for his mother's island in the Chagos Archipelago, which she and her community were forced to leave by British soldiers in 1973. Damaris and Oliver Pablo become obsessed with this notorious episod...

Humans have returned to Pandora—with an armada of starships—but Jake Sully and the Na’vi are ready for them!Knowing this day would come, Jake has trained his Na’vi warriors with a plan that should make it too costly for the humans to try again . . . if the plan works.But, any chain of events is only as strong as the weakest link, and in this case the weak link is human nature. As the plan unravels, Jake and Neytiri must race against time to return to Pandor...

You have the idea. You have had it for years. What you do not have is the money, so you are waiting.Here is what the research actually says.A Harvard professor went to the five hundred fastest growing companies in America and asked them how they had started. The median was around ten thousand dollars, most of it personal savings. Five per cent had venture capital. Two thirds began with no business plan at all.Since 1980, about two companies in every thousand have raise...

When her parents die, Elizabeth is left with nothing but bills to pay. Debtors come knocking aggressively on her door, making threats, and all she can do is pray that God sends help—fast! Help comes in the guise of a mail-order bride ad and soon Elizabeth is sailing to America, on her way to marry Edmund Williams in San Diego, California. But danger follows her across the ocean and into the arms of Edmund, who has also lost everything and stands to lose even more as he and his frie...

Mark Waid's (Daredevil) superhero epic asks the question, "What if the world's greatest superhero decided to become the world's greatest supervillain?" Collects issues #24-31.

Nineteen-year-old refugee Alephonsion Deng, from war-ravaged Sudan, had great expectations when he arrived in America three weeks before two planes crashed into the World Trade Towers. Money, he’d been told, was given to you in pillows. Machines did all the work. Education was free.Suburban mom Judy Bernstein had her own assumptions. The teenaged “Lost Boys of Sudan”—who’d traveled barefoot and starving for a thousand miles—needed a little mothering and a change of scenery: a trip ...

You have said it out loud about four times, and every time it came out sounding like an excuse.I can't quit my job.Nobody has ever checked whether it is true. Here is what happens when somebody does.Thirty-five per cent. That is how much less the median person earned, ten years after leaving a wage to work for themselves, than if they had simply stayed. Not the failures. The middle of the pack. James Hamilton published it in the Journal of Political Economy in 2000, an...

Imagine a world where the past, present and future have collided. A world that is timeless. This is the world Diego was born into…For fans of Rick Riordan and Brian Selznick, author-artist Armand Baltazar introduces the first book in a new fantasy adventure series.Over 150 full-colour illustrations bring this cinematic story to life!You’ve never seen Earth like this before: continents reshaped, oceans re-formed, cities rebuilt. Dinosaurs roam the pl...

You have the idea. You have had it for years. What you do not have is the money, so you are waiting.Here is what the research actually says.A Harvard professor went to the five hundred fastest growing companies in America and asked them how they had started. The median was around ten thousand dollars, most of it personal savings. Five per cent had venture capital. Two thirds began with no business plan at all.Since 1980, about two companies in every thousand have raise...