Daring scoundrels open up a trade route to the haunted deathlands beyond the city's lightning walls. This industrial fantasy Noir is an epic that explores the interior lives of bold criminals, the city they inhabit, and the wasteland beyond. Follow their exploits as they recruit, set up operations, secure clients, and learn the hard way about the threats within and beyond the boundaries of civilization. "Sleet Rising" is set in the world of the tabletop role playing game Blades in the Dark...

The River Stallions plot to dominate the criminal underworld in North Port, a newly reclaimed ruin in the Deathlands. Then Lord Malicoat hires the crew of scoundrels to track down a dangerous secret--while they make their move to organize crime. Can they handle corrupt cops, ancient secrets, powerful cults, insane patrons, hardened criminals, and the Spirit Wardens all at once?

Uppercut and Scarecrow handle espionage and haunting as they race a crew of thieves to steal a mystical treasure. The heist draws them into a shadowy conflict between ancient ghosts and enigmatic occultists. The scoundrels must outwit a spy, decipher tattoos, and unravel secrets to stay alive.

A heist goes wrong, somebody important gets stabbed, and crime in Silkshore loses its balance. As a gang war looms, two criminal crews maneuver through the haunted and corrupt city of Doskvol, using crime and diplomacy to survive and get paid. Based in the setting of John Harper's tabletop role playing game Blades in the Dark.

Daring thieves steal from one of the most important aristocrats in Doskvol, and a blood curse is awakened. As the city's elite focus on retribution, the scoundrels try to steal their lives back.

This landmark collection of essays by one of the world's greatest living authors makes Durs Grünbein's wide-ranging and multifaceted prose available in English for the first time, and is a welcome complement to Ashes for Breakfast, his first book-length collection of poetry in English.Covering two decades, The Bars of Atlantis unfurls the entire breadth and depth of Grünbein's essayistic genius. Memoiristic and autobiographical pieces that introdu...

Although running is becoming one of the most popular sports, learning to run properly can take time, energy and consistency.You need to do it regularly to become good at it and until you have achieved a certain level of competence, it is unlikely that you will enjoy it very much, or for very long. For many runners physical and mental barriers can stop progress.This book’s ultimate aim is to help you enjoy to run – to enjoy the feeling of movement, to overcome inertia, to re...

Chalice was once the center of a trade empire, but now it is crumbling. Three stories unfurl in the shadows of the cobbled streets. Spies, problem solvers, thieves, and occultists get tangled in various deadly mysteries. Red-headed twins help a student trapped in a duel with larger political implications. A spy returns from exile, racing his murderous shadow to find a lost woman. An occult scholar was nearly destroyed by reading a book, so he hid it--but a powerful noble found it, and thre...

Discover the origins of Durzo Blint in this original novella set in the world of Brent Weeks' New York Times bestselling Night Angel trilogy."I got a bit of prophecy," the old assassin said. "Not enough to be useful, you know. Just glimpses. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. I had this vision that I was going to be killed by forty men, all at once. But now that you're here, I see they're all you. Durzo Blint."Durzo Blint? Gaelan had never even hear...

This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations underpin all our lives.Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's sixth finger or his mother's unpredictable behaviour, Tammet explores questio...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED• ALEX AWARD WINNER • New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie’s thrilling series continues in the follow-up to Half a King, which George R. R. Martin hailed as “a fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page 1 and refused to let go.”“The Shattered Seas trilogy has worked its way into a very exclusive group of my favorite fantasy novels of all time.”—...

(Readers who recently downloaded the briefly available incorrect product can re-download this correct edition, or contact the author via her web page for an emailed copy.)The Wolverine’s Daughter is hard-tempered by her struggle to survive in the hostile Keturan mountains; she knows nothing of the Outlands, or of her father...or of the curse behind her puzzling clumsiness. But she’s about to find out what it means to visit those Outlands...and they’re about to find out what it mean...