It was supposed to be a simple in-and-out mission, but instead turned into a fight for survival. Two boys join forces to dodge real, live, mutant monsters and pull off an escape from the bottled-up bowels of an underground detention center called the Big Ugly.They team up with a genetically-engineered hybrid called meroMERO and a motley crew of mechanically-enhanced children. Can they break in, defeat the monsters, complete the rescue, and make it back to safety? From the depths of...

'I'm twisted. A contorted child. An adult who is a hole, a tear.' When a military dictatorship takes hold of her home country, young Marisol flees into the night with her family. Seeking refuge, the family resides in a refugee camp in the hope of being granted asylum abroad and eventually moving to Norway. Told through fragments from Marisol's childhood and adult years, Chiquitita is loosely based on Pedro Carmona-Alvarez's own experience of fleeing Chile. A haunting story of displacement ...

Johnny is from New Jersey, and Kari is from Oslo. They meet in New York in the late 1950s and soon fall in love, get married, and move to Asbury Park, where their life unfolds like a dream: Kari gives birth to two beautiful daughters, and Johnny is a wildly successful entrepreneur. Everything begins to unravel, though, when Johnny’s business partner commits suicide and their company plunges into bankruptcy. Then a deadly accident claims their daughters. Reeling from the tragedy and seeking...

Path of the Devil: Camino del Diablo is a story of true events that occurred 1991-1996. DEA Agent Larry Hardin and two private investigators, Jeff Pearce and Randy Torgerson, were determined to bring down the Meraz organization along the southwestern border. For five years the three men spearheaded two separate, and simultaneous investigations in different locations that eventually merged.Jeff and Randy provided information to Larry to build his case when they found the Meraz’s wer...

In a fascinating story of 220 pages, through a selection of more than 300 images from 65 archives in America, Europe and Asia; the Mexican Football Federation and Cooperativa La Joplin celebrate, in an unprecedented and playful way, one of the great contributions of Mexico to all humanity: the ball.The first half of the book covers the remote origin of this claim, the symbolism and myth, the culture and art in Mesoamerica to answer all of the questions that may arise for those familiar and...

In this book, the interrupt handling models used by several operating systems are introduced and compared.We begin with an analysis of the classical interrupt management model used by Unix, followed by the schemes used by modern networked environments.We highlight the key challenges of each of these models and how these have been solved by modern operating systems and the research community. Then we analyze the architectures used for general purpose and embedded real-time o...

'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie Johnson From the top 10 best-selling author of The Summerhouse by the Sea Welcome to Jenny Oliver’s brand new Cherry Pie Island series! Home, Sweet Home….? There’s nowhere more deliciously welcoming… When Annie White steps back onto Cherry Pie Island, it’s safe to say her newly inherited Dandelion Café has seen better days! And while her childhood home on the Thames-side island idyll is exactly the same retreat from ...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIRWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?**In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the t...

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.   Santiago de Compostela is the capital city of Galicia, Spain, and one of the most important places for Catholicism because it's the place where St. James is reputed to be buried.   With a population of 100,000, Santiago de Compostela is one of the most important cities of Galicia and it receives many thousands of v...

Holly Chapman is determined to get her best friend, Kate McGregor, back at Timber Ridge. Angela Dean and her scheming mother are equally determined to keep Kate out. But thanks to unexpected help, Holly wins, and Kate returns to the barn in time for a surprise birthday party.  This isn’t Kate’s only surprise. Her movie-star boyfriend has been making headlines, and when Kate attends the Moonlight premiere in New York, she ends up making a headline of her own. Th...

‘Embraces the spirit and the message of the movie…A must-read’ Karolyn Grimes, actress, ‘Zuzu’ in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’‘Beautiful and uplifting…Written with such heart it warms the soul’ Claudia Carroll‘A compelling, magical, festive cracker of a book’ Alexandra Brown, bestselling author of The Great Village Show***CHRISTMAS 1998Belle Bailey spent her early years ...

'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to...