A quiet night on patrol. A vivid imagination. And something lurking in the pitch-black mountain woods...Working the graveyard shift as a security guard at an exclusive, gated golf community in the Arizona mountains isn't the most glamorous job, but it's usually quiet. Your shift alternates between sitting in a sleepy gatehouse and patrolling dark, winding backroads surrounded by pine trees and wildlife.For one night watchman with a deep love for horror movi...

The Peanuts gang offer their wisdom on family life in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. Whether it's Charlie Brown helping his little sister Sally with her homework, Snoopy going in search of his beloved sister Belle or Linus learning how to cope with having a big sister who is always in charge, in this new book siblings are celebrated in all their glory. Even Lucy will admit that little brothers can sometimes be useful to have in your corner. The millions o...

This book is for lovers of fairy tales ...Kaylee Browne was a typical lonely young teen, trying to deal with certain sad events in her life, when she discovered a magic key in a new bookstore in town. Unknown to Kaylee the key had magical powers imbued within. The key whizzes her away to the faraway lands of The Five Realms, where she meets a multitude of new friends and begins a quest to find the maker of the key, so she can learn how to get home... then to her surprise, a complete...

Mikhail Tal was one of the greatest geniuses of chess history. The magician from Riga, as he was known because of his dazzling attacking games, took the chess world by storm and in 1961, at the age of twenty-three, he won the world championship.His sacrificial style made Tal immensely popular with chess players all over the world. In this book Grandmaster Karsten Muller and chess journalist Raymund Stolze have created an instructional chess tactics guide by investigating and explai...

Our favourite cartoon cynic shares her lessons on life in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. In her inimitable style, Lucy spends her days teasing Charlie Brown, offering up psychiatric advice, giving her little brother Linus a hard time and relentlessly pursuing her beloved piano player, Schroeder.For the millions of faithful Charles Schulz fans, and those who fondly remember the crabby girl in the blue dress, this is the first in a new series to cherish that...

Twelve-year-old Cadet Leo, callsign Ghost Lead, is the Human Alliance's youngest ace pilot. Brave, resourceful, and a master of the stars, he flies the Star-Slayer with unmatched skill. When the galaxy faces extinction, Leo proves that true heroism isn't about age—it's about having the courage to fly into the unknown.

Peanuts is the most popular comic strip in the history of the world. Its characters -- Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, and so many more -- have become dearly loved icons for generation after generation. Now Charles Schulz's classic, Peanuts, will be reprinted in its entirety for the first time. In these beautifully produced editions, the strip will be presented in full in chronological order. They will be the ultimate books for Peanuts' fans the world over.These firs...

No more corpses. At least, that was the plan.THE MULTIMILLION-COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER RETURNSLawyer turned murderer Björn wants to stop killing. Unfortunately, the prisoner in his basement is getting restless, the parents' committee at his daughter's preschool is clamouring for his attention, and to cap it all, he's also being blackmailed.To manage all this stress, he turns to a mindfulness coach to learn about the unmet needs...

Peanuts on Parade was not only the biggest tribute to Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz, but is the largest and longest running city art project dedicated to an individual. Hosted by St. Paul, Minnesota (2000-2004) and Santa Rosa, California (2005-2007, 2010), over five million fans from all fifty states and over sixty countries searched for nearly 800 unique five-foot statues of the Peanuts gang, each year featuring a different character. Go behind the scenes from the very first conversatio...

When eleven-year-old witch Hazel Moon moves to the ordinary town of Oakhaven, she misses her old witching village where magic was a part of everyday life. In Oakhaven, the rules are strict: never reveal magic to regular humans and don't make human friends. But when Halloween arrives, Hazel sees her chance to blend in by wearing her real witch robes and heading out to trick-or-treat with Maya, Lily, and Sophie.Finding friendship for the first time in weeks, Hazel is eager to keep he...

Joseph Rothschild Book Prize Honorable MentionStrategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy choices, and how this intersected with the costs and benefits of policy changes for the politicians in each state.Prior to EU accession, policymakers were slow to adopt minority-friendly policies for ethnic Russians despite mandates...

Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to answer that question and many others. Beginning with a sweeping view of torture in Western history, the book examines questions such as these: Can anyone be turned into a torturer? What exactly is the psyc...