Kazunobu Haramoto is all about that thug life. He’s rough, he’s tumble, and now that he’s joined the Yakuzu, he’s all set to climb the ranks of the underworld. But you know what they say: all conditioned things are like dreams, shadows, and bubbles. And Kazunobu’s bubble bursts like no other! A gang raid by a mysterious assassin leaves all his new yakuza comrades dead and dusted, and the fuzz catch him at the scene with the only other survivor, the boss’s young daughter. Witness protection...

Wild Space—a far-flung sector of space in the distant future—has many tales to tell, fraught with adventure, romance, and tragedy.Ni'Linya is an indentured Felyan pleasure girl and the only friend of Cole, a human assassin for the Second Imperium, with whom she shares her bed and to whom he pours out his world-weary heart. In "The Hunter and the Tiger," one fateful mission to a hostile planet brings revelations and changes to the star-crossed couple, both tragic an...

Judged for the colour of her eyes,Madelaine Cole is forced to flee England.Attacked on the border,She's dragged from the rushing river by a mysterious stranger.But Mr. McGregor's sanctuary has a price.His care is a cage,His safety, a leash.To stay hidden from border patrol, she must yield—Not only her newfound freedom, but her compliance.Be...

Britain on the brink. A forbidden romance. The fight for survival.In 2024, Great Britain is a cruel place. Injustice, angst and pain are widespread.Caroline Craness is a hostage to the state because of her gender, judged for her morality and forced into captivity.But Caroline is strong.She's a fighter, and risks her life to help her friend, only to land in serious trouble.Enter the Commander General--the man in charge of the largest conc...

THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON BEHIND THE COSMERE****What if the Dark Lord won?A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A dark lord rules through the aristocratic families and ordinary folk are condemned to lives in servitude, sold as goods, labouring in the ash fields.B...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive, begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built on...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Mull comes Spirit Animals, an epic book series that leaps from the page into a riveting online game. Your book is the key to claim your spirit animal!In the world of Erdas, four children are about to discover if they have a spirit animal bond, a rare link between human and beast that gives great powers to both. Separated by vast distances, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan each see a flash of light . . . and then the animals emerge.W...

Whitney Houston's first two albums, Whitney Houston (1985) and Whitney (1987), propelled her to international fame and produced a record-setting run of seven consecutive No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Yet those triumphs were accompanied by criticism that she had diluted her racial identity to appeal to white audiences. With her third album, 1990's I'm Your Baby Tonight, she confronted those charges by more fully embracing a Black musical lineage...

Political science is a wide-ranging discipline which covers American politics, global studies, public administration and policy, and more. The study of politics and policy can produce rewarding careers in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Unfortunately, the path from studying political science to a rewarding career is not always a clear one.This book provides information and tools that help students explore the connections between their classrooms and car...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a standalone Cosmere novel of demons and destiny. Illustrated by Tran Nguyen.In a forgotten land sustained by colorful rivers of demon blood, a child was born in the last cold hour of the last cold day of the last cold month. Let us call her December.As an orphaned foundling, December grew up doing her best to fit into the roles society prepared for her. But after a transformativ...

A boxed set of the landmark fantasy from Brandon Sanderson, the man credited with breathing fresh life into Robert Jordan's WHEEL OF TIME.An epic fantasy set in a world where the Dark Lord has gained dominion over the world.A world of ash and pain. A world subjugated. But a world where magic can be drawn from metals. A world waiting for a new heroine, a new hope.A word of mouth bestseller in the USA Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy have now become a massive hit ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the h...