George and Harold's latest prank backfires in the second book in this #1 New York Times bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man!George and Harold are usually responsible kids -- whenever anything bad happens, George and Harold are usually responsible! This time, they accidentally invent an army of terrifying talking toilets. Luckily, they know a superhero with enough snap in his waistband to save the day! This looks like an...

John Stone didn't expect too much from the Texas range—just the chance he'd be reunited with the only woman he ever loved. But that was before he laid eyes on Cassandra Whiteside, the beautiful mistress of the Triangle Spur ranch ... and a dead ringer for his long-lost Marie.It doesn't take long for Stone to get on the bad side of the old colonel who calls the Triangle Spur and Cassandra his private property. And after a wild night of salooning, Stone adds a pair of scheming cowhand...

The quiet of the jungle is shattered by a single command. The air fills with voices of death. A Texas cattle call. An Apache war whoop. A piercing scream of bloody blue murder. A killing chorus of zinging hot lead. A mighty green wave surges up the hill. The Rat Bastards are on the rampage, and what the enemy began, they are about to finish …

The virus doesn't kill you. The smile does.Forty-eight-year-old recluse Sarah Sampson thought her father died in Vietnam. She was wrong.As a strange new flu devastates the country—leaving only grinning corpses—a breaking news clip shatters Sarah's reality: her father, alive. He's the only known person to survive the infection.Sarah and her K-9 companions must flee their Montana ranch and cross a fractured America to find the man who vanished fifty y...

Brought to you by Penguin.Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of London Central, but get to the bottom of a tangled conspiracy that is about to change everything. In the thrilling penultimate instalment of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, Bernard's personal and professional life collide with devastating consequences.

For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it imp...

'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial TimesThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking behind the...

Brought to you by Penguin.Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. For he learns that there is treachery within his own Service, and no one is free from suspicion. To discover who really controls the game of spies, he must attempt a desperate gamble. As the Game, Set and Match trilogy reaches its shattering finale, who will make the winning mov...

The platoon passed through the lines and the GI's looked at them in awe. The word had spread like wildfire across the island that one platoon had met the spearhead of the Japanese attack and beaten them back, got surrounded, and fought free. The soldiers looked at them and could see that they'd been through hell. They were ragged and bloody … and they looked ready to do it all again."Boy," said one young marine, gazing in admiration, "they look like one bunch of butchers, don't they...

In the thought-provoking expanse of "Beyond the Code: GPT Models, The Singularity, and Posthumanism," the reader embarks on an intricate journey through the complex realms of artificial intelligence, the impending singularity, and the philosophical depths of posthumanism.The book begins by taking readers on a voyage through the fascinating world of GPT models. It unfurls the technical intricacies behind the technology that powers artificial intelligence, shedding light on the revol...

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE SERIESThe burning quest that drives John Stone leads him to San Francisco—a crime-ridden city where he'll need more than his famed quick draw to keep himself alive. The trail of his long-lost Marie is hotter than ever—in more ways than one. What Stone learns about his woman sears through his soul like hot lead—and in the moment of Stone's weakness, a cold-hearted assassin pops up in his shadow. Stone's quest may end forever … in the silence of the grave …

Love is in the air and Lilly the Virgin is holding her breath. The wedding of the century is only a week away. Except it’s Angelet and Derek’s wedding and they’re just a couple of peasants—how in the world did a peasant wedding turn into a state affair? Rich merchants and the nobility of the realm have invaded Dragon’s Landing—for a peasant wedding! What was up with that? And as usual, when the pressure is on, things get weird at the Drunken Dragon’s Tavern. Well, weirder.Wedding g...