**He's funny. He's (too) friendly. He's... a fishboy named SASHIMI!Check out the second book in this uproarious graphic novel series from bestseller and Caldecott Medal winner Dan Santat.**Sashimi is going on a field trip! Except he didn't get his permission slip signed. And he accidentally boarded (and quickly got kicked off of) the wrong bus.Uh-oh... is Sashimi... missing?Sound the alarm! A child without a signed permission slip is on the loose!It’...

A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man.On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to des...

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets.An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared into the ch...

Sixteen queer and trans speculative fiction stories that will transport you to strange places filled with mythical monsters, found families, strange science, restless robots, and gorgeous genders!These stories explore genders both very new and very old, feelings of kinship and kindness, the boundaries of bodies and minds, and what lies beyond our current moment. Come along for the ride as corporations release the hottest new genders; mythical beings attempt to reshape the world; sc...

A successful entrepreneur, speaker, and marketing copywriter shows you how to wield the persuasive, profit-making power of humor.People buy more and buy more happily when in good humor. Understanding humor and being able to effectively use it for your sales and persuasion purposes is a powerful advantage. Drawn from thirty years' experience as a popular professional speaker, author of thirteen books, columnist and advertising copywriter, Dan Kennedy looks at humor a...

Discover what it was like to be amidst the action as a military photographer during the Vietnam War.Shooting Vietnam takes you there as you read the firsthand accounts and view the hundreds of photographs by men who lived the war through the lens of a camera. From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, they documented everything from the horror of combat to the people and culture of a land they suddenly found themselves immersed in. Some juggled cameras with we...

"An excellent collection" of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, and Tanith Lee ( Publishers Weekly ).Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire, from horrific to erotic. These stories reflect the evolution of vampire literature from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice and beyond, resulting in a deeper ex...

From the Hugo Award–winning author of the Hyperion Cantos, the first book of a breathtaking duology (with Olympos) based on the themes of Homer’s The Iliad and Shakespeare’s The Tempest—a groundbreaking work from a “magnificently original” (Denver Post) writer.Dan Simmons’s Hyperion created a sensation among readers worldwide. The New York Times called the four Hyperion novels “an unfailingly inventive narrative that bea...

Some killers leave nothing behind. This one leaves something extra.A young woman is found dead on the stones beside a river. At first it looks like another tragic homicide, until the medical examiner discovers something impossible.FBI agent Lauren Pauling has worked serial cases before. She's never seen a signature like this.Working alongside profiler Ezra Skinner, Pauling follows the trail of the killer.The clock is running. The killer isn'...

Book five in a series of autobiographical short stories based on life-changing events: surviving a skydive, fronting a rock band, working the World Series. You know; the once-in-a-lifetime stuff!

What you'll learn reading ABOVE BLACK... 1) Breakdown of how grey projects (government projects related to alien knowledge) are kept under wraps so effectively from the prying eyes of the public. 2) In depth description of the intuitive communicator (IC) school attended by the author at the NSA facility at Ft. Meade, MD. 3) How the intuitive communications ability was unlocked in the author's mind by interfacing with exotic computer equipment. 4) What publicly traded company the author lin...

What happens when you can't forgive and forget?We've come to view love as being "nice," yet the kind of love modeled by Jesus Christ has nothing to do with manners or unconditional acceptance. Rather, it is disruptive, courageous, and socially unacceptable.In Bold Love, Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Tremper Longman III draw out the aggressive, unrelenting, passionate power of genuine love. Far from helping you "get along" with others, Bold Love...