Abel LeBlanc, better known to his brothers as Riggs, is the President of Kings of Retribution MC, Louisiana Chapter. As a former Green Beret, he runs the club with the same precision and grit he did serving his country.Dedicating years of his life to mercenary missions and his club left no time or desire to settle down and start his own family.No one has ever come close to making him want more until Luna.A call from Jake, President and founder of Kings of Retributio...

An exploration of the science behind being alive and aware, from the author of Brainstorms and Darwin's Dangerous Idea."Brilliant . . . as audacious as its title. . . . Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant, the best example I've seen of a science book aimed at both professionals and general readers." —George Johnson, New York Times Book ReviewConsciousness Explained is a full-scale explora...

The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change. There's no better source for both practical and spiritual financial wisdom than the time-tested knowledge found in the ancient Jewish faith and its culture. In "Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money", Rabbi Daniel Lapin offers a practical approach to creating wealth based on the established principles of an...

The Chronicles of Pirates gathers nine landmark accounts of maritime outlawry into a capacious history of piracy, balancing documentary narrative, biography, adventure writing, and later historical reconstruction. Moving from the buccaneering Caribbean to the wider Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds, it tests the distance between popular legend and archival reality. Narratives of sea raids, mutiny, colonial conflict, and notorious captains illuminate piracy not merely as romance, but as a v...

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Isl...

The New York Times bestseller – a “crystal-clear, constantly engaging” (Jared Diamond) exploration of the role that religious belief plays in our lives and our interactionsFor all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why—and how—it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best ...

Kit Colbana: assassin, thief, investigator extraordinaire. Now broken.She always expected her past to catch up with her but never like this. Haunted by nightmares and stripped of her identity, she's retreated to Wolf Haven, the no-man's land where she found refuge years before. But while she might want to hide away from the rest of the world, the rest of the world isn't taking the hint.Dragged kicking and screaming back into life, Kit is thrust head-first int...

**"How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is an understatement." —Richard DawkinsA memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett.**Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about?...

"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —NatureHow did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind?In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show...

Haunted, Hunted…and harassed.Never let it be said that Kit Colbana had ever been given the easy road. Or even the semi-paved road. Only weeks after dealing with the mysterious—and murderous—being called Puck, she's got another killer on her hands. Perhaps even two.Some of the bodies turning up bring up haunting memories of a past she longs to forget, but as always, that past is chasing her at her heels, like a hated shadow.As the body count ra...

MOVE OVER, BIG BANG! GET WRECKED, BIG CRUNCH! GALAXIES COME AND GALAXIES GO, BUT OUR PLANE OF EXISTENCE HAS NEVER FACED ANYTHING AS CONSEQUENTIAL AS . . . THE FIRST-EVER RICK AND MORTY COMICS EVENT! From the deviant psyches of comics mastermind and multiple Emmy Award–nominee Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and artistic annihilator Jarrett Williams (Speed Force), this summer’s seven-part countdown to the end of everything that was, is, and will be begins with . . . a bachelor party that gets a l...

A Race Against Time in a World of EnchantmentAt WillowBrook School of Magic, nothing is as it seems-staircases shift without warning, enchanted suits of armor come to life, and even the books might talk back. When Willow and her friends stumble upon a series of magical anomalies, they are thrust into a high-stakes quest that tests their courage and skills. From spellcasting competitions to ancient mysteries hidden in plain sight, every challenge brings th...