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I am Thap tu gia--the Cross. Con Thien Village, Vietnam, 1964. My heart rate is slowing. My breathing is shallow but even. My finger is gentle on the cool metal trigger. There is a trickle of sweat above my brow, but my senses intensify to my surroundings. My body fills with a familiar sensation, like the arrival of a lost companion to comfort me. Now I feel complete. As with each of my kills, I will leave a small wooden cross with a single strip of leather fastening the two sections.

THE END OF THE HERO! Ruti never wanted to be the Hero, forced into a life of constant battle. When at last it seems she’s found a way to escape this terrible fate and spend her days happily with her big brother, Ares arrives to drag the young woman back. Red isn’t about to let his little...

In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the merchant marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides...

In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared. As old...

Boone Daniels lives to surf. Every morning he's out with the Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is. Or nearly. They have "real jobs": Boone works as a PI just enough to keep himself in fish tacos, and in the water whenever the waves are "epic macking crunchy...

Author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In his most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel following one man’s hunt for an elusive cult...

All things come to an end. The sun, moon, stars, and then you see the hands of a friend reaching out to you. It's time to begin again. There are those times you spend seeking your meaning then you hear the voice of a friend calling out to you. Come and know joy again.

AN INDEPENDENT THEOLOGICAL STUDY ON THE RAW STREAM OF KRIYA YOGASpanning from his historic arrival in the West in 1920 to his transition in 1952, Paramahamsa Yogananda delivered a monumental 2,000-page body of unedited lessons to his earliest disciples. This massive historical library laid down an uncompromising, un-redacted blueprint for cosmic ascension and universal Christ Consciousness. In the decades since, much of this raw, high-vibrational instruction has been heavily modified or condensed by institutional packaging.

Someone is killing drug dealers. Some in the Midwest town of Stonebridge speculate that a vigilante is behind the violence. Others believe it's merely fallout from ongoing gang wars. Reporter Jakob Larsen isn't content with either opinion. When he starts digging for answers, he discovers massive corruption within the police department and a link to a powerful cartel, information that places him and those closest to him in grave danger. EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS the tension-packed second book in the "Jakob Larsen Mysteries" series of investigative mystery crime thrillers.

Book One of Wandering. Trapped aboard a crippled spaceship hurtling through the unknown, Josephine Herl and Scott Drummond have only each other —and time is running out. Thrown into a strange and hostile reality where alien encounters, shifting physics, and hidden dangers threaten every move, they must fight to survive a journey beyond imagination. As terrifying secrets emerge and powerful enemies close in, Josephine and Scott will need every ounce of courage, intelligence, and resilience to stay alive.

'The consequences of big trauma often show up in the smallest cracks of daily life. In how tightly we grip. In how quickly we snap. In how deeply we fear letting go.' As children, we make choices that keep us safe in unsafe circumstances. As we grow, these learned responses start to limit us...

An edge-of-your-seat thriller about China's secret role in the space race—written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Apollo Murders and one of the most experienced astronauts alive. Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A full throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turner . . . Get ready to blast off and enjoy the ride!"—Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the James Reece Terminal List series "Continuous action, Mach-speed mayhem, sharp...

Polly, an average, completely ordinary property lawyer, is convinced she's losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress - the dry cleaner's.And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going on - and it's going to take more than a magical ring to sort it out.

A heart-warming tale of Armageddon from one of the funniest, most original voices in comic fiction today.... The third planet out from the star was blue, with green splodges. Dirt. Oh, the bomb thought. And then its courage, determination and nobility-of-spirit subroutines cut in, overriding everything else, adrenalizing its command functions and bypassing its cyberphrenetic nodes. Here goes, said the bomb to itself. Calibrate navigational pod. Engage primary thrusters. Ready auxiliary drive.

Maurice has just killed a dragon with a bread knife. And had his destiny foretold. . . and had his true love spirited away. That's precisely the sort of stuff that'd bring out the latent heroism in anyone. Unfortunately, Maurice is pretty sure he hasn't got any latent heroism. Meanwhile, a man...

When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them any more, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up. It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take Good and Evil, for example...

A new novel from a master of comic fantasy, Tom Holt. Same as the Old Evil, but with better PR. Mordak isn't bad, as far as goblin kings go, but when someone, or something, starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms it puts his rule into serious jeopardy. Suddenly he's locked in an arms race...

The award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy is a breathtaking epic adventure spanning a multitude of worlds. In The Amber Spyglass, the third and final instalment, the war between good and evil reaches a shattering conclusion. Lyra and Will are helped by friends old and new as they continue...

A breathtaking epic, the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy spans a multitude of worlds. The second instalment, The Subtle Knife, introduces Will Parry – a young boy in search of his long-lost explorer father. Will’s discovery of an extraordinary ‘window in the air’ near the Oxford...