The Yards: Recently released from prison, Leo Handler just wants to get his life back on track. But when he takes a job with his powerful Uncle Frank and reconnects with his old friend Willie, Leo finds himself unwittingly drawn into a world of sabotage, high-stakes payoffs and even murder. The Lookout: "Chris "Slapshot" Pratt, whose once-bright future has been dimmed by a head injury, is a night janitor at a bank. Lonely and frustrated, Chris falls...

"The first-ever Firefly event returns in a new edition concluding the opening and closing chapters that changed the 'Verse! Sheriff Mal Reynolds has a new partner -- a law enforcing robot from the Blue Sun corporation. If he wants to keep his job and protect his sector, he'll have to play by Blue Sun's rulebook. But the robots don't care about motives, about mercy, about anything other than enforcing the law -- no matter the cost. The Blue Sun Corporation...

"Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa. But why the new upsurge? The popular narrative blames a meeting of two evils -- criminal poaching and terrorism. But the answer is not that simple. Since ancient times,...

A corrupt village wrongly suspects the idiot assistant of a medicine-show operator of being the emperor's omnipotent inspector general in disguise.

The definitive story of the birth of the crack plague, told by the man at the epicenter of the CIA/Contra/cocaine connection: 'Freeway' Ricky Ross. His story defies all odds and proves that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

Over half a century Rupert Murdoch's business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world's most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat due to shocking allegations of invasion of privacy and journalistic impropriety by employees at Murdoch's now defunct British newspaper "News of the World". Today, the owner of the "Wall Street Journal" and FOX News Channel is in the fight of his life for the future of his company, his...

"A sweeping multigenerational debut novel about idealism, betrayal, and family secrets that takes us from Brooklyn in the 1930s to Soviet Russia to post-Cold War America. When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow--and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian,...

This is the other side of the Google story, the unauthorized book that Google does not want you to read. In it, the author, a Google expert shows that the world's most powerful company is not who it pretends to be. Google pretends to be a harmless lamb, but chose a full size model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex as its mascot. Beware the T Rex in sheep's clothing. Google has acquired far more information, both public and private, and has invented more ways...