The triple-crown winner of mystery's most prestigious awards-the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus-Rick Riordan blasted onto the crime scene with one of its freshest and most intriguing protagonists, Tres Navarre. In Mission Road , Navarre returns in a wrenching crime drama in which he must revisit ... more »

The Black Echo (Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) For Harry Bosch--hero, loner, nighthawk--the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn't just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam tunnel rat, fighting the VC and the fear they used to call ... more »

Improve Your Grasp of Fluid Mechanics in the HumanCirculatory System_and Develop Better Medical Devices Applied Biofluid Mechanics  features a solid grasp of the role of fluid mechanics in the human circulatory system that will help in the research and design of new medical instruments, equipment ... more »

A SEARING NOVEL OF A DOWN- AND -OUT COP Award-wining mystery novelist Jerry Oster takes a major step forward in his most ambitious book yet. Busted Valentine is the story of Solitaire, a down-and-out cop with a busted heart, busted career, busted soul. Oster takes us inside Solitaire's melancholy head ... more »

Andrew Vachss's previous novel, Dead and Gone , prompted the Rocky Mountain News to say, "Starting a Vachss novel is like putting a vial of nitroglycerine into your pocket and going for a jog." With his latest thriller, Vachss turns the heat up a notch by dropping his career criminal and ultimate ... more »

An award-winning journalist delves behind the scenes of a chilling true crime story aired on TV's 48 Hours Mystery -- and uncovers twisting revelations inside an already shattering case of double homicide. Halloween night in idyllic Napa, California: two young women roommates -- a transplanted Southern ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ; The Poirots: the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd broke all the rules of detective fiction and made Agatha Christie a household name. There ... more »

 A bold manifesto by two business leaders,  A Billion Bootstraps  shows why microcredit is the world's most powerful poverty-fighting movement-and an unbeatable investment for your charitable donations. A Billion Bootstraps  unearths the roots of the microcredit revolution, revealing ... more »

Antoni Battista has spent his life in Chicago, shuffled from one foster home to another, and getting into more and more trouble as he grew older. However, after surviving a drive-by shooting -- in which he is an innocent victim -- Tony unexpectedly is given a chance at a new start. There's just one catch ... more »

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip -- lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD ... more »

Agents, report. McGruder eyed the industrial complex, just north of San Jose outside Silicon Valley, a tilt-up complex, newly built, barely one fifth occupied. He shrugged uncomfortably inside his flak jacket hidden under a dark blue tie-on vest proclaiming FBI in large white letters front and back. ... more »

 When the going gets tough, the tough need inspiration-and that's what  Great Thoughts to Sell By provides. It's a collection of quotes from the world's top sales consultants, business leaders, historical figures, and bestselling authors, including: Norman Vincent Peale, Benjamin Franklin, ... more »