An anthology edition of the first four stories of The Lesser Evil, including two not previously available to purchase. Only One Death: If he does not find a way to save them, Dhinal knows his people will die. Every single one of them. Dust & Death: In a land of dust, there are some things best left buried, horrors and secrets which go far beyond fear — testing the very sanity itself. Death & Taxes: A teenage assassin and the uncle who trained her, a trio of backstabbing killers, and a man Merie knows for a fact wants her dead. And that’s just the people she works with. A Clean Death: An assassin, her apprentice, and one final murder. A city where it is law to wear a mask in public. And someone — or something — hiding in the shadows. Something which wants them to fail. Fatally. A forthcoming epic fantasy trilogy, The Lesser Evil begins with a series of introductory back-stories: The Tales of The Lesser Evil. Each of these Tales introduces characters, places, themes and concepts which will form the heart of the coming trilogy. Think of each as a prequel, or a movement in an ongoing symphony of story.

The early 21st century is a time of unprecedented opportunity for those coming of age. It is a time when many young adults set out to achieve their dreams, be it starting their own business, starting a political movement, or propelling themselves to superstardom. Angelle's dream is to become Cultural Royalty of Pacificland, thus achieving what her mother couldn't. Her vision is based on freedom, dreams, love and fairness for all. However, she soon finds that whilst change appears to be in the air, the resistance is often even greater. While the early 21st century is a time of opportunity for some, many people remain left behind, and tension and dissatisfaction is the order of the day in many areas of life. The increasing pitch of the culture wars, and the influence of global movements from the Tea Party to the Occupy Protests, also combine to make Pacificland a daily ideological warzone. Meanwhile, Pacificland gets caught up in a meaningless political stalemate, with reforms like marriage equality stalled seemingly forever. With her own dreams on the line, will Angelle stay true to her values? And if she does, will it be enough to make a positive difference? Life isn't meant to be easy, but are there rewards for the brave at the end? While Angelle's story is fictional, the perspective taken on the social and political movements of the 2000s and 2010s are inspired by real life accounts, and represent the very real perceptions of real people living today.

The fate of the Chiss Ascendancy hangs in the balance in the epic finale of the Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. For thousands of years The Chiss Ascendancy has been an island of calm, a center of power, and a beacon of integrity. Led by the Nine Ruling Families, their leadership stands as a bulwark of stability against the Chaos of the Unknown Regions. But that stability has been eroded by a cunning foe that winnows away trust and loyalty in equal measure. Bonds of fidelity have given way to lines of division among the families. Despite the efforts of the Expansionary Defense Fleet, the Ascendancy slips closer and closer toward civil war. The Chiss are no strangers to war. Their mythic status in the Chaos was earned through conflict and terrible deeds, some long buried. Until now. To ensure the Ascendancy's future, Thrawn will delve deep into its past, uncovering the dark secrets surrounding the ascension of the First Ruling Family. But the truth of a family's legacy is only as strong as the legend that supports it. Even if that legend turns out to be a lie. To secure the salvation of the Ascendancy, is Thrawn willing to sacrifice everything? Including the only home he has ever known?

The entire #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy, including The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land, now available in one ebook bundle The Magicians Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams may have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined . . . The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination. The Magician King Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory—a fictional utopia—was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring. Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off—only to somehow wind up back in the real-world and not in Fillory, as they’d hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia’s illicitly learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth. The Magician's Land Quentin Coldwater has lost everything. He has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical world of his childhood dreams that he once ruled. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him. Meanwhile, the magical barriers that keep Fillory safe are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded. Eliot and Janet, the rulers of Fillory, embark on a final quest to save their beloved world, only to discover a situation far more complex—and far more dire—than anyone had envisioned. Along with Plum, a brilliant young magician with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. His new life takes him back to old haunts, like Antarctica and the Neitherlands, and old friends he thought were lost forever. The Magician’s Land is an intricate and fantastical thriller, and an epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy.

Don’t Face Just Your Demons, Kill Them When her family is murdered in what seems like a robbery gone wrong, Tia Scott’s life is blown apart. But, before she can even begin to pick up the pieces, she is thrown into an underworld where demons, ghosts, and all the monsters you were told as a kid didn’t exist are in fact very, very real. Leaving her old life behind, Tia only has one purpose—retribution. Joel and Lucas Jackson have been fighting demons since they could walk. It’s what they do. When their latest case leads them to a girl whose mission for vengeance is going to get her killed, they agree to help Tia. One more dead demon is a result in their book. But joining forces takes all three down a path none of them could have predicted, and as their journey unfolds, it becomes clear that this is a battle they might not be strong enough to survive. And, if they do, will their hearts make it out, unscathed?

Spoil Their Spoils, and Let Them Rejoice on Lifeless Earth. In the bayfront land of Tenoch, the death of Roberts Tolyem has exposed a vulnerability that citizens haven’t felt in decades. Those who saw their once-meager lives transform into a world of opulence and prosperity now question what future awaits them. Tenoch’s sudden rise as a global power left it with countless adversaries from all sides of the bay—including the tribe it conquered in a violent resurgence just generations prior. Mounting international tensions, fueled by nuclear capabilities, approach a fever pitch. Beneath Tenoch’s unrest lurks a marvel of modern engineering. Fusing chemistry and computing, this top-secret discovery could advance civilization further than the internet, electrical circuit, or even the wheel. Whether it can survive Tenoch’s forthcoming regime change will depend on an unlikely encounter between enemy agents, fierce allies, and unwitting bystanders. Swept into the turmoil is Kai Navarro, a boy who’s never left his native village. "From the moment I met Kai to the stunning conclusion of this novel, I was hooked...A fantastic story that leaves you begging or more." -Heather Sharfeddin, Sweetwater Burning Humility is the first book in The Schema Trilogy by Avery Dox.

In the wake of the events of STAR TREK: TITAN Book One: TAKING WING, relations between the Federation, The Klingon Empire and the Romulans remain fragile. Refugees are requesting asylum within the Federation, requiring delicate negotiations whose outcome could prove as deadly as any starship combat. As public opinion about the continued tenability of the Federation/Klingon alliance goes south, Federation councillors unhappy with the solution brokered by Captain Will Riker in Titan begin power plays of their own against the fledgling Bacco administration.

This annually updated reader is a compilation of current articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals, covering issues relating to the United States and the World: Stragetic Choices, Regional and Bilaterial Relations, and American Foreign Policy.

In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust policy and liberties in the times of emergency. They emphasize the virtues of unilateral executive actions and argue for making extensive powers available to the executive as warranted. The judiciary should neither second-guess security policy nor interfere on constitutional grounds. In order to protect citizens, government can and should use any legal instrument that is warranted under ordinary cost-benefit analysis. The value gained from the increase in security will exceed the losses from the decrease in liberty. At a time when the 'struggle against violent extremism' dominates the United States' agenda, this important and controversial work will spark discussion in the classroom and intellectual press alike.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR CHILD IS A PSYCHOPATH? One night when Jennifer Hanson returns home, she catches her 12-year-old son Shane stabbing their cat to death. Thankfully, he doesn't see her. Having long known Shane has a brain with psychopathic tendencies, her worst fears may be confirmed. Ever since he accidentally shot his father to death at age six, she has done everything she can to ensure Shane doesn't become a full-blown psychopath. He has behaved normally up until now. Have her efforts been in vain? She can tell he's changing, becoming increasingly dangerous, but she can't stomach putting him in a psych ward. But then she finds pics of a dead girl in his phone, a girl everyone thought had died accidentally... NOTE: This box set contains the complete trilogy. murder, horror, crime, suspense, psychological thriller

To understand the international legal order in the field of criminal law, we need to ask three elementary questions. What is international law? What is criminal law? And what happens to these two fields when they are joined together? Volume Two of The Grammar of Criminal Law sets out to answer these questions through a series of twelve dichotomies - such as law vs. justice, intention vs. negligence, and causation vs. background events - that invite the reader to better understand the jurisprudential foundations of international criminal law. The book will appeal to anyone interested in the future of international cooperation in a time of national retrenchment, and will be of interest to students, scholars, and policymakers around the world.

Experience the #1 New York Times bestselling Star Wars Legends trilogy that introduced the menacing Grand Admiral Thrawn—now in a complete three-book set. Following the events of Return of the Jedi: Star Wars: Episode VI, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia find themselves once again at the center of rebellion. Five years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Leia and Han are married and expecting twins, and Luke has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights. But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor’s warlords—the brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. Meanwhile, Han and Lando Calrissian race against time to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council—only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies. Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past, consumed by bitterness, and scheming to corrupt Luke to the dark side.

The Oath Newcentury: trilogy 1 Stan Cooper, MI6s British secret agent, arrived at Atocha station shortly after a terrorist organization had carried out a bomb attack that left dozens of dead and wounded scattered all over the place. He was petrified when he discovered that his mother was among the victims. He swore over his mothers dead body that he would find the culprits. It was the only way to cope with the pain. When he discovered the Islamic terrorists, he knew that they were a powerful and sophisticated organization led by scientists who had the power to eliminate him. He knew that he would face a monster that was almost impossible to defeat. He could not expect MI6 to get involved in his personal war. He had to face them alone. He was only accompanied by a friend from MI6. Everything started to go wrong when the terrorist organization found out that Stan Cooper had discovered them. From that moment on, they began a ruthless hunt to kill him. Now he must fight for his life to fulfill the oath he had made over his mothers dead body.

The Oath Newcentury: trilogy 1 Stan Cooper, MI6’s British secret agent, arrived at Atocha station shortly after a terrorist organization had carried out a bomb attack that left dozens of dead and wounded scattered all over the place. He was petrified when he discovered that his mother was among the victims. He swore over his mother’s dead body that he would find the culprits. It was the only way to cope with the pain. When he discovered the Islamic terrorists, he knew that they were a powerful and sophisticated organization led by scientists who had the power to eliminate him. He knew that he would face a monster that was almost impossible to defeat. He could not expect MI6 to get involved in his personal war. He had to face them alone. He was only accompanied by a friend from MI6. Everything started to go wrong when the terrorist organization found out that Stan Cooper had discovered them. From that moment on, they began a ruthless hunt to kill him. Now he must fight for his life to fulfill the oath he had made over his mother’s dead body.

He shouldn't, but he will—again. Leo Cruz is an experienced former Secret Service agent. Even though he survived a small-plane crash, being the body man for President ShaeLynn Samuels is frequently the most terrifying job he's ever held. VP Elliot Woodley is deep in the closet and has his eye on being POTUS in eight years. Trouble is, Leo can't seem to let Elliot go despite Elliot's inability to commit to something long-term between them. In walks young Jordan Walsh, like a lamb among starving lions. And Leo's feeling pretty damn hungry. (Inequitable Trilogy book 1. MMM, power exchange dynamics, political romance saga, secret workplace romance, close proximity, frenemies to lovers, May/Dec, Secret Service agent, wounded veteran, smol and tall, pining, HEA) [A stand-alone trilogy set in the world of the Governor Trilogy.]