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John Allan
Explore the top 10 most ferocious predators, scoring from least to most deadly! With powerful images and jaw-dropping facts, prepare for the hunters at the top of their game to…
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Explore the top 10 fiercest dinosaurs, scoring from least to most deadly! With powerful images and jaw-dropping facts, get ready for these dangerous creatures to show you their impressive hunting…
Embark on a journey to explore the world's biggest things, from biggest animals on land and under the sea to the biggest burger ever! Fantastic photographs and facts will captivate…
Embark on a journey through astonishing lengths to explore the world's longest things, from the ten-metre snake to the longest hotdog ever! With fantastic photographs and engaging facts, this book…
Embark on a journey to explore the world's slowest things, from the plane slower than a bicycle to the slowest animal ever! With fantastic photographs and engaging facts, this book…
Embark on a journey to explore the world's fastest things, from the quickest train to the speediest bird - blink and you'll miss them! Fantastic photographs and facts will captivate…
John Lorinc
A stolen sign, 'No Jews Live Here,' kept John Lorinc's Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.
From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations of…
John Godfrey
PRETTIER GRIT by John Godfrey is a daring exploration of the contrasts and textures of modern life, weaving through the streets of personal and societal landscapes. This collection reflects Godfrey's…
John Topping
The quest for the secrets of Atlantis begins on the Moon.
Uprooted after the disappearance of his parents, Charlie Thomas moves to the Moon to live with his Uncle Merl--only…
The Oracle of Atlantis picks up where Legacy of Atlantis left off. Fresh from saving the world from Rusha, the maniacal Lemurian vampire, and Arthur DeMarco, the deranged multi-billionaire, Charlie…
John Bachman
THE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR
How Reagan reignited the foreign policy principles that made America…
John Tottenham
A darkly comic novel set on the lower slopes of the Los Angeles literary world.
I stepped out to behold a crimson-streaked sky that would soon be adorning ten thousand…
The Akashic Noir Series' exploration of California continues with this spellbinding collection of stories curated by Sacramento native John Freeman.
John Billingsley
In Pursuit of a Vision, by visionary business leader John Billingsley, offers readers a master class in entrepreneurship!
John Billingsley has launched more than seventy businesses, achieving international success and…
John Daniel
Ancestral Mindset by thought leader and human relations expert John Daniel offers deep insight into what motivates us and drives our actions and how we can use that information to…
John Boden
Ken Allenwood is a man being devoured, from the inside out, one memory at a time. A once famed horror writer who now spends his days in an elder care…
John Ferling
From acclaimed historian John Ferling, a major, global reappraisal of the Revolutionary War on its 250th Anniversary.
John Lechner
The shocking inside story of how the Wagner Group rose to make private military companies inextricable from Russia's anti-Western foreign strategy.
John DeGarmo
A new paperback format filled with 365 days worth of daily tips, inspirational quotes, and motivational short stories from a foster care expert Dr. John DeGarmo
Foster parenting is both…
John Ellis
A Short History of Relations Between Peoplestraces how the cultural attitudes that different peoples and nations had toward each other have undergone a profound and positive change during the last…
John Shewey
A fun, accessible, and stunningly-photographed guidebook to owls, examined through the lens of their complex relationship with mankind and enhanced by enlightening descriptions of owl species, behaviors, and habitats in…
John Tarrant
For readers of mythology, an original and introspective journey through the life of the Buddha accompanied by 26 beautiful color illustrations and 8 meditations.
For readers of mythology, an original…
Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether…
John Rickard
The first of two volumes, Monty's Normandy Hammer traces the major operations fought by Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds' II Canadian Corps in July 1944. Thrust into the epicentre of the action…
John Lisle
The inside story of the CIA's secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.
Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's most cunning chemist. As head of the…
John McMahon
Head Cases follows an enigmatic group of FBI agents as they hunt down a murderer seeking his own justice in this electrifying--and commercial--series debut.
FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an…
John Scalzi
A return to the bestselling Old Man's War universe, by science fiction's fastest-rising new star, told from the point of view of one of the most appealing characters in the…
The highly-anticipated conclusion to the science fiction trilogy begun with Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades.
John Kaag
"American Bloods is an unflinching history of our nation . . . This is a breakout book for John Kaag--the natural extension of his genre-defining writing." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer…
John Dufresne
A brilliant and gut-wrenching novel about a father and son from a "generous and lyric storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle).
John King
A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building
John Farris
The first major and only available collection from John Farris, a seminal Black voice in downtown New York City poetry, featuring his final poems transcribed and in manuscript form, along…
john a. powell
A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell.
John Marrs
"Electrifying and page-turning, John Marrs is not to be missed."-#1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden
"This is trademark John Marrs and then some."-Sunday Times bestselling author Andrea Mara
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John Oakes
With fasting at an all-time high in popularity, here is an enlightening exploration into the history, science, and philosophy behind the practice--essential to many religions and wellness routines. Whether for…
John Fram
In this "whip-smart, horror-tinged whodunnit in the style of early Stephen King" (Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author), a young father must clear his name and protect his queer…
John Harrison
"There are monsters among us. There have always been monsters among us."-The Ominosity
A dark psychic stain left on a devastated city.
A dark stain on the souls of the…
John Sayles
In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, one of America's greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy- the Wounded Knee Massacre, and…
John Beck
A shocking, on-the-ground investigation of the Chinese government's brutal oppression of its Muslim citizens - the Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and others - told by the victims . . .
Award-winning…
John Lesley
The blue-ringed octopus looks tiny and harmless but beware. Its poison is deadly. The bright blue circles that appear on its body when it feels threatened are a warning sign…
The quokka was once little known by most Australians but it has become famous in the past decade. Its lack of fear cute face and endless charm are balanced by…
Sulphur-crested cockatoos are noisy intelligent parrots that have an annoying habit of gathering in flocks to vandalise wooden buildings. Wild cockatoos sometimes form unusual bonds with humans seeming to like…
Echidnas look spikey and dangerous but they are really very cute once you get to know them. They waddle through gardens turning their spines towards sniffing dogs and delighting us…
The blue-tongue lizard is often mistaken for a snake. When it sticks out its bright blue tongue the effect is even more frightening. But all this is just a bluff…
Is the platypus a real animal? Is it just a hoax? While these questions seem ridiculous today they were serious points raised by the first scientists in Britain to see…
Although Africa is now one single continent there is a rift running through it that will one day tear it apart into two separate landmasses. Find out when this will…
The snow ice and blizzards make Antarctica a lethal place for people who do not have the proper clothing shelter and survival equipment. Despite these weather conditions Antarctica has a…
The continent of Asia covers about 30 of the Earth's land surface. It is the biggest of all the world's continents and the birthplace of the world's largest religions. In…
