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An airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl when its cooling systems malfunction. At first, these random computer failures seem like unrelated events.

There’s no doubt about it: These kids are nerds. Awkward, unpopular, uncool as uncool can be—and yet, there’s something about these “nerds” that nobody else knows. These dweebs are actually superspies who use their dorky skills to battle the evil Hyena and other villainous baddies.

Seth Grahame-Smith delivers the definitive, essential guide to making it through a horror movie in one piece. As hilarious as it is useful (if you’re trapped in a scary flick, that is), How to Survive a Horror Movie covers all the bases. Trapped in a haunted house? Check. Stalked by an evil doll? Check. Wandering aimlessly through the remains of the old world as a plague of zombies sweeps over the planet? Check.

Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus.

For the first time in a beautiful new edition, this omnibus will collect together the original official novelizations of both Ghostbusters 1 and 2.

Chloé, tu es l'ultime descendante de l'ultraviolente lignée des loups, et tu es destinée à devenir une guerrière. Mais tu refuses cet héritage d'angoisses et de colère. Heureusement, pour t'aider, il y a Annabelle, ton amie, qui dissipe tes craintes d'un éclat de rire. C'est elle qui te pousse à explorer ton coeur et le monde autour de toi. Cela t'encourage à écrire dans ton carnet tes pensées lumineuses... Dès lors, tout change pour toi. Tu apprends à maîtriser tes émotions et à conquérir ta puissance intérieure.

Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.

Claire est médecin et mène à Londres une vie apparemment sans histoires. Enfant, elle a pourtant eu à subir un événement traumatisant : tandis qu'elle dormait à l'étage de la propriété familiale, sa nounou a été assassinée et sa mère a échappé de justesse à l'agresseur. Le meurtrier présumé serait le père de Claire, un membre de l'aristocratie britannique, disparu sans laisser de traces. La mère a prétendu avoir reconnu son mari, les riches et puissants amis de celui-ci ont toujours clamé son innocence.

On Harlem’s 145th Street, things happen that don’t happen anywhere else in the world. Get to know Big Joe, who’s throwing his own funeral while he’s here to enjoy it, and everyone’s invited. Meet Kitty and Mack, teens with a love story more real than anything they’ve ever known. Follow Monkeyman, the quietest kid on the block and the last person you’d expect the Tigros gang to target. And don’t miss the block party of the year - the whole neighborhood will be there. From danger and despair to hilarity and joy, literary legend Walter Dean Myers captures every mood.

Ein Mann steht auf dem Walk of Fame von Hollywood und zerstört einen Stern mit der Spitzhacke. Warum tut er das? Die Sache führt zurück in den Winter 1944: Unter dem Vorwand, einen Propagandafilm zu drehen, setzt sich ein Berliner Filmteam in die Alpen ab. Doch im Dorf Kastelau wird das Drehen einer erfundenen Geschichte immer mehr zur erfundenen Geschichte eines Drehs.

In the best-selling tradition of Liar's Poker comes a devastatingly accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of management consulting.

What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened.

It’s time to start living your dream life today. Cathy Heller believes life is way too short to waste time living anything but your dream. Too many of us are held back by a belief that we need somebody else to facilitate our success, to open doors for us, to validate our life’s purpose. But as Cathy learned through her own remarkable life, abundance does not come from someone else handing us a permission slip. In Abundant Ever After, Cathy shares that the secret to success is not in knowing exactly what to do, but in understanding who we need to be.

Sleep is the subject of intense scientific debate among biologists and neuroscientists. Why must we spend about one-third of our lives asleep? What exactly is sleep? Why does a lack of sleep impair our cognitive abilities and leave us vulnerable to a host of medical issues ranging from obesity to reduced resistance to infectious disease?

John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barreling, 97-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. Obedience school did no good - Marley was expelled.

Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes offers an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Based on extensive interviews with managers at every level of two industrial firms and of a large public relations agency, IMoral Mazes takes the reader inside the intricate world of the corporation.

With his flight delayed, Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner, a magnetic stranger, in an airport bar. In the netherworld of international travel and too many martinis, he confesses his darkest secrets, about his wife's infidelity and how he wishes her dead. Without missing a beat Lily offers to help him carry out the task.

Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is proud to present Clive Barker's Books of Blood in digital for the first time.

Contains three complete, novel-length audiobooks in the Middle Falls Time Travel series.

With a Masters in Psychology and a passion to help others, Jason has helped thousands of people lose weight and live healthier lives. Over his 25 years in the fitness industry, Jason has amassed a wealth of knowledge that not only helps others improve their lifestyles, but their businesses as well.