Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corrup...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250343284)
The complete story of how we came to worship money, and how we can stop greed from destroying everything.The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unspoken civic virtue. Many of us re...Lasīt vairāk
The Paris Apartment meets A Simple Favor in an unputdownable thriller about a honeymoon gone horribly wrong.Sometimes, Paris is a terrible idea.This is not how she imagined...Lasīt vairāk
World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.When Margaret finds a cottage to rent in the moorlands for her visiting Aunt Dorothea, she pays no mind to its rumored dark history. But when Dorothea goes...Lasīt vairāk
For fans of Louise Penny, a riveting political thriller set in todays Washington D.C., exploring the high stakes of power and corruption.US Senator Oliver Michaels of Mai...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group, ISBN-13: 9781587436307)
A Black Christian historian shows how racism is part of a cycle of self-interest that begins in a lust for power and money. The church can break this cycle by building communities of deep economic solidarity, anti-violence, and truth-telling-- Provid...Lasīt vairāk
An easy bedtime tale with a special affection for nighttime. Kirkus Even long ago, there was day and night. The day was full of light and warmth, and people and animals alike rejoiced in the rays of the sun. But what happens when people g...Lasīt vairāk
The beloved Disney villain in her own FABULOUS book, darling! Even though theres absolutely no hard evidence that noted couturičre Cruella De Vil was ever involved in the theft of any Dalmatian puppies, her name has...Lasīt vairāk
The beloved Disney villain in her own FABULOUS book, darling! Even though theres absolutely no hard evidence that noted couturičre Cruella De Vil was ever involved in the theft of any Dalmatian puppies, her name has...Lasīt vairāk
On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technologica...Lasīt vairāk
On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technologica...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Random House Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593810330)
No one wants to be Connor OConnors friend, so the leprechaun turns himself into a fairy, a carpenter and a king and discovers the best way to make friends is to be himself, in a book about self-acceptance. Simultaneous eBook. Life isnt...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Random House Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593810347)
No one wants to be Connor OConnors friend, so the leprechaun turns himself into a fairy, a carpenter and a king and discovers the best way to make friends is to be himself, in a book about self-acceptance. Simultaneous eBook. Life isnt...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9781534432758)
Three teens seek to unravel the truth behind conflicting agendas surrounding a deadly virus that could change humanity forever. From New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman comes a young adult thriller about a world where...Lasīt vairāk
It all started one Blizzardy Kansas night when a half frozen Indian staggers into Somerville and dies right there on the floor of Wilsons Barbershop... but not before telling a crazy story and showing a lump of gold that looks strangely like a gold...Lasīt vairāk
Myth-making with a majestic monster at its heart, laced with style and suspense. Kirkus Reviews A haunting yet poignant story that will leave readers hungry for more. Publishers Weekly Endless nig...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781636678573)
The Enlightenment/anti-Enlightenment core schism is what should be the core economic motive of modern society:greed or justice.From the (economic) dyad of greed/justice follows the politics of hate v...Lasīt vairāk
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.When Martha Eink...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Aug-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Viking Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593692103)
When a poor fisherman chooses Death to be godfather to his son, hes certain hes made a good choice-for surely theres no man more honest than Death? At the christening, Death gives the fisherman a gift that seems at first to be the key to the famil...Lasīt vairāk
A dung beetle sets off on a quest for more and more dung-- For fans of Jon Klassen and Peter Brown comes MORE DUNG!, a slyly funny and stunningly illustrated picture book about a greedy dung beetle by debut author-illustrator Frank Weber...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Mar-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc), ISBN-13: 9780735291461)
The New York Times bestselling author of Radical challenges Christians to break free from an American gospel that prostitutes Jesus for comfort, power, prosperity, and politicsand fully pursue the true gospel that exalts Jesus above...Lasīt vairāk
A gluttonous pea runs afoul of a very hungry princess in this playful cautionary tale inspired by a favorite cumulative rhyme and a classic fairy tale.There was a green pea who swallowed a sprout. Without a doubt, a brussels sprout....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Dec-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Little Brown and Company, ISBN-13: 9780316444200)
In 1948 Beirut, the eldest son of a prominent French family, Jean, who has committed a terrible crime, emigrates to Paris with his materialistic wife, while Etienne, the youngest son, seeks to make his fortune in Saigon and middle son, journalist Fra...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668025680)
While a few billionaires lead the world to certain doom, Martha Einkorn, working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything, and Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, when their paths unexpectedly cross, work together t...Lasīt vairāk
Eagle Bar, an outpost fabricated on dreams, gold, and greed. In this burgeoning boomtown, strangers become family, friends turn to enemies, and the fever pitch for gold permeates the air they breathe. Charlie and Cassie Vincent arrive to make thei...Lasīt vairāk
Featuring contributions from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang and Maisy Card, sixteen stories depict fierce and dangerous women at their most monstrousas con artists, murderers, cutthroats and scalpersruled by ambition, grief and spite. O...Lasīt vairāk
Often thought to be a fairy tale from India about the practice of arranged marriage, this creepy retelling of The Snake Prince highlights the dangers of jealousy and greed....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Red Chair Press, ISBN-13: 9781643712154)
Often thought to be a fairy tale from India about the practice of arranged marriage, this creepy retelling of The Snake Prince highlights the dangers of jealousy and greed....Lasīt vairāk
In the depths of the sea exists an ancient treasure. Anyone who comes in contact with it is overcome with greed. For centuries, this treasure has been hoarded deep below the oceans surface. To steal it, one must get past the creature! Aligned to Com...Lasīt vairāk
Learn how ancestral trauma is at the root of wetiko and how the wounded healer/shaman archetype can help bring both individual and collective healing. Meet the inner guide-a daemon/angel that lives within us as an ally in our encounters with the dae...Lasīt vairāk
When Martha Einkorn fled her fathers isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, shes surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weath...Lasīt vairāk
Simon and Vicky couldnt seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple with a stable, if unexciting, marriage. But with these two... absolutely nothing is what it seems. When a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon...Lasīt vairāk
The eighteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel by the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author Peter James. Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of Peter Jamess award-winning dete...Lasīt vairāk
The New York Times bestselling author of Radical challenges Christians to trade in an American gospel that prostitutes the words of Jesus for the sake of comfort, politics, and prosperity and return to a biblical gospel that exalts God above everyth...Lasīt vairāk
Greed is defined as an excessive desire to possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially wealth and power. A gold digger is defined as a person who dates someone simply to extract money from them.Twenty-six-yea...Lasīt vairāk
One amazing day, Jack catches a Magic Fish. If you free me, says the fish, I ll grant your dearest wish! Jack and his wife Liz can t believe their luck when the Magic F...Lasīt vairāk
The trouble started when Pepe the parrot fell in love with . . . a CAT! Hoping to win her paw, he invited her to his house for dinner. But within moments of arriving -- with a gobble and a gulp -- Carina swallowed that love-sick parrot whole! And he...Lasīt vairāk
Combining the corporate intrigue of Joseph Finder, the satirical cultural critique of Dave Eggers, and the domestic drama of Laura Dave, Bit Flip is a fast-paced contemporary thriller that delivers an authentic insiders view of the corrupt...Lasīt vairāk
This collection examines how greed should be understood and appraised. Roundly condemned by virtually all religions, greed receives mixed appraisals in the domains of business and economics. The volume examines these mixed appraisals and how the...Lasīt vairāk
When the murder of a beautiful socialite in a nearby suburb blows up their lives, Simon and Vicky, a normal, well-respected, wealthy Chicago couple, find their secrets and lies having devastating consequences as it comes to light that one of them m...Lasīt vairāk
From the critically acclaimed author of Terra Nullius comes a novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman that explores a future of surveillance, disruption and segregation that echoes the horrors of a colonial past....Lasīt vairāk
The victor belongs to the spoils.F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meaning and happiness...Lasīt vairāk
