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      • Trusted Partner
        Biography & True Stories
        February 2017

        Jackie Chan:Never Grow Up, Only Get Older

        by Jackie Chan, Zhu Mo

        This is an autobiography of Chinese Kongfu star Jackie Chan. The book is a true recording of this international superstar’s growth and life experience for the last 50 years. It tells us the legendary actor’s stories, and also reflects a fantastic acting age.

      • The natural world, country life & pets

        The Geysers of Yellowstone

        by T Scott Bryan

        This revised popular field guide describes in detail each of the 500+ geysers in Yellowstone National Park. With updated information and a new foreword by park archivist Lee Whittlesey, "Geysers of Yellowstone" is both a reference work and a fine introduction to the nature of geyser activity for the newcomer to geothermal phenomena. A glossary of key terms is provided, along with a comprehensive appendix that discusses other geyser areas of the world. Detailed maps accompany each geyser basin described, and tables are provided for easy reference.

      • Economics
        February 2013

        Short and long of Futures Markets

        Safex, Grain Hedging, Speculation

        by Dr. Mariette Geyser

        Thsi book is a student's guide to understand futures markets. Ample case studies and references will help to make this a handson publication.

      • Suziko The Iron Claw 3

        The Adventure of Oceania

        by Sara Gürbüz Özeren

        The lives of Alper, Oğuz and Caner completely changed with that plane crash. The only thing they could save from the accident was Suziko, a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence. As our heroes travel between continents, they set sail for a new adventure after Africa and Antarctica: Australia, Oceania Continent composes of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia islands. There are active volcanoes, geysers, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, box jellyfish, Pygmies, Aborigines, the terrifying Mount Marum, the glassy shark and much more in this continent. Will Suziko return to see active volcanoes? Will our heroes be able to dodge the bad guys chasing after Suziko? How will our heroes who are trapped on a rock in the vast ocean be survived? Will the pirates harm our heroes? Get ready to turn the pages excitedly for the answers to all these questions and more! Our artificial intelligence robot Suziko and our heroes are waiting for you with their new adventures!

      • Children's & YA

        ARCHISTORIA

        by Magdalena Jelenska, Acapulco Studio

        The book brings the reader into  the fascinating world of construction; it unveils the materials and forms, while showing how they might have been used before thousands of years, and how they are being used today. It apposes buildings from different corners of the world and from different times in a surprising way that largely forgoes chronological order.

      • Fiction
        October 2020

        Where Light Comes and Goes

        A Novel

        by Sandra Cavallo Miller

        Book 2 in the Dr. Abby Wilmore SeriesWhere Light Comes and Goes brings back Dr. Abby Wilmore, the young family physician who was the protagonist of Miller’s first novel, The Color of Rock. Abby has accepted the directorship of a summer clinic in Yellowstone National Park where she hopes to expand her medical skills. She arrives to find herself working above the increasingly restless Yellowstone supervolcano, treating visitors, staff, and locals, all while evading the advances of a lecherous concession manager and maintaining a long-distance relationship with her partner who stays at the Grand Canyon Clinic. As tremors in the park escalate and the lakes seethe with bubbling gases, Abby learns that some-one is mysteriously killing the bison.What follows is an engrossing mystery unfolding in a spectacular setting with rich, quirky, and endearing characters and unexpected plot turns. While an overworked Abby makes new friends among her clinic staff and patients, tension builds as the volcano seems to be moving closer to a major eruption and the bison killings become more frequent. Soon, Abby finds herself in mortal danger as the story races to a thrilling and unexpected conclusion.Sandra Cavallo Miller demonstrated in The Color of Rock that she is a gifted storyteller. Where Light Comes and Goes deftly combines a gripping mystery set in the accurately depicted routine of a busy medical practice amid the wonders of Yellowstone’s magnificent scenery and wildlife. This is entertaining reading at its best.

      • December 1999

        First And Only

        by Dan Abnett

        For a thousand years, the Sabbat Worlds have been lost to the Imperium, claimed by the dread powers of Chaos. Now, a mighty crusade seeks to return the sector to Imperial rule. And at the forefront of that crusade are Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only – better known as Gaunt’s Ghosts.   Trapped in the grinding trench warfare of Fortis Binary, the Ghosts find themselves drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the crusade’s leader, Warmaster Macaroth. With enemies all around them and no one to trust, Gaunt and his men must find a way to save the warmaster and prevent the Sabbat Worlds Crusade from falling into anarchy – even if it means waging war on their supposed allies.

      • November 2020

        10 IN SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LIFE ON EARTH

        by Giuliano Menghini

        10 questions, 10 games, 10 topics to discover the secrets about living beings that have inhabited the earth in the last 4 billion years! The notebook consists of 10 sections, each dedicated to a different phase of the evolution of living beings on Earth. What is a living being? How did life on Earth appear? Why did dinosaurs dominate the world but then go extinct? These are some of the questions you will need to try to answer by LOOKING, EXPERIMENTING, AND PLAYING. In the worksheets accompanying the notebook you will find all the materials needed to assemble the 10 SCIENTIFIC GAMES with your own hands. A journey through time that allows you to explore the history of our wonderful planet from the window of an exceptional means of transport also used by great scientists from all over the world, the EXPERIMENTAL METHOD, and all from your home and without the need for special tools.

      • February 2021

        Heaven is a Small Circle

        Novel

        by Carolina Schutti

        This novel by Carolina Schutti broaches different concepts of freedom and identity. Two separate plot lines outline the fate of two women. At first glance, these women could not be more different but little by little, certain parallels reveal themselves.The first-person narrator, a young woman, is losing control over her life, her feelings, her language and her body. At the same time, however, her perceptions remain crystal clear. Now she is expected to learn to manage her temper at an asylum. While Mark, the only person she is attached to there, is about to be discharged, she is repeatedly thinking about her own departure.Ina, the second protagonist, has already departed – to Siberia, where she would like to run a roadside inn at an ice road. However, she finds herself facing a tough adventure with obscure Boris and only notices too late that she is caught in a trap. The story gets more thrilling with every chapter. In Schutti’s poetic and yet powerful style, both women’s lives come together.

      • Fiction

        I am Nirvana. The story of Kurt Cobain

        by Andrea Biscaro

        Kurt è la rock star più famosa del pianeta. Ha appena ventisette anni, ma ha già vissuto tutto. Adesso è solo, lontano dai riflettori e dai palchi, senza amici, senza più voglia di scrivere e di suonare, blindato tra le pareti dorate della sua reggia di Seattle.  Nella detonazione dello sparo Kurt rivive tutta la sua vita: l'infanzia ad Aberdeen, i locali, la nascita dei Nirvana, il primo contratto con la Sub Pop, la droga, il successo planetario e improvviso di Nevermind, il grunge, l'amore disperato per Courtney Love, la dipendenza dall'eroina, le tournée mondiali, la nascita di Frances Bean, In Utero, il policlinico di Roma, le disintossicazioni, Unplugged in New York. Fino a quel maledetto fucile Remington... A fargli immancabile compagnia è la voce di quell’amico misterioso al cui abbraccio mortale non saprà sfuggire.

      • Agriculture & farming
        January 2012

        Microbial Diversity and Functions

        by D. Joseph Bagyara ,K.V.B.R. Tilak & H.K.Kheri

        The book contains 31 articles written by distinguished scientists of the country having expertise in dealing with the microbes and exploiting their potential for the benefits of mankind. The articles included in the book are thought provocating and deals with: o the topics of Taxonomy, Diversity and Applications of VAM fungi in different Ecosystems o Applications of Microbial Technology for Treatment of effluents of a Gelatine Factory, Biodiversity of Mycotoxigenic Fungi and Trichoderma, o Useful microbes of Mangrove Ecosystem, Extremophiles, PGPRs, Phytotoxins, Litter decomposition, Biopesticides, Botanical Pesticides, biofertilizers and so many others including major concerns about the Evolution and Conservation of Microbial Biodiversity. o All the articles written by the authors are original, timely and appropriate.

      • ABSOLVO TE

        by Georgi Bardarov

        EUROPEAN LITERATURE PRIZE FOR 2021! https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/georgi-bardarov The novel “Absolvo te” is based on two true stories – one about World War II and the Holocaust, and the other about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The main characters are a Palestinian, a Jewish man and a Nazis officer. Each of them must forgive and look past each other’s sins. They’re all in need of “Absolve te”, which translated from Latin means ‘’forgiveness of all sins’’.

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