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The Ballad of Perilous Graves

By: Alex Jennings

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Funny, wild, witty, and profound.”―Victor LaValle "A wild and wonderful debut, teeming with music, family and art."—New York Times "Magical, lyrical, gritty, otherworldly…hype like Bayou Classic in the 90s."—P. Djèlí Clark One of the Best Fantasy Books of 2022: New York Times; Oprah Daily; Vulture; Gizmodo; Boston Public Library A fun and fantastical love letter to New Orleans unfolds when a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this wildly imaginative debut. Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home. Perry knows Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry knows trouble is afoot. Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Nola’s time might be coming to an end.

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Redhook

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0759557217

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9780759557215

Around Terlingua

By: Thomas C. Alex and Robert E. Wirt

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Around Terlingua

By: Thomas C. Alex and Robert E. Wirt

In dedication to Robert Wirt. His passing on January 12, 2013, was a shock to many and a loss to the heritage of Terlingua"--Verso of title-page.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467132012

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9781467132015

Lifeblood

How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time

By: Alex Perry

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Lifeblood

How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time

By: Alex Perry

In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. "They're not sleeping," Sachs told him. "They're in malarial comas. A few days later, they were all dead." Chambers had long avoided the public eye, but this moment sparked his determination to coordinate an unprecedented, worldwide effort to eradicate a disease that has haunted humanity since before the advent of medicine. Award-winning journalist Alex Perry obtained unique access to Chambers, now the UN Special Envoy for Malaria. In this book, Perry weaves together science and history with on-the-ground reporting and a riveting expos' of the workings of humanitarian aid to document Chambers' campaign. By replacing traditional ideas of assistance with business acumen and hustle, Chambers saved millions of lives, and upturned current notions of aid, forging a new path not just for the developing world but for global business and philanthropy.

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PublicAffairs

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1610390873

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9781610390873

Falling off the Edge

Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization

By: Alex Perry

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Falling off the Edge

Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization

By: Alex Perry

If the world is flat, as Thomas Friedman says, then aren't some people going to be falling off the edge? Award-winning Time Magazine correspondent Alex Perry (China, India, and Africa) takes us on an unforgettable journey to some of the planet's most remote and dangerous places to explore the sharp end of globalization. Combining sharp analysis with breathtaking frontline reporting, Perry's quest takes readers from Maoist rebels in Nepal to Indian suicide bombers and Indonesian pirates. We meet Chinese organ harvesters, Bombay billionaires, killer cops and pygmy Africans living on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. And in a riveting introduction, Perry presents us with some of the finest war reporting ever to come out of the war on terror. The result of this extraordinary journey is as unexpected as it is dramatic. In his quest to uncover the edges of globalization, Perry ends up discovering its dark heart.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608192393

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9781608192397

The Good Mothers

The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia

By: Alex Perry

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The Good Mothers

The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia

By: Alex Perry

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES The electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias – and how they risked everything to bring it down. The Calabrian Mafia—known as the ’Ndrangheta—is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent of the cocaine and heroin supply in Europe, manages billion-dollar extortion rackets, brokers illegal arms deals—supplying weapons to criminals and terrorists—and plunders the treasuries of both Italy and the European Union. The ’Ndrangheta’s power derives from a macho mix of violence and silence—omertà. Yet it endures because of family ties: you are born into the syndicate, or you marry in. Loyalty is absolute. Bloodshed is revered. You go to prison or your grave and kill your own father, brother, sister, or mother in cold blood before you betray The Family. Accompanying the ’Ndrangheta’s reverence for tradition and history is a violent misogyny among its men. Women are viewed as chattel, bargaining chips for building and maintaining clan alliances and beatings—and worse—are routine. In 2009, after one abused ’Ndrangheta wife was murdered for turning state’s evidence, prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti considered a tantalizing possibility: that the ’Ndrangheta’s sexism might be its greatest flaw—and her most effective weapon. Approaching two more mafia wives, Alessandra persuaded them to testify in return for a new future for themselves and their children. A feminist saga of true crime and justice, The Good Mothers is the riveting story of a high-stakes battle pitting a brilliant, driven woman fighting to save a nation against ruthless mafiosi fighting for their existence. Caught in the middle are three women fighting for their children and their lives. Not all will survive.

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HarperCollins

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0062655639

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9780062655639

Comics Values 2004

By: Alex Malloy

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Comics Values 2004

By: Alex Malloy

Listings and prices for more than 93,000 Golden Age through modern comics and images of 1,000 comic book covers, a first choice of comic book collectors seeking a user friendly reference.

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087349802X

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9780873498029

Comics Values Annual, 1999

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual, 1999

The Comic Books Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

Featuring more than 35,000 updated prices, this easy-to-use guide covers all the new titles in the rapidly expanding comics market. 600 illustrations.

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Antique Trader

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0930625153

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9780930625153

Bad Day for the Home Team

By: Alex O'Meara

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Bad Day for the Home Team

By: Alex O'Meara

This is not an easy novel to read. It’s no exaggeration, given the epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the United States, to suggest there are people who will be unable to finish it. Others will hate it. Nonetheless, it asks and tries to answer the one question that never seems to have one. Why? What makes an average man walk into a restaurant on a bright, beautiful Memorial Day afternoon in a small Arizona town, pull out a gun, and murder forty people before killing himself? The families of the dead, the police, and the media all want to know why. Sam Tryor, most of all, needs to know, because he was that man, and he has no memory of what drove him to become a monster. The difference is, he's trying to figure it out from beyond the grave. Instead of a whodunit, this mystery is a what-made-him-do-it. With the help of a gorgeous reporter, a world-weary cop, and his own brother, Sam searches for the reason for his horrific crime, and his search leads him to a conclusion that is as disturbing for what it reveals about the rest of us as it is shocking for what it reveals about him.

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Zumaya Publications LLC

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1612713785

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9781612713786

Let's Travel Pathways Through Iowa

By: Alex Marshall

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Let's Travel Pathways Through Iowa

By: Alex Marshall

See Iowa like the Hawkeyes do with this insider's guide to some of the most interesting places in the state. From the historic bridges of Madison County to the unusual Field of Dreams, you'll find detailed, informative descriptions on the attractions, events, shopping, restaurants, and lodging that the locals recommend.

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Clark & Miles Publishing

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0962664731

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9780962664731

Comics Values Annual 2005

The Comic Book Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual 2005

The Comic Book Price Guide

By: Alex G. Malloy

This price guide provides up-to-date collector values, tips for buying, selling, and preserving comic books. Collectors can accurately evaluate their comics with a grading guide and current market report.

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0873499638

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9780873499637

Comics Values Annual 2008

By: Alex G Malloy

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Comics Values Annual 2008

By: Alex G Malloy

Comic book heroes are taking over the popular culture world. This title includes a brief overview of the industry, a grading guide, and features an interview with a comic book insider.

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Krause Publications

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0896896056

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9780896896055

Tibet and the British Raj

The Frontier Cadre, 1904-1947

By: Alex McKay

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Tibet and the British Raj

The Frontier Cadre, 1904-1947

By: Alex McKay

This text explores the diplomatic representatives of the Raj in Tibet. Besides being scholars, spies and empire-builders, they also influenced events in Tibet but as well as shaping our modern understanding of that land.

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Psychology Press

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0700706275

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9780700706273

Comics Values Annual 2003

By: Alex G. Malloy

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Comics Values Annual 2003

By: Alex G. Malloy

Comics book collectors turn to this valuable resource every year for the most comprehensive information available. This updated edition gives collectors everything they've come to expect and more. Packed with more than 100,000 listings and more than 1,000 illustrations of classic and contemporary comics.

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Modern Principles of Economics

By: Tyler Cowen,Alex Tabarrok

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Modern Principles of Economics

By: Tyler Cowen,Alex Tabarrok

Engaging and provocative writing, as well as a knack for revealing the “invisible hand” of economics at work have made Cowen and Tabarrok’s Modern Principles of Economics a singularly distinctive and effective textbook for the principles course. The thoroughly updated new edition of Modern Principles again draws on a wealth of captivating applications to show readers how economics shed light on business, politics, world affairs, and everyday life just as the authors do in their wildly successful blog, marginalrevolution.com.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319030920

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9781319030926

Modern Principles: Microeconomics

By: Tyler Cowen,Alex Tabarrok

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Modern Principles: Microeconomics

By: Tyler Cowen,Alex Tabarrok

Available for the first time with Macmillans new online learning platform, Achieve, Modern Principles is a tour-de-force with a unique combination of vivid writing, up-to-date relevant examples, and online resources unlike any other textbook for this market. Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok have long demonstrated their mastery at communicating economic principles in a clear, captivating way through their blog, The Marginal Revolution. And they are pioneers in online education. Their fully updated new edition has more high-quality material designed for online teaching than any other principles of economics textbook. Videos from Marginal Revolution University (MRU), Discovering Data questions, live links to FRED data, an e-book, and assessment all live under Macmillans new learning platform, Achieve and combine to provide an online learning product for all types of learners whether in face to face, hybrid or pure online classes.

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1319329764

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9781319329761

Modern Principles: Macroeconomics

By: Tyler Cowen,Alex Tabarrok

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Modern Principles: Macroeconomics

By: Tyler Cowen,Alex Tabarrok

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1319329551

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9781319329556

It's Not Me, It's You

By: Alex Light

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It's Not Me, It's You

By: Alex Light

The snark and instant chemistry of Better Than the Movies meets the indulgent summer fun and family hijinks of The Summer of Broken Rules in this compulsively readable rom-com from Alex Light, author of The Upside of Falling. Jackie Myers is a fraud. Or she might be a genius—the jury’s still out. The thing is, she secretly runs pleasebreakmyheart, a gone-viral account aimed at breaking hearts and ending relationships…. And she just used it to break up her insufferable eternal nemesis's picture-perfect relationship. Wilson is the buttoned-up, type A assistant manager of her nightmares—but it turns out he’s also, apparently, a really great boyfriend. So with her conscience (and paycheck) on the line, Jackie decides there’s only one thing to do: She’s going to help Wilson win his ex-girlfriend back. Which should be easy, considering Jackie hates him…right?

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HarperCollins

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0063334089

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9780063334083

The Rift

A New Africa Breaks Free

By: Alex Perry

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The Rift

A New Africa Breaks Free

By: Alex Perry

A vivid, powerful, and controversial look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing it to think again. Africa has long been misunderstood -- and abused -- by outsiders. Correspondent Alex Perry traveled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis. Beginning with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime-in 2011, when the US and the major aid agencies helped cause a famine in which 250,000 Somalis died-he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. To finally win their freedom, Africans must confront three last false prophets-Islamists, dictators and aid workers-who would keep them in their bonds. Beautifully written, intimately reported, and sure to spark debate, The Rift passionately argues that a changing Africa revolutionizes our ideas of it, and of ourselves.

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Little, Brown

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0316333794

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9780316333795

How to Draw Manga

By: Alex Robinson,Ben Dunn,Fred Perry,Rod Espinosa,David Hutchison

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How to Draw Manga

By: Alex Robinson,Ben Dunn,Fred Perry,Rod Espinosa,David Hutchison

The blockbuster instructional series from Antarctic Press continues to be in high demand - so much so that they're doing a third informative collection! The manga masters at AP dig up another gold mine of valuable instruction in assorted aspects of the manga medium, 128 more pages worth brought to you by such stellar talents as the Godfather of American Manga, Ben Dunn (Ninja High School, Marvel Mangaverse), multitalented creator/illustrator/animator Fred Perry (Gold Digger, Legacy), Eisner/Ignatz nominee Rod Espinosa (Courageous Princess), American manga sensation David Hutchison (Dragon Arms, Ninja High School), and legendary creator and illustrator Joe Wight (Twilight X). Learn the rules of the school from the people who built it! For anyone who missed out on issues #9-12 of the regular series, this is your chance to catch up on those missed lessons! Antarctic's How to Draw Manga books have all been selling out quickly, so reserve your copy now! SC, 7x10, 128pg, b&w

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0966358813

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The Good Mothers

The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia

By: Alex Perry

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The Good Mothers

The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia

By: Alex Perry

You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omertà is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world's most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is the story of the women who broke the silence.

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