Max: 3227 books

From the New York Times–bestselling author and Edgar Award winner: Reality TV sets the stage for “a terrific cat and mouse thriller” (The Mystery Gazette). Field agent for the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation, J.C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential...

Colorful characters with murderous motives populate this illustrated mystery, which unfolds during the Broadway season of 1953. Former striptease artist Maggie Starr continues "stripping" by distributing comic strips through her late husband's newspaper syndicate. When the heated rivalry...

Do No Harm is the latest mystery in the Nathan Heller series by Max Allan Collins. In Do No Harm, Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case—a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence...

This fast-paced story is about a tough rebel named Destry who is sent to prison for years, serving time for a crime he did not commit. Once out, he aims to seek revenge on the 12 jury members who sent him to prison and voted for his incarceration. However, his mission isn’t to kill but to find other...

Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully illustrated by cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases twenty-six...

The aircraft carrier is the dramatic new naval vessel of this war. Its development has revolutionized the techniques of naval strategy. Equipped with aircraft carriers, two huge task forces—one American and one Japanese—have twice fought major sea battles in this war without a ship on either side...

Verführerische Weihnachten: Entdecken Sie die 24 sinnlichsten und erotischsten Gedichte aller Zeiten. Alle niveauvoll. Alle stilvoll. Aber alle verdammt sinnlich. Zum Lesen. Zum Verführen. Und zum Aufsagen unter dem Weihnachtsbaum. Freuen Sie sich auf prickelnde Texte von Wilhelm Busch,...

We humans are prone to failure. We’re experts at muddying, mixing, and messing up our lives. Who among us hasn’t looked up from the bottom of a pit and realized he dug it himself? Who hasn’t fallen so far, messed up so badly that she thought there was no hope? And it’s at these low points...

If a single contemporary author can be said to capture the heart, soul, and imagination of our generation, it is unquestionably Max Lucado. His disarmingly conversational style, vivid imagery, and insightful comments on faith have resulted in sales of more than 33 million books. With Everyday Blessings,...

Max Scheler (1874-1928) decisively influenced German philosophy in the period after the First World War, a time of upheaval and new beginnings. Without him, the problems of German philosophy today, and its attempts to solve them would be quite inconceivable. What was new in his philosophy was that...

The Nature of Sympathy explores, at different levels, the social emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred, and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with which they are associated. Scheler criticizes other writers, from Adam Smith to Freud, who have argued...

In 1909 the great German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Planck (1858–1947) delivered a series of eight lectures at Columbia University giving a fascinating overview of the new state of physics, which he had played a crucial role in bringing about. The first, third, fifth, and sixth lectures...

In his first collection of poetry, Max Layton takes the post apocalypse to new heights. Satirical in places, full of longing and remorse in others, the poems (each beginning with "When the rapture comes ...") bring together memories of family, trips to fantasylands, and outrageous humour....

Get up-to-speed with some of the biggest challenges facing New Zealand with this bundle of high-profile BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. Seventy-five years after Labour’s social...