Wayward Dragon

This book provides a novel criminological understanding of white-collar crime and corporate lawbreaking in China focusing on: lack of reliable official data, guanxi and corruption, state-owned enterprises, media censorship, enforcement and regulatory capacity. The text begins with an introduction to the topic placing it in global perspective, followed by chapters examining the importance of comparative study, corruption as a major crime in China, case studies and etiology, domestic, regional and global consequences, and concluding theoretical and policy issues that can inform future research.

When Lucy Pennykettle suspects there's a monster in her bedroom, her mum knows exactly what to do. She makes a guard dragon - Gruffen - to look after Lucy. But soon Gruffen realises there's a mystery behind the monster...

When the town council decides to demolish the old library clock and replace it with a fancy modern one, Lucy and her mother try to save the historic timepiece--with the help of a dragon.

The Jade Dragon Empress has summoned Gideon. Even though Gideon’s brother is an Emperor he has tried to keep out of politics, but when a Dragon empress calls you have to answer. Afraid of a coup attempt she sets Gideon and Hara to find her enemies. After Gideon disappears the crew of the Blazing Blunderbuss know things are not as they seem. The crew must rescue Gideon from the fanatics who are desperate to mate with the Dragon empress, they will do anything to force her to fly. Or the rebel dragons who only want to live in peace but can’t under the rule of the Jade dragon. Or the humans who want to rule their own country. One of them has Gideon. The crew have to get Gideon back and uncover a plot that could take down a thousand year dynasty.

THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER CARRY ON Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light. That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place. With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter. Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun.

This is book 3 of the first Ithaca Saga Trilogy – In this book several key members join the team – the remaining dragons return to reunite a long lost alliance as well as an enemy joining the team because of the loss of a loved one, encroachment by the demons on his illegal businesses, and the finding of a real love he never thought existed -–it is also the first major battle to take back the world and create a stable base of operations in which to launch ongoing assaults against the demons

Shanghai, 1936. Felice Sabatini is just a mechanic, working on Italian aircraft in China. He isn’t looking for trouble, much less interested in getting caught up a in a conspiracy against China, Japan, and Germany. Unfortunately for him, that’s exactly what happens. Three different factions are after an ancient artifact and the mystical power it controls. Power that, if it falls into the wrong hands, could end up destroying the very world as we know it. Felice knows nothing of immortals, fox women, ninjas or dragons, never mind the Ministry of Storms. He is a rational man, after all. But before this journey is over he will be called upon to face all of that, never mind the power of ancient Chinese magic and a menace from Beyond Time. From the crowded streets of Shanghai to the empty stretches of the Desert of Inescapable Death, Ministry of Thunder is an explosive mix of Oriental Fantasy and New Pulp.

In the Eighth Lion, Prince Landon, the future King of O’ndar was drawn halfway across the Known World to save his sister from the clutches of a black Dragon. What he discovered instead placed him on a quest to save his mother’s soul from an eternal imprisonment at the hands of the demon Qui Oto. Warned by the Eighth Lion about a coming Apocalypse Landon must thwart an incoming invasion, free his mother’s soul, and unite the Known World before an invasion from beyond the Cargathian Mountains. In Eschaton The Eighth Lion Book 2 two worlds collide when the inhabitants of the Lands of the Khans prepare to invade the Known World. It will take cunning, bravery, and luck to prevent the extinction of both Dragons and Humans alike.