Six days before her seventeenth birthday, Emily Carter says no to a simple Saturday morning trip to the grocery store.An hour later, her beloved adoptive father is dead.When Emily overhears a doctor say he might have survived if help had reached him sooner, guilt settles permanently into her heart. As her fragile mother struggles through grief and illness, Emily is forced to grow up almost overnight in their small Indiana home.What begins as a tragic loss becomes a ...

SupaPodia increasingly dominates the globe. In its underground living chambers, known as SupaPods, everything needed by its population of Podders is entirely free.But is this a paradise or a hell? Dr. Julian Foster, who has entered a SupaPod as a staff member, discovers the truth. He escapes into the old outer world and begins a battle against the SupaPods and the ruling Eliti class which controls them. He is assisted by Tina, daughter of the High Director of SupaPodia. Her Christi...

A string of grisly murders in small-town Québec: the victims are all men with sordid pasts-violent criminal antecedents shrugged off by the courts. The killer is one of seven women: all well-educated, well-adjusted, perfectly normal-seeming young career woman. But one conceals a very different alter ego, operates as a vigilante with ties to the BDSM underworld. Will inspector Fournier, along with his colleague Annabelle Saint-Jean, solve the mystery and capture the woman behind the...

Rex Hellyer - an aspiring poet and novelist - leaves home to start a new life. He seeks to find the inspiration to write by living in a Second World War pillbox overlooking an Essex village. He is helped at first in this venture by the landowner's daughter, Alice. Then the villagers become suspicious of him and his new life turns to disaster.This is a compelling story of hope mingled with despair - a black comedy where humour and tragedy mix in equal measures.

England, 1888. Fourteen-year-old Indigo Taylor dreams of becoming a detective, which as a young child is what she thought her solicitor father was. A local murder that seems too quickly solved inspires Indigo to do some investigating of her own. The thread she finds leads to a dangerous chain of events. Meanwhile, Indigo is befriended by a group of circus artists who live a refreshingly different way of life than the stifling society in which finds herself.The Second Nature of Indi...

Gisele Aubin, a driven professional in her field was more often on airplanes than home. Always on the run, she left no time for a life. Her most faithful companion was her BlackBerry, and she had started thinking about dumping it. When the company she works for was sold, Gisele knew the time had come to make the changes she needed. At that point, jumping off the corporate ladder seemed to be her best way out.But when Gisele made her landing, she realized that her challenges were no...

Adan is ready to leave Earth behind. He successfully transformed his massive asteroid into an amazing spaceship, but faces an even larger challenge as he tries to negotiate the repercussions of the many deals and compromises that were required along the way. The choices he makes will not only impact those people who remain behind, but will also determine how the society onboard his vessel survives far into the future.Five thousand years after it first left Earth, the Ship is racing...

With the battle for Earth over, Zax and Kalare are forced to deal with the repercussions of its outcome. They enlist their closest allies to take back the Ship from enemies both new and old, and along the way they discover a most unexpected source of help.

A string of grisly murders in small-town Québec: the victims are all men with sordid pasts—violent criminal antecedents shrugged off by the courts. The killer is one of seven women: all well-educated, well-adjusted, perfectly normal-seeming young career women. But one conceals a very different alter ego, operates as a vigilante with ties to the BDSM underworld. Will Inspector Fournier, together with his colleague Annabelle Saint-Jean, solve the mystery and capture the woman behind ...

Think Straight: Your Self-Help Guide on How to Fortify Your Mind so You Can Improve Your Personal and Professional LifeIs your mind foggy? Is it tough for you to retain your concentration? If this is a worry of yours, rest assured that after listening to this, you will know how to address the matter logically. If your mind is clear, you'll be able to focus more effectively. And if you’re able to focus more, you can achieve more success in your career, relationships and every aspect...

A story of archaeology, of war and romance, retold from true events.Having worked for the gifted and much-loved the Reverend James Joyce excavating the Roman town at Silchester in the 1870s, George Maple later joins the Rifles regiment and fights in wars in South Africa, where he is badly wounded. Now reunited with an earlier employer - Lord Selborne, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain - at his grand house in the Hampshire village of Blackmoor, he finds himself increasingly haunt...

Bridge coursework to research with foundational lattice QCD knowledgeAdvanced undergraduate physics students transitioning to research projects often lack the specialized knowledge needed for theoretical particle physics work. High Energy Physics Essentials: A Guide to HEP Research addresses this gap directly. Written by an award-winning physics educator and research mentor, this book provides the foundational concepts students need to engage in supervised...