Zavier Williams is a computer hacker, so he thinks he knows what he’s getting into when he steals the code for a video game that hasn’t come out yet. When he tries to sell it on the black market, his buyer turns out to be an NSA agent with orders to detain or kill. Zavier soon learns that the game’s title – Futurality – is way more literal than he thought it was.

The notion of conscience remains one of the most widely used moral concepts and a cornerstone of ordinary moral thinking. This book explores where this widespread confidence in conscience stems from, examining the history of conscience as a moral concept and its characteristic moral phenomenology.Jason Howard provides a comprehensive reassessment of the function of conscience in moral life, detailing along the way the manifold problems that arise when we believe our conscience is mo...

When Gary Hampton is mauled and left for dead, his life takes a drastic turn. Gary is cursed - when the moon is full he transforms into a beast of the night - a werewolf. When his life is torn apart, Gary Hampton must rebuild, but can he do so from behind bars? This volume collects The Astounding Wolf-Man issues #13-18.

The acclaimed TREES series returns with a brand new story of murder and ghosts. In the remote Russian village of Toska, there 's a dead body by the leg of the Tree that landed eleven years ago. Police sergeant Klara Voranova, still haunted by that day, has no idea how this murder will change everything, nor what awaits her in the Tree's shadow. Clever, funny, romantic, sad, and absolutely essential. " Kirkus Collects TREES: THREE FATES #1-5

ELITA 1'S AUTOBOT TEAM REVEALED! Elita returns to Cybertron with a surprising new Autobot team - and their first mission is to defeat the Decepticons led by Shockwave. Can an unexpected weapon turn the tide in their favor?

Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beiping (Beijing). A man of simple needs whose greatest ambition is to one day own his own rickshaw, Xiangzi is nonetheless thwarted, time and again, in his attempts to improve his lot in life.This classic novel, written by leading author Lao She, was an influential and popular work of early 20th Chinese literature. It presents an unflinchingly honest portrait of life ...

★★★ Discover the young life that shaped a great man ★★★Few famous humans came into the world under such humble circumstances as Abraham Lincoln on February 12, 1809. But it may very well be that the humble and unassuming life he lived actually served to shape him into the solid, moral, honest, decent, hard-working adult that he became.What were those circumstances, the formula so to speak, that molded this future president?This biography lo...

Eric was like every other eight-year-old boy, until a tragic accident changed his life forever. The Cape explores the dark side of power, as the adult Eric—a confused and broken man—takes to the skies… and sets out to exact a terrible vengeance on everyone who ever disappointed him.

Turks and Caicos, 1993. Critter Stillwell, a man who knows how to keep secrets, wakes up in a holding cell, jolted from a dream of shipwrecks and perfidy. Federal agents drag him down the hall for a combative interrogation that takes him back to Athens, Georgia, 1989: the year Critter’s father drank himself to death. Guy Stillwell, legendary attorney and celebrated scoundrel, left Critter with an embattled law firm, an estate in chaos, and a minefield of secrets—including a little brother ...

This flexible textbook provides an integrated approach to user experience (UX) writing and equips students and practitioners with the essential principles and methods to succeed in writing for UX.The fundamental goal of UX writing is to produce usable and attractive content that boosts user engagement and business growth. This book teaches writers how to create content that helps users perform desired tasks while serving business needs. It is informed by user-centered design, conte...

Nominated in the P & E Readers' Poll for Best Fiction e-zine published in 2016!This Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Eighteen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from Nine of todays top speculative fiction writers.Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a ...

"This book's combination of interviews and history makes for an entertaining study of the heart of American roots music." — Library JournalIn industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree—a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan Osborne, and Merle Travis, it's no wonder that the state is...