Transform how your child approaches math word problems—without memorizing keywords or relying on formula tricks!The Singapore Math Advantage is an evidence-informed, visual problem-solving guide built specifically for parents, tutors, and homeschool educators supporting students in Grades 1 through 6. Grounded in the globally recognized Concrete–Pictorial–Abstract (CPA) framework and Singapore’s bar-modeling tradition, this guide equips you with a clear, step-by-step toolkit to hel...

Cane's Folly, 1926. One hundred years before Flotsam.Luella Cane sews for the living and the dead, and the dead are the steadier custom. Two drowned by March. Each one nearer in than the last, in calms that wouldn't put a cat over a rail, and the town's answer is to move the salt to the front of the store and say nothing.Then a stranger walks into her shop at dusk with a bolt of gray silk that has no selvage and no intention of unraveling, and gives her name at ful...

Ivy Sturgill returns to Bellweather County to survey an abandoned coal mine before the state seals it permanently. The work is straightforward until her measurements stop matching the approved plans—and something white and wounded begins following her through the drainage below No. 6.The county has its own rules for the mine. Clocks stop at 7:31. Food appears outside the locked gate. Neighbors warn Ivy to leave old markers where she finds them. Four beings move through the abandone...

Julian isn't looking for anything real—not from his night job on a phone sex line, not from the clients who pay for five minutes of make-believe intimacy. Julian has a rule against caring, because caring is expensive. Marcus breaks that rule without trying. He calls because he can't sleep, stays because Julian doesn't want anything from him, and slowly becomes the one person Julian doesn't have to perform for. But Julian doesn't know his name. He doesn't know that the cold, unreachable bos...

Sequel to Spells and SensibilityCaptain Henry Tourmaline is having nightmares again. And this time he's not even cursed.But Henry is worried. He might be healed -- but the healing spell left his lover Theo in pain, their magic tangled together. They've uncovered an ominous plot -- but, without evidence, the Royal College of Wizardry refuses to believe them. And Theo's brother, the Duke of Baselton, wants to meet Henry -- but also wants to introduce Theo to a wealth...

Theodore Burnett has never been a hero. He prefers comfort to combat-spells, and jam-slathered scones to muddy boots. Fortunately, as the youngest-ever head librarian at the Royal College of Wizardry, Theo can spend his days with books and bibliomancy in place of battle-magic or politics -- and in any case Napoleon's been defeated and the war's been won.But now there's a wounded captain of the Magicians' Corps in Theo's library. And he needs Theo's help. And Theo can never resist a ...

Neuroscience for Sleep Medicine series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. - Provides the latest information on Neuroscience for Sleep Medicine research - Offers outstanding and original reviews on a range of Neuroscience for Sleep Medicine research topics - Serves as an indispensable reference for researchers and students alike

A hero's daughter is caught between two brothers and a war involving a witch's beast. From the author of the critically acclaimed The Wolf of Oren-yaro rediscovers the epic adventure that pits old legacies against a necromancer's beast in a tale praised for its complex narrative, character development, rich worldbuilding, and a riveting conclusion.Sume Kaggawa promised her father a dragon. Abandoned by an older brother who dreamed of grand adventures, she ...

Growing up in a quiet farm, young Luc didn't dream of adventures until he fails the military entrance exam. Robbed of the chance to prove his worth to his adoptive family, he crosses paths with a group of vicious, bloodthirsty mercenaries out on a monster-hunting quest...and a young noblewoman with scandal at her heels...

This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical school, time trains, magical idols in a magicless place. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established.Half of the stories i...

Rafe McTavish, charming self-made businessman, owns the most successful private security firm in the galaxy. Estranged from his family since his wife's bloody suicide fourteen years earlier, he's nevertheless honor-bound to find out why his brother-in-law, CEO of the mega-corporation EcoMech, has placed his reputation and the company's future in jeopardy by purchasing a dilapidated deep-space mining station.Kama Bhatia, outlaw computer hacker and corporate spy, works for socialisti...

For fans of Starling House and A Discovery of Witches with a Thomas Crown Affair twist: a contemporary New England coven hides the mysteries that lurk in the marshes north of Boston—and how they are connected to the largest unsolved art heist in modern history.Once, Maeve Ryan was the strongest witch of her generation. But Maeve messed up a spell to contact the Lady of the Fens, an eerie Revenant who lures the unwary to their deaths in th...