On the run from killers who hide in the shadows, Jasika has made dangerous enemies and even more dangerous friends. When her guildmaster is killed under suspicious circumstances, she wants retribution. The price on her head, however, has her running for her life. Soon, all she is left with are her dangerous memories and an ancient box that holds the key to her future... and the future of the entire realm.

Enormous black-armored knights rampage across town, killing everything in their wake. Their cruel mounts and hellish hounds cause almost as much chaos as the knights themselves. Jen Rice and her friends are helpless to stop as the demonic creatures run rampant through town, killing anyone who gets too close.A rash of high-end thefts has the police department running in circles. Jen is contacted by the thief, who asks her for help. His daughter has been kidnapped by demons and Jen i...

Dragon Keep, once a jewel of the Inland Sea empire, has fallen into ruin. Now, it has been purchased by a mysterious woman named Wendi, who keeps herself hidden from view, and her not-quite-human friends.Wendi has reasons to hide herself from the entire world. Her soulless eyes and a deep scar running down her face are the only clues she has about her real identity as she searches for any information about her own past. With memories fading as the years go by, she knows that she is...

Twelve years ago, the master thief known as the Queen of Diamonds, head of one of the largest black-market organizations in the universe, disappeared. When she returns to the world she once knew, she discovers that her entire empire has turned into something horrifyingly unrecognizable in her absence.The underworld organization she had so carefully created all those years ago has now been taken over by a band of vicious assassins who now rule their sector of the universe through fe...

Three Rivers Academy is known as the premier training academy for aspiring mages in the Inland Empire. Students travel from all reaches of the four empires to learn in its hallowed halls under the tutelage of the learned Magi. In this esteemed facility, students can learn how to grow and develop their magical abilities... assuming they live that long.The Grand Coven, little more than rumors and frightening tales to scare the incoming students, is much more real than most of the res...

A mysterious illness has been spreading throughout the fey and once again Morgan Lafayette is called to action. She returns to act in her role as Chosen, but this time she is missing her faithful sidekick Tilson. With the danger ever rising, the haltija has chosen to leave her side.In her search for both a cure for her friends and to stop the illness from spreading, Morgan has to travel even further than she had ever expected in order to find a cure and save her friends. From the b...

Having been expelled from Theffects School for Troubled Boys, William Teller Fontaine ('Tell'), the son of a skiving small-town mayor returns home to find an empty house and a farewell letter from his father. Knowing his father to play an arcane prank every now and then, he thinks nothing of it—until the neighbors and representatives from a local orphanage show up.When Tell flees to a nearby wheat field and is greeted by a babbling, self-proclaimed ‘tree-expert’ who claims that Tel...

Political conflict in Western democracies has traditionally emerged from politics rooted in competing ideologies and interests. With the rise of politics of identity, political conflict is morphing as political parties align themselves with identities, rather than ideologies or interests.

Named for the famous early-19th-century Point Breeze Hotel that stood at the corner of what is now Fifth and Penn Avenues, Point Breeze has been home to some of the wealthiest families in Pittsburgh and the country. Moguls such as Carnegie, Westinghouse, Frick, Mellon, and Thaw all resided in Point Breeze, thus christened �Pittsburgh�s Most Opulent Neighborhood.� H.J. Heinz owned the first car in Pittsburgh, which was garaged at his estate in North Point Breeze, and present-day Wilkins Ave...

Since this wild frontier land was settled at the bang of a gun one April morning, Oklahoma City has grown rapidly, experiencing some of the most drastic changes of all over the past century. Many of the photographs in this new volume show construction anddevelopment as the city began to truly prosper��downtown skyscrapers and modern highways, museums such as the Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Kirkpatrick Planetarium, and major plants operated by GeneralMotors and Dayton Tire & Rubber Company....

In this third volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, ten of education’s inspiring thought-leaders come together to bring you their perspectives on how to improve equitable outcomes in your school or classroom, so that all students have what they need to succeed. You will learn how to overcome barriers to equity of access; embrace a student’s cultural capital; attract and retain a diverse talent pool; incorporate intersectional identities in an inclusive classroom; impleme...

If you're among the millions of people annually who take on the role of providing unpaid care to family, friends, or neighbors, you are sure to face tough questions. How do I coordinate the care my loved one needs? How can I get other relatives to pitch in? Who pays for all this? Husband-and-wife psychologists Barry J. Jacobs and Julia L. Mayer--who have counseled family caregivers for over 30 years and cared for their own aging parents for a decade--have answers. Written in a Q&A format, ...