Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, remarkable in their variety. Astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book rev...

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving aroun...

It has been twenty years since the passing of Queen Caroline de Montigny. Nicholas and Brandywine have kept faith with their promise to her, and les Boulevardiers have become adults, with families of their own. When a series of chance occurrences make it evident that the realm is threatened by internal sedition and two invasions from beyond its borders...as well as the centuries-old vendetta of an ancient sorcerer...it falls their daughter Arabella and her "cousins" to save the wo...

With peace finally restored to the realm, Arabella is haunted, unable to come to terms with the violence of her actions in defense her family, and plagued with a nagging sense that she is no longer the person she once was, and beyond redemption.When Zoraya and Gareth disappear, everyone but Arabella knows the why and the wherefore of it all, but realises she alone will hold their salvation in her hands, and that there is a price to be paid for one's actions no matter h...

In the wake of his wife's murder, Alex MacMorna is a "retired" cop who talks his former CO into fast-tracking a PI license for him, hoping to get his life back together…except his first client sends him spinning off into the nightmare world of a serial killer…When Alex finds himself "in the head" of his quarry, things go from bad to worse, as his search takes him into the shadow realms of drugs, strip clubs, and the dark places of his own mind…FAREWELL THOU FAIR DAY is a

Time has become meaningless for Arabella, one day very much like any other--all of them filled with ghosts and memories that haunt her waking hours and her dreams. She has come to accept Loss as a dull and endless ache in her heart, reconciled herself to the impossibility of any meaningful change in her circumstances. Hidden away in her small valley, surrounded by the cats and foxes that have become her only companions, there comes a day when the wind calls out to her with a vague prem...

The magus Agrippina saves the munchkin hero Erich by the skin of his teeth.This favor does not come without a cost—she brings news that little Elisa is actually a changeling! To protect his sister's future, Erich's only choice is to accompany the magus to the imperial capital as a servant, leaving his hometown behind... but not before making an oath to his childhood friend. When fairies suddenly appear on his path to the capital, will he be able to avoid a critical...

Putting the fey tragedy behind him, Erich arrives at the Rhinian capital and begins his term of service under Lady Agrippina at the Imperial College of Magic.There, he draws the attention of a troubling wardrobe connoisseur but has no choice but to press on and earn his sister's tuition.After befriending a student at the College, the two set off on one of Agrippina's simple errands—until the Goddess of Dice turns their quick chore into a full-blown dungeon ...

The whole world has gone mad, so it's a good thing that Gambit is already insane.Locked away in a padded room, Gambit watches as the world goes to hell. Blood rains from the sky. Screams echo through the city. Monsters tear through reality.The world transforms overnight into the GREAT GAME, an apocalyptic battleground where monsters hunt, dungeons materialize, and the System destroys everything humanity once knew. All for the entertainment of the unseen aud...

After a grueling stint navigating the meteoric rise of Agrippina von Ubiorum as her right-hand man, Erich is finally freed from his indentured servitude.Though his farewells with Elisa, Mika, and Cecilia cling to his heart, he steels himself to put the capital behind him and set off on his journey—but what sort of misadventures await him on the way home?! Let the folding screen rise on a rough and scrappy sixth campaign!

After saving a runaway maiden from a series of mysterious pursuers, Erich and Mika whisk Cecilia away into the sewers of Berylin.As the chase approaches a finale, they uncover a secret like no other: Cecilia is no normal mensch.Upon finally escaping to Erich's lodging, the duo of old friends learn that the girl is running from an "unwanted marriage." Unwilling to cast her aside, they call in for fey and changeling support alike in an attempt to get her out ...

The captivating possibilities of extraterrestrial life on exoplanets, based on current scientific knowledge of existing worlds and forms of lifeIt is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring listeners on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life—unlike anything we have experienced so far—that could exist on planets ...