Earth is on the brink of total annihilation. The only hope for survival is thirteen young individuals (one controller and twelve Essence protectors). They are linked through one core commonality- Selina, the Denarian supreme commander, who having fled from her depraved husband Alanius twenty-three years earlier, seeks refuge on earth, the remotest of planets in the vast expanses of the known galaxy. Here she marries a human, a game ranger named Gus, and gives birth to Jason, her firstborn ...

A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological dataToday the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it contained hundreds of thousands of acres of natural grasslands that stretched from Florida to Texas. Now more than 99 percent of these prairies, glades, and savannas have been...

Emily dreams of little more than becoming a baker. William is a young soldier preparing for war. Sandrene is certain she has captured a dangerous killer.Their lives have nothing in common.Yet each is confronted by a stranger who knows them far better than should be possible. Names are spoken that no one remembers. Impossible memories surface. Black lightning tears across the sky as the world itself begins to unravel.

Set against the remote and rugged terrain of the Highlands, The Sheltering traces a series of journeys to some of the country's most isolated and evocative places of shelter. From ruined scientific outposts and outlaw hideaways to hermitages, shielings, brochs and caves, The Sheltering explores the enduring resonance of wild shelters in our collective imagination and reflects on the many motivations-spiritual, creative, survivalist, rebellious-that have drawn people to th...

Louis is a fourth grader who is moving into his grandmother’s house and is starting his first day at a new school. Louis’ father is absent from his life because he is in prison. Louis’ denial and disappointment in his father’s absence is displayed by his series of imaginative lies about his father’s whereabouts. Louis quickly learns he can only keep the lies going for so long and is forced to face the truth.

Fuzzy and his friends were enjoying a night fire when a storm came and put the animals to a test. It was not just any test. It was a test of teamwork, friendship, and care. Fuzzys friends were completing a task far more difficult than one animal could do. Their teamwork, friendship, and caring hearts came together to save the day.

This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated - in short, he attempts to reconstruct ...

The past is not so easily left behind.Risk has spent his life outrunning the place that made him, determined to become something greater than the streets that once defined him. But some memories refuse to fade, and some wounds are far too deep to heal with the passing of time.As old ghosts begin to stir and long-buried scars are forced back into the light, Risk finds himself facing a question he has never dared ask:...

This book is a way for me to show kids that helping one another and not being a bully can go a long way. So if you need help or you are in a bad situation and the only person there is the person that you have picked on, dont you think they might not help you? So make good choices and help stop bullying.

A magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern worldThe cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? In The World at First Light, historian Bernd Roeck explores the cultural and historical preconditions that enabled the European Renaissance. Roeck shows that the rediscovery of ancient knowledge, including the science of the medieval A...

The life of one of history’s most powerful women, retold through seven crucial episodes that shook the ancient worldCleopatra: A Woman of Power is a major new biography of one of history’s most misunderstood figures. Far from the common portrayal of her as seductress and betrayer, Cleopatra emerges as a brilliant strategist and visionary leader determined to reshape the balance of power between Rome and the Hellenistic East.In a propulsive historic...

How Frederick the Great and George Washington embody the competition between liberal democracy and authoritarianismBoth Frederick the Great and George Washington saw themselves as model rulers exemplifying different modes of enlightened governance. Frederick, absolute ruler of Prussia, styled himself as the embodiment of “enlightenment from above”; Washington, as the first president of the United States, held himself accountable to Congress, with the power of the p...