The gods didn't disappear 2,000 ago...They've been waiting.Fia Jones, an overworked corporate event planner, unknowingly implodes her purposefully mediocre life and becomes the perfect conduit for their schemes by accidentally summoning one.And, honestly? He's being a real jackass about it.Scouring Boston for an ancient relic, stalked by shapeshifter prophets and strange wolves, Fia unravels her own history ...

Someone is broadcasting orders in Veyra city that were never given.Field Officer First Class Alvin Leit has two jammed tram bridges, a district full of civilians heading the wrong way, and no idea who's behind it. Only that the false evacuation calls are hindering reinforcements who should be heading to the front.He has a mercenary who's barely survived a previous encounter with the cult, a relay technician who can't tell him who's transmitting, and a runner fast enough to ...

For over five centuries, the idea that people own themselves has appeared in philosophical work on justice. But the meaning of self-ownership has changed significantly over time, albeit largely unnoticed. Nowadays, philosophers usually understand self-ownership as a robust set of property-like rights over oneself, and chiefly they have debated whether such rights do or do not rule out certain forms of state redistribution of resources. By contrast, self-ownership first entered our philosop...

Lead simply. Lead powerfully.Leadership has gotten complicated. Uncomplicated Leadership breaks away from the crowd in a return to the basics of leadership for business owners, team managers, executives, and non-profit leaders alike. Built on the five principles of leadership and business that separate those who earn trust from those who simply hold titles, this book gives leaders at every level a practical, people-centered approach to leading well witho...

AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF LOVE, FAITH AND RESILIENCEThe third installment in the GRIT series, The JyothiKalai Story is an evocative graphic memoir of caregiving and the transformative power of belief. Born visually impaired and later diagnosed with autism, Jyothi finds her voice and her feet in the world through music, guided by the love, patience and resolve of her mother, Kalai, who refused to let dire circumstances dictate her daughter's fate. What...

Two siblings. Two struggles. Two countries. One city on the brink.Cleveland, 1919. Irish immigrant Moira Conway never wanted to cross the Atlantic. While her ambitious brother John dreams of making a fortune in America, Moira longs for the home she left behind. But in a city simmering with political upheaval and worker unrest, she finds a renewed sense of purpose through two perilous causes. As Cleveland becomes a crossroads of industrial strife an...

Plymouth Blitz recounts the deadliest civilian incident in Plymouth during the Second World War, when a German bomb struck the Portland Square Air Raid Shelter. Through eyewitness accounts and archival research, this book captures the courage, fear, and resilience of ordinary people living under the threat of aerial attack.On the night of 22–23 April 1941, as the German Luftwaffe descended on Plymouth, families from Portland Square and Victoria Street sought refuge in the ...

After years of living only for duty, Slava—the Flame of Rea—knows exactly who she is supposed to be: a leader, a warrior, and the last hope for her people. She never expected to find destiny in the very place that was meant to be the end of her. But it seems that every strike of her sword has led her to this moment.On the opposite side, Namir—the Ghost of the Ikaran Imperium—has never had a choice. Raised for a sin...

“This is a contractual marriage,” the duke said.“Nice!” the young lady replied. “I’ll take it!”“What…?”Despite Avril’s unique ability, her family has always treated her like a bumbling waste of space. Eventually, her parents force her into a marriage of convenience in her wicked half-sister’s stead. Contrary to the rumors, however, the decrepit, lecherous Duke Lanchester turns out to be a gorgeous young man. Of all ...

Matt is an ordinary teenager too young to remember the Great Drowning, the climate catastrophe that transformed England into a superheated archipelago. On a secret island he stumbles across a laboratory full of half-human and half-animal teenagers. When the shadowy Sons of Noah arrive to wipe out these hybrids, Matt is compelled to help three of them make a daring escape. Now they face a desperate journey through crocodile-infested creeks to save their captured friends. But a teenage cybor...

AI is not just changing what we do. It is changing who we are as thinkers. How do we get the best out of AI without making ourselves worse?AI promises effortless solutions and endless capacity. But the collision of human intelligence and machine intelligence has also started to create two diverging groups: those who use AI to think better and those who use AI instead of thinking. What if the accessibility of a tool this fast, creative, and smart is eroding our abil...

A woman awakens in the river with a dead man beside her. A creature is chased into the human realm and cut off from safety. A practical effects artist is drawn into a cursed production responsible for her mother's disappearance. An investigator is called to a manor harboring a dark secret. A private investigator must prove the guilt of her prey before the next full moon. A teacher learns the horrible price of being an outsider. A deadly game promises death to a young woman whose identity i...