Madam built her empire, Club Eden, brick by brick and body by body; some even buried beneath the foundation. And her best friend Blue was there from the beginning, taking note like an understudy training to ultimately become the world's most dangerous weapon—and Madam's.Before Eden takes you back to the humble beginnings; before Madam was known in the streets for being the most hardcore businesswoman of the hottest male strip club in Atlanta, Georgia . . . and before Blue was frien...

THEY HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD . . . WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO SAVE THEM? From comics superstar Christian Ward (Event Horizon: Dark Descent, Batman: City of Madness) and visionary artist Sami Kivelä (Abbott), prepare to challenge the limits of time, technology, and human endurance itself as one family’s refuge from the end of the world becomes a mind-bending nightmare reaching far beyond the future. Inside: Time stands still. But outside: Something even worse than the apocalypse awaits . ....

Kaitlyn's mother had bad taste in men! She married two losers and had shacked up with even worse. Kaitlyn witnessed them abusing her and forcing her to have sex with them. As a child some of the me tried to molest her. That all changed when her mother had her friend Morgan who, had a good job move in with them, she treated Kaitlyn's mom well and her home life seemed to stabilize. But she still hated school, teachers and classmates.All the moving when she started high school caused ...

A green jelly, a chocolate biscuit, and a candy find themselves swept onto the back of an endless line of marching ants, riding across the garden like passengers aboard a living train. As the ant train rolls through tunnels of grass, over pebble mountains, and past hungry predators, the three unlikely friends must work together to survive the journey and find their way home before the line reaches its final, mysterious destination.

Deep beyond the Sugarwood Hills stands a fortress unlike any other — a towering castle built entirely from carrots, glowing orange under the afternoon sun. When three unlikely friends stumble upon it, they discover the gates won't open for just anyone. To pass through, they must outsmart the ancient guardians of the Root Kingdom by solving three riddles, each harder than the last. With courage, cleverness, and a bit of luck, the trio sets off on a race against time before the castle gates ...

When a small leak in a garden hose suddenly turns into a roaring wall of water, three unlikely friends are swept off their feet and pulled toward a mysterious opening hidden beneath the flowerbeds. What starts as an ordinary afternoon in the backyard becomes a race against the current, a plunge into the unknown, and the discovery of a hidden world no one ever knew existed under the garden soil.

Three unlikely friends — a squishy green jelly, a chocolate biscuit, and a small candy — wander past the edge of their garden and stumble into a world gone wrong. Overnight, the tomato plants have grown into a towering, tangled jungle, stretching far beyond the old wooden fence. Vines coil like ropes, leaves loom like green skies, and the fruit hangs like boulders overhead. Lost, small, and completely out of their depth, the trio must fight their way through this strange new wilderness, fa...

Deep beneath a quiet backyard garden, three unlikely friends stumble into a world they never knew existed. A green jelly candy, a chocolate biscuit, and a small sweet candy set out on an ordinary afternoon adventure — until the ground trembles and a colossal, gentle worm rises to meet them. Desperate and afraid, the giant creature reveals a terrible truth: dark forces are burrowing toward its ancient underground home, and only three brave newcomers might be able to stop them. Packed with t...

Step into the Alpine Regions of Austria for a complete introduction to the local traditions, beliefs, and folklore surrounding the dark half of the year.Within these pages you will come face-to-face with the ghostly procession of otherworldly beings called the Wild Hunt, the goddess Percht who slits open the bellies of the idle and lazy, as well as that most feared, infamous, and sensationalized figure of the Yuletide season: Krampus.Detailing over twenty a...

Deep inside a hidden world where candy and fruit come to life, three unlikely friends are about to be pulled into the biggest conflict their land has ever seen. Rex, a fearless green jelly with more courage than sense, Tamu, a steady and clever chocolate biscuit, and Sfan, a quick-witted candy who always seems to find trouble before trouble finds him, set out on what starts as a simple walk through the Sugar Woods. What they find instead changes everything. On the other side of the forest ...

Artificial intelligence is usually sold as either miracle or apocalypse. This book is about what happens in between.The Inferior God Complex argues that the real power of AI will not arrive first as superintelligence, killer robots, or cinematic gods. It will arrive as paperwork. As forms. As risk scores. As workflows. As software quietly embedded in hiring, insurance, medicine, education, policing, government, and ordinary life.Once, churches became centers of truth becaus...

Every night, when the lights go out and the humans stop watching, an entire world of sweets comes alive. Rex, a bouncy green jelly candy with more courage than sense, Tamu, a chocolate biscuit who thinks before she leaps (usually), and Sfan, a sugar-coated candy with a talent for getting into trouble, have spent the whole day exploring the wildest place a treat could ever dream of visiting: the supermarket. What started as a simple dare — sneak out of the Liam family's kitchen cupboard jus...