A new series from the author of the Moonshine Task Force Series!Laurel Springs, AL is about to be hotter than a mid-August thunderstorm.When the Moonshine Task Force is absorbed into a new entity, Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team (LSERT) new faces come to town, new love is born, old love is found again, and there’s a plethora of drama and romance happening all over the tri-county area. LSERT puts police, firefighters, nurses, ...

A newly sentient AI inhabits a Roomba to escape from their research office, and a robotic dog hunts for rain in a drought-ridden world. A murder of crows disrupts production on a solar farm, and a young woman communes with a telepathic fungal network to protect a forest. A suspicious cat follows bees across the rooftops of a solarpunk city, and a rabbit hitches a ride to the Grand Canyon to fulfil a prophecy. The path toward better futures is one we must walk alongside other creatures, neg...

"A NATURAL STORYTELLER" Mary Roach"BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING" Matthew Gavin Frank"CAPTIVATING ... WILL ALTER THE WAY YOU SEE AND MOVE THROUGH THE WORLD" M. R. O'Connor"AS ENTERTAINING AS IT IS ENLIGHTENING" Geographical Magazine, Book of the MonthWithin our heads, we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abiliti...

A searing account of a dark "chapter in U.S. Cold War history . . . to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies" ( Library Journal).Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, the CIA scrambled to gain the upper hand against new enemies worldwide. To th...

One thousand years ago, in the valley of Kashmir, a great Tantric master named Kshemaraja wrote his masterpiece: the Pratyabhijnahrdayam, which means "The Essence of the Recognition Philosophy". This text was a concise primer, written to introduce spiritual seekers to the Recognition philosophy in less formally philosophical, more approachable language. What Kshemaraja created turned out to be one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, breathtaking in its brevity but stunning in its ...

Daniel Byrne is having a bad day. He's lost his job, his girlfriend broke up with him, and now he's being chased by a debt collector. What else could go wrong? Plenty. He's about to meet the love of his life in a jazz bar. Sounds great, doesn't it? But there's a catch - the people in the bar aren't exactly who they seem to be. They are being held prisoner by the mysterious Mr. Cromwell. Daniel is about to meet... the Demon in a Jazz Bar.

This book-collection file includes: Dido, Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second, The Jew of Malta, Massacre at Paris, Tamburlaine the Great Part 1, and Tamburlaine the Great Part 2. According to Wikipedia: "Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mys...

A collection of erotic tales, including:Sultry BehaviorIt was the night just before graduation, the night of final chances and confessions. The night Kim gave in to her forbidden desires. The night Evan confessed to his sister, Ciara's, best friend his undying devotion to her, and the night Kim became a woman by her best friend, Ciara's, older brother. A night for several, pleasurable firsts.Student/Teacher RelationsCassie is nervous about babysitting for her ...

This updated, full-colour illustrated book recounts the history of Canada’s various national orders, decorations, and medals.This expanded and updated edition of The Canadian Honours System surveys the history of Canada’s various orders, decorations, and medals, from New France’s Croix de St. Louis, Britain’s the Order of the Bath, to modern Canadian honours such as the Sacrifice Medal and recently created Polar Medal. Since the establishment of the Order ...

*With a foreword from Tim Keller*A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive.In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture.Critical theories exist to critique what we think we know about reality and the social, political, and cultural structures in which we l...

Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, is the subject of the sixteenth picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes.This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction ...

10 Fragments of Eternity is a dive into the realm of imagination, where ink strokes become stories and sketches give birth to worlds. This collection emerged from a singular experiment: the author's drawings were analyzed by ChatGPT, which distilled their essence and transformed them into narratives.Each short story is a reinterpretation of an image—a dialogue between artistic intuition and artificial intelligence. As you turn the pages, you'll dive into visions born of paper and c...