A dark spirit. An ancient warning. Lives in the balance.After Ranger Emily Mars' slim victory against two evil spirits, she's off the bench and back to work as a High Order, demon-fighting operative. All Emily wants is her aloof teacher's approval―and to protect her friends and loved ones in the course of her duties patrolling purgatory, the realm of spirits.But when a dark spirit causes a deadly school shooting, almost killing the boy who's claimed her hea...

A talented young hacker. A desperate artificial intelligence. The fate of two worlds.Sixteen-year-old Jaffrey Pewitt holds a life-threatening secret. A genetic outcast, the brilliant teen’s academy scores have earned him a position patrolling the mainframe and eliminating rogue program code ― a job prohibited to those with his DNA. And when he encounters an illegal AI, she threatens to expose his true identity if he doesn’t help her community survive.Torn between loyalty ...

A defiant girl guards the gateway between life and death. But the boundaries are weakening, and the rift is about to unleash pure evil.Box Set: 450+ pages of wild, spirited, unforgettable action!Seventeen-year-old Emily Mars is a rebel by nature, but a soul guardian by rite. Between track meets, hot crushes, and her duties patrolling purgatory, she feels pressure on all sides to conform. But when a dark spirit rises to devour the innocent, only a h...

Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers’ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring work from award winners to bestsellers to a few newcomers whose time will come, Time Streams turns the time-travel genre on its head.Fiction River is an original fiction anthology seri...

"A gorgeous scrapbook of the late icon's life—featuring clippings, letters, and dozens of finely honed quips from her famous-joke files." — Vanity FairJoan Rivers is an enduring icon of the twentieth century, and her wildly popular humor has appealed to generations of fans. With a career that began in the late 1950s, Joan kept mementos over the course of her entire working life, and Joan Rivers Confidential is a compilation of never-before-seen per...

*Includes Table of ContentsUlfilas (circa 4th century A.D.), was a Gothic bishop and missionary. He was responsible for creating the Gothic alphabet, and translating the Bible from Greek into Gothic . A table of contents is included.

On New Year’s Day 1892, a young Irish girl named Annie Moore stepped off the steamship Nevada and landed on a tiny island that once held a naval fort. As she made her way through the large building on that island, Annie was processed as the first immigrant to come to America through Ellis Island. Like so many immigrants before her, she and her family settled in an Irish neighborhood in the city, and she would live out the rest of her days there.Thanks to the opening of Ell...

The United States is a massive country, with the continental 48 states covering over three million square miles. From the 13 colonies along the Atlantic Ocean, the nation spread ever westward, and before automobiles, airplanes, and railroads, the most reliable transportation was one’s own two feet or a horse.Wagons, whether covered or uncovered, have been used to haul people and supplies for centuries. Roman armies marched with mule-powered wagons, and the Hussites utilized them to...

“This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end the program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.” – Fred RogersAn anomalous YouT...

At the start of the 1840s, the Oregon Country had no political boundaries or effective government. The only administrative organization in the territory was the Hudson’s Bay Company, which applied only to British subjects, and aside from natives, the region was populated by a handful of independent traders, hunters, and prospectors, as well as those employed in the various company depots.The first to begin showing up in large numbers were missionaries. The native populations were b...

Angel Island, the largest island in San Francisco Bay at about 740 acres, was originally named when Don Juan Manuel Ayala sailed into San Francisco Bay. Supposedly, the island was named “Angel” because the land mass appeared to him as an angel guarding the bay, and when Ayala made a map of the Bay, on it he marked Angel Island as, “Isla de Los Angeles.” This would remain the island’s name ever since, even as the use of the island would certainly change over time.The island is curre...

Deep within the bayous and swamps of Louisiana resides a population descended from an exodus. These people, called Cajuns or Acadians, were expelled from their homelands. Persecuted and homeless, they traveled hundreds of miles south in search of a new home and ultimately settled in the Pelican State, where they made new lives for themselves free from their British conquerors. Though not always warmly welcomed, they were accepted, allowing them to practice their different culture amidst th...