When you know your life has a deadline, why play it safe?Grav-walker Jasper Pine ekes out a risky livelihood as a scavenger in a city full of treacherous and unpredictable gravity zones. But she has a secret, an alien infection that will soon shatter gravity again. This time it could endanger the whole planet.Without a workable cure, Jasper's only plan is to die before her infection matures. She lives her life fast, wild, and reckless, with no hope for her future. ...

Hey Sis: Reclaim Your Crown - 52 Weeks of Inspiration and Strength for the Woman Who KnowsHer Worth is a yearlong inspirational devotional and poetry collection created to encourage,empower, and strengthen women through faith, wisdom, and self-reflection.Organized into 52 weekly readings, the book combines original poetry, heartfeltencouragement, Scripture, and practical life lessons that remind women of their God-givenidentity, purpose, and value. E...

Vampire heir Cassian Virelli has survived centuries of politics, hunger, and carefully managed cold. Then his body betrays him. Human blood, the one thing he was built to need, becomes poison. Eleven days of starvation later, pride is all that is keeping him upright.Food scientist Lila has a lab that glows at two in the morning, a grant hanging by a thread, and a habit of staying late with formulas that should not work. One unstable batch turns gold. One desperate stranger drinks i...

Although the theory of well-posed Cauchy problems is reasonably understood, ill-posed problems involved in numerous mathematical models in physics, engineering, and finance can be approached in a variety of ways. The authors structured these approaches, identifying three main strategies for dealing with ill‑posed problems: semigroup methods, abstract distribution methods, and regularization methods. Semigroup and distribution methods restore well-posedness, in a modern weak sense. Regulari...

I'm starting life over in Dogwood Grove.I left my rich husband and bought an old farmhouse with a wraparound porch, amazing views of the mountains, and only a twenty-minute walk from Dogwood Grove. It will be hard at first to be a stranger in a new town, but I have a solid plan: smile and make lots of friends.And it was going great until my ex canceled all my credit cards. Now I'm broke, stuck with an old, rundown house, and all alone.Until I meet Parker, a...

Reality and fiction merge into a grandiose flight of fantasy when Harriet Sparrow, a young writer suffering from hysterical amnesia, wanders through a stream of lucid dreams believing she's both author and protagonist of her favorite books and movies to replace memories too painful to remember.

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...

Thoughtful activities to inspire connection, conversation, and dignity in dementia care.People living with dementia deserve engagement that is respectful, meaningful, and rooted in who they are. Through the Years continues a beloved series with a carefully designed collection of questions and activities that help caregivers and adults with memory challenges connect through shared memories and conversation. Dementia care leaders Cynthia R. Green, PhD, and t...

The fourth edition of Uptime introduces an updated and expanded framework for achieving sustainable reliability and asset performance in an increasingly complex, data-enabled operating environment. Building on the proven foundation established by earlier editions, this new edition extends the original Uptime Pyramid of Excellence beyond maintenance best practices alone, positioning reliability as a strategic organizational capability that supports operational excellence, risk redu...

Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.Perfect for fans of Ellen Datlow.Unearthed digs beneath these crumbling structures to reveal their archaic pasts, and their darkest secrets. Featuring the best modern writers of horror and dark fantasy, these stories explore the caverns and the c...

Marty Milagros is a klutz, a clown, a payaso—and now he's got an AI living in his brain! This epic, full-color sci-fi graphic novel is an #OwnVoices Latinx adventure for fans of Hilo and The Last Kids on Earth**.**Twelve-year-old Marty Milagros is used to getting in trouble. Little does he know, his upstairs neighbor, Mr. Albert, is secretly a galactic scientist defending the planet from alien inv...

The rich diversity of Arkansas’s amphibian and reptilian species comes alive in this thoroughly updated second edition of The Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. An indispensable resource for both professionals and enthusiasts, and praised for its accessible language and scientific rigor, this field guide not only reflects the latest in taxonomic research but also celebrates the surge in herpetological studies in Arkansas over the past two decades, showcasing a thriving academic ...