It's all part of the marketing game—fake hate—unless she falls for her ex again . . .Hailey Moreno has many regrets about letting her family down since her father's death. But breaking up with her secret boyfriend years ago after his father underhandedly tried to buy her family's hot-air balloon business isn't one. The Selene family is her enemy until she's charged with creating a Central Oregon hot-air balloon festival. Now she needs her ex's cooperation and perha...

A lucky break isn’t always what it seems.Sometimes at the bottom of a mine, justice goes BOOM.Anthony Wolfe is coasting through the last posting of his long career as Manager of the MonJaro mining operations on the remote planet of Shadetree. He’s counting the days until his retirement, and then an unlikely explosion kills one of his engineers, and nothing stacks square.His search for answers puts him in the crosshairs of corporate ...

When honor outweighs survival,A promise could cost it all.With a ship full of refugees who have given up everything to escape enslavement, and nowhere safe to settle them, Nathaniel Grey must make an impossible choice. The only world they have a right to call home is already occupied, and it may take a war to evict the archaeologist holding it.Against a new fleet of Coalition ships, outfitted with advanced Takhu technology and carry...

A vanished colony. A forbidden landing,And an impossible choice that could cost it all.Captain Ethan Walker is just trying to haul freight, keep his ship flying, and live by the rules. But when he arrives at Starlight Colony with his cargo and two paying passengers, he finds it eerily abandoned.No people. No remains. No explanation.Just empty buildings and an echoing silence where one hundred thousand people should be.

Stranded beyond the edge of civilization.One crew. One secret. One shot at survival.Commander Jephora Cochrane and the crew of the Jakob Waltz stumble upon a secret lost to time — a half-billion-year-old relic that could change humanity’s path through history.Cut off from civilization and surrounded by uncertainty, Cochrane must lead his crew through chaos, betrayal, and shifting loyalties toward a discovery powerful enough...

As humanity pushes beyond Mars, it discovers an alien terror that destroys civilizations and now has them in its sights. Entire worlds have already fallen under its absolute judgment.To survive, they must ally with a dangerous being that offers the means to resist annihilation, but at what cost? Forced to flee their home, humanity must fight for the privilege to exist. (266 Pages, 6x9)

Fortune and Death each claim to be the more powerful god. But when they begin a game to settle the matter, not even they can know how it will end or how much damage it may cause along the way. For when gods play games, the pieces on their board are nothing less than mortal lives…So begins the Immortal Wager Saga, a sprawling work of epic fantasy that spans continents and crosses both the mortal and immortal planes, and where even death may not be enough to escape the machinations o...

In an age of online education and educational philosophies like “flipping the classroom,” does the lecture have any role in today’s university? Drawing from the humanities and social sciences and from a range of different types of schools, The College Lecture Today makes the affirmative case for the lecture in the humanities and social and political sciences. These essays explore how to lecture without sacrificing theoretical knowledge.

The free exercise of conscience is under threat in the United States. Already the conservative bloc of the Supreme Court is reversing the progress of religious liberty that had been steadily advancing. And this danger will only increase if more conservative judges are nominated to the court. This is the impassioned argument of Religion on Trial. Against Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Chief Justice Rehnquist, the authors argue that what the First Amendment protects is the freedom of individua...

To prevent an ancient family heirloom from falling into the wrong hands, Maria, a young farm girl, must thwart off the relentless pursuit from an evil Countess who has been on a lifelong quest to unlock an ancient family legend. After a devastating fire, Maria uncovers an ancient family bracelet that whisks her away to a new world. Compelled to understand why she was brought here, Maria tries to uncover her family’s secret past. Will Maria be able to stop the Countess' powerful grasp, and ...

When vengeance runs deeper than blood,No amount will settle the debt.After Ethan Walker vanishes from Tortuga, his crew scrambles for answers. Their search leads them far across hostile space in a desperate mission to bring him home. Yet with each passing hour, hope wears thin.Ethan wakes in captivity aboard an unknown ship, staring at the brutal truth of his fate if he survives long enough to be delivered into the hands of the ruth...

"Am I solving the right problem the right way?" So many trainers tell us what to do based on what they believe is "best", without customizing to the dog, the owner, the family and the situation. What we “should” do is not always the same as what we are willing to do, what we are capable of doing, or what will be effective with our dog and our family. The Canine Strategies Workbook is less of a “dog training book” and more of a psychological and behavioral troubleshooting guide. Its goal is...