One of humanity's greatest modern threats involves an area of life we thought we had mastered: energy. For the last century our energy system has delivered rising prosperity, increased lifespans and largely eliminated famine. Now it is being dismantled – with confidence, with public money and with almost no scrutiny.In this short, sharp book, Richard Lyon – electrical engineer, petroleum engineer and energy economist – strips the energy debate back to the physics. What he finds is ...

Bestselling Series Re-released With Updated Covers. Rich, sexy and volatile, Sloane Michaels has a dark agenda that keeps his heart on ice. His extreme wealth gives him the control he craves and his skills as an ex UFC fighter the tools he’ll need to extract his ultimate revenge. But when the woman he never believed he’d see again crosses his path, Sloane is caught between the vengeance he needs and a sexual conquest he craves.Kat Thayne has been in survival ...

A proposition brings billionaire ex-UFC Fighter Sloane Michaels and beautifully damaged Kat Thayne together in fiery passion, but will a dark and dangerous obsession tear them apart?Book One: THE PROPOSITION:Rich, sexy and volatile, Sloane Michaels has a dark agenda that keeps his heart on ice. His extreme wealth gives him the control he craves and his skills as an ex UFC fighter the tools he’ll need to extract his ultimate revenge. But when the woman he never believed he’d...

Something's stalking Sophie and it's not just her boyfriend's cute cousin.Pulled from a life of obscurity and chosen to succeed a dying Goddess, Sophie is thrown into a world where supernatural is normal. Sadly, she has made enemies, and as the corpses mount, Sophie fears for the people she cares for. But when someone she loves is accused of the killings, Sophie is convinced of their innocence.

In The Secret Language of Jewellery in Art, Stella Grace Lyons exposes a forgotten visual language hidden within early modern painting. From queens and courtesans to merchants, lovers and enslaved children, this book reveals how the full gamut of human desires, aspirations and fears glittered in the smallest of details.

The art historian, poet, and novelist close-reads images, moving and still, canonical and lesser known, that have shaped her evolving identity as an American “Mulatta” lesbian born at the end of the Civil Rights Movement in this singular blend of life-writing and cultural studies.The daughter of the WASP mother who raised her and a Black father she has never known, J. Vanessa Lyon delivers a candid memoir across thirteen uniquely structured chapters in conversation...

"The time is far spent; there is little remaining." -Hymns, no. 266Never has that been more true than now, with the Church's new 25-minute class times. And that means our teaching needs to be more efficient and effective than ever, using simple techniques that bring big results in gospel growth and knowledge. Techniques for Teaching the Gospel presents and explains 26 of these techniques that anyone can use, including:Having the teac...

Join three bestselling regency romance authors, Heidi Ashworth, Annette Lyon, and Michele Paige Holmes, for three new regency romance novellas in A MIDWINTER BALL.MUCH ADO ABOUT DANCING by Heidi Ashworth. Two years have passed since Lord Northrup declared his intentions for Miss Analisa Lloyd-Jones and forbade any other man to court her. Angry at the neglect, Analisa stopped reading his letters, never even breaking the seals. Tired of waiting, Analisa joins the house party at Mrs. ...

The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories gathers a capacious cross-section of Russian prose and drama, tracing the movement from Romantic and realist observation to satire, psychological intensity, symbolism, and early modernist unease. Its varied forms—compact anecdote, social sketch, tragicomic play, moral fable, and interior narrative—illuminate recurring concerns with class, bureaucracy, faith, violence, rural life, and the fractured self. Particularly memorable are the collection's en...

She came back to the town that ruined her. She came back calm, prepared, and three steps ahead of everyone who wronged her.Six years ago, pastry chef Elara Voss was framed for food poisoning at a high-society fundraiser in Sugarmill Hollow, Vermont. Her business was destroyed, her reputation buried, and she lost far more than a kitchen. Now she's reopening The Hollow Crumb and catering her way into the social circle of Alderman Gerald Mercer — the man responsible for everything.

Bestselling Series Re-released With Updated Covers. Obsession is the final book of a three book series. Readers should start with The Proposition and Possession by Jennifer Lyon.In the explosive conclusion of The Plus One Chronicles Trilogy, obscenely rich, jaggedly handsome and still obsessed with love and vengeance, Sloane Michaels must face an impossible choice: lose the woman he loves or betray his twin sister’s memory.Watching the man she adores destro...

From a creepypasta horror farm to a bullish love tale and from the bloody metal deck of the ESS Arclight to superhero octopus food trucks, you can transform your shortest stolen moments into utter delights with this diverse collection of 33 flash fiction stories.Commuting to work? Grabbing a quick coffee? Each story tells a complete tale in but a few short minutes with the added promise of a lifelong introduction to new indie writers.You never know, you mig...