In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They’re wrong.Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea ... but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a...

What’s a woman to do when her regular masseuse gets replaced with a guy who makes her knees buckle?"This book is HAWT...I mean Fan yourself hawt from the first opening scene all the way through until the finale page. The chemistry is OFF THE CHARTS!!" Angie J., Twinsie Talk Book BlogStraight-laced financial advisor Rachel Donahue works her tail off, and her weekly massage is one of the few ways she copes with a stressful week. So she’s more than di...

Amy Lewis is on her way to her grandmother's house. She's being chased by a very bad wolf.Galaxies away, Loki Norse God of Mischief and Chaos is waking up in a prison cell, strangely without a hangover, and with no idea what he's done wrong—this time anyway. But he does know Thor is hiding something, Odin is up to something wicked, and there seems to be something he's forgotten ...Amy and Loki's fates are about to collide. ...

The first time I accidentally killed someone, I passed it off as a freak accident. The second time, a coincidence. But when I’m kidnapped and taken to an underground realm where corpses reanimate on their own, I can no longer ignore the nightmare of my life.The Vaettir claim to be the children of the old gods, but all I see are monsters. The only person I recognize in this horrifying realm is my old social worker from the foster system, Sophie, but something’s not right. She hasn’t...

“A gunslinger adventure with good, clean fun!”With a stolen experimental starship and a pair of advanced synthetic limbs, he’s not your average bounty hunter.When he accepted the job on a backwater planet, Hunter thought it would be easy. He and his partner just had to track down a missing researcher. But when they find her, she’s fled a quarter of the way around the massive ring of twenty-seven gates and Hunter realizes all is not as he was told.Th...

“This is a contractual marriage,” the duke said.“Nice!” the young lady replied. “I’ll take it!”“What…?”Despite Avril’s unique ability, her family has always treated her like a bumbling waste of space. Eventually, her parents force her into a marriage of convenience in her wicked half-sister’s stead. Contrary to the rumors, however, the decrepit, lecherous Duke Lanchester turns out to be a gorgeous young man. Of all ...

AI is not just changing what we do. It is changing who we are as thinkers. How do we get the best out of AI without making ourselves worse?AI promises effortless solutions and endless capacity. But the collision of human intelligence and machine intelligence has also started to create two diverging groups: those who use AI to think better and those who use AI instead of thinking. What if the accessibility of a tool this fast, creative, and smart is eroding our abil...

What if magic were only the visible part of a far greater reality?Beyond dragons, witches, elves and even the Divinities lies a forgotten truth waiting to be uncovered.The Architects.Invisible, silent and creative beings capable of shaping matter, light... and the destiny of the Whole.As darkness threatens to consume existence itself, two young hybrids must embark on an epic coming-of-age quest across breathtaking fantasy worlds, confront creatures born from...

A revelatory examination of how AI is already reshaping human thought—with implications for anyone wishing to harness AI’s power to amplify, rather than erode, their capacity.Since generative AI entered our world with a bang, it has increased our productivity with its effortless solutions and endless capacity. But the collision of human intelligence and machine intelligence has also started to create two diverging groups: those who use AI to think better and those ...

The Land of Cotton is a sweeping environmental and cultural history of cotton’s power in the American South. More than the region’s signature crop, cotton was a material, symbolic, economic, and ideological force. James C. Giesen’s central claim is that the culture of cotton—the ways planters, laborers, boosters, tourist boards, musicians, and a host of others representing the crop—shifted not only with the political moment but in response to the physical world. Cotton lands erodi...

This book is aimed at assisting you in walking the journey of life with a mind reconditioned for success. Each of us is created with a divine destiny that needs us to be very intentional about unlocking it. As technology takes over the world and the human being seemingly loses value, now more than ever, life needs to be lived by design and not left to chance.

International, interdisciplinary and urgent, this edited collection of 15 essays explores performances of resistance to Russian authoritarianism since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, with a particular focus on the 21st century under Putin's leadership.Against the backdrop of Russia's Post-Soviet history of rising nationalism and war in Ukraine, this volume challenges what we consider expressions of resistance. How can we evaluate their potential to contest autocra...