Queen Peydra ascends to the throne, but has a mere 12 years until Ruling Council will murder her.Can she escape the "Curse of Royalty"?Peydra must decide what she will do as she nears her coronation in a kingdom whose ruling body has used something they call the Protection Dictum to justify murdering the royal family for more than two centuries. Instead of being the warning against tyranny it was intended to be, the practice has become commonplace and threatens not only her...

You're sitting around the campfire; it's dark, the moon is high in the sky, the wind is whistling through the trees, and the sense of isolation is pervasive. You hear a twig snap in the darkness, everyone is tense. What's the story you tell your friends to terrify them? What's in the dark, stalking the camp: an ax murderer, a werewolf, or something so far beyond our mortal understanding that just the sight of it will drive each of us insane?

In a near-future world where hurricanes are weekly events, Eleanor escapes with her family to an abandoned beach town on Shadow Key after a storm destroys her school. There, she stumbles upon a strange and eerie discovery—a small colony of ghosts, each with their own peculiar story: a homesick pirate, a lovesick countess, the mysterious Nameless Mute Gentleman, and The Fabulous Singing Siren Sisters.But the ghosts are in danger. Tentacled sea monsters called Oldies are stalking thei...

The 2010 suicide in small-town Massachusetts garnered worldwide attention and led to a new awareness of bullying and anti-bullying legislation in dozens of states. Barely fifteen years old, Irish transfer student Phoebe Prince hung herself on a gray, cold, January afternoon after enduring vicious bullying in school and online for months. Why it happened is told, here, for the first time. How it happened was no secret: hundreds of other students knew, as did administrators, school counselor...

Can a genetically engineered psychopath grow a conscience, get the girl, and save the galaxy? Two out of three ain’t bad.Rico has a problem. The experimental program that gave him the high intelligence and lightning reflexes he needs as a hit man for a galactic crime syndicate left him incapable of internalizing moral imperatives the rest of us take for granted. It takes real effort for him to pass as a normal human being and he avoids it whenever he can. But he ha...

Fundamental to the study of any mathematical structure is an understanding of its symmetries. In the class of Banach spaces, this leads naturally to a study of isometries-the linear transformations that preserve distances. In his foundational treatise, Banach showed that every linear isometry on the space of continuous functions on a compact metric

A new clue is uncovered from the Vatican and goes on public display, turning 12-year-old Indigo's quest into a race to the Holy City, barely one step ahead of the invisible Sandmen and the Bendy Man, armed with; her wits, training, a Swiss Army knife, an inquisitive street urchin, and 700 years of clues.

Dr. Rex J. Fleming received his B.S. degree from Creighton University with a major in mathematics. He later obtained a M.S. and Ph.D. from the U. of Michigan in the field of Atmospheric Science. He has over 50 years of experience in weather and climate research. His Ph.D. thesis involved the study of energy interactions within the atmosphere and a stochastic dynamic method of improving our understanding of those atmospheric interactions in light of uncertain initial conditions.The ...

Dill: Tales from Wisconsin: a not-so long-ago story of a boy, a friend, a farm and the quest for a BB GunBy: J Lee FlemingDonny is a young boy living on a farm. One day, when his mother sends him to the basement to fetch some pickles, he meets a new friend, whom he names Dill. Donny’s friendship with Dill lasts through many adventures and lessons learned, and Donny begins to learn there may be a more to Dill than meets the eye.A fictionalized retelling of real event...

This book is an attempt to develop a dialogue between the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Porter's Thomistic theory of the natural law, and the virtue of solidarity as expressed in Catholic Social Teaching. It seeks to explore the implications that such a dialogue would have for our understanding of moral reasoning. Attentiveness to Vulnerability rests on the hypothesis that it is possible to develop a set of robust links between these thinkers and bodies of thought--markedly differen...

Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little-remembered even there, but as General Manager and Head of Publicity for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, they lorded over all the stars in Hollywood's golden age from the 1920s through the 1940s--including legends like Garbo, Dietrich, Gable and Garland. When MGM stars found themselves in trouble, it was Eddie and Howard who took care of them--solved their problems, hid their crimes, and kept their secrets...

The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal--a string of assaults within the Catholic Church--exploded in the early 2000s. Despite numerous indications--including 40 claims of sexual misconduct with minors--pointing to him as Croteau's killer, the Reverend Richard R. Lavigne remains "innocent."Drawing on more than 10,000 pages of police and court records and interviews with Danny's friends and f...