A crown does not make a king. Loyalty makes a legend.For seventeen years, the kingdom of Alaria has lived beneath the shadow of the Blackstone Crown.Queen Regent Abigail Blackstone rules through fear, secrets, and blood, while the truth about what happened inside the royal family has been buried so deeply that few remain who would dare uncover it.Far from the throne, a boy named Storm has grown up hidden from the world.Raised by Crystal, the...

Into the Polar NightA fascinating and often amusing journal written by a young French woman in 1839.She travelled through a very different Northern Europe to that of 2026 visiting Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Prussia, Saxony and Russia. She also sailed on a French naval corvette, La Recherche, which was conducting a scientific expedition to Spitzbergen before she travelled across Lapland.Her original book was titled 'Voyage d'...

A firefighter and a cowgirl caught in the line of fireWhen firefighter Aiden Colton finds rancher Lucy Harris left for dead in a blazing building, his attraction to her becomes a quest for justice. Someone wants the Harris homestead badly enough to kill for it—and Lucy is in their way. Soon, Aiden is the only thing standing between Lucy and a ruthless predator. But as danger closes in, the heat between them burns hotter than any fire.Perfect for fans of:

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of c...

Is your psyche prepared for more terror-brimming tales, with fates ready to haunt your mind? Ten new stories of adult horror await in this follow-up anthology to Spine-Tingling Tales to Read before Bed, each with their own gripping illustration! Delve into the beyond and endure new atrocities such as:- impossible temptations- nautical nightmares- chilling glimpses of the afterlife- accursed fantasy lands- and more...Keep a candle burning afte...

Harper Jones is just trying to get through sixth grade in a neighborhood that doesn't always feel safe. Then an encounter with an ancient protector spirit changes everything - Harper is chosen to carry a responsibility far bigger than herself, and the ordinary world she knew starts to look very different.With her friends Eva, Chantel, and Deja by her side, Harper has to figure out what it means to be chosen, how to use a power she doesn't yet understand, and how to protect the peop...

Take a rollercoaster ride through Scotland's fearsome environmental history.When the icesheet that covered what is now Scotland began to retreat around 12,000 years ago, it revealed a land stripped to its rocky bones but ready to be reclothed in soil, to bear plant life, and to be colonised by animals and humans. So began the formation of Scotland' s environment, opening a story of constantly and still evolving change as climate, weather, disease and human action have shaped and re...

The land around Hollow Farm has always had visitors.They come on foot and on horseback, by wagon and by thumb. Drifters, preachers, soldiers, salesmen - strangers who walk in off the road and never quite walk back out. Some leave bones. Some leave warnings. Some leave nothing at all except a feeling that the county is a little heavier than it was before they arrived.Wanderers & Strangers is a collection of thirty-one campfire tales told by Edmund Hollow - a man who...

This book teaches readers how to identify, challenge, and transform destructive thoughts and emotions by integrating:• Biblical truth (renewing the mind, spiritual authority, identity in Christ)• REBT & CBT principles (belief systems, cognitive distortions, emotional regulation)• Emotional intelligence (self-awareness, emotional mastery, emotional responsibility)• Confidence and mind...

"The land takes what it takes."Somewhere in the hills of Kentucky, there is a farm that remembers everything.It remembers the Cherokee priests who bound something ancient beneath the oldest tree in the orchard - something that was not evil, exactly, but was not safe. It remembers Elijah McBride, the frontier preacher who rode out of Fort Boonesborough and never quite rode back the same. It remembers the Civil War soldier who came home carrying more than the war's s...

The Sound of Burning: A Mother, a Daughter, a Murder begins the night then-fifteen-year-old Osorio’s mother murdered her grandmother while the author was in her bedroom down the hall. But this book is not simply about that crime. Instead, Osorio examines the true crime obsession that arose in popular American culture parallel to her life, from the Scream franchise and the early 2000s “copaganda” to the more recent podcast boom. She uses her own story to interrogate the wa...

How urban waterfront development in the early republic displaced working-class communities, creating lasting patterns of inequality and resistanceIn the early years of American nationhood, civic leaders undertook the construction of thousands of acres of man-made land along urban coastlines—a process known colloquially as “wharfing out,” in which landfilled blocks increased a city’s surface area by pushing outward into deep water. Workers cleared wetlands and dredg...