On a remote laboratory world, the brilliant Vegan scientist Pud is desperately trying to conceal a maze of invisible experiments when a tiny human spaceship drops out of the sky. His nervous assistant Gop keeps making mistakes, and every misplaced probe, exposed field, and scraping tail threatens to reveal an entire planet-sized laboratory to the stranded explorers. Johnny and Helen Gorman, assuming they've found a barren world, begin repairing their damaged ship and gathering samples—unti...

In the shattered ruins of Manhattan, eleven-year-old Steven moves through Central Park like prey that has learned to hunt. Armed with a knife and driven by suspicion, he survives by stealing, hiding, and striking first, while packs of dogs and ruthless men prowl the wreckage around him. Yet beneath the violence, a troubling trace of childhood remains: laughter survives in a world where innocence has been nearly erased. Little Boy is a stark science-fiction tale of postwar devastation, wher...

On a warm Martian evening beside the Great Canal, Joe Caradac, his wife Sarah, and their friends are enjoying a peaceful outing when a broadcast shatters the calm: four escaped Aarnian criminals have fled Mars Detain. Feared throughout the city, the Aarnians can abandon their own bodies, seize others, and hide in plain sight, turning every neighbor into a possible impostor and every glance into suspicion. By morning, the warning has grown more urgent, and Joe's orderly life on Ofei feels s...

In the shattered Tennessee valley town of Smoky Creek, a handful of elderly survivors have outlasted the war that erased their families, their neighbors, and nearly the entire town. Hidden among collapsed buildings and secret rooms propped up from within, they scrape together a precarious life of rationing, hidden gardens, cards, checkers, and rough humor, preserving the outward appearance of death to keep enemy planes from striking again. Ben moves through this ruined refuge with practice...

The Living Grid — Book One explores the relationship between ancient landscapes, celestial observation, architecture, geography, time, and human memory.Moving from the night sky to ancient earthworks and ultimately to Ocmulgee in Macon, Georgia, the book examines the possibility that landscapes can preserve relationships between people, place, and the heavens.Rather than presenting speculation as established fact, The Living Grid separates archaeological and astronomical ev...

This book offers an innovative alternative methodology for managing negotiations grounded in the lived experiences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Drawing on behaviourographic analysis of their speeches, writings, and life episodes, the work introduces the conceptual framework of “state of relatedness” and five tangible relationship frames – inclination, influence, interpretative, interaction, and issues handling – that underlie all negotiated engagements. The book demons...

Six giants of English and American comic fiction share the stage in this collection: Jonathan Swift's biting satire, Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's gallery of eccentrics, Mark Twain's dry American humor, Jerome K. Jerome's beloved comic timing, and Edwin Abbott's flat, delightful satire come together in ten stories built to make you laugh out loud. From drawing-room comedy to absurdist adventure, this anthology proves classic literature can be every bit as funny as it is endur...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

A biblical blueprint for effective communication that empowers men to express their emotions and equips women with the respect languages that help men be vulnerable in a healthy way.Men don’t lack feelings. They lack a safe place to express them. In a culture obsessed with “high-value men” and “alpha status,” men often let their emotions go unprocessed. What looks like drive is a desperation that can lead to workaholism, i...

When Elara Blackwood inherits a decaying estate at the edge of a hostile forest, she expects to confront the ghosts of her family’s past. She does not expect Silas—the scarred, masked caretaker who stalks the halls like a predator and warns that the house is hungry.Elara should run. Instead, she is drawn to the dangerous protector who understands the darkness inside her. As buried journals expose a blood-soaked pact and a corrupt sheriff closes in, attraction hardens into obsession...

Mischievous brothers Link and Hud are back for a Halloween-themed entry in the hilarious series from real-life brothers Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey.It’s October. Halloween is almost here, and brothers Lincoln and Hudson Dupré are excited about their first time trick-or-treating without their parents. But odd and spooky things start happening on their cul-de-sac—things they get blamed for. Link and Hud must face down zombies, a suspected werewolf, and a (de...

Mischievous brothers Link and Hud are back for a Halloween-themed entry in the hilarious series from real-life brothers Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey.It’s October. Halloween is almost here, and brothers Lincoln and Hudson Dupré are excited about their first time trick-or-treating without their parents. But odd and spooky things start happening on their cul-de-sac—things they get blamed for. Link and Hud must face down zombies, a suspected werewolf, and a (de...