In the mystical world of Thra, the fate of the land and its inhabitants rests with the Dark Crystal-a powerful artifact whose shards have been lost to time. Kylan, a quiet scholar with an extraordinary gift for ancient languages, is called upon to unlock the secrets of the Crystal. What starts as a mission to uncover forgotten knowledge soon becomes a dangerous journey to restore balance to a world on the edge of collapse.Kylan's path leads him across deserts, caves, and treacherou...

The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventually r...

In A Cat of a Different Color, the first volume of WMG's The Year of the Cat series, editors Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch worked to find stories that featured cats that were just a little surprising (an impressive feat for cats, anyone would have to admit).Just a little weird. A little different.Which makes these stories amazingly fun to read. After all, for cat people, reading about cats equals the fun of being with one.Almost. Just don't t...

Logan is searching for his past and the reason for his unusual ability.Leslie knows the answers to his questions but she can't tell him yet. Not until they catch the man trying to kill him.She hopes it's not to late. For him and for them.

A'lisa Ray and Thee Stallion are reformed master tricksters. They are on a mission help those who are being tricked come to the light. The secrets of trickin' are revealed in this easy-to-read edition.

In today's crowded digital landscape, a great book is only the first step. To become an industry authority and build a sustainable income, you need an AI Media Pass.Stop leaving money and opportunities on the table. This is not a guide about writing your book with AI; it's about marketing, media, and monetizing it at a speed and scale a traditional author simply can't match. The key to your authority and income is no longer...

Teachers are the most important determinant of the quality of schools. We should be doing everything we can to help them get better. In recent years, however, a cocktail of box-ticking demands, ceaseless curriculum reform, disruptive reorganisations and an audit culture that requires teachers to document their every move, have left the profession deskilled and demoralised. Instead of rolling out the red carpet for teachers, we have been pulling it from under their feet. The result is predi...

In 1920s North Carolina young Rufus leaves his family knowing nobody will miss him. He carries haunting secrets buried deep in his memory. When he falls in with the O’Haras he believes he found a home. He learns to make white lightening and prospers in selling it. Running moonshine leads him to dark places where he encounters rough culprits. A scheme gone wrong lands him in prison where he confronts the demons in his past.Fifteen year-old Jolene O'Hara witnesses her mother killed i...

Student-led peer review can be a powerful learning experience for both giver and receiver, developing evaluative judgment, critical thinking, and collaborative skills that are highly transferable across disciplines and professions. Its success depends on purposeful planning and scaffolding to promote student ownership of the process. With intentional and consistent implementation, peer review can engage students in course content and promote deep learning, while also increasing the efficie...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:“Twilight Travels with the Grape-Paper Man” by Sara Saab“Child of Thorns” by Ray Cluley (reprint)“Little Digs” by Lisa L. Hannett“A Wisdom that is Woe, a Woe that is Madness” by E. Catherine Tobler (reprint)

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.Welcome to issue eighty-four of NIGHTMARE! This month we have a new short horror story from Ray Nayler ("Beyond the High Altar") that will take us into the cold peaks of nineteenth century Afghanistan and leave us with chills. Merc Fenn Wolfmoor's new short, "Sweet Dreams are Made of Y...

Where can you find stories that serve up not only high-quality fiction, but stories also just a little off? Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, of course!And wow do aliens bring out the "Pulphouse factor" in writers. This volume contains the best alien stories from Pulphouse in the first ten issues. It also includes a special treat: a story from Pulphouse editor Dean Wesley Smith. These alien stories just go way off the beam, and we do mean way off, so far off, the beam seems too far off t...