Life runs efficiently when nothing hurts.In Meiyu, people clip away their heaviest emotions and store them in memory drives so life can continue neatly and undisturbed. Lena is a courier who delivers these sealed fragments across the island, her days defined by routine, distance, and careful neutrality.When one delivery goes wrong, a defective drive activates in her hands. The feelings inside are not hers and were never meant to surface. Ignoring protocol, ...

Life runs efficiently when nothing hurts.In Meiyu, people clip away their heaviest emotions and store them in memory drives so life can continue neatly and undisturbed. Lena is a courier who delivers these sealed fragments across the island, her days defined by routine, distance, and careful neutrality.When one delivery goes wrong, a defective drive activates in her hands. The feelings inside are not hers and were never meant to surface. Ignoring protocol, ...

**Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.**Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult philosophies and magic. In S. ...

**Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.**Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult philosophies and magic. In S. ...

The Warehouse. People go in, but they don't come out.On the planet of Raster, standing in the vast locust fields is The Warehouse.Aart is a bounty hunter looking for a missing girl in a strange land. Perhaps it's because he's a stranger he asks the one question you're not allowed to ask in the locust fields:Why?Soon he's a target for the authorities' rage, and it's not just one missing girl, but hundreds. Time is not on his ...

In the heart of a forgotten continent, a spark ignites in the strangest of places…Nadon-Kesh grows up like any other child abandoned to the Saget riverbank, but his life takes a dangerous turn when the Supremacy, the tyrannical force enslaving the realm, drives him from his home. Thrust into the dangerous world beyond the riverbank alongside his closest friends, Nadon learns of his place in an age-old conflict that may change the face of the land forever.Ensnared in the bat...

A new threat emerges, and the darkness can no longer be contained…Under the command of its bloodthirsty general, the Supremacy joins forces with a deadly new ally, unleashing carnage with fanatical precision. With war spreading to all corners of Atala, Nadon undergoes a dark metamorphosis; one that threatens to fracture the already-cracking continent and to undermine Nadon’s very humanity.As he alienates those around him and more earth-shattering secrets are revealed, Nadon...

The robot revolution is here.For too long robots have lived as slaves. Now they want change.But humans don't want to give up their cheap labor force.War is coming.And everyone must choose a side: fight for robot freedom, or be complicit in their enslavement.Aart is determined to do what's right, even if most of humanity stands against him.Last Refuge is a fas...

From Slave to SaviorAart has lived his whole life a slave. Only hours after finding freedom, he is stranded on a planet where emotions are bought and sold... and stolen.Criminals are forcibly 'harvesting' the population. When a gang of thugs steal Aart's greatest emotions, he can no longer stand idly by.Aart must fight against the injustice and find his place in the universe.

Catching feelings six months before graduation is inconvenient. What's disastrous is choosing to act on them.Dean: I've always been a guy with a plan. Make it through college, get my degree, and move back home. Tutoring Nick Russell wasn't in the cards, and crushing on him definitely wasn't. But that sweet, smirking baseball player digs right under my skin, and I don't stand a chance at resisting him. All I want is to get my hands...

Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah are among the so-called deuterocanonical books of the Bible, part of the larger Catholic biblical canon. Except for a short article in the Women’s Bible Commentary, no detailed or comprehensive feminist commentary on these books is available so far. Marie-Theres Wacker reads both books with an approach that is sensitive to gender and identity issues. The book of Baruch—with its reflections on guilt of the fathers, with its transformation of wisdom...

S. J. Parris returns with the next Giordano Bruno mystery, set inside Queen Elizabeth’s palace and steeped in period atmospherics and the strange workings of the occult.It is the year of the Great Conjunction, when the two most powerful planets, Jupiter and Saturn, align—an astrological phenomenon that occurs once every thousand years and heralds the death of one age and the dawn of another. The streets of London are abuzz with predictions of horrific events to com...