How far are you willing to go to win? Five high school friends—Bob, Natalie, Zarian, Olivia and Collin—have just been placed into the Horizons program, an elite classroom created for the smartest students in the district. At first, the new environment feels exciting, until their strange new teacher, Mr. Rob, introduces a competition called Smilebucks. Each student receives three pieces of a custom classroom currency and is told that whoever collects the most by the end of the school year w...

Lila Quinn still proofs dough in a boarded-up apartment while the slow horde works the stairs. Outspoken, stubborn, and armed with a barbed-wire bat where a rolling pin used to live, she has one rule: no pets, no exceptions, no pretty corpses who used to linger too long at her pastry case.Then she nets a familiar set of shoulders.Cole Brennan comes through the mesh with her name in a ruined mouth. He is gray in patches, bound in zip-ties and pastry twine, and still carrying...

Interrail for Grown-Ups is a practical, inspiring guide to exploring Europe by train with comfort, confidence, and realistic planning. Written for adults who love the freedom and romance of rail travel but have no interest in backpacker stress, it shows how to build European train trips that feel enjoyable from start to finish. Learn the difference between Interrail and Eurail, how rail passes actually work, when a pass makes financial sense, and when individual tickets may be the smarter ...

This book explores how wisdom can be cultivated through learning in the early years and primary schooling. It brings together diverse traditions and practices, showing how children’s encounters with nature, stories, and community can nurture curiosity, resilience, and ethical awareness, resonating across cultures and generations.The chapters weave together case studies and approaches that highlight the richness of learning for wisdom. Philosophical inquiry into wisdom can develop a...

On a freezing winter night, drag queen Jayden finds a drunk stranger sprawled on the pavement.Finlay is everything Jayden would normally avoid—straight, muscular, and aggressive—but leaving him there isn't an option.Against his better judgment, Jayden helps him get home and assumes he'll never see him again.He's wrong.Haunted by his behaviour, Finlay seeks Jayden out to apologise. What begins as an uneasy truce soon develops into an unlikely friendship....

From the mind of Zane Palmer, author of Crude Space and creator of Paradrome: Tactical Card Game comes Beyond Heroic.

The Fourth Original Title from the mind behind "Paragon: Fall of Man" and "Crude Space"Scenario Noir tells two interconnected stories pulled from an encapsulated reality not too far off from our own.

A meta-fiction set in the Scenario Noir universe, chronicling an aspiring author's dreams.When Miles Faraday shared his manuscript, he never expected a former actor to appear at his door. The blacklisted August Cole convinces him to adapt his story into a screenplay. The pair set out to relaunch Cole's career and turn Faraday's Idle Minds into a major motion picture.Starring: Miles Faraday, August Cole, Natalie Faraday, Tara Wilkins

A setback can be disappointing without becoming a judgment about who you are.When plans fall apart, mistakes happen, progress slows, or an important opportunity does not work out, it is easy to turn one difficult moment into a much larger conclusion. You may question your abilities, criticize past decisions, compare yourself with others, or assume that imperfect progress means you have failed.Avoid Judging Every Setback offers a calmer and more practical way to res...

Subscription Detox is a practical personal finance guide for adults who are tired of losing money to subscriptions, memberships, apps, streaming services, software, and other recurring charges that quietly drain a budget. Olivia H. Zane shows readers how to uncover forgotten and unnecessary payments by reviewing bank statements, credit card statements, PayPal, Apple and Google accounts, email receipts, and other records that often hide recurring costs. The book explains why automatic renew...

A wild stallion nobody can take, a horse-hunter who wants him, and the girl who gets to him first — in the canyon country of Utah, with a river and a fire coming. Grey was a dentist who abandoned the drill for the typewriter and invented the popular western with Riders of the Purple Sage; he rode this country himself, and the horse-running in this one is the best in his work.

Time after time humanity evolves to escape from the expanding reaches of extinction. The third planet from the yellow sun has long burned out as the human race claims strange new worlds in the galaxy. Seven Colonies of Man, known as The Nomical Order, reign supreme. Law is enforced by the Augustus Colony, home to the Capital Planet, Octavian.The wars that ended mankind's time on their virgin planet echo through generations. There is tension within The Nomical Orde...