Kai with the help of his new pal Birdie, takes your child on a journey to Tic Island where Kai faces their tics and learns how to overcome them. This engaging book developed by Dr. Paul DePompo (an expert in treating Tourette's Disorder) helps teach your child what tics are and what the most effective tic treatment would look like. This illustrated children's book is for children who have motor or vocal tics.

This elegant, haunting novel from the award-winning author of In The Cut and The Whiteness of Bones, set in Germany on the eve of the Second World War, is the story of one woman’s journey of self-discovery as a continent collapses into darkness.Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, finds herself at the center of a fairy tale, whisked away from her humdrum life by a mysterious countess to join the Berlin household of the Metzenburgs, an enchanting, aristoc...

They are hunting us.In this sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars, mankind is unwittingly infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person's so-called junk DNA becomes activated. Depending on their racial and ethnic heritage, they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures...

A dangerous world needs heroes. Even a small town like Coyote Trail, Arizona must have knights to defend it from the swarms of savage shapeshifters who roam the deserts. Called Ferals, these once-human abominations threaten to inflict any pockets of civilization with a plague that will turn good people into mutated beasts.The Bully Boys are the only defense Coyote Trail has. Part bikers, part paladins, the modern-day wolf pack on wheels has dedicated themselves to running the Feral...

Clary and Jace must ask themselves if love is worth betraying everything in the “so good, it’s dangerous” (Holly Black) second book in the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. City of Ashes is a Shadowhunters novel.Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what’s normal when you’re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworl...

In The Untold Story of the Challenger Explosion: A Journey Through Time, Conspiracy, and Alternate Realities, the tragic events of January 28, 1986, become the gateway to a gripping, speculative journey. While the world watched in horror as the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated just 73 seconds into flight, a darker and far stranger story was unfolding behind the scenes.NASA engineers detected anomalies long before the launch, and a hidden government agenda knew more than they ...

Darkness is falling, and only werewolves Sonja and Cameron can stop the spread of the stain of midnight before it corrupts everything they love.Lone wolf and metaphysical fixer Sonja Carter has danced on the fence between the supernatural superpowers for years. She's earned a reputation as the one to call when Tacoma's paranormal population finds a situation they can't out-weird. When her former boyfriend Derek, a dark wolf created by a malevolent ritual, loses control of his inner...

Joe Strong was a favorite hero and could ride any horse, juggle most anything, and climb buildings, all with a steel reserve. He was the child of unique parents: a mother that rode trick horses and a magician for his father. However, in Horatio Alger fashion, by age five, he was without either parent. So he grew up in a circus and Joe Strong, the Boy Wizard relates a time in his life as he dabbles in magic!

In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast "oceanic desert" where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There, Moore realized his catamaran was surrounded by a "plastic soup." He had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet—a spiral nebula where plastic ...

The Bully Boys are the only defense Coyote Trail has. Part bikers, part paladins, the modern-day wolf pack on wheels is dedicated to protecting humans from the swarms of savage shapeshifters who roam the deserts. Called Ferals, these once-human abominations threaten to inflict any pockets of civilization with a highly virulent plague turns good people into mutated beasts.Shane Lawson, alpha werewolf of the Bully Boys pack, has sworn to avoid love as much as he'd avoid the Beast Pla...

Clary and her allies risk everything to save the world in the searingly passionate third book in the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. City of Glass is a Shadowhunters novel.To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters—never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things wor...

Beneath the rolling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps—fully enclosed cities that house descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to escape a dying earth. In massive superstructures built beneath the Venusian seas, a complex feudal society devoted simply to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are Immortals—genetic throwbacks to the mutant atomic survivors. While the society is stable, the stability will only lead to its destruction, and the...