Dr. Evelyn "Evie" Reed, a brilliant but unconventional historian specializing in obscure alchemical theories, finally gets her chance at academic validation when she inherits her eccentric great-aunt's bizarre collection. Hidden within it, Evie discovers "The Chrono-Alchemist's Ledger," a meticulously coded journal by the notorious 17th-century alchemist, Marius Thorne. The Ledger details not the transmutation of gold, but the terrifyingly precise method of "temporal transposition"—a ritua...

In *The Golden Book II: Khan's Legacy*, archaeologist Barry Curtis has retreated to isolation after losing his partner, Blossom Hirata, during a perilous expedition in the Solomon Islands. Haunted by grief and guarding fragments of a golden map pointing to Genghis Khan's legendary tomb, Barry's solitude is shattered when Blossom's estranged sister, Sakura, arrives with urgent warnings. The Red Lotus Society, a ruthless organization obsessed with Mongol secrets, has reformed under new lead...

Lonely archivist Elara Blackthorn discovers a mysterious crystalline sphere in the ancient Aether Vaults beneath her academy. She feels an immediate, intense connection to the artifact, which pulses with a warm, living light. Despite warnings from her mentor, Master Aldrich, about the dangers of such relics, Elara takes the sphere and soon hears a voice from within-Cael, the consciousness of a scientist from a lost age of technology, trapped since the "Great Convergence" that established m...

The city is waking.And it knows her name.When cybersecurity expert Ella Voss begins experiencing impossible hallucinations tied to her pregnancy, she assumes stress is to blame—until Savannah With the help of her partner Julian and a fractured circle of technomancers, Ella uncovers a truth that blurs the line between salvation and possession: the entity beneath the city doesn't want to conquer humanity—it wants to become...

In the year 2059, Alex Carter graduates at the top of his class from MIT with a degree in engineering, only to find himself in a world where his skills are completely useless. The Nexus, a global AI, has optimized every aspect of human life, creating a utopia free from want or strife but also devoid of purpose and challenge. Alex is assigned a perfect AI companion, Eva, who manages his life with flawless efficiency, but her presence only deepens his sense of irrelevance.Haunted by ...

Updated to reflect the local impact of current events such as global recession as well as the latest scholarly studies, this fascinating work shows how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in Niumi, a little-known territory located on the north bank of the Gambia River in West Africa. Drawing on written and oral testimony, the author locates this tiny place in Africa's smallest country within the history of the modern world.

A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. With their religious beliefs challenged by the new biological sciences and historical criticism of the Bible, they turned from personal salvation to the dire social problems of the industrial age. The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism in this era and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led ...

What can be said about one hundred years of historical writing in the journals of the Canadian Historical Association, as they have evolved from the Report of the Annual Meeting|Rapport de l’assemblée annuelle (1922-1965, the journal only took on a bilingual name in 1951) to Historical Papers|Communications historiques (1966-1989) and then to the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association|Revue de la Société historique du Canada (1990-present)?

The child has existed in cinema since the Lumière Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experie...

"When a tech witch inherits an AI that's learned magic, she must partner with her coven's enemy to prevent digital demons from consuming reality." Ella Cygnus built a perfect life in Silicon Valley-sterile, predictable, and completely magic-free. A software engineer who quantifies everything, she's spent years suppressing the witchcraft heritage that left her scarred and shamed. But when her grandmother dies, Ella returns to Savannah, where Spanish moss drapes ancient oaks and two covens-t...

Balances hard science with accessible storytellingCreates genuine stakes at both personal and cosmic scalesDevelops a believable evolution of technology and societyMaintains hope and wonder throughout despite existential threatsOffers a vision of humanity's potential that feels both fantastical and achievableWhen quantum physicist Sarah Mitchell loses her husband David in a lab accident, she discovers hi...

In the shadows of Berlin's academia, former CIA analyst Dr. Ben Carter has buried his past of deadly intelligence failures. But when a cryptic message pulls him back into the world of espionage, he uncovers the Phoenix Order-a clandestine group led by brilliant but ruthless scientists engineering the Lethe Virus, a bioweapon designed to selectively erase "inferior" populations in the name of human evolution. Teaming with Dr. Eva Richter, a biochemist whose father is at the heart of the con...