The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else. It’s not just another self-help motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to travel the path to success. It shows you how to create powerful results from t...

Break out your Ax Bass, turn on the stage lights, get ready to SHRED—this newest Adventure Time Compendium shines the spotlight on Ooo’s most famous rocker: Marceline the Vampire Queen! It’s time for the tour—that’s right, the world tour! Marceline and her band, the Scream Queens, are out to take Ooo by storm. Whether it’s rocking out for sold-out stadiums, bringing music to outer space, fighting to save the mind of her best friend, or helping PB save the Candy Kingdom in the race of a cen...

What’s worse than being hunted by a horrifying entity of darkness? Oh, wait, I know—falling in love with the woman you’re supposed to protect, and who annoys the hell out of you.Rory:Listen. I enter prizefights in my spare time and hunt ghosts for a living, so I know a bad idea when I see one. And the moment I set eyes on Layla St. James, the gorgeous, bossy, and mean heiress who wants to hire me as a bodyguard, I know she’s a very bad ide...

Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series.In 1870s America, two brilliant scientists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Marsh, are locked in a ruthless competition. They're not fighting over gold, but something much more incredible: dinosaur bones. This is the explosive true story of the Bone Wars, a period of fierce rivalry, daring expeditions, and astonishing discoveries that transformed our understanding of life ...

I’ve watched for as long as I can remember.The way she shied away from me when we happened upon our first, chance encounter—the one that I carefully choreographed sparked something in me.I knew at that moment that I had to have her.And so I took her.Far away from everything she knows, to a place where she won’t be able to get away from me.I’ll break her.I’ll use her.I’ll make her hate me.But by the end, I’ll ensure that she lo...

You're still The Chosen One. If someone needs to face the new evil in the world, you're it.When Phoebe was sixteen, she died to save the world. Not ideal, but it was the only way to destroy the power-mad wizard who was ripping a hole in the universe. Besides, she came back to life, so it all worked out, right? Twenty years later, Phoebe is queen of the realm and while the kingdom is finally at peace, the routine of life has grown dull – until the divine messenger from her ...

Step into the realm of darkness and uncertainty, where the veil between the living and the dead grows thin. Within these pages lie chilling tales that will haunt your dreams and leave you peering over your shoulder long after the midnight hour has passed. Welcome to "Nightmares on All Saints' Eve," where each story is a whispered invitation into the macabre, promising thrills, chills, and the unknown.Every year, durung Halloween, the sinister and the evil lurk under the glow of the...

"You can read this story without having read anything else by Olson, and I highly recommend it."-Charles de Lint, author of The Newford series and Moonheart, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science FictionAll her life, Sashi’s mother warned her not to get involved with werewolf problems. But Sashi, a witch who uses magic to heal sick and injured bodies, has never made a habit of ignoring trauma. When she meets an abused shapeshifter that no one else seems wi...

The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters captures the adventurous spirit and transformative historical narratives of explorers who ventured into the vast territories of North America. Through an assemblage of biographies, primary source documents, journals, and letters, this anthology invites readers to traverse the unknown with those who first mapped the continents' intricate landscapes. The collection showcases a variety of lite...

A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy, and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb.It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of ...

Discovering the New World gathers historical narrative, travel writing, reflective essay, and imaginative reconstruction around the enduring drama of Atlantic encounter and continental exploration. Its varied selections illuminate discovery not as a single triumphant event but as a sequence of voyages, interpretations, conflicts, and acts of description. Accounts of seafaring adventure, colonial landscapes, and unfamiliar societies sit beside more literary treatments, giving the volume bot...

"You will not fear the terror of the night." —Psalm 91A monstrous waking nightmare is pursuing graduate student Hailey Maniates across San Francisco to Golden Gate Park where she is rescued by a towering homeless man. She seems able to read her rescuer’s mind, but is it just a delusion? Doctors diagnose her as a paranoid schizophrenic and attempt to prescribe away her alleged hallucinations. But too many questions remain around Hailey and the man who saved her. He appears to suffer...