Honorable Mention, 2026 CMA Book Awards: Inclusion in the Church, given by the Catholic Media AssociationOffers a big picture analysis of American CatholicismThe Catholic Church is at a crossroads. In the United States alone there are many challenges facing the church that are both internal and external to the institution. With the rise of the growing Gen Z population and the diminishing of the pre-Vatican II generation, gone are t...

The Nature of Leadership includes the most important areas of leadership in a concise and integrated manner with impactful contributions from the most prominent leadership scholars and researchers in the field. Editors John Antonakis and David V. Day provide an in-depth exploration of the major schools of leadership as well as emerging perspectives. This fully-updated text includes new material examining followership, gender, power, identity, culture, and entrepreneurial l...

Your #1 resource for carrying out educational research as part of postgraduate study.High-quality educational research requires careful consideration of every aspect of the process. This all-encompassing textbook written by leading international experts gives you a considered overview of the principles that underpin research, and key qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for research design, data collection and analysis.This fourth edition includes fou...

These opening sentences begin a few of the stories within; stories of intrigue, fascination, and suspense.It was just an old cloak—the kind you see people wearing in those movies. You know, the kind of cloak people wore to escape from Paris and the guillotine during the French revolution…Steven Tyler was wailing about love in an elevator as John eased the blue Civic off the interstate, down the exit and into the Burger King parking lot…My new husban...

It was a dream job – until I got hit in the head with a pickle. . . My dress-up shoes are pinching my toes. . . Mississippi Mamaw muscadine jelly biscuits for breakfast, and the fried bologna on the white wonder for lunch. . . Life can be this frightening sometimes. . . "Where are we?" she asks with anxious uncertainty. . . The queen called. . . Sir John FitzAlan drew a slow breath against the pain in his half-healed side. . . Mandy crunches on thinly packed snow with her powder blue hikin...

Invasive species are responsible for significant impacts on agriculture, food security and health worldwide. This collection looks at a wide range of invasive species, including insects, plants, snails, fungal diseases, including: Mimosa diplotricha, Chromolaena odorata, privet, Opuntia, fall armyworm, Aedes albopictus, Prostephanus truncatus, Pomacea, and ash dieback. The articles examine mechanisms for detecting the spread of invasive species, and models for understanding the mechanisms ...

He'll do anything to stop her. She'll do everything to spite him.Yes, Zora cheated her way into the Royal Games, but it was for a very good reason:Spite.Her ex was an asshole and thought she could never attain glory on her own.Just because she's a girl.So she took his place.Now she's competing for the legendary Blood Cup, representing the Dark Valley, a place where shadow creatures spawn in the dark and survive in sunlight. I...

A detective who turns into a tiger. A pawn shop owner who can see how you'll die. The criminals never had a chance.When Tess starts receiving mysterious gifts from a stalker, addressed to "The Apple of My Eye," she starts to worry. Because it's Dead End, Florida, where dead bodies have been piling up faster than competitive pecan pies at the county fair. But when the gifts turn deadly, she and Jack know they have to solve the mystery and track down the stalker befo...

First in a critically acclaimed series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Day...Eleven thousand years ago, before Atlantis vanished beneath the waves, Poseidon chose seven warriors to protect humanity. One rule bound them all: never fall for a human.Some rules were meant to be shattered.Riley Dawson isn’t your typical Virginia Beach social worker—she's an empath with a rare psychic gi...

Lilly Clarkfeld never wanted this life.Instead of burying her head in books, she finds herself on the back of a motorcycle. Not only that, but her arms are wrapped around Asher, the Dark Riders' rugged VP, and Lily's first love.But when Lilly is kidnapped by a rival club, all her carefully crafted plans go flying out the window.Venom, the ruthless president of Tarantulas MC, is not the kind of man to say please. He gets what he wants, and he'll even turn Lilly again...

Luke Irushi once stood at the peak of magic—an archmage whose name belonged to legends. Then, without warning, he opens his eyes in a world that doesn’t recognize him… and in a body that isn’t his.

A Shadow Stalkers novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire series.Layla Creed and Deputy US Marshal Brian Simmons have a history that is as hot and heartbreaking as it is unforgettable. Now their paths have crossed once again. This time things are twice as hot. Layla—a protected witness—has been persuaded to come out of hiding and testify in a sensational murder trial. But as far as Brian’s concerned, there’s an even more pres...