'Wolfe has an important story to tell and as a virologist at the forefront of pandemic forecasting, he is the perfect person to tell it' GuardianIn The Viral Storm award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe - known as 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' for his work in jungles and rain forests across the world - shows why we are so vulnerable to a global pandemic.The Viral Storm examines how viruses like HIV, swine flu...

"When Petals Fall on the Silver Shore" is a heartwarming tale of discovery and growth, where a group of adventurous children learns powerful life lessons through magical petals on a mystical shore. Each petal represents a different value or virtue—kindness, honesty, courage, and more—leading the children on a journey that teaches them how to embrace these qualities in their own lives. As they face challenges, solve puzzles, and help others, they discover that the greatest treasures are not...

Twenty-two-year-old graduate student Joe Charnoff is desperate to share his life with the right girl, but can't even get himself a date. Sharon Gilboa is so tired of watching her best friend Joe constantly fail that it's spoiling her attempts at meeting her match. When one day Joe's boss hands him the phone number that holds the answer to his search, he soon finds everything he's been looking for-but will he have to betray Sharon to get it? Is she ready to do whatever it takes for Joe's ha...

Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age argues that late nineteenth-century US fiction grapples with and helps to conceptualize the disagreeable feelings that are both a threat to citizens' agency and an inescapable part of the emotional life of democracy--then as now. In detailing the corruption and venality for which the period remains known, authors including Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Adams, and Helen Hunt Jackson evoked the depressing ineff...

Dylan: Axel is the love of my life; he just doesn't know it yet.Ten out of ten do not recommend spending your formative years pining after an alpha who's your brother's best friend. But alas, here we are.My only solution is to leave Foxwood Hollow and start afresh. So what do I do when I have no choice but to return home, only to realize all of those years and miles haven't doused the flame?Axel: He's your best friend's little b...

As a gay man living alone, Tom's monotonous day takes an unexpected turn when straight delivery driver Matt arrives at his door. Matt is grappling with the meaning of life, while Tom finds himself grappling with the meaning of Matt. "Special Delivery," a debut novel by Arnold Miles, explores the challenges and joys of exploring friendship, intimacy, and sexuality.

Welcome to Foxwood HollowIn a world of fox shifters sits a small, quaint town where everyone knows your business. Often stifling, always safe and forever a place to call home.Cooper: I was done hiding. Okay, I was working towards being done hiding. For the first time in my life, I'd accepted who I was. An alpha who liked other alphas, and a submissive one at that. But then, I never expected the Daddy Dom of my dreams to be the guy ...

Gideon York is one of the most famous queer men in the world, but since his very public sex scandal, he’s on the verge of being permanently cancelled.Up for three Grammys this year, he needs to get through his six-week European tour without further incident or bad press.That’s where I come in. Call me his security detail, bodyguard, babysitter, or handler—I’ve been hired to keep him within my line of sight and out of trouble until the award ceremony. Should be a cakewalk.

I didn't know if I'd ever see him again.Adam Kane. My best friend, stepbrother... and the guy I fell for when I was eighteen.Three and a half years ago, Adam had a choice to make.Spoiler alert—he didn't choose me.He left me after our high school graduation and took my heart with him.Now he's back, living with me and my teammates, and the real kicker? He wants to be friends again. Brothers. He wants things to go back to the way they w...

Mash Cassidy, smooth-talking werewolf and notorious ladies' man, has been running from his responsibilities and his pack for fifteen years. But with Harvest Fest only weeks away, Alpha's ordering him to return home, and she won't take no for an answer. It's time for him to grow up and mate with a nice werewolf girl. In fact, Alpha already has one in mind.But Mash wasn't built for settling down, and in a desperate move to keep Alpha off his back, he drags his wolf s...

Mushroom fae Claude Stinkhorn leads an extraordinarily boring life. He works as a conductor on Remy's underground railway, lives alone in a windowless, basement apartment, and occasionally enjoys a moderately priced chai latte. He's never been happier.After the death of his absentee father, Claude inherits a house. But it's no ordinary house. It's a mansion, it's sentient, it's a pain in the ass, and Claude must perform an ancient magical ritual twice a year to kee...

When the rookie who ended your rugby career moves in next door.Retired legend Owen Bosley is used to the quiet life. After a career ending injury eight years ago, Owen leaves it all behind. Now he's the landlord of his local pub in a chocolate-box village. The Little Thatch is the heart of the community, but there's one problem. The pub needs expensive renovation work, so to help pay for the repairs, Owen rents out his cottage and moves into the ti...