Roy Whalen was twenty-six, a popular high school history teacher, and head coach for the varsity football team. He was happy. Then Whalen won the lottery.Five years later finds Whalen standing on the railing of the Golden Gate Bridge, ready to step off into eternity.An apparition of King Arthur appears and commands Whalen to halt. The King charges him to make right what is wrong by confronting evil, to be a knight errant, and Arthur's Regent in the land.Using his we...

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diaboli...

This comprehensive manual provides a user-oriented overview of U.S. Census data and demographic methods for redistricting applications. It addresses current issues and concerns accompanying the creation, adjustment, and evaluation of election districts and plans that incorporate them using 2020 Federal Census data. It meets the needs of local governments, citizen redistricting commissions, parties to litigation, and practitioners using Census data for political redistricting. The book prov...

LTUE Benefit Anthologies, Volume 2.Everyone knows dragon tales make for the best adventure stories. Throw in women who actively seek what they want—a little intrigue, exciting battles, and hard decisions—to get these twenty excellent adventures by some of today's best fantasy writers!This collection celebrates Linda Hunter Adams, a truly amazing mentor and role model for many in our Life, the Universe, & Everything writing community. Proceeds from this volume suppo...

Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see the evil hiding within others regrets receiving it. Letters written by a wizard in th...

Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue that Canada is an outlier among developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue.This book explores whether a two-tier model is a solution.In Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?, leading researchers explore the public and private mix in Canada, Australia, Germany, Fra...

Throughout human history people have been driven from their homes by wars, unjust treatment, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The reality of forced migration is not new, nor is awareness of the suffering of the displaced a recent discovery. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that at the end of 2007 there were 67 million persons in the world who had been forcibly displaced from their homes—including more than 16 million people who had to flee across an international bor...

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such as this edited, multidisciplinary collection is needed. This book confronts the vulne...

Faraway in the land of GInnethin, a young elven mage is trapped in an endless cycle of bad luck. Jailed for three seasons in a dungeon, Grindgy bides his time, learning from his failures. Valisare, a ravishing but wicked assassin, frees him from the dungeon, and soon Grindgy fi nds himself in the presence of elven Queen Elluiraa meeting that will change his life forever.The Queen gives Grindgy an ancient scroll written by his ancestor, and he learns that his family was solely respo...

"A compelling story of love, courage and forgiveness. Highly recommended." —Historical Novel Society"A sure bet for readers of personal war stories and those who want to know, 'What about the women and children?'" —BooklistInspired by true events, For Those Who Are Lost begins on the eve of the Nazi invasion of the island of Guernsey, when terrified parents have a choice to make: send their children alone to Englan...

What's a Velociraptor's favorite number?Eight (ate)!Kids are fascinated by dinosaurs - what they looked like, what they ate, where they lived, how you pronounce their names, etc. Kids also love jokes, riddles, puns.Kids loved Delabarre Publishing's best-selling 101 Hilarious Dinosaur Jokes: T-Rex Ticklers and Raptor Riddles to Keep Your Kids Roaring With Laughter, and now kids have even more dinosaur jokes with 102 More Hilarious Dinosa...

This American Girl in Paris might hold the fate of nations . . .It's the 1960s, and the fashion culture of New York, Paris, and Milan is starting to make an impression on the mid-century American woman. Jackie Kennedy's effortless style leads the nation, although Mia's bustling bakery job doesn't often give her the time or money to craft a stylish closet after her idol in the White House. But when a mysterious stranger suddenly offers her a modeling job in Paris at...