Moving from the city to the country has always involved challenges, and for Mikaela Gordon, the new teacher in town, the challenges seem enormous. Not only does she need to learn many new things about the farming way of life, she is confronted with a crotchety principal at school and an irritating young farmer who has no doubt that she will fail miserably in her endeavours to fit in. Eventually Mikaela begins to discover joy in her new surroundings, but just as she is starting to find her ...

The Full Honolulu Blue MoonOnce every 5,500 years, the Full Honolulu Blue Moon rises—an event of cosmic rarity that changes everything.On the night of this celestial anomaly, Leo, the majestic lion of the Detroit Zoo, undergoes an impossible transformation. One moment, he is the king of beasts, pacing beneath the eerie glow of the moon. The next, he awakens as something wholly different: human. But not just any human—one with the speed, power, and instincts...

"When the universe finally called, it went to voicemail."In Disclosure: 2026, a late-night systems error at NASA Goddard uploads a classified signal to the public web—an unmistakably intelligent pulse from beyond the solar system. Within hours, the internet has already named it, claimed it, and remixed it.Story One – The LeakA tired systems engineer clicks the wrong box and becomes the accidental wh...

How much can a Dom ask of his submissive? And how much of himself?For Derek and Tyler, Dominance and submission have been part of their love right from the first hello. But now Derek wants his submissive to go as deep as he is physically and emotionally able to. During two days and two nights, there are no safety words and very few limits. This is their chance to demonstrate their love for one another through the most extreme scenes they’ve ever played.There is, ho...

An incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America.Promise to Pay follows America's first paper money—the "bills of credit" of British North America—from its seventeenth-century origins as a means of war finance to its pivotal role in catalyzing the American Revolution. Katie A. Moore combs through treasury records, account books, and the bills themselves to tell a new story of money's origins tha...

The Plastic Problem: How to Reduce Your Use and Protect the Planet tackles one of the most urgent environmental challenges of our time—plastic pollution. With millions of tons of plastic waste entering our oceans, harming wildlife, and contaminating ecosystems, the need for individual and collective action has never been greater. This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the plastic crisis and offers practical solutions for reducing your plastic footprint.From rethi...

Complete in one volume, both books in the Subject Seven series!SUBJECT SEVENIn a hidden lab, a dangerous experiment has gone awry, unleashing a force beyond imagination.Impossibly strong, brutally violent, and smarter than his captors: SUBJECT SEVEN HAS ESCAPEDYears ago, a private corporation developed the ultimate military weapon: deadly sleeper assassins housed within the bodies of teenagers. Now, Subject Seven, the dangerous alter ego liv...

A memoir written from the dual perspective of an abused child and a woman who achieves a life-altering epiphany in her adulthood, the book details an upbringing marked by severe emotional manipulation, physical abuse, and profound neglect—including the deliberate withholding of food and basic hygiene items. Go behind closed doors to see the hidden abuse of a narcissist mother inflicted upon her daughter and the long-term effects that would hinder the child's growth into adulthood.

It was an age of adventure. An age of sorcery. An age of unrelenting horror. Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from forgotten and forbidden temples SWORDS IN THE SHADOWS features twenty-one stories with a bloody stake driven into the heart of both the horror and fantasy camps. Herein, you will find fantasy worlds, brave warriors, fabulous creatures, wondrous...

Gunslingers. Lawmen. Snake-oil Salesmen. Cowboys. Mad Scientists. And a few monsters. The Old West has never been wilder! THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNCANNY presents sixteen original and never-before-published adventures by some of today' s most visionary writers who have spun wildly offbeat tales of gunmen, lawmen, magic, and weird science. Saddle up with Josh Malerman, Scott Sigler, Keith DeCandido, Cullen Bunn, R.S. Belcher, Greg Cox, Jeffrey Mariotte, Laura Anne Gilman, Aaron Rosenberg...

This history of Kipawa, a Native community in northern Quebec as told by Kermot Moore, a Métis of Nishnabi (Ojibwa) descent who grew up there. Changes wrought by the fur trade, lumbering and tourism are described in detail. In a hard-hitting style, Mr. Moore shows how traplines and the new tourist zoning systems have displaced the Native, disrupting their traditional livelihood of trapping and forcing them on to the farm or into the factory. Native methods of game conservation are describe...

A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of othersWhen we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures lauded for their behaviors, attributes, and personal decisions, and leadership books often reinforce that view. However, this approach ignores a leader's mission to empower others. Applying decades of behavioral science research, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman offer a passionate corrective to this view, casting toda...