Legends and common knowledge don't always agree, but when it comes to wizards the facts are not so far from the stories.Both say that tunics are made from wild magic. Both say that a len who catches, tames, and puts on a tunic is a wizard. And both say that a wizard is named and known by his deeds. Take Duin the Fearless or Bjarne the Vengeful as examples.My name is Hol and I am a wizard of the kingdom of Dar.Though this is true, what name will come from my deeds is...

If rock-throwing, magic-filled Sha-li didn't keep her promises, she'd abandon the witch she's apprenticed to and go hunt down the curse-wielding dragon she swore to find. But her word means something to her and she's determined to stick out her education.Everything is going fine. Just irritatingly fine until she's forced into a magical agreement with a seed-planting len from the north end of nowhere.The problem is, the terms for the agreement are vague at best and stupidly ...

If Sha had her way, she'd be out fighting manticores or tormenting dragons. At the least, she'd be curing plagues and taming pestilences.But no, her first act as a wizard is to chase down a stupid banshee vision.It's not like she can ignore it. Because there's the slightest chance the kingdom is actually being threatened. And she can't have that.Besides, if she doesn't handle it some other stupid wizard will sweep in and snatch the glory from her hands.She d...

Seeking revenge against the boy spreading lies about her at school, Rachel's attempt to make a golem goes awry.Or does it?As disasters strike first her school and then her town, Rachel is forced to confront her own need for vengeance and the soul-revealing questions of what is right and what is wrong.But, with her best friend not speaking to her and her parents too distracted to listen, she's finding it difficult to untangle the mess on her own.Time is ticki...

If twenty-year-old, magic-filled Sha-li could make it back home, she’d cast a curse on the wizard who banished her. But, if she leaves the company of the witch she’s been apprenticed to, she’ll lose the chance to learn what power she has and what she can do with it.Best-case scenario, once she’s been trained, she’ll actually be able to cast her own curses. Worst case, she’ll return to find her best friend dead and magic truly suppressed.Torn between the desire to act first ...

"This is the story of everything that happened after my friend Kit had a meltdown at school.”Best friends Mila and Kit spend their days doing fun things: they go to the skate park, play Truth or Dare, and pet the neighborhood cats. Mila’s favorite thing to do is draw her Shy Cat comics. But Kit’s is probably eating afternoon snacks. The first time Kit went to Mila’s house, he ate three bananas in a row without asking! Mila thinks rude is rude, but her mom says that...

You’ve got What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but where do you go for a pregnancy guide when you’ve been pregnant before, and didn’t get to come home with a baby? For the nearly 2.6 million women worldwide every year who lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth and early neonatal loss, this is the pregnancy guide for you. Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide to Pregnancy After a Loss gives you a month-by-month survival guide to a pregnancy that is different from the others. If you’re wo...

Commentators on the media in Southeast Asia either emphasise with optimism the prospect for new media to provide possibilities for greater democratic discourse, or else, less optimistically, focus on the continuing ability of governments to exercise tight and sophisticated control of the media. This book explores these issues with reference to Malaysia and Singapore. It analyses how journalists monitor governments and cover elections, discussing what difference journalism makes; it examine...

Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true. Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas to protect his daughter from a dangerou...

From afar, Cimarron Creek seems like an idyllic town tucked in the Texas Hill Country. But when former schoolteacher Lydia Crawford steps onto its dusty streets in 1880, she finds a town with a deep-seated resentment of Northerners—like her. Lydia won't let that get her down, though. All will be well when she's reunited with her fiancé. But when she discovers he has disappeared—and that he left behind a pregnant wife—Lydia is at a loss about what to do next. The handsome sheriff urges her ...

When you work for a serial killer, death is at your door every day.Britney Cage is a college graduate, entrepreneur, and serial killer. She owns the top temp agency in Tampa, growing rather influential in the community.When Alex Charles walks through her door looking for a job, his life is forever changed in ways he never imagined. He only wants stability in his life and knows that's what he'll have if he can get something permanent.What Alex doesn'...

Emotions are a terrible thing for serial killers to have.Britney Cage’s emotions are getting in the way—of her friendships, of her relationship with the sexy cop she’s dating, of her plans to track and kill her next victim.Florida’s most dangerous serial killer might have outsmarted the authorities for years, but she can’t escape the nagging desire to live something more closely resembling a normal life.Unfortunately, that life will never come unless she can confess...