Every television on Earth turns on simultaneously, the entire world is forced to watch a single, desperate message: a woman pleading for humanity to hide. But she isn't from the future she's from a simulation that ended hours before ours is set to.Ceara and Damon, two brilliant minds working with a quantum computer at the edge of reality, discover the shocking truth: their world may be just another layer of a grand simulation. As they delve deeper into the sentient lattice of Ourob...

On New Year's Eve 1999, the parents come together to celebrate, reflect, and rekindle old bonds. Between snowy walks, playful snowball fights, fireside chats, and the countdown to midnight, friendships deepen, romances blossom, and families discover that the greatest gifts aren't found under the tree they found ii in each other.From laughter to nostalgia, Christmas Y2K: New Year's Eve 1999: The Parents' Pact is a cozy, heartfelt holiday story about love, f...

Quantum Physics: Foundations for the Future – Grade 8 EditionBy Guy RobertsUnlock the mysteries of the quantum world with this groundbreaking science textbook designed to meet and exceed Grade 8 curriculum standards in both the United States and Canada. Written in clear, engaging language, Quantum Physics: Foundations for the Future brings the invisible world of atoms, energy, and information to life through inquiry-based learning and real-...

The Vanishing ChoirA novel of dark mystery and dangerous beliefTwenty years ago, an entire church choir vanished during a winter retreat in the woods of Minnesota. No bodies. No witnesses. No answers.Now, Elara Mallory—a rising true-crime podcaster known for digging up the coldest of cases—arrives in the remote town chasing whispers of what really happened that night. But the deeper she digs, the more the facts refuse to stay dead. Strange ...

When Elian receives word that he's the last heir to an estate no one remembers, he finds himself drawn to the Glass Orchard, a grove of crystalline trees where every fruit whispers a secret. Some offer clarity. Others demand blood.At the heart of the orchard waits Kaela—a woman who claims she's been waiting for him… for centuries. She knows his name. His verses. His versions.But as the villagers begin to die, whispering riddles with their final breaths, Elian and K...

Four runes. Three friends. One winter to breathe.When failing cod runs and a creeping illness drain a remote Arctic village, linguist Elin Kaarina returns home to digitize parish records—and uncovers a palimpsest of glowing runes meant to keep a community in balance. With Mikkel Rauti, a reindeer herder guarding his grazing routes, and Kiri Olander, a wind-turbine tech who believes good machines can be nei...

In the snow-bound streets of Kyoto, where engines echo through the mountains and drifting is both sport and art, an American driver and a Japanese local are drawn together by speed, rivalry, and something far older than either of them.Zoe crosses the ocean to prepare for the Winter Drift Grand Prix, only to collide—both on and off the track—with Kenji, a quiet but fearless drifter whose family's tuning shop is caught in a fight to save Japan's homegrown car culture from fo...

Across the Moon, the Belt, and a red city that calls itself Unowned, a handful of mechanics, clerks, pilots, and switchboard saints decide civilization shouldn't be something you pay to survive. They trade tolls for bonds, secrets for windows, and panic for the kind of boredom that keeps people alive. From lunar porches with jaw‐switches to Belt storms that need a conductor—not a chair—each doctrine they hammer together (Window Com...

What if saving the planet meant surrendering it?After a supervolcano eruption shatters the northern hemisphere, Earth teeters on the edge of ecological collapse. Cities vanish. Skies choke with ash. And beneath the chaos, something ancient awakens.Mara Voss, a climatologist haunted by past failures, uncovers evidence that the disaster wasn't natural—it was triggered. Not by terrorists. Not by a nation. But by a secretive eco-faction buried deep wit...

Three seasons. One mountain. Two hearts on a collision course.From the neon-lit streets of Gion to the icy hairpins of Tengu Pass, American drift racer Hana Quinn and Kyoto local Riku Tanaka push their skills—and each other—to the limit.Hana arrives in Japan chasing a sponsorship deal, only to find herself locked in a fierce rivalry with Riku for the Tengu Summer Grand Prix. Every pink-slip battle and late-night street run draws them closer...

Everspire is freezing to death—politely. The Chancellor's new ration scheme buys bread with blood, and winter sharpens into policy. Liora Thimble binds honest, everyday vows—return the shovel; feed the cat; check the center of the stone—but this crisis asks for a bigger stitch. Enter Kael, the Crown's quiet emissary whose touch can turn breath to frost. Their solution is outrageous and simple: a consent-first bond, rules written in ink and kindness, and a promise to never spend gestures th...

The Girls Who RememberedA Thriller of Identity, Memory, and the Cost of SurvivalIn 1950s New York, beneath the glitz of jazz clubs and the shadows of postwar optimism, girls are vanishing—not without a trace, but without a self.When Lucy Monroe, a soft-voiced cabaret singer, disappears from the Red Room lounge, her best friend Delilah refuses to accept the silence left behind. Everyone insists Lucy had no family, no past. That she ...