Vampires live their lives by rules - but who polices them? Welcome to the Office of the Night, where vampires Catrin and Magnus keep an uneasy peace between the living and the undead.2.1 The Last Post by Rochana Patel and David SmithOleanna wakes up to find she's posted a photo of a breakfast she didn't have. Worse, she's locked out of all her social media accounts. And then a vampire appears at her door and tells her she's going to die today.Cleani...

Some journeys begin with a destination. Others begin simply with the need to leave.In The Long Way Home: Poetry of Love, Loss, and Return, John David Smith traces the quiet distances between restlessness and belonging, freedom and responsibility, departure and return.Across five poetic movements, these poems follow a wanderer who believes distance will loosen what binds him, only to discover that some things travel with us: love, memory, absence, r...

You are standing in the cereal aisle at 9 pm, turning a box over in your hands while the person you love waits to eat. The label is a wall of small print, and somewhere in that wall is the word that could send you to the emergency room tonight. Food allergies send families to the ER every 6 minutes in the United States, and studies show even experienced parents miss milk and soy on labels 30% of the time because casein and lecithin look harmless. This book is not a medical textbook and it ...

For 45 years the United States and the Soviet Union never fired a shot at each other and still fought every day. The battle was fought in a Brooklyn photography studio, in a Los Alamos lab, in a tunnel under Berlin, and on a bridge where a Soviet illegal was traded for an American pilot.This book follows 15 true operations that decided more than any missile. A hollow nickel found by a 13 year old boy in 1953 that led to Rudolf Abel. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at Sing Sing on June 1...

If you have spent any time with a modern coding agent, you know the strange feeling that comes with watching one work. You type a description of a feature, and the agent reads your repository, plans an approach, edits files, runs the tests, and reports back like a careful colleague. Then something changes. You notice the agent makes decisions you would not make, follows conventions that are not yours, and forgets constraints you explained 2 weeks ago. You also notice the whole setup belong...

The early days of Airbnb hosting, when anyone could throw a mattress on the floor and start collecting checks, are long gone. The hosts who treat this as a real business are pulling away from the pack. There are plenty of guides that tell you how to start an Airbnb, but there is no book that takes you from one property to ten, from a side hustle to a portfolio, from a host who does everything themselves to a CEO who runs a system. This book fills that gap with practical, battle-tested guid...

Everyone told David Smith he was pastoring a "small church." They were wrong. He was pastoring an average-sized church in an extraordinarily small town -- population 709.Called to Stay is the book David Smith wishes someone had handed him before he and his wife, Tracy, loaded a moving truck for Nucla, Colorado. Drawn from twelve years of ministry in a "micro-town" -- a community of fewer than 800 people -- this book names a reality that seminary never prepared him for: rural minist...

A nine-year-old boy asked Santa how he could be the same person as St. Nicholas when Google said that Nicholas died in 343 AD.Santa replied, "Ho-ho-ho! So THAT'S how they explained my disappearance?! Well.., let it be."An observer pressed the issue with Santa. WHAT disappearance?!Santa granted an interview and Becoming Santa Claus: An Origin Story is a faithful record of that talk.Nicholas had wealth, standing, and a full life in Myra. But all around him he ...

Build a business that is clear enough to understand, bold enough to notice, and valuable enough to remember.Many businesses are not overlooked because they lack value. They are overlooked because that value is not always clear, visible, or consistently experienced.The R.A.W. Approach: The Framework to Elevate Your Business from Overlooked to Unforgettable gives entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants, creatives, nonprofit leaders,...

A lively, accessible introduction to the asymmetrical relationship between the United States and Mexico, one of the most formative international relationships in geopolitics today.The border between the US and Mexico is the world's longest between a wealthy industrialized nation and a part of the Global South. The economy, society, culture, and politics of the two nations have become inextricably linked.As the United States continues to assert its considera...

Black Woman's Fire: A Poetic Voice to Resilience, Liberation, and Legacy is not merely a collection of poems-it is a witness.A witness to the sacred strength Black women have carried across generations.A witness to the quiet battles fought behind closed doors and the loud victories history often forgets to name.A witness to the fire that refuses to be extinguished.Through layered, soul-stirring verse, this collection journeys through identit...

Exploring the complexities of individual and group behavior within dynamic, real-world environments represents an important evolution in sport science research. Especially in how perceptual action and motor behaviors are influenced based on their coupled relationship within the environment itself and relative to the task context. This book challenges the limitations of traditional, reductionist approaches to perception-action behaviors that have caused a notable "applied-research gap," whe...