Scribbler Tales: The Thriller CollectionDeadly Secrets • Desperate Measures • Endgame • Escape from BerlinHidden Lies • Illusion • Pandemic • RevengeWhere every secret is lethal and every choice could be your last.Danger closes in from every direction in this gripping collection of eight high-stakes thriller stories. From government secrets and deadly pathogens to espionage, betrayal, and the razor-thin line between ...

Born during the ferment of the French Revolution, Auguste Comte was one of the foremost thinkers of the nineteenth century, his ideas influencing social reformers, philosophers, politicians and scientists. Advocating for what he called ‘the science of society’, he contended that facts and reason alone should matter in public discourse. But while Comte strove to create social harmony, he suffered from repeated disasters in his personal and professional life that ultimately endangered his he...

Two children. One promise. A forest that tests them both.After losing their home, Soren and Elia set out through the woods in search of a place spoken of only in whispers—a refuge for children with nowhere else to go.Guided by their mother's lantern, they follow winding paths deeper into the forest, where hunger, fear, and strange wonders wait beneath the trees. But not every light can be trusted, and not every shelter is safe.A mythic fair...

A young scientist challenges the rules of reality when he crafts life from flesh and bone! This full-color, kawaii graphic-novel adaptation reimagines Mary Shelley's classic for middle-grade readers.Victor Frankenstein pushes the boundaries of science to create life from scratch—only for things to spiral out of control when his creation proves too much to bear. Now, haunted by his mistakes, Victor must make peace with, or destroy, what he made before it comes after...

• Teaches step-by-step writing practices that foster deep connection with place, seasonal rhythms, and the natural world• Provides practical prompts and exercises designed to cultivate wild language, ecological literacy, and personal transformation• Offers creative journaling techniques to process climate grief, restore belonging, and participate in the renewal of EarthLISTEN DEEPLY to awaken your wild imagination and free your untamed voice as your visions comingle...

A Guided Journey for Getting Unstuck--Because the Person Counting You Out the Most Just Might Be YouIt's all been done before.I can't start until it's perfect.What if people criticize me?What if my voice doesn't matter?What if it's already too late?For anyone stuck in the same tired, broken scripts fear uses on all of us to keep us from showing up and living out our callings, It's All Been Done Before (and Other Lies...

Drawing on first-hand experience as a participant-observer in a skilled nursing facility Last Stop records the vicissitudes of care in an institutional setting for people with advanced dementia and Parkinson’s. The erosion of mind and memory is mirrored in the nursing home’s location, a small town in Upstate New York hollowed out by the loss of its economic base.Snapshots of interactions between residents and staff, residents and their partners, are at times comic or touching, but ...

Despite generations of deprivation inflicted by colonial systems, the Kookoma-grandmothers-of St. Theresa Point remain influential holders of knowledge whose teachings sustain their Nation's healing and resilience.In this book, Mary Anne Clarke presents the Anisininew Kookoma teachings as an opportunity to build peace by identifying and strengthening Anisininew parenting practices and governance. Clarke combines Kookoma wisdom and lived experiences in examinations o...

Wouldn't it be great if we all had a user's manual for handling uncertainty? Well, now we do.Drawing from her expertise as a sought-after creative consultant when it comes to improving leadership and teams, TED speaker and global consultant Mary Lemmer reveals how the principles of improv can be a powerful tool for transforming how we approach life's challenges. If we learn to handle ambiguity, we can handle anything.Through four core principles, supported b...

Curl up by the fire this Christmas with the masters of cosy and seasonal crime fiction – the perfect stocking-filler for fans of Agatha Christie and the British Library Crime Classics!A collection of Christmas-themed mysteries, written by some of the greatest Golden Age authors, including Ellery Queen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, John D. MacDonald, and John Dickson Carr, as well as such undiscovered writers as Norvell Page, Meredith Nicholson, and Pat F...

Ten of Mary Shelley’s best short stories that push the boundaries of Gothic literatureMary Shelley is most known for Frankenstein, but in the years following the release of her magnum opus, which were beset by the loss of several children and her husband, she produced novels, poems, short stories, and other forms of writing to sustain herself and her only surviving child. Collected here from this tumultuous period of Shelley’s life are ten of her finest ta...

Mills & Boon Love Inspired Suspense — Courage. Danger. Faith.Cold Case Arson Investigation - Kerry JohnsonA decades-old crime. A secret ready to explode.Trapped in a burning barn, Fire Ranger Clay Reiger barely escapes with his ex-girlfriend, Fire Marshal Autumn Jennings, as the inferno rages out of control. Soon a chilling pattern emerges — fires eerily similar to those set by a serial arsonist who disappeared yea...