Thousands of years in the future, the divide between humanity and technology has become nearly unrecognizable. Each thought, each action is logged, coded, backed up. Data is as easily exchanged through the fiber-optic-like cables that extend from fingertips as it might be through ordinary conversation. It's a brave new world: A world that the Straker Tapes say is a result of many human "upgrades." But no one is sure whether the Straker Tapes are a work of fiction or an eerie peek into an u...

After preventing conservative MP Victor Palgrave from engineering a human mind-controlled teenage army, Joe Dyson and Ani Lee, operatives for a secret youth division of British Intelligence, have probably earned a rest. But there’s no time to be lax with bizarre new developments popping up across the UK and the world.While busting a group that’s pressing teen runaways into slave labor building tech, Joe discovers a computer component not yet out on the market, linked to a very popu...

There’s something in that sound. Something bad. Something dangerous.”Fifteen-year-old Ani Lee is a skilled hacker researching a strange .wav file that she’s downloaded when it behaves as no file ever should.Joe Dyson is a seventeen-year-old American transplant recruited into a secret teen division of the British intelligence service who’s looking into the disappearance of a friend caught up in an underground music scene that might be more than it appears.W...

Join Blake and his friends during culture week at school as they discover the diverse nationalities of people that make our nation great. The teacher has them explore their ancestry and make their family trees and has them tell the class about their favorite family traditions and family meals they love to share. Through this event, the classmates come to know one another more closely, building bonds of close friendship and essential character traits, such as acceptance, respect, love, unit...

Ransacked and ripped off, Carr a young human male, sets out to get back what was wrongfully taken in the name of a King's protection taxes. A writing style said to be comparable to M. Night Shymalan/ Clive Barker, unique interior sketches by the author aid the reader through an amusing and original story. In a world of magic and monsters a young male, educated and trained in unusual skills, struggles with choices in life. - Strengthen the skills learned seeking adventure and fortune - Live...

Between 1971 and 1998, the networks the modern world was being built on had no defences worth the name. This is the story of ten cases that changed that.In 1971, a blind eight-year-old in Boston discovered he could whistle into a telephone and place free long-distance calls. In 1986, an astronomer at Berkeley traced a 75-cent accounting discrepancy to a West German intelligence operation. In 1988, a Cornell graduate student released a program that took down ten per cent of the inte...

“There’s something in that sound. Something bad. Something dangerous.”Fifteen-year-old Ani Lee is a skilled hacker researching a strange .wav file that she’s downloaded that behaves as no file ever should.Joe Dyson is a seventeen-year-old American transplant recruited into a secret teen division of the British intelligence service who’s looking into the disappearance of a friend caught up in an underground music scene that might be more than it appears.When Ani and ...

THE RIFTWALKER PROTOCOL: BOOK ONE — FRACTURED REALITIESA masterful blend of sci-fi, multiverse adventure, and character-driven suspense.When a catastrophic rift tears open above a remote research facility, Aaron Vale becomes the one thing he never expected, a riftwalker, capable of sensing and crossing the fractures spreading across reality. Surviving the blast awakens a dangerous resonance inside him, unlocking glimpses of alterna...

"Epic thrills, heart-punching romance, and a marvel of a hero" --Adam Silvera, New York Times-bestselling author of They Both Die at the EndThe people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more honored than the falconers who call them to their fists.Brysen strives to be a great falconer—while his twin sister, Kylee, rejects her ancient gifts for t...

In this exhilarating series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time. …Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly—but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden.

Two o’clock was missing.In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time—and a destroyed one can stop it completely.It’s a truth that seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well; his father has been trapped in a Stopped town east of London for three years. Though Danny is a prodigy who can repair not only clockwork but the very fabric of time, his fixation with staging a rescue is quickly becoming a concern to...

“Are you really a thief?”That’s the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he’s not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower—a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If only there were some way to use Ezekiel’s micropower for good, to turn a curse into a blessing. His fri...