Just when something feels played out, a fresh viewpoint can revitalize it. That's the power of being a writer. You get to show people a way of perceiving the world they had never considered before.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction Vortex set out to encourage people to write and publish great speculative fiction. It sprang fully formed from the elbow of TWOS, retaining none of TWOS’s form but most of its spirit. And...

Healthcare is important to everyone, yet large variations in its quality have been well documented both between and within many countries. With demand and expenditure rising, it’s more crucial than ever to know how well the healthcare system and all its components – from staff member to regional network – are performing. This requires data, which inevitably differ in form and quality. It also requires statistical methods, the output of which needs to be presented so that it can be understo...

From the bestselling author of The Spaceship Next Door:“I don’t know how old I am.My earliest memory is something along the lines of fire good, ice bad, so I think I predate written history, but I don’t know by how much. I like to brag that I’ve been there from the beginning, and while this may very well be true, I generally just say it to pick up girls.” --Adam the ImmortalSurviving sixty thousand years takes cunning and more than a little luck. But in the twenty-first cen...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series.WEIRD?! Nothing weird EVER happens in The Bad Guys. Like, you would NEVER see a chain-saw monster confronting...

When her parents died, Lyra was untethered. She left school, followed her dreams, and focused on keeping herself alive. She is not a fan of people and enjoys being alone. After the asteroid hit, she spends sometime surviving and the rest looking for one of the evacuation posts. She finds it and agrees to the caveat that she will be given a job placement that suits her skills.Across the stars, she works as a security unit pilot, steering a large, heavy bot around and keeping watch ov...

This book is about people suffering with the death of a loved one, or a relationship that has ended. It also offers comfort to know that grief does'nt have to last forever, the pain will still be there, but we can all move forward and get through with the help of family and friends. And owners who have lost a pet.

Do you freeze up every time a greeting card gets passed your way? Everybody else seems to know exactly what to write. Why does your mind goes blank? What do you do?Consult this book!It contains 101 unique sentiments you can write in congratulatory cards for friends, family, or co-workers. Is someone in your life having a baby? Getting married? Buying a new house? Graduating from high school, college or university? If an ann...

Love Poems to Rip Your Heart OutFind a love to die for with Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters’s 30 haunting love poems. Accompanied by Adam F. Watkins’s beautifully horrifying illustrations, these eerie poems reveal that love is not always what it seems to be . . .

When Harry discovers that the most evil villain in the galaxy, Galactic Gary, has escaped from prison, it’s not just humankind that is in danger, but time itself.Galactic Gary is trying to discover the whereabouts of a special time bomb that muddles the days of the week. Wednesday can become Saturday and Sunday can become Tuesday! The parts of the bomb are hidden on three different planets and the boys are in a rapid race to recover them. It’s up to Harry and Colin...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: MUST READ BLACK PYRAMID BEFORE READING THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL.Kiros wasn't sure why he accepted the invitation to Myaten's Halloween party. No, that part's a lie. Deep down he knew why. It was the one night out of the year when he could be somebody different. Some one that people wouldn't sneer, point and laugh at. He could pretend to be human...A special story that lives within the realms of Ancient Breeds. Follows Black Pyramid, Sands of Time (WIP) and conti...

Back like he never left, young A.C. brings us more poetic relatability in a similar fashion with this new book. Though not rushed, A.C. stated that the concept for this book came to him over night. He went on to say that he hoped some of his own logic lodged inside the book is absorbed rather than to be misconstrued.

Mighty the cat is a talented slacker who could win an award for his stellar resting skills. He also excels at rambling on about humans, his life, and cat toys. One day he finds himself extremely bored, but he never dreams that by the end of the day he would be granted three wishes even though only two wishes were promised. However, the last wish is not one that Mighty chooses, and it certainly is not one that he has ever even heard about. This wish leads Mighty to one of the coolest new pl...