The sky is broken. The crown is shattered. The fate of the realms hangs in the balance.Narrated by the incredible Blake Brown, this epic fantasy saga continues with a world on the brink of destruction.Across the fractured land of Aldoria, the scattered shards of a legendary crown have begun to awaken, unleashing powers older than gods and threatening reality itself. As darkness rises and ancient prophecies unfold, a fellowship of unlikely h...

Mystique of the Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics maps the Gothic imagination across more than a century of supernatural terror, psychological unease, romantic melancholy, and social transgression. Its capacious selection moves among novels, tales, poems, and proto-detective mysteries, tracing ruined castles, haunted houses, spectral doubles, forbidden knowledge, and the unstable boundaries between reason and nightmare. Landmark narratives of vampirism, scientific overreach, ancestral crime, ...

When you have a problem, where can you go for answers? The library! When Codie and her friends join Ms. Gillian, the Specialist, on another Adventure in Makerspace, they find themselves face-to-face with dinosaurs! Are they stuck in a prehistoric world? Join them to complete A Stop-Motion Animation Mission!

Hey there, friends! Are you ready to join the brave little pig, Porkchop, and her super-powered pals on an action-packed adventure? In Stuffyville, everything was going well until trouble stirred! With masked mischief-makers causing chaos, it was time for the Lightning Team to spring into action!

The is book 1 of 5 of Les Misérables Audiobook.One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae....

"Why are you all so pretty?"It all started when I was six years old. I was homeless. They were held prisoner.I saved them. Even though it put me in the system. They believed we built an unbreakable bond forged by trauma. These beautiful, damaged boys saw me differently than the rest of the world.As much as I wished I could feel the same. I couldn't. These boys—men—had too much anger. Too much hate.They wanted to burn down anything a...

A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000.The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that si...

They all want me. The nobody. Their savior.I'd always idolized them growing up, but since they forced me back, I see them for who they are. My four beautiful, angry boys grew into stubborn, selfish men. Men who take what they want with no regard for anyone or anything. Except maybe me.But I won't let my feelings blind me. All four men are masters of manipulation and so incredibly toxic. Despite it all, I want them too.Burned bridges and buried bodies litter the road...

This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the relationships among law, society, Indigenous peoples, and white settlers. The authors explore how law was as important to the building of a new urban industrial nation as it had been to the establishment of colonies of agricultural settlement and resource exploitation. The book addresses the most im...

The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of race, belonging, desire, and identities assumed and presumed in revealing portraits of Black experiences in a European context. In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the cont...

Discover how rural New Zealand is adapting and thriving in the face of change.Are New Zealand's rural communities dying, or are they evolving? This book offers a positive message, based on years of research, showing how rural communities are adapting to challenges and building on their strengths. Explore the social ties, digital technologies, and entrepreneurial innovations that are shaping the future of rural New Zealand.Understand the key changes af...

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting and race; single parenting; adoptive, foster, and step-parenting; life with ...