Here be dragons and sorcery, time travel and sorrow.Vicious garden gnomes. A grounded phoenix rider. A new mother consumed with vengeance. A dying god. Soul magic.These stories wrestle with the experience of loss—of loved ones, of relationships, of a sense of self, of health—and forge a path to hope as characters fight their way forward.From bestsellers and SPFBO finalists to rising voices, 13 exceptionally talented authors explore the many facets o...

How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaigne's Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author remains relevant today when the need to recognize the "humanity of others"—from the cry of "Black Lives Matter" to the anonymous deaths of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea—is as urgent as ever.Always alert to his times, Montaigne ...

Aletheia was born a heresy: a girl with a man’s magic, in a city where monks and witches are mortal enemies. Training in her powers only under her father’s protection, head of the monastery, she shocks everyone by becoming the best seer in generations.Until her father is murdered. A suicide, they call it, but she knows the truth: he was murdered for his heresy. For her.Now she must make a harrowing choice: disown e...

With the advent of nanotech, happiness is just a brain hack. But if you can hack your brain, who else can?In the energy-scarce landscape of the former US, society has turned to mood-altering nanomachines to augment its grim reality. Like many, Lance Mireles walks the line between use and abuse, running shady side jobs to feed his habit while keeping up appearances with his younger brother. Pushing his luck once too often, he ends up on the wrong side of the law, di...

Here be dragons and sorcery, time travel and sorrow.Vicious garden gnomes. A grounded phoenix rider. A new mother consumed with vengeance. A dying god. Soul magic. These stories wrestle with the experience of loss—of loved ones, of relationships, of a sense of self, of health—and forge a path to hope as characters fight their way forward.From bestsellers and SPFBO finalists to rising voices, 13 exceptionally talented authors explore the many facets of grief...

Things were finally looking up: escaped from the gladiator pits of Dahran, Aletheia not only has a new understanding of her enemies and a team of allies by her side, but her old lover back, miraculously escaped from prison and bearing secrets from the inside.Then bands of enemy monks begin to find them, despite being undercover and on the far side of the continent. It seems impossible--but so was her lover's escape. And as the attacks grow more dea...

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The flood is coming, and sooner than anyone thought.Burdened with visions of the end, mourning the loss of her allies, and desperate to save a lover trapped under her enemy’s control, Aletheia seeks aid in the opulent city-state of Dahran. A family friend there reveals the location of her father’s papers, key to stopping the flood and understanding her enemy’s power.It seems like the perfect heist—until the friend betrays her, stealing the ...

--The epic conclusion to the Tidecaller Chronicles--The floods are here, and though she has learned of an artifact that can stop them, Aletheia is no closer to finding it. Worse, a newly-destroyed city may be proof her enemies have found the artifact first, and are using its power to reshape the world.There’s only solution: infiltrate their temples and palaces and floating cities, steal the artifact if they have it...

To get out alive, Aelya has to go from prime suspect to lead investigator.When Aelya woke up this morning, she thought she was going to pick up the score of blackmarket yura her gang needed to escape the streets. Instead she finds her dealer dead, and herself arrested as the prime suspect. To save herself she'll have to find the actual murderer, while convincing the lighthair holding her chains he can trust her enough to finish the job.An epic fantasy novella set in t...

Sometimes even fire-breathing apex predators need a helping hand.Whether it's rescuing strays or feeding a furry friend in need, Bean knows animals deserve friendship just as much as humans. (Possibly more.) So when a troop of visiting soldiers plans to use a baby dragon as bait to kill its mother, Bean knows it's up to her to stop them.But facing a squad of fighters and the mage leading them is bigger than Bean's usual rescues. Good thing she has ...