For fans of Kacen Callender and Mason Deaver comes a heart-tugging coming-of-age YA debut that takes a poignant look at gender identity, sexuality, friendship, and family—both the one we’re born into and the one we find for ourselves.Seventeen-year-old Gael is used to keeping to himself. Though his best friend convinces him to attend a meeting of Plus, a support group for LGBTQIA+ teens, Gael doesn’t plan on sharing much. Where would he even start?Between s...

Discover the incredible true story of the legends that built an American empireThe will to succeed defines the greatness of men.Great men are forged through a combination of social, economic, and political conditions favoring both the individual and the greater good. When the conditions are just right, everybody wins. Yet when one interest trumps another, somebody must lose. It is this juxtaposition that defines history; either man can better his own situat...

Mika Gerey, a Cryogenic Scientist, is buried by one of the super storms of the 21st century and found in 2150. He is revived by advanced medical techniques and becomes leader of all humanity. He battles with his new friend to stop the total integration of technolgy in the human body as he visualises the destruction of our species as the end result. Humans develop technologies that take them into the galaxy to meet species both friendly and agressive.Unusually fast scientific progres...

Shirley and Winston are back on the case when a pair of coydogs show up at the Surrey home. Full of intrigue and adventure, The Bear of Fox Mountain returns The Mystery Hounds to what they do best... smelling adventure!Who is Smiling Jack and his pack of clever foxes? Why has an ancient bear lumbered over the mountain, forcing local canine families to abandon their homes? The Bear of Fox Mountain introduces a new cast of characters as The Mystery Hounds once more take up the chase....

Christian Jamieson sits in the long grass on Cannington Ridge, his favourite hilltop near his home. He watches the evening sky darken and sparkle with countless stars. His wish, as far back as he can remember, has been to travel to one of those stars to meet the people who he firmly believes live on the planets around them.A new star appears and changes his life and that of all mankind. His wish becomes a reality that he could have never imagined.

We have an uneasy relationship with the relentless deluge of information gushing out of academia and our media outlets. To turn it off is escapist, but to attempt to cognitively grapple with it is overwhelming. In Unforgettable: Enabling Deep and Durable Learning, a nationally recognized master teacher gives professors and their students the means to chart a clear path through this information explosion. Humans crave explanatory patterns, and this book enables teachers to think deeply abou...

Clifford Beers would not be a man of business and commerce that, as a turn of the century Yale graduate, he once imagined himself. Instead he would become a crusader for the muted patients shut away in public and private institutions with names like Hospital for the Insane, Asylum for Feeble-Minded, Village for Epileptics, The School for Idiots and Feeble-Minded Youth, the State Lunatic Asylum, The Insane Pavilion; names that make us cringe today. Through the publication of his book, A Min...

The remarkable military career of General Winfield Scott spanned fifty-three years, fourteen presidents, and six wars, both foreign and domestic. However, his lengthy service did not secure his rightful place among the nation’s pantheon of great military leaders. Instead, he is most often remembered as the aged, overweight, and sickly commanding general who was replaced by George McClellan at the beginning of the Civil War. Originally published in 1864, only two years before his death, Sco...

From the author of If I Can Give You That comes an emotional novel that follows a transgender teen who must grapple with a friendship fracturing and a new romance blossoming, all while being haunted by a devastating loss. A must-read for fans of How It Feels to Float and The Ghosts We Keep.Caleb’s world broke the day his brother died of a drug overdose. Now in the throes of grief, Caleb hardly ever sees his friends anymore, and school isn’t much better. He’s on the verge of failing...

This is the first known biography of Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G C M G, former Governor of the Straits Settlements and District Grand Master of the freemasons in the Eastern Archipelago.The book traces his early life as an officer in the Royal Marines, where he served for 15 years, ending up with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as well as his long, distinguished career in the Colonial Service, serving Queen Victoria in many countries including Natal in Southern Africa during...

Winston arrives at his new home expecting a calm, sleepy life but what he actually finds is a new friend with an agile, unpredictable mind. One hound is a retired, cantankerous old dog. The other is an excitable, irreverent runner. Together, they fight crime!When a family heirloom gets pilfered from the yard, Shirley and Winston launch into action to solve the mystery. Introducing new forest contacts and the first look at the sleepy town of Bakersville, The Mystery Hounds: The Scen...

A failed computer programmer, Patrick Murphy, is saved from drowning in the North Atlantic by a dolphin. He awakens from a three-day coma with the mind of a Titanian-an intelligent, warm-blooded being from the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon, Titan. They see through the eyes of whales. They know a comet is 90 days from impact.His brother, John, is the astronomer who accidentally intercepted their radio transmission-a signal so powerful the FBI confiscated it as a national securit...