A Helpful Scientific Guide for Kids to Help Them Learn and Talk about Their Brains. Includes Important Information on:AnatomyInclusivityNeurodiversityMental HealthAnd Other Important TopicsEveryone's brain is wired differently. But all brains are wonderful!This comprehensive book is the perfect resource f...

This work of fiction follows the story of a young man as he seeks to recover from a self-destructive spiral. After the loss of his fiance, Sean falls into a habit of grief fueled alcoholism, resulting in the near loss of his own life. Through interventions from friends and family, he struggles to gain acceptance of his new lot in life while being haunted by visions of what he's lost. But with the help of his loved ones he recovers and grows, eventually finding a new path forward.

The Operator: Genesis is a modern techno-thriller about power, control, and the quiet systems that decide who matters and who doesn’t. When a covert operation in London exposes something far larger than a single act of terror, a burned operator is forced to confront the machinery behind governments, corporations, and public narratives. What follows is not a chase for justice, but a collision with a world where human lives are reduced to acceptable losses and truth is managed rather than re...

Memory is currency. Identity is a weapon. And Kai wants both back. In a future where memories are traded, stolen, and sold to the highest bidder, survival comes at a cost—sometimes your past. Kai doesn’t remember who she was. But the system she helped create remembers her. After waking in a fractured universe of debt-ridden minds and corrupted technology, she discovers a secret buried deep inside her: a stolen prototype memory vial that pulses with the echo of everything they tried to make...

Running on Empty is not just a book about running—it’s a story of survival, resilience, and rediscovery. After years in the Army, I was certain I’d never run again. The endless PT sessions, forced marches, and punishing routines had left me broken and burnt out. Running was a chore—something to be endured, not enjoyed. But life on the outside brought its own invisible battles. And when nothing else worked, I did the one thing I swore I never would: I ran. What started as an act of desperat...

BAD WIRING A dark British urban horror with military roots. Stark. Gritty. Unforgiving. He survived the war. But something followed him home. Mutt came back broken. No medals. No welcome parade. Just discharge papers, phantom pain, and the kind of silence the government excels at. No support. No answers. Just a whispered suggestion: “Start over.” But how do you start over when your past is classified and your nightmares walk on two legs? Now back in a forgotten part of Britain — all tower ...

Mendocino is the third novel in a coming-of-age trilogy, which starts with The Complex, followed by Pearl Street. This novel tells of Robby Owen’s junior year of high school, which was the best of times, and ends with his senior year, the worst of times.

When a bee named Beatrice hatches into a golden hive bursting with buzzing energy, she's shockingly told that she's the new queen! How could that be? That role feels far too big for a bee who experiences the world differently than everyone else. With so much noise, so many expectations, and what feels like a thousand eyes watching her every move, Bea begins to wonder whether she truly belongs. She sadly leaves the hive in search of quiet, connection and way to make sense of the world....

In this issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, guest editors Drs. Scott Evans, Guang-Shing Cheng, Julio Ramirez, and Bashar Staitieh bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Pulmonary Disease in the Immunocompromised Host. Top experts discuss imaging the immunocompromised lung; laboratory molecular testing in immunocompromised host pneumonia; vaccines and other preventative strategies for immunocompromised pneumonia; adjunctive/host-directed therapies in immunocompromised host pneum...

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners.Scott...

After finding a beautiful co-ed’s body in an eerie waterway called Lost Slough, Joseph Lawrence Conrad becomes an unlikely hero caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare. Accused of murdering his students, he’s about to lose everything—his teaching career, his wife, his precocious five-year-old daughter, and his freedom. Detectives Ryan Dunn and Manuel Marino tighten the noose as they uncover links between Joe and the victims. Ultimately, Joe resorts to the literature he’s teaching, borrowing from ...

When an old friend and colleague passes away, an LSU English professor named Jack Claire travels to Swansea, Wales, to attend the funeral and is bequeathed a cache of handwritten manuscripts, the plays of William Shakespeare, along with a rare, leather-bound copy of the First Folio --the first collection of Shakespeare's plays. A problem arises, however, when he recognizes that the handwriting is NOT William Shakespeare's. He returns to Baton Rouge with and attempts to authenticat...