Alastar Remshot, raised in one of the most affluent families in the city of Fanghel, is expected to attend the prestigious Fang Heller Flight Academy, an elite school that trains magical soldiers to wield the power of the cosmos with devices called Geminus Gloves. To do any less, or to associate with those of common upbringing like his classmate Jacob Frillow, would be to fail the Remshot family name, as Alastar’s mother Trilla frequently reminds him.But as Alastar grows closer to ...

If your agency's future is tied to making stuff, then you're destined to be on a perpetual financial roller coaster. Someone will always make stuff less expensively than you can. We're entering the era of the authority. While you may already be sick of the phrase thought leader, the truth is there aren't that many of them in our industry. Thought leaders don't write content that any other agency could claim. Thought leaders don't write about anything and everything and thought leaders don'...

Nursing and midwifery are inspiring and amazing professions – but as you face the realities of juggling work, study and life, you may now be thinking ‘what did I let myself in for’?This book is designed to help anyone who is struggling and needs a little (or a lot of) guidance. It’s packed with useful information and practical exercises to help nursing and midwifery students cope with all the major sources of stress – including:juggling timesucceeding in ass...

It is a time of unknowns for members of the Alliance. They have no information to guide their actions, no record of the key events to influence their research.For Fil Trask and his sister, Angel, it is also a time of growing up. It is a time when they must learn the deep sacrifices it often takes to keep a family together through great trial and tribulation.And it is a time when they will learn that your greatest fears and deepest pain can have a profound and lasting influe...

The second Fowl Twins adventure, a spinoff of the blockbuster Artemis Fowl series, starts with a bang--literally.Artemis's little brothers Myles and Beckett borrow the Fowl jet without permission, and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder, the pixie-elf hybrid Lazuli Heitz, are lucky to escape with their lives.The Fowl parents and fairy police force decide that enough is enough and the twins are placed under house arrest. But Myles has que...

An anthology of eighteen science fiction and fantasy stories collected from the InterGalatic Medicine Show online magazine, plus four new Ender Universe stories.Welcome to the first anthology of stories from Orson Scott Card's online magazine, InterGalactic Medicine Show. The magazine has been at the forefront of publishing the work of new SF and fantasy talents, as well as many tales of wonder from well-known writers.Additionally, this anth...

Kedna has been consigned to fostering on the empty world of Iskan when her power and her health become dangerous. Being mentored by a planetary Avatar is difficult, but moving the weather for an entire world is second nature.When she is older and her skills are needed off world, she is paired with her first member of the Sector Guard. He is a pain in the butt and harbours resentments toward her for hogging his ancestral planet. She simply concentrates on the job and earns his respe...

(Volume 7)A legendary tome known as The Book of the Law, which describes how to summon an angel, has been stolen--and the nun who knows how to decipher it has been kidnapped. All of which should be completely irrelevant to high school student Touma Kamijou, who's still whiling away his time in Academy City. Except his famously terrible luck gets him involved in the rescue operation, and if he thought school life was bad enough, wait until he gets a taste of church politics!

Do you have what it takes to be a student at the academy for Roblox pros? Introducing the first book in an unofficial Roblox graphic novel series, Academy for Roblox Pros!Mitch and his friends thought that they were having an average day at school. Their principal, Principal Borelox, was being awful as usual, and Roger and his cronies were getting on their nerves. But when Mitch accidentally spills his drink on his computer in the tech lab, something miraculous hap...

General Daynja Édo is a legend: head of the celebrated Boorhian Empire’s military and possessor of a mask of untold power. She has raised her Shadow Army of seven assassins from childhood. But mounting disillusionment over a life of brutality, a petulant emperor, and prodding from The Artful Djinni force her to defy orders for the first time in her thirty year career. When the empire decides they no longer need Édo if they can get the mask, she must face the monsters of her own making and ...

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMORThe Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!* Superheroes mired in government bureaucracy.* Cat cat-burglars.* Grandmotherly golems.* Literal-minded self-driving cars.* Evil overlords retired in Florida.* Indifferent aliens.

Legendary comic book creator John Byrne returns to the title he first drew 50 years ago, Uncanny X-Men**, with this one-of-a-kind new graphic novel trilogy*****, X-Men: Elsewhen*****. This three-volume graphic novel series picks up the story from Byrne’s original run, taking the characters in new and unexpected directions.**In Volume 1 of X-Men: Elsewhen, a national bestseller, the Dark Phoenix Saga is over and Phoenix is . . . al...