My parents' love story inspired many people during their 57-year marriage. For 46 of those years, Mary Lou used a wheelchair, and Richard was her devoted caregiver.My mom was paralyzed from polio at the age of 31, regaining only partial use of her right arm. That was when she became "A Sittin' Mommy" and continued to raise her five children and run her home as a quadriplegic.Even in retirement, Dad never saw Mom's daily care as a burden. To him it was simply the price of ha...

What do you think of when you hear the word "Navigate?" Do you think of using cell phone apps to help you drive from one place to another? Or do you think of navigating life and its ups and downs? Or perhaps you think of navigating the stars.In this collection of fourteen stories, our authors have used the theme to provide humor, compassion, wonder, scares, and questions for the reader to solve.Inside you'll find everything from a heartwarming children's tale story about a ...

A superstar lineup is included in this urban fantasy collection featuring short stories from New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Holly Black, Kim Harrison, Faith Hunter, and more …In this short story collection, our heroes get what’s due to them—with a supernatural flair.But the injustices that have been holding them back might cost them more than they realized. . . .In “Mister Petty,” a brand-new Dresden Files story from #1

Anyone wishing to tap the research potential of the hundreds of Drosophila species in addition to D.melanogaster will finally have a single comprehensive resource for identifying, rearing and using this diverse group of insects. This is the only group of higher eukaryotes for which the genomes of 12 species have been sequenced.The fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster continues to be one of the greatest sources of information regarding the principles of heredity that apply to all animals, inclu...

Against an ancient shadow with a deadly agenda, Petra Grady’s luck may be about to run out, in the next book in the enthralling contemporary fantasy series from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollows novels.It’s been months since Petra Grady bonded with the shadow Pluck. With the help of researcher Benedict Strom, she has made a place for herself at St. Unoc University as the first weaver to use shadow magic in a thousand years. But some a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark academia.Eula Blue was supposed to be a mage. That was before the war came—before the fight for the Multiverse devastated Eula’s home, and with it her hopes for a magical education.But the destruction of the war also brought something new: the ability to travel to o...

The sexy and deeply satisfying conclusion to Jessie Mihalik’s captivating romantasy duology, following Silver & Blood.After shattering the enchanted seal protecting her, Riela finds herself irrevocably bound to the lethal politics of the Blood Court—and the court’s deadly, manipulative Blood King. In order to survive, she must outmaneuver rivals and foil assassination attempts, all while learning to wield the power she never wanted.Garrick, the Sil...

A betrayal by those he trusted leads to one final mission. Vengeance.Captain Barrett Wilson never agreed to be experimented on by his superior officers, but he wasn't given a choice. When he awakes in captivity, he wants nothing more than to escape, but it's only when the beast within roars free that Barrett manages to flee his prison.The nearby forest becomes his home and feeding ground, the primal urges raging through his body only satis...

Eve Langlais presents Book 3 in the Project Therianthrope series.Contains mature themes.

Rachel Morgan must take up the mantle of a high-powered CEO—all the while navigating dangerous power plays between the vampires and the elven elite—in the next exhilarating Hollows novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.For witch-born demon Rachel Morgan, life has become good in the Hollows. For her renegade billionaire boyfriend, Trent, not so much. When a freak storm exposes and destroys the Brimstone fields his future depends upon, Trent seem...

Hugo Award winner Ben Bova and Les Johnson complete Bova’s Outer Planets series (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto), a Grand Tour of the human settled solar system, with a final encounter on Pluto.Major Larry Randall has been called to Pluto to retrieve Dr. Aaron Mikelson. Mikelson, no longer human after a horrific accident, is now melded to an AI. His enhanced senses have detected an alien artifact on Pluto’s surface, and he’s not leaving witho...

A man with a deadly past marries into the perfect, most respectable family in this riveting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh. . . .A woman buried.A woman broken.A woman crashed.A woman burned.And the man who knew them all.Love at first sight, a whirlwind Vegas wedding, a fairy-tale romance.For forty-three days, Tavish Advani has been the hap...