When 13-year-old C.J. Brown learns that she'll be spending her entire summer away from her friends – isolated – in a small town in central Arkansas, she is utterly despondent.But as she begins meeting some of the rural village's residents, C.J. discovers she possess a strange and remarkable gift. And when she befriends an eccentric, 8-year-old rock hound, she soon finds herself being led headlong into the dark and foreboding bowels of the earth.As a greedy corporate geologi...

Vilde is a 16-year-old Danish-Canadian kid, who lives with his mom in the small Canadian ski resort town of Big White. Some know him best as the local prankster and daredevil, but Vilde is also an elite snowboarder known as the Flying Tiger with hopes of competing in the next Youth Winter Olympics. One year, Vilde’s estranged dad invites him to join him on a trip to the mountain of Nanulak, where Vilde hopes to bond with him over mountaineering and mend their tenuous relationship. Soon, ho...

History, invention, the power of deduction…Clockwork Chaos is more than goggles and gears. It is about order and structure and timing striving for mechanical perfection. But in an era where mass production does not yet exist, the unique machinery brought forth into the world is at times bound to fall short of the goal. This chaos turns the science into mayhem and when the gears spring forth this mechanical viscera is indicative of a world turned inside out. Join us in our journey through t...

Gary L. FriedmanWorried about all of the noise being made about Artificial Intelligence? Don't know whether to believe the hype or the apocalyptic predictions? Losing sleep over our all-too-certain dystopian future? In this collection of essays, 24 experts from a variety of different fields provide perspective and insight into what AI is and isn't, contrasting the crucial differences of AI vs. Human Intelligence (it's more nuanced than you think), and the surprising ways they can w...

'With real life examples to guide the reader and proven cognitive behavioural techniques, this will help people to overcome the distress associated with tinnitus and live a meaningful life'Dr Rory Allott, Greater Manchester NHS Foundation TrustWorldwide, about one billion people experience tinnitus at some point in their life. It is a life-changing experience for many of them. Learning effective management strategies in a timely fashion is t...

The modern legal library is caught in a transformative stage. Often seen by firm management as unnecessary and outdated, legal libraries are facing a double-pronged challenge: it is now essential for librarians to demonstrate the continuing value of their profession whilst battling with shrinking budgets and the development of new, disruptive technologies that are transforming working practices and processes at a rapid rate.

Just as flowers blossom in springtime, so do second chances and new beginnings in these heartwarming stories of family, homecoming, and love …AMAZING GRACIE Fern MichaelsAfter years spent traveling the world as a flight attendant, Gracie Walden is ready to stay a little closer to her roots, starting with two weeks at home in Amarillo, Texas. But there’s unexpected turbulence between her mother, Ella, and her older sister, Hope—and it will lead to a revelation that changes Gr...

This “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twenty-two internationally bestselling writers in “a must-read for fans of the thriller genre” (The Real Book Spy).The incredible follow-up to FaceOff features twenty-two of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers pairing their series characters in...

"This isn't just some war being waged against us from the shadows, it's a massacre, a cull."With the pack still reeling from their encounter with the witches, all anyone wants is time to recover. But the pack promised the vampires a favor in return for their help—and it's time to collect.When the fight comes to the very edge of the packlands, it becomes clear it's not just the vampires who are under attack, we all are. With Calli's magic growing an...

How can you escape the hunt when everybody is hunting you?Calli was born an impossibility. With the dual soul of a shifter and the natural magic of a witch, she was the first known shifter/witch hybrid. But in a world where witches hunt wolves to siphon their magic, and wolves kill witches, no questions asked, could she ever hope to find a place where she belonged?When Calli's parents, a shifter and a witch, met and realized their mating would never be acce...

When had my life turned into trying to survive a war? It felt like just yesterday I was a 'mostly' normal girl. Okay, maybe being a shifter-witch hybrid meant I'd never been normal, but at least I'd led a quiet life.We might have struck back at Councillor Stone, but it was only a matter of time before he made his next move. It was time for the pack to get serious about how we were going to survive the mess we’d been dragged into. That meant learning new magic and embracing a role I...

Sometimes the blood that bonds us together is what causes the greatest of rifts.The pack is balancing on an edge, trying to hold together after the last fight tried to tear them apart. Calli throws herself into trying to learn as much magic as she can, and her mates watch on helplessly as her obsession starts to take over. But old enemies are rising, and a surprising party reaches out, requesting aid. Now, facing everything she's lost, Calli needs to make a decisio...