They promised her a home. Instead, they gave her war.After an accident kills her parents, Malia's life is turned upside down—taken to an academy she's never heard of, surrounded by people with powers she didn't know existed, preparing for a war that started centuries before she was born. She doesn't want to fight. She doesn't want destiny. But when the strange dreams haunting her begin to blur with reality, Malia realizes her fate may be more tangled with the comin...

Welcome to The Neural Empire, a global cyber-bio thriller that merges cyber-thrillers, bio-punk, financial conspiracy, and psychological suspense. Set several months after the collapse of the automated neural court system from The Neural Verdict, the novel begins when Mara Vey believes the nightmare is finally over. However, she soon encounters a public advertisement offering grocery credit in exchange for human "neural response data".This discovery pulls Mara int...

The Neural Verdict — Novel DescriptionIn a near-future world, the justice system no longer depends on witnesses, confessions, or circumstantial evidence. Courts can now analyze the involuntary neurological signal produced by a human brain at the exact moment of trauma, fear, or deception. The system is faster than traditional justice—and almost impossible to challenge.For brilliant defense attorney Mara Vey, that certainty becomes a nightmare....

From dystopian futures and philosophical science fiction to uncanny fantasy, psychological horror, surreal satire, and myth-infused storytelling, Fantastica Magazine – Fantasy & Science Fiction Anthology 2025 brings together some of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Romanian speculative literature.This international anthology gathers short stories, essays, comics, flash fiction, and critical reflections by Romanian authors from both Romania and the diaspora, offe...

RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY (Published 1912)PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA IN 1912 BY M. AUREL STEIN.WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, COLOUR PLATES, PANORAMAS, AND MAPS FROM ORIGINAL SURVEYS IN TWO VOLUMES - VOL. 1This is the complete and unabridged version and includes every image that appears in the original printed version. This is NOT a scanned copy with unreadable, missing or jumbled text, but, other than ...

Aliena isn't one to turn down a party, even those thrown by her best friend's preppy classmates... but the last thing she expected to find there was for the man she met at the nursing home weeks before to be the host.Especially when the gentleman she was so attracted to turns out to be a bully, acting as though they've never met.Forced to spend time together because of their shared friends and bound by a shared secret, Aliena and Sebastian try their best to...

If you've ever hesitated to critique capitalism because you're still working, shopping, streaming, or surviving inside it—this book is for you."How to Criticize Capitalism Without Being a Hypocrite" is a direct, pragmatic, and refreshingly honest guide for people trying to live with clarity, courage, and conscience in a world that sells them contradictions.You'll learn:Why escape from capitalism is a myth—and what to do insteadHow to critique systems...

In the past 20 years, energy density functional (EDF) approaches have become a powerful framework to study the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei. This book provides an updated presentation of non-relativistic and covariant energy functionals, single- and multi-reference methods, and techniques to describe small- and large-amplitude collective motion or nuclei at high excitation energy. Detailed derivations, practical approaches, examples and figures are used throughout the book to g...

The thirty-two stories in this new collection reflect the differences between man's real self and the various masks he has to wear in a Romanian society that vacillates between nostalgia for its communist past and restrained optimism about its capitalist future. The characters, who are taken from all walks of life, face constant political intrigues, moral dilemmas, and/or family crises. They must find a way to fit their own life stories, however insignificant, within the often ruthless his...

Fantastica Magazine Anthology opens a portal to the untold world of contemporary Romanian science fiction and fantasy, offering a rare opportunity for Western readers to discover a thriving literary scene. This anthology brings together a dynamic collection of writers and comic artists from Romania's new generation of speculative fiction, exploring a rich array of subgenres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, alternate history, utopia, dystopia, a...

Fluo's Romanian Verb Conjugator is a hands-on verb conjugation book, suitable for every learner of Romanian.If you're tired of endless verb conjugation tables that mostly confuse rather than help you learn conjugating verbs, this book will actually teach you how to conjugate: around 500 of the most common Romanian verbs, all fully conjugated and organized in a practical, dictionary-like manner, so that you can easily browse and find what you're looking for.

The Music Man: Peter Hold must face his personal bogeyman and right a terrible wrong . . . and find the key to laying his childhood demon to rest.China Doll: Kris discovers deep secrets about her family as she pays the price to repair her beloved china doll.Split Ends: Frank and Bets open up a whole new realm of possibility when they test the boundaries of their platonic friendship.Child of the Underworld: Lara escapes her mother's bleak realm but must decide which ...