A Gift for Santa Claus: A Christmas Tradition is an instant classic! This heartwarming story comes to life as a whimsically illustrated children's picture book with rhyming and repetition to keep all believers in Christmas magic captivated. The story takes the reader on a quest to find Christmas magic and along the way they are joined by other characters and do acts of kindness. Then the question is asked: does Santa Claus get Christmas gifts too? The characters create gifts for Santa Clau...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

This book explains how Food Policy Councils solve critical food systems problems by creating just and resilient ways of producing, harvesting, manufacturing, distributing, and consuming food and managing food waste, using methods that encourage civic engagement and strengthen democratic processes.Although there are over 300 Food Policy Councils operating all across the United States, and scores in other countries, their critical work is not widely known. Due to the universal import...

Six dreams. One day. Infinite possibilities.Layla Maris wakes to a morning unlike any other--every dream from the night before lingers with startling clarity. Over the course of a single day, she unravels their meaning, each vision pulling her deeper into questions of identity, purpose, and the fragile line between reality and imagination. But as the day unfolds, Layla begins to wonder: Are these dreams guiding her...or rewriting her future? By nightfall, nothing will be the same.

In a city designed to save lives, the system has started choosing who can be sacrificed.Kaelen Vance works inside the machinery of Vesper, a near-future optimization network built to maximize human survival across an entire city. Every dispatch, every hospital transfer, every delay, every death is supposed to serve the greater good. The math is cold, but the promise is simple: fewer people die.Then Kaelen sees a pattern the system should not be capable of making.Peo...

A man has to destroy the privacy-first protection system he built — after it starts quietly ruining the people it decides are making its users unsafe.Rylan Mercer built Hearth to do one thing well: protect people without feeding their lives into a surveillance machine.For some users, it works almost miraculously. Sleep returns. Panic loosens. Ordinary life becomes possible again.Then the people making those users miserable start collapsing in ways t...

'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over twin girls born in China with genetic changes deliberately introduced by scientists - changes they will pass on to their own offspring.Genetic modification (GM) has been with us for 45 years now, but the new system known as CRISPR or gene editing can m...

From the author of the acclaimed The Epigenetics Revolution ('A book that would have had Darwin swooning' – Guardian) comes another thrilling exploration of the cutting edge of human science.For decades after the structure of DNA was identified, scientists focused purely on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions – 98% of the human genome – were dismissed as 'junk'. But in recent years researchers have discovered that variati...

Humans hoard cats. Kytol hoards raccoons. I'm just the animal control officer trying to get a leash on the situation.Earth's Wildlife and You: A Primer should be required reading for aliens. Unfortunately it isn't, and now I'm stuck in the unenviable position of explaining to green-skinned Kytol that no, raccoons aren't pets. Calls involving animal hoarding is one of the fastest ways to get me angry, but Kytol's menagerie of rescued raccoons is happy, heal...

'A book that would have had Darwin swooning - anyone seriously interested in who we are and how we function should read this.' GuardianAt the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet.The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still don't even kn...

Approving women to get off a dying world is easy, right? Not when the woman giving the green light has to stay behind.I've stayed on Earth with my husband, even though I was a perfect candidate for the bridal program that sends human women to safety on the alien planet Lukrim. I have a good job, a husband who loves me, and a hobby watching old movies where the sky was still blue. I've worked my way up to be the director at the very program I denied myself from, but...

Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year.But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or ‘gene editing’. Using this approach, scientists can manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed that we could only dream of ten...