★★★★★ "Great start to a new series! Interesting characters and a unique storyline set in a world that begs to be explored or in this case survived. Definitely worth checking out!"Centuries ago, the world fell.From the ashes rose a terrible new species—the Tangata.Now they wage war against the kingdoms of man. And humanity is losing.Fresh from the military academy, twenty-year-old Lukys marches south to where the Ta...

A petty king sits on the throne of a peaceful nation while wizards and lords play politics. But evil grows restless, and dangerous rumblings threaten the easy prosperity.The dragons are waking. All of them."From all directions, in the darkness, a great terror approaches this world. I mean to fight the terror, Daven, and I would make a weapon of you."Daven Carrickson grew up as a beggar in the filthy alleys beneath the shadows of the palace....

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm.The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear in...

A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies.The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador's telescopes pick up ...

Luisa Stein may be a promising young investigative journalist, but this story she has accidentally walked into might just be the end of her relationship, her job or even her life.Sitting on a train to an unknown destination, with a strange man who has given her no name, Luisa wonders how she ended up in this situation. Was it the mystery of the invitation? Or was it the trance-like feeling that made every hair on her body stand on end when this man asked her to join him.Befor...

A Horus Heresy novelChastised by the Emperor, the Word Bearers set out on their own path - one that will eventually lead them to damnation and heresy and plunge the galaxy into war.READ IT BECAUSEThe dramatic backstory to the Horus Heresy is revealed at last. Discover the manipulations that led to Horus' fall and mankind's civil war. And where does it start? With the Emperor himself forcing an entire Legion to kneel before him in a s...

A “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplinesCOVID Studies is a “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, public policy, political science, history, and science and technology studies. Though varied in their methodologies, whether ethnography, data analysis, or archival...

Witty banter, lust, ennui, and an undercurrent of violence underlie a seemingly paradisiacal summer on the eve of World War II, in this landmark translation of the first and only novel by Éric Rohmer, the French New Wave’s most prolific and beloved filmmaker.Fifteen years before completing his first feature film—and ten before beginning a transformative editorial stint at the journal Cahiers du cinéma that would usher French cinema into a new era—the man w...

A chilling collection of short stories exploring the depths of human darkness and the cost of empathy.In Aaron Dries's Cut to Care, social workers impersonate the deceased to comfort grieving families, a woman grapples with the weight of a cheated suicide, and a candlestick maker crafts human chandeliers from drunken cowboys. These tales, ranging from supernatural to domestic, splatterpunk to cosmic, remind us of the price of caring too much—or not enough....

Fear takes hold of us, makes us captived and afraid, leaving us gasping, even days after reading.Seven encounters with death in various circumstances, stories that weave through the past, the present and the future. Meet the oldest woman in the world, then a mysterious killer on a dark night in Milan, and next three boys who face some nasty surprises after recording the voices of the departed”"perhaps because the dead should be left to rest in peace! Sadis...

Damian Kurt has one goal: to write his father's story and prove that he was a saint and to become a saint himself to be reunited with his father in heaven.But how does one achieve such a lofty goal?First, he must confess for his own recent sins. Then he must get out from under his mother's constant nagging and pious Catholicism. But confession is not in the cards after he gets conked on the head with a barbell and is laid up in the hospital with a concussion. His mother's d...

Ice can preserve human remains for hundreds and even thousands of years. So can other natural conditions, including a hot, dry climate. Many long-hidden remains have given a peek into the customs and cultures of the past. Readers will discover some of the most chilling and surprising mummies ever found, as well as the history behind them.