"Allows readers to practically experience firsthand how humans have adapted to and dealt with disease throughout history...necessary and timely...engaging and entertaining. Highly recommended."―Library Journal, starred"[A] splendid examination...Deeply insightful if unsettling."―KirkusAnti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-reason beliefs seem to be...

Rapunzel Meets Jane Eyre in this fairy tale romance!I’m a Tower Tithe with a Rapunzel problem. That’s not as weird as it sounds.Ever wonder how Rapunzel survives without leaving her home? After all, someone must stock groceries, buy hair products and fix the plumbing. Witches don’t wield toilet brushes, so “Rapunzel care” becomes the job of Tower Tithes like me. Not that we choose this gig. We’re just unlucky elves who get magically chucked into servitude. ...

"Scottish vampires, a marriage of convenience, and a lost king. This luscious romance is impossible to stop reading, between all the political intrigue of vampire mobs and the developing relationship between Lexa and Caelin.” - Monet, GoodreadsLexa Uznetsov is trappedTo save my sister, I take on my father’s massive debt to Konstantin the Rus, leader of the New York Bratva. My life becomes a never-ending (and incredibly illegal) stak...

RiverThirteen years have passed since the war started, bombs fell, and the central states became a thing of the past.When the war ended, the government erected a wall to divide the surviving states from the destroyed ones. I never expected to leave my town, but unlike those who volunteered to go, I wasn’t given a choice.With a dim knowledge of my strange abilities, the soldiers came for me. They took me beyond the wall,...

Newbery Honor recipient and New York Times bestselling author Marion Dane Bauer teaches beginning readers about rainbows in this bright Level 1 Ready-to-Read.What is that colorful arc in the sky? It is a rainbow. Rainbows are always pretty to look at, but where do they come from? The answer is at your fingertips. Just open this book and read about the wonders of rainbows…

Alisa Highland’s, love for horses and barrel racing has been put through a lot, since coming off a suspension from the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association. Hardships and obstacles, push her to her limits and turns to the cowboys to make ends meet to save her ranch.Dr. Lance Rangle, her ex-fiancé, returns to help his father with the veterinarian clinic. An emergency visit brings Alisa and him, face-to-face. Their encounter reveals they still have feelings for each other.T...

Three inspirational stories of women who risked everything for love and traveled thousands of miles to the western frontier.Part 1:Orphaned, Betrayed & Cherished by Her Foreign ArtistForced to work in a brothel under the New Orleans gambling den manager Gus, Zelda has almost lost all hope of freedom. When all things seemed so hopeless, one day something good happened- she was set FREE.She is offered to marry an art...

The unofficial town motto is "Nothing bad ever happens in Rosemont" where twelve-year-old Anna has come to stay with her grandmother, Mim, hoping to forget her worries about her parents' troubled marriage. She'll be busy with the town's annual Flower Festival, a celebration with floats and bands that requires weeks of preparations.But before long, Anna finds herself involved in a very big problem. When she observes a girl her own age who seems to be being held against her will, Ann...

Three inspirational stories of women who risked everything for love and traveled thousands of miles to the western frontier.Part 1:AMISH LOVE - The Brave and Shunned Amish BrideWhen Clara realized that things in the Nevada desert were getting a bit too hard for her small AMISH family, she knew something had to be done.There is ONLY ONE problem surfaced . . .That the solution to their problem was she would b...

"Beautifully written book which will pull at your heartstrings." – ReviewerA gut-wrenching story of discrimination, injustice, and the fight to free a man unfairly sentenced.Born into poverty in a crime-ridden town and unaware of his Ojibwe heritage, John Eric Aslin's earliest memories are of a harrowing childhood rife with abuse. This troubling upbringing led him to an adolescence full of crime, when at 21 he was sentenced to life in prison for an accidental death. 36 year...

She was given the power of a god. Now her people need her to use it.AJ Bluehorse hasn't set foot on the Navajo reservation since her mother moved them to New York. Now she's coming home to a family she left behind, a culture she's only half remembers, and a murder no one else can solve.Something is killing her people. Something ancient. Something that wears a human face.Armed with the Inca god's dangerous gift, powers no human was ever meant to cont...

Three inspirational stories of women who risked everything for love and traveled thousands of miles to the western frontier.**Part 1:ADELINE: The Strong-willed Bride for Her Lonely FarmerJoin strong-willed Adeline Archer as she conquers frontier life and the frozen heart of farmer James Blair.What will happen in a marriage when two hearts committed to a strict-no-love policy?Could Adeline like this ever grow to lov...