A sapphic star-crossed love story between a lost gargoyle and a reckless gunslinger.Driz has watched humans from afar all her life, longing for connection. Made of living stone sculpted by the hands of a long-dead god, gargoyles are fated to be solitary, and Driz tries to accept her reality as a feared creature with a forgotten purpose. Until she meets her.As the sheriff’s daughter in a remote salt-mining town, Pearl is used to danger and ...

N01-5-2, Vil, has lived four hundred years as a second-class citizen, a reptilian hybrid created from creatures from the stars who left as mysteriously as they came.Worshiped like gods, the ancient progenitors advanced humanity with gene therapy, which became their downfall, as the very DNA they relied on poisoned them. Relegated to traveling the galaxy with his ragtag reptilian crew, they set course to an abandoned military base on an old asteroid and find somethi...

Two royal families, one arranged mating, and a love so strong that even war couldn't tear it apart.I have always known my position in life will be based not only on who I mate with but on my ability to give them an heir. I am a lucky one, though. My father has allowed me to decline my suitors, and as a prince, there is always a suitor, one sure I can give them what they want: wealth and power. Thanks, but no thanks. I want someone who loves me for me. Or, at least,...

I WILL WANDER ON: VOLUME ONE is a collection of fifteen bloodcurdling short stories, delivering a terrifying and captivating examination of life, love, and death. Delve into the depths of the human psyche, and encounter a diverse array of horrors: from the supernatural to the psychological. Award winning writer Ron Prasad has given new, contemporary life to familiar tropes— exploring the unnerving themes of otherworldly invasions, sinister boogeymen, encounters with mysterious creatures, a...

The bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing journeys to understand her roots, the Great Migration & the displacement of black people across America.One of TIME 's one hundred Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year"Required reading, accurately widening the lens of American history." —

DocHundreds of years after the progenitors visited Mater Terra and ruined everything, their long-lost omega has been discovered, and he wants nothing to do with taking over planets. He wants to raise his son, make more babies, and live in peace. Honestly? Can. Relate. But as a mostly human hybreed, I lack the parts to do so—but not for long. Change is coming, and so is a new Progenitor who smells divine, but I don't love him. The man I love is dying, and I'd do any...

The chronological short stories of Esterra Stake. Tractwalker. Mercenary. Exile.When the stars fell, the world died.Magic claimed Esterra's arm when she was a child. For her curse, she was exiled into the weird, pockmarked world of Verpace. The magic eats away at her, twisting her bones and psyche to its own will, the curse spreading with each use.Now an adult, she wanders the world as a tractwalker, making her living through hunting, mercenary work...

It is neither dark nor stormy the night two joggers discover the body of a local college student. An investigation reveals several alarming messages between her and her friends. What were they scared of? And what does it have to do with factory workers and the city's top fashion icons? Only the intervention of a silent wanderer has any hope of unraveling the nefarious tapestry.Wandering Koala uncovers the Sixth Figure is a 32-page, full color comic book with a wraparound cover.

*I sat down again to think. I remembered a piccolo, music that made me want to dance and sing, falling asleep - and then a dream. The dream was quite out of the ordinary. If Bobby hadn't left me on my own, I would have asked him if this was one of his '*Big Dreams.' He would have given me a knowing look and all but confirmed it with these words, 'You'll know if you've had a Big Dream, Avie. They're renowned for their revelatory nature. They won't fade away at dawn. Sometimes they never...

A thousand years of guilt can break anyone.Stormharbour is safe. For now.PradCorp can no longer crush the rebellion with overwhelming force, so they turn to other weapons. More subtle weapons. And one truly terrible weapon.A weapon which first needs a test. One which will also flush out another thorn in the Corporation's side. A weapon the Wanderer can't stop - but that won't stop Kaira and Tarkus from trying.But not all threats come from we...

'An original, provocative and fascinating new theory by one of the world's leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders - and when and why it's good for you' Daniel GilbertYour brain is noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming and intrusive thoughts – taking up to forty-seven percent of your waking time. This is mindwandering.Mindwandering is the first popular book to explore the phenomenon of...

"Bryan Davis writes with the scope of Tolkien, the focus of Lewis, the grandeur of Verne, and most of all the heart of Christ." ―Jeremiah F., readerA boy with fiery breath . . . a girl with dragon wings . . .Outcasts Billy and Bonnie must come together to preserve a secret legacy more than a millennium in the making. They find their lives turned upside down when they are thrust into a war against evil, a war they didn't even know was being waged. Their newl...