A sweet "aww"-inspiring tale of school life begins!!At school, Kyouko Hori is known for being smart, attractive, and popular. On the other hand, her classmate, the boring, gloomy Izumi Miyamura tends to get painted as a "loser fanboy." But when a liberally pierced and tattooed (not to mention downright gorgeous) Miyamura appears unexpectedly on the doorstep of secretly plain-Jane homebody Hori, these two similarly dissimilar teenagers discover that there are multiple sides to every story.....

"A fantastical adventure; ghostly and fun."The Wishing Shelf Book Awards"...a book about moving on, remembering the past, and beating the odds in a fashion that is so well done it deserves to be a beloved beginning to what can only be a fantastic series."San Diego Book ReviewBeing a gargoyle isn't easy. Tiffany wasn’t even born one, but now she has wings, and in the gargoyle world it means she’ll have to figh...

When Tom, the son of a powerful Senator, becomes stranded in the Plagued States while searching for his lost sister, his only hope of survival rests in the hands of a few grizzled veteran zombie hunters and a mysterious half-breed zombie woman he thinks may know where to find her...In the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, the humans won by creating a moat surrounding the Plagued States of America. Now zombies roam freely and only the most fearless of hunters venture in, but they ...

The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria is a foundational treatise in ancient applied mechanics, assembling devices powered by air, steam, water, and pressure into a vivid demonstration of Hellenistic ingenuity. Written in a lucid, technical style, the work combines geometrical reasoning with practical description, explaining automata, temple mechanisms, fountains, and self-acting machines that blur the boundary between scientific inquiry and spectacle. In the literary context of Alexandrian ...

Everything's gone wrong. The battleship Timora has crashed into Earth on its arrival, leaving INA stranded on a planet occupied and controlled by mechanized invaders she shouldn't be able to feel with her empathic senses...but she does. Worse, rather than searching for the man she loves, she’s stuck with a vengeful platoon sergeant she hates more than anything in the universe.In this hard-hitting, near-future military science-fiction thriller, the author b...

One man is trying to escape his past, another is trying to build a future. caught between Gunpowder and Magic A slow ember emerges between the two, one that neither can deny.Dandi Hart second of his name, has been running his whole life, running from his fathers death, his mothers tyranny, running from the idea of who everyone else thinks he is. Trying to be the man he knows in his soul he is. As his grandfather's health declines Dandi clings onto the relationship ...

Gideon. Hazel. Meadow. Ashe. Scarlet. Ruin.Gideon has always been the protector, and now more then ever Hazel and Meadow need him, they love him and he loves them, Meadow is like a little sister and Hazel with her bewitching eyes is... Gideon doesn't know what they are to one another.Hazel has always been the protective older sister, their dad left them when she was six, and they saw him once or twice a year, their mom is... was always bus...

When Army Ranger Lieutenant Mason Jones arrives at the Rock Island Prison Defense Facility for his tour of duty, suspicion that he is from the Inspector General's Office leaves him isolated from his fellow soldiers in a place more hostile than any war zone he has ever seen. To survive, he must turn to the manager of the facility's secret scientific zombie research lab, the only person on the island with the power to get him out alive...Since the destruction of Biter's Hill, the wor...

Leave it to Hollywood to start the zombie apocalypse.When Infinity Pictures leases an entire passenger train to film its latest blockbuster, the cast and crew of the zombie action movie Hart Throbbed climb aboard for an express ride to hell, compliments of a nefarious Breckenrock subsidiary illegally transporting damaged spent fuel rod containers from the local nuclear reactor facility. With only hours to retake their runaway train, Jason Hart and the rest of the cast take a crash ...

Can one night changed it all?Mira is stressed about her brothers upcoming wedding, trying to get her twin to come to the wedding. She only went to the club to find him and ask him to talk to her, just talk to her. She misses their closeness. Then honey hair catches her eye and she can't look away.Cath isn't looking for anything serious. Not a serious job. Not a serious relationship, not even a serious conversation about her future. But then in walks Mira, o...

Something stirs in the Puerto Rican jungle outside of Arecibo, something no one has ever seen, and it's Wade Carter’s job to make sure it stays that way.When interstellar creatures make landfall near Arecibo, Wade Carter and his black-ops team are dispatched to control the situation, jumping from twenty-thousand feet into what can only be described as chaos. With his only information coming from a battered radio astronomer trapped at the front lines and a sequester...

Curd your enthusiasm for a delicious tour of the world's best cheeses.Join cheese connoisseur Hero Hirsh on a witty and deliciously nerdy journey through the science, stories and stinky secrets of the planet's most moreish of morsels.Cheese isn't just something you eat - it's something to savour, study, and obsess over. Learn how to taste like a pro, unlock the perfect pairings (yes, even with chocolate) and hunt down the world's rarest wheels and ...