Eleven-year-old Sally Jane Hesslop loves her Dad, her hamster Melvin, and her best friend Katie. Her four-year-old brother Robbie she's not so sure about. She tries to love him, but Robbie eats dirt and wakes Sally up every morning by hitting her on the head with a rubber spatula. Robbie's a hard person to love.But that's okay. Who needs little brothers when you have a fluffy orange hamster like Melvin? Melvin's got Super-Secret-Agent training, a T-Shirt of Invisibility, and his be...

Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.®Reece King didn’t walk away from Guardian Security because he was broken. He stepped away because something was missing. He’d always trusted the mission, but this time, he was trusting his gut. Reece took a year off to search for the one thing he couldn’t define. When a split-second decision to protect a stranger returns him to his Guardian family sooner than planned, Reece realizes some destinies can’t be outrun.Magg...

Lost in a fantasy world, Nikki has only logic and science to help her find her way home.When Nikki Murrow failed her first High School debating match she did what anyone would do. She hid in a closet. She found comfort hiding among the mops and cleaning supplies, but she also found two imps – tiny creatures from a magical kingdom who lead her on a strange journey into the Realm of Reason.There is Fuzz, a grumpy imp with a fondness for breaking the rules. And Athena, a model of impi...

Can she trust the charm of an ambitious man?Micky Llewellyn has trusted men before—with disastrous results. Now, she’s focused on her career, her friends, and making sure she doesn’t let another charming man lie to her and break her heart.Nick Halden’s life has unfolded according to plan. He’s on track to a partnership at one of Dallas’ premier law firms, and he’s marrying a woman who has the beauty, smarts, and connections to be the perfect wife. ...

Herodotus Award winner for Best Historical Mystery“Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.” —SalonWho is Smokey Dalton?Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennessee’s black community. He has almost no interaction with the white hierarchy, even though they exist only blocks away. So he’s surprised the day a white woman wal...

“Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.” SalonChicago, 1969: The trial of eight protestors from the Democratic Convention the previous year has the whole world watching—and all of Chicagoland on edge.Smokey Dalton feels the pressure: more cops on the streets, more FBI in his neighborhood. But when the landlord at one of Sturdy Investments’ South Side properties dies alone in hi...

Great music starts with great ideas.The contents of this book are loosely inspired by Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards meant to shake you out of creative ruts. Nothing here is copied from that work, but the spirit is similar: break routine, question your habits and nudge you to approach sound from angles you wouldn't normally try.These are prompts, not rules. The aim is not to tell you the "correct" way to write, arrange, sample, or design so...

When sexual slavery is outlawed, most of the rational world rejoices. Another shameful chapter of history, tucked neatly away.Rory doesn’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but the thing he wants most in the world is impossible: to go home, to his master, where he was safe. Life without slavery isn’t worth living. He dodges out of the “Freedom Project” with his new friend Demon, and vows to find his master, whatever it takes.Geo Fairbanks doesn’t even tell people he used to ...

He dreams of blood and fire. And he may just be the cause.Worker by day, volunteer at night. This is pretty much fifteen-year-old Arctic's life. Except he's far from ordinary, and the print shop he works at is just a cover, a safe base for Metas—people with supernatural abilities.But when Metas start disappearing one by one, his trail of clues leads him into a web of danger. Trapped between the secrets of a hidden world and his turbulent past, he becomes th...

This small-town cat café is more than a place for sweet treats and playful cats—it's a sanctuary for people who each need something different:Leslie's carefully managed life is missing a vital piece.Saul is a lonely senior seeking connection.Miranda, a mother stretched thin, longs for support.June, a newly retired woman, feels invisible.Danny, twelve years old and awkward, just wants to be surrounded by cats.This cozy ref...

Lost in a fantasy world, Nikki has only logic and science to help her find her way home.After losing the Wisconsin State Debate Championship Nikki Murrow hides in a closet, only to find two imps there from the Realm of Reason. They have traveled to her school to find a scholar who will save them from the dark forces of superstition and ignorance. The imps decide that Nikki is the scholar who will save them.The Logic to the Rescue series is designed to teach...

Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.®The world depends on cables buried beneath the ocean floor.Most people never think about them.Until someone starts stealing everything flowing through them.When fragments of classified transmissions begin surfacing on criminal networks, Darkwater Initiative uncovers evidence of covert taps attached to critical undersea communication lines across the Atlantic.The discovery should be impossible.As a Darkw...