“This murder mystery steeped in magic is the perfect summer read.”—GMA Buzz Pick"In the Hour of Crows enthralls like a delicious dark spell.”—Glendy Vanderah, bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the StarsIn a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns grow where death will follow. And Weatherly Opal Wilder is ...

When Andi Lin overhears details about a harmful research study at the food corporation Nutrexo, she’s instantly worried that her dad is involved. He left home to participate in one of the company’s clinical trials, and was in frequent contact at first—but her recent attempts to reach him have been met with silence.Fearing he may be in danger, Andi sets out to investigate. She finds an unlikely ally in her neighbor Cyrus, whose mother once worked for Nutrexo and is hiding secrets of...

"In the Hour of Crows enthralls like a delicious dark spell.”—Glendy Vanderah, bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the StarsIn a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns grow where death will follow. And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker.When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never t...

Today's marketplace demands product reliability. At the same time, it places ever-increasing demands on products that push the limits of their performance and their functional life, and it does so with the expectation of lower per-unit product costs. To meet these demands, product design now requires a focused, streamlined, concurrent engineering process that will produce a product at the lowest possible cost in the least amount of time. Design for Reliability provides a systematic approac...