Christine Knight was trained to hunt monsters—not become bound to one.As a Syndicate Knight, her job is simple: track the last known dragon, bind him in chains, and end the war before winter. She's survived dragonfire once before. She knows the cost of failure. She knows what dragons are supposed to be.Or so she's been told.When a binding spell goes catastrophically wrong, Christine doesn't chain the dragon.She chains herself....

The carnival appears to those who need it most— the lost, the searching, the ones who ache for belonging.When Alice awakens at the gates of Ronan's Carnival After Dark, she has no memory of how she arrived—only the unshakable feeling that she was meant to be there. Beneath its lantern-lit tents and whispering mirrors, magic hums like a heartbeat, calling the forgotten home.There she meets Ronan—the boy with golden eyes who swears she's returned to ...

The carnival has always come alive in strange ways… but this Halloween, its magic begins to leak.Mirrorborn: The Seal of the First Halloween returns to the haunting world of Ronan's Carnival After Dark, where burnt sugar lingers in the air, memories shimmer like reflections, and every light hides a shadow waiting to be remembered.Four days before Halloween, Alice notices the mirrors behaving differently. The reflections of her old life — streets, p...

Scars into Light: A Survivor's Journey is not just a book — it is a symphony of survival, written in three movements.Soul Scars carries the weight of trauma and silence, telling the stories that were once too painful to speak.Letters to My Scars answers back, reclaiming voice through raw reflections, intimate letters, and unflinching truths.Towards the Light rises into healing, offering poems and ...

This book comprises essays honoring the life and work of Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan, S.J., who died unexpectedly on May 19, 2015, at the end of his first year as a member of the faculty in the Department of Theology at Marquette University. The editors intend to commemorate Chan’s brief but productive career by furthering the critical conversations he started. The essays included thus touch on aspects of the brilliant young Jesuit’s wide-ranging work in the fields of scriptural research, moral th...

En France, la sclérose en plaques (SEP) touche plus de 80 000 personnes et plus de 3 000 nouveaux cas sont diagnostiqués chaque année. C'est la plus commune des maladies neurologiques de l'adulte jeune. La plupart des cas concernent une population de 20 à 40 ans, majoritairement féminine. Les manifestations neurologiques de la maladie sont secondaires à une destruction progressive des gaines de myéline qui entourent les fibres nerveuses, et dont le rôle est d'assurer leur protection et la ...

A collection of the year's best fiction, poetry, and personal essays, featuring thirty-seven recipients of the Olive Woolley Burt and Typewriter Awards: Linda Allison, Alice M. Batzel, Joseph A. Batzel, Lauryn Christopher, Emily Robyn Clark, Megan Condie, Vince Font, Gina G, Alexis Hansen, Jo Lynne Harline, Danielle Harward, Amanda Hill, Lorraine Jeffery, Rachelle Knapp, L. S. Kunz, Caryn Larrinaga, C. H. Lindsay, Terra Luft, Inna V. Lyon, Wm David Mallery, Paula Murcia, Eve Oeme, John M. ...

Unparalyzed is a deeply personal memoir about grit. It is about refusal to give up. To allow adversity and difficult circumstances to win. But victory is one of its lessons too. It is the book that the late Toni Morrison inspired me to write. The book I wanted to read so I could see myself in another woman whose experiences were like my own. A 30-something divorced, professional woman of color with an invisible and incurable chronic illness and insatiable determination. To accompany simila...

Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue that Canada is an outlier among developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue.This book explores whether a two-tier model is a solution.In Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?, leading researchers explore the public and private mix in Canada, Australia, Germany, Fra...

Once upon a time, in a century not too long ago, we all recognized what a hero looked like. What they did. Why they did it. Once upon a time, we were more concerned with discovering the secret of who they were, than what their weakness was or what mistakes they may have made.People need heroes. They need to remember what it is to stand up for the little guy, the oppressed, those preyed upon by others. They need to remember that one person can make a difference and it needn’t be abo...