Kids Choose the Course of This Fast-Paced Sea Voyage, the First Interactive Novel from Kathryn Butler's the Lamplight SeriesOne minute you're fishing on a lazy day in Massachusetts. Suddenly, it's the 18th century and you find yourself aboard the whaleship Valiant, manned by a greedy pirate named Blackviper and his crew. Their quest: find the mysterious sea monster, the Kraken. Where the story goes next is up to you.In this immersive novel, the read...

Witchcraft to Celebrate Your Charming & Artistic SelfEnhance your magical practice and personal development with the power of your Libra Sun sign. Ivo Dominguez, Jr. and Patti Wigington share what strengths and challenges your sign brings to both witchcraft and everyday life. Featuring recipes, exercises, stories, rituals, and spells from the authors and a host of Libra contributors, this book teaches you how to best connect with your sign's energy, manage your pow...

By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or “To a Mouse” by Burns—regardless, encounters with animal-others occasioned Romantic musings. ...

Hazel (Kathryn Hunt) spends her life describing plays for visually impaired people. But when she starts to describe the real world to her new friend Davy (Nicholas Boulton), is she giving an accurate picture of the world around her? She's looking for an escape from the pressures of looking after her disabled mother, but is she looking in the right place? 'Pouring Poison' was written by Lou Ramsden after spending time with audio describers in London theatres, and also stars Jonathan Keeble,...

Mad King Gwyn has brought his army to bear.Nidavellir braces for the impending attack. The Seelie and Unseelie courts hold to their pledges, bringing knights and warriors to join the battle - along with the ever-present distrust between the two elven courts. To the south in Noddfa, petty politics permeate the Cardinal Council, no matter that their own survival against the Wild Hunt relies upon their treaties.As tensions continue to rise between the forced alliance of the Fa...

Are you ready for the Great Shape Hunt? Elmo is! And Elmo's Daddy says that shapes can be found all around, wherever a monster happens to be. So, get geared up to hunt for shapes like circles, triangles, rectangles, and ovals. Maybe we'll even spot an octagon.

'Market' is an umbrella series of six plays, originally broadcast in BBC Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' slot, about people who work in and around its stalls. Each story is a self-contained quirky tale. 'Loco Parentis' is a bitter-sweet comedy about Jim, who can't sleep because his daughter's left for uni, his business is going belly-up, and his father is going gaga. Oh, and to top it all he suspects his wife is having an affair with her boss. He needs to escape - but where to? The play was ori...

Steffie makes her living as a coolhunter—someone who discovers an interesting look and makes it fashion, often overnight. She managed to escape her stifling upbringing, but her sister KD—genetically altered to remain a child—remains trapped.Steffie left KD behind once. But when KD asks Steffie to help her run away from home, Steffie must decide whether to help or to abandon her sister for a second time.A Locus Award finalist, and winner of the Science Fiction A...

Who doesn't love cats? And what cat doesn't have a great cat story of their heroism, even if it's only saving their owner from a spider?From honorable feline assassins to compassionate feline dreamwalkers, these cats are saving the world--at least for someone. This multi-author bundle pays tribute to every cat who has ever played hero, from little things to big.In Fantastic Feline Heroes you'll find stories about loyal feline workers, cats who save the day, those who walk t...

"Rage burned in the Elf's eyes as flames shot from her hand and incinerated the Vampire. All that remained was a wisp of sizzling blue ash that quickly dissipated. Laila watched in horror, unable to control her actions, and for a split second, she swore she heard a voice in her head chuckle."Not all curses can be broken and not all wounds can be healed, but when her best friend is stabbed with a Demon's cursed blade, Special Agent Laila Eyvindr desperately searches for a m...

With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers and his team studied the site, their work verified initial expectations. Unfortunately, the research was never fully published.Dry Creek: The Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pl...

In the 1970s news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to deport offenders. The subsequent creation of the Office of Special Investigations marked the official beginning of Nazi-hunting in the United States, but it was far from the end.Thirty years later, in November 2010, the New York Times