Ander Forrest renounced blood magic to become a nurse-healer in his rural hometown, far from the drama of wizardry and espionage his sister Kate craved. When Kate goes missing in action, Ander finds himself the legal guardian of her gifted twins and receives a cryptic warning from Kate's husband to protect them before he, too, disappears.Six months later, his former lover crash lands in the kids' bedroom via a spell only Ander's sister could have cast. Druid Cai Piper doesn't remem...

Running on caffeine and spite with nothing left to prove. GOLDEN GIRLS meets FIREFLY in this rollicking space opera adventure.Maryn Alessi retired from mercenary service after her last assignment went horribly sideways and settled down on a quiet planet with the love of her life. Unexpectedly widowed, Maryn must fulfill a promise to return her mate's ashes to zer home planet for funeral rites, but a brutal civil war has destabilized space travel.Former Artemis Corps sisters...

"Fast paced, sexy, with more twists and turns than a roller coaster!" Amazon Review"Told with raw emotion and fantastically rich world building..."USA TODAY - Happily Ever AfterDalí Tamareia has everything—a young family and a promising career as an Ambassador in the Sol Fed Diplomatic Corps. Dalí's path as a peacemaker seems clear, but when their loved ones are killed in a terrorist attack, grief sends the genderfluid changeling into a spiral of self-destruction.

"Hamill tells an amazing story. I cannot wait for more."Sarah Chorn, author of Of Honey and Wildfires"My favourite indie scifi series!"Jem Zero, author of Home Within SkinDalí Tamareia has the terrorist Skadi in their sights – but bringing her in may cost them everything.Dalí's role as an undercover operative is compromised, putting a target on their back and threatening the close-knit team aboard Thunder Child. A new lead on Miriam Skadi's activitie...

Callie, a Classics major, flees home to protect her family from a monster straight out of mythology. Visions lead her to Nectar and Ambrosia: the weirdest pub on Earth, where inter-dimensional travelers with attention seeking issues get drunk in between the A-list celebrity lives they create. They can't pretend to be gods anymore—not since a treaty with the current Supreme Deity promising they won't intervene in human affairs.The Doorkeeper of this threshold, Florian, rides herd on...

How four young people from the same valley have to travel their separate paths across a continent to eventually become emotionally involved.

From Rumplestiltskin to Faust, tales of deals with creatures from beyond have always fascinated readers. "Bargains" continues that tradition with nine original stories about deals with demons, monsters and a host of creatures from the dim recesses of Somewhere Else.

"A graceful reminiscence of Sinatra after hours serves as the frame for shrewd reflections on . . . [his] art, his personality, his audience . . . his ethnicity." —Terry Teachout , New York Times Book ReviewIn this unique homage to an American icon, journalist and award-winning author Pete Hamill evokes the essence of Sinatra—examining his art and his legend from the inside, as only a friend of many years could do. Shaped by Prohibition, t...

"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it.” —Stephen KingNoah Turner sees monsters.His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe—too focused on keeping the family from falling apart.And his eldest sister, the dramatic and vulnerable Sydn...

The Chuang Tzu has been translated into English numerous times, but never with the freshness, accessibility, and accuracy of this remarkable rendering. Here the immediacy of Chuang Tzu's language is restored in a idiom that is both completely fresh and true to the original text. This unique collaboration between one of America's premier poet-translators and a leading Chinese scholar presents the so-called "Inner Chapters" of the text, along with important selections from other ch...

"A vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction," the national bestselling memoir from the acclaimed New York City journalist ( New York Times ).As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy...

Archival Arrangement and Description: Analog to Digital teaches the core functions of arrangement and description.A historical summary grounds new archivists to assess proposed changes for digital files. After presenting the basics of arrangement and description (processing) for analog materials, the text segues to digital materials incorporating the OAIS preservation model into a detailed, sample workflow. Although accessioning and technical appraisal precede processing, they are ...