Most people think blockchain is about cryptocurrency. It isn't. At its core, blockchain is an operating system for digital trust. The Blockchain Operating System explains blockchain from the ground up through systems thinking rather than technical complexity. Instead of beginning with wallets, mining, or speculation, the book begins with a simple question: How can strangers trust one another without relying on a central authority? From that foundation, readers are guided through the archit...

"A sweet and engaging story that’s hard to stop reading, with truly good characters and a well-written and believable plot." - YA Books CentralSometimes life doesn’t go according to plan.My summer was planned from packing lists to trip itineraries. Or so I’d thought.It’s the night before my trip abroad, and my boyfriend Matt showed up at a party with another girl. The boyfriend I’m supposed to spend seven weeks with in Brazil.No way...

Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a single tool: a chatbot, image generator, search assistant, or productivity application. But AI is becoming something much larger. It is increasingly embedded in software, businesses, institutions, physical infrastructure, and the systems people rely on every day. Understanding AI therefore requires more than learning how to write prompts or use the latest application. It requires seeing the full operating system forming around it. In The AI O...

When Perfection Collides With Chaos, Sparks FlyCrispin Eladrin, desk fae at the Office of the Lost, could find a needle in ten haystacks. His desk is so neat it would make an accountant blush, and he's never failed to complete a recovery mission. He has no idea how adorable he is, especially when he's at his most annoyingly officious.Enter utterly chaotic Leopold Lane. His life is a masterclass in disastrous events--and it's about to get worse. He's the latest thing that Cr...

Some stories are epic.The Earth is in a state of collapse, with wars breaking out over resources and an environment pushed to the edge by human greed.Three living generation ships have been built with a combination of genetic mastery, artificial intelligence, technology, and raw materials harvested from the asteroid belt. This is the story of one of them—43 Ariadne, or Forever, as her inhabitants call her—a living world that carries the remaining hopes of humanity, and the ...

One country guy. One city girl. One big tree.Megan:Three nights before Christmas, and all I need to do is to pick up a Christmas tree.Never mind I’m a city girl who’s never bought a real live tree. The biggest and best tree in the lot will impress my mom and her new husband, helping them forget how I’ve neglected to visit their tiny town of Crystal Cove.Nick:Three nights before Christmas, and all I n...

Over a century after the end of the Earth, life goes on in Redemption, the sole remaining lunar colony, and possibly the last outpost of humankind in the Solar System. But with an existential threat burrowing its way to the Moon’s core, humanity must recolonize the homeworld.Twenty brave dropnauts set off on a mission to explore the empty planet. After training for two and a half years, four of them—Rai, Hera, Ghost and Tien—are bound for Martinez Base, just outside the Old Earth c...

When Lisa returns home on Halloween night, the porch light is already on. Inside, a family she has never seen before is moving through her house as if they belong there. A woman opens the kitchen cabinets. A child sits on the rug. A man waits at the table. Upstairs, someone turns on the shower. Lisa tells them to leave. They don't. They are calm. Polite. Almost reasonable. And that is what makes them so frightening. As trick-or-treaters gather outside and her calls for help keep failing, L...

Sometimes being the good girl means everyone loses.When my parents sentenced me to geriatric exile in a sleepy beach town for the summer with my grandparents, I tried everything to stop it. I’m the good girl. The straight-A student and the newly elected co-captain of my high school track team. Only my sister Grace ruined everything. Grace, a rebel with a party girl reputation, insisted I join her at a party on her graduation night. All to be her designated driver. ...

A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other's lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.Meet Dave, the consultant who lost his partner; Matteo and Diego, the couple who run the restaurant; recently-widowed Carmelina; Marcos, a web designer getting too old for hook-ups; Ben, a trans author writing the Great American Novel; teenager Marissa, kicked out for being bi; an...

Oberon is unique among the Common Worlds - a half-world with a strange past and an uncertain future.Jameson Havercamp and Xander Kinnson are thrust into the middle of a world-ending event and have to scramble to save the world - and themselves.Along the way, they peel back the layers of the onion to discover secrets wrapped in secrets that will eventually take them to where it all started - and may provide the key to saving Oberon and everyone on it.SKYTHANE...

Four girls, four different summers, four books in one series bundle!Welcome to Ginsburg, Michigan where summer might not go as planned, but love finds a way despite the odds.All Last Summer:Lila ditches her study abroad trip with her boyfriend after catching him cheating and lands a job with her ex's arrogant buddy Aidan. Lila and Aidan find common ground, but dating her ex's BFF goes against every plan she's made.