Kenji Hayashi-Smith has always lived in the hyphen — half-Japanese, half-American, fully at home on the streets of Osaka. At fifteen, that hyphen is all he has. Then his father's corporate relocation order arrives, and in sixty days Kenji must leave behind his language, his best friend, the smell of his mother's miso soup, and the only city he has ever known.Manchester, England, is gray and cold and nothing like home. The lunches are wrong. The silences have different shapes. The s...

The blood was still wet when Mariana Fonseca found it.A dark smear across the threshold of Number 14, Rua das Flores — the old solar that had stood empty for eight months on her Porto street. Now it has a tenant. He arrived in the night, carrying nothing. He gave no name. And someone, it seems, has already found him.When the mysterious Rafael Monteiro moves in next door, Mariana tells herself it's none of her business. She has two children, a crumbling house, and a life she...

Some prophecies don't ask for heroes. They ask for blood.Seraphina Voss has spent twenty years running from the night the sky fell and her world burned. She carries a price on her head, a scar that glows in the dark, and a secret that could either save the empire or end it the last drop of a bloodline bound, five centuries ago, to the oldest dragon queen who ever lived.When a dangerous stranger pulls her into a mission that leads straight into forbidden forests, fr...

She came to Harrowgate for a job. She found her name on a two-hundred-year-old contract instead.Seraiah Voss doesn't believe in destiny. She believes in primary sources, careful distance, and the specific discipline of a woman who learned early that needing things is a door best kept half-closed. When a folklore research position brings her to Harrowgate, West Virginia, she tells herself it's just a job. She tells herself this forty times between Columbus and the r...

She woke up with someone else's handwriting burned into her wrist.Selene Voss is an archival researcher who trusts evidence, documents everything, and has built her entire life around the comfort of things that can be proven. So when she finds words in an ancient language she has never studied words she can read as naturally as breathing she does what she always does.She tries to explain it.She fails.When a sealed document surfaces in the depths of her archi...

She moved to New Orleans to disappear. Instead, she found him.Nadia Cross doesn't believe in ghosts. She believes in cold cases, careful living, and the fresh start she's been building since the year she lost — the year doctors used words like dissociative and grief response to explain why she kept seeing a man standing in her hospital room that nobody else could see.She was medicated. She recovered. She moved on.Then she looked up...

She has been dreaming of his castle for six months. She just didn't know it was real.Seraphine Roux-Vael is twenty-six, methodical, and very good at finding the truth inside things that were never meant to be read. As an archivist in Lyon's oldest private collection, she catalogues what the world forgets. She is not the kind of woman things happen to.Until the night a man stands in the rain-wet street below her window at two in the morning, perfectly still,...

Proteomics in Cell Communication, offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic field of proteomics and its vital role in understanding cellular communication. This book includes interesting chapters on topics such as In vivo cell-type specific secretome profiling, Assays for surface antigens in extracellular vesicles using proximity labeling strategy, Cell type-specific proximity biotinylation using TurboID to identify secreted proteins from cardiomyocytes in vitro and in vivo, Native...

Hi there! I know you know my name because it’s on the cover or I begged you to read my book, but it’s weird to talk about myself while introducing myself. So yeah, my name is Jake, and I wrote a poetry book. Now for stuff you might not know, I’m a twenty-four-year old guy who decided writing and publishing a poetry book was way cheaper than regular therapy. Although this is definitely no alternative for professional help, I do enjoy it a little more and hope this either can find you in goo...

So you want to learn windsurfing? Look no further! In Learn to Windsurf you will find a simple step by step program that has been designed to give you the best possible start on your Windsurfing journey – guaranteed!You will get to know insider secrets to get you up and riding in your very first session, how to avoid painful beginner's mistakes, how to choose the right gear for YOU, and much more!This comprehensive no-nonsense guide has all the information you need to know ...

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST'Essential reading' - THE INDEPENDENT'Vital and insightful' - OWL FISHERWhat does it mean to be non-binary in the 21st Century?Our gender identity is impacted by our personal histories; the cultures, communities and countries we are born into; and the places we go and the people we meet. But the representation of contemporary non-binary identities has been limit...

From the cinema to the recording studio to public festival grounds, the range and sonic richness of Indian cultures can be heard across the subcontinent. Sound articulates communal difference and embodies specific identities for multiple publics. This diversity of sounds has been and continues to be crucial to the ideological construction of a unifying postcolonial Indian nation-state.Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound pl...