The packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improve packaging’s sustainability by reducing its environmental and societal impacts. This is a considerable challenge because of the complex interactions between products and their packaging, and the many roles that packaging plays in the supply chain.Packaging for Sustainability is a concise and readable handbook for practitioners who are trying to implement sustainability stra...

Life in the village is dull. Every day the same thing, right up until Tepil goes fishing. That simple act is the catalyst to tragedy, and is enough to push Yau away from her friends and her people. It opens the way a god to manifest anew and a dark power to take up residence in Yau's soul- a power that will only grow stronger with time.Mermaids and zombies come to blows when Yau promises herself that her brother will be brought back from the depths, and the people of her village wi...

What is the price of a soul?For Annalise it's simply a matter of getting what she wants and having the means to go about it. What she wants is revenge for the death of her father. The means to go about it... well that's where things get a little more complicated.He's ancient, all powerful, and his motivations are as murky as his morals. Still, he was her father's weapon of choice and Annalise knew her father to be a man of honesty and integrity.The price is worth it...

Sally doesn't have any friends. What she does have is a little brother whom she loves and had swore to protect from their downtrodden mother and drunken father, but Sally is only a child herself, and when she can't do what needs to be done she turns to the only friend she can make.No-one knows what Peter is. Devil, Angel, manifestation of a frightened girls' imagination. Whatever he is, he loves Sally and he's been waiting in the attic for her to finally realize he's there for her....

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Niamh sneaks out to attend the festival of Beltaine and soon encounters a mysterious young man.When she has to choose between running deeper into a dark forest with a supernatural creature that shouldn't exist or facing an unknown threatchasing her, Niamh discovers she will have to rethink everything she knows about the Fae.

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Prince Charming needs a bite.And Cinderella is going to give it to him…A curse is turning werewolf prince Etienne into a human.A wolf bite is turning the maiden Loupe into a monster.Each holds the other’s salvation in their hands.A grand ball will bring them together, but if Loupe is going to get the kiss she wants, she must face the darkness inside her and give Etienne the bite he needs.And she needs to do i...

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere . . . else. Adventures are always interesting, but they’re not always happy.From the worlds of Wayward Children comes a story of love, of devotion, of bones wrapped in flesh.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) a...

In the near future, 'father' takes two boys to cut some fire wood. The highway they ride the wagon on is empty of cars, but the have to be careful because the world is still a very dangerous place.

From the author of the bestselling fantasy series that begins with MAGIC REMEMBERED.Politics is never simple when it comes to dragons. Neither is romance. My biological father anointed himself dragon king. Now that he found me, the cunning despot plans to groom me to expand his holdings before appointing me his heir.I’ll never accept...

One frigid winter night a week before Christmas, college student Will stumbles into a church during choir practice, bruised by his own father’s hands. He’s out of the closet now—there’s no going back since his fundamentalist father learned the truth—but he’s also out of a home, a family, and a future. Will has nowhere to turn. No one to care.Except . . . Will’s roommate, Quinn, cares. Maybe too much. He’s been attracted to Will since they moved in together, but never dreamed his cr...

Sohmeng Par is sick of being treated like a child.Ever since a tragic accident brought her mountain community’s coming-of-age ritual to a halt, she’s caused nothing but trouble in her impatience to become an adult. But when she finally has the chance to prove herself, she’s thrown from her life in the mountains and into the terror of the jungle below.Cornered by a colony of reptilian predators known as the sãoni, Sohmeng is rescued by Hei, an eccentric exil...