Questing through the Riordanverse: Studying Religion with the Works of Rick Riordan examines the works of Rick Riordan and explores how these works relate to Religion and Theology. Despite the success and popularity of the works, scholars have not given the Riordanverse as much attention as other Young Adult and Middle Grade fantasy books published during the first part of the Twenty-First Century. This volume begins to address that vacuum, drawing from a number of fields, includi...

“For much of my life, […] I was unaware that my words echoed a script I was conditioned to follow, that the lights illuminated only that which I expected to see, and that the orchestra was merely a recording that had been playing since long before my birth.” - Nathan J. MurphyIn The Ideas That Rule Us, political theory researcher, author, and technology business owner Nathan J. Murphy takes an eye-opening, multi-disciplinary deep dive into how others’ ideology, pe...

The job presented to forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier, ought to have been simple and easy. But the surprise discovery of an additional marriage to his client’s father leads Morton on an enquiry, revolving around a mysterious death in the county asylum. Requiring his various investigative genealogical skills, Morton must work to unravel this complex eighty-year-old secret and finally reveal the truth to his client.This is the first story in the Morton Farrier genealogical crime ...

Gathering Tolstoy's major fiction into a single premium edition, this volume traces one of the supreme achievements of nineteenth-century realism. From the panoramic historical architecture of War and Peace to the psychological and moral intricacies of Anna Karenina and the spiritual indictment of Resurrection, these novels combine epic scope with minute observation. Tolstoy's prose is lucid, patient, and exacting, situated between European realist tradition and a distinctly Russian inquir...

A trainee spy. A washed-up operative.A doomsday cult with a city to burn.Xiu thinks her recovery mission is leading her to the middle of nowhere, but when she reaches a derelict city on the Chinese border, she finds a seasoned operative with only a pistol, twenty rounds and a broken heart.Cut off from the rest of the world, Xiu and her new, begrudging mentor face an unimaginable enemy: a paramilitary apocalypse cult with room for two, and irradiatio...

She's been raised to be a slave, sold to the highest bidder. He's been raised to be a soldier in a military experiment. Now a world unknown to them awaits, but can this new world handle them?Georgia and Kyle are both Unwanteds -- children born outside of a federal child-restriction law, stolen from their parents, and used for a totalitarian government's own purposes. They've spent the first twelve years of their lives in a government facility, known only by a numbe...

Have you met Olesya?She’s a spy hunter. In a high-tech world of programmed assassins, betrayal and far-reaching conspiracies, Olesya and her team are the last line of defense against a covert organization that will stop at nothing to control the world.But a new, deadlier enemy is rising.And they have Olesya in their crosshairs...If you love conspiracies and covert ops, this book is for you.What readers are sa...

Finlay Thatcher is a lost soul, guilt-ridden after the death of her twin brother. When Alabama's football coach gives her the opportunity to work for him, she knows it's her chance to move on, even if it means living her brother's dream.Caden Brooks is Alabama's star quarterback. He's got it all. The attention of adoring fans. A girlfriend who'd do anything to hold on to him. And a future in the pros. He's getting along just fine until Finlay steps into his life, despising him at f...

Upon returning victorious from the campaign in Evaloti, Zilbagias successfully manages to hijack the Demon King’s plan to turn the prisoners of war into a serving class to solve the denizens of the dark’s food conundrum. After securing the humans citizenship rights within the demonic kingdom, he is appointed as governor of the Evaloti Temporary Autonomous Zone, where he quickly finds himself in a perilous balancing act. Though there are those with sinister intentions in the kingdom, he mus...

Shindo Dacan wants nothing more than to escape the broken and battered world he was born into. Instead, he's forced to make machines for a brutal warlord, to secure the tyrant's power.Everywhere he looks it's the same; people crying out for a better life but denied it at every opportunity. When a harem slave convinces him to be an agent of change, they seize power together in one swift act of defiance.Making a better world isn't as simple as taking command of it.Bes...

Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's intense focus makes these stories incredibly intense and irresistible.These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are monsters in their traditional guises, som...

The law of three is unbroken: three vampires form a coterie, three demons make a pack, and three wizards are a coven. That is how it has always been, and how it was always to be.But Luc, Anders, and Curtis—vampire, demon, and wizard—have cheated tradition. Their bond is not coterie, pack, or coven, but something else. Thrust into the supernatural politics ruling Ottawa from behind the shadows, they face Renard, a powerful vampire who harbors deadly secrets of his own and wishes to ...