'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over twin girls born in China with genetic changes deliberately introduced by scientists - changes they will pass on to their own offspring.Genetic modification (GM) has been with us for 45 years now, but the new system known as CRISPR or gene editing can m...

A Gift for Santa Claus: A Christmas Tradition is an instant classic! This heartwarming story comes to life as a whimsically illustrated children's picture book with rhyming and repetition to keep all believers in Christmas magic captivated. The story takes the reader on a quest to find Christmas magic and along the way they are joined by other characters and do acts of kindness. Then the question is asked: does Santa Claus get Christmas gifts too? The characters create gifts for Santa Clau...

From the author of the acclaimed The Epigenetics Revolution ('A book that would have had Darwin swooning' – Guardian) comes another thrilling exploration of the cutting edge of human science.For decades after the structure of DNA was identified, scientists focused purely on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions – 98% of the human genome – were dismissed as 'junk'. But in recent years researchers have discovered that variati...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

Samantha's roommate is getting married, and the impending nuptials will leave her without a home as her best friend starts a new life… without her. Okay, maybe she's being a little dramatic. Their friendship isn't over, but Sam definitely has to find a new place to stay. Luckily for her, her cousin has a sweet loft close to campus. Not so lucky for her, Sam's cousin already has a roomie, a really hot one, and he's teaching the one class she's failing.Gavin's pretty happy with his l...

Dear Enemy is an epistolary novel that follows Sallie McBride, the spirited college friend of Judy Abbott from Daddy-Long-Legs, as she becomes superintendent of the John Grier Home orphanage. Through witty, observant letters to Judy, Jervis Pendleton, and the stern Scottish physician Robin MacRae, Webster blends comedy, social criticism, romance, and reformist argument. Set within the Progressive Era's debates over child welfare, institutional care, education, and heredity, the novel is li...

The Poetics of Aristotle is the foundational treatise of Western literary criticism, a compact yet profound inquiry into the nature of poetry, especially tragedy and epic. Written in Aristotle's characteristically analytic prose, it defines imitation (mimesis), plot, character, recognition, reversal, and catharsis with remarkable precision. Emerging from the intellectual culture of classical Athens and responding implicitly to Plato's suspicion of poetry, the work treats literature not as ...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

In a city designed to save lives, the system has started choosing who can be sacrificed.Kaelen Vance works inside the machinery of Vesper, a near-future optimization network built to maximize human survival across an entire city. Every dispatch, every hospital transfer, every delay, every death is supposed to serve the greater good. The math is cold, but the promise is simple: fewer people die.Then Kaelen sees a pattern the system should not be capable of making.Peo...

A man has to destroy the privacy-first protection system he built — after it starts quietly ruining the people it decides are making its users unsafe.Rylan Mercer built Hearth to do one thing well: protect people without feeding their lives into a surveillance machine.For some users, it works almost miraculously. Sleep returns. Panic loosens. Ordinary life becomes possible again.Then the people making those users miserable start collapsing in ways t...

She's playing with fire, but it burns so good.While celebrating her impending divorce with wine and a nap, Amber accidentally destroys her kitchen by way of lasagna flambe. As if that wasn't embarrassing enough, the hot fireman who comes to her rescue is none other than her childhood best friend's annoying little brother. Except now, Brett's all grown up—with muscles in all the right places and a smile that makes her melt.She needs a place to stay and he's offering his plac...

Six dreams. One day. Infinite possibilities.Layla Maris wakes to a morning unlike any other--every dream from the night before lingers with startling clarity. Over the course of a single day, she unravels their meaning, each vision pulling her deeper into questions of identity, purpose, and the fragile line between reality and imagination. But as the day unfolds, Layla begins to wonder: Are these dreams guiding her...or rewriting her future? By nightfall, nothing will be the same.