Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, remarkable in their variety. Astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book rev...

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving aroun...

It is difficult to visit a bookstore without passing by shelves ripe with promises, secret keys, and new techniques for achieving happiness and spiritual success through some form of surrender. It may be one of the most overemphasized yet scarcely understood topics in the Christian life. This book does not promise new information or privileged secrets. Instead, it offers hope for the broken, truth for the wayward, and clarity for the lost from the pages of Scripture. Surrendering God's way...

Canadian writer W.O. Mitchell once said "Humans need other humans to protect each other from the terror of being human". In the three novellas and nineteen stories between these covers, Michael Summerleigh takes a stab at exploration, looks at the terrors and outrages that inhabit our daily lives, the musty corners of our souls where we cry out for some sense of solidarity with our fellow travelers along the road of Life, in a world designed to keep us looking at the things that make us di...

It has been twenty years since the passing of Queen Caroline de Montigny. Nicholas and Brandywine have kept faith with their promise to her, and les Boulevardiers have become adults, with families of their own. When a series of chance occurrences make it evident that the realm is threatened by internal sedition and two invasions from beyond its borders...as well as the centuries-old vendetta of an ancient sorcerer...it falls their daughter Arabella and her "cousins" to save the wo...

With peace finally restored to the realm, Arabella is haunted, unable to come to terms with the violence of her actions in defense her family, and plagued with a nagging sense that she is no longer the person she once was, and beyond redemption.When Zoraya and Gareth disappear, everyone but Arabella knows the why and the wherefore of it all, but realises she alone will hold their salvation in her hands, and that there is a price to be paid for one's actions no matter h...

Imagine a realm that lives and breathes of itself, where Magick can happen, and quite often does. A place where hundreds of cats roam the streets of the capital living their secret lives, and occasionaly providing Magick for the rest of those who live there. A place where.six young people,self-styled as les Boulevardiers, have come to discover the Magick and, in the process, discover themselves.Welcome to the City...

In the wake of his wife's murder, Alex MacMorna is a "retired" cop who talks his former CO into fast-tracking a PI license for him, hoping to get his life back together…except his first client sends him spinning off into the nightmare world of a serial killer…When Alex finds himself "in the head" of his quarry, things go from bad to worse, as his search takes him into the shadow realms of drugs, strip clubs, and the dark places of his own mind…FAREWELL THOU FAIR DAY is a

Roddy and Dante were like two moons orbiting each other, so much in tune with their brother-hood that they lived and breathed their lives in complete harmony, separated only by the evidence of the two years between their births. Roddy was older, and just a little a bit taller, but in all wise else, the Broussard boys might have been time-lapse images of the same person--handsome curly-haired dark-eyed little shit-disturbers with hearts of gold. People encountering the pair of them...

Time has become meaningless for Arabella, one day very much like any other--all of them filled with ghosts and memories that haunt her waking hours and her dreams. She has come to accept Loss as a dull and endless ache in her heart, reconciled herself to the impossibility of any meaningful change in her circumstances. Hidden away in her small valley, surrounded by the cats and foxes that have become her only companions, there comes a day when the wind calls out to her with a vague prem...

Not long before an old and magical place found a voice of stone and steel to add to the choral symphony of the universe, seven separate lives were lived in seven different corners of the world. Each of them would seek a different life than the one they were living and, in the way of things that were meant to be, all would, in time, find themselves in the place that waited for them...Ere Ever the City Sang is the story of those separate lives--Brandywine Lloyd, Andrew M...

Erich awakens battered and bruised from his fiasco of an errand to find that both he and his ride-or-die Mika have lived to see another dawn.The pair lug themselves back to the capital with their dubious quest rewards in hand, but the loot doesn't stop there: Agrippina offers our hero another prize... only to disappear somewhere!Erich, being the loyal retainer he is, spends all his effort searching for... customers. As his side hustle making custom game pie...