Lights in the sky. Strange visitors. Clashes between the FBI and a mysterious group of men clad in black.For as far back as history goes, there has been one unanswered question that just won't seem to go away: What are those unidentifiable flying objects in the sky? And furthermore, who are they?With stories spanning the past, present and future, this anthology focuses on this question that has made Science-Fiction great for the better part of a century. Enclosed i...

We have some wonderful short stories and novellas form steampunk to military science fiction. I hope you enjoy all the stories.

A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological dataToday the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it contained hundreds of thousands of acres of natural grasslands that stretched from Florida to Texas. Now more than 99 percent of these prairies, glades, and savannas have been...

Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Award for Outdoor Book of the Year and the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain LiteratureThere are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which still resonate today. Yet why are so many of these 'wild histories' unnoticed and overlooked? And what can they tell us about our own modern identity?From the high mountain ...

This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated - in short, he attempts to reconstruct ...

Story Iopeq has never questioned his world.Raised within a system built on belief, duty, and absolute truth, he has lived his life with certainty. His purpose is clear. His path is defined. And the rules that govern his world are not meant to be challenged.Anne has always challenged them anyway.Where Story accepts, Anne questions. Where he follows, she pushes. For as long as they have known each other, she has tested the limits of his certainty—pressing against the ...

A travelogue exploring the colorful history of the Scottish mountain range, by the author of The Unremembered Places.Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery. There have been rare human incursions into t...

Emily dreams of little more than becoming a baker. William is a young soldier preparing for war. Sandrene is certain she has captured a dangerous killer.Their lives have nothing in common.Yet each is confronted by a stranger who knows them far better than should be possible. Names are spoken that no one remembers. Impossible memories surface. Black lightning tears across the sky as the world itself begins to unravel.

Jenna has spent her life surviving.Raised in a world that offered her little kindness and even less mercy, she learned early how to endure—to keep going, no matter the cost. But survival is not the same as strength, and it is not the same as purpose.Everything changes when Jenna crosses paths with The Four.Legends in their own right, they are everything Jenna is not—capable, confident, and powerful beyond question. But more than that, they show her something she has...

The past is not so easily left behind.Risk has spent his life outrunning the place that made him, determined to become something greater than the streets that once defined him. But some memories refuse to fade, and some wounds are far too deep to heal with the passing of time.As old ghosts begin to stir and long-buried scars are forced back into the light, Risk finds himself facing a question he has never dared ask:...

Fuzzy and his friends were enjoying a night fire when a storm came and put the animals to a test. It was not just any test. It was a test of teamwork, friendship, and care. Fuzzys friends were completing a task far more difficult than one animal could do. Their teamwork, friendship, and caring hearts came together to save the day.

This book is a way for me to show kids that helping one another and not being a bully can go a long way. So if you need help or you are in a bad situation and the only person there is the person that you have picked on, dont you think they might not help you? So make good choices and help stop bullying.