You’re cordially invited to attend this year’s spring break retreat at The Lodge.It’s a highly exclusive experience guaranteed to redefine your future.Assuming you survive.SydneyI thought it was a joke.Some pompous high-society game meant to play with the children of the elite.But then people started dying.Including the one who invited me to attend.Now I’m the one they all suspect.Because I have blood on my hands....

My life has been nothing but a lie.ZevWhen I was bitten, I was thrown into a supernatural world I knew nothing about. Stuck in the moment with nowhere left to go, I followed my instincts and chose to trust a complete stranger. It brought me to Bloodborn Academy: an elite university that was designed specifically for lycans.However, I learn very quickly that werewolves and lycans alike are being hunted. So, the school opened their doors to the werewolves as well, hop...

AMERICAN HISTORY REMEMBERS THE REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF A NATION-THIS IS A STORY THE EARTH REFUSES TO BURY.Set in the southern Appalachians during the most violent decades of colonial expansion, Indigo: A Warrior's Burden follows Yona Equa, a young Cherokee hunter, as his world begins to fracture under the weight of a foreign culture spilling over the mountains. Change comes fast-iron, rifles, and sickness carried in the wake of trade. Yona clings to the old ways, even as the li...

What if Karma was real? Not just a real concept, a real person...Facing a medical death sentence, Tess Martin boards a flight from Seattle to Chicago and offers her seat to William Weber, a peculiar old man struggling to walk with a cane. Little does she know, her act of kindness will plunge her into a mystery that will change her world – and the world itself – forever.AN ACT OF KINDNESS is a fast-paced novel that explores themes of compassion, destiny, and the profound imp...

Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species.

An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through:-the basic technical terms-shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences-set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-production, art direction and more-each chapter provides clear examples and full colour images from classic as well as contemporary films...

“I’m proud to call George a mentor and a friend.” —Michael JordanOrphaned at just thirteen in a still-segregated Washington, D.C., George Raveling was introduced to a relatively unpopular sport—basketball—in high school. The rest, as they say, is history. Raveling went on to become one of the winningest coaches of all time, a mentor to legendary athletes, and a confidant of the sport’s greatest coaches, including Bob Knight and John Wooden. He convinced Michael Jor...

Examining the significant influence of attitude on both personal and professional achievement, "Mindset for Achievement: The Science Behind Success: How Beliefs and Behaviors Shape Extraordinary Results" This book explores the science of how our ideas, attitudes, and actions affect the results we encounter in life, showing how minor changes in perspective can have a profound impact.The book, which is based on the seminal research of psychologist Carol Dweck, highlights the main dis...

The Accountant's Secret- Unmasking Financial Deceit"The Price of Silence: Unmasking Deceit in a World Ruled by Numbers" plunges readers into a world where financial records hide a dangerous truth. James Sullivan, an accountant seemingly lost in the crowd, finds his meticulously constructed life crumbling when a massive embezzlement scheme is uncovered.Suddenly, James is no longer a mere observer. He's a key player, inextric...

The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant.Pedagogically enhanced with detailed editorial introduction...

Spectral Evidence: Where Ghosts, the Occult, and True Crime CollideStep into the shadows with Michael Ryan in this gripping exploration that intertwines the eerie realms of true crime and the supernatural. In Spectral Evidence, Ryan guides readers through an unsettling journey, delving deep into real-life horrors, occult rituals, and haunted legends, effectively blurring the line between psychological darkness and paranormal terror. As each page unfolds, this chill...

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism.Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such as evolutionary theory, cognitive studies, ethical criticism, and ecocriticismOffers explanations of key works and major ideas in literary criticism and sugg...