Emma White is on her gap year, at least that is what she tells the customers that are nosy enough to ask. Her priorities are just getting by with her job at the coffee shop, spending time with her loving aunt, and trying to blossom into a functioning adult, whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. Isn't that what a gap year is supposed to be for? As she is closing up one night, a beautiful stranger invades her life, bringing an ancient power struggle along in her powerful wake. It will ...

Sometimes we write because we need to. Sometimes it is to tell a story, sometimes it is to wrestle with something we don't understand. Sometimes it is because we are merely the conduit of something greater than ourselves. Our connections to stories is what makes us human and our stories shape who we are. The story tellers are the reason we survive. In this collection, a young woman discovers a connection to magic through robbing a bank, ghosts and monsters are rarely the evil we make them ...

"There are lines of force in this world..." Ben Mason did not like how his week was going. First he got in a fight with his brother, then his brother ran away, and now it fell to Ben to find him. Where ever Cal had ended up, Ben was going to have to follow. If that meant looking all over the town of Carter, then that is what it meant. If it meant hopping a train and traveling across the Midwest, then that is what Ben was going to have to do. The only problem was Ben had no concept of just ...

Like many stories, it all starts with a boy lost in the wilds. A forest, tall and majestic, looms above and surrounds. In the distance, birds call, singing songs that Calvin Mason has never heard before. He has arrived in a strange new world, on the frontier of a silent battle that had raged hundreds of years, and amongst the vibrant clash of life and limb, he has to find his own way in the wide world. A world full of mystery, conflict, and the purest thing of all: the pursuit of something...

Short stories are the exercise by which we strengthen our imagination. In this collection, experience a little boy's quest to save someone precious; an AI seeking to save the human race from itself; a wanderer losing a friend and gaining a future; a time-traveler finding more than religion in his travels to the far flung past; and many more!

My dreams are forgotten most of the time, but when I do remember them, they turn into other things. They are living creatures, and they come to life on the page, build connections to other stories, and create their own narratives that I am not in control of. In this collection, travel to the unknown with misfits and friends; jump into the life of witch trying to make her way in the big city; monsters and demons interacting with people in ways they never imagined; true love found in the pla...

The Shahadim usually travel the world as monks, spreading the religion of their people and bringing others under the love and guidance of their Many Faced Gods. A young Shahadim boy from the great Shahles swamp is put onto a different path when he stumbles across an old Mreshi woman bleeding to death at the edge of his village. The Mreshi shows the boy that the world is far larger than he ever thought...Queen Faru Der Chanress of the Mysian State has lead a blessed life, where she ...

"There are lines of force in this world..." Ben Mason did not like how his week was going. First he got in a fight with his brother, then his brother ran away, and now it fell to Ben to find him. Where ever Cal had ended up, Ben was going to have to follow. If that meant looking all over the town of Carter, then that is what it meant. If it meant hopping a train and traveling across the Midwest, then that is what Ben was going to have to do. The only problem was Ben had no concept of just ...

This book provides justification, a framework and examples for an emergent alternative approach to planning and community development. Planning, design and community development have often been practiced in a monocultural way, as if all communities are the same, meaning that communities of color and low-income communities are often overlooked or ignored, if not outright harmed. This book highlights a new approach for transformative community development, where worldviews are rooted in the ...

Magic, fantasy, and adventure combine to create a grippingly fast-paced new series for young readers -- The Last Firehawk!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!A terrible darkness is spreading across Perod...

From the 2022 TIME100 Next honoree and the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people...

When the witches and wizards are away, the familiars will play!Gifted adventurers across time and space often travel with an animal familiar—usually a cat, but possibly other fuzzy, scaly, or prickly creatures. These magical companions lead their humans into mischief, help them out of sticky situations, or offer opinionated commentary along the way.We're familiar with familiars ... or are we?Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. And...