Hidden portals link Earth to numerous other planets. But why do they all contain human civilizations? And why does our nearest neighbor have its sights set on Earth?Noah Harris and Ashley Flynn are field agents for a powerful organization tasked with protecting humanity from the misuse of game-changing technology. But when they discover hidden portals that link Earth to numerous planets, put in place ages earlier by transcendent beings, they are thrust into a maze ...

Better grades - without burnoutMost students believe that top grades are the result of endless cramming, stress, pressure and exhausting all-nighters. But Cal Newport - internationally bestselling author and Professor at Georgetown University - shows that real academic success comes from a different approach: studying smarter, not harder.In How to Become a Straight-A Student, Newport reveals practical, proven strategies for mastering every aspect o...

This Audie nominated audiobook is performed in duet style by Sebastian York, Julia Whelan, Edoardo Ballerini, and Johnathan McClain.What happens when you know what you want but can't have it?A widow trying to rediscover her desire and a man trying to repress his... what could go wrong? Casanova LLC is an emotional exploration of want, intimacy, and the struggle for real relationship. With a guaranteed HEA, some trademark Julia Whelan humor, and a picturesque setting centuri...

Two broken people in a city fueled by sin.Maddie isn't looking to be saved. She knows the only person you can count on is yourself. Her moral compass might not point true north these days - but at least she's still standing.The military taught Tyler about loyalty. Being there for your brothers is the only thing that matters - but when it mattered most, he wasn't.She's got a ticket straight to hell. He's already been there and back.She needs ...

This is a selection of fairy tales for kid's. Classic fairy tales and story from the world. This is where frogs chat to princesses, wolves huff and puff, and gingerbread men run away. A selection of stories that are short and sweet and should appeal to children. You’ll find some of the classic fairy tales and fables here. Most Fairy Tales occur in the past, usually close to home. Some begin with "Once upon a time" and end with "and they lived happily ever after, THE END" but not always.

An orphaned, small-town, southern girl, held hostage by responsibility and self-doubt.A Hollywood A-list megastar, on the run from his latest scandal, with everything to lose.A chance encounter that leads to an unlikely arrangement and epic love affair that will change them both forever.When his costar and real-life girlfriend is caught cheating on him with her director, A-list hottie Jack Eversea heads to sleepy Butler Cove, South Carolina. He hopes the sultry sout...

On 3 December 1976, just weeks before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston.

Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan collects brand-new stories of murder, myth, and misadventure including contributions from international bestsellers Garth Nix, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Tamsyn Muir, and featuring stunning illustrations from Galen Dara.We are all going to die. But how? Will it hurt? Where will we go? What will we find there? What will happen to the people we leave behind?From our earliest myths to our most ad...

“Don’t have a best friend that’s a girl”—this was the advice from my older cousin. I didn’t take it. Because he followed with, “friends don’t f**k friends. And you’ll want to f**k her.”It was terrible advice.My cousin should’ve told me that being best friends with Baylee Wright—since she was twelve—would be the best and worst decision of my life. He should have told me to protect her from what was coming. He should have told me that when a darkness crawled towards us, there...

This is a selection of fairy tales for kids. Classic fairy tales and story from the world. This is where frogs chat to princesses, wolves huff and puff, and gingerbread men run away. A selection of stories that are short and sweet and should appeal to children. You’ll find some of the classic fairy tales and fables here. Most Fairy Tales occur in the past, usually close to home. Some begin with "Once upon a time" and end with "and they lived happily ever after, THE END" but not always....

Tom Thrush thinks basic officer training is tough - until he joins the frigate Kestrel and finds out what tough really means.The crew resents him. The first officer is actively hostile. As the ship hunts pirates in deep space, Tom struggles to fit in and wonders if things can get any worse. They can.A devastating attack leaves the ship crippled with half the crew dead or dying. The senior officers are wiped out, leaving a terrified sublieutenant in...

The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men.She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an aborted job in Hawaii.Their violent past doesn’t concern Magic Child. She wants them to kill a monster for her, one she says lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline’s yellow house, and one she says has killed before.