'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over twin girls born in China with genetic changes deliberately introduced by scientists - changes they will pass on to their own offspring.Genetic modification (GM) has been with us for 45 years now, but the new system known as CRISPR or gene editing can m...

A Gift for Santa Claus: A Christmas Tradition is an instant classic! This heartwarming story comes to life as a whimsically illustrated children's picture book with rhyming and repetition to keep all believers in Christmas magic captivated. The story takes the reader on a quest to find Christmas magic and along the way they are joined by other characters and do acts of kindness. Then the question is asked: does Santa Claus get Christmas gifts too? The characters create gifts for Santa Clau...

From the author of the acclaimed The Epigenetics Revolution ('A book that would have had Darwin swooning' – Guardian) comes another thrilling exploration of the cutting edge of human science.For decades after the structure of DNA was identified, scientists focused purely on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions – 98% of the human genome – were dismissed as 'junk'. But in recent years researchers have discovered that variati...

The Lensman Series is among the foundational epics of American space opera, a vast chronicle of interstellar policing, psychic evolution, and cosmic war. From Triplanetary to Children of the Lens, Smith imagines civilizations shaped by the ancient struggle between Arisia and Eddore, culminating in the heroic career of Kimball Kinnison and the Lens-bearing Galactic Patrol. Its prose is vigorous, declarative, and technologically exuberant, reflecting the pulp magazines in which it first flou...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

Samantha's roommate is getting married, and the impending nuptials will leave her without a home as her best friend starts a new life… without her. Okay, maybe she's being a little dramatic. Their friendship isn't over, but Sam definitely has to find a new place to stay. Luckily for her, her cousin has a sweet loft close to campus. Not so lucky for her, Sam's cousin already has a roomie, a really hot one, and he's teaching the one class she's failing.Gavin's pretty happy with his l...

"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

A dead body is never a welcome sight, but it's especially troublesome when Tadd Leventis and Declan Anagnos return home to find one in their foyer. Most people know the dead woman as a curator at the local museum, but Tadd and Declan recognize her as someone from their distant past—Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare. To Tadd and Declan, it's more than a murder. It's a threat to the mortal lives they've worked so hard to build—and a wakeup call that their immortal...

Wyatt Mettler is a Dreamer. While asleep, he can insert himself into people's dreams and manipulate them, watch their fantasies, steal their secrets, and change their minds—all without their knowledge. For eleven years he's been Lumoinnovations' secret weapon, illegally enslaved, all in the name of the bottom line. But when an assignment goes awry and results in the death of the subject, Wyatt's handlers leave him for dead.When Aidan Donecoff stumbles across Wyatt's unconscious bod...

All Corked Up: Book OneAll Shawn Neale is looking for when he stumbles into All Corked Up on Christmas Eve is some wine recommendations. What he finds is an instant attraction to Royce Wilkinson, the shop's owner. After a few weeks of flirting during shopping and some semi-dates at Royce's wine tastings, they decide on a real date. It goes well, but life isn't that simple.Shawn wants to buy Delicto, the local pub he manages. He's been planning his ...

The Skylark of Space and Skylark Three gather the foundational opening movements of E. E. Smith's pioneering space-opera saga, following scientist-inventor Richard Seaton, the discovery of extraordinary interstellar propulsion, and conflicts that expand from terrestrial rivalry to cosmic warfare. Written in a vigorous pulp style—rapid, expansive, technologically exuberant—the novels exemplify early twentieth-century scientific romance as it evolved into modern space opera, privileging scal...

In a city designed to save lives, the system has started choosing who can be sacrificed.Kaelen Vance works inside the machinery of Vesper, a near-future optimization network built to maximize human survival across an entire city. Every dispatch, every hospital transfer, every delay, every death is supposed to serve the greater good. The math is cold, but the promise is simple: fewer people die.Then Kaelen sees a pattern the system should not be capable of making.Peo...