NINTH HOUSE and AN EDUCATION IN MALICE meets STRIXHAVEN in this claustrophobically tense sapphic fantasy dark academia novel...After their girlfriend's best friend is wounded in a monster attack, Simone Allard stumbles across a plot much deeper than they anticipated. As they work to find a cure to their own forming illness and find out the truth, one question remains: how was Nadia involved in this?Nadia DuPont doesn't know how much time she has or even wha...

A collection of short stories branching across genre and space. Enclosed are tales of goddexxes raised in cults, modern maenads searching for their missing best friends, women finding love in ancient Greece, mecha pilots embroiled in generational contracts, and more...

**Dive into a breathtaking world where the very fabric of life hums with ancient secrets.**On Tzicatl-4, a planet bathed in emerald light, colossal bioluminescent fungi form a living network, connecting everything in a symphony of consciousness. The Tzicatl people, adorned with intricate patterns echoing the fungal threads, live in harmony with this extraordinary ecosystem, their wisdom passed down through songs that resonate with the stars. But this delicate balance is threatened ...

A far-reaching story of an outcast and his bookstore: a home to forbidden books, political dissidents, and cultural smugglers all brought to vivid poetic life“Rivas is a master… His pages bloom like flowers, swerving in unpredictable arcs toward a light-source that is constantly moving.” —BookforumThe Last Days of Terranova tells of Vicenzo Fontana, the elderly owner of the long-standing Terranova Bookstore, on the day it'...

In the 1960's guerrillas were operating in almost all Latin American countries, as well as in Africa and Asia, and the need of specialized weapons to fight them arose. The Argentine Air Force, seeing this threat grow, asked the FMA factory to produce a counterinsurgency airplane to equip the force, but also to offer on the international market. After several proposals were analyzed, a final product emerged, called the IA-58 Pucará, a robust twin turboprop aircraft with heavy internal weapo...

The Smartbook of Neurosurgery is a concise, informative, useful, and evidence-based guide for residents, young neurosurgeons, and health care professionals interested in neurosurgery.This book contains over 2,000 questions divided into 8 chapters.These chapters include basic, translational, clinical, and surgical scenarios.This pocket-sized book represents a resource for on-the-fly consults on a busy hospital day, as a refresher for boards, and to prepar...

The author recounts his life from birth in prison to success in Hollywood in the New York Times–bestselling memoir that inspired the film Antwone Fisher.Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment he was born to a single mother in prison. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his mid-teens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, r...

Es un canto al amor, la esperanza, los deseos, los anhelos, por cumplir la búsqueda incesante de tratar de ser feliz, y de hacer sentir feliz a todos mis lectores, un libro inolvidable único en su genero, quien lo lee, lo lee seguro sus lagrimas rodaran, su pecho se agitara, los latidos del corazón aumentaran, van a sentir lo que realmente es poder amar y enamorarse

THE INTUITIVE ERA is a life guide based on spirituality and the Love GOD wants us all to live by, in order have a beautiful and blissful life. As life would have it, before she passed, she had agreed that she would give me a sign after she passed and show me that there is an afterlife. She did exactly that on Mother’s Day 2016, at her gravesite. I have a recording of her greeting me on that day. After seeing the suffering after Hurricane Maria in conjunction with a message from my deceased...

This eye-opening anthology documents the effects of WWII on Latina/o personal and political beliefs across a broad spectrum of ethnicities and races.The first book-length study of Latina/o experiences in World War II over a wide spectrum of identities and ancestries—from Cuban American, Spanish American, and Mexican American segments to the under-studied Afro-Latino experience— Latina/os and World War II probes the controversial aspects of Latina/o soldier...

This volume recounts three Civil Rights victories that typify the work done by Mexican American veterans of WWII led the struggle across Texas.After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of their stories have been recorded by the Voces Oral History Project, founded and directed by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. In this v...

This e-book examines the underlying issues preventing equitable representation of low-income and minority students within existing gifted education programs. It also presents promising practices integrated in programs that have been successful in recruiting and retaining gifted and talented low-income and minority students. Further, this e-book urges for the creation of effective evaluative methods geared to promote the sustainability of programs that attract and successfully mentor low-in...