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The machine is dead. Malakor is dead. Four hundred students are breathing free air for the first time in years, and somewhere beyond the valley, five families are deciding how to take it back. Scarlett Locke knows how this works. You don't win. You buy time and spend it well. The codex points southwest. Toward the border mountains. Toward the woman who left a baby on a government desk twenty years ago and walked into the dark so they couldn't have both of them. Toward answers about the web, the extraction, and what the families have been feeding with three centuries of stolen magic. She ...

The lines. Mysterious yet familiar: the key to controlling every ship in the galaxy. Once they were thought of as tools, but since linesman Ean Lambert discovered strange new lines in an alien vessel, they have become so much more - symbols of a power too great to ignore.

Mermaids have three purposes in life: to breed, to protect their environment and to keep the knowledge of their existence limited to pages in fairytale books. Ivyanne Court is the personification of a mermaid princess; Breathtaking, pure, kind, sharp and strong, she is the envy of every one that she has ever met, human and mer alike. And yet she hasn’t known a day’s happiness since she came of age and was forced to abandon the human boy she loved, Lincoln Grey. Ivyanne has always known that she was to marry one of ‘The Marked Ones,’ sons of a carefully cultivated bloodline created ...

She had no surname, no file history, and a void in her chest where her magic should have been. The Obsidian Marrow didn't recruit girls like Scarlett. It recruited assets — students with classifiable abilities and enough extraction value to justify the cost. Scarlett had none of that on paper. What she had was an absence the machine couldn't read, and someone at the top of the food chain who wanted to know why. What she didn't expect was the wolf who'd been circling her for six days before she ever set foot in the mountain. Or the Frostwoven mathematician rebuilding his family's crimes ...

Deceived by a tyrant who has falsely declared him dead, Orion struggles with the weight of his loss—not only of his kingdom, but of his father. Choosing to embrace his role as Guildmaster, he faces a grim reality: his people will never know safety while the usurper clings to her stolen throne. With nowhere else to turn, Orion sets off on a perilous journey to the Druidlands, seeking an alliance with former adversaries who are reluctant to support a prince stripped of his title and his magic.

"Intricate, intimate, and intensely plotted." - Nicholas Eames on The Wolf of Oren-yaro "The Ikessar Falcon retains the excellent characterization and intrigue of The Wolf of Oren-yaro while expanding both its world and the plot at a head-spinning rate. It does everything the middle book of a...

Men and I are done. Whatever entertaining notions I enjoy while screwing around with the random guys that cross my path are exactly that. Entertaining. I don't want more. I'm not capable of more. More would mean feeling. Would entail wanting. Desiring. And a slew of other emotions I haven’t experienced in over three years.

The Purple Sky Lullaby is a dream. It is a good dream, and in a good dream, anything lovely is possible. There are no scary witches or goblins, so if that is what you are looking for, you will not find it here. Here you will find new friends (people and animals) who like to listen to their feelings inside and decide if they prefer to feel something different. They cleverly use their imagination to create new feeling blends and then give them new names.

Six weeks since the Cascade. Six weeks since Scarlett Locke sealed the extraction, freed the mountain, and learned what it cost to be the weapon the world needed. The Obsidian Marrow is healing. So is she. But beneath the amber warmth of recovered ley-channels and Syth's patient presence in the stone, something ancient has been watching. Learning. The Maw doesn't fight the recovery. It studies it — mapping the new channels, memorizing the routes, waiting for the seal to fail. And Syth says they have weeks. Not months. There is a way to hold it permanently. A way that works. There is also ...

When Mark decides to follow in his Nanna's footsteps, and train in witchcraft, he takes on more than he could ever have imagined. Up until now, he has been ignorant of the magical dangers, demons and monsters that his coven defend against. Everything changes when Damian moves to Tealford. He is everything Mark has ever wanted, but he comes with his own cursed life.

THE PERFECT HUSBAND. THE PERFECT STEPSON. THE PERFECT LIE? "Tremayne...does a terrific job of building suspense until events reach their climax in the midst of a violent storm." -- Library Journal When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, everything seems to fall into place. Swept from single...

Sixty percent of individuals over the age of 20 - or 58 million people in the US - are overweight. As the obesity epidemic continues to grow, many Americans are researching the benefits and complications of weight-loss surgeries. Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies, 2nd Edition is the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to understanding the impact of surgical weight-loss before, during, and after surgery.

From hayrides, corn mazes, Jekyll n Hyde, warped games, witches, demons, and death personified, Autumn Nights: 13 Spooky Fall Reads brings together the very best in chilling tales to hear under a harvest moon. This audiobook is for those who get excited about Halloween and crisp fall weather (and yes, even pumpkin spice lattes). Are you the type to dream of windy nights and tumbling leaves even while summer days stretch on? Do you want scary bonfire stories with doses of humor and twists on classical tales? This collection is perfect for you.

Scare Street is proud to present 14 diabolical new tales in this bone-chilling collection. Each ghastly short story unleashes a new nightmare, ripped from the depths of your psyche. It’s almost as if this book has a mind of its own; a monstrous, disturbed mind, a mind full of dark dreams, and twisted nightmares.

A team of dedicated tech executives delivers a business-focused approach based on a deep and engaging exploration of the models and data used in causal AI. The book’s discussions include both accessible and understandable technical detail and business context and concepts that frame causal AI in familiar business settings.

Lieutenant General K.J.S. ‘Tiny’ Dhillon, an Infantry veteran from the Rajputana Rifles with about four decades of military service, has served multiple tenures in Kashmir.In this book, ‘Tiny’ Dhillon opens a hitherto-closed window, not only to his life but also to Kashmir. He recounts...

New York wedding planner Mercy Rose is looking forward to a future not unlike the fairy tales she creates day after day for her clients. She's even got the perfect prince to seal her fairy-tale fate. But when a hurricane savagely blows through her small hometown in rural Louisiana, it's her past she needs to worry about. Going home means risking more than finding her family's B&B in ruins; it could mean churning up every last piece of her past she thought was dead and buried. Mainly, every piece she ever shared with Frank Kingston, the boy next door and her first love.

Stanley Swanson believes that war, one day, will happen between the creatures of the night but will involve humans. He reaches out to a retired journalist, Kain, in hopes that if he shares the secrets of both werewolf and vampires, if a war does occur, humans will join sides with the breed of the werewolf. And a friendship is formed quickly as Kain agrees to write the journal. When the knowledge of what Stanley is doing with this mortal is leaked, the highest of all vampires, known as Drakulis, set a war in motion.

The enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work - concepts that are a foundation for our public health policies. 

The first book in a gripping duology from New York Times bestselling author S.K. Ali introduces a fractured world on the brink of either enlightenment or war. “A sweeping epic of love and revolution, set in a visceral future vision of Earth and starring a cast you can’t help but fall for.”...