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Mckenna is a siren. After years of friendship, she's finally ready to risk her heart for the man she's been falling for. Adam is a merman. A solitary soul who values his family above all, Adam prefers to keep to himself and lives life on his terms.

Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta offer a novel—and hopeful—perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the world’s only theory of survival, is the means by which the biosphere has persisted and renewed itself following past environmental perturbations, and it has never failed, they explain.

Ten years ago, DCI Oldroyd was the only person who could see the monster hiding behind Adam Blake’s charm. Oldroyd proved that Blake was a deadly serial killer, responsible for murdering many innocent people. Having vowed to take revenge on Oldroyd, on a crisp autumn morning Blake escapes from jail… Hours later, in the Yorkshire market town of Otley, a man is found strangled inside the old courthouse. Written in bold black ink across the victim’s forehead is a single chilling word: vindicta—revenge. Oldroyd’s blood runs cold when he picks up a call and hears an all-too-familiar voice.

Riding her Soul Horse, Danny, Deirdre Buford relentlessly pursues the men who took her sister through an America wrecked by the Great Virus, endless civil war and a collapse of the global order called the Breakdown. She’s forced by circumstances to ally with a nomadic photographer. His gentle decency moves her to the core, but her mission leads her away from the man she’s falling in love with and toward a confrontation with the people who hold her sister. To defeat them, she’ll need the help of the powerful Nations, a league of indigenous tribes.

Five years ago, Jori-Ray Rose was Senator John Stone’s very beautiful and very secret lover. She was also the person who broke into his house one night and killed his daughter. It was one of Nick Teffinger’s first homicide cases. Every shred of evidence pointed to her—blood, DNA, surveillance, all of it. Teffinger never even had to seriously consider any other persons. The jury agreed and convicted her. Now, five years later, she has escaped from prison and is on the run. Instead of disappearing into the recesses of the world, however, she’s back in contact with Teffinger.

Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman - sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an eight-hundred year old book: Dante's Divine Comedy. So begins an investigation that will haunt her for the rest of her life, and lead Rachel on a descent into obsession that upends everything she thought she knew about justice.

One hundred people from fifty eligible planets have been abducted and taken to the Planet of Shadows—a patchwork planet consisting of pieces from each of those fifty planets. All these people and all these creatures, plants, and habitats have been assembled for one reason: survival.

A year ago, a hit-and-run nearly killed Celeste Cleary. Instead, it left her with a chilling gift: the ability to see the dead. She uses her new power to unravel the mysteries behind the missing and murdered. But now it's time for her to return home to West Virginia, where her own life began, and where her mother abandoned her family decades before. Celeste is about to confront her darkest fears. And some of them might lead her right to the truth about her own past—a truth buried deep, waiting to be unearthed.

Trip-hop described some of the 1990s’ best music, and it was one of the decade’s most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums. But the music at its best still sounds experimental and dramatic; and its influence lingers through artists like FKA twigs, Sevdaliza, James Blake, Billie Eilish, and Lana Del Rey. This short book is a guide to ’trip-hop’ in its context of the weird 1990s.

Era uma baratinha que vivia buscando alguma coisa para adoçar a vida. E sempre era muito fácil achar. É que ela vivia na casa de uma família onde sempre alguém deixava cair uns grãos de açúcar na toalha do café, ou migalhas de bolo na hora do lanche. A baratinha apanhava sua parte e fugia ligeira. Mas tudo ficou mais difícil no dia em que ela foi flagrada em cima do bolo… Mathabarata é de autoria de J. R. Penteado e ilustrações de Guga Schultze.

Agora era a vez de uma mosquinha tentar inutilmente sair do banheiro para fugir do triste fim reservado aos insetos quando se encontram em meio aos seres humanos. Por sorte ou por ironia, surge um garoto disposto a protegê-la do perigo iminente, mas que nem sequer imaginava que o mais difícil para aquela mosquinha seria lidar com a natureza imprevisível das coisas.

1976. Nelson Garrett est shérif en Floride. Lors d'une arrestation qui tourne mal, il est grièvement blessé. C'en est fini pour lui du service actif. Suivant les conseils de son infirmière, Hannah Montgomery, il rejoint le père et le frère de celle-ci, en tant que gardien au pénitencier d'État.

She wanted a vacation; what she got was a quest… High school history teacher Jennifer Cassidy has been grieving her best friend, Lynn Rickerson, after her brutal slaying shook their hometown of Eastfall. As the ending of another school year comes to a close, Jennifer can think of only one thing that would both honor her friend and pull her out of her rut: the dream vacation she and Lynn had been planning for years. But a simple trip to the southwest of England turns into something much more.

When Lyric goes out for the night, she's not ready for a brush with death—and she's really not ready for the male who comes out of nowhere and saves her. Her family, especially her father, Qhuinn, are so relieved she's okay, but all she can think about is her mysterious savior. Without telling anybody, she seeks out Devlin, and they are immediately drawn to one another. Her near-death experience has given her a fresh appreciation for life and the desire to live it to its fullest, but she has no idea that he's hiding a secret.

I fell for him in the heat of the summer. I fell for the stars in his eyes. The way he said my name. I'll never love anyone the same. But our story ended when it was just beginning. Fame gave me more than I could ever imagine, but I'll forever suffer the cost. The summer of love and loss would forever be a stain on my heart.

Frederich Vogel was taken when he discovered the secrets of the Femme Noir. Held captive by Mistress Eris, their merciless leader, he became accustomed to being her dedicated, submissive slave. When a mysterious virus ravages the world, those who were naturally immune were the only ones to survive. Frederich was one of them along with Eris, who capitalizes on the chaos of the aftermath to harness power over all who remained. Other members of the Femme Noir also survive and came together to form their version of the perfect society in the wake of world-wide catastrophe.

In this riveting pulp noir thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last word, private investigator Bryson Wilde finds himself spiraling into the dangerous world of a beautiful movie star who is being blackmailed for murder.

Alyx’s quiet existence is upended when she becomes the vessel for two opposing forces: the radiant power of the Elder Flame and the consuming darkness of the Shadow Keeper. Bound by fate and burdened by duality, she embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the truth of her destiny as ancient forces awaken and legends stir to life.

It was supposed to be a simple rescue mission—supposed to be. If Corporal John Harden had learned anything from his time in the 1215th Legion, it was that no mission went the way you expected. The Mission: Board the derelict cargo hauler DFMS Lumo, rescue any survivors, secure the vessel for return to the closest Dagdan Federation Port, and return safely to the Dagdan Federation Battlecruiser Nathanial B. Hughes. Now, he’s trapped aboard a derelict cargo hauler, low on ammo, and running out of options. Not the best showing for a freshly minted fire team leader.

The multi-million-copy bestseller WONDER showed how choosing kindness and empathy can change the lives of those around you. Now, in AUGGIE & ME, you can discover a new side to the WONDER story in three new chapters from three different characters. These three stories are heartbreaking, surprising, funny and hopeful. Just like WONDER, AUGGIE & ME will make you laugh, cry and try to choose kind.