Genres : 150-320 Pages

When nine-year-old Sylvia's fun-loving parents separate, she's sent to live with her strict, forbidding grandparents -- and her world falls apart. Suddenly nothing she does is right. With the dreaded Lockhorn School looming, Sylvia discovers a secret portal: a mysterious stair hidden in the wall of her grandparents' mansion. The stairs lead to Greenwood, a magical world teeming with talking animals who are stranger, funnier, and more loyal than anyone she's ever met, and who accept her just as she...

One voice. One beat. One obsession. Under the shadows of Queens, lyricist MC Malevolent and visionary beat producer DJ Loco rise from grimy recording booths to viral sensation. From underground rap battles to spotlight domination, they attempt to build an empire side by side, bound by loyalty forged in hunger and ambition. Until Portia Fairchild, a talented classical pianist, mysteriously steps into their lives with a composed exterior that both men crave. She was raised in a military family and...

We are not the inheritors of the universe. We are the mold that grew on its corpse. For two decades, paleo-physicist Dr. Vesper Channing has been haunted by a terrifying truth: the universe’s slow slide into entropic heat death isn't a natural law, but an engineered condition. Armed with her life's work, the Axiomatic Hull—a revolutionary shielding technology capable of maintaining local physics—Vesper leads a team of elite specialists aboard the research vessel Ostracon deep into the Boötes Void. Their...

Everything at Tupelo Reach Academy gives out slowly and then asks to be used one more time. The air-conditioning. The copy machine. The teachers.Sometimes the children. Hurricane Katrina forced Landry from New Orleans at fourteen. Years later, he returned to the city and built his adult life around teaching at Tupelo Reach Academy, an alternative high school in New Orleans East and one of the last places left for students other schools no longer know how, or are no longer...

Uncover the fractures in time. Chronos’ Shard is a gripping sci-fi mystery that explores the quiet, heavy weight of absolute order—and the terrifying friction that sparks when a perfect system begins to splinter. For twenty-three years, Senior Chronosmith Jorad has maintained the delicate stabilizer networks on the mining planet of Xylos. His life follows a comforting, unbroken rhythm: predictable procedures, precise logs, and strict compliance with Imperial regulations. In a world where data within tolerance requires no action, Jorad is...

This book demolishes the mythology on which toxic chemical agriculture has been built. Dr. Dan Skow’s teacher was the late Dr. Carey Reams, and the lessons he learned — and improved upon — are important ones. This book teaches how to measure fertility down to the atomic level and project forward bins and bushels with brix high enough to confer immunity to fungal, bacterial and insect attack — and to ward off weeds. The biological theory of ionization as applied...

She infiltrated his empire to expose him. He's been watching her the entire time.Anya is a journalist with a mission: expose the Russian Bratva leader who rules Moscow's underworld. Her cover? A waitress at his exclusive club. Her advantage? He doesn't know her real name or that she's looking for answers about her father's unsolved murder.What she doesn't know is that Dmitri Volkov has been watching her since the moment she walked through his doors. He's a man who sees...

FROM AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR C.S. PASCOAL “Original, exceptional, and a riveting read from start to finish. The kind that keeps young readers fully engaged from beginning to end.” Midwest Book Review"Fast-paced and compelling, perfect for teens who want fiction grounded in the realities of the twenty-first century." The Children's Book ReviewEight kids nobody trusted. One room everyone forgot. Secrets the school was hiding.At an underfunded public school in Times Square, eight teens facing expulsion or worse are given one last...

Getting confessions from notorious serial killers? Easy.Stealing priceless Egyptian artifacts? No problem.Doing it with a cocky, too-handsome-for-his-own-good bad boy? Impossible.My name is Harleigh Sinclair, and I’m a Neotact. That’s a fancy word for a person who has special powers using touch. My special power? I can touch a person, see into their mind, and find any object they’ve physically contacted. Comes in handy when you’re employed by San Antonio’s wealthiest entrepreneur who’s in the business of finding lost relics. However,...

Most leadership advice starts with what you say. This book starts earlier — with what the room has already told you. Read the Room is a field guide for operating leaders: the managers, directors, VPs, and founders who run the meeting, own the number, and carry the team. Drawing on more than three decades across the military, corrections, manufacturing, natural foods, e-commerce, and software, John Guszak argues that the signals that decide an outcome — the hesitation, the deference, the...