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Life is full of decision points—those key moments when what we decide can change everything for better or for worse. These 20 tales describe such instances in young people’s lives, ranging from tragic to triumphant, from horror to fantasy to science fiction. Written by authors new and old, those...

Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world.  Its decisions in cutting-edge cases have confronted society’s toughest issues, reflecting changing social attitudes, modern life’s complexities, and new technologies. Paul...

"Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino" - Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times Professor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately, this is not the least of his problems. Harry's wife has turned...

A boy named Alesdor discovers a penguin is his garden. A penguin! How is that possible? After Alesdor gives Zeppi the penguin his name and a home, the two become best friends and their adventures begin. Book 2 - Circus. When a circus comes to town, Zeppi is horrified when he sees animals caged. What has become of his parents?

Orphan children destroy their nasty superintendent and create a clockwork replacement; a professor publishes a list of known vampires, but doesn’t get it quite right; a military drone achieves sentience—and an unfortunate conscience; self-replicating humanoid robots fall in love with humans; an...

A song to match everyone's heartbeat. A soaring melody, a pulse-pounding beat, a touching lyric: Music takes a moment and makes it a memory. It's a universal language that can capture love, heartbreak, loss, soul searching, and wing spreading-all in the span of a few notes. In Behind the Song,...

Writing on the theme of strange tales of Aotearoa New Zealand, seven Kiwi authors weave stories of people and creatures displaced in time and space, dangerous odysseys, and even more dangerous discoveries. Praised as "six of the best" by renowned sci-fi writer Phillip Mann, these...

Cucurbital 3 continues the series of of anthologies that provide a peek into the writing process itself. Authors are always asked two questions: "where do you get the idea for your story?" and "how do you go from idea to finished work?" This series offers insight into the second...

Now you're playing with… TERROR Demons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die...

A boy named Alesdor discovers a penguin is his garden. A penguin! How is that possible? After Alesdor gives Zeppi the penguin his name and a home, the two become best friends and their adventures begin. - Book 8 - Zeppi is invited to spend his first vacation in Castle Mountains. He smuggles his best friend into the train so she can be part of all the fun, too.

As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...

Best friends since birth, Brooke Reid and Savannah Prescott, spend their days working together at top fashion magazine Hourglass, while enjoying all that the Denver nightlife has to offer – but sharing a man – no way.One of Denver’s most eligible bachelors, Luke Wellington, can have any...

Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the "new kind of fiction" which she felt the times demanded. She is restless, constantly...

A Penguin Story: A boy named Alesdor discovers a penguin is his garden. A penguin! How is that possible? After Alesdor gives Zeppi the penguin his name and a home, the two become best friends and their adventures begin. Book 1 - New Friends Zeppi learns that compost piles are plant food, not penguin food.