"Olivia has invited her BFF Matilda to go on her family's camping trip. But what are those creepy night noises, who's leaving those interesting tracks, and could that be a dragon they saw?"--Amazon.

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister...

Zenya was a teenager when she ran away from home to join the Mecha God's warrior sect. She was determined to earn her copper wings and protect the people and city she loved. Under the strict tutelage of a mercurial, charismatic leader, Zenya became Winged Zemolai. But after twenty-six years of service, Zemolai is disillusioned with her role as an enforcer in an increasingly fascist state. After one tragic act of mercy, she is cast out and loses everything...

"What type of community do you live in? Do you live in the city? Or do you live in a town or rural area? Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you lived somewhere else? This volume explores the similarities and differences between several types of communities, focusing in particular on urban, suburban, and rural areas"--Provided by publisher.

"Community resources, or the lack thereof, often dictate the strengths and weaknesses of that community, whether it's a town or city. This volume discusses both man-made resources-including dams, bridges, roads, and buildings-as well as renewable and non-renewable natural resources-such as soil, water, forests, and energy. Readers will explore how such resources affect a community's health and the opportunities of its members. They will also begin...

Accepting the mundane realities of her life, the Funeral Cryer, avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job, when things could not be bleaker, takes a leap of faith that changes everything for the better.

When she and her friend, Emma, discover the impossible: the wreck of an 18th-century ship stranded in a flower field, and Emma enters the hatch and is never seen again, Luca helps Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult, unravel the mystery, coming face-to-face with an open doorway to the apocalypse.

"Eli, who possesses unique magical abilities, and Malcolm, desperate to escape his past and save his mother, join forces to retrieve a dangerous magical artifact in the mystical underbelly of London."--

"Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible--Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years. When...