Birth Science

In summer 2006, 20-year-old Gerald Yeung and his childhood friends from Hong Kong travel to South America and Africa on their parents' dime. Confronted by challenges foreign to their privileged upbringing, the "Wannabe Backpackers" persevere in their Christian Dior clothes. They make plans to do it again when they turn 30. The decade that follows doesn’t go exactly to plan.

Greed, lies, hatred, and lust for power have brought us to our knees, and nearly to our end. Humanity in the old world has failed, leaving the new world to flail around in darkness.

لم تكن "شفق" سوى مجرد فتاه بائسة تريد أن تهرب من غروبها إلى غربتها، فحزمت أمتعتها واستقلت الباخرة متشبثة ًبآخر ما يربطها بالنهر الأثير .. كان هذا حين وصل ذلك الكتاب العجيب بالصدفة ليديها..! وبسبب سأمها وذكرياتها تقرّر أن تفتحه.. لتعيش ليلتها مرغمةً بين طيات صفحاته.. فإذا بالأقدار تخبئ لها بين صفحات حكايات "الميلاد" شروقًا جديدًا...حياةٌ أخرى والكثير من البدايات!!

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Everything happened so fast. One minute Konrad was a perfectly normal eight year old, just trying to get through a perfectly normal school day. The next minute he was catapulted through time and space - and oil paints and canvas - into a world he never even knew existed. A pair of sunglasses transform the boring painting outside the principal’s office into the most beautiful thing you ever saw - and a powerful spy device at that.

"The Harbinger of Thebes" is a skilled hitman who seeks revenge on people who have wronged him in the past. This story will follow The Harbinger's journey and explain how they became the feared assassin they are known as today.

It’s the dawn of the twentieth century. Darwin has theorized that traits get passed down through generations, and Mendel has come up with a mathematical formula that predicts how traits reappear over time. But a key mystery remains: is there a recipe for living beings? If there is, where is it hidden? With the help of powerful new microscopes and x-rays, scientists peer ever closer into cells, searching for answers.

Wesley is incredibly excited about waking up the morning he finally turns seven years old; a magic door would open for him at last! He had wondered what was on the other side of that door ever since it first appeared when he turned four. Wesley's Birthday Wish is a moving fantasy story about a small boy's rite of passage as he turns seven, and one can't help but get excited for him as he surveys the new and limitless world that awaits him. This tale illustrates most eloquently why force is never the solution, even when you really desire something.

Second in the Umbra saga, Birth of Shadows is the sequel to Encumbering Ashes, following the same character line up as they figure out the origin and mystery behind one of their own. The crew meets some new people along the way, including Jayson who lost his father to the very type of person whom he was helping. Nick's lost past puts him in the wrong place at the right time. Samuel's daughters passing leaves him with more questions than answers when an ominous drawing was left behind suggesting there are worst things than death.

Full of balloons, presents and birthday fun (and a sprightly unicorn and her friends), little listeners will love this calming tale before bed. It's Twinkle the unicorn's birthday, and she's having a sleepover party! There are party games, presents, cake, balloons and even fireworks! But as Twinkle's dad counts down to bedtime, there's still a lot going on...will Twinkle and her friends go to sleep in time?

فى مستقبل قريب مظلم، تنضب موارد الطاقة التقليدية من نفط وغاز طبيعى وخلافه، وتعجز الطاقة المتجددة عن سد الحاجة العالمية المتزايدة للطاقة.. تصبح الكرة فى ملعب إيجى- نيرجى.. الشركة العملاقة، عابرة القارات، المتخصصة فى استخلاص الطاقة النفسية من الأجساد البشرية (عن طريق تعذيبها حتى الموت) ثم تحويلها لطاقة كهربية. بعد ما يقرب من ربع القرن من الاستقرار والسيطرة على سوق الطاقة.. تنفجر الأحداث مجدداً مع هروب أحد ضحايا الشركة من داخل ماكينات التعذيب، وقد اكتسب قدرات غير طبيعية جعلت منه سلاحاً رهيباً، تصارع الشركة من جهة، و

This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were eventually identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace.

Aldrea, the feisty daughter of a Quenterian scientist, agrees to accompany her parents on a routine mission with mixed emotions. It was better than another resort vacation but lacks the adventure and excitement she craves. So when her father is taken prisoner by a deranged Radical agent on a deserted planet, Aldrea doesn't think twice - she goes after them. But time is running out. With the greatest discovery in Quenterian history in the balance, Aldrea must rescue herself first before the prize they seek kills them all.

In The Invisible Toolbox, Kim shares with parents the single most important thing they can do to foster their child's future-learning potential and nurture the parent-child bond that is the foundation for a child's motivation to learn. She is convinced that the simple act of reading aloud has a far-reaching impact that few of us fully understand and that the importance of that act has recently been further occluded by our nearly universal saturation in technology.

A new era is dawning for the Court of Light and the Court of Dark. Queen Aurora will soon be married to King Jarvok, and for the first time in history, Dark and Light Fae will be united. Except Aurora is also concealing a secret from everyone—she is with child. Not everyone is pleased with the upcoming nuptials. Queen Aurora’s closest advisors have long held that Virtues and Power Angels are sacrosanct, and her bishops view her upcoming marriage as an abomination.

Jean Lafitte promised to retrieve his brother from 19th-century Cartegna once his child is born. As he prepares to keep that promise he makes a startling discovery. Instead of vanishing from history like Jean, Pierre’s death is well documented. Sworn testimony, burial records everything satisfying historians that Pierre died. To succeed, they must rescue Pierre in a way that does not change the established historical evidence.

Donovan, a boy of only 12 years, and his best friend, Akenji, are torn from their lives in a small fishing village by a band of barbarians.

Listeners are launched into a world of rune crystals, dawn ages, schools of magic, and five elven factions as Watson creates a mystical world like no other to transport his listeners to. Alayna, an elven commander of the House of Dorandal, orders the others not to harm the "innocents", assuming responsibility for their welfare. While they await orders, Alayna becomes fond of the children, particularly Donovan; when the orders do come, the Rangers find them "far from satisfying"....

Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America's future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, Maçães takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path. We can see the birth pangs of this new civilization in today's debates on guns, religion, foreign policy, and the significance of Trump. What will its values be, and what will this new America look like?

Like the classics of dystopian literature - think Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, and more recently, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Birthday Present 2050 is a dystopian play that takes a dark look at a disturbing contemporary trend and magnifies it under future totalitarian conditions. The Birthday Present 2050 takes place in a society in which only people and things considered productive are assured existence

An otherworldly friendship is forged under stress and fear. Wyatt, a recently unemployed camper, is looking for an escape from responsibilities. Thunder Born is a wind esper looking to escape from those who want to murder him. Together they start something surpassing both of them.