New Human

Red is now the hunted. Red descends into the supernatural underbelly of Las Vegas to enroll in a magical academy. After leaving heartbreak in Los Angeles, she is ready to focus on her lessons. A new city comes with new problems when she befriends a teen orphan targeted by assassins. The mystery deepens behind the glitter of the Strip. Her old struggles aren't far behind when her brooding and heroic ex-boyfriend Lucas arrives with an ominous warning about werewolves. Another distraction to her studies is the sexy mogul Kristoff who arrives to do business with the alchemists. In the casino ...

Ciara: The second I met Rian O’Sullivan, my life changed. He says I’m his mate. I say he’s insane. The heat between us is undeniable, but he’s a Puca—and my family has centuries of pain tied to his kind. I should hate him. I should run. But instead, I’m burning for him. Just when I start to believe we might survive the past, it rises up to crush us. Rian’s father has his own twisted plan for revenge—and I’m the pawn. I walk away to protect us both… only to find I’m carrying Rian’s child. Now he has to choose: vengeance or love. His family or mine. Me… or everything...

The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought. Offering invaluable insights for parents, educators, and students, Wade situates hookup culture within the history of sexuality, the evolution of higher education, and the unfinished feminist revolution.

The problem with pornography addiction has never been worse. Tens of thousands of young people - as young as seven and eight years old - are finding that pornography has control over their life. Fortify: The Ultimate Fighter's Guide to Overcoming Pornography Addiction, authored by the hip, non-profit organization Fight the New Drug, is a complete guide to helping young men and women find the tools, gain the education, and uncover the resources necessary to help themselves and others overcome this addiction.

Inspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of what makes you, you.

It's been seven weeks, two days, and ten hours since she discovered the grave of a dead girl with her face… In the dark underworld, Red is a witch trained as a supernatural bounty hunter. Where she came from is a mystery even to herself. Over four books, the plot thickened as she came up against vampire conspiracies, doppelganger mysteries, shady warlocks, modern alchemists, greedy werewolves, and more supernatural weirdness. Now, the road takes her north to an idyllic village on the Oregon coast. It could hold all the answers she has desperately wanted for so long, but her origins aren't...

Whisper Cove is a perfectly peaceful place to start anew... whether you mean to or not. When evil comes, will their passion prove fatal? BOOK 1- RUN She's on the run. He's in the business of saving lives. When protecting her seems impossible, will love win? Dr. Josh Dalton, Whisper Cove’s lonely resident veterinarian, is returning from another late-night emergency when he stumbles upon an unconscious woman. Determined to help the beautiful stranger, Josh must first prove he can protect her from the menacing shadow that haunts her nightmares. Book 2- HIDE She’s hiding from her family. ...

It's STILL the People! Nothing gets done in any organization without the people - the human capital. How well the human capital manages the financial capital and intellectual capital determines the value of any business... so you'd better get the human capital part right. In Going Behind the Numbers, valuation expert Dave Bookbinder continues to unravel ways to better value human capital and determine how it can be quantified to truly represent what every organization's people actually bring to the table. If you think it's a simple matter of calculating salaries and benefits - the typical ...

Left for dead by my coven, I clawed my way back from the brink, driven by vengeance and hunger. But nothing prepared me for Celeste—the hiker who unexpectedly saved my life. Her blood awakened something fierce, primal, and possessive inside me. Now, returning to my coven with Celeste at my side, tensions rise and alliances shatter. She's my salvation and my curse, tangled in a web of power and deceit. Can I protect her from the darkness within me, or will she become its next victim? One-click now and get swept away in this spicy wolf-shifter romance! ★★★★★ Love your heroes ...

Part 2: The saga continues… Alonzo and Giselle’s love story is enviable. Their life is filled with happiness as their strong and fierce bond appears to be all that they need. Giselle accepts that the love of her life is a man who also lives his life as a wolf. Alonzo is a man of sophistication, charm and sex appeal and Giselle is completely and whole heartedly in love with him. After they settle into life, something unforeseen begins to happen between them. Something is stopping their telepathic connection and their relationship begins to suffer. They continue to build a life despite ...

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen.

Hidden beneath the surface of the internet, a new, stark reality is looming - one that cuts to the very heart of our endless debates about the impact of AI. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this "ghost economy".

I could see her wince on my video feed and, to my great delight, I could hear her pump working from in my office. I listened to the rhythmic whir of the machine and watched as it tugged on her. I've got a dirty little secret. I'm not the kind old man my employees think I am. I didn't hire all those new mamas because I wanted to help them out; I hired them because I've been secretly filming their pumping breaks. When one of my girls comes to me for help fixing her broken pump, she makes all of my sweetest, creamiest, milkiest dreams come true! Psst... We can't tell you anymore here. Take a...

Growing up in middle-class suburban Los Angeles in the 1980s, Rina Bliss was saw intelligence as her ticket out. Like height and stature, intelligence was said to run in families. The prevailing idea was that mental capacity was determined by our DNA and could be measured; a simple IQ test could predict a child’s future.

In ancient Judea, to the objections of an overbearing parent, a young couple fall in love. When Maria becomes pregnant, they must elope. However, the girl's father wants his revenge and hatches a plot to return them to their home town. In this epic novel, the author takes us on a sweeping journey of love, tragedy and the human condition. Ossuary by Robert E. Kearns is a superlative re-imagining of the greatest story ever told.

“Anni presents a wealth of insight and information on the Crystallization Process and how it can potentially impact us on the journey to becoming fully fledged Crystal Humans. There is also real magic and crystal energy at work through the pages of ‘The Crystal Human and the Crystallization Part I’ and ‘The Crystal Human and the Crystallization Part II’. Reviewing these two books triggered my own crystallisation journey, and fortunately the relevant guidance was to hand as I worked my way through the books”. June McGuire - Management Consultant and Holistic Therapist

“Do you want to see your surprise?” Melody asked, in a teasing voice. “I haven’t seen it yet?” Gregory thought that the wine was the surprise. “I’ve got something special for dessert,” his pretty wife cooed back at him. Feeling thirsty? Maybe you need a nice, thick, creamy dose of the sweetest milk you'll ever taste. Milk that came fresh from the swollen, engorged source. After all, these new mamas need relief, and there's only one way they're gonna get that release they crave. Evelyn Wren is here to deliver the creamy erotic encounters that you need. This special, limited-...

What if there were parts of our minds which we never use but, if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected and alive? What if awakening those parts could bring peace to the conflicts and struggles we all go through? From the cutting edge, where therapy meets neuroscience, Steve Biddulph explores the new concept of 'supersense' - the feelings beneath our feelings - which can guide us to a more awake and free way of living every minute of our lives.

Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life, developmental and stem-cell biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz takes us to the front lines of efforts to understand the creation of a human life. She has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of development, as a simple fertilized egg becomes a complex human being of 40 trillion cells. Zernicka-Goetz's work is both incredibly practical and astonishingly vast.

Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25 percent of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals but not because we are evolutionary outliers.