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Cadence and her sister possess the seeds of glory and ruin—or so their father always insisted. Cadence never understood what he meant until Airlie’s seed of power is activated, turning her into the most powerful mage in generations. Despite knowing it must mean her own dormant seed is much more malevolent, Cadence is swept away to the distant Mage’s Guild in her sister’s wake. She’s used to living in Airlie’s shadow, but she can’t see a place for herself in this world. Plagued by questions from her isolated childhood, Cadence needs answers, and the Guild might hold them.

They injected me with a VR chip, a GPS tracker, and my first Seed. They gave me unbelievable powers. Then they sent me to fight. The monsters here are alien and vicious. There is a second moon in the sky. I watched a tree start moving and kill someone. And the other Players…? They're even worse.

Quinn Robbins has never noticed William Rose at Bristlecone High School - not until the night she almost runs him down in her car. After that, she never stops noticing him. Because William is different than the other boys... Why does a high school senior always have his nose buried in medical journals? And how does he keep disappearing down by the river every Friday night?

As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon have narrowly escaped Valley Forge - but their relief is short-lived. Before long they are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state - where bounty hunters are thick as flies.

Thrust behind enemy lines, powerless and exposed. Jak and her companions have landed in Tradehall, now the seat of the enemy's power. They have one goal, to retrieve the Pillars of Eternity, or all will be lost. The Earth is not the only world at stake, but so too is the entirely new planet of Illadar. Together with a band of rebels hiding within the city, Jak must do what she can to make the impossible a reality, but what can she do when she's literally powerless?

I think we can all agree that having your finances in order can make living a happy life much easier. Make sure your young person doesn’t fall into the trap of asking “Where is all my money going?” or “Why didn’t they teach me this stuff in school?!” Author Stephen Carter is a high school teacher-turned-entrepreneur and had made it his mission to help young people manage their money better. Through a pause-resisting narrative, Stephen tells the story of a sophomore named Andrew Black, as he navigates the world of finance alongside his instructor, Mr. Sharp.

Seeds of Anger follows the life of a high school junior whose police officer father has been shot in the line of duty, and whose mother is dying of cancer. Worst of all, the property that has been in his family for three generations is being split up for development. A renegade botanist on the hunt for new herbal medicines moves in across the street, and uses the large open property to cultivate the plants he needs for his research. He takes the boy and some of his friends to work as his assistants, and trains them to be scientists.

On the day Zachery Morely's mother asks him to fetch herbs from the garden, he never expected to find himself face to face with a demon. A demon who has planted the seed of a sinister tree that feeds off the living. Zachery and his father George request the help of the king to figure out what this tree means. Only when the tree consumes its first human being and takes it true, human-like form and hear its warnings do they realize their world is in serious danger.

The Core Series continues with the second installment, where we see the battle on earth over and Chardon taking his place as the leader of New Lassa. Halfar returns to Azrom resuming his role as Supreme Ruler. A new conflict rises from the reptilian race, Razznians. Bitter about a broken deal set up long ago by Chardon’s mate, Sestis, they are coming to collect. Discontent among the Lassians and Azrominans rears its ugly head yet again as members in their trusted circle seem to have their own agendas. The two leaders have a lot of work to do as an enemy assault lurks in the horizon.

An ancient pattern begins anew… Generations of oracles, seers, soothsayers and healers pass a relic of their lineage from hand-to-hand. They protect and prepare one another for the eventual blooming of a mysterious and terrible secret… Until one among them breaks the chain. Haylee Garrett, a California farm girl growing up in the '70’s, has no idea that she is about to take part in an age-old relay. With an emotionally remote father, Haylee has become an expert at coping with things on her own.