by admin | Dec 24, 2025 | Science & Natural World |
Repackaged with a new afterword, this “valuable and entertaining” (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature’s best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems.
Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature’s most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world.
Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they’re sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples.
Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 24, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
She’s a debutante with broken dreams…He’s a preacher with an unsavory past…Both want to bury their secrets…Charles Bailey’s life has done a complete turnaround. He may still be a logging crew foreman, and he may still have a past that would make a godly man weep, but he’s also a man with a changed heart and a mission to serve as pastor to a small logging community. If only walking the narrow path weren’t so difficult. The last thing he needs is the temptation of the vulnerable—and beautiful—new cook’s assistant. It’s clear she needs a friend, but anything more than that is completely off-limits…Disgraced and grieving, Isabelle Franklin is packed off to work in a logging camp’s kitchen in the Rocky Mountains. Though feeding a crew of barbaric lumberjacks can’t be further from her life’s dream, she finds a small measure of solace in the beauty of the land. And in the unexpected kindness of the camp’s foreman, who’s broad shoulders and gentle eyes make her feel…almost safe. Is it too much to hope that her unspeakable past can stay buried?But not even the great Rocky Mountains can hide a person’s secrets forever—not when God means to bring them to light. When all the gritty truth is laid bare, two hearts are forced to decide what they truly believe about God’s amazing grace.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 24, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
Get the first trilogy in the epic Lair series, a dark vampires-on-yachts romance packed with spicy tension and edge-of-your-seat twists—perfect for those hungering for Pirates of the Caribbean meets Van Helsing.????? “I had all of the feels and I am obsessed!” -Library of LindsThey live on yachts. They feed on your blood. And I’ve fallen in love with one of them.I thought I’d left darkness behind. I thought I’d started over in the glamorous world of yachting. But the mysterious billionaire owner who’s swept me off my feet is not what he seems, and now I have a terrible choice.Can I live with another man with violent needs? Or will I find a way to free my vampire lover from his curse?Ready yourself for a world of yachts-as-vampire lairs, secret yachting club covens and ancient terrors. Where a young woman can be drained dry . . . or become something that threatens the very vampire patriarchy itself.Welcome aboard the Lair.????? “Simply awesome. If you are a sucker for a beautiful vampire romance, you need to buy this book right now!” -Bryckk Loves Books
by admin | Dec 23, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s Hollows series!
All the creatures of the night gather in “the Hollows” of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party . . . and to feed.
Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining—and it’s Rachel Morgan’s job to keep that world civilized.
A bounty hunter and a witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she’ll bring ’em back alive, dead . . . or undead.
by admin | Dec 18, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
A Fantastical Sci-Fi & Dystopian Action-Adventure Mash-Up that bends sci-fi and The Hero’s Journey’s tropes and archetypes. WINNER of the 2024 National Indie Excellence Cross-Genre Award and the Silver IPPY Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Award and Literary Titan Award.
“Gripping . . . edge-of-your-seat thrills . . . a thought-provoking triumph.” —BookLife, Editor’s Pick
“Thoroughly entertaining and highly re-readable . . . both imaginative and wholly original.”—San Francisco Book Review
What does it mean to be a rebel, a hero, or the destroyer of habitat and civilization? As a devastated world recovers from war and plight, an unlikely heroine emerges and attempts to rescue distressed rebels from the government’s corruption controlling the rationed food supply and from a rogue general trying to steal the only known honeybees.
And Earth itself fights back.
Following the Great Uprising of the Millennium, the remaining human population in the Third Continent’s forty-four districts—starved and weakened—are dependent on the Authority. The new power structure that emerged after the war rules by fear and tyranny, confiscating property, and feeding the masses poisoned food.
Yet out of the rubble, rebellious clans who dream of a better future emerge, able to grow their own food because of their secret weapon—the last remaining nest of honeybees. Now a war wages between the rebels and the Authority. X and Y, children of the rebellion, have the key to the rebellion’s success: a download that can bring down the Authority once and for all.
Power hungry and corrupt, the Authority’s General Speer is intent on finding the download, along with the rebels’ bees and food stocks. And he will stop at nothing until he rules all the districts.
The fate of humanity hangs in the balance as X and Y join forces with an unlikely heroine and their allies in a race against time. But in a futurist world where survival is paramount and everyone has an agenda, who can they trust?
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