Night Break is the eighth in the Young Sherlock Holmes series in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager – creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books. Sherlock's mother has died, his father has disappeared in India and his sister is acting strangely. The Holmes family seems to be falling apart, and not even brother Mycroft can keep it together. But while Sherlock is worrying about all of this, a man living nearby vanishes in his own house while Sherlock and Mycroft are visiting. Where did he go, and what is the connection with a massive canal being built in Egypt? The answer will rock the world, and tear the Holmes family apart! Another fast-paced, brilliantly plotted adventure in Andrew Lane's Young Sherlock series as the teenage Sherlock Holmes comes up against a fresh crop of sinister, clever crooks. Sherlock Holmes: think you know him? Think again.

Nightbreak By: Evelyn Gloria Rodrigues Chedekel For twenty years the United States has been under the vicious control of tyrant Adrianne Madden. Anyone – any family – any town – who defies her is destroyed. Vanessa Riley and Gloria Rodrigues are on the run. After their families were murdered by Madden’s soldiers, they have only each other. Vanessa is clever and compassionate, but her kindness makes her vulnerable in this new world. Gloria is determined and strong, but her focus on revenge could destroy everything she has left. When Gloria decides to create an army to assassinate Madden, leadership, love, and revenge will do more than test their friendship – it could break them. Action and sacrifice, friendship and betrayal, love and war – Nightbreak is a thrilling new dystopian by a fresh young voice.

Vampires, ghosts, and werewolves who keep finding love in all the wrong places. Nightbreak Collection Books 1-3 contains three novellas. TEMPTATION IN NEON - A trouble-maker pairs up with a rule-following vampire after a one-night fling goes wrong. CONCEALED IN SAGE - When a trapped ghost is discovered by a grieving mage, they find a love neither of them expected. TANGLED IN BLUES - Moving to the big city was a desperate choice for a packless werewolf, and he definitely shouldn't be falling for his new boss's ex.

Another fast-paced, brilliantly plotted adventure in Andrew Lane's Young Sherlock series, as the teenage Sherlock Holmes investigates a new crime and comes up against a fresh crop of sinister, clever crooks. Sherlock's mother has died, his father has disappeared in India and his sister is acting strangely. The Holmes family seems to be falling apart, and not even brother Mycroft can keep it together. But while Sherlock is worrying about all of this, a man living nearby vanishes in his own house while Sherlock and Mycroft are visiting. Where did he go, and what is the connection with a massive canal being built in Egypt? The answer will rock the world, and tear the Holmes family apart!

At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in the simplified Chinese writing system, plus another 500 that are best learned at an early stage. (Book 2 adds another 1,500 characters for a total of 3,000.) Of critical importance to the approach found in these pages is the systematic arranging of characters in an order best suited to memorization. In the Chinese writing system, strokes and simple components are nested within relatively simple characters, which can, in turn, serve as parts of more complicated characters and so on. Taking advantage of this allows a logical ordering, making it possible for students to approach most new characters with prior knowledge that can greatly facilitate the learning process. Guidance and detailed instructions are provided along the way. Students are taught to employ "imaginative memory" to associate each character’s component parts, or "primitive elements," with one another and with a key word that has been carefully selected to represent an important meaning of the character. This is accomplished through the creation of a "story" that engagingly ties the primitive elements and key word together. In this way, the collections of dots, strokes, and components that make up the characters are associated in memorable fashion, dramatically shortening the time required for learning and helping to prevent characters from slipping out of memory.