The Final Instalment in The Diabolus Chronicles. Silas Mercer and Tobias Astaroth have faced untold difficulties, survived horrific attacks and known heart-breaking loss on their way to where the Watcher King awaits. Yet through it all their bond has only deepened, and their surprising connection is now all but unbreakable. They have learned to trust each other, rely on each other, and, against all odds, love. Now, Blood Lake is closer than it's ever been before. This is what they have fought for. This is what has driven them through trials and tribulations beyond their wildest imaginings. To rid the human world of the curse of the Blight. To destroy Samyaza's lost halo. The simurgh is one last journey away from Seraphiel's Sanctuary. Pitch & Sickle's quest is almost at its end. But will a High Angel's Cultivation be enough to right an ancient wrong? Or will Blood Lake demand more sacrifice? The Death Wish concludes the historical fantasy adventure series, The Diabolus Chronicles.

The Final Instalment in The Diabolus Chronicles. Silas Mercer and Tobias Astaroth have faced untold difficulties, survived horrific attacks and known heart-breaking loss on their way to where the Watcher King awaits. Yet through it all their bond has only deepened, and their surprising connection is now all but unbreakable. They have learned to trust each other, rely on each other, and, against all odds, love. Now, Blood Lake is closer than it's ever been before. This is what they have fought for. This is what has driven them through trials and tribulations beyond their wildest imaginings. To rid the human world of the curse of the Blight. To destroy Samyaza's lost halo. The simurgh is one last journey away from Seraphiel's Sanctuary. Pitch & Sickle's quest is almost at its end. But will a High Angel's Cultivation be enough to right an ancient wrong? Or will the Blood Lake demand more sacrifice? The Death Wish concludes the historical fantasy adventure series, The Diabolus Chronicles.

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.

Damien Broderick has been a leading Australian SF writer since the ‘70s. His novel The Dreaming Dragons was listed in SF: the 100 best novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Spike, is a mind-stretching look at the wonders of the high-tech future. Now in Transcension he brings to life one of the futures he imagined in The Spike, a world pervaded by nanotechnology and governed by artificial intelligence. Transcension may be Broderick’s best book yet. Amanda is a brilliant violinist, a mathematical genius, and a rebel. Impatient for the adult status her society only grants at age thirty, but determined to have a real adventure first, she has repeatedly gotten into trouble and found herself in the courtroom of Magistrate Mohammed Abdel-Malik, the sole resurrectee from among those who were frozen in the early twenty-first century, the man whose mind was the seed for Aleph, the AI that rules this utopia. Mathewmark is a real adolescent, living in the last place where they still exist, the reservation known as the Valley of the God of One's Choice, where those who have chosen faith over technology are allowed to live out their simpler lives. When Amanda determines that access to the valley is the key to the daring stunt she plans, it is Mathewmark she will have to lead into temptation. But just as Amanda, Mathewmark, and Abdel-Malik are struggling to find themselves and achieve their potentials, so is Aleph, and the AI's success will be a challenge to them and all of humanity. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.