A snapshot of the Empire at the Diamond Jubilee of 1897. It looks at what made up the Empire, from adventurers and politicians to communications and infrastructure, as well as anomalies and eccentricities. This humane overview also examines the muddle of jumbled ideologies behind it, and how they affected its 370 million people.

"A fascinating twist on the Prince Charming fairy tale with a modern twist and a hunt for monsters -- both within and supernatural."--

The saga begun in The Stars Are Ours! Continues as the growing human colony settles onto their new home world only to discover an unforeseen enemy. . . Generations after landing on the planet Astra, humankind is still working alongside the friendly aquatic native merpeople to survive and thrive. But young Dalgard Nordis is yearning to see more. Taking his man-journey, he sets out to find and explore the ruins of a city rumored to have belonged to...

When someone kidnaps the last surviving descendant of the Grandmaster of the Knights Templar, it's bad news. When the baby is the key to the tenuous alliance between a large werewolf pack and the knights, it's even worse news. They're at each other's throats before they've even begun to look for baby Constance. But whoever kidnapped Constance didn't count on one thing: She's also the goddaughter of John Charming, modern-day descendant of a long line...

For John Charming, living the dream just became a nightmare. Someone, somewhere, is reading a magic book that is reading them right back. Real life is becoming a fairytale: high school students are turning, quite literally, into zombies, subway workers into dwarves, drug addicts into vampires. John Charming and his motley band of monster hunters are racing to find the villain of this story, following the yellow brick road through a not so wonderful...

It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.

"When it comes to the kitchen, no one knows cooking better than twelve-year-old Pax Samson. He's a hero when it comes to testing recipes and supplying copious amounts of Dragon Noodle Soup at his family's cookouts. It's tough being a master chef, though, when the rest of his family are world-famous superheroes, and they expect Pax to take up the beacon to keep the world safe with his telekinetic powers. Pax's home planet of Soltellus is home to all...

Die Zeit konnte sie nicht trennen Ein Jahr nach ihrem Abschied führen der Junge Peter und der Fuchs Pax ein eigenständiges Leben - doch sie haben einander nicht vergessen. Um gegen die starken Erinnerungen an ihre Trennung anzukommen, schließt Peter sich einer Gruppe Freiwilliger an, die die vom Krieg gezeichnete Landschaft renaturiert und Flüsse entgiftet. Was Peter nicht weiß: Pax befindet sich ebenfalls in dem gefährdeten Gebiet und ist ganz...

Au début du IVe siècle avant J-C, Rome aspire à dominer le fertile Latium, en Italie centrale, mais s'enlise dans les intrigues familiales et les querelles d'ego, jusque sur les bancs du Sénat. Les bandits sèment le trouble dans les quartiers populaires, provoquant l'ordre établi. Dans la Ville bouillonnante et ses campagnes, des événements étranges surviennent alors, présageant une implication divine et poussant les Romains à s'interroger...