Nellie Joanne Kinnan is an Advanced Cadet in the Black Core Program at the Detta training center. Weapons and violence are second nature to this twelve-year-old, but she is never exactly sure what it is she is being trained for. Nellie is a dedicated and skilled cadet. She knows she wants to serve the Goddess and the Empire. But there is so much that she doesn't understand. When a weapons training session brings her face-to-face with her twin, Nellie's...

Allan is a father of three whose sex life takes another hit when his wife can no longer take the pill and he soon finds himself with an appointment for a vasectomy and an epic midlife crisis.

"Even though she's unlicensed as an investigator, when someone from the local animal shelter approaches Ginny Mallard about looking into potential embezzlement, she convinces her bartender friend Teddy Tonica to help her once more. They soon discover that something is disturbing the animals at the shelter at night. And when a dead body is found at the shelter, the stakes are raised. With the help of Ginny's pet shar-pei puppy and Tonica's tabby cat,...

"'... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed.' ... It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the National Transportation Safety Board unable to reach the crash site, ex-Trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement...

Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.

One sheet of paper lying directly atop another has all its points aligned with the bottom sheet. But what if the top sheet is crumpled? Do any of its points still lie directly over the corresponding point on the bottom sheet? See a marvelous visual proof of this fixed-point theorem.

Molly was black-balled fifteen minutes after she arrived at church camp. Unable to shake off the unpopularity and low self-image that followed, she turned to God to fix it. God listened, maybe chuckled a bit and probably shook His head in sympathy at Mollys mishaps. Since girls were not allowed to wear pants to school, Molly tells this story: I would do as Mother suggested: whip my pants off in the cloakroom in the morning and straighten my skirt,...

From beloved Governor General Literary Award—winning author Susin Nielsen comes a touching and funny middle-grade story about family, friendship and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness.
Felix Knuttson, twelve, is an endearing kid with an incredible brain for trivia. His mom Astrid is loving but unreliable; she can't hold onto a job, or a home. When they lose their apartment in Vancouver, they move into a camper van,...

"Read about Vivien Thomas, a man who helped save lives"--

To begin with, mindset is a customary bent of human assumptions to look at the things in different perceptions. Generally, it is viewed as two separate lines, i.e., fixed mindset and growth mindset. However, there should be enough clarity as to the terms for an all-embracing concurrence. Fixed mindset vouches for hard work. Working hard has consistently been rewarded. Both hard work and smart work (growth mindset or progressive mindset) are pivotal...