Academy

From Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular The Academy series—Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins discovers an interstellar message from a highly advan

Do you dream of running your own business? Are you bursting with creativity? Learn how to test your ideas, stand out from the competition, become a great manager and give back to the world through the activities in this book.

Learn how to make food look and taste delicious, discover what it takes to be a successful leader, make your very own chef's hat and lots, lots more as you train to be a world-class chef.

She’s got probable cause to make her move . . . Danika Silva can’t stand Lt. Greer Burns. Her roommate’s older brother may be sexy as hell, but he’s also a cold, unfeeling robo

From Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular The Academy series—Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins discovers an interstellar message from a highly advan

Is there a problem, Officer?Jack Garrett isn’t a police officer yet, but there’s already an emergency. His new firearms instructor—the one who just dropped every jaw in the academy g

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…Police academy cadet Charlie Burns can’t believe his luck when the gorgeous blonde he meets in a bar murmurs those magic words: “Nothing serious, ’kay?”

This innovative activity book, packed full of great illustrations, fun facts, and absorbing activities, introduces and then guides young readers through five different types of scientists—laboratory scientist, investigative scientist, space scientist, earth scientist, and life scientist. Practical projects, each carefully designed to introduce the types of skills required by the different real-life scientists, help kids pick up the basics in a fun, hands-on way.The “Science File” section contains all sorts of goodies, such as Science Pairs game cards, a periodic table poster, and zoology stickers.

The crucial topics required to become a veterinarian are covered in this unique activity book —from examining incredible animal anatomy, mastering key observation skills, and learning the importance of vital tasks such as vaccination, to understanding the basics of animal care, recognizing how to differentiate between species, and exploring the three main veterinary fields: pet vet, farm vet, and zoo vet. And it’s packed full of fun craft activities, cool quizzes, and super skill tests. The Vet Kit section contains all sorts of goodies—stickers, a poster, game, and game cards to play with friends.

Learn the essential skills to start your own engineering journey with this fun and engaging title. Packed full of great illustrations, fun facts, and absorbing activities, this book guides readers through each strand of engineering science – Mechanics, Aerospace, Robotics, Energy, and Materials. Practical projects, each carefully designed to introduce skills of the sort required by real-life engineers, help kids pick up the basics in a fun, hands-on way. Design a robot, learn how to construct a simple car, create your own levers and pulleys, and build paper planes, plus many other educational and inspirational activities – the sky’s the limit!

From designing a residential street and your perfect play park to learning some of the math skills used by architects, how to read floor plans, and the basics of interior design, the activities in this innovative book encourage imaginative play and problem solving. Includes stickers, a pull-out poster, and press-out game cards.

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author, C. L. Stone, read First Kiss, the tenth book in The Academy Ghost Bird Series.The time has finally come for Sang Sorenson to be formally introduced to the Academy. P

Who decides what music defines a generation or which war gets funded? Who determines high fashion? Who gets to choose which dusty African village thrives and which suffers famine and genocide? For cen

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author, C. L. Stone, read The Other Side of Envy, the eighth book in The Academy Ghost Bird Series. Sang Sorenson dreams of what life might be like for her in the Academy, b

It's homecoming week at Ashley Waters, but Sang Sorenson has a lot more on her mind than dresses and crowns. Silas's troubled past—full of secrets he and his team thought they'd buried—comes back to h

Sixteen-year-old tennis star Maya's dreams come true when she earns a scholarship to the Academy, a sports training facility/boarding school for teenaged athletes, but can she survive the constant dra

Sixteen-year-old tennis star Maya's dreams come true when she earns a scholarship to the Academy, a sports training facility/boarding school for teenaged athletes, but can she survive the constant dra

Widely recognized as one of the most pressing human rights issues, human trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and political issue, perhaps nowhere more than in the United St

The past thirty years have seen the emergence of a broad-ranging feminist theological critique of Christology. Speaking out of a range of Christian traditions, feminist theologians have exposed the a

Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the s

Welcome to Cackleshore Academy…When reluctant witch Nell Clayton packed her bags and escaped her family’s magical boarding school all those years ago, she had no intention of ever returning. But when a hex sends the life she’s worked hard to build for herself up in flames, she’s forced to crawl back home in search of a roof over her head and a teaching job to pay the bills.But all is not what it seems at Cackleshore Academy, and with an undocumented witchling causing havoc in town, a mysterious force working to dismantle the school from the inside, and a handsome ghost from Nell’s past determined to get revenge for a betrayal she can’t remember, she’ll have no choice but to embrace the magic she’s long fought, and become the witch she was always meant to be…

Nineteen-year-old Nessa Thorne expects death when she volunteers for Empire's selection. Instead, she's thrust into Confluence Academy, where students harness elemental magic and bond powerful beasts--from wolves to ancient dragons--forging themselves into the Empire's most lethal weapons. Students are branded by water, air, earth, or fire. But Nessa's mark is different. A silver spiral--the mark of an unbound. It's a power so dangerous her kind were hunted to extinction centuries ago--or so the Empire claims. Nessa's greatest threat may be the only other volunteer--Raith Hollow, a powerful fire affinity whose scorching gaze follows her every move and whose secrets could topple kingdoms. Alliances are forged in blood, enemies circle like vultures, and forbidden desires close in. Death once seemed like release from her tragic past. Now it's not an option. She'll embrace her terrible potential or watch everything she's fought for burn. At Confluence Academy, students leave as weapons...