I am Sara: Book 1: Monsters are Real By: B Jamie Delaney The stakes are high. As a young girl runs for her life, the truth will be revealed about the many types of monsters that live in the world—some more unexpected than others. Who can she trust… if anyone? In I am Sara: Book 1: Monsters are Real, readers will follow young Sara as she enters a flooded forest to rescue a young puppy, and ends up battling a 750 pound predatory monster in a fight to the death.

Being a teenage vampire in a human family isn’t easy, especially in a city where harboring any monster subspecies is illegal. When Everett is injured attempting to save a werewolf, she takes him to the Monster Asylum, a place that shouldn’t exist, and introduces him to a world of acceptance and possibility. Dark creatures begin to plague the five cities. Everett’s ability to fight against them makes him irreplaceable if the human world that fears him can accept a vampire as a hero.

Three years ago, Sunny Day’s life came to an end. Cursed, forgotten, and pushed to the fringes of society, the former EMT has hit rock bottom—which is a real achievement in an alternate-future Alaska where even granite floats. A silk-clad stranger appears, and with him, a kernel of hope: A bounty, $100,000 for one gangly math teacher. As Sunny makes a desperate grab for the cash, it becomes apparent that her man is…not a man. Hunter becomes the hunted, and the resulting grudge match will threaten the lives of her family and everything Sunny holds dear. Sunny Day is the badass heroine you didn’t realize you needed. But…every heroine needs an origin story. Here’s Sunny’s. Fans of Harry Dresden and Kate Daniels will be enthralled by this dark new urban fantasy series. Contemporary adventure meets sci-fi horror in a fast-paced dystopian tale guaranteed to sink its hooks into you.

A graphic novel classic — and now an Oscar-nominated animated feature! After best friends Robot and Dog spend a happy day at the beach, Robot's joints freeze up—they've become rusted through by the water. Dog is powerless to help Robot, who can't move an inch and is too heavy for Dog to carry. Eventually, Dog makes the difficult decision to leave Robot there, and return alone to the life they shared. The memory of their friendship lingers, and as the seasons pass, Dog makes (and loses) new friends, from a melting snowman to epicurean anteaters. But Robot, lying rusting on the beach, finds solace in dreams. A masterwork in wordless cartooning, Sara Varon's Robot Dreams is a whimsical and poignant meditation on the power and fragility of relationships.

THE ONE: You never know when you’ll suddenly meet the one! THE HONEYMOON: Joe surprises his new wife with a honeymoon that’s anything but expected. FRIENDLY FIRE: After a roadside bomb ends his career in the marines, Logan Wilde struggles to put his life back together, taking a job as a sheriff in a small Idaho town. He expects a quiet, peaceful life that will bore him to tears…until he walks through the door of Julia Cooper’s cafe. NOT QUITE MARRIED: Logan has his work cut out for him in getting Julia to the altar. A MATTER OF TRUST: If Ben Wilde is sure of one thing, it’s that Carrie Richardson is trouble. THE RECKONING, A Wilde Brothers Christmas: Some scars just don’t heal. TRADED: Jake Wilde has two loves and neither is going his way. UNFORGIVEN: Samuel Wilde has an unbreakable bond with his brothers. That is until one woman comes between them.

Don't forget the sequel, Off Track! Finding love and catching killers. SERIAL GAMES US Marshal Brandon Worth hunts because he has no other choice. He can't catch the one who destroyed his life five years ago, but he'll stop at nothing to keep Maggie safe from this evil, even if it means opening his heart to a love he can't return. MARKED BY THE MOB Agent Doug Fairbanks thought life would be simpler without working with the woman who snubbed him. Now she's followed him to Richmond and he's her boss. While they work to protect her father and bring down the mob, Doug will initiate a personal assignment: winning Sara's heart. KILLER SHOOT FBI Special Agent Rico Tonoeli has a second chance to catch a killer. Beautiful women are being targeted and with his childhood friend Dani Fairbanks home, she might be the most tempting prey Rico can't protect. Interracial romantic suspense with a bit of faith weaved in.

This book is designed to help children to understand and articulate the emotions they might experience - feelings of anxiety and worry, pride, joy and excitement, sadness, anger and jealousy - and provides simple strategies for managing their mental health. Full of monster-themed stories, activities and downloadable worksheets, it is ideal to use individually or in group settings with ages 5-9. Children will meet characters like Thomas, the big purple monster who has a heavy backpack full of his worries, and Geronimo, who inconveniently creates small floods with his tears all around Icicle Island. The second part of the book is a detailed guide for adults with explanations of key concepts, support for delivering the activities, suggested discussion points and drama activities to consolidate learning.

Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing, mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness. Analysing data from corpora, reality television and interviews in Australian and British cultural contexts, this book contributes to cross-cultural and intercultural research on humour and its role in social interaction. Although, in both contexts, jocular verbal practices are highly valued and a positive response – the ‘preferred reaction’ – can be expected, the conceptualisation of what is seen as humorous can vary, especially in terms of what ‘goes too far’. By examining how attempts at humour can occasion offence, presenting a distinction between ‘frontstage’ and ‘backstage’ perceptions of jocularity and looking at how language users evaluate jocular behaviours in interaction, this study shows how humour and (im)politeness are co-constructed and negotiated in discourse. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in pragmatics, conversational humour, (im)politeness, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, television studies and interaction in English-speaking contexts.

Even as a working adult, Sarasa Ichinokura suffers from an unshakable fatigue that’s plagued her since childhood. She goes to bed one night, exhausted from her office job, and encounters a goddess(?) who informs her that her perpetual lack of energy is actually due to a deficit of “mana.” Then, without any further explanation or time to process what’s happening to her, Sarasa is thrust into a fantasy world! She awakens in the body of a ten-year-old girl in a strange land filled with flying beasts and oversized wolves. She accordingly prepares for the worst, but a monster hunter named Nelly takes her in. The hitch is...now that Sarasa finally has the energy to do everything she wants to, being cooped up in a cabin is just no fun! She seeks to stand on her own in this scary new world—and that’s going to mean learning magic. It may be slow going, but Sarasa knows what to do—the best way to take her reincarnation is one step at a time!

This book explores and details the experiences and trials of both the Journalist Romano known here as the First Man Adam and his celestial ancient Persian guide Zarathustra while they travel to the Inferno and Limboland Arenas of the Pre-Historic Paleo Heroes; the Ancient Greek Gods & Goddesses; the Ancient Roman Gods & Goddesses; the Sumerian & Babylonian & Egyptian Gods; the Norse Viking Gods; the Indian Hindoo Vedic Gods; the Chinese Gods & Emperors; the Koreans; the Vietnamese; the Amerikan Experimental; the Cambodian & Laotian Encampments; the Burmese; the Hodgepodge of Nations On The Fringe Desiring Anonymity; the Japanese; the Irish Republican Army & Sinn Fein; the Native Americans; the Incas & Aztecs & Mayas; and Cuba & Nicaragua.