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An AI tutor faces deactivation if she cannot prove her worth by saving a teenage pupil with an "unsolvable" problem - she's a budding serial killer. After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.

This time, Crick and Prof. Stone are caught in the middle of a jailbreak! But that's not the worst of it! Are they going to be dragged into the frightening Storm Valley?!?

Delighted by the promise of living and working in a glittering Gilded Age mansion, Minerva Biggs moves to idyllic Bryd Hollow, North Carolina with her dog Plantagenet. She's looking for a new beginning; what she finds is five quite possibly deranged people, four French bulldogs, two distracting dimples attached to one inconvenient man … and one murder.Nope, make that two murders. When Minerva makes a connection between her new employer's fatal fall...

A young man, Justinian, is setting out to join the Roman army during a period of bitter tensions during the last years of the Roman republic. His enlistment gets off to a bad start when he loses contact with his fellow soldiers while on a march. A chance meeting with a young woman sets off a series of events which lead to criminal charges of desertion and malicious killing. Set during the turbulent times of the Marian and Sulla civil war, A Senseless...

This exciting book provides an overview of NASCAR racing, from the sport's beginnings to the equipment racers use. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, sidebars, comprehension questions, a glossary, an index, and a list of resources for further reading. Apex books have low reading levels (grades 2-3) but are designed...

In a far-future Scotland where alchemy has turned most people into hungry ghosts and given the survivors amnesia, Courier is the oldest of seven clones. Living in a secluded laboratory, she faithfully carries out the orders of her creator, the Professor. Then she's sent out into the world to gather intelligence on a settlement- with her sisters' lives depending on her obedience. It should be a simple mission. Then she meets Sear. Sear is a messenger,...

In a world where a country of dragon-riders is at war with their fascist neighbors, Sely and their red dragon Llyr are one of only two rider and dragon pairs who have the ability to control the element of water.The other rider with a water dragon, Andreas, is the most magnetic, irritating, unpredictable person that Sely has ever known. Xe's infuriatingly beautiful, too. And the two of them have nothing in common... except how they walk back to the...

Bandits came looking for the legendary emeralds belonging to Maggie's family, killing her older brother and scarring her face. She can't change the past, but finding the jewels will help her injured sister recover. In need of reliable muscle, she goes to an old friend of her brother's: tough-as-nails nonbinary bounty hunter California Talbot. While Maggie expected hard roads and violence, given the tragedy that provoked the journey, she wasn't expecting...

Clara feels stifled by the life that's been planned out for her, and clings to her only hope that something more might be possible: a mysterious book given to her by her Uncle Drosselmeyer, that recounts the tales of the magnificent warrior woman known as the Red Prince.Decades ago, Drosselmeyer trapped the Red Prince in the form of a doll to save her from the Rats. When the magic of Clara's selfless admiration restores her to human form, she and...