Science Identity

The Ash Loop A Psychological Thriller Where Memory Burns and Choice Is the Final Weapon Elise Archer was supposed to be erased. Instead, she became something Carmine never predicted—unwritten. Now, hunted by the final fragments of the looping system that tried to define her, Elise enters the Ash Loop: a recursive hell built from grief, fire, and memory so corrupted it rewrites the minds trapped inside. Everywhere she turns, she sees pieces of herself—versions she never lived, lives she never chose, and people the system never let go. The loops are collapsing. The archive is imploding. ...

Luke Gillis is barely dragging himself through college. Of course, if he wrote term papers the way he thrashed bank robbers, he’d probably be a doctor by now. His mentor is the Miracle Worker. Yes, that Miracle Worker. Some say he’s more outlaw than hero, but beggars can’t be choosers. Still, Luke must be doing something right. The U.S. Army has invited his alter ego—the dashing speedster Spitball—on a top-secret mission. With the country’s premier superhero team missing-in-action, this could be his big break.

After learning about the disappearance of his mentor, Mecha Knight, Kevin Jason (Bolt) allies with a powerful yet aloof superhero to find him, although their conflicting personalities and methods make for teeth-clenched teamwork. There is far more to Mecha Knight's disappearance than meets the eye, however, and soon Bolt finds himself surrounded on all sides by many of his old foes, back to exact their revenge on him. Things become even more complicated with the return of a long-lost family member, forcing Bolt to move quickly and decisively if he is going to not only find Mecha Knight but ...

Just when Della feels like she’s starting to figure out her life, she finds herself reborn…and her new existence comes with a whole different rulebook. Della's secret powers always made her feel like an outsider in the human world. Now, just when she’s starting to feel like she belongs - at Shadow Falls, a camp for teens with paranormal powers - her life is turned upside down all over again. Attacked by a deadly virus, she must make the difficult choice to be reborn.

Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother. A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At 19, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories and his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala.

Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating culture. Growing up as an immigrant in America means that one has to make one's way through a confusing tangle of conflicting cultures and expectations. And Porochista is pulled between the glitzy culture of Tehrangeles, an enclave of wealthy Iranians and Persians in LA, her own family's modest life and culture, and becoming an assimilated American.

When an old enemy from his grandfather's past returns seeking revenge, Jack McDonald (Trickshot) discovers that his powers are almost useless against an enemy who can redirect projectiles at will. Things get even worse when Jack learns that his personal AI assistant, TW, is starting to break down and become unreliable. And then Jack discovers that one of his grandfather's most treasured possessions is in the hands of a sleazy salesman who seeks an outrageous fee for the object. Now Jack must find some way to defeat his grandfather's old enemy while also trying to find a way to keep his AI ...

The Echo State: Book Two of The Echo Continuum The recursion didn’t end. It evolved. Five years after Elena Wren vanished into the Veil, a new kind of signal begins to bloom—one that doesn’t need technology to propagate. It grows through people. Kira Sayen has never touched the Veil, but it remembers her. Dreams that aren’t hers. Symbols she’s never seen, drawn in her own hand. And a voice from a sister she’s never met… whispering her name. As recursion spreads across minds and systems, a secret faction called the Refractors races to sever it at the root—before the human ...

Kidnapped. And time is running out. It's not every day you break your guitar over the head of a supervillain and need to get it repaired in time for your next concert, but Busker Burn finds himself in exactly that situation recently. Fortunately, Busker lives near Earl, the guitar's original eccentric NPC owner, who he knows can fix it. Unfortunately, Busker discovers that Earl has been kidnapped by the cult of Digitus, who see Earl as a threat due to knowing the secret behind the Glitchling infestation. Glitched beings that should not exist, Glitchlings are reproducing at an alarming rate,...

Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing—and disturbing—portrait. India has become a religious fundamentalist dystopia, one depicted here with a novelist's precise language and eye for detail.

As a proud member of the group known as Vision, Kevin Jason (Bolt) seeks to build a world of equality and justice for all. To do that, he and his fellow Visionists must rescue their captured leader from the government, who hold him captive in a secret facility. But doubt plagues Kevin, not helped by his amnesia, which makes it difficult for him to remember anything that happened in the past. And when Kevin starts to question his memories, he finds himself embarking on a journey that will take him in a direction that will change his life forever. Some people in Vision, however, don't want ...

Seventeen-year-old Talon loves being a superhero and desires to keep fighting crime for the rest of her life. But when her mother--an internationally-known CEO of a major fashion company--suddenly falls ill, Talon must now choose between succeeding her mother as the owner of the company or staying as a superhero. If Talon does not retire, her mother's company will be sold; but if she retires, then she will never be able to become a superhero again. Sixteen-year-old Stinger finds himself helping a former superhero rescue his family from a powerful and dangerous enemy. In order to rescue this...

Betrayed by the government, Kevin Jason (Bolt) finds himself in the best and only prison for supervillains in the country, but without knowing why. He soon allies himself with some of the prisoners in order to devise an escape plan to get him out of the prison and figure out why he was thrown behind bars in the first place. And escape becomes even more urgent when a supervillain who looks exactly like him suddenly appears in the country and begins causing havoc and chaos wherever he goes. Now Kevin must escape from prison and defeat this supervillain all the while discovering the truth ...

We live in a world where trans lives are now mainstream and many forms of nonbinary and gender-diverse identities exist. This is also a world in which some people have some very strong views about how other people identify and how those people should be treated. If you happen to be someone who is running - or is thinking of setting up - a group, programme or event for women (or for a specific group of people for whom gender may be a defining feature) then you need to have an understanding of some of these issues so that you can lead with integrity.

On his sixteenth birthday, Jack McDonald receives a mysterious watch from his long-lost grandfather. He discovers that his watch can turn him into the superhero Trickshot, whose powers he uses to save his classmates from a gang of drug dealers. It turns out that Jack's grandfather sent him the Watch so Jack could become the superhero Trickshot and defend the city from a dangerous threat. But Jack has other purposes for the Watch in mind, such as avenging the death of his older brother at the hands of the evil Injector drug cartel. Now Jack must learn how to use the powers the Watch gives ...

Vital research is starting to challenge long-standing assumptions about gender identity and biological sex, such as work that indicates the brain is a “mosaic” of traits rather than a “male” and “female” brain. Growing knowledge of the genetic complexities of sexual determination is changing the way the medical community treats intersex individuals, and in this audiobook, The New Science of Sex and Gender, we not only examine the latest studies in biology, medicine, and psychology but also, more importantly, their bearing on healthcare, identity, and access.

1963, North London. Nan fosters one-year-old Florence Olajide and calls her "Ann". Florence adores her foster mother more than anything but Nan, and the children around her, all have white skin, and she can’t help but feel different. Then, four years later, after a weekend visit to her birth parents, Florence never returns to Nan. Two months after, sandwiched between her mother and father plus her three siblings, six-year-old Florence steps off a ship in Lagos to the fierce heat of the African sun.

How did Africans become "Blacks" in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make Blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of Blackness in law.

After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing “the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,” returned home with a newfound perspective. Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the culture that often betrayed his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him received those performances.

A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown girl in the Deep South and begins to understand how identity can inspire, inform, and shape a commitment to activism. Her own evolution is a bumpy one, and along the way Enjeti, racially targeted as a child, must wrestle with her own complicity in white supremacy and bigotry as an adult.