Your child has an autism diagnosis. What now?

How can you help? First, do no harm. Well, that’s a no-brainer for parents, right?

When your child receives an autism diagnosis, the research begins. You want to learn all that you can and find the best ways to help him.

You will receive advice from specialists that makes sense to you - it fits with your life...

Revenge came at a heavy price.

Valkyrie hacker Amber Brown is deadly in her own right, but her preferred weapon is a keyboard. So after her teammates left her for dead, she took her revenge the way she was trained to—swiftly and brutally. Except one of her targets might be innocent. To right that wrong, Amber vows to rescue the at-risk Valkyrie no matter...

From time to time, the “haves” of society shape and manipulate the type of information the “have-nots” absorb and become.

The “haves” tamper with information so to control the type of thoughts and actions the “have-nots” might conjure. If the “have-nots” were free to think freely, they might challenge the status quo. If the current state of affairs is...

A gritty rebel with dangerous ties. A secretive mine that buries more than it excavates. A handful of ancient bones with dark origins.

Shikoba, feisty daughter of the tribal queen Aisha, has been trained since birth to defend her people. On the cusp of her final trials, she is swept away by a dragon and a Djinn shapeshifter. Bearer of a crystal heart...

An uplifting book of love, personal power and intuition is part fairy tale, part self-actualisation.

Buckan, a brave young stag, embarks on a journey to find a mythical garden in order to gain the strength to save his fellow deer from the attacking wolves. The journey tests his faith and courage, and forces him to overcome his deepest fears.

A tale of...

Fear permeates the village of Spirit River, where the proposed expansion of a mining and smelter operation could threaten the waters of idyllic Awan Lake. RGI has a shaky reputation worldwide for its disregard and manipulation of environmental regulations, to say nothing of a history of bullying national governments and local communities alike. Frank...

From Hollywood Hills mansions and Century City towers, to South Central motels and the oceanside refinery, The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine spans a mythic L.A., following seven spectacular characters (or Beasts) from games designer Jaymi’s game-worlds. The intensity of those Beasts’ creation cycles leads to their release into real life in...

Could one summer affair mend your broken heart? In Helena Halme’s latest page-turner, a grieving mother is about to find out …

After the tragic loss of their 17-year-old son, journalist Alicia and surgeon Liam struggle to keep their marriage afloat. During their usual holiday to Åland, the Nordic islands where Alicia grew up, the rift between the couple...

Just west of the Rocky Mountains, a frightened horse with a bloody saddle is found running loose on the Yellowhead highway. Former RCMP investigator Hunter Rayne is on the road in his eighteen-wheeler when he’s flagged down to help calm the horse and find its missing rider.

The horse with the bloody saddle leads Hunter and a good-natured French Canadian...

Warning!! Contains Aussie blokes, swearing, fairies and mild drug use.

“a terrific balance of humor, sweetness, romance and action”
“complex, richly drawn characters, and a multifaceted storyline”
“just what I needed”
“surprising and adult-centric wit”
“delicious, quirky and very real”
“I learned more about every day Australia than I could have thought...

Horror aficionado Lanie Adams should be thrilled when two eighties-era ghosts materialize in her bedroom. Yet after a fainting incident unbecoming of a horror nerd, she would rather her haunting just go away—the ghosts’ waterlogged voices and ice-cold auras are more terrifying than any movie. Enlisting the help of Ryan, an entirely-too-cute stoner, she...

A tree is torn from his forest home and all that he loves, but there is courage in the heart of a little boy to protect his belovèd tree.

The author dreamt up this story after witnessing the abandonment of trees on city sidewalks after Christmas, but here his invention of a magical journey for one such tree will transport you through time and space and...

"Chandra had yet to fathom why Jonnecht could not have lived and ruled for many long years, or why it was so urgent that she ascend immediately."

Chandra never asked to rule Kensrik, but fate took a strange course. Known as a usurper and sorceress by most and traumatised by all that has transpired, she is forced to make use of the few loyal allies she has...

Dieselpunk and decopunk are alternative history re-imaginings of (roughly) the WWI and WWII eras: tales with the grit of roaring bombers and rumbling tanks, of 'We Can Do It' and old time gangsters, or with the glamour of flappers and Hollywood starlets, smoky jazz and speakeasies.

The stories in this volume add fairy tales to the mix, transporting classic...

Thirty-six-year-old Olivia is an artist who’s just been let go from her day job. Also, the presumed love of her life has suddenly decamped to another continent to avoid a lawsuit - but all of this pales when Olivia finds out that her beloved grandmother, the woman who raised her, has had a stroke. Olivia rushes back to her hometown of Stafford Falls to...

A woman with a hidden past. A new love on the horizon. Will the truth set her free or cost her everything?

Madeleine Ross has meticulously organized her world to leave no trace of her criminal past. After creating a new identity for herself, her only remaining connection to her previous life is the security work she does for a small-town insurance company...

Consumate storyteller, Lorina Stephens, returns with a novel of grief and the power of forgiveness

There is a conversation that should have happened between Vi Cotter and her mother. Now it’s too late.

But sometimes the dead speak through the legacy they leave, and in this case Vi’s mother bequeaths her, among other things, her journals. Do we sometimes...

Hell crumbled and out they crawled… Seventeen-year-old Cia is resourceful, tenacious, and a survivor. She has to be to stay alive in a perilous, post-apocalyptic world teeming with horrors. When she finds a terrified autistic boy, hiding from the creatures who’ve killed his parents, she decides to take care of him and comes to love him like a brother...

A mysterious prisoner, long forgotten. Ancient blood ties of horrifying significance. A sly trap is sprung with terrifying consequences. Kara, heart bearer of Bastion, returns to Gaia to begin her mission. Aided by Chryso, her djinn Dragonmerger and a feisty dragon named Beryl, they fly into the core of the dangerous stronghold of the emperor. Her...

A story of second chances that's impossible to put down “Everything the world loves about British comedy.”— USA Today bestselling author Shannon Mayer

“Like if Nick Hornby wrote a time travel, body swap adventure!”— New York Times bestselling author Mimi Strong

Jo's world is about to change forever, and it’s about time Her marriage is on...

In Emmiel, a tranquil village in the heart of western Lanacoby, young Dorean is set to follow in his father’s farming footsteps; but the words of a prophecy, spawned centuries ago, have committed his life to a much greater purpose. When a mysterious man arrives, unannounced and uninvited, in the winter before Dorean’s eighth bornday, the peace of Emmiel...

At the peak of Rome's might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages. In A.D. 197, Emperor Septimius Severus led one of the largest invasion forces in Rome’s history against the Parthian Empire.

Among the men of thirty-three legions is Lucius Metellus Anguis, a young man from an ancient Equestrian...

A brutal murder on a quiet, residential street leaves police with more questions than answers. An investigation reveals that the deceased, Amy Whitaker, had a secret second life, which family, friends and colleagues knew little about. DCI Tony Lane and his team are assigned to the case. Lane’s attention quickly turns to Amy’s husband, Lewis Whitaker, but...

A knock on the door of his dockside home one evening reveals an attractive woman who tells Frank Anderson she may have found a body floating on peaceful Awan Lake. A normally solitary but well-respected contractor and handy-man, Anderson recognizes a lady in distress, but his willing response leads both of them into a fourteen-day search for answers that...

Taylor Sinclair makes an explosive return to Toronto after a grueling North American tour to promote her book, Leila’s Locket. The media has been murderous, but it’s about to get worse with Sarah Johnson’s trial just days away. Adding more stress, Taylor learns that NNN is about to air interviews with Sarah and Darryl Johnson which could reveal any number...

She never realized until she lost him that he was the only man she’d ever love. Katy and Steven were the loves of each other’s lives until a tragedy and the fallout of Steven’s injuries drove the couple apart. They share a son, but Katy and Steven have moved on with their lives, dating other people, and neither has seen the other in five long years...

'You don't wake up expecting to die.' Katie is thirty-two, single, and used to work in advertising. She's also dead. A lost soul hitching rides with the dying, trying to find her way to... wherever she's supposed to be. And whoever she's supposed to be with. Heaven, it seems, has a thousand rooms. What will it take to find hers?

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After suffering a devastating loss, artist Sandra Lyall runs south to Mexico seeking solace from her grief. She finds refuge in a small Baja hotel on the edge of the sea to which she returns each winter to continue the healing of her heart. But this year’s stay would be different. When a scruffy Englishman with a posh accent offers to buy the painting she’s...