Shaefer and Swiatkowska present the courageous true story of Arrowhawk, an endangered bird of prey who, with sheer determination and will, survives eight weeks in the wild with a poacher's arrow through his thigh and tail. Full color.

A post-human era. Power plays deep within the shadows. A threat unlike any the world has ever known… Captain Alicia Conrad worked hard to get herself back together. And still weighed down by her father’s military legacy, she accepts command of a team of superhumans protecting the U.S. from foreign threats. But when their humanitarian aid mission turns out to be a cover for illegal operations, she vows to bring the villains to justice… no matter the cost. With the world still rocked by the recent assassination of a small nation’s president, Captain Conrad discovers a connection between her unit’s target and the country’s precious resource. And as she juggles a crew unsure about fighting this new enemy, she fears she might be steering them all into insurmountable peril. Can Captain Conrad take down a sinister cabal bent on global domination? Vigil is the pulse-pounding first book in the Vigil science fiction thriller series. If you like fascinating superheroes, fast-paced gun battles and car chases, and exciting twists and turns, then you’ll love P.B. Obeng’s page-turning adventure. Buy Vigil to stand watch against evil today!

A super-team struggling to keep the world in order. A techno-organic virus threatening to rewrite all of humanity. Captain Alicia Conrad isn’t sure she’s on the right side of the coming cyberwar. So as she leads her team of superhumans to Japan on their quest for global safety, she’s conflicted by the compromises forced on her to support their supposed heroics. And when a technopath vanishes, it isn’t long before she suspects a powerful corporation , led by the enigmatic Dennis Stroud, is behind the sinister abduction. Desperate for answers, Conrad and her team are horrified when their hunt for the truth reveals a whistleblower and his family’s brutal slaughter. And with shadowy powers rising to claim everything she holds dear, she discovers a terrifying menace waiting to be unleashed: a revolutionary man-made virus jeopardizing all of humankind. Can one leader expose the ugly reality before the planet falls to a madman’s warped vision? Sovereign is the electrifying second book in the Vigil science fiction thriller series. If you like a broad cast of characters, thought-provoking evolutionary dilemmas, and thrilling adventures, then you’ll love P.B. Obeng’s explosive tale. Buy Sovereign to crack open the conspiracy today!

The fifth title in the New York Times–bestselling saga of civil war and chaos in the darkest part of the Forgotten Realms setting Quenthel Baenre and her band of dark elves embark on a journey into the endless Abyss, hoping to find answers to Lolth’s silence—or Lolth herself—in its depths. They have already survived the terrors of Ched Nasad, Myth Drannor, and the Underdark, but even these dangers pale in comparison to what awaits them in the chaotic infinity of the Demonweb Pits. What they discover there is more shocking than they could have ever imagined, leading them far beyond the Abyss and to a different plane altogether. Annihilation expands the civil upheaval among the drow, one of the most popular races in the Forgotten Realms setting. It also features a prologue from R.A. Salvatore, the bestselling author who brought drow society to the forefront of the Forgotten Realms setting.

"Familiar hands tossed him gently into the winter air. Hawk flapped his wings and skimmed the earth. Then he beat his wings harder, rose, and flew over the trees. And straight as an arrow, Hawk soared into the wild." The story of an injured red-tailed hawk's survival and freedom A hungry red-tailed hawk sits near a fence post and devours his catch. Out of nowhere a poacher's arrow pierces his body, seriously injuring him and leaving him to fend for himself. This is the courageous true story of Arrowhawk-an endangered bird of prey who, with sheer determination and will, survives eight weeks in the wild with a poacher's arrow through his thigh and tail. Stunning illustrations capture his remarkable journey from peril and rescue to eventual freedom. "Arrowhawk" is a 2005 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year.

Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau, a force permeating the universe that was accessible through vision quests. Following the end of the Southern Plains wars in 1875, the Kiowas were confined within the boundaries of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache (Plains Apache) Reservation. As wards of the government, they witnessed the extinction of the bison herds, which led to the collapse of the Sun Dance by 1890. Though prophet movements in the 1880s had failed to restore the bison, other religions emerged to fill the void left by the loss of the Sun Dance. Kiowas now sought daudau through the Ghost Dance, Christianity, and the Peyote religion. Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines the historical and sociocultural conditions that spawned the new religions that arrived in Kiowa country at the end of the nineteenth century, as well as Native and non-Native reactions to them. A thorough examination of these sources reveals how resilient and adaptable the Kiowas were in the face of cultural genocide between 1883 and 1933. Although the prophet movements and the Ghost Dance were short-lived, Christianity and the Native American Church have persevered into the twenty-first century. Benjamin R. Kracht shows how Kiowa traditions and spirituality were amalgamated into the new religions, creating a distinctive Kiowa identity.