Chris Howard

An addictive new drug fuels superhuman strength and speed in this action-packed sci-fi thriller that will have fans of Scott Westerfeld and Marie Lu on the edge of their seats. Only those young enough can survive tetra, a dangerous drug that creates a pulse-pounding rush of enormous strength and incredible speed. Seventeen-year-old Alana West has been trained to use tetra so she can pursue the young criminals who abuse its power—criminals like the one who nearly killed her kid brother. On tetra, Alana is unstoppable—an explosive blur as she surges through New York City. But with the clock ticking down to her eighteenth birthday, Alana will soon be too old for the rush . . . when just one more dose will prove deadly. Supported only by her steady handler, Tucker, Alana goes undercover, infiltrating an elite gang of breaknecks to stop their supply of the drug. But when Alana gets trapped on the wrong side of the law, she learns the breaknecks are not quite what they seem—especially Ethan, the boy who seems to see the truth inside her. With her dependency on tetra increasing, Alana must decide where her loyalties lie, before the rush ends. Forever.

Night Speed

In a world devastated by war and disease, a young tree builder searches for the last trees on earth.

Rootless

Saltwater Witch

Salvage in the first book in an all new Seaborn series by Chris Howard, author of the Seaborn Trilogy: Saltwater Witch, Seaborn, Sea Throne. Jayson Wilraven, Captain of the salvage ship Marcene, takes on the job of raising a ship that mysteriously disappeared nineteen miles off the coast of Cuba, only to find he's being played. Wilraven's life and the lives of his crew are threatened when the charterer reveals that he doesn't want the sunken vessel lifted, but moved instead into much deeper territorial water to hide it. Two thousand miles away, along the coast of California, Jon Andreden starts underwater trials for Knowledgenix's next generation of smart machines when a tiny organic-looking submersible rips through the test space, disrupting the trials. Catching the intruder and searching for its builder leads Andreden into an underworld of people who live in the sea-the seaborn, secret naval projects, killers who strike from international waters, and the first rumbling of a war of immortals and monsters over control of the oceans and the future of human civilization.

Salvage

Kassandra comes from the sea, but she has no memory of saltwater, seagulls, or an incoming tide. She's never seen an ocean, never heard the thunder of surf. She's an exile, betrayed by her own family, sent as far from the sea as they could arrange--somewhere in the middle of Nebraska. Everything changes the day she drowns in Red Bear Lake, and discovers she can't really drown. Not in the way everyone else can. Then a two-thousand year old king wakes inside her head and turns out to be a prodigy with mathematics. Kassandra cries for the first time in her life, and learns that her tears are doorways for calling things from the sea. With clues from summoned sea-demons and the voices in her head, Kassandra sets out to find out what the hell is going on...and discovers she's a prisoner, trapped between a murderous grandfather who controls an army of the drowned dead, river witches who spy on her through the plumbing, and Ms. Matrothy, the Girl's Department Director, who's been trying to kill her since she was four.

Saltwater Witch - Special Edition

Ian Lemke

Angel McCoy

Richard E. Dansky

Brian Campbell

Jackie Cassada

Nicky Rea

Neil Mick

The Dreaming, Second Edition

Changeling

Saltwater Witch Graphic Novel

Banyan was once a tree builder, creating scrap-metal forests for rich clients in a barren burned-out world. Now he's traded his scaffolds for lookouts, his tools for guns. On a stolen boat, surrounded by a mutinous crew, Banyan has escaped from Promise Island with the last living trees on earth, and he's desperate to smuggle them to safety. But powerful enemies are in pursuit, seeking to claim the trees for themselves. To reach a safe haven, Banyan will need the help of the pirate girl he loves, Alpha, his broken friend, Crow, and his troubled sister, Zee. Only together can they cross the mysterious molten wasteland of the rift. And when Banyan discovers a new threat to Alpha's life, he fears he'll lose not only the trees they sacrificed so much to find, but the girl who inspires him and gives him hope.

The Rift

Teller

If I had known my tears were doors for summoning sea demons, I wouldn't have tried so hard to cry. There are plenty of other things I wouldn't have done either, but the sea has ways of getting into my head, into my dreams-ways of making me do things, and even worse, making me think I wanted to do them.I grew up about as far from the ocean as anyone can get. Plenty of rivers and lakes nearby, but sadly it's all freshwater and the sea isn't even a dream in their courses.I grew up fearing water, not trusting it, uncomfortable with more than five gallons gathered in one place. I mean real fear, like the sound of running water made my knees shake. That's the work of Matrothy, the Girl's Department Director.I was four years old the first time she tried to drown me...Kass is a bookish teenager trapped in a mid-west American boarding school, under the reign of the oppressive Girl's Department Director and the watchful eyes of river witches. She never knew her parents. She doesn't know where she's from, or even if she's entirely human. When she drowns on her birthday, everything about her life and her place in the world changes-a mermaid's tail is just the beginning. Kass finds out that her parents didn't abandon her, that there's more to the Director than the brutish, tyrannical façade, and the boarding school is really her prison. Knowledge is a prize, and knowing her enemies is a start, but will it set her free?

Mermaid

Mark Howard

An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field Mark Howard, a record producer/engineer/mixer and a trailblazer in the industry, will take you through the star-studded world of recording and producing Grammy Award–winning artists. Listen Up! is an essential read for anyone interested in music and its making. Along with the inside stories, each chapter gives recording and producing information and tips with expert understanding of the equipment used in making the world’s most unforgettable records and explanations of the methods used to get the very best sound. Listen Up! is both production guide and exclusive backstage pass into the lives of some of the planet’s most iconic musicians. Writing with his brother Chris Howard, Mark Howard provides a rare glimpse into the normally invisible, almost secretive side of the music story: that of the producer and recording engineer.

Recording Music with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2, R.E.M., The Tragically Hip, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits...

Listen Up!

Only the young can survive tetra, a dangerous drug that creates a pulse-pounding rush of enormous strength and incredible speed. Seventeen-year-old Alana West has been trained to use tetra so she can pursue the young criminals who abuse its power, criminals like the one that nearly killed her kid brother.

La Velocidad de la Noche

Aleximor, a four-hundred-year-old sorcerer, wages war and seeks revenge against the entire Seaborn royal line and threatens to use Kassandra, the King of the Seaborn's granddaughter, and college student Corina Lairsey as pawns in his evil plot.

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