Following the suicide of a seventeen-year-old Toronto street girl who used a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, Lyda Rose, one of the original scientists who developed the drug, sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right.

Featuring the true stories of women creators and thinkers from around the world, throughout history, this book shows that sometimes seeing things a little differently can lead to big changes. Some names are well known, some are not, but all the women had a lasting effect on the fields they worked in. Whether they were breaking ground for innovative structures or breaking rules and creating new ones, the women profiled here not only made a place for...

When a mangled car is pulled from the river containing bloodstains and a gun, the sense of safety is shattered in Tessa's Californian hometown. Tessa, who works at the river conservancy, thinks she saw a girl out on the riverbank--but Tessa's memory is failing, and could this be the start of something more serious? Tessa's friend and co-worker, Claire Barrett, is worried--about the car and the gun, but also about Tessa. With Tessa's attorney husband...

In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in several ways: An imposter claiming to be the legitimate...

Cassie has been falsely accused of tampering with lab results. Then her friend Meredith is hurt in a serious car crash. The situation that becomes complicated when she meets Meredith's brother Bran, who hates Cassie at first sight.