Flirt Smarter. Date Better. Love Happily Ever After. Do you always attract the wrong type? Have a hard time making relationships last? Or get stuck being friends instead of lovers? There's no one right way to flirt, but how you flirt says a lot about your chance at love. Dr. Jeffrey Hall's groundbreaking survey, the Flirting Styles Inventory, caused a media sensation when it pinpointed five different flirting styles. First sampled exclusively with eHarmony members, it has since helped tens of thousands of people discover their flirting style and provided a wealth of information on how your style affects your love life. Based on Dr. Hall's cutting-edge research, The Five Flirting Styles shows you how to identify your natural flirting style—physical, playful, sincere, traditional or polite—and use it to flirt smarter and attract the love you really want. Discover: • Where to look for love based on your style • How to tell if someone is interested and avoid missed opportunities • How to tell if someone wants a serious relationship or a quick fling • If you're sending all the wrong signals—and what to do instead

This book answers one of the most critical questions of our time, does the vast connectivity afforded by mobile and social media lead to more personal connection with one another? It offers an evidence-based account of the role of technology in close relationships that confronts such pressing questions as where face-to-face communication belongs in this digital age, whether social media is harmful to our well-being, and how online communication spills-over into our offline communication and relationships. Each chapter explores the positive and negative influences of media on relationships, coalescing into a balanced assessment of how technological advancement has altered our connections with each other. By zeroing in on communication with the most important people in our lives and tracing the changes in computer-mediated communication over time, Relating Through Technology focuses the conversation about media on its use in our everyday lives and relationships.

“What do you think a hero is? It’s just the right person in the right place making the right choice at the right time. Heroes aren’t born. They’re made.” A demonic assassin. A half-orc boxer. A ratman necromancer. Though they take many different shapes and forms, there are heroes all around us. Bravery can be found in the most unexpected places: a subterranean dwarven city; the sands of a temple courtyard in Ancient Egypt; a besieged castle, a Victorian brothel, a goblin warren, the post-apocalyptic ruins of a demon-infested village. Heroes dwell in the shadows as well as the light; you just have to look a little harder to find them. Who do they fight? Some heroes challenge injustice in all its numerous guises, while others hunt monsters both human and bestial. Others battle inner demons, the ghosts of their past, their deepest nightmares – or even the gods themselves. Why do they fight? For glory? Sometimes. For honor? Perhaps. There are those who instinctively strive to protect those weaker than themselves, and there are others emboldened only by a sense of obligation, or the promise of wealth. Whether by the blade or other means, they endeavor to take down all who threaten what is good and right in their world. By hook or by crook, through cunning or combat, with tooth and claw or iron and steel, they are all united in one goal, willingly or not: to live – and die, if necessary – a hero. Choose your weapon. Fight for what you believe in. Never give up. Nineteen fantasy writers gather to bring nineteen tales to life, each one a unique glimpse into a wholly original world.

Hidden pasts. Secrets untold. Legends half-remembered. Fifteen fantasy writers gather to bring fifteen tales to life, each one a unique glimpse into a wholly original world. On the Emerald Road, a dead Sage triggers a brutal trial beneath the forest floor. There, a young man must fight—and kill—both friends and enemies to become the next wielder of the fabled Emerald Blade. In Midgard, a priestess of humble birth forges a strange bond with an ancient being as she searches for justice in a land that often rewards cruelty, betrayal, and bloodshed. And in the Yarnsworld, the Magpie King teaches two brothers a dangerous lesson about the power of stories. Sticks and stones may indeed break bones . . . but they cannot hurt the Bramble Man. In worlds ravaged by flood, fire, and frost, mere mortals strive to make their own legends amidst demons and deities alike. And in lands racked with human strife—where evil endures and no one is ever safe—scarred heroes fight forces even darker than their own personal demons. Why do they fight? Some seek to better the world, or themselves. Others are out to right old wrongs. But whatever their goal - reward, redemption, or just respite - the truth will out eventually. For no story is ever truly lost so long as there exists one to tell it.

It's hard not to be scared when even the sky is your enemyThat's how Eben Kingsbee feels after being hit with a meteor, losing his eye, and ending up with a fistful of stardust lodged in his brain. Now he wears construction goggles wherever he goes, which is usually nowhere but his front yard. Who knows when the universe will decide to fastball a space rock at his head again?All that changes when a mysterious girl digs underneath his fence and destroys his sanctuary. With no other choice but to battle her for his yard, their skirmish forces Eben into the surrounding forest, a place that just happens to be under the direct footfall of the All-Jumper, a creature so large that it uses planets as steps to leap through the universe.Picked up in the giant's foot fungus, Eben is put into an unimaginable landscape with his dog and the one human being he can't stand as his companions...not to mention a few thousand aliens the All-Jumper has picked up along the way. He needs to find a way home. But how can he do that when the other aliens think they're being taken to paradise and have never bothered to figure out a way to leave?When a devious plot threatens to disrupt the All-Jumper's journey, Eben learns he might be the one key to helping it reach its destination, a place that could free him of his fears once and for all. Terrified and far away from home, Eben must choose between finding a way off the giant or becoming the hero that the All-Jumper needs.Come and get stuck in a story that readers are calling Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets James and the Giant Peach