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Follow Captain 8-Leg and his crew aboard the Ninth Tentacle, as they sail the seas looking for adventure. A colouring book with a story where you can add your own colour to the adventure.

From sonnets on the very nature of love life and death; a selection of poems on parenthood, nature, and God; a horror story that will chill your very bones; to a madcap tale of Fruit Ninjas taking on some familiar (but well-disguised) faces. This collection of poetry and prose has it all; something for absolutely everyone.Thomas Rowan's style flips effortlessly from soul-searching philosophy to the creation of terrifying monsters in gothic mansions and zany gaming-style adventures and all of it very readable.

Paul is struggling with the early stages of recovery from addiction to pot and alcohol, trying to write and paint while figuring out what to do with his life, his teaching career as a professor having been interrupted by his addiction. His life is complicated by an increasingly tense relationship with his girlfriend, Jennifer, a former student of his, with their constant arguing driving Paul to the threat of relapse. With this relationship breaking down, Paul's head is quickly turned when he meets Julie at a group meeting, a woman of his own age also recovering from addiction.Torn between his love for Jennifer and his new-found attraction to Julie, Paul must work out which relationship, if any, he truly wants, and avoid letting his tumultuous romantic life send him spiralling back into addiction.

As the princess heir to the beautiful country of Serradon, Jerylia prides herself on being the best at everything she does. Her greatest pride is her famed prowess in battle that has earned her the nickname 'Foebreaker'. The only battle she hasn't conquered is her impending betrothal. With rising drama within her inner circle and pressure from her mother, she finds herself accepting an engagement with a stranger. But disaster strikes on the day of her wedding in the form of a power-hungry empress, set on ruling all Cordava, a disaster which sets her on a long quest to find a dragonslayer, the only person who can help save her kingdom from ruin.

Follow Anika Hart as she starts a revolution. The world became unrecognisable in 2056 when a government known as "The Protectorate" came to power in response to a mysterious illness that infected the population over forty. To combat the spread, America was separated into carefully controlled regions where every adult is accounted for, and a fortieth birthday signifies death. Anika's parents were seized several years ago, and she has lived alone ever since. She still clutches the small hope that, somehow, they have survived, and when word spreads that there may be more to the so-called "deaders" illness than the world has been led to believe, Anika decides to make the world unrecognisable once more. With the help of trusted and unexpected allies, Anika recalls how she became the catalyst for a revolution she believed in, even when she barely believed in herself.

When Julia Swan, heiress to her father Alan's business fortune, receives an anonymous letter from 'DNA Dan', it sparks the beginning of a killing spree the like of which East London, South Africa, has never before seen. His brutal critique of the South African police's ineptitude is only matched by the cruelty of his methods.Fearing for the safety of her family and friends, Julia has no choice but to use her position as a trusted journalist to broadcast Dan's grievances to the world, but her father has other ideas and sets his private security force after Dan.Will his gamble pay off? Should they keep the police in the loop? Are Dan's motives as altruistic as he claims? And will they stop him before he gets too close to Julia?

At the dawn of the world, within the Garden of Eden, the bite of an apple came with more consequences than sin. Time was created, and humanity has struggled to organise it ever since. Our most notable construct, time, has dictated how humans live - dividing ourselves between work, family, and leisure - and changes to time management can be traced through the centuries and the decades. Everything revolves around time, but Richard Moss' central concern is the notion of free time and how we spend it. This book wanders through time, examining concepts of work and idleness, attempting to understand how time came to be, how it has changed, and, at a time when "free" time has never been greater, just what Americans are spending it all on.

A North Korean spy. A US technology firm. A shady spy agency. The Chinese government. An aging mathematician who escaped the Nazis.What links them all?When advanced encryption software is needed for sensitive communications, strapping the system to a commercial satellite might be the only option for the US government. But this leaves them potentially exposed and there are operatives who would exploit any weakness for their own gains.And when a weakness is exposed, disaster threatens as quick as a second.

It all begins with a frozen girl in a lake.After being pulled from an ice-fishing hole, she has no memory of her life before, and her new friends, Lanya and Wodena, christen her Popsicle. But when talk turns to Christmas everyone is surprised to find Popsicle turns into an ice bear upon any mention of the day itself.Is this connected to the liver-shaped pendant found around her neck? Is any of it connected to the vampiric attacks happening in the nearby town? And what do the Royal Family and Navy have to do with this?When Popsicle's memories are recovered, she discovers she is at the center of events that are too much for her to handle alone.With the help of Prince Spike and friends she embarks on a quest to set things right for the Royal Family, the military and herself.

Tahira longs for one thing: freedom. But as she is a slave in the land of Typeg, she knows she is doomed to work, be beaten, and sold to other Masters until she dies. Freedom is impossible for her, even when her Mistress takes her on an indefinite ocean voyage. But a few weeks into the voyage, a pirate ship attacks. Tahira is taken aboard, but the mysterious Captain Haefen refuses to tell her where he's taking her. Now forced to live among dangerous pirates, Tahira wonders if she will ever be free.

Like her parents, Antosha Scarlett is an archaeologist. She travels the world, seeking out forgotten pasts and retrieving lost artifacts. On returning home to Avíola Viete from one such exhibition, Antosha is attacked by an assassin, only just managing to escape.After Antosha receives an invitation to work on the site of The Lost City by renowned archaeologist, Tombask Wilshire, she is torn. It is every archaeologist's dream but many years ago, it was Tombask who invited Antosha's parents to The Lost City when she was a child - and where a terrible tragedy took place.Setting out towards The Lost City, Antosha is hunted across the seas. She finds friendship and safety with Nathious Swanson only to discover that he has his own secrets, and soon, everything Antosha knows becomes threatened.With the past racing to catch up with Antosha, everyone has their own agenda and the magical powers and abilities that she and those around her have might not be enough to protect her. Will she make it out alive, or will the magical secrets of The Lost City destroy everything Antosha has worked for, and everyone she loves?

Axel has spent all his adult life angry, and most of it drunk. If he cannot find a way without alcohol to defuse the rage, it will overwhelm and drown him.On a whim after momentarily getting sober, Axel joins a boxing gym. There he finds release, a welcoming family, and a sense of purpose that he has not felt in a very long time. Returning to his first love, chess, he decides to bring these two pursuits together into the crazy world of chess boxing, a biathlon of alternating rounds of boxing and speed chess.The chess boxing bouts strain Axel to his physical and mental limits. Will he find peace battling the added adversity? And can he begin a new, hopeful life?

In Comatose, nothing is quite as it seems. Alexandra lives a seemingly normal life. She works at Love and Flowers, an unconventional kind of flower shop, and in her spare time builds her collection of indie video games with her twin brother, Benjamin. Her aims in searching for new games push more towards obscurity until one day she finds COMATOSE, an unknown game with a mysterious origin. As she and her brother begin to play the game, secrets will be revealed continuously as they race towards its end. What is the true origin of the game, and why do the twins feel such a pull to it?Enticing, engaging, and wholly thrilling, Anna Lopes' Comatose is a story that pulls together unexpected elements into a tale that is sure to grip you. A true page-turner, this book will not leave you once you have put it down.

When Sela's sister is found dead in her upscale San Francisco apartment, everyone is shocked at the suicide note found at the scene. Sela hires a private investigator, and they quickly find out it was no suicide. In fact, Sela's fiancé of two years could be involved in the murder.As the investigation widens, Sela realizes she is living a nightmare. She is forced to marry Matt, even though she doesn't love him, and she knows he is having an affair. As greed takes over, people close to Sela spin out of control, and nothing could prepare her for what she is about to find out.

Robin was born into a loveless relationship and is still unsure who his father was. By the age of four he was placed in a "home" which is a nice name for "orphanage". This life was to become a normal existence until age eleven when he was sent to Thirsk in Yorkshire to live with, at first his sister and grandfather and when this didn't work, with his mother and stepfatherDespite making many friends of his own age, life at home was again without any feeling of being part of a family. No interest was shown in what he did, whether schooling, sports or interests he was left to his own devices.By the time he was sixteen he couldn't wait to get away and so under the auspice of the Big Brother Movement he left Thirsk and sailed to Australia to work on a sheep and cattle station. Here he was made welcome by an Aussie family, married their daughter, and was eventually conscripted and sent to South Vietnam.He now lives in a small town in New South Wales and apart from health issues is quite content with his life. He and his wife have four children, thirteen grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Together they have taught him about family.

History repeats itself while technology advances. Wars cause immigration and resettlement in new homes. Teddy Bear's voice records two overlapping cycles of events within the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Austria, England, the United States and Afghanistan are all connected through World War II and Afghan War refugees and asylum seekers. Yesterday and today, interconnected as immigrants find a new home in the United States. "Land of the free and the home of the brave".

Have you ever wondered what happens inside your body when you're sick? That's the only question on twelve-year-old Alex's mind when he catches a nasty cold on the biggest day of his life, the day of the sixth-grade science fair. His dreams of competing and beating his arch enemy, Zoey Perez, are in danger. But as the day begins, Alex makes an amazing discovery - his dad, Frank, is a superhero!Frank becomes Micro Dad, a hero with the power to shrink to the size of a microbe and do battle with the unpleasant, bad-tempered, cold virus, known as The Rhino and his army of germs, who want nothing but to destroy Alex. Micro Dad must travel through Alex's body and team up with his white blood cells to defeat The Rhino, save Alex and get him to the science fair. It's a race against time. Can Micro Dad make it?

In this anthology of poetry and prose, Abigail Kipp explores themes of lost love, drug abuse, destructive love and obsession, sexual abuse, violence, mental illness, pain, and suicide attempts. She uses crystal-clear, complex imagery to describe bleak scenes of the modern world. Although shattering in concept and execution, this anthology is nonetheless brilliant and relatable on every level.

After years of violence and unconstitutional legislation, the United States of America hurtled towards an inevitable conflict. Following the resulting civil war, survivors from both sides now searched for some semblance of a life in the ravaged nation. People flocked to the few remaining cities to escape the uncertainty of the lawless countryside and Chicago is where Ayla hoped to find her way. Life was hard for most Americans and was no different for her. She spent her days working in the city's downtrodden market, and in the evenings, her and her roommates did their best to distract each other from their struggles. Things went on like that for a while and Ayla was starting to believe that her past could remain locked away, that is until an old friend came knocking at her door offering a choice: stay hidden in Chicago selling homemade clothes, or leave, and fight for the world she longed to rebuild.

An angel lies on the ground among indifferent people and things. What does it mean? Let's follow it in its nowhere travel through carousels of words, pinwheels of allusions, curves of thoughts. Let's explore its body as the map for a journey through mankind: it lies there to tell us about us, like a new messiah, or a poet.The Dead Angel by Mario Campanino, appearing here in English for the first time, talks about the power of the poetic word to go deep inside the human soul.

A dark-haired southern beauty, Delta Daze, is left reeling from unspeakable trauma beneath the muddy surface of the Mississippi Delta.The Daze family are hardworking country folks whose lives are filled with activity, understanding and warmth. However, it is not just another sleepy Delta day at the farm. The ideal is in fact troubled for the maturing generations of the Two-Mile-Lake community as they enter tricky romantic relationships, family loss, and various uncertainties. Bill, Keith, and Delta are weaved together through such experiences and raw trials in the everyday.Delta Daze is undoubtedly a tale of prevailing optimism and revival as they lean on each other and their families for support. It is a stark picture of reality with a coming of age and a coming of hope.

Sara Anderson loves her job as charge nurse at Chicago General Hospital, but she has an unexpected visitor, a tall, husky lawyer who informs her that she has inherited a bar in Bar Harbor from her grandfather. She isn't interested in running a bar as she is happy in her job, but she is told that there is a long-time man in charge of everything, Roy Larsen, who lives on the property. She therefore has the option of selling the bar or living on it and making a good living off the business. Sara doesn't know the first thing about running a bar but decides that she needs to visit it to manage her affairs and help her decide. Roy meets her off the plane and introduces her to the beauty of Bar Harbor and its small time feel. He also has an influence on her final decision in an unexpected way...

Terry Thompson's wife, Julie-Ann, is everything to him.But his world comes crashing around his ears when she dies giving birth to their daughter.The attending doctor, Dr. Connie Smythe, helps to comfort him afterwards.Little does he know that his wife had plans for him and Dr. Smythe and tried to set them in motion before her death.But fate gets in the way, and it seems that the two will be unable to fullfil their destiny.Even if they do, will Terry ever be able to accept Dr. Connie when he finds out who she really is?Can Julie-Ann's dying wish ever come true?

Franklin is like any family man. Struggling to get by, he works as a mechanic in a small town to support his wife, Sharlene, and son, Jason. But as we get to know him more closely, and find out more about his past, we discover that there is more to him than meets the eye, and first impressions can be misleading. As his marriage with his wife takes a turn, and his behaviour becomes stranger and stranger, shocking events begin to happen across town, calling in to question just how Franklin will be able to cope, and what lengths he's willing to go to turn his luck around.Stag is a gripping novella that tackles trust and loss, making the reader question their own judgements at times, and overall proves to be a thrilling tale that will stay with you long after the book has been closed.

You are invited to join in a journey through as much of the human experience as is possible within the confines of this collection of poetry and find a source of comfort in this trying and uncertain time of human history. Hopefully, you will find it enlightening and stupefying, uplifting, and infuriating, funny and serious, happy and sad. And maybe it will inspire you to proceed with committing whatever ideas currently kick about in your head to paper.The poem topics are varied - humorous ( who could forget The Most Muscular Mussel); historical, where moments or people in history come alive in a way that is engaging and emotionally investing; romantic, which celebrate love as the most important and cherished facet of the human experience; contemplative, which attempt to present curious questions about the human condition or present human worries and insecurities in a relatable light; and finally an expedition into the mundane in hopes of finding within it a nice bounty of treasures.

In this anthology of poems, Misty Barber, a native of Gold Coast, Australia, looks to express and share the experiences many of us have in our attempts to fit in with those around us and find someone who makes us feel truly special, however hard this might be. She draws inspirations from the movies and books she experienced throughout her childhood with the goal of creating her own stories for people who are less frequently written about and for. Delving into the very deepest parts of her emotional expression, Barber can conjure up poems that will speak to anyone who is looking for a reassuring hand that will let them know that they are not alone in their experiences - those anxieties that crop up are universal ones, and ones that are expressed with beauty within this book.

This is the story of an ordinary fellow who thinks he's a loser. When he must deal with property rights, a disruptive family, death, and love, he proves to himself --- and to us - he's wrong. Dogs are at the heart of what happens. He's soft-spoken, and his hat usually does the talking for him, but when he finally stands for what's right, Marvin Dorset becomes eloquent and very much a champion. As all of us are!

In a life already fraught with loss, a young Kathleen Washington, scraping to survive among the seedy rowhouses of Cabbagetown, finds herself pregnant, the father nowhere to be found.After the untimely deaths of both parents, Kathleen struggles to keep her head above water, faced with the crushing responsibility of caring for both her baby and younger siblings in ever uncertain times. This is her story.Following Kathleen as she fights to give her son the best life she can, Some Good is a deeply personal tale of hardship and tragedy, and the courage and sacrifice required to overcome it. It reflects how deeply a guardian's love for their child runs, and how the ripples of this love can spread across generations.

Author Peter Kent is a avid book reader and he loves writing science fiction fantasy stories.His passion for the genre shines through in his latest novel The Legend of the Stones of Life.This is a story of good versus evil; of the predators - several races of creatures who inhabit the dark seas of the planet. These disparate tribes are violently united in their joint quest to overthrow the peace-loving celestial peoples who live on the lands of this beautiful planet.This tale of the struggle between darkness and light will keep the reader gripped to the very end.