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An encounter in a New York alleyway leaves journalism student Rick changed forever. After protecting his girlfriend from near-certain death, Rick goes on to discover he can save not only those he loves, but also the citizens of the world as a real-life superhero. Given new powers, however, he soon becomes the target. Can he save the world and the ones he loves the most?

For over thirty years Gerald Dickens has been performing an energetic and exciting one-man show based on his great great grandfather's most famous book, A Christmas Carol. Yet as a schoolboy and young man he could scarcely bring himself to read any of the works of Charles Dickens.In this autobiographical account, Gerald tells the story of how Charles' 'ghostly little book' led to a vocation and came to dominate his adult life.From a childhood in Kent to his extensive tours of the USA, Gerald's story is filled with rich details and wonderful anecdotes, as he explains how an internationally acclaimed performance was created and honed.By sharing his extensive performance notes he explains how every line and movement help to build the atmosphere originally created by Charles Dickens in 1843.Gerald Dickens: My Life On The Road With A Christmas Carol is a fascinating insight into the world of one-man theatre, and a life lived celebrating the works of the greatest author of the Victorian age.

"We only lose if we quit."In a memoir of moving openness and reflection, Nomahlubi Jakuja tells her story of triumph, tragedy, and faith. Leaving nothing unsaid, her journey through personal and professional hardship will inspire readers of all walks of life to reflect on what matters most to them.Through business success and marital failure, from the joy of friendship to the cold hospital bed, Jakuja walks the reader back along the path she trod. Full of wit, honesty, and astounding resilience, this is a tale of one woman's journey to true happiness through God.

When Haley Meyers opens a new chapter in her life with a move to the charming town of Englewood, Pennsylvania, everything seems perfect: her freshly remodelled apartment, easy access to her therapy practice, and a handsome downstairs neighbour to boot. The very last thing she expects as a housewarming gift is the sudden appearance of her long-deceased father.Her idyllic image of the small town disappears when Haley finds herself the target of an unknown stalker who goes on a campaign of terror and destruction. She puts her newfound psychic talents to good use, but will she be able to discover who is after her before someone gets hurt? When her client is the victim of foul play, Haley can't help but wonder: Will she be next?

Upon the Hillock describes life in the wild hills and woodlands of Kerala in India. A place where snakes, elephants and tigers are a common threat to the people that live there.This story follows the life of a princess, Rajalakshmi, who is banished from the royal household in disgrace after her conniving cousin, the Kings niece, ensures she is caught in a compromising position with a young man.She is sent to live in a compound run by a lecherous man who has designs on winning her affections. However, after becoming ill with a bout of smallpox, she is left in the woodlands to die. She survives, however, after being found by a native called Kodanddi, himself heir to the throne of his tribe.They marry and have a son, a male heir to the King's throne... and then soldiers start turning up, and the couple worries for their son's life.Will the niece succeed in her plan? Kodanddi and Rajalakshmi go into hiding with their son and Kodanddi's mother to stop this from happening. Will the young heir survive?

In Confessions of an Australian Assimilator, author, Barnaby Growling, arrives in Australia on the 22nd of March 2021. He settles when he arrives in Rockhampton in September 2021. It is now January 2022, and his heart has yet to flutter. He is living a bit of an Australian stereotype. Those who know him best have said that if anyone deserves to be here, he does. But even if he chooses to accept the premise that he had a special capacity to run harder and faster than anybody else, in the relay race that brought him to the lucky country, he knows it would have meant nothing if all the people who assisted him hadn't put a baton in his hand to cross the finish line with. You can't win without that.

Paulie Zahn is a sergeant in the army, awarded with the Purple Heart, an Air Medal with a V for valor, and a Distinguished Flying Cross. One fateful meeting with a captivating woman during her vacation leads Paulie on a roller coaster of events that change her life forever.Spartak Newmark and his company has been interested in Sgt. Paulie Zahn since before her attack. After her conversion, her skills that she learned in the army as well as her new-found vampire talents make her indispensable for the Newmark Industries and their vampire coven. But someone else surfaces in their area that has become too interested in Paulie as well. A group of rogue vampires created by Newmark's adversaries begin stalking Paulie, considering her their property as she was created by one of their own. Now, Paulie along with the Newmark clan must discover the den of the rogue vampires and eliminate them before they get their hands on her.

Eric Sommerson works at the Endless Crusts Pizza Crust Factory in a job that makes him question every day what he is doing with his life. Coming from a well-regarded family, a lot is expected of him but under all this pressure he prefers to seek solace in the virtual world of video games, where he at least feels like he has some power over the world around him. When his parents get him the VirtuaHelmTM, Eric finds a virtual reality world where he can live out his fantasies more realistically and more convincingly than he has ever done before, as well as meet people from across the world, all in one online space, the city of Prium. This opportunity comes with many challenges that Eric and his group of friends must face, that provide them all with the sense of purpose they had all been missing in their 'real' lives.

When the Monolith fired, the world cracked open, and life on Missidia fell into ruin and disrepair. Decades later the Five Noble Nations play a game of secret alliances and constant intrigue. But a new player has joined their ranks, and they intend to win once and for all... even if the whole world will lose.Nathan's world is a paradox; receiving protection from the very gangs that threaten his family. The streets have taught him to keep his head down, as attention only brings misery or worse. He dreams of a better life while his father warns of unseen dangers beyond the familiar slums. But there's more to Nathan's story then he realizes, and anonymity alone will not be enough to keep his family safe.Meanwhile, Arwin struggles to find allies as an evil queen seeks to reawaken an unstoppable force. Even if she can manage to expose the sinister plot, it's been decades in the making, and the enemy is dangerously close to achieving their goals. Missidia's precarious stability depends on Arwin's success - if her actions don't rip it apart first.

The author believes the people of the twenty-first century, regardless of how healthy, intelligent, successful, and normal they might be, need a new mindset and new horizons to consciously live well, safeguarding their mental health and not to fall deep into the feeling of being overwhelmed by the force of many challenges, dualities and uncertainties forecasted for the twenty-first century. Dissecting the topics of mental health and living well from multiple angles, including the undercurrent societal changes affecting human psyche and life situations, the author, a visionary writer, and an experienced psychotherapist with societal humanistic perspective, directly through providing much useful knowledge, information, and insights, and indirectly through stimulating minds to ponder over many interesting related concepts, pushes awareness of the subject to new heights. She sketches and defines a self-coaching vehicle for safeguarding mental health and inner strength also for making objective decisions, and living well.

Open your eyes. Pay attention. Focus on what LJ Heron is telling you in this book and your life may just undergo a drastic change. This is a call to all women out there to put yourselves first. It's not about dropping or resetting your lives. It's about minor changes that have monumental consequences in your families. A kind word, a show of affection and reconnecting with your partner can change your entire life.This is about empowering women to take control of your lives and moving forward how you want it to. Brutally honest and divulging truths, it's about setting aside your egos and focusing on improving your lives, letting resentments go and being happy every single day. So, pick up this book and see if you can rekindle the romance or if it's the end of your marriage.

This book of poetry by Jim Duff delves into topics of love, nature, religion, materiality, and mortality through the eyes of gods. Thoughts both existential and personal are expressed with passion, colour, and dazzling creativity as the gods of Love, Reason, Industry and Rhetoric lament and celebrate their work, and the sublime unpredictability they observe on Earth. As the stories of these gods, present in both masculine and feminine forms, personify the beauty and pain of nature into magnificent sentient forms, Duff's imagery is framed in a romantic, fantastical context which, contained in a structure of stanzas, convey the liminality and freedom of the Life at the heart of this book.

With a drunk as a father, a horrible stepmother and two needy stepsisters, Keilee is a young woman forced to hunt the dangerous Blood Wood forest to feed her poor family and to earn money. As she hunts, she comes across a huge white wolf that she is afraid is Fae and uses an iron arrow to kill it when the wolf is about to attack, this being one of the only things that can harm a Fae creature. Little does she know the consequences of killing the wolf and how this will change her life for ever.From finding new friends and more to discovering more about her family history, Keilee goes on adventures that are both frightening and enthralling with a surprise waiting for at the end. She discovers more about herself in the process and finds out just what she is capable of.

Chief Agbo Aje, the avaricious head candidate to be re-elected as the Senate President, is certain he will emerge victorious. Bathing in deference and veneration, his political triumph is already guaranteed, the only outlier to his domination being the acquisition of Ofu Forest. For Chief Aje, the forest is trove of monetary gain, an addition to his successful palm oil refinery business, but Obande Ofu, the owner of the sacred land, refuses to sell.Powerful and tragic, Where is My Daughter explores the tensions between tradition and modernity in contemporary Nigeria. Following both the families of Chief Aje and Obande Ofu, the novel portrays social injustice in a war against corruption and modernisation, tied together by the feud of Ofu Forest.

Isabella grew up in the Australian outback in a constant state of fear, desperately afraid of the mother who controlled her. At fifteen, she left Australia for an American university on a tennis and academic scholarship. While she majored in speech pathology, her heart lay in gymnastics, and she remained unsure where life would lead her. As she traverses an on-off relationship with her university boyfriend and wrestles with complicated friendships and unexpected heartbreaks, Isabella must decide who she is and how she wants to spend her life. With dreams of coaching a gymnastics team to the Olympics, and finding a love deserving of her, Isabella faces a difficult decision: remain in America, where she found solace and family, or follow her heart toward unknown but potentially greater things.

Love is often considered a universal human emotion, but love has never been singular, it is manifold and unique; there is no correct way to love yourself or another and we all must learn this the hard way.In this collection of poetry Alexa Lewis reviews her experiences with love and their culmination. Diving into past relationships she confronts the expectations of what it means to love and be loved and how this singular emotion can multiply and inhabit every other facet of a person's life. Utilising a mix of the standard poetic format and extended sections prose poetry Lewis creates a cohesive recollection of past events which bleed into the present.

How many mysteries can one death reveal?It is 1400, and in London there is a house, and, in that house, there is a master and his servants. One day, the master is found dead in his own study with no witnesses and possibly too many motives. With no real clues to go on other than a ripped piece of paper, a sheriff of the king is called in to discover the truth of the death. Along the way, the sheriff, Lord Silas Payton, will find himself faced with various new mysteries whilst trying to solve the first, as each testimony he is given seems swamped with secrets and inconsistencies.He will be forced to question the loyalty of his friends. He will discover family ties lost and found, reuniting secret relatives. He may even uncover a secret society plotting against the king himself!But will he find out what happened to Chaucer?

Our King - the beloved King London - has been kidnapped!A routine hunting expedition has turned to disaster thanks to a vicious Strongman attack,which has left his entire hunting party dead and the King missing.The people of Peace City blame YOU.As the Commander of the Royal Protectors, they say, you should have been there instead of frolicking in the public gardens with your children. How are they to know it was your Rest Day?You must restore your honour. You must fulfil your vows.You MUST rescue the King.Succeed, and not only do you restore your honour, but you shall also be richly rewarded.Should you fail, hundreds of thousands of innocent, untrained civilians will be drafted into the biggest ground war ever launched against the terrible Strongmen in the three-thousand-year history of New Earth, where most - if not all - will be sure to die.In this role-playing adventure, YOU will make the decisions that will determine the ultimate outcome of this high-stakes mission. Choose your team members, your equipment, and your weapons with care. The right choice at the right time could save countless lives, including your own.Good luck, Commander!

This book, Six Children For Saleis part of a series of five books in allAn Infernal Relay Get-AwaySix Children For SaleRagdollA Chip in my ShoulderA Deadly Invisible Shield

Vestigium Titano Rgis is a Custodes, a guardian, named for his grandfather, the greatest of all the Custodes. After their home is overrun and taken over by demons, he and his family are forced to flee. Leaving his father behind forever.After a dreadful accident before Ves is even fourteen years old leaves a demon bonded to his soul, he is forced to leave the rest of his family, striking out on his own to discover his destiny.With the help of a witch, a goddess, and a plethora of mythical beasts, he finds acceptance among strangers and learns the extent of his true Custodes power, but is it enough to finish off the demon clawing at his soul before it destroys him forever?

History. Violence. Vengeance."Whatever happened between Crooked Taylor and Major McCleod after they rode out of town can only be guessed at now."Crooked Taylor is a man full of hate, who will stop at nothing and spare no one to bring down his target. Major McCleod is just as determined to bring Crooked- the most wanted man west of the Mississippi- to a grim and brutal justice.The men leave a trail of hoofprints and victims in the desert behind them as fate escorts them into the frontier town of Aspirations, Texas, whose inhabitants find themselves drawn into the gunfire, and a fight for their lives.

Elliot Lumas is a US Army veteran and a studying intern at the VA Medical Center. All his life he has struggled with his mental health, going through bouts of depression and anxiety, and since his active service these problems have only worsened. Attempting to rehabilitate himself back into the working world of America, Lumas uses the writings of the Stoics as his guide. Just as he appears to start grabbing a hold of his life and setting it on the right course, everything is thrown off kilter once more. What at first appears to be an ordinary hospital is revealed to be an institution steeped in conspiracy, bribery, and violence. An intricate web of corruption exists in the hierarchy of the hospital, stemming from the very top, and it is up to Lumas, and the few he can trust, to bring this scandal to light.

A collection of moments taking you through the vast emotions of love, heartbreak, loathing and growth. For the ones who feel and the ones who have felt. Written with the intention to help me process my emotions with the surprise that these tiny passages could help someone else. Someone like you. I'm so happy you're here. Thank you for reading.

Where do we go when we die? This is a question that no one knows the answer to. The souls of Jank, Bro and Michaela may, however, hold this answer..Follow these enthralling characters as they navigate the plains of the Afterlife, the complexities of responsibility, teamwork, love, and relationships in life also being just as prevalent in the Afterlife.

John Bartlett, Paul, Richard, and Jake were old friends and ex-Army mates. They had all ended up in the Special Forces Commando unit and worked in Afghanistan. Over the years they had lost contact with John Siddle, their superior officer. He had gone on to become a success in banking. The other four maintained their close friendship.John Siddle called unexpectedly to ask John Bartlett if they could meet for lunch. At that event, Siddle disclosed something horrific to Bartlett and asked him if he could do something about it.This throws the team of friends into a moral dilemma; they know they owe their ex-commander a great deal.The tale takes an unusual turn with a bombshell ending that could never be foreseen by the four Special Forces friends.

If you have young children that love animals, especially those that fly, and love solving riddles, then this is the book you need! In Riddles from the Air, Charlotte Sebag-Montefiore has penned the perfect rhymes and riddles to keep you and your children amused for hours. There are thirty-six 'Who am I?' riddles set out in rhyme for you and the kids to solve. I simply couldn't think of a better gift. Get their eyes away from the computer and/or mobile phone screens and get their heads into a book! This will get their minds thinking - the riddles are not too difficult, but they will give your children plenty to think about. And why not go to Charlotte's site charlotteswonderfulstories.com and sign up for a free story every month?

In either a home or an educational setting, a fun and interactive book with a host of learning opportunities for children ages 1 to 7!Infants! Start at the earliest age of a child's development and use the book to increase vocabulary by naming the endless delightful animals and colourful eye-catching details of the drawings, as well as the colors that are highlighted throughout.Toddlers! The short rhyming stories will not only encourage further language development, it will also introduce a number of good habits, such as promoting cleanliness, generosity, equality and honesty. The seek and find game also becomes a hit during this period in a child's life.Preschoolders and school age children! Easily teach children the notion of adjectives and opposites, as well as start word recognition with the adjectives that are presented in a large catchy font.At any age! Use the stories and the adjectives that describe feelings in a variety of ways to ask questions and encourage children to express themselves, whether it be to discuss their own emotions or to engage in a dialogue about the good habits presented throughout the book. A unique book children and adults will turn to again and again!

Welcome to Coverdale, in the World of Exodus, where the people are just like us. They have eggs and sausages for breakfast, they go to work, they live their lives...Except they're not quite like us. In their world, some people have animal tendencies; some are catlike, some have lupine features, there's even a cross with an alligator. And in this world, magic abounds.One aspect of this world which we all know, though, is the fight between good and evil.Enter the Revolution. A small band of friends who dedicate their lives to keeping the people of Exodus safe.A full-time job.Join them as they travel the length and breadth of the world in their efforts to depose tyrants intent on destruction and domination. This is a real romp of an adventure!

Mike Bradford is an American photojournalist on a work trip trying to get home to his family in Chicago. Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus across Europe in March 2020, he finds himself stuck in a hotel room in Madrid, Spain, for the foreseeable future. Though he knows it is for the greater good of the world, being quarantined from his family -especially from his little daughter Olivia- and unable to work on the job he loves so much is a challenge that he must face head-on and come to terms with. During the final stretch of his quarantine, Mike summons a series of personal memories. He travels years ago to a North American landscape that was a milestone in his career: Canyonlands.In this philosophical and very relevant chronicle of the recent pandemic, we are taken inside the active mind of a man unable to be very active at all, and we witness just how fragile the routines that we often take for granted really are. They can be halted in the blink of an eye.

Shehroze is a talented artist, yet he has decided to follow his father into law, a safer option his mother disapproves of. Although he has conformed, he is left with an internal restlessness and an abiding lack of joy. This drives him to wander around late at night, seeking who knows what.On one such night, he sits on a park bench smoking, when a mysterious young woman, Nayra, appears. She teases him and cadges a cigarette off him and as they talk, he quickly becomes fascinated with her. She is mysterious, beautiful, profound, and widely knowledgeable.The stars seem to have fated the two for each other. But the fates are also capricious and the two separate for more than three years before unexpectedly meeting again in the UK.The years have changed both, though. Shehroze has become robotic, and Nayra somehow has something missing from her soul.Once they marry and their daughter is born, everything changes for the better, or so Shehroze thinks. Meanwhile, the secret Nayra is keeping begins to consume her.