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Escaping an abusive husband and the tragic loss of her newborn child, Tressa O'Daire leaves her home of Dublin, Ireland, for the unknown shores of New York City. There she finds work in the powerful Langley family as a nurse-maid to a baby girl. The Langleys allow Tressa, a master baker by trade, to use their baking oven. She starts a business and a new life. Ethan Langley, crippled in a riding accident that left him bound to a wheel chair, has spent the last eight years in his room escaping the embarrassment to his family and the hatred of his brother, Heaton. The only bright spot in his life is his sister, Sarah, until a certain Irish baker arrives and turns his life upside down.Ethan and Tressa's very lives are threatened when the head of the Langley household dies unexpectedly, leaving the business and family fortune to Heaton. As Heaton and his wife, Victoria, bring the family to the brink of ruination, Tressa and Ethan must save whatever they can, including the budding love between them.About the Author:Barbara Cerny grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, and currently resides in Dayton, Ohio, where she is an information technology specialist and supervisor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Her main inspiration for writing is her husband Charles.Ms. Cerny's previous books are Of Angels and Orphans and Grays Hill, which she wrote on deployment with the US Army to South West Asia in 2006. She is working on her next two books.

A new populace in the brand-new town of Abbotsbury looks forward to starting the next chapter of their lives. But they have no idea that the estate where they now live straddles an invisible border, one separating their familiar world from Malum, an ancient and deadly place filled with unscrupulous entities and menacing magic.Those trapped in Malum seek to spread beyond the confines of their mystical territory, taking advantage of the unwary world beyond. They will exploit new technologies and drugs to achieve their goals.As the population growth of Abbotsbury accelerates, a cataclysm threatens to consume the entire world.Lest we forget, the Latin word malum means both apple and evil.

After a friend is killed in a horrific hit-and-run accident, 15-year-old Phil is concerned that he seems to be getting thoughts that do not belong to him and can only be coming from his dead friend Peter.Is Phil going mad, or is it a stress reaction to the recent tragedy and trauma of Peter's death? How could this be happening, and why?It soon becomes apparent that Peter wants Phil-with the help of their families and friends-to uncover his killer. Thus begins a journey of discovery, as a web of new and more loving connections is formed in the quest for truth and justice.(About the Author)William Phillips is a part-time general medical practitioner in Australia. "I began as a teacher and did medicine as a mature age student, and then began practice in rural areas. I now live on the Sunshine Coast, away from the crowds, and my hobbies centre around my children, my property, and my dog." The story was inspired by the death of a friend. This is the author's second book.

"And when we do perceive the wholeness of the present in its very presence - this is not at all to suggest that we regularly do so; all we have to do is consider when the last time was that we felt we had truly understood everything that could be known about this or that aspect of our existence or the world at large - we ourselves are enlarged, for a corresponding moment, in our consciousness. We know what it means to know something. We understand understanding, we apprehend apprehension. And this in turn does not rest within a subjective epistemology of motive or design. This is not a question of 'how we know what we know' because the 'what' in every such case remains unquestioned in itself. No, this is the 'thing in itself' that is understood and made conscious, insofar as it can be. In this case, what we apprehend and thence in turn what takes us in, is the very character of the present as both an experience and a time of one's life, an historical period. The present is that which at once begins and transgresses." (from the book)In volume two of a three-part study of the "phenomenology of temporalities," G.V. Loewen analyzes the very conception of what is the now, of the moment, fashionable, de jour, and within the Zeitgeist all at once, utilizing ideas such as "retinution," the "phantasmatic," and "presentification" amongst others. In doing so, it is an ethics of the present that is revealed, one in which we find that freedom and salvation are opposed to one another; for in freedom, we are oriented in the present toward a future that does not yet exist, rather than toward a timeless realm that has always existed. Not only is this the truer source of the present's conflict of values, but it also reveals the clue our species needs to reorient itself to at once attaining the promise of our collective history and the premise of its historical humanity.Social philosopher G.V. Loewen is the author of fifty books on ethics, education, aesthetics, health, and social theory, and more recently, fiction. He was a professor of the interdisciplinary human sciences for over two decades.

Written as a play, Rehema is a romantic tragedy involving two lovers, Antony and Rehema. Just like Romeo and Juliet, they are separated by well-meaning relatives.Antony and Rehema fall in love and want to marry. But Rehema's former lover, Kennedy, returns home from school and also seeks her hand in marriage. Rehema rejects his love and reveals she is engaged to another.Kennedy struggles with her rejection and becomes depressed. His father, Sir Edwin, devises a scheme to kidnap Rehema's mother, and then demands a ransom. Rehema elopes with Antony to escape marriage to Kennedy. Her father then dies by drowning in a river. Rehema's younger sister, Tracy, believes their father was killed by Sir Edwin, so she plots revenge against him.Antony meets up with his former girlfriend, Linda, who still wants to marry him, but Antony is married to Rehema. Antony's father kills a man in the streets who happens to be Linda's father. He denies the charges and encourages Antony to marry Linda.The course of love has gone wrong, and results in even more violence. Will anyone have a happy ending?(About the Author)Cavin Tawo Odhiambo is from the village of Bondo, Kenya. He previously worked with nongovernmental organizations in HIV care and treatment as a social worker, but currently works as a data clerk. This is his first book.

As a 15-year-old, Parvin escaped her home planet of God's Victorious Warriors, when its repressive government executed the rest of her family.Now living on the planet Universityworld, the former runaway teaches mathematics and is known as Professor Parvin Priddlikachorn. Her husband, Professor Siddithamon Priddikachorn, nicknamed Pretty, teaches planetary geology and hails from the planet Pradang. The couple have a 17-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter.Parvin thinks the time is right to run for office, so she seeks a seat in the third house of a four-house planetary legislature. Her son and his girlfriend help with her campaign, but Pretty tries to discourage his wife's political ambitions.It happens that Parvin's home world has a long-standing order of execution out on her. Universityworld is harboring a covert cell of its assassins, The Righteous Fists of God, which is headed by an officer in their planet's secret police. One of its crew, Neto, is enrolled as a student, but unknown to everyone is that his professor is the subject of their search.Meanwhile, a controversial figure hopes to win control of the fourth house.About the Author: Thomas Wm. Hamilton, a retired professor of astronomy and a planetarium director, also worked for three years on the Apollo Project. He has written six books on astronomy; this is his sixth book of fiction. The author is a Fellow of the International Planetarium Society and the namesake of asteroid 4897 Tomhamilton. He also served three terms as county chair of his political party. He lives with his wife and two very spoiled cats. His most recent novels are Scam Artists of the Galaxy and Altered Times, which asks "what if."

Twelve stories. Each one short. Each one odd. This book is concocted to intrigue, and otherwise confound the reader with stories that meander from troubled relationships to quirky concepts of revenge, to questions of personal reality and perception.These small bites of life will entertain and provoke conversation and thought, and will open the door to "what if."Enter the world of a gambling cat, consider the recurring appearance of a dead body, explore the irony of revenge, discover the possibilities of a self-decorating house, and meet a washed-up minor league baseball player on a mission of compassion."Bonus Room" introduces Martha and Rawley, proud new homeowners struggling to pay the bills who discover that their new home has a mind and a mission of its own. "Night Runner" tells the story of Rina, who lives a simple life. She likes her job and her friends, and also loves running, especially at night. But the recurring appearance of a body on her favorite trail throws her life into chaos.(About the Author)Pontiac, Michigan native Susan M. Obijiski moved to New York City to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. There she met her husband while performing in regional theater and they raised their three children in the suburbs. "For 15 years, I have lived with my husband and my cats in Sedona, Arizona, one of the most beautiful places on the planet. The red rocks of Sedona are a constant inspiration." The author creates web content, articles, white papers, blogs, and other content for software companies, and publishes business and creative articles. She collects gems and minerals, teaches metaphysical and holistic healing, and provides wellness and business consulting services.

The pampered daughter of a wealthy man, Alice has the choice between two eligible and attractive men. But this is the era of suffragettes, and Alice is looking for satisfaction in a career rather than marriage.A succession of hard knocks changes the once spoilt beauty into a compassionate woman, willing to put others before herself in a life of service.Set against the dramatic background of the Boer War, Alice's private story unfolds. Even in the midst of dirt, disease, and death, love is able to blossom.This epic wartime romance is played out under the South African sun.(About the Author)Elaine Blick lived in England for many years and taught school in London. "Although I grew up in New Zealand and had my education here, I now live beside a beach outside of Auckland, which is rather different from London." Now retired, she enjoys travelling and researching the historical novels she writes. This is her 13th book.

It's a moment everyone dreads: that moment before death. But what if it's just an ordinary moment when nothing happens? What if it's no different from any other moment in life, when a dying person can't even tell what's coming? That moment could attract no emotional upheaval at all. A Blissful Moment of Nothingness is a story about the past and the future. Everyone has a past, but Margaret Young is not someone who dwells on history, whether it's personal or that of a place. She's someone who'd rather live in the present. Raised in Hong Kong, Margaret is forced by circumstances to revisit the past to make sense of her present. By recounting major events in her life, she comes to better understand herself and the people around her. She also comes to terms with the invisible power that is larger than life: the something that decides her fate and that of the people she loves. Margaret sympathises with the young people in Hong Kong who are becoming disillusioned with life. They want to be in control of their destiny beyond 2047, when the city's "one country, two systems" status expires. What is Margaret's future during this political turmoil, and what is in store for the people in Hong Kong? (About the Author)After publishing two novels, Mother's Tongue: A Story of Forgiving and Forgetting (2013), and Who's that Ant? Whose Dead End? (2016), Susanna Ho continues to write stories about how politics influences ordinary people's lives. Drawing inspirations from her experiences in Hong Kong, Canada, and China, she wrote A Blissful Moment of Nothingness, giving particular importance to time and place. She became a full-time writer in 2020 and now lives in Tasmania.

"We have established what our general expectations of 'the past' are to be, given that it is our creation and thus it 'owes' something or other to us. It is at first motivated by resentment, tends toward reification, and divulges reconciliation. It has the character of a 'space,' it is something more 'moral' than we, and is also possessed of the variety of other traits, including it being a space of acts rather than action and also of the mystery of hiddenness. The past is, in its essence, something occlusive and worthy of inspection along this line alone. The query that begins all of it at this moment is simply, 'why did this occur?' To comprehend the presence of the past in this more radical manner - the object, especially if it is art, objects to us and thus as well to all of our nostalgic and romantic desires of it - we find we must engage in both memorial imagination as well as memorial recollection." (From the book.)In this first volume of a three-part study, a phenomenology of how we understand the presence of time in the world begins with the question: How do we understand the concept of the past? This question has a number of aspects to it: What is "the past?" How does the past retain its presence in the present? What is the temporal character of that which no longer fully exists? And so on. This analysis attempts to capture the curious amalgam of memory, biography, and history, and subject it to the objection of the present. Herein, the dead must answer to the living inasmuch as the inverse has also ever been the case.Author Bio - Social philosopher G.V. Loewen is the author of fifty books on ethics, education, aesthetics, health and social theory, and more recently, fiction. He was a professor of the interdisciplinary human sciences for over two decades.