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Love Beads is a soft version of The Odyssey. While The Odyssey is fraught with storms, fights, physical challenges and death in order to explore the world, relationships and one's limits on the journey home, Love Beads is fraught with self-denial, abuse, self-doubt and chasing false hopes in order to explore the world, relationships, and one's limits to return home with self-love.

Living across cultures is not only a challenge, but also a fun and a huge discovery. One discovers social and cultural codes, systems, prejudices, conflicts and confusions. Institution Child - The Beginning, though fictional and imaginative, brings to readers the making of meanings under different contexts in real time. The ups and downs in human agencies, the trust and mistrust, the deviation and consistency in life across cultures are portrayed in this book on such breathtakingly designed scenery. The book is about love, about confrontation, about commitment and dilemma, and about crying and confessing souls, that are longing to evolve.

Fair Game brings Holmes and Watson to the United States as President Theodore Roosevelt's guests at the Saint Louis World's Fair. The year is 1904, and America is at a tipping point in a national debate about the country's future as a Pacific power. The President's support for a new Asian strategy makes him a very public target, and Holmes and Watson are soon entangled in a plot (two plots, in fact) to assassinate the President. They are also asked for help by "the woman" - Irene Adler - an American opera singer who matched wits with Holmes in a previous adventure. The danger increases when Holmes and Watson arrive at the World's Fair. As part of his campaign to convince the American people to support the occupation of the Philippines, the President has brought 1200 Filipino natives to the Fair and placed them in a compound as an exhibit. When the Filipinos begin to disappear from the compound Holmes and Watson follow the clues, to an enemy who threatens the entire nation

1970, pre-Choice America. After their eighth move in her thirteen short years, the lonely only child of a high-ranking naval officer and a socially ambitious mother, Tracy Mayo longed for a normal adolescence - to have friends, to feel rooted. What she got was a pregnancy at fourteen and exile to a maternity home. There, she bore not only a child but also the weight of the culture's shame. She was required to surrender her baby boy at birth and pretend it never happened. Twenty-two years later, her longing undiminished, Tracy set out to find him - and perhaps, through her search, to reclaim her self. Are we moving back to a world where women have no agency, stripped of control of their bodies and their futures? More than fifty years after one frightened, grief-stricken young mother was ordered to forget, Tracy's story is even more important to remember.__________________________________________________In her courageous and beautifully rendered memoir, Childless Mother, Tracy Mayo breaks ranks with the institutionalized secrecy, shame, and silencing that shattered countless pregnant girls and young women prior to legalized abortion and open adoption. - KATE MOSES, author of Wintering, Cakewalk: A Memoir, and Mothers Who Think

Maggie Franklin plays by the rules but lives in a world of people driven by competing motivations, leading to conflict and betrayal, touching those closest to her. She works at a high-end PR firm in Nashville, Tennessee, owned by Richard Gadly, who occupies the gray space between legal and illegal in the intersecting spheres of business and politics.The way she sees herself clashes with the reality of her work: co-workers hustling and violent; the success of her boyfriend's career, dependent on the crooks she's desperate to avoid; and the need to control events by the instinct to survive. In the background lurks the creeping authoritarianism infecting Western democracies.The history of jazz provides a soft thread connecting the book's characters. If experiencing jazz can be thought of as discovery, so too is the evolution of complicated individuals, sketched in vivid detail, revealed against the struggle for power. Within that struggle is a story about identity - who we are now versus the people we used to be.

In the land of Nuna, a pack of wolves has considered the area they live in to be their own since time immemorial. When humans arrived, they also considered it their own particular territory. Since those ancient days, there have been endless battles, victories and losses on each side: man and wolf pitched against each other, often to the death.Nanook is a young wolf who has different ideas: they could even be considered radical in the face of the established ethos of his entire ancestry. He cannot see why wolves and people shouldn't live side by side and in harmony, but he has his close family and a young lifetime to change the natural order of things.

'What are you up to?' Es asked with narrowed eyes.Gweren lifted her chin with a strange glint in her eyes, dangerous, deadly.'I want you to do some work for me,' she began slowly. 'I want you to make sure that the people I point to you disappear.'Es crossed her arms, nodding coldly.'You and I don't exist,' she repeated. 'It's the perfect plan.''You were right when you said we could be great one day and control our own destiny,' Gweren said. They say that an elf's eyes are the windows to the soul, and Gweren's eyes were filled with ice and hatred. The room seemed to shrink behind both girls.'In the name of the Seven Ladies,' Es said, closing the conversation.'In the name of the Seven Ladies,' Gweren replied, a monstrous smile spreading across her face.The story starts just where the first book left. Upon completing their studies at SpringStorm Academy, the Seven Ladies set off to take their plan into action. It's time to put into practice the magic they learnt.

A family of five - a wife, a husband and their three children - are living their happy ending in a north Texas suburb, complete with a dog and enough acreage for their growing brood to run around on and add more pets. It's an idyllic life.Until...the husband has an affair.Rather than leave her husband, Annie, the wife, decides to make him suffer. To make him pay for his betrayal. Annie begins a vendetta against him making him do horrible things and undermining his very being.However, as time goes by misery begins to set in along with physical pain and she begins to realize the mistress might not be the only Bitch in this triangle...but is it too late to change things?

Is getting "unstuck" feeling hard? That's usually when you are being beckoned to dive deeper for your well-being. Great, dive; Dying To Live: Love Stories will be a scaffold for your brave explorations of those stubborn blockages. Within this memoir, which is somewhat academic, somewhat other-worldly, somewhat painful, somewhat joyous, and angry about the lack of kindness we find in our individual and collective lives, we bear witness to how Jaqueline turns her terrifying demons into valuable warrior minions. Strange as it seems, death, sexual and physical abuse, betrayal, failure, and definitely not fitting in are Jackie's elixirs for real growth... and for sustaining love. Unrelenting fights for her resurrections reinforce your commitment to do the same; live richly, deeply, and true to your Self. Spirit, somehow, seems to talk directly to us through these stories.In Dying To Live: Love Stories, the positive value of suffering is raised to its highest level.

This book pictures how fast the past impacts the present social and economic life and simulates this into the real lives of millions of people with a vivid clarity. I recommend it to everyone who seeks an insight into the Ethiopian social and economic life.Tom Gardner, JournalistThe EconomistAn epic dramatization of social change, a revolution, predicting a war and enticing lived life of a young intellectual. Every page shows the graphic depiction of how societal mishap affects at a individual level, and unfathomably brave acts a person does to outlive these. A must read!Jawar MohammedExecutive Committee Member, Oromia Federalist CongressAn incredible story, a gripping narrative, captivating events, thought-arousing intricacies of state-to-individual, person-to-state power play all in one. If you want to wittingly remove years of suffering from anyone's life, in any given country, you would want to take notes on every page.Elias Meseret,Award Winning JournalistThis book enlightens millions of Ethiopians to overcome darkness and stimulates them share the light they experience in their lives. Andualem has proven to be an embodiment of peace making and spreading love at such time of ongoing war. All Ethiopians must read this book!Artist Kamuzu Kassa, Shakura StudioA conscious choice of a young man to redeem his generation in writing, mobilization and actions. A graphic horror outlived and companionship of ever-growing spirituality all along such astonishing journey. This is a prescription for Ethiopian and all other youth in search of meaningful life.Robel Chemeda DisasaEVAUUE SecretaryAn individual's determination to break the chains of the old security system, and sowing seeds of hope in the state to people and people to people relations. Andualem lives a life we are lecturing students to disciplines and professions in political science, diplomacy, international and public relations. This book left me speechless!Dr. Yonas Ashine AAU, Political Science Department

John C. Wolfe had it all-a wife, two wonderful kids, a great house, and a high-paying job as the Chief Speechwriter for New York governor George E. Pataki. But for John, none of those things could stop him from drinking, and sometimes the pressure made it worse.First, he wrote better with a few drinks in him, then his drinking escalated and he couldn't write without multiple drinks. His drinking steadily grew worse, until his family convinced him to give rehab a try. That only ended with John spiraling deeper into alcoholism.Come with John on his journey, from the New York governor's office of the late 1990s, to the tragedy of 9/11, then follow him out of the governor's office through the dark days of alternating rehab and relapses, to when something finally changed for him...and he found his day of clarity.

Kyle Murphy, just a seemingly average seventeen-year-old boy from New Terman in New Hampshire, America, abruptly has his entire life flipped upside down before he can even graduate high school. After coming of age he is expected to receive great power, but months come and go, exceeding the usual time frame, with no sign of any form of power, leading to Kyle only feeling self-doubt and worry about his very existence: being a Witness - a supernatural being.

This book, is evidence of our love of poetry, and serves as our contribution to the genre. This work of art, embodies the love, support and genetic talent passed on from mother to children. This body of work is meant to inspire challenge and broaden one's intellect. We truly hope you enjoy!

When clearing out the family home after her mother's death, Bikita comes upon a shard of pottery. It takes her back to her childhood in Georgia, where, as child she found it in the garden. She studies it, and is fascinated by the distinctive series of parallel lines that make up the design. Surprised that her mother has kept it all these years, Bikita wants to understand where it came from and how it got into the garden. On her quest to uncover the story of the shard, she exposes a tale of love, greed and cruelty that leads back to nineteenth-centry West Africa.The unravelling of the mystery of the shard is a page-turner right to the end as the writer takes us on a journey which crosses continents and travels back through the centuries to a story lost in time.

Starting high school is tough at the best of times, but as Emmi walks into her first year at Lilydale Secondary, she beings to realise that her experience is extra-ordinary. Unworldly even.The reason is that Emmi's mother was a Mukta-Jiva, or Angel of Karma and that maybe, she could be one too. As Emmi's world is plunged into right versus wrong, she must also learn to keep to her extra-ordinary skills secret, or at least for now.

The western front 1915. As the war drags into its second year, Charlie and Arthur Green find themselves in the thick of the fighting raging through Flanders.After Arthur haplessly finds himself accused of treachery and cowardice, he desperately tries to prove himself on the battlefield. But with enemies on both sides of the barbed wire, will Arthur's gallantry be enough to convince his brother?Based around actual events, and inspired by the real Arthur Green's letters home, When Brothers Fight depicts gruesome battle scenes and describes the appalling life in the trenches endured by those who lived through it.

Fate's Hand is an endearing and erotic love story and the first Book in the A Rockstar & A Runner series. This is a captivating Canadian based story between a world-famous rockstar and a single mother, both who have risen above hard life challenges in their past. When fate intervenes and their paths cross, they discover love and passion beyond anything they have ever experienced and show exactly what it's like when two people love with their entire heart, how they can make that one love grow. But with such drastically different lives, can their love survive?Fate's Hand is sure to ensnare you and keep you coming back for more.

A Graveyard of Unsaid Things is a calling card to all of those who hide in the shadows. In this book of poetry, everyone is haunted. The author takes us on a journey deep into the underworld to find her daughter, to find herself, to find meaning in the grief she inhabits. She holds no torches in this search, only nightmares, the voices of the dead, and memories she can't seem to bury.

Pulmulla is worried her vision of the future will come true.Biligiri just wants to get home. Besides, he's in love for the first time, and will be a father in 22 months.Tant-Meisie is lonely and going around in circles. She meets famous and eccentric people though.Hannibal Solo thought he was retired - until Carroll came along, and she's hard case.On top of this, he has voices in his head."Absorbing and lyrical, and poignant in the elephants' message. Like Heathcote Williams' Sacred Elephant before it, Taken deserves a wide readership."-Gareth Patterson, author of The Secret Elephants and Beyond the Secret Elephants."A writer of striking originality with qualities of daring and humour that are rare. Like Lloyd Jones, Alex has the ability to create a landscape so vivid the reader feels he is walking down a dusty road or in the hold of a ship."-Elizabeth Smither, novelist and Poet Laureate of New Zealand"There is energy and confidence on every page. The way you inhabit your lines is remarkable."-Lloyd Jones author of Mr Pip and Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Award."I was greatly impressed by Taken - an accomplished and poignant story. Here was a writer of considerable potential should he decide to write longer fiction..."- Tessa Duder CNZM OBE, author of the Alex quartet, winner of Storyline Margaret Mahy Medal."I've read and re-read your story, and I think this: It is intriguing, beautifully-crafted, moving and poetic... It brings the knowing eye of elephants to bear on the reader, creating the feeling of injustice I always have when I'm close to them. It's a parable of imperialism. For all these reasons and more, I loved it."-Bruce Ansley, author of A long Slow Affair of the Heart, A Fabled Land, and Coast: A New Zealand Journey, winner Best Illustrated Non-fiction Book at the New Zealand Post Book Awards"Beautiful, eye opening, exquisitely absorbing, gentle and powerful."-Danielle Mathieson, New Zealand artist

Lillian Smith has been a writer on her illness in print and online media and helped many people by sharing her story with others. This book began as an idea when she was diagnosed with Lupus at the age of twenty-two and there were no books available to help her find answers to questions she was desperately seeking help for. She set out to write The Lupus Diaries in 2012 and, for over ten years, wrote journal entries on her life with Lupus, hoping to help young people and others with chronic illness so that they would find not only answers but hope about how to find a balance with illness and recovery from their disease. She offers real- life solutions with her real-life experience, with real-life stories that you can relate to. If you are seeking answers to a more balanced life with your chronic illness, or are newly diagnosed and want to find out how to cope, read this book, with very real and helpful chapters such as "'Dating and Chronic Illness'," "'Marriage and Chronic Illness'," "'Missing Out'," and much more. A memoir, a self-help book, and at heart, a true love story, this book offers lessons for everyone seeking help for their chronic illness.

A surgeon whose background includes quality assurance is made aware by a reliable source that another surgeon, of whom he has been critical in the past, purposely developed problems during a procedure that led to the patient's demise. He follows that surgeon's cases more closely, as he attempts to make a plausible account of what this nefarious surgeon is doing, and what he finds begins to confirm his suspicions. His concerns are not accepted by any of his colleagues apart from one other surgeon who is supportive. This leads to animosity and damage to his practice and family life with his wife becoming increasingly disapproving about his involvement. Nevertheless, he is convinced crimes are being committed and resorts to seeking legal advice as well as involving the district attorney's office. This results in a confrontation between both forces, one that supports the accused surgeon and the one that brought the charges. The outcome was not expected.

When Dallas Church ran full speed to the point of impact, his only goal was to help anyone he could. He did not know or care that being so close to the meteor would change him so drastically. In the year that followed, Dallas would be hailed as a hero, the rookie cop who risked everything to save others, then persecuted and outcast as a monster when the real effects of his exposure to the meteor became clear.Fortunately, Dallas is recruited by an organization promising to use his newly evolved talents to provide security for others. As the team forms, Dallas and his new colleagues must learn to trust each other and to accept their diversity.Dallas soon discovers his power is linked to a greater evil. As he sacrifices everything to save a child, he learns that these events, and he himself, are not what he had believed.

A girl exists within the Dome, which protects her from the monsters preying on all living things beyond its glass walls. Could the outside world be any less damaging than the life of torture she endures in her own personal cage, enduring the casual cruelty of male fantasies?Why are the monsters drawn to her and what is her own dark history that dictates her destiny? Who is Wendy? Who was Wendy...? Why is she known as their master's 'beloved'?Wendy goes on the run: the journey is fraught with danger as the girl finds her life lurching from horror to joy to confusion to discovery as she befriends a band of fellow travellers who join her in her search for her true self.

Emily Warrington had a satisfying and predictable life. Nearing the end of her residency, she was soon to become a doctor, the result of many years' hard work and the juggling of work and family commitments. The mother of two children, and with a devoted and supportive husband, she seemingly had it all. But just under the surface, something was wrong. The seemingly perfect life was all too fragile. It only took one incident for Emily's world to come crashing down around her. Everything she had fought for and protected was put in danger. Could Emily pull together the threads of her old life or was it gone forever?

Charlotte grew up being in love with the man she was promised to marry. Aurek was a warrior, a Daeva Prince to equal her Daeva Princess, and meant to protect their people when they took the throne. Where she was spoiled and young, he was patient and understanding. When she had outbursts, he was there to sooth her naive woes. It was a perfect match, just like her parents intended.Until he murdered them.Hiding was something she never thought she would achieve. It was only a matter of time. But hours became days, and days became years. The thought of being found slipped away, becoming nothing but nightmares and memories. Her and her sister made a life in a world filled with technology, hiding amongst Humankind despite being nothing so simple. They were safe, and it was all that mattered.Until he found them.

Invisible Boundaries is the story of two women from different generations and life experiences who fall in love. Add that to a bi-racial union and life gets more complicated. Some of their challenges are up-in-their-face, while others are under-the -surface and subtle. These challenges have them re-evaluating who they are and how they fit into the new dynamics they have created for themselves. As the story unfolds, the characters delve into their self-discovery and share with you their fears as well as their judgements, and yes, their humor as well. It is a story of the complicated social and personal invisible boundaries we all cross daily.

This second book by the incredible Ms Michelle Mitchell is a shining light amongst the murky waters we've been wading through these past two years. Continuing her journey from her first literary hit, Girl Got Game, Michelle shares her perspective as a CEO, podcaster, author, brand creator and marketing coach whilst diving into raising a teenager in the LGBTQIA+ community, covering parenting a neurodiverse child as well as managing her intense neurodiverse brain.Michelle welcomes us into her life once again with honesty, integrity and some much-needed laughs. You Have to Choose How You Live is a book for those who want an honest motivational read and for those who seek a different take on tackling the new world we ALL find ourselves in!

Virgil Colvin, a retired homicide detective, leaves his hometown Chicago to resurrect his honeymoon memories with his dead wife in Ithaca, Greece. There, he befriends the Vathy police chief, Costas Pantakalas, over stories of a shared profession and countless cups of ouzo.One day, Virgil wakes to the violent tremors of the earth to find Ithaca has just had an earth quake. But that is not the only unusual occurrence. In the city's public square, at the feet of Odysseus, someone has dumped the body of a British tourist in the small hours of the morning. He ran to the ends of the earth to escape his former life, but murder had other plans for Virgil Colvin. Together, Virgil and Costas join forces to track down a killer. But in their quest to find the murderer, will they unearth an even more astounding secret?