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When Morty, a troubled Californian teen, discovers some old gold coins on a hike in the hill, he knows they are valuable and realises that for the first time in his life, he might have some money, and having some money might be the key to his freedom from life with his alcoholic mother.But nothing in life is ever that simple, as Morty will soon discover.

Tony fantasizes about one day getting away from his family's poverty at the hands of his abusive father. Striving for a better life, Tony turns to crime for income. The steady growth of the business and Tony's power and charisma put him at the top of the city's underworld. Tony is pushed into a rollercoaster ride of emotions, trying to protect his partner, kids, and the rest of the family, forever looking over his shoulder, wondering when the next hit on him or his family would come.

This is a celebration of the poetry that is life, that which runs through our veins and keeps us alive even through the darkest of moments. An Ode to Life in Poetry is indirectly a truth seeker's handbook in navigating the motions of the inner oceans and the infinite tides of feeling. It encompasses a vast emotional terrain, ranging between ecstatic joy, blissful wonder and embodied empowerment to the depth of loss, grief, sadness and rage, and beyond. With a subtle undertone of tantric intimacy with existence permeating the pages, the collection moves through the seasons as an honouring of the cycles of life, exemplifying how things are continuously shifting and moving, yet an unshakable foundation of love within the human condition remains. It is a story of perseverance and hope, of spiritual endurance and surrender to the inevitability that is life, both personal and impersonal, individual and collective.

It's Okay to not be Okay is directed at everyone that suffers in silence and to those who are lost and can't put words to their feelings. It's not a self-help book; it's only an inspiring story to encourage others to ask for help. This book is a journey of how the author built and found her true self by recovering from an eating disorder. From three stages of her recovery to three chapters - Exhausted, Rollercoaster and Light - and from pure darkness to light and hope. It's also illustrated with her own messy drawings, showing that imperfection can be beautiful too. This journey shows that pain does not last forever, and that if you choose to stand up, the outcome will always be positive.

Aurumia is a fantasy adventure story about three travelers who discover a lost civilization in the Amazon. Will they make it out alive to tell about it? In the vein of Gulliver's Travels, Aurumia is also a social satire. It satirizes American capitalism, with its corporate greed, social and economic inequities, political corruption, and dysfunctional health care system.

In 1928, rural Pennsylvania, the Children's Aid Society separates seventeen-year-old Anna Wilson from her three younger siblings. Anna is hurled into despair when sexually abused by her foster brother. Illiterate, pregnant, and fearing the permanent estrangement from her family, she is committed to an asylum where she must prove her competency before a panel of doctors, who believe in the practice of American eugenics. At stake: the chance at freedom to raise her unborn child and beloved siblings on the farm she calls home.

Follow Bartholmew, Barry to his friends, as he explores and grows at the Thorn Academy. From learning about his unique soul realm to ways to grow stronger. Barry's life will be pushed in unknown ways as the souls of creatures build up his strength and can he survive the most challenging thing of all at Thorn Academy, dealing with the other students.

The tale of women resisting oppression is as ageless as they come, and heroines across time and space come to learn that their anger can be sharpened into a finely tuned weapon, and that when they rise up alongside one another, their force is unstoppable. Cala's journey begins when she is turned over to the authorities by her own father for the crime of learning to write as a woman. Havita's anger - just as sharp as Cala's - has a different origin story. In the wake of losing their first-born daughter to a cruel kingdom, Havita's parents train her - their second daughter - to become a weapon that cannot be violated. Ultimately, the two stories intertwine, and while each struggles against her own demons, the corruption around them draws them toward a common cause: a mission to serve the good people of their kingdom.

We all have to face death: that of our loved ones, and our own mortality. We tremble with fear, and grief is heart wrenching. In these times it is important to appreciate how death can bring people together, and ignite connections through shared memories. Death shows us that life needs to be celebrated. Through her poetry and prose, Trisha Doherty explores tough themes as a way to work through difficult - but decidedly human - emotions.

In the year 2222, the World Administration have global control. Freedom in most of its forms is a thing of the past.Computer programmer, Anthony Hurst, taken from his home with his family to work against his will in intelligence for the WA, finds himself involved in a counterintelligence plot by the World Leader to bring down the dictatorship by way of a global vote.On being revealed as a spy by a colleague, Hurst must now find a way to escape certain death at the hands of his notorious boss.As the result of the vote, and all its consequences play out, can Hurst succeed in securing his own liberty as well as that of his young son?

Zane has always wanted to be a superhero. He lives in a world where superpowers aren't so great, wonderful or even powerful. With some help from his friends and family he finds himself becoming the hero he has always dreamed of being. However, will he be able to thwart the evil plans that he unknowingly sets in motion? Or will he fail and bring back an age of villains?

A CRICKET IN THE WIND - Memories of CreteARTWORK VALERIE HELPS AND GEOFFREY BULLA Cricket in the Wind - Memories of Crete is Valerie's fourth illustrated book based on her journals and chronologically the first in the series. It describes her arrival in Crete with several members of her family who decide to join in the dream that has dwelt in the author's fertile mind for so long.Following years of working in youth music and finally as the orchestra manager of the Sydney Opera House, Valerie fulfils her inner call to the magical island of Crete. She vividly describes the stunning landscape of Crete while adjusting to the different lifestyle to which she has been drawn, successfully leasing and running a suite of six holiday studios and villas, dealing with the authorities and multitudes of red tape, organising local tradesmen and learning new skills involved with the running of a business. The family makes time to explore the island, swim in shining seas, harvest olives, and dance in nightclubs and Valerie flies to Italy to join the three thousand voices of the World Festival Choir to sing The Verdi Requiem in the Arena di Verona with the tenor Luciano Pavarotti.Illustrated with Valerie's watercolours and sketches by Geoffrey Bull

This is a historical and religious fiction book based on the life of Mary Magdalene. From her life as a young girl to her following Jesus along with his disciples. This is a version of the story of the lives of Jesus and Mary from her point of view. The story describes the struggles she faced being a woman in the fellowship, the trauma of people trying to kill her, her joys and happiness, sadness and hope for the Way. Based on the New Testament and other ancient texts, journey with Mary through her life right to her death. See events through her eyes. Who are these people that tried to kill her and why? What were the struggles she faced as a woman in a male dominated society? Why hasn't anyone ever considered what Mary Magdalene lived through? She was such a pure spirited individual, why turn a blind eye to her version of events? Well this book opens your eyes to her side of the story.

Jesus, the Nazarene preacher, is dead, and Jerusalem is fast becoming a cauldron of hatred.When Lynx, a Roman ex-legionary, is tasked with finding the body of Jesus which has disappeared from the cross, he soon finds himself embroiled in political intrigue and playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse involving King Herod, High Priest Caiaphas and the Roman authorities.Fast running out of friends, can Lynx trust the bickering apostles and find a way to answer a question that still reverberates two millennia later: exactly who was Jesus of Nazareth?

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, and citizen of the world. Through the process of mixing the mind, the knowledge, the emotions, and the feelings of working in the field of medicine, the art of practicing my specialty was becoming more and more an art of trying to be love in action, sharing compassion and benevolence in each encounter with the person in need. Giving what I have, what I know, what I can feel and what I can think, to help the patient to achieve the necessary balance for the recovery of the stage of health wanted, was progressively pushing me out of the doctor's office and the hospital to go to the people in need, where they were in different parts of the world. In time, the art of practicing medicine was becoming the art of the sharing of the God in me with the God in the world.

In retirement, Stephen looks back on his career, and in particular, specific moments that he feels have been very important in allowing him to develop his understanding in how organisations operate and how people could adapt to operate more effectively within them. Having begun to consider what he might have done differently during his career, he is invited to meet up with two former colleagues and discuss how they all remember their time together. Shortly afterwards, he is invited to meet up with one of the suppliers to the organisation he has just left, and he is both surprised and relieved to learn that the supplier had the same impression of it as did Stephen and his closest colleagues.

The ancient enemy awakens, and seeks to be free. A mage finds herself caught in the middle, but doesn't know why. The knight, sworn to protect her, hides from his feelings for his mentor. The teacher works from the shadows, to honor a promise from the One God. The Paramount who seeks redemption for a sacrifice most foul. One will save us, one will fall.

At a time when the moon is being colonized, and Mars is receiving its first human visitors, an asteroid is discovered heading towards Earth. There is no way to stop it, and the planet is certain to be destroyed. Adela is determined to hide out in the coastal ranges of California, during the pre-extinction panic. She feels safe in the wilderness, is extremely resourceful, and perfectly content to stay put, as the last day approaches. And then, her spirit guides came to her in a dream, with instructions on how to save herself and the world. With her escapee companion and two rescued horses, she leads a dangerous, and likely impossible mission to save the planet.

Aniela Majewska, beautiful daughter of one of Kraków's most respected families, is ready to marry her dashing childhood sweetheart, Henryk Bartosz. But the Nazi invasion of Poland separates the young lovers, as Henryk chooses to fight for their country's freedom as part of the underground resistance and Aniela uses her beauty, wit, and indomitable spirit to navigate the Reich's brutal occupation centralized in her home city, doing whatever it takes to keep her family and her sanity intact.

This book shares a message of a world imbued with meaning, and follows evolution upon its purposeful journey, entering the primordial world of the dinosaurs to show how they in fact prepared the ground for the world we know today. Then it tells the story of our own noble origins, and the journey out of Africa into the Ice Age of Eurasia, from where one man and one woman were called to meet their Maker in the Garden of Eden, between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Much to my own surprise, by studying the archaeological record alongside my faith, I have gladly found concurrence between these findings and the revelation from Scripture, thus bringing us greater insight and understanding about our true origins. In a way, this book traces the enduring love story of God with His Creation, and the unique place given to man. From our call to blessedness to our fall into sin, I have explained in simple terms who we were, who we are, and the blessed end to which we are truly made.

A boy is found by a mysterious shepherd on a heath. The boy is placed with adoptive parents .Anselm's Gift is the 'coming of age' story of this foundling teenager experiencing the strangeness of our ways of life and institutions for the first time.To Martha and Peter, this is the child. they have longed for, but they soon find that they have their hands full. Anselm's remorseless questioning of why the world ts as it is stands as a parody of our times. Finally he finds the answer to his most pressing question: "Whyt am I here"

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

When Leah Lax was asked to write an opera to celebrate local immigrants, she began by spending a year listening to accounts of upheaval, migration, and arrival told her in confidence by people from around the globe. She felt she had discovered America, found its great beating heart.In interludes between the astounding and powerful stories in Not From Here, Leah uncovers the lost history of her Jewish family and finds a larger context for her own story. "In a way," she writes, "we Americans are all immigrants."Leah has had a dual career as an author and librettist. Her previous book Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home was the first gay memoir ever to come out of the Jewish ultraOrthodox world, now a modern opera by composer Lori Laitman."Leah Lax understands that everyone has a story and a secret. To experience this ourselves, we have only to read her utterly irresistible Not from Here."--GLORIA STEINEM"A masterwork! Brilliant, profound, heart-shattering, hopeful - I couldn't breathe! Not From Here is full of stories of people who hang onto hope, people who will not give up struggling for what could be, and it's all interspersed with Leah's own extraordinary journey. This is the kind of book that leaves you forever changed."--CAROLINE LEAVITT, NYTimes bestselling author"An amazing and powerful book of the struggles and triumphs of people from far away who we might have dismissed as 'other, ' except that Leah edges them dexterously into our hearts."--CHITRA DIVAKARUNI, American Book Award winner, author of The Last Queen

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.

This book makes unusual and enjoyable reading, containing many different tales: comfortable living in a country which suddenly turns to violence, disturbing family life, an escape to another country and then, years later, the pursuit of a dream. Great opposition seems to make it an impossible task and getting away is more than can be hoped for. Organising a skilful escape with opposition in all directions, is the dream beyond reach? A variety of romances and strong friendships play a prominent part in the story including a great deal of humour such as how to find the ideal husband and successfully capture him. Fate plays a big part in the story and also the people encountered during the journey through life. Good fortune must mean that divine intervention exists, coupled with the strongest of human determination and survival instinct.

John's early years had been relatively uneventful, and his grammar school education had left him with more questions than answers regarding his fascination with life beyond that on Earth. he was also left with a curiosity about Australia, which was to result in his emigrating there some years later. Whilst there, he learned about the Aboriginal belief in the 'Dreamtime'- that time between heaven and earth, where everyone goes when they die. He later makes a discovery so enormous in its implications for him personally, that he questions not only his ability to survive, but even his very identity. We journey with him into these unknown and previously undiscovered territories where anything is possible, and every answer is given - and yet, in the final analysis, do we actually have the power to control our destiny? Will we ever truly come to terms with the limitation of our human understanding? And indeed is the difference between life and death only a dream away?

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.