A king's fury shakes a kingdom.A musician's song can calm the storm.A young woman's voice may change the fate of nations.When King Lazal of Tarzul rages at the birth of another daughter, the palace trembles beneath the weight of his despair. His dynasty is failing, his bloodline thinning, and the ancient laws meant to protect his people now threaten to unravel the realm. Only Zu Enki, the king's quiet musician and master of the world's hidden harmonics, dares to inter...

#PostWorkout is a book about TRANSFORMATION. In this book, Christopher Oliver also known as "Jolly B the Trainer," shares reflections, life lessons and experiences from his life journey that will inspire anyone who reads this book to grow!In this short but insightful book, readers and listeners will be able to reflect on the lessons learned from his short comings and be able to use his strategies and tools to help strengthen their own mind and bo...

A gothic fantasy debut steeped in vampires, prophecy, betrayal, and a second chance that comes with a deadly price.It begins with a storm, and a voice that answers when no one else will.When tragedy shatters Gary's life, something ancient listens. What it offers is not salvation, but a second chance that pulls him into a hidden world of dark magic and bloodbound legacies.In a realm where vampires rule behind masks of nobility and werewolves are bound by forgotten ri...

In 1649, French colonizers greet the generous Carib people of Grenada with open arms—and secret orders for genocide. From the ashes of a massacre and a desperate, sacrificial leap from a cliff, a curse is born into the soil.Years later, enslaved Africans are brought to work the conquered land, their suffering a constant, brutal offering. With each lash of the whip, each act of defilement, a shadow gathers on Hill Piton, drinking their pain. It is a passive, growing hunger born of u...

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that “jobless recoveries” could become a permanent feature of Western economies.This illuminating book focuses on the employment futures of advanced industrial countries, providing readers with the sociological imagination to appreci...

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has to...

In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and ""roads"" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling comp...

Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons. Now there's only one employment opportunity le...

Bloomsbury presents The Football Battalions: The Elite Footballers Who Fought in the Great War by Christopher Evans, read by Oliver Hembrough'A brilliant book' - Kevin Day'An extraordinary story' - David Williamson, Chief Political Commentator at the Daily ExpressTHE POIGNANT STORY OF HOW PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS WENT TO WARBritain is slowly becoming foot...

The 18th picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Walt Disney, who made dreams come true.This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers and that alway...

First published in 1766 and a perennial favourite since then, The Vicar of Wakefield is built around the naïve but loveable figure of Dr Primrose. He and his family live in rural bliss until disaster threatens to destroy their happiness: abduction, impoverishment and betrayal combine to lay them low, but a surprising figure brings hope when all seems lost.

Improve your game's code with design patterns to make it more readable, reusable, modular, and optimized, guided by an Unreal Authorized Instructor to enhance your overall use of C++ with Unreal EngineKey FeaturesExplore programming patterns, structures, and principles and their applications in Unreal Engine 5 game developmentTranslate code from Blueprint to C++ to implement performant solutions in game developmentBuild a decoupled communicatio...