He was a millionaire and he was searching for the perfect woman, a virgin.. One that would love him for him and not just the money he had. He tricks the women into thinking he is poor to see if they will love him for whom he is and not for his money.When he finds the woman he is looking for she becomes angry because he lied. Will they ever find true happiness or did he blow it?*****Warning: some sexual content*******

My Big Book of Dos & Don'ts: A Morality Workbook for Young Learners helps children ages 4–8 build the character traits that matter most — kindness, honesty, respect, and generosity. Through relatable stories, colorful illustrations, guided activities, and simple pledges, young readers discover how their everyday choices affect the people around them.Each chapter follows a child-friendly story, a clear Dos & Don'ts chart, a scenario question, reflection prompts, and hands-on practic...

Silent Screams recounts one woman’s painful struggle following a severe psychological crisis. After an attempted suicide reveals the doctor/patient relationship that she has had with her psychiatrist for many years, she takes a look back at her life to understand how she arrived at such a painful and critical point, tracing her background from childhood and including the effects of a long-term physical illness and many emotional traumas.-----Believing that a formal education in psychology ...

When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community. Little did the team of distinguished scholars and scientists realize, however, how their hopes would soon be brought to ruin. Just a few months into the journey, the vessel became lodge...

About the BookWhat is the bright sun without the night sky? Perhaps at first it would appear pleasant. Constant sun filled days is ideal. Is it not? But in all actuality it would be a turning point of an unconceivable event with an unexpected aftermath.A new world government is birth out of calamity and the greatest devastation the entire earth has ever succumb.Lordia, the young queen with no crown decked with gems nor a palace on high is the promise for a simple way o...

Slavery existed throughout the western Hemisphere, but after its abolition in the British empire it persisted for decades in much of the U.S. Even in states where slavery was illegal, slaves were subject to capture and return to their owners. The only sure escape was to cross the border into Canada.The Underground Railway was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses, an organized escape route run by blacks and whites who opposed slavery and who helped black Americans fi...

This is the first volume to investigate how Classic Rock music engaged with the ancient world from lyrics to performance to the curation of the personalities of the singers and bands themselves. Though Classic Rock is treated simultaneously as the leading edge of modern music and already a thing of the past, the contributors to this volume break this dichotomy. They consider how artists such as Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, the Doors, Bruce Springsteen, Marc Bolan, Pink Fl...

In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue the war effort. Prime Minister Churchill had to find a solution to the carnage or the Nazis would be victorious. With the support of Churchill and Lord Louis Mountbatten, eccentric inventor and amateur spy Geoffrey Pyke proposed a dramatic project to build invincible ships of ice—massive, unsinkable ...

Building transportation routes through the Rockies is dangerous. It always has been. It is also expensive, labour-intensive, and highly political. But railway and highway construction through the western cordillera succeeded thanks to scientific innovation and sheer human grit. In the nineteenth century, steam locomotives, railways, tunnels, trestles, and telegraphy represented the hi-tech advances of the day. A vast country with a small population raised money (and more and more money) an...

It is said that the sparkle from Canadian diamonds mimics the awesome and seductive radiance of the northern lights. Yet until 1991, no one thought diamonds could even be found in Canada—no one except Chuck Fipke and Stu Blusson, who uncovered diamond-rich kimberlite in the Barrens at Point Lake, near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.Their spectacular find caused great excitement in international diamond circles and sparked the largest claim-staking rush in Canada since the 1896 ...

Aralond: The Green City Birth of Heroes is not only entertainment. It teaches through story. Readers learn that responsibility comes with every gift. Power is never neutral. Leaders, parents, and even children in the novel discover that their choices ripple through communities. One wrong step may cause harm. One brave act may save lives.This lesson speaks beyond the walls of Aralond. In our world, people also face choices about how to use talent, influence, or resources. W...

**In searing dispatches, Love, Me is a timely affirmation for Black women in a world that has undervalued them for centuries."Thee Black woman’s story for this era. It is both political and personal. It is both timely and, quite frankly, overdue." —Sunny Hostin, Emmy Award-winning journalist**Will we ever get back the love we give? That’s what millions of Black women are asking. Whether it’s the men in our lives, our experiences in our workplaces, or America itself...