I thought I knew the man I married. I was wrong.For ten years, Daniel has been my partner, my protector, my everything. Our life together has been ordinary in the best way—school runs, dinners at home, stolen weekends away.But then a news report changes everything.A woman appears on screen, eyes red from crying. "My husband and daughter are missing," she pleads. And the photo she shows—Daniel and a little girl—hits me like a punch.Except… the child i...

As the second book in the series, join Codey as he explores the planet of Jamarcan and makes friends with Marky as he learns about multiplying. Every night he travels through space in his spaceship having fun and learning to multiply as he goes.

Concerns over vanishing destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, and the ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro have prompted some travel operators and tour agencies to recommend these destinations to consumers before they disappear. This travel trend has been reported as: ‘disappearing tourism,’ ‘doom tourism,’ and most commonly ‘last chance tourism’ where tourists explicitly seek vanishing landscapes or seascapes, and/or disappearing natural and/or social heritage. However, despite t...

In the enigmatic realm of An Itinerant House, Emma Frances Dawson weaves a tapestry of haunting and evocative tales. From the titular story of a house that roams the countryside, carrying its secrets within its walls, to the chilling encounter with a spectral child in "The Little Ghost," Dawson's prose transports readers to a world where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur. With each turn of the page, these stories delve into the depths of human emotion, exploring them...

This poetic meditation explores energy exchanges between the living and the inanimate, the real and the imagine. One anonymous woman's complex mind is revealed through her evolving and intimate relationships to the objects in her home. A proactive armchair, an ever-hopeful rusty nail, and a drinking glass with a midlife crises illuminate a hidden, colorful life and growth toward accepting change and healing.Emma Dawson-Webb knows that our most powerful emotions and desires manifest...

In the dead of night, Kate receives a phone call. Police have recovered her sister Anya's clothes and personal belongings at the poolside of a remote hideaway in Mexico – a place she had no idea Anya would be. Anya was last seen getting into a vehicle with a local diving instructor but now he's missing too. Their relationship has been complicated ever since a devastating tragedy blew their family apart, but Kate cannot believe Anya would willingly travel somewhere so isolated with a man sh...

A young girl lives in fear of her abusive father....A powerful short tale. Based on a true story.

A gorgeously romantic short story, part of The Meet Cute series.Every Happily Ever After began with a Once Upon a Time…After working a busy Christmas Eve shift at her family's flower shop, Chelsea can barely keep her eyes open for her Gran's annual festive get-together. Can her Christmas dreams come true under the mistletoe?

The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen activism on the Moraine’s future in the face of rapid urban expansion.The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles captures the hidden aspects of a story that received a great deal of att...

Many of the world's islands are dependent on tourism as their main source of income. It is therefore imperative that these destinations are managed for long-term viability. The natural appeal of a destination is typically one of its main tourism related assets, yet the natural environment is also the feature most directly threatened by potential overexploitation.Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations builds on existing literature in the subject by providing innovative discussio...

Within little more than a generation, whale-watching has been subject to global industrial development. It has been portrayed by destinations and business operators, and advocated by environmental groups, as a sustainable activity and an alternative to whaling. However, in recent years the sustainability of these activities has increasingly been questioned, as research shows that repeated disturbance by boat traffic can severely disrupt critical behaviours of cetaceans in the wild. Bringin...

By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring inequality between the rich and poor? Are ever-expanding tourism markets a smoke-free, s...