How far would you pursue a dreamif it meant requisite isolation?If every artless responsebegan to fester a mutiny amongst your closest of friends,would you stay true?On who would you depend for encouragementif everyone you knew arched their chest against you,or turned and sank away?What would you do to protect an idea,to keep safe your future?What did God do?Elohiyms decision to give his creation the ab...

From haunted Civil War battlefields to a severed ear discovered on a nightly run; from lab-grown dinosaurs to forest creatures that steal away children under the cover of night; from deadly bio-engineered fleas to a burning teenage desire for cybernetic amputations: Deaf and hard of hearing authors from around the world bring you this fun, though oftentimes disturbing, collection of short fiction."So often the future we imagine is homogenous: everyone has the same baseline abilitie...

Start a Beautiful New Christmas Tradition with Your Family!Written in the classic lyrical style of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, YOUNG SANTA SUPERHERO is a beautiful holiday treasure designed to be read together once a year. Though filled with vibrant, full-color illustrations on every page, YSS features just one memorable stanza per page—making it a swift, magical 15-minute read-aloud experience that parents and child...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It’s 1975, and Ray Hayward is stuck…A successful Safeway manager in Southern California, Ray has spent decades doing everything right. He’s built a career, raised a family, bought a house on the hill, and settled into the comfortable routines of middle-class American life. But after a frightening bout of pneumonia leaves him confronting his own mortality, Ray finds himself awake night after night, filled with anxiety.The...

This volume contains three short stories of speculative fiction - "Press The Record Button," "In The Heavens As On Earth" and "Real Life Fiction." Each story explores possibilities at the end of our known world. Time travel, manipulation of reality, nuclear war, reincarnation, chance, and a host of other ideas are woven through these various stories.

What happened in 2012? Where was the big, end of the world event everyone was waiting for? When would the Golden Age begin? These questions and more are answered by Billy Hero, who is on the move. He’s recovering from partial amnesia and narcolepsy due to his most recent battle with the Nagas. The story follows him from New Mexico to Denver, through some Deep Underground Bases on his way to Minneapolis to meet with his old friend, the Reverend T.J. Clemons, who broadcasts his gospel messag...

A writer may have a story to tell, a sense of plot, and strong characters, but for all of these to come together some key questions must be answered. What form should the narrator take? An omniscient, invisible force, or one—or more—of the characters? But in what voice, and from what vantage point? How to decide? Avoiding prescriptive instructions or arbitrary rules, Christopher Castellani brilliantly examines the various ways writers have solved the crucial point-of-view problem. By unpac...

Media pundits and students of Canadian politics alike have strived to interpret the relevance of the 2021 federal election, held in the midst of a global pandemic and reinforcing the existing parliamentary balance of power.This timely volume explains the election's import, offering an insightful account of Canadian democracy in an age of increasing rancour and polarization and explaining why the Liberals did not win a majority government. In a unique collaboration, some of the coun...

Media pundits and students of Canadian politics alike have strived to interpret the relevance of the 2021 federal election, held in the midst of a global pandemic and reinforcing the existing parliamentary balance of power.This timely volume explains the election's import, offering an insightful account of Canadian democracy in an age of increasing rancour and polarization and explaining why the Liberals did not win a majority government. In a unique collaboration, some of the coun...

The Canadian federal election of 2019 is extensively analyzed in this collaborative volume edited by Jon Pammett and Christopher Dornan. Bringing together leading political scientists and media scholars, the book examines the strategies, successes, and failures of each of Canada's major political parties, with special attention given to the pressing question of climate change.In Canadian elections, the context of the campaign is vital. Here, contributors consider in detail the way ...

Many saw it as a gamble for Jean Chretien: against the advice of party members, he called an early election. But the gamble paid off, and the Liberal Party cruised to their third straight majority government.The Canadian General Election of 2000 is the authoritative study of the campaign and election. As with previous volumes in the Canadian General Election series, the 2000 edition includes analyses of:the campaigns of all five major partiesthe rol...

Good financial habits are best learnt at an early age. This ebook is all about money and is written for children aged seven to 12 to read with their parents. It includes brief histories of coins, notes, banking and credit cards and encourages children to adopt good habits concerning personal finance. Through the use of anecdotes, videos, games and interesting money facts, it promotes keeping accurate financial records as a way of preventing money problems or serious debt later in life. The...