Libraries and archives are liminal spaces between what once was and what might be remembered.This edited collection explores this dynamic through international case studies, theoretical discussions and practical guidance, considering how these spaces activate moments of grief through preservation and documentation. Drawing on cultural, personal and literary perspectives, this volume examines grief across temporalities and the ephemerality of digital and material memory spaces....

Meet Liam Sharp, an ordinary history teacher at the local school with an insatiable passion for mythology. His seemingly mundane life takes an unexpected turn when he encounters the enigmatic Mr. Ward, a mysterious collector who offers him an old pair of skates, seemingly ordinary, bought from a flea market. However, these skates hide an extraordinary history and unsuspected powers.Eager to test his new acquisition, Liam heads to the local hockey arena on a scorching summer day, ju...

Have you ever heard the whisper of a life unlived? Nestled in a valley draped in perpetual twilight, the Inn of Eternal Evenings offers sanctuary to those drawn by a haunting melody, a siren song of what might have been. Within its walls, time bends, and forgotten dreams take on a spectral life of their own.Finnigan O’Malley, a musician haunted by an elusive tune, arrives at the inn seeking solace for a silent symphony trapped within his soul. He joins a gathering of kindred spirit...

The Cape Verde islands are a destination with a difference, a distinctive blend of European and African cultures whose unique hospitality is encapsulated in the Creole word morabeza. These magical islands are soaring in popularity, with property construction, flights and international arrivals rocketing. British and Irish second-home investors are discovering the potential of these beautiful, burgeoning islands and this sixth edition provides practical details on purchasing property, explo...

A ruined Irish house.A woman found bleeding on the bog road.A hunger older than death.Aoibheann Ní Raghallaigh has spent her life inside Dún Mór House, a lonely ancestral estate on the edge of the Connemara bog, where the rain presses against the glass, the west wing remains closed, and the portraits remember more than the living will say.Then, during a violent Atlantic storm, a carriage crashes outside the ga...

Beneath the hills of the Scottish Highlands, the old stories are still breathing.Voices from the Glen gathers the fairy tales, folk legends, supernatural beings, and ancient beliefs of the Scottish Highlands into one atmospheric and deeply readable volume.Drawing on the great Highland storytelling tradition, this book explores the hidden world of the daoine sith, the people of the fairy mounds, alongside selkies, kelpies, water hor...

Enter the shadowed roads of Celtic death belief, where the dead were never truly gone and the Otherworld waited just beyond the firelight.The Celtic Book of the Dead explores the haunting folklore, ritual customs, and ancestral beliefs that shaped how Celtic cultures understood death, mourning, spirits, omens, and the journey beyond life.From the Irish wake to the cry of the banshee, from corpse roads and funeral charms to the western sea and the h...

A girl desperate to save her father. A sorcerer with a terrible secret. An assassin determined to escape her fate.The blockbuster new series from the acclaimed author of FIREBORN.For ten generations, Skye’s family has hidden the Oryon – a dragonblade capable of slaying the gods. But a year ago, everything fell apart: Skye’s mother died, the blade was lost and Skye’s father left to recover it and never returned.When Skye makes a reck...

When Maria Carr and Aisling Pont each lost their husbands in 2006, they were thrust into a world they never wanted to enter – one of profound grief, bewilderment, and isolation. Now, drawing from eighteen years of both personal experience and professional insight, they offer what they desperately needed back then: a compassionate, practical guide for navigating life after loss. Wisdom for the Widowed weaves together the raw, honest stories of young widows and widowers aged 25-55, creating ...

The new, thoroughly updated eighth edition of Bradt’s Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) remains the most detailed and extensive English-language guidebook available to this alluring Atlantic archipelago, described by some as ‘Africa light’. Stable and peaceful, quietly isolated by its mid-Atlantic location, malaria-free, and with year-round sun, Cabo Verde’s appeal to independent travellers is a natural one – with its unique island geography making it somewhat of an adventure to navigate beyond the ...

In a world where the planet is recovering from several environmental disasters, sister Artificial Intelligences are trying to piece together the history that was erased by the Super Artificial Intelligences.These poems were discovered by the limited AIs several hundred years after humans left the planet. Anne Rose tries to talk about supermachines and the future. Who is this Anne Rose?, wondered the limited machines. How was she able to predict future events so accurately?A...

Open up a world of flavor while on the renal diet.Nutrition can be a powerful tool in the fight against chronic kidney disease, and the 30-Minute Renal Diet Cookbook shows you how to use that tool for your own health. This book gives you over 100 recipes that you can tailor for each stage of chronic kidney disease so you get exactly what your body needs from each serving—every time.Helpful charts outline specifically what types of renal diet foods ...