Whispers of Forever: A Love Rekindled is a gripping tale of second chances, the restorative power of love, and the bravery to face the darkness that threatens to destroy everything they hold dear. It is a fascinating mix of romance, mystery, and heart-pounding action. Will the past's ghosts engulf Cate and Ryan, or will they triumph in the struggle for their future?

While it has become commonplace to discount British novelist Kingsley Amis as a "naïve realist," a mere comedic novelist, even a misogynist and failed moralist, Andrew James argues that Amis was seriously concerned with the role of the artist in society and explored this subject in many of his novels. Throughout the first twenty years of his career, Amis used bad artists as whimsical characters, or antimodels, that helped identify his artistic preferences and fictional techniques. He becam...

The citizens of Faerie are alive and well and living in our cities. Life for the Kin isn't much different from ours, and it's just as hard when you're gay and fey. Whether confronting bashers, solving a severe social misunderstanding or confronting genuine evil, the key is knowing who you can trust.

Exploring the creative mind of Graham Greene, a metafictional study of a literary iconGraham Greene's novels offer more than gripping narratives—they are a window into the author's creative obsessions. The Life of the Author: Graham Greene presents a groundbreaking study that unveils the intimate connection between Greene's life and work, using metafictional analysis to reveal the evolution of his views on authorship and storytelling. Moving beyond convent...

The first full biography of the rugby legend and World War II hero. 'A great story that is long overdue in the telling.' -Paul Ham. 'Rugby is fortunate to have so many role models of the highest order. Stan Bisset is at the top of the game.' -John Eales former Wallabies captain. 'Stan Bisset like this remarkable story of his life is timeless.' -Patrick Lindsay. 'Stan was a man before his time. His leadership forward thinking and standards were second to none . . . This book is a fascinatin...

Detective James Corstorphine’s blood ran cold. His wife never left her clinic door unlocked. Inside, her receptionist sat bound and gagged, tears streaming down her face. “He’s taken Shamila.”But Shamila’s abduction is just the beginning. When human remains are discovered dressed as a scarecrow in a Highland farmer’s field, Corstorphine realizes the cases are connected. The victim worked at Carstairs State Hospital – the same institution where Shamila once treated ...

Washed ashore on the beaches of Thailand, a boatload of Cambodian refugees finds an unlikely survivor - Anousak, a former Khmer Rouge member scarred by years of civil war and unimaginable personal tragedy. As he finds sanctuary, memories come flooding back to his idyllic youth in Laos.He recalls a time of youthful innocence with his two closest friends - Siva, a brother in all but blood, and Mekra, the beautiful young woman they both fiercely loved and competed for. But a shatterin...

Deep below Manhattan, tunnel engineer Josh Reed leads his team as they excavate the East Side Access extending New York’s railway service. But sparks fly as the drill hits an unusual crystalline material—one Josh has never seen before. They push on, and Josh discovers something even more unexpected: a vast room, empty and lifeless—or so it seems.When Josh finds out that the CIA is now looking for him, and that his coworkers have gone missing, he turns to his best friend and boss, L...

The innovative Newcastle Challenging Behaviour Model for dementia care has recently been updated, leading to new advances in the field. This revised second edition guide to assessment and treatment of behaviours that challenge associated with dementia includes these latest developments along with new sections on what have traditionally been considered controversial topics.The new chapters cover issues including:- End of life care- Use of therapeutic dolls- Lies...

In Monsoon Love, Suresh having recently been transferred to Pokhara must choose between falling in love with a woman whose face is always hidden behind an umbrella, and the attractive Anu with her belly-aching love-sick buffalo.Khadka and his friends embark on a wild coming of age adventure in the Himalayan village of Hemja on the eve of the MahaShivaRatri festival.Tragedy and hardships follow in the marriage of Jeevan and Shivani when Jeevan's jealous mother takes out her ...

Veronica Dark, a teenager living in a rundown area of Middlesbrough, gets sick of being bullied and of her home life, so she creates lies to take the focus off herself. But these lies spiral out of control and affect more than those that they are aimed at.

Although cultural diplomacy has become an increasingly fashionable term embraced by academics, foreign-service personnel, and private sector commercial and cultural interests, the very practice of this idea remains conspicuously challenging to define. This book takes on this problem, advancing a new understanding of cultural diplomacy that results from a historical investigation of a single area of government and private sector partnership, and what became in the mid-twentieth century the ...