SupaPodia increasingly dominates the globe. In its underground living chambers, known as SupaPods, everything needed by its population of Podders is entirely free.But is this a paradise or a hell? Dr. Julian Foster, who has entered a SupaPod as a staff member, discovers the truth. He escapes into the old outer world and begins a battle against the SupaPods and the ruling Eliti class which controls them. He is assisted by Tina, daughter of the High Director of SupaPodia. Her Christi...

Rex Hellyer - an aspiring poet and novelist - leaves home to start a new life. He seeks to find the inspiration to write by living in a Second World War pillbox overlooking an Essex village. He is helped at first in this venture by the landowner's daughter, Alice. Then the villagers become suspicious of him and his new life turns to disaster.This is a compelling story of hope mingled with despair - a black comedy where humour and tragedy mix in equal measures.

England, 1888. Fourteen-year-old Indigo Taylor dreams of becoming a detective, which as a young child is what she thought her solicitor father was. A local murder that seems too quickly solved inspires Indigo to do some investigating of her own. The thread she finds leads to a dangerous chain of events. Meanwhile, Indigo is befriended by a group of circus artists who live a refreshingly different way of life than the stifling society in which finds herself.The Second Nature of Indi...

With the battle for Earth over, Zax and Kalare are forced to deal with the repercussions of its outcome. They enlist their closest allies to take back the Ship from enemies both new and old, and along the way they discover a most unexpected source of help.

This book will show you exactly how to: - Take the leap, find a family and get ready for Au Pairing. - Become an explorer, live in a foreign country and travel solo. - Master your Au Pair duties, start teaching English and approach childcare. - Discover your potential, meet new people and confront your insecurities. - Maintain your sanity, find a project, and design your life. Regardless of whether you are still deciding if being an Au Pair is for you, are an experienced Au Pair, or are ju...

Bridge coursework to research with foundational lattice QCD knowledgeAdvanced undergraduate physics students transitioning to research projects often lack the specialized knowledge needed for theoretical particle physics work. High Energy Physics Essentials: A Guide to HEP Research addresses this gap directly. Written by an award-winning physics educator and research mentor, this book provides the foundational concepts students need to engage in supervised...

The excavation of a well at a Roman villa site in Somerset brings together a man and a woman of greatly differing ages and backgrounds – Anthony, in his mid-sixties, a retired civil servant, and Giuditta, thirty years his junior, a beautiful Italian.She shares his archaeological passion. They both have their secrets, which slowly become clear as the well is dug. What is found deep beneath the earth and what is exposed of their livesmake a dangerous dichotomy.The past l...

Zax should be training to pilot a fighter with his best friend Kalare, but instead he defied the Flight Boss and his career is in the toilet.His new job managing sewage in Waste Systems may be disgusting and boring, but it allows him time to become adept with his Plug and study the Ship's infrastructure. It also exposes Zax to civilians for the first time in his life as he works closely with Imair and befriends eight-year-old Nolly.A year-long period of civilian unrest, whi...

A string of grisly murders in small-town Québec: the victims are all men with sordid pasts-violent criminal antecedents shrugged off by the courts. The killer is one of seven women: all well-educated, well-adjusted, perfectly normal-seeming young career woman. But one conceals a very different alter ego, operates as a vigilante with ties to the BDSM underworld. Will inspector Fournier, along with his colleague Annabelle Saint-Jean, solve the mystery and capture the woman behind the...

FIRST BITE tells a story with the background of the use in psychiatry in the 1960s of the hallucinogenic drug, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25).Fernley Park Rehabilitation Centre in Surrey is an institution where the anxious and the obsessive, the alcoholic, the traumatised, and the sexually repressed, are sent to be treated, many with the new drug therapies that are the particular specialisation of the innovative and anarchistic Dr. Marius Locker. The patients know his unit as t...

The narrative dwells on the integrity and upright behaviour of Christian prisoners captured by the Turks. It has been asserted here that a firm belief in God and ones own abilities sustain a person through the hardest times. The work aims at inspiring the Christian youth and leading them to new ways to enlighten their soul.

Life on the Ship has changed, and for Zax it means a return to the top.The Pilot Academy finally beckons and Zax battles for position against a competitor who brings a fascinating advantage. Meanwhile, his friendship with Kalare remains strained as he refuses to drop his suspicions about the Flight Boss and the officer's knowledge of the mysterious humans.As the Ship travels back towards Earth, the Crew visit a series of previously established colonies and discover startlin...