Summer returns to Alaska, and police detective Randy McCloughlin takes a break from homicides in Fairbanks to go salmon fishing on the Kenai Peninsula. His annual vacation goes astray, however, when a ranger enlists his help in a murder case. Betrayal leads to crime in this police thriller from the Last Frontier. "Slain in Skilak" ("Séquelles à Skilak") is the third book in the Randy McCloughlin series of mysteries, which includes "Iced in Alaska," “Downed in Chena,” and “Hunted in Susitna...

You can't coach your way past a shallow system.Mark Wilkinson has spent his career inside organizations that looked fine on the surface, capable people, functioning operations, nothing obviously broken, yet still underperforming. The pattern was always the same: leaders were exhausted from fixing people, when the real problem was never the fish. It was the water.You Can't Catch a Whale in a Catfish Pond is for leaders who are already doing everything right, coachin...

A brutalcrime, a remote frontier, a relentless hunt.Torn from the frozen soil, the remains of a South Korean detectivetrigger a race against time to save his kidnapped sister in Alaska. Investigators, committed to her salvation, scour the remote regions of the Kenai Peninsula and the seedy underworld of Anchorage in search of the woman. Unbeknownst to them,a serial killer also has her in his sights. Whoever reaches her first willdecide her fate.This English edition preserve...

As an international student, Jake Dawson finds himself in the middle of a political overthrow. The status quo is challenged, and the seditionists take control of the economic engines of society. Jake defies the shifting landscape, ignores the cancellation of his visa, and remains with his friends to stop the transformation of the foreign culture he’s come to love.A man of power and influence, with whom Jake shares a common interest, clashes with his ideology. Their crossing paths f...

Stories share experience, and through experience we live and learn through other’s lives.Two cloistered innocents choose between a risky leap-of-faith and a reality that might be a lie; a simple child talks with extraterrestrials no other can see; a backwoods woman from the 1890s records an eerily accurate futuristic tale; a farm animal meddles with future technology; nearly immortal humans strive to save a museum-quality Earth as the sun dies; what if Beauty were a hag and the Bea...

Love isn’t broken - it’s just out of tune.In Love Remixed, Mark Wilkinson - Success coach, speaker, and author of the inspirational bestsellers Life Remixed, Money Remixed and Personalities Remixed - invites you to throw away the old rules about romance and create a love story that actually works.From heartbreak to healing, from confusion to clarity, this book takes you on a journey to discover the most important relationship you’ll ever h...

Whichever side of the camera you like to be on, this book will show you how - with some simple camera techniques and inexpensive items of wardrobe - you can revolutionise your portfolio!That's always been the mission of photographer Mark and presenter/model Imogen in their smash-hit YouTube channel WeeklyImogen, and their expertise has attracted 160,000 subscribers with well over a million views a month (and growing).In thi...

Mr Marmalade is a very cross cat! Somebody has left a poo! Was it you?Mr Marmalade goes on poo patrol to find the villain. Will he find the culprit?It had better not be you!

In the castle of his master, Jindao maneuvers to determine the motives of an esteemed visitor.Have you wondered why you're able to solve problems while you sleep? Joe Clifton may know.An intelligence courier goes missing, and Corbridge is sent on the first operational mission of its kind to determine what happened.Enjoy thrilling stories and fantastical illustrations in this issue of Speculative Fiction Illustrated.

In this issue SFI introduces a new author, Linda Midgley. Returning author Mark Wilkinson reaches billions of years into the future, and Michael Sorenson returns to the world of The Wind and the Water.SFI is pleased to publish the premier of Michael Sorenson's comic, Jei Pardi.

New author Frank Olson shatters the bridge between reality and dreams in his debut story. College student Adelaide Wilkinson shares her first published story. SFI's cadre writers share their imaginative worlds including the continuing Wind and the Water.The adventures of spunky Jei and her matter-of-fact robot continue in Michael Sorenson's Jei Pardy comic.

Teaching Digital Literacies explores different approaches to teaching digital literacies in the second language classroom.The authors provide a comprehensive overview of literacy and the new technologies in an easy to follow guide that language teachers will find very practical for their own contexts. Topics covered include different and multiple forms on literacy including web 1.0 and web 2.0, blogging and Twitter, multimodal literacy, social networking, ...