What if the next big drug was you?Lucid is that next big drug.It gives its user the ability to sense and control other people’s bodies. Scientists and drug dealers seek its power. There’s just one catch. This drug can’t be made in a lab, only by the rare person’s body.Raleigh is an anomaly who makes an extraordinary amount of Lucid. Now she’s being hunted for the drug in her veins. She finds an unlikely ally in a boy named Rho, who...

What if the next big drug was you?Lucid is that next big drug.It gives its user the ability to sense and control other people’s bodies. Scientists and drug dealers seek its power. There’s just one catch. This drug can’t be made in a lab, only by the rare person’s body.Raleigh is an anomaly who makes an extraordinary amount of Lucid. Now she’s being hunted for the drug in her veins. She finds an unlikely ally in a boy named Rho, who also makes the drug, but he isn’t ...

What happens when life and ambition collide with betrayal and disease? Sharon's comfortable existence as a novelist, wife and mother to twin daughters is shattered by a cancer diagnosis, and by her husband's affair with a graduate student. The only relief in sight is a new writing project—an engrossing serialized novel based on the story of the 19th-century actress Nelly Ternan, the young mistress of the aging Charles Dickens. Chronicling this infamous affair, Sharon is forced to examine w...

Big, Bold, Beautiful is the ultimate empowerment guide that takes you on a journey of discovery to connect to your authentic self, get your sparkle back and create a life where you can thrive - not just survive.Life design and empowerment coach Kate Taylor uses a unique mix of psychological tools and spiritual practices to form her Practical Magic coaching method. She blends straight-talking strategy with a dash of spiritual sauce to create an alchemy of measured action com...

The life and times of a Wakefield woman in the late twentieth century with substantial local historical information. The book aims to echo Henry Clarkson's memories of Merry Wakefield (1887) but with more sombre overtones reflecting experiences of single parenthood, time in the local mental hospital and the trauma of a fatal car accident, but with good times too.

Meet Opal...Picture a little girl who even at the tender age of four, thinks she needs to be perfect all the time. Shake your head as she is traumatized by a kindergarten teacher. The memory of the event will haunt her for most of her life.Sit next to her as she discovers that there really is magic.Play with her in the place she calls FairylandBe with this child as she faces health challenges, is bullied and scared out of her mind with nightmares.Hav...

The Sproutlings go on a Sprouts School Geography trip to Budleaves Farm where they learn about the principles of organic farming and have their first experience of home baking real food. Meanwhile, the Corn Council is about to hold a meeting on making changes to Sasha Sweetcorn-on-the-Cob's home Cornfield, which divides opinions amongst the Vegetablae community. Using the knowledge they have gained from their school lessons and their trip to Budleaves Farm, can the Sproutlings save the day...

**Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world.“This anthology lends remarkable texture to a subject that has been too often sensationalized and oversimplified.” —**The New York TimesTaking up issues including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion, fashion and family, these essays examine the role anorexia plays i...

Help! Frankie Fox can't remember how to get to Terry toads house! Can you help? Choose which paths Frankie Fox takes and help him reach Terry Toads house safely. Only you can decide his destiny....

The Dutch East India Company is in the throes of expansion. They are seeking gold, treasure, land to conquer and an easy passage to South America. Still in thrall to the invisible Hand of his Overlord, the long lived vampire entity is compelled to find new skin. And he does exactly that.This is another chapter in the entitys evolution toward the light. And he finds himself suddenly in the guise of Abel Tasman, Master Commander and brave explorer, who becomes the first European to e...

Christopher Columbus was not yet born and unbeknownst to any European, the massive Native American city of Cahokia was bursting at its seams with a population that rivaled the population of London. Ruled by his master, the ancient vampire entity of the Forbidden Tome, Lethal Assumed and Treasons Truth finds himself as chieftain of this very city.The tale of Kakeobuk, wise chieftain of the Mississippian Indian Mound Builders, is a lusty story of intrigue, intimate acts and emotions ...

From unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing to the failure to consult indigenous communities with regard to extractive industries that affect them, human rights violations remain a pervasive aspect of the global economy. Advocates have long called upon states, as the primary duty bearers and enforcers of human rights, to hold corporations directly accountable for violations committed throughout the supply chain. More recently, many business and human rights advocates have consi...