The door shut behind her with no slam, no click-just that gentle finality that makes the air heavier.Velin didn't speak at first. He simply reached for the desk drawer, the one he'd locked three times and sealed with a line of ink she'd never asked about. The key turned with a sound like teeth breaking. Inside, the maps weren't of places, they were of patterns.Seven of them. Each drawer was a step, an escalation. All the way to the burn.Bunny was still leaning in the doorwa...

Bunny, The Hidden Record: The First Empty Throne by Her Majesty of Ink and Exit Wounds focuses on Bunny, the annoyed, overworked chief documentarian living inside a magical court. Following the sudden disappearance of the queen, Bunny is forced into acting as a guide through the locked rooms of the palace. He's furious about the assignment and makes sure his protest is formally documented at every turn. As he leads the way through several chambers, he also unpacks the many items th...

Loved and admired throughout her long lifetime, her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II touched the lives of millions - not least through the speeches that she broadcast to the world each Christmas during her seventy years on the throne.This treasury of quotations highlights the values that were closest to her heart - courage, empathy, forgiveness, hope, humility, love and respect. These are the values that she encouraged in others and that she hoped would endure in th...

I would like to present the second book from my series. For Eirinn

The book is about a fictionalized version of what a prince should be. I always thought the ideal prince should be a tyrant. I framed the prince in the name of the ideal character from different manuscripts I read throughout the globe. I think you will enjoy the pacifist perspective of a radical agenda to be born as a head of state, to be the opposite of a revolutionist because primarily, princes are born to bring change and to inherit a throne. There are very few monarchies around the worl...

THE extinct crater or mountain which forms the background to the city of Honolulu is known as the Punch-Bowl; at its base is situated the Queen's Hospital, so named because of the great interest taken in its erection by Emma, the queen of Kamehameha IV. Funds for the cause were solicited by the reigning sovereigns in person, and the hospital building was completed in 1860. Very near to its site, on Sept. 2, 1838, I was born. My father's name was Kapaakea, and my mother was Keohokalole; the...

"IN DREAMS" I HEAR YOUR FOOTSTEPS DOWN THE HALL IMAGINING YOU CALL ME AND I CAN SEE YOUR FACE STARING BACK AT ME SUDDENLY IT’S ERASED AS I REACH OUT TO TOUCH IT SOFTLY MORE AND MORE I NEED YOU BUT YOU’RE ONLY THERE IN DREAMS COME INSIDE....SHARE MY WORLD.

2020 became the year that no one will forget as the coronavirus roared into East Hollywood lives. City College artists, reporters and editors capture life in quarantine and the consuming story of our time from Madrid to Salvador, from Guangzhou to L.A.

A collection poems about all things in life, love and family. Snippets "In Dreams: I hear your footsteps down the hall, Imagining you call me, And I can see your face, Staring back at me, Suddenly it's erased... "It Touched My Soul: It moved me with just one touch, I never thought it would hurt so much, The kiss so sweet made me feel complete, The heart was bold, It touched my soul...

Heidi Kühn’s lifelong commitment to fostering peace and raising awareness has been a driving force—from her early days as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, to her time as a reporter in Juneau, Alaska, covering the Exxon Valdez oil spill and US-Russia relations. After overcoming a potentially terminal cancer diagnosis that threatened everything she held dear, Heidi became determined to rid the world of another form of cancer that has plagued the world for decades—landmine...

Malibu Washington (yes, that’s her real name!) is an R&B singer turned influencer with a voice that will bring you to your knees and a face made for magazine covers. She survived a messy divorce from Tyrese—her first love, father of her son, the man who made her famous, and the one who broke her heart. Now she’s engaged to Jaylen, a man who promised her forever.But what happens when that promise turns out to be a lie? What happens when the only person who can help is the man who br...