God has a perfect plan for our lives. The stories of Bob McCluskey and Agnes Mary Martin demonstrate that plan executed in the lives of two people, born on different continents, yet destined to meet.Growing up through the hopelessness and depression of the 1930s, surviving World War II with barely a scratch, working various careers, and surviving both of their first spouses, Bob and Agnes Mary never expected they would meet, least of all that this chance meeting would become the be...

"Ogden Skully's family has humble roots-his parents were raised during the Depression-but his father has high hopes for him ... Hamden Academy ... and everyone there seems nice, but Ogden, a former public school student, doesn't feel like he fits in. He also confronts his troubled home life ... Still, Ogden finds comfort with his first girlfriend, Chloe, who's from a wealthy oil family and whom he can make laugh. Also at Hamden is Adam, a rebellious boy who thinks Ogden may be a kindred sp...

Special agents. A hidden bunker. Ancient magic no one was prepared for.Still recovering from her injuries, Mattie refuses to sit still while her sister Tillie and their friend Trevor remain captive. A new ally has uncovered their likely location: the underground headquarters of the Auditors — the secret society that has hunted them from the beginning.Deep inside the bunker, Tillie and Trevor are trapped in sealed cells with no doors, no windows, and no acce...

Magic is real — and it’s a bitch.When Mattie’s twin sister Tillie goes missing, Mattie drops everything and rushes across the country to join their friend Trevor in the search. What they uncover instead is a hidden room filled with crystal balls, spell books, and evidence that Tillie has been living a double life.A magical one.But Tillie isn’t just missing. She’s being hunted.As powerful mages manipulate time, cast dangerous spells, and clos...

"If you like Tana French, you will love this one. It’s fun and suspenseful and it kept me up late.” —Jenna Bush HagerEilean Eadar is a barren, windswept rock best known for the unsolved mystery of the three lighthouse keepers who vanished back in 1919. But when a young man is found dead at the base of that same lighthouse, two detective inspectors are sent from Glasgow to investigate.Georgina “George” Lennox is happy to be back from leave after a devastatin...

How important is truth? What is normal? These are the questions raised in The Gift Child, Elaine McCluskey’s fictional oeuvre — a funny, poignant, sure-shot novel, populated with a community of petty criminals, beloved broadcasters, undercover intelligence agents, and more.The novel opens with the disappearance of a man in Pollock Passage, Nova Scotia, a man last seen driving away from a government wharf with a giant tuna head in the basket of his Schwinn delivery bicycle....

The Warrior Mage Librarians have fought their way across continents, but the war is far from over.In Atlantis, ancient secrets surface that could shift the balance between humanity and the hidden cryptid world. Meanwhile, enemies tighten their grip, striking from the shadows with ruthless precision. Every rescue comes at a cost, every alliance teeters on the edge of collapse, and the lines between loyalty and betrayal grow razor-thin.Cryptid terrorists close in from every s...

Seventeen-year-old Annie Wight is convinced that women and girls need to share their stories about health and healthcare with the local community if they are to break free of the isolation that disempowers them and take back control of their health and lives. In her campaign to reinstate women at the heart of hearthside healthcare, Annie finds herself pitted against Health England, a conservative think-tank backed by pharmaceutical giants and private healthcare providers. Pretexting the de...

The In-Between is the unique passage between all universes. Outside time and space, the In-Between acts to separate universes, above all in terms of identity. As such, it functions as a brake on change and innovation flowing from one universe to another. When Ellie's grandfather tries to encourage her to go on a mission through the In-Between to find a remedy for his wife's dementia, he has no idea how this natural resistance to change will thwart his plans. So it's no wonder that he can't...

For twelve years Sam has been imprisoned in his head, unable to express his wild ideas or anything else for that matter. Then Sami appears. Outward-going and articulate, she gets on well with everybody. The catch? Sam and Sami are a chimera; genetically distinct parts of the same person. Sam's dad has sheltered him from the savagery of a world where natural food is banished and alternative medicine is illegal. The emergence of Sami changes everything. There's a rumour the Food Police are s...

During the Second World War I could not get out of school fast enough to begin to work and earn money and embarked on a very checkered career in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, involving a sign shop, ice delivery and twenty-seven years managing a beer store. I bought and ran a 100-acre farm with a cow-calf beef operation, started a seafood takeout restaurant at the same time, driving fifty miles each way daily for five years, from beer store to restaurant to farm and return. It was in the middle of...

This book on systematic social observation (SSO) methodology provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for researchers on using the method. It identifies varieties of approaches and uses of SSO, the different steps used when performing SSO, and the benefits and challenges associated with using SSO.The chapters discuss different aspects related to SSO, such as:Access to the field or footageEthics, including informed consent with data collectionUse of...