A true to life story based on a little boy child scolded on his head by boiling hot water at the age of 4 mass confusing in his life, culture shock, near death experiences, growing up, finding love, loosing love then becoming a single parent.. 

'Gritty and lively... a colourful depiction of 17th century France'- CAROL BIRCH, author of Jamrach's MenagerieA SPELLBINDING TALE SET IN CARDINAL RICHELIEU'S FRANCEWith enemies advancing on all sides and Cardinal Richelieu's health failing, France is at breaking point. Yet salvation may arrive in the most unlikely form...Born into poverty and with terrible deformities,

Five authors from Table for Seven Press weave together short stories that explore the eternal question: "What if…?" when the promise of tickets to see a beloved band are on the horizon.

Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical American philosophy that includes Whitehead’s writings. These camps began separately, and so they remain. This v...

In an age of cowardice and compromise, the church is asking one question:"Where are the men?"The Redeemed Man prepares you to answer Christ's call to become a man in His image—the kind of man the world needs.Featuring the contributions of trusted pastors, fathers, and husbands, this book answers the questions you're asking as you strive to glorify God in your relationships, work, and spiritual life. Each author gives a uniq...

The Big Book of Ghost Stories: 140 Horror Novels & Short Story Collections maps the ghostly imagination across the Gothic, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, and modern traditions. Its capacious selection ranges from ancestral curses, haunted houses, doubles, revenants, and spectral revenge to psychologically ambiguous apparitions and folkloric visitations. Novels and short fiction mingle with fairy-tale, sensation, decadent, imperial, and supernatural-investigation modes, revealing how the g...

Tales of Lost Souls: 400+ Ghost Stories in One Collection maps the extraordinary breadth of supernatural fiction from Gothic romance to psychological horror, antiquarian terror, folkloric fantasy, and modern ghostly unease. Its vast assembly moves through ruined estates, cursed objects, spectral visitations, doubles, revenants, and haunted domestic spaces, demonstrating how the ghost story continually adapts to changing fears. Alongside classic Gothic atmospheres, readers encounter tales o...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments provides a comprehensive overview of the major crop models and the ways they address these challenges. The book explores the development of major crop...

Five broken alphas. One lost wolf. A fate she never expected.Silver Falls University. There is no reason for a female-bitten wolf like myself to be here. More so, there is no reason that someone who grew up as poor as I did in an overcrowded packhouse in the South Side of Chicago should be making her way up north to one of the most prestigious supernatural universities in the country.I truly had no idea what to expect—something that was my own fault. I didn...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.For millions of years the use of dowsing and crystals has influence history and helped forged humanity’s path.Your very ancestors have used the techniques of dowsing when searching for lost items and medical diagnosis. Even today in this modern age of technology, the use of the ancient art of dowsing is applied when science fails when searching for water wells and gasoline. There are hundreds of ways to apply do...

I'd made a promise to live my life without fear.When my parents passed, leaving my siblings and me completely alone in the world, I was broken—thrown down a path of reckless decisions. Seven years later, I was finally gaining solid ground. The bold attitude I'd held for most of my life had been shaken but not shattered.Except when it came to matters of the heart.As my mating heat approaches, I'm faced with the daunting task of finding a mate—of choo...