“A thrilling journey. . . . A must-read.” Freida Pinto“How fortunate a thing it is, when life alters you without warning.”Lisa Ray is one of India’s first supermodels. She’s also an acclaimed actor, a cancer survivor, a mother of twins born through surrogacy, a lifelong student, and a person of no fixed address. She is a woman who has lived many lives. And this is her story.Unflinching and deeply moving, Close to the Bone t...

In the mystical world of Thra, the fate of the land and its inhabitants rests with the Dark Crystal-a powerful artifact whose shards have been lost to time. Kylan, a quiet scholar with an extraordinary gift for ancient languages, is called upon to unlock the secrets of the Crystal. What starts as a mission to uncover forgotten knowledge soon becomes a dangerous journey to restore balance to a world on the edge of collapse.Kylan's path leads him across deserts, caves, and treacherou...

A'lisa Ray and Thee Stallion are reformed master tricksters. They are on a mission help those who are being tricked come to the light. The secrets of trickin' are revealed in this easy-to-read edition.

Whether it's for their solace and beauty or for the sense of history that seeps from the ground, cemeteries are fascinating places to visit, this guide shows where to find the most interesting and unusual ones in all of New England. Some have headstones that are fine art, others are associated with notorious events, and others are the final resting place of famous poets, soldiers, and statesmen. Included are large public facilities as well as the small family burying grounds hidden away be...

Teachers are the most important determinant of the quality of schools. We should be doing everything we can to help them get better. In recent years, however, a cocktail of box-ticking demands, ceaseless curriculum reform, disruptive reorganisations and an audit culture that requires teachers to document their every move, have left the profession deskilled and demoralised. Instead of rolling out the red carpet for teachers, we have been pulling it from under their feet. The result is predi...

Student-led peer review can be a powerful learning experience for both giver and receiver, developing evaluative judgment, critical thinking, and collaborative skills that are highly transferable across disciplines and professions. Its success depends on purposeful planning and scaffolding to promote student ownership of the process. With intentional and consistent implementation, peer review can engage students in course content and promote deep learning, while also increasing the efficie...

Cutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States. Berman, who has photographed and lived in El Paso for decades, is a documentarian who uses his camera to record what’s in front of him rather than for, as he puts it, “mere self-expression.” Berman’s visual investigations of the everyday realities of the border—det...

Where can you find stories that serve up not only high-quality fiction, but stories also just a little off? Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, of course!And wow do aliens bring out the "Pulphouse factor" in writers. This volume contains the best alien stories from Pulphouse in the first ten issues. It also includes a special treat: a story from Pulphouse editor Dean Wesley Smith. These alien stories just go way off the beam, and we do mean way off, so far off, the beam seems too far off t...

“A thrilling journey. . . . A must-read.” Freida Pinto“How fortunate a thing it is, when life alters you without warning.”Lisa Ray is one of India’s first supermodels. She’s also an acclaimed actor, a cancer survivor, a mother of twins born through surrogacy, a lifelong student, and a person of no fixed address. She is a woman who has lived many lives. And this is her story.Unflinching and deeply moving, Close to the Bone t...

In today's crowded digital landscape, a great book is only the first step. To become an industry authority and build a sustainable income, you need an AI Media Pass.Stop leaving money and opportunities on the table. This is not a guide about writing your book with AI; it's about marketing, media, and monetizing it at a speed and scale a traditional author simply can't match. The key to your authority and income is no longer...

In 1920s North Carolina young Rufus leaves his family knowing nobody will miss him. He carries haunting secrets buried deep in his memory. When he falls in with the O’Haras he believes he found a home. He learns to make white lightening and prospers in selling it. Running moonshine leads him to dark places where he encounters rough culprits. A scheme gone wrong lands him in prison where he confronts the demons in his past.Fifteen year-old Jolene O'Hara witnesses her mother killed i...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:“Twilight Travels with the Grape-Paper Man” by Sara Saab“Child of Thorns” by Ray Cluley (reprint)“Little Digs” by Lisa L. Hannett“A Wisdom that is Woe, a Woe that is Madness” by E. Catherine Tobler (reprint)