Written as a script for a video game, a manga and RPG-inspired story, this stand-alone tale follows Ashton Lighten, a 20-year-old Psychology Honours student, who is transported to a world of elemental manipulators. The years following the events of The Rostical Users and The Rostical Guild series have resulted in many changes in this alternate dimension.Ashton, armed with the memories of his parents, faces off against the nefarious magical clones, Rondria, Nostias and Abios, who se...

I am a coconut because my body is black but my spirit inside it is white. The skin is just a shell, fragile and frail; when you cut into it there is a sense of shock when the white milk is revealed. If you split my coconut shell in half and remove it you will see a completely new body on the inside; I think she looks a bit like Marilyn Monroe, only with better legs and juicier hips.Lerato Dlamini is the next Queen of South Africa on her way to her coronation. During her journey she...

The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga endured 200 years of displacement. As a result, relatively little is known about the location, organization, or ambience of their ancestral villages. Perched on a triangular finger of land against...

From identifying the types of secrets we keep to assessing the risks and benefits of disclosure, "The Art of Keeping Secrets" provides practical tools and techniques to help readers navigate the ethical dilemmas and moral quandaries that often accompany the act of keeping secrets. Whether it's protecting sensitive information in professional settings or maintaining privacy in personal relationships, this book equips readers with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and prese...

Imagine sitting in a pitch-black cockpit, accelerating rapidly down a runway and lifting into the night sky. Suddenly, your brain screams that the plane is pitching backward, about to stall and fall from the air. Panicked, you push the nose down to level out, only to drive the aircraft straight into the ocean. You have just succumbed to the Somatogravic Illusion. This phenomenon is one of the deadliest and most terrifying glitches in human neurology. When deprived of visual reference point...

Michael H. Rogers is well known as foreman of the crew with whom he lived through the chaos and terror of the UFO abduction of Travis Walton in ‘75. Rogers successfully defended this landmark event against every sordid attempt of skeptical obliteration, to emerge as the world’s most famous and certainly best documented occurrence of close encounter ever recorded. Realizing that he was uniquely qualified to find the unfeigned facts of UFOs, mass sightings, clandestine government agendas, et...

Michael Tobin, OBE, former CEO of leading IT company TelecityGroup, is more likely to throw his team to the sharks (literally) than put them on a training seminar. Controversial, thought-provoking and entertaining, Forget Strategy. Get Results outlines Michael's unconventional approaches to management and shares the lessons hes learned along the way. With TelecityGroups share price up by 1000% over the last ten years, this is a management approach that delivers results. The book will give ...

The last humans in the solar system battle for survival—and encounter an alien AI—in this action-packed military science-fiction thriller.In the aftermath of a bioengineered plague that wiped out all life on Earth, Jupiter's Europa colony has become the last bastion of human civilization, and it's Lt. Ryan Braeder's job to keep what remains of his species alive. With food and supplies dwindling, he has no choice but to take his last ships on a perilous journey to a...

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain’s American colonies.In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide “breeders” for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, una...

What happens when you can no longer believe what you see, when what you see is you committing a robbery you know you didn’t?

Learn the principles of Cognitive Activity Design, how to design and implement activities for adults that promote their cognitive wellness.Cognitive wellness is determined by two key factors. First, cognitive wellness is supported by "brain health," the health and proper functioning of the brain. Second, cognitive wellness is dependent upon our ability to "flourish," our capacity to experience pleasure, meaning and purpose in life. We achieve cognitive wellness when our healthy bra...

The Town Below takes place in St. Joseph Parish of Quebec City's Saint-Sauveur suburb. Saint-Sauveur is a parochial and provincial place where narrow piety and corruption can be found in every corner, and Denis and Lise, two adolescents in love, scandalize the town with their affair. Scheming politicians and clergymen and grasping social climbers mix with salt-of-the-earth citizens in a rough-and-tumble satiric assault on pre-Quiet Revolution Quebec mores and attitudes.