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Jackleg Boys unfolds a gripping tale of survival, transformation, and the bonds forged in the crucible of adversity. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War's aftermath, Henry and Randy, once privileged sons of an aristocratic Virginian family, find themselves grappling with the ruins of their past. As they navigate the harsh realities of a war-torn landscape, becomes a catalyst for a perilous journey westward. In a quest for survival, the duo must shed their former identities and confront the moral complexities of their choices. This historical novel explores the lengths individuals go to endure and adapt in the face of calamity, challenging notions of privilege, identity, and the pursuit of a new beginning. Jackleg Boys is a riveting narrative that explores the transformative power of desperation and the indomitable human spirit.

When Daniel Smith sets out on a crime-as-performance-art spree (known as the "Crime Artist" around town for blowing up cans of paint in bank vaults) fueled in part by the sudden death of his mother (who revisits him, spitefully, as a ghost), he never expects to be forcefully joined by two adherents to his youthful idealist cause: Zach, a sharply honest androgynous blonde, and Lucy, an insouciant voluptuous beauty. On the run from the police as well as from the aching doldrums of life in Lincoln, Nebraska, the three are determined to "change the world" by expanding on Daniel's original series of art crimes. A folksy cast of characters brings together a surrealist romp of a book that toys with questions of art and life, humor and sex, beauty and the absurd. It's a snowstorm, it's a rainbow riot, it's a blazing mad costume party. Read it, if you dare.

China's journey from civil war and the Cultural Revolution to superpower status is the most significant global development since World War Two. Giles Chance was an early pioneer in Chinese business interaction with the West. He tells a personal story of ambition and endeavour, failure and success which will fascinate lovers of adventure, interacting with a compelling description of an ancient Chinese culture coming to terms with the challenges of the Western-made world.

The Cayuga Indigenous Territory occupies parts of both Canada and New York state. Its people live peacefully in their villages, living on the fish in the lakes and the animals and birds in the woods.Desah is in her mid-teens, and she loves nothing better than to sit beside the fire and listen to her brother relate his dreams. She is captivated.It is only when Desah begins her journey into womanhood and goes on the traditional fasts that she begins to have dreams of her own.She dreams about Sheyna, a girl living seven generations in the future. A girl with problems.From the 13th century, can Desah's dreams help Sheyna negotiate the modern world?

Ireland, Castles, Books, and Love.In an unusual move, aided by one too many glasses of wine, plain, Jayne Sinclair replies to a social media ad to help run a book shop for six months, putting her life on hold for a book lover's adventure. Falling in love with Ireland was expected, falling for her new boss's son was not.

Barry Birchwood is a teenager with no friends, no father and no ¿interest in having an adventure, much as he enjoys reading ¿about them.¿When he stumbles on the entrance to another world where ¿nothing is what it seems, Barry finds himself in an ancient empire ¿that has fallen into darkness and chaos. With a ruthless overlord ¿claiming power and giants running rampant, the resistance ¿movement looks to Barry for help. Can he find his courage in this ¿strange and dangerous world? ¿In order to survive, he must overcome much more than just his ¿own demons.¿

Indeed, this is a collection of poems, but in essence, it is an ¿experience. In the written word comes an opportunity to discover and ¿possibly relate to the raw emotion that consumes the soul.¿

Cole works as a head administrator in a factory. The life lived there by all is very far from normal, rather, it is very abnormal. For everyone it is their normal life. Stars do not exist where they stay, nor does the sun, moon, trees, ocean, grass, sand, you name it. All that exists here are holdings where people live and then a huge factory where they all work. Everybody that lives here, works here, that includes children. Cole is desperate to get out of this despite having the best position in the whole company. This company is boarded off by walls, gates and guards. How will Cole escape and who, if anyone will he take? Why leave when you have the best position within the place? On the other side of this holding is the real world as we all know it to be. Will Cole get caught? What is he doing this for?

Cassie was never good with attention, at school she would always stay quiet and ¿stick to the back of the classroom with her friends making sure to stay where it ¿was safe. But when her parents send her off to camp after she finishes school to ¿distract her from the problems at home, everything she knows is far away from ¿her. Mixed in with new strangers, and a cute new blond she begins to settle down. ¿But with the arrival of a new camper mixing things up, as well as her life at home ¿changing, she must make a choice. Will she stay in the background and hide? Or ¿is this her time to open her heart to new people and new possibilities?¿

How can you start a conversation about what Alzheimer's is and how it can affect loved ones? Join the W.I.Z. Kids -Winnie, Ike, and Zavier-as they find answers to all of your questions.

So, why did the man scream with seagulls?Why did the woman run from the Devil?Why did the soldier try to prevent the event?Gail never claimed to have the answers to these questions but what she did have was the skill, words, empathy and courage to guide each individual to the defining moment that had damaged them. That moment might have been in their conscious mind, their unconscious mind or it could even have been preverbal. Symptoms are often a solution waiting to happen. The original story needs to be told in a way that is safe. The body already knows the story, it was there, it experienced it. By allowing the story of the trauma to be revealed and then told in a way that was safe and understood, healing could finally begin.This book explores and explains fascinating accounts about ordinary people with extraordinary outcomes.Details have been altered to protect and respect the client's identities.The stories, however, are true

A young woman holds her newborn son and looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings: "I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I'm living My baby you'll be" I'm sure many of you remember that heartwarming story. My mom used to read it to me as a child. Well, news flash fuckers, this book isn't anything like that. Parenting Things is an earnest examination about the trials, taboos, and exhaustion that comes with parenting* *from someone who has never fucking done it.

Beginning where the events of Volume I left off, An Alternate History of the United States: Volume II, continues the alternate history saga of the American nation as it plunges into another civil war, which will determine the fate of the strife-stricken nation as it advances into the 20th century. In the aftermath of war, more unrest will plague the war-torn nation as it struggles to deal with its new identity and prepares for an ultimate showdown between two superpowers on both sides of the Atlantic, eager to deliver the final death-knell to the fledgling American Republic.

Charlie has had enough and wants to give back his little brother, a Christmas gift he asked Santa for years before. When Santa accepts the return, Charlie realizes what an awful mistake he has made but is it too late to get his little brother back or will he ruin Christmas forever?

Sixteen-year-old Ayesha, stateless and illiterate, is reviled at the market selling fish for her family. A group blames her for dynamite fishing, which her family don't do. She grieves the death of her brother.She joins a literacy class for young adults run by Sister Rosa. The Bible is the textbook, parables of Jesus. The multicultural students hold discussions, do good deeds and ask about waste at restaurants, hospital and farms.Ayesha makes friends with Noor. She imagines conversations with Princess Ayesha. She has a relationship with Gideon. She takes meth, recovers, and experiences a pandemic and a Black Lives Matter march.She befriends a Muslim drop-out, Jihad. She meets his jihadist friends. After she breaks up with Gideon, she starts a relationship with Chris, but how will things work out?.She is kidnapped by jihadists who want a separate state, and held hostage for a ransom at their camp. The army goes to rescue her.

True love and happy endings only happen in fairy tales... right?Bobby Vanderpool is a young millionaire, a popular model, and a closeted gay heir to his conservative family's legacy. He has everything he could possibly want except for a storybook romance and the freedom to be his true queer self.Meanwhile, Ken Walker, a sexy surfer and musician, fears his family, friends, and church will reject him if they learn he's not entirely straight, so he struggles to repress his sexuality while trying to find himself.But after the steamy surf stud's chance encounter with a certain bubbly blond beau, nothing can stand in the way of their magical love-at-first-sight romance--nothing but family conflicts, treacherous frenemies, and a vexing hex, that is.If the star-crossed lovers are ever to be together, Ken must overcome his fears and learn to accept himself, and Bobby must survive his death drop from grace and learn how to stand on his own two feet.Will Ken & Bobby lose themselves to society's pressures and expectations? Or will they find a way to live their truth and write a fairy tale ending together? Only one sassy narrator can spill this tea!

The year is 2135. There are no longer individual nations. Five super regions known as the Imperium remain. The president of the American Imperium has discovered a time machine and has set out on an ambitious plot to rule the world by conquering the past.

The tale unfolds amidst tumultuous events, the drama, trauma and terror of the twentieth century. Avalanches of political, social and territorial change combine to spawn a plethora of war: foremost the contraction and demise of the Ottoman Empire with ancient nations reborn and the rise of The Young Turks who divide between democracy and dictatorship - the latter to seize power and destroy the social democratic reform of the Ottoman Empire initiated in 1908 by the restitution of the long abrogated 1876 constitution which granted equal social and political rights to all Ottoman subjects regardless of race and religion through the election of their own representatives to the parliament. With the demise and sabotage of the parliament numerous Ottoman subject peoples rebelled which in turn caused the Balkan Wars, and further leading to two World Wars. Genocidal slaughter and terror with pillage and plunder of private property on an unprecedented scale ensues under the Young Turk dictatorship: the foundation of the Kemalist regime ruling class in the republic to come. Rabid nationalism rears its ugly head across Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, wider Asia and the Middle East, spawning virulent Fascism thus spurring the Holocaust. Totalitarian ideology and corrupted Marxism strive for world dominion, sciences advance as brilliant minds uncover and explain the subconscious: a concertina of catastrophe and enlightenment, instrumental in determining and steering the fate and fortune of swathes of human kind, not least the central characters in the Marconi Officer.

Two girls with a particularly rare skill live in the tranquil, picturesque town of Watchtower Harbor. Sophie and Julia have the ability to hear the wishes of youngsters who are missing their loved ones while they are deployed and transmit their messages throughout the world. Jessica Beck is a third-grade teacher. She observes Jimmy Andrews, one of her students, is depressed one day. She is very aware of what he is going through. Jimmy's brother is currently serving in Afghanistan. When she was a child, her brother was stationed in Bosnia. She discovered a unique way to communicate with her brother by sending wishes to the universe in the hopes that something or someone would hear her and pass them on to him. Ms. Beck takes a risk and informs Jimmy about wishing on the universe. His favorite teacher, he says, is cuckoo Cocoa Puffs. But what else can Jimmy do? He is desperate to hear from his brother and will go to any length to do so. He makes his wish.

An enchanting tale that will engage young children with its snowy, forest setting, woodland animals and one brave little girl. A story about being yourself, being brave, being kind and being at one with Nature. Follow the mysterious trails in the snow, like Jane in the story, to find out what does she do for the animals? What do the animals do for her? And does she finally see that's its great to be her?

Layla feels wronged. Wronged by her classmates, wronged by her teacher, wronged by her friends. The fact of the matter is, Layla feels wronged by the whole world. She feels angry, sad, and frustrated and there is absolutely nothing anybody can do about it! Or is there? "Will this anger and sadness ever leave my body? How do people deal with these kinds of feelings?" Layla wonders if she'll ever learn how to let it go.

Bunny lives an ordinary life in the grassy fields surrounded by a deep dark wood. He and his bunny friends play in the sunshine and shadows of each day, staying away from the forbidden woods. One morning, while Bunny waits for his friends at their usual spot, he is startled by a big black shadow looming above him. Suddenly, he is carried off into the forbidden deep dark woods. But it's not a shadow that sweeps him away. So begins an extraordinary adventure where shadows, dark and gray, make Bunny's Tale a hare-raising day!