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Usain Bolt sprints 100m in 9.58 seconds; Armand Duplantis vaults over a bar 6.26m high; Kelvin Kiptum runs 26.2 miles in 2:00:35; Lasha Talakhadze lifts 492kg above his head in snatch, clean and jerk weightlifting; Simone Biles hurls her body through three mid-air twists and two flips in a gravity-defying gymnastics floor exercise. Awesome humans with Olympic medals to prove it... but what about all the other species on the planet? Animals, from ants to zebras, perform breathtaking feats of strength, agility and endurance in their quest for food, shelter and survival in the wild. They don't receive accolades or the rapturous appreciation of spectators. However, on a secluded beach in Senegal, an amazing mountain gorilla called Freddy changed all that. He organised and staged an Olympic Games like no other. Who emerged as champions and heroes, or just willing participants, on that historic and unforgettable day?

This third book by Sam Samuc might be best described as a classic bar joke.

The death of her mother brings her home to Nairobi. Whilst travelling the globe Laila has encountered many trials in search for happiness. Her mother is gone, but her legacy survives.

Something delicious is cooking, and Mason the dog can't resist following his nose to find out what!

A collection of articles originally written for World of Martial Arts magazine, Original Truth is based on the author's personal spiritual experiences and insights into the multi-verse, one-consciousness, living consciously

The Art of Thinking Without Thinking is a collection of inspirational philosophical and spiritual teachings designed to help guide you towards a higher state of consciousness, based on the author's own personal journey of cultivating body, mind and spirit using mindfulness, meditation and martial arts. Inspired by Zen Koans, spiritual and philosophical challenges posed by Zen Masters to their students, the Martial Mind Power (MMP) Koans within this book are intended to help you overcome the obstacles within your conscious mind and discover your true authentic highest self. The mind is a gateway between the body and spirit, and when you can fully cultivate and harness its power by using the martial mindset embodied within these MMP Koans, you can start to self-realise and live your 'Original Truth'.

There are Monsters roaming the countryside. Werewolves. And Vampires.

Sisyphus is an existential tale - a walking meditation through a not too distant future. Questioning the notion of Will and Choice against Nature and inevitability, it is ultimately an homage to life and to living.

"...our starting point is the same as our arrival point. It is the stone that you have put on the road that will cause you to stumble, and it is the hole that you have dug that will in fact cause you to fall." Between the lawyer Jones and the anonymous call, there were threads of an epic story. Dear reader, in our story you will see the laws of existence as clear as you see the giant sun when it approaches you, as if coming to whisper something, as it completes its cycle, sinking below the skyline, leaving its nature undiscoverable, except by a relentless pursuer. This is what Jones's wife sought to explain when she received an anonymous call from someone who said: "The only way out of sin is by correcting it, and I am your case that you win when you lose it." Then the call ended. Follow the tale of Jones as he attempts to uncover the mystery caller, clear his conscience of his past sins and give his wife the life that she deserves.

In January 2020, Ben Cole-Edwards had £200 in the bank. A year later, he's living the dream and never has to work again. Using the Law of Attraction, Ben has manifested wealth, health and even a beautiful baby daughter. Retired at 25 reveals his story and his secrets, and how you too can work with the Universe to create the future you want for yourself and others. Just like Ben, you can change the way you think, change the way you feel, and change your life.

School is full of new people, things to do and lessons to learn, but it's all too scary for a little ant. Luckily, his teacher and friends are there to help on this new adventure!

The writer invites his readers to see, hear and understand him amidst the grief, despicability, and thoughtfulness of major depressive disorder. This despairing narrative is anchored tenuously to reality by music, literature, and film.

The writer invites his readers to see him, hear him, and understand him amidst the grief, despicability, and thoughtfulness of major depressive disorder. A despairing narrative, anchored tenuously to reality by music, literature, and film.

An expressionless figure haunts Emily's dreams. Night after night, he pursues her, and night after night, she wakes as he stabs her. When she starts seeing the figure at work and hearing voices, Emily begins to worry that her nightmares are becoming a reality. Something or someone is doing this to her, and as Halloween grows closer and the nightmares get worse, she begins to worry for her sanity. Desperate for answers, Emily struggles against the disbelief of everyone around her as she searches for a way to reclaim her life from her nightmares.

The Saxon conquest of the Blessed Isles has failed. The enemy without is decimated, its fighting-aged men annihilated; twenty years of peace born of the blood-bathed blade Excalibur, wielded in glory and honor by the sandy-haired Silure sovereign. The Golden Age of King Arthur. Not since David of the Hebrews and not to be again until the End of Ages is the Summer Kingdom of the Cymry. A flicker of freedom and a light of liberty in a dark world. Justice, love and equal opportunity for every individual reigns. But no good thing long endures, and all things end… The second volume of the Arthuriad continues to weave and guide us through the dark and complex journey that is the Arthurian saga from the time of Mynydd Baeden to the brink of Civil War, giving us healthy portions of Morgaine of the Faeries, Lancelot, and Taliesin, along with hints and shadows of Cups and Perfect Knights, and supposedly long dead wizard along the way.

Polyamory and asexuality meet in this third tale about the North East England quad.¿ The police suspect¿Raith¿Balan of faking a painting.¿Södo money launderers who sink profits into art. Mike, Ross and Phil, the three men in¿Raith's¿life, must prove his innocence. They're hampered by their certainty that a member of the Fraud Squad is corrupt.¿ The senior investigating officer is Detective Sergeant Nick¿Seabrooke. He knows he is asexual, but is he¿aromantic¿too? As¿Raith's¿lovers struggle to keep¿Raith¿safe and find the fraudster, the sergeant struggles to understand why the quad is often in his thoughts.

For as long as she can remember, something has plagued Gaby. She could never quite put her finger on the cause of her doubts and anxieties, until one day, the reflection in her mirror is not her own.¿ As she investigates the girl in the mirror, Gaby discovers a story of romance, tragedy and injustice, in which the past drips into the present, forcing her on a journey of self-realisation.

When Andi is engulfed by a wave, she finds herself transported to an underwater world called Corallai. There she meets Aquanna, a creature who is part fish and part human.Aquanna tells Andi that it is her destiny to help preserve the oceans and all the life within. Andi learns all about the work the various inhabitants do to ensure the survival of the ocean's ecosystem, and explores this new, spectacular world.