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This is a truth-based story about Tika, a twenty-seven-year-old woman who is single, independent, minimalistic and happy. She works for one of the largest tech companies in the world, in a huge office that looks similar to a playground. But, when the pandemic starts in March 2020, the office is replaced by the wide world and the bicycle for a campervan. She leaves for three months and works from the van. On her way, she finds nature, adventure...

Step into a world cloaked in shadows, where ancient powers collide and a lone hero must rise to restore balance. Shade, a determined Shadow Relicant, leads a resourceful group on a thrilling quest: to restore the Council of Eight and save the realm from a sinister foe. With his and his companions' unique abilities, Shade battles formidable adversaries and uncovers hidden strengths while confronting the haunting secrets of his past. As the fate...

Using a mixture of journal style narrative, prose and poetry, the author shares an exploration of unknowns that only the mind can unravel as we push forward on our twisted journeys.

This book is a collage of one North American writer's thoughts, feelings, and impressions during the early Covid-19 Pandemic years, 2020 - 2021. Political crises and climate change-driven wildfires combined with the virus' chaos and drove many people to anger, panic, and despair. Still, the world remained bittersweetly beautiful. Wistfulness, memories, and laughs became needed antidotes to the madness. Sadly, Covid stays with us, and may slam ...

The basic premise of this novel is the meeting of two different families living in two different worlds. One world is quiet, peaceful, uninhibited, simple and pure, while the other is loud, busy, materialistic, hectic and complicated. Both children in the story see their world as "normal" until faced with an alternative. It is at this intersection where the story takes place.

In a junkyard, Macklyn Farrago encounters the strange Mr. Abbas who has created a most extraordinary car as a symbol for mankind. But it does not work. Together they are propelled across America on a quest to find a man who may hold the answers to their questions, and inadvertently trigger a semi-religious, semi-millennial, global craze. It's all fueled and manipulated by the grasping media billionaire Sebastian El Dorado and his mysterious as...

Payton has just arrived in a new country looking for a fresh start. Leaving a dark and fearful life behind, she's ready to reclaim herself and leave years of abuse behind her. What she didn't plan on is falling for Sam, the dark-haired rebel haunted by his own past and afraid to love again. A casual encounter between the two of them turns into something so much more, with the two battered and bruised hearts finally heading towards peace. But j...

Talented young pianist, Adrien, finds himself entangled in a web of love and heartache when he falls for the captivating Alessia. But when he brings troubled teenager, Siena, into his home, his love for Alessia is put to the test. Siena's chaotic past threatens to unravel Adrien's carefully constructed world as he grapples with feelings of guilt and betrayal. As tensions rise and emotions boil over, Adrien is forced to confront the deep-seated...

At the first sight, these are reminders, and at the same time these sayings have their own depth, plunging into which, everyone can find in them what they are looking for. These are signs." Mikhail Zheltikov Kirov. Russia. Focussing on inner peace and personal growth, Dr Haneesh Khani has compiled over 100 sayings to improve one's life and grow closer to the Almighty.

Tell it to the flowers To the fauna and to the trees Whisper it to the lovers Walking hand in hand in the streets Let it flow with the waters And be carried by the breeze Share it to the mothers Who sing lullabies when babes sleep

Jane Austen's masterpiece moves on apace: with two remaining daughters yet to be married off, the socially aspiring Mrs Jane Bennet dedicates herself to finding suitors for Mary and Kitty. That is the plan... A little - how to phrase it delicately? - local difficulty instantly puts paid to that genteel ambition and the Bennets' lives are catapulted into chaos, confusion and social exclusion. Are the defamatory claims true? If not, how on earth...

In the safe, comfortable small town where Two lives, where everyone has food, water and a home, no one looks to the ominous black wall on the horizon. But Two cannot ignore the wall and she has questions that fill her and will not be contained. When she is separated from her mother, she is rescued by a strange man and her life begins to unravel as secrets are revealed and the truth about her world is exposed.

Lucien arrived on Greek soil, he felt misplaced and lost - Lucien was completely broken inside because of what he had endured in his life until he meets the person who changes his life completely, his wife, Catherine. Catherine had a huge mishap that left her hospitalized and stuck in a coma, this alone left Lucien broken once again. As they both left to travel to Africa, as it was Catherine's dream to go to Africa and be in nature, they came ...

When crime lord Jack Barker's brother is murdered, it is Barker's old friend, DCI Frank Palmer, who is tasked with leading the investigation to find the perpetrator. The gangster's pursuit of vengeance leaves a wake of destruction across the capital and triggers a wave of violence that rapidly engulfs the city's underworld. DCI Palmer attempts to restrain the rampaging Barker as he searches for answers, and soon discovers that old sins have lo...

Jayden Mindsong focuses on the day-to-day, fixing commas at his boring job, studying for university entrance exams, playing video games - but when tragedy strikes, he's adrift... prey for several mysterious women who lure him into doing things he'd never dreamed of. He acquires a shiny new job and a gorgeous girlfriend, only for both job and relationship to fall apart shortly after. Then he stumbles into another beautiful woman who introduces ...

Adam Fairfield, whilst sitting on the bench in Richmond Park, southwest London, with his dog, Sally, at his feet, receives a phone call. Not on his phone, but instead on one taped to the underside of the bench, left there specifically for him. The call triggers a series of events that will culminate in an extravagant cascade of bank robberies targeting every single bank in Richmond-upon-Thames, all on the same day, under the complete watchful ...

An adventure story that is tinged with hope, determination and sadness. Clare, a high school American science teacher from Minnesota, is an accomplished bicyclist, hiker and has a passion for bees. She sets off on a ride through parts of the US and Canada in preparation for a lone hiking trip through southern France to the western tip of Spain along the world renowned Camino de Comp Estela. She takes with her a symbolic hunting knife which was...

Sofia, nine and Santino, twelve, befriend each other on the beach of Mondello, Sicily. She is the daughter of an ambitious US Senator. He is the son of a Mafia Capo. Every year, Sofia's Italian family travels from Washington DC to spend their summer breaks at her Italian grandparents' beach house. Her family's prejudice towards Santino's Mafia family abruptly separates them into completely different worlds. Sofia is constantly challenged about...

Three strikes and you're out. At least that's what Mark Tower believed. If you search for famous people from Bethlehem, PA, you might find The Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson), or character actor, Daniel Roebuck, but Tower's name is unlikely to come up. From his awkward early days in Lehigh Valley, Tower had many roads to travel before coming of age. Those roads took him from working for a shady construction operation in Phoenix to helping underprivi...

Putting in the code to the safe, her face in shock, a door opened to an elevator to an underground basement, which had on the wall a fiery star, and a book with the same symbol. Shannen and Breana Domino had no idea about their parents' secret lives of magic when the youngest family member discovered the basement in the creepy mansion at the top of the hill of Winter Hollow Alley, surrounded by a fence, with dark secrets inside. Both sisters i...