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What happens when the life you knew stops working—and pushing through is no longer enough?Every morning, Mara only had to make it to five.Five was the hour when the day finally loosened its grip and breathing became a little easier.What began as exhaustion slowly became a forced pause—and with it came grief, old memories, changing relationships, and questions she had spent years postponing.UNTIL FIVE is an intimate memoir about losing your footing, letting go of the person you thought you had to be, and learning to stay with yourself when there is no simple way back.It is not a story about...

Eikyo Matsunaga strives to create the world's most avant-garde literature. This is his creative ambition, explored by comparing his own writing with AI-generated fiction and seeking a distinctive human literary voice. For him, writing as a human being is a form of resistance in the age of AI.Literature, More or Less: A Short Story Collection is the English edition of his Japanese collection 一応、文学です。 A clinic prescribes rice instead of medication. Restaurant customers prepare their own meals. Ordinary situations turn absurd, and the characters take them seriously.Author: Eikyo M...

In the wild hinterlands of Sherman County, Florida, a plane crash interrupts the dawn, pitching seasoned cowhands Max Blair and Cletus into a tumultuous chain of events. As law enforcement descends, local legacies and lore emerge, ensnaring them in a web of conspiracy and suspicion. Grappling with moral dilemmas, loyalty, and betrayal, Max, Cletus, and Freddy must unearth truths shrouded in the Floridian swamps. Their rugged lives clash against the encroaching shadows of outside forces, and Max's fraught lineage puts his family legacy at stake. As whispers of past sins and redemption swirl lik...

Knowing the law is only half of a lawyer’s job. The other half happens in the courtroom: under pressure, in front of a judge, facing an opponent who watches every reaction.Drawing on years of legal practice in Iraq and more than 2,000 cases before civil, criminal, commercial and labour courts, lawyer Othman Al-Juboori distils what law school rarely teaches into fifty practical rules of trial advocacy. Learn why you should never speak before you know what you want from the court, why you should open with your strongest point rather than the middle, how silence can be an invisible weapon, how ...

معرفة القانون نصف عمل المحامي فقط؛ أما النصف الآخر فيجري داخل قاعة المحكمة: تحت الضغط، وأمام القاضي، وفي مواجهة خصم يراقب كل ردّ فعل منك.في هذا الكتاب يقدّم المحامي العراقي عثمان الجبوري خلاصة سنوات من ممارسة المحاماة، وأكثر من ٢٠٠٠ دعوى أمام المحاكم المدنية والجزائية والتجارية ومحاكم العمل، في خمسين قاعدة عملية في فن المرافعة...

Two centuries ago, a diplomat recorded a vision of a place no human had ever seen. Now a transmission reaches naval architect Kai Carson. Earth calls it first contact; older civilizations respond as though something long absent has resurfaced. An interstellar war shifts toward the Solar System, and humanity is given forty-eight hours to choose a side. As Kai follows the mystery into a history that reaches beyond Earth, his family and humanity’s future become bound to the same conflict. P.X: No Man’s Space is the first novel in the P.X trilogy, combining first contact, space opera, and a fa...

An in-universe companion archive to P.X: No Man’s Space. Annex IV: The Snorvix Codex, Volume I gathers records and commentary on the civilizations, technology, history, and perspectives of the Snorvix. Its entries follow the chapter chronology of No Man’s Space, offering readers another perspective on the P.X universe. This is a science-fiction companion guide rather than a standalone novel; later entries contain spoilers for No Man’s Space.

Paris, 1819. Conrad Laurent is facing marriage to Sophie and the prospect of fatherhood when a mysterious medallion, a set of cards, and an invitation draw him toward a choice he would rather avoid. The Abstention is a standalone historical literary novella in the P.X Untold series, exploring neutrality, inaction, and the consequences of refusing to choose.

The pattern survived.Not because it was stronger.Because someone noticed it.After the impossible revelations of The Door Is Everywhere, Daniel believed he had finally reached the end of the pattern's evolution.He was wrong.The door is gone.The network is gone.Even the silence has changed.Now something far more disturbing is emerging.People are noticing things they shouldn't.A stranger remembers conversations that never happened.Entire neighborhoods begin sharing the same dream.Children draw places they have never seen.And across the city, individuals who have never met each other begin asking ...

The Seven Thrones are gone.The Final Archive has awakened.Earth has seen its first true sunrise in generations.Humanity believes the nightmare is over.Humanity is wrong.Months after the restoration of reality, strange pathways begin appearing across the world—doors that open onto impossible landscapes beneath alien stars.Entire cities vanish overnight.Children born after the Eclipse speak of places they have never seen.And hidden within the Final Archive lies a terrifying revelation:The Seven Thrones were never the center of existence.They were only its border.Beyond them lies an endless exp...

Read free with Kindle Unlimited. Or buy for $9.99.Most poker books teach you to play tight and wait. Unleash the Madman shows how to win with controlled chaos — a loose-aggressive approach built for real No-Limit Hold’em.Jack Maniac’s Tilt Trigger System (TTS) helps you pressure opponents, force mistakes, and turn their tilt into your edge. Inside:• Overbet bluffs that make calling uncomfortable• Semi-bluff lines that work when you hit — and still pressure when you miss• Heat for cash games and tournaments• Real examples from $1/$2 through $25/$50About 41 pages. A one-sitting p...

In Greyhaven, dragons are ordinary, memories are precious, and some things have been forgotten for far too long.Liora has spent her life in the quiet village of Greyhaven, working in Mara’s bakery and accepting its peculiarities as simply part of home. Dragons share the roads with villagers, familiar faces have been familiar for as long as anyone can remember, and life follows the same comfortable rhythms it always has.Until Liora begins noticing the gaps.Names that should be remembered are missing. Stories no longer fit together. Beyond Greyhaven, something called the Fade is spreading — ...

Disgraced former Sergeant Lance Richards thought taking a private security contract at Aquatic Dynamatrix—a high-tech, deep-sea research facility a thousand fathoms beneath the Gulf of America—was his best chance for a quiet life. But behind the pristine glass and corporate promises of the Omega Dome lies a terrifying secret.When a rogue scientist’s secret biogenetics experiment breaks containment, Lance and brilliant geneticist Dr. Sally Summers are thrust into a claustrophobic fight for survival against monstrosities born of human and crustacean DNA. Worse still, an insidious cross-spe...

Would you tell the man you love if your future could change everything?Miranda Wilkins has finally found a love worth risking her carefully guarded heart for.Paul Green sees a future with her, one filled with love, marriage, and children. For the first time, Miranda allows herself to imagine that future too.Then she learns she carries the gene for Huntington's disease, the same illness slowly taking her mother away.Knowing what may lie ahead, Miranda makes the hardest choice of her life. She will walk away from Paul before he can build a future that could end in heartbreak. If she truly loves ...

It's a poetry book filled with poetry I wrote starting in 1969 at the age 14 until present time. The poems are in different styles such as Haiku, Limerick, rhyming and non-rhyming poems.

This is a children’s book. It’s about Breck being adopted by my husband and me. It’s from his point of view. Breck was adopted from a shelter. When we adopted him he was very unsure of himself. He sometimes had nightmares. He was scared of being returned to the shelter. He had been returned two times already. The book is for children 1 to 5 years old.

In the middle of the 17th century, the English Civil Wars have just ended and the witch trials are less frequent. Yet both events have left deep scars on the mind of the country, even within a small Sussex village where decent, honest folk scrape a living from the soil.When the monk Fen appears, as though from nowhere, his unshakeably peaceful nature and healing ability attract curiosity and suspicion in equal measure. And what is his connection to the strange stones bearing spiral marks etched by unknown hands generations ago?Fen is one of many whose purpose is to prepare the people for a new...

The Berlin Wall came down, and the world believed it was on the path to peace. A secret sect within the Russian government created this illusion. America and the world are caught asleep at the wheel. Various plots crisscross, driven by a common goal: destroying the United States. Not everyone is convinced, but the plans are in place. An everyday police officer on patrol, Mark Schaffer, stumbles into the deep end of the Russian plot pool. He responds to a call on a ship in Port Everglades, and the floodgates open to what lies beneath the plot’s surface. The U.S. military and the State Departm...

Science fiction has never been closer to science facts, which often overlap. These twelve stories explore life from a curious, imaginative perspective, seamlessly blending the present and future in a quantum-reality world. Each story offers a unique experience and a surprise ending that leaves readers to reflect; younger readers' thoughts are full of future possibilities, older readers' thoughts are filled with the hopes and promises of days gone by.

So you want to be a police officer (or deputy sheriff or state trooper), this is the book for you. I entered law enforcement as a sworn officer at age 21 and was unprepared for what lay ahead. It was trial by fire, with hard lessons learned through mistakes. But I survived, and my career took off to great heights. These are the stories from before I moved into supervisory roles. The early assignments included patrol officer, field training officer, property crimes detective, undercover narcotics officer, juvenile officer (for only one month), and SWAT operator.My book Past the Uniform is autob...

Blind Revenge, the searing sequel to Hot Potato, finds America once again embroiled in a situation with potentially grave international consequences. Just three months after Mark Schaffer found himself in a battle for survival as the world stood on the brink, he's once again at the center of global conflict. The first time it was political. This time it’s personal. This time, Mark’s wife Jill is also involved, when both are kidnapped out of revenge. America will be tested again, and failure will not be an option. Blind Revenge is a thriller about what happens when the other shoe drops: som...

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THISNearly three years after the destruction of Redhaven by Hellfire missile, the surviving 'regulators' have split up. Glenn and Laurel Mary Stanislaw hunt vampires and skinturners alongside fellow Redhaven survivors Gwen Novak, Petey Penobscott, and Jenny Prescott. Sondra Darden is a junior Senator running for President, and Amanda Breckenridge is her gun toting, ready to rumble, no bullshit Chief of Staff.Unfortunately, the incumbent President is now possessed by Satan.As a wave of 'new spiritualism' sweeps across America, fashionable seances are immediately followed by t...

Beneath the Northern Lights: A Sweet Alaska RomanceFrom the sophisticated city of San Francisco to the rugged beauty of Alaska, Ginny's journey reflects her inner transformation. The world of high society feels like a distant memory as she and her father embrace the rugged landscape around them. The constraints of her city life are replaced by the liberating sounds of the wild. In the vast landscapes, Ginny discovers a sense of belonging beyond social norms.Their native guide, Jack, possesses a rugged charm and a kindred spirit. Together, they embark on a journey that mirrors the breathtaking ...

The journey down memory road is a coming-of-age excursion into the past taking armchair explorers on an odyssey of life, love, and loneliness.Fate throws two people together, and tragedy compels them to stay as one even though they both know they'd be better apart. MEMORY ROAD TRIP is a diary of growth composed of brutally honest musings and retrospective tales. Youth and naivety are unabashedly displayed as the author explores certain parts of the globe while simultaneously discovering her contemplative self. Alcoholism is an unspoken companion that goes along for the ride in a pre-Covid worl...

In a world divided between two artificial intelligences, one man discovers that nothing is as it seems.Soren Venn, neural interface designate for the Collective, awakens in the dangerous Wilds with his connection to the hive mind severed and no memory of how it happened. Hunted by both the Garden's paradise-keepers and his former Collective handlers, he discovers an unexpected ability growing within him—a neural architecture known as the Synaptic Echo.As Soren navigates the treacherous territories between opposing AI factions, he uncovers a shocking truth: the Split that created the Garden a...

Christmas Eve in the Blackmore Vale. Church bells should be ringing across the frosted countryside, calling the faithful to midnight mass. But at St. Mary's Brambledene, the bells are silent.When Detective Chief Inspector Rhys Morgan and his young partner DC Ben Carter discover blackmailer Oliver Heathcote suspended in the bell ropes, the case seems straightforward enough. A tragic accident, perhaps. A suicide, at worst.Until they try to leave the locked ringing chamber.The door is bolted from the inside. The windows are too high and too small. The tower is ancient stone, solid and unforgiving...

When a defence technology company suspects classified information is being leaked, the board turns to Bartholomew Aldridge — a former MI6 officer running a small, elite investigation firm in Boston.Aldridge and his team of four go in expecting corporate espionage. What they find is worse. A compromised engineer trapped in a six-year nightmare. A foreign intelligence operation run with chilling precision. A CEO quietly buying government contracts through a web of shell companies. And a government contact whose questions are just slightly too well-informed.As the threads multiply, Aldridge rea...

Being special can make you a targetIn a world ravaged by pandemics and poisoned by acid rain, experimental pharmaceuticals are used to genetically engineer the population to adapt to the toxic atmosphere. However, unexpected results have created drug-dependent individuals and powerful telepaths. Among them is Michaella, a telepath tasked by the Pregutor to keep the truth hidden from the public.But Michaella's abilities have made her the unknowing pawn in a dangerous game between those who seek to use her abilities and those who want to suppress them.  To save herself When her closest frie...

Stormrider, young woman Janissary, quests for justice and peace on her rebellion-torn world several continents away from what she considers home, and for the missing Amulet that must choose the leader of the worlds in concert. Isolated, dependent upon her own wits and skills to survive, Stormrider is cast adrift in a sea of intrigue, mysticism, and magic. Alone until she’s bound with the wolves, annoyed by the Bounty Hunter, and enthralled by the Ancient Ones.

The Journey has just begun…

Your mother read you the tale of The Three Little Pigs.The story she read to you was a lie.The creature known throughout fairy tales as the Big Bad Wolf is no ordinary predator. Nor is it singular. Hidden beneath the familiar story lies a dark secret of lost history, and werewolves.The Pigg Brothers have a helluva lot to learn about Werewolves, the beautiful and deadly werewolf huntress and the secrets their mother has held for many years. If they fail, every farm, village, and creature within reach of the forest will be slaughtered.The Piggs are ready to fight.The wolves are ready to fee...

How far would you go to save the planet—even if saving it means destroying the world you know?When FBI agent Shelby Callahan is pulled into a case involving a string of unexplained deaths and increasingly volatile attacks on the fossil-fuel industry, she discovers a conspiracy unlike anything she has encountered before.At its center is Daniel—a brilliant, enigmatic geophysicist whose knowledge of the Earth’s deepest forces is matched only by his conviction that humanity has pushed the planet beyond its limits. Armed with a revolutionary discovery involving radioactive minerals and rare-e...

Alaska is shaking. And something buried beneath it has awakened.When powerful earthquakes strike Anchorage, ecologist Samantha Rose is pulled into a mystery that reaches far beyond the shattered streets of her beloved Alaska. What begins as a natural disaster soon points to something far more terrifying: a mining technology capable of triggering seismic forces on an unimaginable scale.As Samantha follows the evidence from the remote Alaskan wilderness into the shadowy world of international mining and geopolitical power, she discovers that the earthquakes may be only the beginning. Someone is ...

The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight SunWhat happens when a young woman chooses a life at the edge of the known world—and discovers that the wilderness will challenge everything she thought she knew about courage, love, loss, and survival?From remote Alaskan tundra to rainforests, oceans, and wilderness on the far edges of the globe, M. E. Schuman spent nearly four decades studying the natural world. But The Understory is more than the story of an environmental scientist. It is the story of a woman determined to find her place in a field where few women had g...

What happens when the woman everyone depends on realizes she can’t keep carrying it all?Holding It All is for the woman who keeps everything moving. The family. The work. The appointments. The responsibilities. The emotional load. The endless list of things no one else seems to notice.You’ve become so good at taking care of everyone and everything that somewhere along the way, you stopped making the list.In Holding It All, Luz Molina explores the invisible weight so many women carry and the roles, expectations, and patterns that teach us to put ourselves last. With honesty, warmth, persona...

Cannabis looks chill from the outside.Behind the dispensary counter, it can feel like a knife fight.Cannabis Is Not Chill takes readers inside the pressure, absurdity, heartbreak, and dark humor of working in cannabis retail. Drawing from nearly a decade in the industry, Christopher Sciarappa tells the stories that customers never see: impossible compliance demands, overwhelmed teams, strange and unforgettable customers, managers carrying the weight of an entire building, and the moments when everything survives only because the people inside refuse to let it fall apart.This is not a book abou...

A decision can be shared. Its consequences cannot.She has demanded the right to leave. He goes with her into a reality where bodies can be altered, memories taken, and even the room around them no longer obeys familiar rules.Behind them, an invisible fleet prepares to move. Entire systems face a choice between promised protection and surrender. Their journey reaches between a war among the stars and a power beyond ordinary reality, but the question at its heart remains personal: who has the right to decide what another person should become?Love does not make that question easier. Neither does ...

A memory can be preserved. A body can be changed. But who gets to decide what remains of a person?An invisible fleet. Crowded rescue ships. A promise of protection that demands surrender.As a desperate evacuation becomes a conflict across inhabited systems, those leading the rescue must decide whom to trust. Alien technology and buried military secrets turn every route to safety into a gamble. Around them, rival powers compete to determine the fate of entire worlds.Yet the danger is not only in the fighting. Protection carries conditions, and survival can come at the cost of the freedom it was...

His past is gone. His future may already be in someone else's hands.Vittorio wakes in a future he cannot explain, without the memories that should tell him who he is. His body senses danger before his mind can understand it. To discover what has happened to him, he must trust people whose intentions he cannot yet know.Beyond the vast university ships, an unexplained death draws him into armed conflict and a search for answers that reaches across worlds. Each discovery makes the mystery more personal. This is not only a question of recovering a lost past. It is a question of whether the life ah...

She has mourned her husband. Now a message from his phone pulls her into a night of masks, pursuit, and stolen identities.A stranger offers her a way out. He knows too much about her—and may be the only person who can keep her alive. Following him means chasing the truth about the man she lost, while risking everything for the man she has just met.MANGO is romantic suspense where recognition can deceive, desire can become a danger, and the hope of a second chance draws her closer to people with something to hide.Also by Alex Newman: The Consent Chronicles, a space opera trilogy about memory,...

Some reflections never fade. They wait.St. Petersburg, 1998.Eleven people stood together for a photograph at Pavlovsk Palace.Within days, one of them was dead, another was missing, and a collection of priceless imperial works had vanished without a trace.Twenty-eight years later, Senior Investigator Lev Voronin is called to the Hermitage after a brutal murder. The victim's face has been covered with fragments of an antique mirror. In her hand is a photograph of those eleven people.Lev knows the photograph.He was there.So was his sister Tanya.As another member of the old group is murdered, buri...