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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.

Brandy never expected to survive her addiction - and she certainly never expected to find life worth staying for. What began as a desperate attempt to numb her pain became the very thing that nearly destroyed her. She lost herself piece by piece, trying to outrun a darkness she didn't know how to face.In this raw and unfiltered memoir, Brandy shares the truth of what it looked like to fall apart, relapse, get back up, and learn to live clean one day at a time. Through meetings, sponsorship, step work, and service, she discovered belonging, purpose, and a life she never believed she deserved.Th...

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...

A silly, food-filled kids coloring book starring two raccoons, Racc and Oon, and their very big family. Big, simple shapes for little hands; fun for picky eaters. Illustrations were created with AI assistance and then edited and formatted by the author. By Braydan Young.

A 50-page coloring book by Braydan Young celebrating Marin County, California: the Golden Gate from the Headlands, Muir Woods, Mt. Tam, Stinson Beach, Point Reyes, Sausalito harbor and small-town Mill Valley and Fairfax. Bold, easy line art for kids, families and relaxed adult colorists. Illustrations were created with AI assistance and then edited and formatted by the author.

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 ...

Lynne Podrat's poignant memoir "Listen To Me" shares her deeply personal journey as the devoted guardian of her Down syndrome brother Bruce. With raw honesty and heart, Lynne navigates the challenges and joys of caring for Bruce over decades, from his birth in 1973 through his battle with advanced pancreatic cancer in the 1990s. This beautifully written book intimately explores the complex world of disabilities through Lynne's eyes. It delves into the lack of institutional support, societal stigma, and constant caregiving pressures that families face. Yet Lynne's unwavering love and advocacy f...

Hello, my name is Robert Barr from Neighborhood Ministries of NW Ohio. I would like to recommend my book, “Truly In the World But Not Of It-part A”. As the liberal philosophy has taken over the educational system, it has moved increasingly from educating to indoctrination. Instead of giving an overview of various solutions and the successes and failures of them, it has moved toward giving the politically correct narrative and expecting it to be accepted without question. Textbook writers once kept up on the changes in the world around them and updated the books accordingly. In recent years...

At Vestige High, the future belongs to the powerful.The Gen V heirs—children of wealth, politics, and influence—rule the school with effortless authority. Their lives are filled with privilege, ambition, and expectations that stretch far beyond graduation.When Christy enters their world, everything begins to change.Friendships deepen, rivalries ignite, and hidden tensions surface among the heirs. Beneath the glamorous parties, prestigious events, and elite traditions lies a web of complicated relationships, family pressure, and secrets that threaten to unravel everything.As the final schoo...

For years, a secret group known as The Eyes has manipulated world events from the shadows, controlling governments, industries, and global power.Until someone begins to fight back.Driven by a mysterious past, Skriz sets out to dismantle the hidden empire that has ruled humanity for decades. But just as the balance of power begins to shift, a devastating virus sweeps across the world—and Earth attracts the attention of something far more dangerous.Alien scouts arrive with a chilling mission: evaluate Earth before a full-scale invasion.Suddenly, humanity learns a terrifying truth. Earth is con...

For years, a secret group known as The Eyes has manipulated world events from the shadows, controlling governments, industries, and global power.Until someone begins to fight back.Driven by a mysterious past, Skriz sets out to dismantle the hidden empire that has ruled humanity for decades. But just as the balance of power begins to shift, a devastating virus sweeps across the world—and Earth attracts the attention of something far more dangerous.Alien scouts arrive with a chilling mission: evaluate Earth before a full-scale invasion.Suddenly, humanity learns a terrifying truth. Earth is con...

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...

My brother’s best friend doesn’t know who I am. Unfortunately, my brother does.Jason Voss was the boy next door I crushed on before his family moved away twenty years ago. Now he’s back, gorgeous, grumpy, and somehow doesn’t recognize me.I should tell him. I don’t.Every time I try, I’m afraid he’ll stop seeing the woman I am and only remember the awkward teenage girl next door.Between house hunts, flirty banter, and stolen kisses, Jason drops his defenses, and suddenly he’s looking at me the way I always dreamed he would.I’m not awkward. I’m wanted.Then Jason invites my bro...

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...

The whole neighborhood heard the cries, as this story will reprise. Grandma Found A Gecko is a delightful tale guaranteed to draw snickers, giggles and belly laughs from two- to 10-year-old, and more than a smile from readers who are older. It is a childhood memory of an epic contest between human and reptile natures that ends in mutual satisfaction after quite a fight. Author Vincent F. A. Golphin (African American Children's Stories: A Treasury of Tradition and Pride) and illustrator James P. Cottage (After comic) produced a fanciful fiction primed to peak children's interests and imaginatio...

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...