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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...

They enter a reality where bodies can be altered and memories taken. She has demanded the right to leave. He goes with her into a world where 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.

More Than Time concludes The Consent Chronicles with threatened worlds, dangerous encounters, and love tested by forces that can change the people who feel it.

An invisible fleet. Crowded rescue ships. A promise of protection that demands surrender.

A desperate evacuation becomes a conflict across inhabited systems. Alien technology and buried military secrets turn every route to safety into a gamble. Those leading the rescue must choose whom to trust while the powers around them compete to decide the fate of entire worlds.

MORE THAN POWER widens The Consent Chronicles into a military and political space opera. Saving lives is only the beginning: the next battle is against those who claim the right to control them.

He wakes in a future he cannot explain. His past has vanished. His body knows when danger is coming.

Beyond the vast university ships, an unexplained death draws him into armed conflict and a search for answers that reaches across worlds. A growing attachment gives him something to live for—and something his enemies could take.

The Consent Chronicles begins with a space opera of lost identity, dangerous discoveries, and love caught in a struggle over who gets to decide another person's future.

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.

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...

Maya and Liam Bennett have spent years working toward a single dream: owning a home of their own.When they finally purchase a beautiful house in the prestigious Crestview Estates community, it feels like everything is falling into place. The future suddenly seems possible.But shortly before closing, anonymous messages begin appearing in Maya's inbox.At first, they seem harmless.Then a wealthy businessman connected to the property disappears.As Maya searches for answers, she discovers a web of old friendships, hidden histories, forgotten land records, and a decades-old tragedy that still casts ...

When Sister Kathleen Murphy decided to visit the old Aboriginal woman, Anna Cook, in the district hospital in the outback town of Derby to ask for her help with a project for her students about her life on the vast cattle station, Cockatoo Creek, she had no real idea what to expect. But, what she learns surprises and shocks her. What she hears from the old woman is a tale of murder and rape by white men who lived with apparent impunity of the laws of that time. A heart-wrenching story of true love despite the demeaning racial problems of those days, told in a land of ruthless men, skilled blac...

For 33-year-old Charlotte Dawson, a schoolteacher from the city of Adelaide, the 19th of November 1996 had been just like any other day. It wasn't until she arrived home at her flat in the beachside suburb of Glenelg that things changed. She'd just opened the door when the phone rang. The caller was a woman from a solicitor's office in Darwin advising her that she was to receive an inheritance from someone unknown to her. At first, Charlotte thought the caller had made a mistake, as she had no knowledge of any relative ever living in Darwin. The caller insisted that there was no mistake and ad...

The morning of November 15th 1915, began like any other morning for nurse Sarah Pendleton. She breakfasted with her father in their St John's Wood home and set off for work at the Endell Street Military Hospital in London on her motorcycle. She had only three blocks to go when she heard the long whine of an air raid siren. A moment after that, a German airship drifted over the buildings directly behind her and began its indiscriminate bombing of the city. For a while, Sarah managed to dodge the detonations exploding all around her by swerving from one side of the street to the other, until a b...

At exactly **3:17 a.m.**, every resident of the city of Bellhaven hears the same sound.A deep cracking noise beneath the streets. By morning, the city has changed. A strange white substance has appeared between the pavement stones.At first, scientists believe it is an unknown fungus. Then they discover that it isn't fungus.It is **tooth enamel**. Hundreds of enormous teeth are growing beneath Bellhaven.Within days, buildings begin shifting. Roads split apart. Underground tunnels disappear.And people start reporting that the pavement is moving beneath their feet. **Dr. Mara Voss, a forensic pat...

What happens when the one thing you've searched for your entire life is the very thing that has always seemed hardest to find?For Suzanne, that thing was love.From a childhood shaped by rejection, silence, and a longing to belong, to a trauma at fourteen that changed the course of her life, Suzanne learned early how to survive what she couldn't understand.She grew up. She became a wife and a mother. She made mistakes. She searched for love in places where it couldn't always be found, and eventually discovered a complicated, imperfect love that would become part of her life for twenty-four year...

A family secret. A deadly past. A truth worth killing for.When retired Scotland Yard inspector Quintin Quigley is invited to High Fields, a once-renowned tea estate in the misty Nilgiri hills of Ooty, he expects a peaceful escape from the world of crime.Instead, he finds a dead man in a locked room.As the investigation unfolds, Quigley discovers a family divided by decades-old grudges, suspicious rivalries, buried scandals, and whispers of a hidden treasure lost somewhere in the estate's troubled past. Every member of the household seems to have something to conceal—and some secrets are wort...

A dead developer. A forgotten agreement. Eleven ancient-looking figures. And a secret buried beneath Ajmer.Before dawn, a body is found floating in Ana Sagar Lake.Sameer Malhotra, a powerful Delhi developer, has been murdered. His wrists are tied with a red silk tie, his belongings are missing, and a hotel key has been deliberately hidden inside his shoe.Inspector Vikram Rathore soon discovers that Malhotra had been trying to acquire the mysterious Shekhawat Haveli overlooking the lake.Inside the old mansion lies a hidden stepwell containing eleven stone figures—and an empty twelfth niche.Wh...

In the vineyards of La Rioja, nothing is out of place.

When a sudden death at a private gathering is quietly dismissed, it should end there. But a visiting restorer begins to notice what others ignore—subtle inconsistencies in the wine, the land, and the records that define both.

What emerges is not a simple crime, but a system designed to correct itself.

In this village, truth isn’t hidden. It is adjusted.

Anna arrives at a quiet guesthouse in the Italian countryside, expecting peace and routine. Instead, things begin to disappear.

Not everything—only the things that prove something is real.

A written note vanishes. A document loses its signature. A memory slips away before it can settle.

As Anna and Daniel try to understand what’s happening, they uncover a pattern: the house does not remove objects. It removes certainty.

And the more they try to confirm the truth, the more it erases it.

Taiwan Mandarin in Real Situations is a compact phrasebook for first-time English-speaking visitors who need usable Mandarin during a Taiwan trip. Its 120 entries pair plain English with Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan, tone-marked Hanyu Pinyin, a likely reply or next useful line, and concise culture or safety notes.Travelers can prepare for airports, MRT and rail, taxis, hotels, breakfast shops, convenience stores, bubble-tea shops, night markets, restaurants, shopping, pharmacies, lost items, SIM cards, friendly small talk, and urgent help. It is not a full language course; it is a practi...

This is 181 pages of the collection of all 56 #Nej! ~ nftNanoBook 3.x images, with description of each image, and the 14 poems also Visual as text. In this Extended Version You also find more about me, the project & each ntfNanoBook, including Provenance. This means that this #Nej! ~ QloudR (Ext.Ver.)is a living document and is updated from time to time - the link U get always goes to latest version.

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In the drowned, lawless city of Raptøræm, survival belongs to those ruthless enough to seize it.Erik Mordiger, known as the Black Maw, has spent years turning a broken refuge into a city that can stand against empires. Crime lord, strategist, reluctant statesman, and even more reluctant father, he rules through a volatile balance of violence, loyalty, and carefully cultivated myth.But Raptøræm’s independence is fragile. Foreign powers circle its borders, old alliances begin to fracture, and the past Mordiger has buried keeps clawing its way back into the present. At the center of it all ...

Growing up without a father changes a girl. It can shape how she loves, how she trusts, how she protects herself, and even how she sees her own worth."Father-Less: What Every Girl Deserves to Know" is a tender and powerful guidebook for girls and women who grew up without the man who was supposed to stay.Drawing from lived experience, Suzanne Mela speaks directly to the feelings so many fatherless daughters carry silently into adolescence and adulthood: self-doubt, overthinking, people-pleasing, fear of abandonment, anger, numbness, and the fierce independence that often develops far too early...

The Realm of Angels and Demons is a cultural-historical journey through the beliefs, myths, philosophical ideas, and literary traditions of the ancient world. Beginning in ancient Iran, the book follows ideas and motifs as they develop, intersect, and reappear across different cultures, from the Iranian world to Greece and Rome and beyond.Rather than treating these traditions in isolation, the book explores their connections: shared roots and recurring ideas, but also the differences that distinguish one cultural tradition from another. It examines how human beings across different societies i...

Why do we speak of a “scapegoat,” a “forbidden fruit,” or “the writing on the wall”? Why is a difficult choice a “cross to bear,” and where does the “apple of one’s eye” come from?From Eden to Everyday English takes readers on a journey through the biblical origins of expressions that have become part of everyday English. Moving from the Garden of Eden through the stories, poetry and wisdom of the Old Testament to the Gospels and Revelation, Peter Bildge uncovers the ancient stories and images hidden within familiar words and phrases.Richly illustrated and written for the...

Marcus spends his nights driving passengers around, trying to earn extra money, until a crash changes everything. When he wakes up, he's trapped behind the wheel, forced to accept ride after ride. His passengers know impossible things, and every trip pulls him deeper into a mystery that threatens to consume him. Will he escape the loop before it's too late?

He inherited an empire of blood. She became the one weakness his enemies could use. A dark mafia romance featuring enemies to lovers, a forced engagement, dangerous secrets, betrayal, and romantic suspense.

He inherited an empire of blood. She became the one weakness his enemies could use. A dark mafia romance featuring enemies to lovers, a forced engagement, dangerous secrets, betrayal, and romantic suspense.

The Rough Close Murder happened on 27 February 1886. One brother, John Daniel, shot dead his other brother William in a heated rage. They lived at Dale House Farm, Rough Close, Stoke-on-Trent. This is a true story.I was told this story by someone who actually lived in the same house, and had experienced ghostly movements of furniture etc. I decided to write this book with another, fictitious, family moving in, some time later.While doing some electrical work on the house, the husband, Dave, receives an awful electric shock and, following that, his personality starts to change. He becomes aggre...

Sol is the princess of the Kiran, born with a rare gift known as the Sight, which allows her to see visions of the future. Trained by the kingdom's greatest warrior, Destin, she is strong and capable, but she is still a teenager who doesn't always think things through. Sol can be stubborn and impulsive, and sometimes she acts before considering what could happen, putting herself and others in danger. Her future has already been planned for her. Sol is promised in marriage to Robin, the prince of the Arrowood, in hopes of keeping peace between their tribes. Sol and Robin have known each ot...

A ship engineer begins his career believing that competence lies in action—fixing problems quickly, keeping systems running, proving himself indispensable.Over decades at sea, rising from junior engineer to chief, he learns a quieter truth: that the most important decisions are often the ones made before alarms sound, and that authority is measured not by control, but by restraint.Set aboard cargo ships crossing oceans in the late twentieth century, The Quiet Watch is a literary journey through storms and shore leave, mechanical failures and human error, mixed crews and misunderstood orders....

For forty years, the greatest mystery aboard the legendary ocean liner S.S. Sovereign Queen has remained unsolved.When celebrated investigator Daniel Mercer is invited aboard during the ship's final Atlantic crossing, he expects to reopen a forgotten murder case. Instead, he discovers hidden archives, vanished engineering records, secret passageways, and a conspiracy buried deep within the vessel's construction itself.Every clue points not toward what exists—but toward what is missing.As Mercer uncovers the truth behind the death of Thomas Mercer and the unfinished investigation of Elias Mon...

In Barwaha Kalan, everyone knows Babulal Halwai.He makes the town's most irresistible jalebis, guards a legendary secret recipe, and knows everyone's business.Then one evening, Babulal is found dead in his own sweet shop—face down in a bubbling kadhai of jalebis.The police call it murder.But who would kill a beloved sweet-maker?Sunita Joshi, bookseller, jalebi seller, and reluctant amateur detective, soon discovers that Babulal had plenty of enemies. A missing diary, a bitter almond, a disputed piece of land, a mysterious Pipal tree, forged government records, and a recipe worth a fortune al...

The Spiral Beneath the Sky follows Meera Khanna, a powerful corporate strategist whose life changes when she discovers that the systems sustaining modern civilization are pushing the earth toward a catastrophic collapse. To prevent disaster beneath Delhi, she makes a radical decision: she dismantles her own corporate empire, triggering consequences far beyond finance or politics.Soon after, strange geological events begin unfolding across the world. Ancient fault lines awaken, tremors ripple through continents, and beneath an old Rajasthani palace a mysterious spiral structure begins to glow. ...

Jestus, aka Professor Bagus Bagliochus Bagdenborg is a colourful personality; he is a composite of a hundred facets. He changes his behaviour (and his names) at the drop of a hat, rather at the turn of each page. He is simply unbeatable, either in a physical confrontation or in an argument. His main weapon is ‘fentologic’, which, he claims, is what is created when logic is ground to the finest, fento dimensions – the way matter displays new characteristics when it is ground to nanoparticles. The power of his fentology is to be seen and tasted to be believed, especially when spiced up wit...

A popular president. A constitutional loophole. A country holding its breath.When legal theories surface suggesting a president might serve beyond two terms, the idea of a third run shifts from rumor to strategy. Elena Park, a White House communications aide, helps shape language meant to reassure the public—until she realizes those words are being used to rewrite the rules.At the Supreme Court, clerk Marcus Reed uncovers a quiet legal effort to turn ambiguity into permission. What begins as academic debate threatens to become precedent.As courts divide and pressure mounts, Elena and Marcus ...

In a world where memories are archived, edited, and controlled, Elara Vale makes a quiet living helping others recover fragments of their forgotten pasts—until one illegal restoration changes everything.When a grieving client brings her a corrupted neural file tied to a girl who never officially existed, Elara is drawn into a mystery the system was designed to erase. The deeper she searches the memory net, the more she sees traces of someone familiar. Someone who feels like… her.But Elara's own past is a patchwork. Years ago, she willingly purged part of her identity to escape grief. Now, ...

Claire Rowan has spent twenty years avoiding her family’s orchard—and the mother who never loved her the way Claire needed. But when Evelyn’s memory begins to fail, Claire returns home for one final harvest, intending to save the dying orchard, settle her mother’s affairs, and leave again.Then Claire discovers a locked room behind the old preserving kitchen. Inside are hundreds of jars, each labeled with a name, a date, and a secret:THE LIE I TOLD MY DAUGHTERTHE NIGHT THE BABY CRIEDTHE PROMISE I BROKECLAIRE — AGE SEVENTEENFor generations, the women in Claire’s family have possessed...

The map was hidden. The cave was forgotten. The secret was never meant to be found.

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A forgotten cave. A missing journal. A thief closing in.

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The cave holds the truth—but Brynn is not the only one searching for it.

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The map proves the legend is real. The fresh footprints prove they are not alone.

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A lost journal could rewrite Vernal’s past—if Brynn finds it first.

When twelve‑year‑old Brynn Walker opens her front door in Vernal, Utah, she expects another ordinary morning. What she finds instead is an egg—warm, glowing, and pulsing with a heartbeat. And it’s addressed to her.No note. No explanation. Just two words: Protect this.Brynn has always felt a little out of place—too quiet, too curious, too convinced that the world is bigger than what people in her small town believe. But nothing prepares her for what hatches from the mysterious egg… or the danger that follows.As strange creatures appear in the shadows of the Uinta Mountains and a sec...

De Filosofie achter zijn WerkVertragen van perceptie: Beeldende kunst dwingt de toeschouwer om de constante stroom  van snelle, digitale beelden te stoppen en bewust in het 'nu' te treden.Stille taal: Pevernagie benadert schilderkunst als een non-verbale taal die diepe, existentiële lagen raakt waar woorden tekortschieten.De innerlijke horizon: Het canvas weerspiegelt de mentale architectuur en de spirituele ruimte van zowel de maker als de kijker.Kenmerken van zijn Meditatieve KunstAnonieme figuren: Door personages vaak zonder duidelijke details of van de achterkant te schilderen, creë...