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In the spirit of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, which examined a turbulent time in Africa’s history, Things Come Together grapples with modern challenges and seeks to bring hope for the continent’s future. The book traverses a wide range of perspectives, from the scientific to the artistic, the physical to the sociological, political, economic, and metaphysical.

In this frightful treasury of horror stories and poems, the author conjures a scary world where fragile characters face relentless supernatural forces.

Understanding people on the earth and the way in which they think and act is a challenging feat, but even more difficult is understanding those who have left us. Additionally, ghosts themselves are often misunderstood. They can be lost souls with baggage hoping someone will notice their existence and lend an ear; not spectres with ill intent or out to harm the living. This book combines the expertise of two people who have had a multitude of encounters and have successfully made meaningful connections with several spirits throughout the years.

Come and marvel at how life at large can be encapsulated into a microcosm in the form of poetic license. Let this book be your companion when seeking to have some me-time and to chill out in your own chosen surroundings. Or, discuss Mallory’s poems in more depth with others.

Ah! Welcome! I have been waiting for you! You have found a path that leads to a secret place I know deep in the great Northwoods, where magical trees whisper tales of fairies and gnomes. Open the story and begin your journey. In this first tale, come meet the Grandfather Tree, who always has a story to tell, and Joshua, a special gnome who learns the importance of teamwork and cooperation.

In a world ravaged by a religious war that has claimed the lives of billions, scientists race to find a solution in a top-secret lab. Patrick Jarborn is the last hope for humanity, but when the lab is overrun, he and his guardian Gloria must flee for survival. Along the way, they discover Sarah, another test subject with a crucial role in humanity’s future. Together, they embark on a perilous journey through a world they only know from books, facing unimaginable threats as they search for safety.

What is the common root of the most significant crises facing humanity today? And what is a simple, universal tool both individuals and businesses can apply to create the most leverage for positive change? These are the two urgent questions at the heart of this book. Spurred by a turbulent entry into fatherhood, the author walks listeners through his rude awakening to the state of the modern world, into the deeper realization of the flawed mindset threatening our future – and the universal system he devised to remedy it.

In the year A.D. 390, magic is both omnipresent and feared in newly Christian Rome. In an effort to revive their faith, three witches cast a curse on local leaders of the Empire’s new religion, subjecting them to demonic hauntings, possessions, and eventual death. Will the Iracundus family be able to survive the witches’ curse? Can the witches succeed in their quest for revenge?

Wolf Vandengetz has the ideal post for an adventurous scientist, researching prides of lions. Then he gets a promotion. With a heavy heart, he leaves his fieldwork in the Serengeti to administer a program to save endangered pangolins in Nepal. As a scientist, he’s accustomed to solving complex ecosystem mysteries but ill-equipped to tackle the politics of donation-hungry NGOs, the tragic consequences of conservation strategies gone wrong or the greed driving pangolins to extinction.

This story tells the trials of Saul and his family as they followed their leader to the Promised Land. It’s a story of courage and faith for listeners of all ages.

Imagine a life so painfully ordinary that monotony isn’t just routine; it deepens with each passing day. That’s the world our protagonist knows until they meet an enigmatic stranger. This individual doesn’t just break the monotony – they shatter it, revealing hidden truths about our hero’s heritage and inner self.

As the Lucas Twins serial killers secretly terrorize the lives of nearly 100 victims, there are two victims that escaped. One escaped certain death in 1979 and another escaped 40 years later. Fate brings the two together as they realize their lives have been mentally and psychology ruined by the same people. They embark on a journey to find their tormentors only to have many other secrets revealed. The world of a supernatural being is discovered along with a bizarre ritual that keeps the twins hungry for more victims even as they reach their 70s. Revenge is best served cold.

Imagine that Isaac Babel’s Cossacks were sailing together with Runyonesque Liverpool Jews outside the plate-glass window of a Hampstead café where a Klezmer band is playing to a packed and tea-drinking congregation of jazzmen, Hasidic scholars, surrealists, old soldiers; and you have the tone and temperature of this unique and unclassifiable memoir – no, not memoir, more a stream-of-consciousness novella – no, not a novella but a piece of autobiographical fiction – no, not autobiography but a picaresque drama conquered from the unreliable and fertile brain of the eponymous Fastovski.

Don’t mistake this for dry history! Lynn MacKaben Brown’s Furs and Fevers offers the listener a view into a long lost and mostly forgotten world—a world where Indigenous tribes interact with French-Canadian trappers and traders, while their way of life is unravelling under the pressure of American expansion into Indiana. The characters are historical, and their interactions follow the historical records available thanks to Brown’s exhaustive research.

In 1915, the world is in turmoil. A war, the likes of which has never been seen, involves much of the known world. An Englishman, John Norton Griffiths, proposes using miners to tunnel under the enemy lines and destroy them from below. Once his idea is accepted, other countries of the Empire decide to raise similar tunneling companies. Canada, New Zealand and Australia provide companies of men, drawn from mining and trades backgrounds, to assist in the defeat of an aggressive enemy, intent on domination.

Life and death are merged in the terror of unrelenting global violence. Rooting Out Violence describes a model, ‘Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration,’ with the scope to help adults assess the human capacity for violence in themselves, in members of their communities, as well as, in leaders of their countries. The book provides a violence prevention model to mitigate trauma and human rights violations throughout our lifespans and throughout the world. Healthy Sensory-Emotional Integration is a public health model that is understandable and achievable globally.

In this thrilling novel set in 2007 at the Metropolitan Police, follow PC Lawson on a journey where his lifelong dream of catching a notorious villain comes true, but not in the way he expected. A real mystery unfolds as a lorry escapes the UK, leaving the police puzzled, suspecting that it may contain drugs. The ingenious story follows a cunning and wealthy villain who turns the tables on the Met by exploiting their own policies to humiliate them in front of the PSD, the public, the press, and the media.

Responding to many recent calls for redress and restitution, Richardson summarises the historical and current situation and attributes its problematics to the fact that theorists and historians have taken the concept art as a generic that includes both design and craft - which are actually and validly distinguishable from art by application of the concept function/al-or else ignored the two entirely.

Most educators are remembered in passing – their legacies often confined to classroom walls and fleeting school years. But imagine a world where teachers can reconnect with their former students, not just as distant memories, but as influential figures in their lives once again. Teachers for Life introduces us to two educators who seize this very opportunity.

Fred is a small boy who lives with his mum and dad and big brother, Jim. After a farm visit with his school, Fred develops an itch. To his horror, peculiar and dramatic changes then begin to occur to his body and the dreadful thought that he may be turning into a chicken starts to become real. When Jim starts teasing him and convincing him that he really is turning into a chicken, Fred becomes even more troubled. These troubles are greatly increased when his mother summons the doctor to examine him.