Fatherhood is one of life's greatest adventures. From the moment their children are born, dads everywhere embark on a lifelong journey that guarantees joy, struggle, heartache, and glory with every step. Full of truth and wisdom, the stories of fatherhood must be preserved and passed on. Fathering Stories, Volume 1 is an anthology of such stories from members of the Fathering Together community. In these pages, you will discover harrowing tales from new fathers about birth and beyond, hone...

By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for.Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan–and she’s out for blood. But si...

Indie Author Magazine: Featuring Jonathan Yañez★ Welcome to the 35th issue of Indie Author Magazine, where we illuminate the paths to success for independent authors. This issue is brimming with expert advice, innovative strategies, and the latest trends to empower your writing and publishing journey. ★Inside, you'll find:✓ ALLi Exclusive: Dive deep into the mechanics of a successful book launch, with strategic insights from industry experts.✓ Unlocking the Po...

Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultu...

Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth.Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features 50 different voices from across the Portsmouth community and beyond. Our readers range from teenagers to those in their nineties, including experienced actors, writers and volunteers from the pub...

Sherlock Holmes had many secrets. This is the greatest of them.Our knowledge of the life and career of Mr Sherlock Holmes is necessarily partial and inexact. Riddled with lacunae and ambiguities, its parameters are defined chiefly by what his friend and colleague, Dr John Watson, saw fit to record. One era in particular – those enigmatic years in which, believed dead at the Reichenbach Falls, the Great Detective roved the world incognito – has been shrouded in obscurity and doubt, t...

This is the story of Victor Frankenstein: a man obsessed with discovering the secret of life and cheating death; a man who brings to life to a body built from corpses; and a man who rejects this would-be child… But who is truly the monster?

Arthur Darvill, Clare Corbett, Nicholas Briggs and Meera Syal read these four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory.In Hunter's Moon, by Paul Finch, the travellers visit Leisure Platform 9, where gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities.In Touched By An Angel, by Jonathan Morris, the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon -and the Doctor, Amy and Rory must stop them.In Paradox Lost, by George Mann, an ancient andr...

It is the summer of 1912. Sherlock Holmes, estranged from Dr Watson, lives in reclusive retirement on the South Downs. Yet he will be forced to try to solve a new mystery - one of the most diabolical and fiendish murders he has ever confronted...

Revised, updated and expanded, Operative Orthopaedics: The Stanmore Guide, Second Edition, is a definitive and comprehensive guide to elective orthopaedic surgery. It is suitable for junior trainees during their various orthopaedic rotations and senior trainees preparing for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS Tr and Orth) examination. With the emphasis on surgical techniques employed, and the reasoning and evidence base behind them, this book is both a practical...

Four decades. Four cases. One solution. From the plains of Afghanistan to the alleyways of Victorian London, join Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson in a quartet of astonishing new investigations which span their lifelong friendship and beyond...

This volume is about shyness: its definitions and conceptualization as a psy chological construct, research on its causes and consequences, methods for meas uring shyness, strategies for alleviating the unpleasant experiences associated with shyness, and its connection to other forms of social anxiety and inhibition. the book together was to provide a resource for The principal goal in putting psychologists from several subdisciplines, most notably social, personality, clin ical, and devel...