The origin story of L.A. County's battling bird gal continues! Corinne Morgan has found herself face-to-face with her ancestor, Celtic war goddess the Morrigan, returning after a thousand-year banishment. Both are hungry for revenge against their respective enemies - and for Corinne, that means taking down the I.C., Anna Dale Academy's terrifying trio of bullies! To do so, she forges an alliance with Morrigan, whose spirit now resides with...

'The wall was the ambition, the style became the obsession.' In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck Alex MacIntyre on the head, killing him instantly and robbing the climbing world of one of its greatest talents. Although only twenty-eight years old, Alex was already one of the leading figures of British mountaineering's most successful era. His ascents included hard new routes on Himalayan giants like Dhaulagiri and Changabang and a ...

Corinne Morgan wasn't looking for a hard time when she decided to become L.A. county's rookie superhero, Corbie. All she wanted was a little bit of revenge against the terrible schoolyard trio the I.C., as a treat! But it wasn't long before she found herself at the heart of a family feud between her mentor, trickster goddess Morrigan, and nefarious younger siblings Neamhain and Macha. Now our battling bird...

Dogs Are Silly, Dogs Are Fun! is a joyful celebration of everything we love about dogs. Through playful rhymes and real-life photos, this book highlights wiggly tails, happy toes, cuddly moments, zoomies, goofy expressions, and all the little things that make dogs our best friends. Each page pairs a simple, fun verse with adorable dog photos that capture their personality and charm. Perfect for kids, families, and dog lovers of all ages, this book reminds us that life is brighter,...

An inspirational book for budding authors who have yet to let their fingers fly across the keyboard, or dip plume into ink, but yet who have a burning desire to turn their thoughts into words and influence the world. The author has allowed voids to encourage the potent and powerful creative urges to spring forth from the fertile minds of his readers, although there's a good deal of useful starting advice for the would-be writer too, with examples of some great works. Nowhere else will the ...

The world in which we live is permanently poised between a series of extremes; up and down, dark and light, yin and yang... life and death.In fact the very fabric of what we experience teeters constantly on the knife edge that separates reality from fantasy.Sometimes it's very difficult to know where the division between the two truly lies, and often physical experiences and imagination share a hazy common ground where each one is as valid as the other. That's when matters ca...

Drug dealing can be dangerous. Other dealer... police investigations... self indulgence. Those are just the more glamorous hazards. But the insidious threats of greed and arrogance can do far more harm in the end, as one grower/dealer discovers. One in a series of stories from a compilation entitled A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.

All puppies are loved... until they grow old and lose their teeth... start to smell... then they're replaced by a newer model and left to live out their last years in a world of their own. Unless they're lucky enough to have a hobby.The luckiest old dogs have hobbies they can take with them... beyond the grave. This is one in a series of ten short stories by the same author, which can be found together in a compilation called The Cutest Little Animal Short Stories, at the Smashwords...

Christmas - a a time for kids to have fun, open presents, play with their friends, and eat too much. A time too, for parents to pretend that the gifts their children wrapped with sticky, grubby fingers, are exactly what Mummy and Daddy wanted. Of course it's also a time to consider those less fortunate than ourselves, and when June decides to give poor old Mr Blake a seasonal gift and a food hamper, things in her household begin to go from bad to worse. A story about cute puppies, well-int...

For a young couple moving ahead into an exciting new stage of life, everything is an exciting challenge... a journey together through the shared adventures of renovating an old house, starting a new business, and keeping a most extraordinary new pet. But life can be unpredictable, and insufficient attention to detail can sometimes be a very dangerous thing...This is one of a series of ten short stories in the black comedy genre by the same author.

A detailed guide from go to woe which describes in step-by-step detail exactly how to print and bind your own book at home, achieving a professional finish, but using only low-cost items. The construction of a simple, but efficient book-binding press is described, and various pitfalls are mentioned. A must for anyone with a book for limited publication to friends and relatives, or whose work will not easily convert to eBook formatting. The wholesome, often amusing advice is both encouragin...

John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada’s class structure and one of the foundational texts in Canadian sociology. Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz described it as “the sociological study of present-day Canada.”Fifty years later, the book retains vast signi...