Can a Necromancer save a dying world?The Viiminian Empire rots from within, its dominion mere walking corpses and fading memory. Everyone knows its glory is gone. Everyone except Rhea Phuul.Confronted with the painful decay of the once-mighty Empire, Rhea has taken up the mantle of the Eternals: the restoration of her society and its ancient faith. Only when long-forgotten duties are carried out might the Empire again find renewal.But Rhea must conv...

Hekate and Diana. Odin and Apollo. Freyja and the Witch-Lord. Eternal Haunted Summer was born in the late summer of 2009. It was created as a place where Pagans and polytheists and witches (and non-Pagans with a love of the old myths) could feature their short stories and poems and essays with those of a like mind and similar beliefs and practices. EHS has grown steadily over the years, due entirely to the wonderful contributors whose works fill its digital pages. Without their creativity ...

The smart, the silly and the downright strange are brought together in a miscellany of extraordinary information that's essential for every girl to know. Packed full of fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia from the top ten problems for cave girls to the superpowers every girl should have. Learn how to confuse a pigeon, read about some truly gruesome girls and discover which woman has the longest legs in the world. This book will teach, inspire and amuse any girl for hours on end.

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

Full of fascinating information about the English language, this book will help to conquer spelling slip-ups and punctuation pitfalls.

Wilfred, an Anglo-Saxon youth of the old Druid faith. Survives a Viking massacre and prolonged depression.. Becomes an expert herbalist and protects the natural environment.. Seeks a cure for cancer among the old Anglo-Saxon nine herbs charm ..He becomes an expert but reluctant swordsman cures King Alfred's bowel disease and fights in his shield wall to conquer the Danes....Finds unexpected romance...

In 1858 the 'Great Stink of London' made much of the city along the Thames uninhabitable. Between 1848 and 1854 nearly 25,000 Londoners died of cholera, a disease borne by foul water. Joseph Bazalgette saved the city, building sewers that would serve 4 million people and stop waste water emptying into the Thames. These sewers are still the backbone of London's sewerage system today, but the city's population is now approaching 10 million; the old sewers can't cope and acti...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Written for youth, educators, families, and lifelong learners, each volume examines a different aspect of the human exp...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Written for youth, educators, families, and lifelong learners, each volume examines a different aspect...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Community Comeback is the third book in the series and explores the role of relationships, belonging, cooperation, and ...

The remote Scottish Islands. Beautiful wild bleak friendly isles cloaked in mist and ancient history. And the little people. Beautiful islands of bizarre brutal murders, a promiscuous academic on St Kilda, tourists executed by ancient barbaric rituals in the Orkneys, British soldiers castrated and murdered in the Shetlands, all in the ruins of an ancient civilisation. A fascination for historic ruins may be a dangerous occupation.

Welcome to the End of the World...and more importantly, what comes after.Disasters have occurred around the country and the world, but we're "getting through it", as Kiwi are apt to do. She'll be right. Life moves on, in some form.Things were bad here in Aotearoa, but in our isolation down under, we've escaped most of the chaos around the world. In fact, we might be the last bastion of humanity on the planet - anybody else home out there? R...