DAAN! is a collection of unpretentious poems about everyday life, love, and loss. About mental health, nature, cats, and much more.It shows the joys, the pain, the struggles, and the victories of a chronically ill wheelchair user.DAAN! shows us that poetry does not have to be stuffy, but can be anything from whimsical and vibrant to sad and profound.Whether it's free verse, a ghazal, pantoum, or triolet, an American cinquain, four and twenty, Keroua...

She was a grandmother. Now she's young again. And she hates it.Her last day at work ended in disaster, she missed her husband's most important concert of the year, and if that wasn't bad enough, now Alysia is stuck on a foreign World called Fer. A world where technology hasn't evolved past the 19th century, and people still believe in magic.Desperate to find her way back home, she ends up on a wild-goose chase to yet other worlds, where she discovers uncomf...

"They tortured and humiliated me. They took my identity and everything I loved, and left me for dead at the gates of the Curridge Fermentry Enclave."In a world ruled by crime and political scheming, morality is a luxury for the weak. Nobody understands this truth better than Lord Torvik Kovkatim, grandson of the fearsome King Yilva Peronin.As a royal assassin, he takes pride in upholding the monarchy's ideals and protecting its citizens. But when he is ordered to t...

A floundering priest. A woman in a wheelchair. An ancient curse.On the run from a cursed king and his army of assassins, priest Niels Bosch seeks sanctuary in rural Briscona. What he gets is a barrage of intimate and unsettling questions from his new cantor, Beldenka Nadinov. Questions he can't risk answering.Accompanied by his friend and bodyguard Mikhandor, and Bel's protector Leks, the pair set out to challenge the mad king. But Bel has a dark secret of ...

Night Song is a collection of 46 fantasy cinquins about gods, prophecies, and curses. About heroes, thieves, dragons, and other fantastical creatures. Love, sickness, death, and grief. And many other themes that are as relevant to real life as they are to fiction.First in the series Songs of Redemption.Companion to Night's Reign, Book One of Curse of the Fathers.

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas.In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The book considers the different ways in which cities are responding to population ageing, ...