Meet Finn Firefly, the young electrician who learns life's biggest lessons one job at a time! When Finn becomes an electrician's apprentice at Firefly Electric, he discovers that confidence alone isn't enough. One shocking mistake (KABLOOEY!) shows him that a proud know-it-all has a lot to learn. Follow Finn through 19 colorful, illustrated stories as he digs trenches, wires a radio tower, works at a snowy airport, solves the "half the house" mystery, and studies for his journeyman test. A...

Sliced Up Press proudly presents twenty-one horror stories and poems where queer meets fear.With all-new fiction & poetry from Avi Ben-Zeev, Elizabeth Lynn Blackson, Amanda Nevada DeMel, Minh-Anh Vo Dinh, Phillip E. Dixon, Dex Drury, Mason Hawthorne, Lor Gislason, Anastasia Jill, Bitter Karella, Lindsay King-Miller, Norah Lovelock, Avra Margariti, Marisca Pichette, Eric Raglin, Xan van Rooyen, Eva Roslin, Marc Ruvolo, Alan Mark Tong, Ezra Wu and Jamie Zaccaria

The cult classic kids book in all its resplendent absurdity and subversivenessSam's love of donuts takes him to the Big City where he makes friends with Mr. Bikferd, a world class collector of donuts. But when Mr. Bikferd falls in love with Pretzel Annie, the prophecy of an old woman comes true: "Who needs donuts when you've got love?" Mr. Bikferd bequeaths his donut collection to Sam, who uses it to save the old woman from drowning in a basement flooded with coffe...

Private Homes of Santa Barbara is an invitation into twelve distinctive homes in Santa Barbara’s exclusive neighborhoods.Explore the gorgeous architecture and luxurious interiors of majestic estates, historical renovations, intimate sanctuaries, and mountain retreats, spanning styles from sublime and grand to bold and modern. What makes these individual environments extraordinary is what they share: a thoughtful response to the unique character and archite...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY EMMA CARROLL'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON'What a deep, dark, deceptively simple, brilliant novel it is' EMMA CARROLL'Poignant and realistic . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, and it doesn't sentimentalise war' SHIRLEY HUGHES, GUARDIAN'I did a dreadful thing, the worst thing of my life, when I...

As Jem, the Shoemaker's boy, works at night in his father's shop he has three strange visitors asking for some silver keys. Jem must keep the silver keys safe, but how...?

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For more than five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-grassland reserves in the South Island high country to his involvement in the 2011–13 campaign to save the Denniston Plateau from mining, he has been a passionate and effective advocate for the preservation of areas of ecological importance. Alan's conservation activities have paralleled – and are informed by – a distinguished academic career a...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean-spirited old man who hates everything - even Christmas! But when three spirits visit him one Christmas Eve, Scrooge is taken on a journey into the past, present and future that will change him forever. The classic Dickens story retold for children growing in reading confidence."Irresistible for children learning to read'" - Child Education Plus

Two visitors come to Sherlock Holmes’s London home in Baker Street to ask for the detective’s help. Holmes is interested in the story, but he sends his friend, Dr Watson, to Dartmoor to begin the investigation. Dartmoor is the dark and lonely place where Sir Charles Baskerville died – or was it murder? The clues are worrying, too. An enormous wild dog killed Sir Charles’s ancestor there a hundred and fifty years earlier. Suddenly, people hear terrible howls again on the moor!

Head Jacked: Also known as mind control, coercive persuasion, reprogramming, thought control, thought reform, or forcible indoctrination refers to a process in which a group or individual methodically uses deceptive practices to persuade others to conform to their demands in order to manipulate them! Why do you think television networks call their line-ups “Programming”? It is because you are being programmed without even being aware of the extent to which it is happening. The unrelenting ...

A TRUE STORY TOO INCREDIBLE TO BELIEVE... As a therapist, author, and former radio talk show host and hospital director, Mark has nearly forty years of sobriety from mind and mood-altering substances. Miraculously, he survived years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse which led to alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling, sexual addiction, nicotine, and other debilitating addictions to escape his pain. He sought help from the so-called mental health professionals. He suffered psychiatric...