An edgy, affecting, and darkly funny debut novel — narrated by Skunk, an eleven-year-old girl in a coma — that explores innocence and its betrayal as powerfully and unforgettably as do Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Lovely BonesSkunk Cunningham’s world is a small one, populated by her family; her teachers and schoolmates; and her neighbours, the quiet Buckley family and the five terrifying Oswald girls and their thug of a father, Bob....

The Art Of Chip Carving is an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to one of the world’s most ancient and widely practiced forms of woodcarving.Anyone, from the completely inexperienced beginner to the veteran craftsperson, can learn to use simple, inexpensive tools and techniques to carve striking decorative designs in wood. Chip carving is an especially good introduction to working wood for the inexperienced because of its low cost-of-entry, and because it...

Mystics and sages are generally highly enlightened beings who choose, at great risk and discomfort to themselves, to incarnate for the benefit of humanity. They appear to be like everyone else, yet they often lead extraordinary lives while hiding behind a cloak of ordinariness. This collection of vignettes from the life of Daniel Clay offers the reader an intimate glimpse inside the life of a modern-day mystic. You meet the child, the family man and the extraordinary seer. You learn about ...

Daniel Clay is a mystic and sage who brings a divine message of warning, hope, and love to a world that is desperately in need. He first began his work of prophecy in 1983, forecasting the fall of the Berlin Wall, the uniting of East and West Germany, and the demise of Russia.Divided into two sections, The Prophecies shares Daniel Clay’s fascinating foretellings, which were originally delivered in July 1996 from a meditative state. Within the first section, Clay offers prophecies fo...

While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a “collective political identity” is a recent construct. Over the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the state and local levels, hate crimes protections in a number of states, inclusion in a federal law against hate crimes, legal victories in the courts, and increasingly favorable policies in bureaucra...

Skunk Cunningham is an 11-year-old girl in a coma. She has a loving dad, an absent mother and a brother who plays more X-Box than is good for him. She also has the neighbours from hell: the five Oswald girls and their thuggish father Bob, vicious bullies all of them, whose reign of terror extends unchallenged over their otherwise quiet suburban street. And yet terrifying though they undoubtedly are, the stiletto-wearing, cider-swilling Oswald girls are also sexy – so when Saskia asks shy, ...