Ivan Twig has a good life and a good job. He has an amazing wife and a daughter on the way.But, one day, his wife is murdered and he is blamed for it. Ivan goes to prison for the crime - no one believes he is innocent.And then, his life really starts to fall apart.Along with the rest of the world....

An uncle with teeth for toes and toes for teeth? A kid stuck in detention on the last day of school? A moose turned monster?! How about a crazy metal-head who needs tickets to his favorite concert? Better yet, why not learn to defend yourself against a turkey assault?It's all inside Tales of Awesomeness, a short story collection for kids - by a kid!

Ivan Twig is a lucky man. He has a great house, a great job, a great wife - a perfect life. It all falls apart when his wife is killed and he is sent to prison for it. But Ivan is an innocent man.Just when he has begun to accept his new, awful life, his whole world falls apart again - literally this time.Battle Your Own Monsters is short fiction for young readers, written by a young writer.

Slate Run Publishing presents it's second annual collection of unique and diverse voices drawn exclusively from New York's Capital Region.Featuring a wide range of genres from women's literature to science fiction and fantasy, Slate Run Annual Vol. 2 is sure to contain something for everyone.

How do you encompass all the worlds of the imagination? Within fantasy’s scope lies every possible impossibility, from dragons to spirits, from magic to gods, and from the unliving to the undying. In Fearsome Journeys, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan sets out on a quest to find the very limits of the unlimited, collecting twelve brand new stories by some of the most popular and exciting names in epic fantasy from around the world.With original fiction from Scot...

Many of us move through life feeling we are missing the fullness of the moment-overwhelmed by thoughts, unable to rest in the present.The Art of Deep Listening: Cultivating Awareness, Presence, and Connection through Deep Listening and Rattling Practices invites you to pause, listen, and awaken to the vibrant silence within and around you.Drawing on more than fifty years of inner exploration, Daniel Tigner guides readers on a gentle yet powerful journey into presence, shari...

The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.

We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises.Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise – good or bad. Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard’s The Drowned World, Sterling’s Islands in the Net,...

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity.Whether it’s coming up hard against the speed of light – and, with it, the enormity of the universe – realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you’d ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes...

A princess becomes a warrior, indulges in forbidden romance, and rules an empire in an epic fantasy saga inspired by Aladdin and the 1001 Arabian Nights.Princess Bennua is betrothed to a foreigner in a far-away land, until a prince of thieves comes to claim her for himself. Kidnapped and brought to a desert of mystery and wonder, Bennua becomes the master of a djinn trapped within a magic lamp... and falls in love with a man who's as secretive as he is dangerous.He...

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild—from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the twentieth century.In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the r...

The Future Is OurselvesThe world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come?Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have t...