Captain Julian de Marque has spent eight years burying the past beneath discipline, duty, and the cold precision of a swordmaster's life at the High King's castle. But when the grieving mage Zachary de Mordenkine summons him to investigate the murder of his long-lost son, Julian is forced to return to the coastal village of Weslan — the place he swore never to see again.At the center of the mystery lies Sorrow's Isle, a forbidden island that rises from the sea only once every sever...

Relieve pain, tension, and stress with this definitive guide to acupressure, the centuries-old technique that utilizes gentle pressure from your hands to jump-start your body’s self-curative abilities.“A faithful and thoroughly incisive book on the ancient art of healing. With clarity and inspiring instructions, this is a welcome gift for all who seek health and well-being.”—Chungliang Al Huang, author of Quantum SoupWith your hand...

Moving and Swinging Doors is an inspirational Christian nonfiction work that explores how life’s opportunities and challenges function as spiritual “doors” through which we must choose to walk. Drawing on scripture, personal experiences, and real-life testimonies, Michael Reed shows how obedience to God and discerning the right doors leads to lasting success, peace, and purpose. With relatable metaphors and practical lessons, the book guides readers in navigating transitions, overcoming di...

The natural exuberance of the men and women of Tudor and Stuart Britain, whether in politics, religion, architectural decoration or literary conceit, turned easily to excess. The age is marked by growing wealth, often expressed in extravagant building schemes, by rapid changes in ideas and attitudes, practices and beliefs across the whole spectrum of human activity. In particular, it was marked by an insatiable curiosity about the natural world, whether seen through the telescope or the mi...

The Places That Built Me is a literary memoir about growing up working class and learning life beyond the classroom. Born into poverty and marked early as a child who did not fit the system, Michael Reed finds his education in the world around him-through labour, movement, risk, and responsibility.From cramped homes and schoolroom corners to fairgrounds, boxing tents, and long stretches of road, Reed's life is shaped by environments that demand attention a...

In the shadowed heart of New Orleans, an insidious family legacy claims a young woman's body and soul for a terrifying, predestined birth.Élodie has always been haunted by unsettling dreams—a goat-man in the mountains, a primal pull she can't explain. But when inexplicable physical changes begin to manifest, the line between nightmare and reality blurs, thrusting her into the chilling legacy of the Chavis family, New Orleans' most secretive Creole dynasty.From the opulent, ...

Increased stress and traumatic events in our lives have resulted in many millions of people who suffer from insomnia, nightmares, anxiety attacks, depression, and tension headaches. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers relief at your fingertips, quickly and safely, for a wide range of emotional problems. It explains how emotional distress becomes lodged in the body as muscular tension and blocked energy, and shows how acupressure can relieve not just the resulting physical symptoms, bu...

There's Something in the Woods.As a virtual prisoner in her suburban DC home, Rhonda faces a chilling reality: she's failed to protect her gay son, Joey, from the brutality of his own father, Max. As Max's violent hatred escalates, Rhonda's maternal instincts scream for her to act before it's too late.During an emotional phone call, Rhonda's sister, Elizabeth, offers to shelter Rhonda and Joey when they come to her home in West Virginia for Thanksgiving. Bu...

This is a small piece about the use of "good" microbes in the environmental and health fields. It consists of a small essay, with references and hyperlinks for articles. You can read this essay to learn about why we need to perform further research into these organisms.

The landscape of American religion is changing dramatically, Millennials are dropping out of church, and new experimental types of Christianity such as the Emerging Church are coming to the fore. But what is the future of religion in America, and what role will Millennials play in that? The results of three years of scholarly inquiry, this collection of essays looks at the Emerging Church and Millennial religious responses and seeks to define and explore both phenomena, always on the looko...

The subject of the return of Jesus has fueled speculation ever since He left. When is He coming? Will we know when He is about to return? Are the things happening in our world today “signs of the times”? What does the book of Revelation say about the return of Jesus? And what about the nation of Israel? What role do they play in end-times scenarios? Mike Reed attempts to address these and other questions about Christ’s return in this book.For the average person and even for those w...

The Landscape of Britain has a uniquely rich historical diversity. In this book explains the processes at work in the evolution of the landscape, pointing out examples of surviving evidence from the past. The landscape of late twentieth-century Britain is the end product of some ten thousand years of human effort directed not only towards satisfying basic physical needs for food and shelter, but also towards expressing profound spiritual and intellectual aspirations, whether by means of bu...