Cast out by his own family after a wolf’s bite infects him, a young thirteen-year-old boy is forced to roam the streets and fend for himself. In a world of Humans and Others, he belongs to neither. No longer considered Human, but nor a purebred Other, a race of powerful supernatural beings, he will be unwanted and hunted by both.Danger lurks at every turn. Young, vulnerable and afraid, he tries to come to terms with the physical changes taking place in him while at the same time tr...

You knew me but I didn’t know you.To me you were a stranger.A random person in the crowd.No one.If I could go back, if I knew what I know now, I would have run.But I can’t go back.And I didn’t know better.Not then.I didn’t know you would ruin me.Ruin me with lies.With lust.With longing.Just look at me now in this world without you.I have nothing.This is not a love story.

The next heart-pounding instalment in Mason Sabre's Paranormal and Urban Fantasy, Society Series.For the past two years, Cade MacDonald and Gemma Davies have been forced to hide their illicit affair from the Other world, where mating with a species different to your own defies every law and mandate of Society. Considered an indefensible act, it is punishable by banishment from their community, or even worse, by death. However, Cade and Gemma experience a bond few e...

Eighteen months—Eighteen girls. Only this time, Amy Sorokov has a chance of finding the latest victim.The papers have called him the Calendar killer. Amy has deemed him her most wanted. So what does she do when she’s hit a brick wall, and the clock begins ticking over a young girl’s head? She calls in the only man she knows will hunt the killer down.Ethan Stone--supernatural bounty hunter, soul seeker and mercenary to the underworld. He’s got one heck of an...

Cast out by his own family after a wolf’s bite infects him, a young thirteen-year-old boy is forced to roam the streets and fend for himself. In a world of Humans and Others, he belongs to neither. No longer considered Human, but nor a purebred Other, a race of powerful supernatural beings, he will be unwanted and hunted by both.Danger lurks at every turn. Young, vulnerable and afraid, he tries to come to terms with the physical changes taking place in him while at the same time tr...

Most educators will agree that they would love to see each student and staff member in schools flourish. Furthermore, it would be great to see entire communities experience the transformative power of circumstances that feature happy and vibrant learning. However, what does it mean to experience flourishing in schools? What is the role of positive leadership in this process? What can we learn from inquiring into the positive emotional and social aspects of the work of school leaders? Build...

Three years after her husband's death, Tara Saunders is still unable to move on. Guilt holds her hostage, and she knows that she can never forgive herself for causing Eric's death. When Tara meets Devan, a homeless man who seems to have been linked to Eric in some way, she decides to follow him. Desperate to find some connection with her late husband, Tara seeks it through Devan, but the truth that he holds is not one that Tara is willing to accept. As Tara inches closer to the truth, an i...

Eighteen months—Eighteen girls. Only this time, Amy Sorokov has a chance of finding the latest victim.The papers have called him the Calendar killer. Amy has deemed him her most wanted. So what does she do when she's hit a brick wall, and the clock begins ticking over a young girl's head? She calls in the only man she knows will hunt the killer down.Ethan Stone--supernatural bounty hunter, soul seeker and mercenary to the underworld. He's got one heck of an...

By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again.Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates the team that Bing Devine bui...

In 2035, extreme weather increasingly frequent and severe strikes, leaving the world barren, where wildlife no longer exists. How should we view and treat animals…as test subjects…as entertainment…and…as food? Follow our protagonist Grace Sarah Merce and her interactions with animals. In Chapter 1, she conducts animal experiments while grappling with the ethical implications of her work. In Chapter 2, she works at a mall zoo and witnesses the mistreatments and exploitations within. In Chap...

This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish together? How does supporting educator wellbeing connect to teaching, learning, leading in schools? What characteristics, qualities and strategies support the wellbeing of the whole school commun...

The Windownesian series features the adventures of the university student Jonathan Wills with his friends Meander, Athena, Zedekiah, as well as his roommates Alex the AI and Bobby the Alien. Each chapter centres around one topic, recording our characters experiencing it, and discussing it. “I still love my motherland and the sensible people living in it. But there’re dark histories I’m ashamed of and selfish people I avoid.” This is Chapter 10 centring national identity which foregrounds t...