Lena Strand left Ekestad fifteen years ago and never looked back.Now a journalist in Stockholm, she returns to the small Swedish town she once called home to care for her dying father - planning to stay only long enough to settle affairs and leave again.But something about Ekestad isn't right.Nothing bad happens here.No accidents. No sudden illness. No violence. For decades, the town has existed in a quiet, statistical impossibility - its residents living lo...

The first book to exclusively use Chinese medical theories and terminology to guide practitioners of Chinese medicine in the use of Western herbs• Written entirely according to the theory, diagnosis, and treatment paradigm of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)• Explains how to combine and modify the standard TCM formulas to non-Chinese herbs suitable for Western practitioners• Includes 58 monographs of common Western healing herbs, detailing how each plant is used c...

In the captivating pages of "A Bachelor to a Married Flirt," Ella Wheeler Wilcox weaves a tale of forbidden love and societal constraints. The story follows the forbidden romance between a bachelor and a married woman, as they navigate the complexities of their desires and the consequences of their actions. As their passion intensifies, they must confront the moral dilemmas and social expectations that threaten to tear them apart. With its exploration of love, betrayal, and the boundaries ...

The Return of the Native was a radical departure for Thomas Hardy, ushering in his tragic literary vision of the world. Though set in a small space (Egdon Heath in the fictional county of Wessex) and short time (the main action spans a year and a day), the novel addresses the broad social and intellectual upheavals of the Victorian age. Much of this turmoil is embodied in the character of Eustacia Vye, the novel’s wilful female protagonist. A complex, independent young woman, Eust...

Book one in the Silver Springs series. Pretty Little Scars is a forbidden, forced proximity romance.

For fans of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone comes a dark, romantic fantasy about a witch, a monster, and the two parasitic demons who’ll stop at nothing to keep them apart.Raye is cursed. Living things crumble at her touch, drained by the demon who clings to her like a shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle.The castle is an eerie place. ...

I'm an omega who can hear the shadows sing.Patient #495. Nyx Blackwood. Scorpio . They call me dangerous. Unstable. The Fated M.U.S.E.Mentally insane, they wrote in my file.Unsatisfactory, they marked on my tests.Scentless, they whispered in fear.Excelled beyond control, they warned the others.For six years, Ravenscroft Asylum has been my prison, its white walls keeping the world safe from me. Or maybe keeping me saf...

I'm an omega born in the wrong skin.Patient #496. Jinx Blackwood. Gemini. They said I was missing. Swapped. Unfit to serve Fate's design.But Fate made a mistake. I was never meant for the world outside. I belong in the dark.Six years ago, I was stolen from Ravenscroft Asylum and dumped into a life meant for my twin sister. But now I've clawed my way back to where I truly belong — the haunted halls, the blood-soaked beds, and the underground...

Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative standards that normalize urban life and render rural life as something unusual, exotic, or deviant. This includes exploring the role of the media as agenda setting agent, informing people ...

THE CLUBHOUSE GETS WEIRD COMPILED BY CRYSTAL COOKWITHIN THESE PAGES YOU WILL FIND THIRTEEN STRANGE TALES FROM ENIGMATIC MINDS.KEVIN SHAMEL – SHAWN WAYNE LANGHANS – AARON LEBOLD - SHAUN AVERY - MADELEINE SWANN – DANI BROWN – SANDRA BASSETT – TOM FOLSKE – THOMAS STEWART – PIP PINKERTON – LEO X. ROBERTSON – RILEY ODELL – BEN FITTSTHIS BOOK CONTAINS BIZARRE ENERGY.

Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying on primary sector work in agriculture, mining, natural resources, and the like, rural areas are finding new ways to sustain themselves. This involves a new emphasis on environmental protection, a...

'The first of Hardy's great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his best fiction is remembered' Margaret DrabbleThomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, takes up her position as a farmer on a large estate, where her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farm...