One day a boy called David finds a strange object, a segment from a sphere fashioned from an unidentifiable material, in a tree in his garden. David puzzles over the segment and the mystery soon deepens when his cousin Melissa arrives from America bearing a similar piece she has found in her garden back home. They and five other people from around the world have been chosen to restore the Key, but sinister forces with agendas that would be halted by the rejoining of the Key will stop at no...

Cat out of Hell is a murder mystery, but with an original, demonic twist! When Sally ends her relationship with her violent lover, Andrew, it starts a chain of terrifying events she could never have and which, as the mystery deepens, cause Sally to begin to doubt her own sanity, from Andrew's gruesome murder to a nightmare creature, half man half cat, stalking her in her own bedroom! The police suspect her of murdering Andrew. Andrew's sister is killed and forensic evidence poin...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us.This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that respond to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 commitment to “leave no-one behind”. Contributors explore a wide range and complexity of pressing gl...