Can a Necromancer save a dying world?The Viiminian Empire rots from within, its dominion mere walking corpses and fading memory. Everyone knows its glory is gone. Everyone except Rhea Phuul.Confronted with the painful decay of the once-mighty Empire, Rhea has taken up the mantle of the Eternals: the restoration of her society and its ancient faith. Only when long-forgotten duties are carried out might the Empire again find renewal.But Rhea must conv...

Rising like a limestone fortress from the deep blue Tyrrhenian Sea, the island of Capri has captivated travellers for millennia. Once the seat of Roman imperial power — where Emperor Tiberius ruled the known world from his cliff-top palace — Capri is far more than a destination for chic boutiques and luxury yachts. It is a living museum of ancient engineering, medieval history, and timeless natural wonder.Capri: Big Adventures on a Little Island is a pocket guide designed for visit...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Written for youth, educators, families, and lifelong learners, each volume examines a different aspect of the human exp...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Written for youth, educators, families, and lifelong learners, each volume examines a different aspect...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Community Comeback is the third book in the series and explores the role of relationships, belonging, cooperation, and ...

Anna's life is turned upside down when a fire leaves her without a home for the next month. Her friend of many years, Melissa steps in and offers her a place to stay. The only problem is that there is only one bed so they have to share...Their friendship always seemed platonic, but little did Anna know, that Melissa had lusted after her for their entire friendship. This combined with proximity, raging libidos, and Melissa's sexsomnia means that the first night of the bed share quic...

Hekate and Diana. Odin and Apollo. Freyja and the Witch-Lord. Eternal Haunted Summer was born in the late summer of 2009. It was created as a place where Pagans and polytheists and witches (and non-Pagans with a love of the old myths) could feature their short stories and poems and essays with those of a like mind and similar beliefs and practices. EHS has grown steadily over the years, due entirely to the wonderful contributors whose works fill its digital pages. Without their creativity ...

Full of fascinating information about the English language, this book will help to conquer spelling slip-ups and punctuation pitfalls.

Welcome to the End of the World...and more importantly, what comes after.Disasters have occurred around the country and the world, but we're "getting through it", as Kiwi are apt to do. She'll be right. Life moves on, in some form.Things were bad here in Aotearoa, but in our isolation down under, we've escaped most of the chaos around the world. In fact, we might be the last bastion of humanity on the planet - anybody else home out there? R...

The remote Scottish Islands. Beautiful wild bleak friendly isles cloaked in mist and ancient history. And the little people. Beautiful islands of bizarre brutal murders, a promiscuous academic on St Kilda, tourists executed by ancient barbaric rituals in the Orkneys, British soldiers castrated and murdered in the Shetlands, all in the ruins of an ancient civilisation. A fascination for historic ruins may be a dangerous occupation.

Ripon's story comes alive on this tour around the city. Evidence of life here hundreds of millions of years ago, with 'Ripon' at the edge of a tropical sea, can be observed at Quarry Moor; bronze age henges are to be found to the north and east of the city; Celts and Anglo-Saxons settled between the rivers. The King of Northumbria granted land for the establishment of a monastery in the seventh century and the famous St Wilfrid's monastery acquired international renown. As a result, the ch...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...