They call him a master of kintsugi. He mends broken things with gold and does not hide the seams.SHI is a Japanese sound with two meanings: four, and death. This book is built on that coincidence. Four pillars — Love, Death, Time, Presence — four sides of one way of seeing, and at the base of each lies the same quiet fact: everything ends. Not as a threat. As the place all the value comes from.It began as four recorded conversations, each twenty minutes long, a voice speaki...

"Dragon Dreams and Stranger Things" is a collection of thirteen dynamic stories from the fantastic world of Maera! These tales take readers to exotic places where complex characters encounter incredible monstrosities, battle dangerous adversaries, and seek spectacular treasures, all while facing harrowing challenges and weaving the vibrant tapestry of history that makes Maera come alive! Wars are fought, heroes become legends and the gods stride freely across a world influenced by the pres...

Are you open to do the hard work? Willing to move from the ordinary and be extraordinary? Then this book might inspire you. As a youngster, I had a restricted mindset, carried tons of anger around and deep inside I knew: I have the power and the courage to make changes. Are you willing to look deep inside? Do you have the courage? It’s about being responsible, living the life you want. Go inside and connect with your soul and intuition. Find out what you like and have the bravery to do the...

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Cross the threshold of Balls & Chains, into a world where humans and shifters dominate and submit alike.Cole Linley is a gay wolf-shifter. In order to appease the Alpha within, he has taken up the BDSM lifestyle and become very experienced. This placates his wolf to a certain extent, but his dearest wish is to find a mate—male, of course. Except, the question is, how to find one in a city surrounded by humans where other wolf-shifters are rare.Then, one night, he enters Bal...

LIVING IN THE END DAYS OF FREEDOMFull On is Denys Hatton's unapologetic memoir of a life lived at full throttle during the last great age of freedom. Ricocheting across continents and decades, Hatton moved through a world before GPS, biometrics, and digital surveillance changed the game forever - when a fake passport and a little luck could still take you anywhere, when the world still had cracks wide enough to slip through.From sailing oceans and ...

The posthumous memoirs of a World War II Pathfinder pilot and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient who flew target-marking missions in enemy territory.Denys A. Braithwaite was born of a well-to-do Yorkshire family and joined the Auxiliary Air Force on his eighteenth birthday in 1939. On the occasion of Chamberlain's speech to the British nation on September 3, the situation changed dramatically and from being a "super weekend club," his squadron was assigned coasta...

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A project-based guide to help you create, package, and deploy desktop applications on multiple platforms using modern JavaScript frameworksKey FeaturesUse your web development skills with JavaScript and Node.js to build desktop applications for macOS and WindowsDevelop desktop versions of popular mobile applications that are similar to Slack, Spotify, and moreDesign desktop apps with automatic updates and real-time analytics capabilities

It's a perfect day for the First Annual Hoot, Holler, and Moo Talent Festival.The sun is shining in a warm autumn sky and the stage is set. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer are away on vacation, Minnie and Moo are dressed in their togas, Elvis has his bagpipe, the hyenas their jokes, the fox his magic tricks, the sheep a protest poem, and the cash box is stuffed with money from ticket sales. A perfect day.Wait a minute . . . Where is the cash box? Why are those coyotes ...

[Menage and More: Erotic Futuristic Sci-Fi Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, capture, spanking, sex toys, HEA] Garin Avon is a rugged bounty-hunter in space, who has a mission to find a contracted sex slave, the beautiful Felissa Delenn, who has run away from her master. He has secret reasons, more than just the credits he will earn--to get vital information. Meanwhile, he has to contend with his double-crossing ex-partner, fun-loving Rayn Dargo. They join forces, but on the journey home they...

The debate about grand strategy in the Second World War has scarcely ended even in the 21st Century. The present study examines the classical issue of the grand strategy in Europe and the anti-Hitler coalition as concerns the US-UK-Soviet exchange about the Second Front. The great phenomenon of the Second World War was the creation of an unprecedented military alliance between the western powers and the Soviet Union. Due to mutual antagonism, inter-Allied cooperation during the Second Worl...