This is the second book about the three London-based friends going on an adventure. This time, some years have passed since the boat trip, the dog is no longer with them, and two of them are married.It's all about escaping, once again, and romping through a countryside without having the first clue but being convinced one is an expert and all others are idiots.

An in-depth introspection into the social and spiritual realms, a search for the meaning of one's soul and the real meaning of selfless caritas as opposed to crude, soul-less (and interest-laden) populism/socialism.A human being's quest for truth and the wish to share it to change things around her. The belief that journalism is the one, all-powerful and idealistic vehicle to allow just that; the power of ideas transposed into words that can change the world.

Born into the cramped poverty of a Millsborough street, Anthony John arrives with a startling vigor that seems to defy the weakness around him. His overworked mother and ineffectual father, John Strong'nth'arm, struggle through a life of failed hopes, hard labor, and constant insecurity, while the boy's fierce temperament marks him as both a burden and a promise. As he grows, Anthony absorbs the rough practicalities of home and workshop life, helping his father and quietly weighing the dif...

In the shattered Tennessee valley town of Smoky Creek, a handful of elderly survivors have outlasted the war that erased their families, their neighbors, and nearly the entire town. Hidden among collapsed buildings and secret rooms propped up from within, they scrape together a precarious life of rationing, hidden gardens, cards, checkers, and rough humor, preserving the outward appearance of death to keep enemy planes from striking again. Ben moves through this ruined refuge with practice...

On a warm Martian evening beside the Great Canal, Joe Caradac, his wife Sarah, and their friends are enjoying a peaceful outing when a broadcast shatters the calm: four escaped Aarnian criminals have fled Mars Detain. Feared throughout the city, the Aarnians can abandon their own bodies, seize others, and hide in plain sight, turning every neighbor into a possible impostor and every glance into suspicion. By morning, the warning has grown more urgent, and Joe's orderly life on Ofei feels s...

In the shattered ruins of Manhattan, eleven-year-old Steven moves through Central Park like prey that has learned to hunt. Armed with a knife and driven by suspicion, he survives by stealing, hiding, and striking first, while packs of dogs and ruthless men prowl the wreckage around him. Yet beneath the violence, a troubling trace of childhood remains: laughter survives in a world where innocence has been nearly erased. Little Boy is a stark science-fiction tale of postwar devastation, wher...

On a remote laboratory world, the brilliant Vegan scientist Pud is desperately trying to conceal a maze of invisible experiments when a tiny human spaceship drops out of the sky. His nervous assistant Gop keeps making mistakes, and every misplaced probe, exposed field, and scraping tail threatens to reveal an entire planet-sized laboratory to the stranded explorers. Johnny and Helen Gorman, assuming they've found a barren world, begin repairing their damaged ship and gathering samples—unti...

The Living Grid — Book One explores the relationship between ancient landscapes, celestial observation, architecture, geography, time, and human memory.Moving from the night sky to ancient earthworks and ultimately to Ocmulgee in Macon, Georgia, the book examines the possibility that landscapes can preserve relationships between people, place, and the heavens.Rather than presenting speculation as established fact, The Living Grid separates archaeological and astronomical ev...

This book offers an innovative alternative methodology for managing negotiations grounded in the lived experiences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Drawing on behaviourographic analysis of their speeches, writings, and life episodes, the work introduces the conceptual framework of “state of relatedness” and five tangible relationship frames – inclination, influence, interpretative, interaction, and issues handling – that underlie all negotiated engagements. The book demons...

The classic comic travelogue about an ill-fated boating holiday on the River ThamesThree Men in a Boat is the irreverent tale of a group of friends who, along with a fox terrier named Montmorency, embark on a two-week boating journey up the Thames. Passing by famous landmarks on their way from Kingston to Oxford, the three gloriously underprepared travelers—George, William, and J.—confront the humor in everything from assembling a tent to fending off hostil...

When Elara Blackwood inherits a decaying estate at the edge of a hostile forest, she expects to confront the ghosts of her family’s past. She does not expect Silas—the scarred, masked caretaker who stalks the halls like a predator and warns that the house is hungry.Elara should run. Instead, she is drawn to the dangerous protector who understands the darkness inside her. As buried journals expose a blood-soaked pact and a corrupt sheriff closes in, attraction hardens into obsession...

In Part 2, Akira is forced to confront the weight of destiny he once tried to deny. What began as confusion and disbelief has now become a dangerous truth—he is deeply tied to an ancient prophecy that could either save both realms or destroy them completely. But believing in destiny is only the beginning. Surviving it is something else entirely.As new enemies emerge from hidden dimensions and forgotten worlds, alliances are tested and betrayals surface from within....