From Mine and Yours to Ours: Navigating the Heart of Blended Family Life by Maxine Reed. Stepfamilies aren’t born, they're built one moment, one meltdown, and one quiet breakthrough at a time. In this heartfelt, eye-opening guide, Maxine Reed delivers a compassionate, often humorous, and deeply personal roadmap for anyone navigating the complexities of modern family structures.Main ThemesBlended family dynamics and emotional growthCo-parenting, step-parenting, and c...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Do you often feel like you need to be the center of attention but end up feeling isolated?Do you seek admiration but find relationships draining and unfulfilling? If criticism makes you defensive or angry, it can be hard to connect genuinely. You may focus on your image rather than real connections.If any of this resonates, you're not alone. You want to change, understand yourse...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 7 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 21 minutes"Zuleika Dobson" is a satirical novel by Max Beerbohm, published in 1911, that offers a critical portrayal of Edwardian Oxford. The story revolves around Zuleika Dobson, a captivating woman who enters Oxford University and captures...

Before entering upon an explanation of the teachings of the Rosicrucians, it may be well to say a word about them and about the place they hold in the evolution of humanity. For reasons to be given later these teachings advocate the dualistic view; they hold that man is a spirit enfolding all the powers of God as the seed enfolds the plant, and that these powers are being slowly unfolded by a series of existences in a gradually improving earthy body; also that this process of development h...

Time is running out for Jolene. She’s trapped by a madman, held captive, waiting only for her worst nightmares to become reality. Her captor will keep her alive for twenty-eight days, hidden in an underwater city 400 feet below the surface.

A fantastic tale of swashbuckling adventure set in an alternate universe where fairies roam England and all of Shakespeare's fictional characters are real.Winner of the Mythopoeic AwardA Nebula and World Fantasy Award FinalistWelcome to an alternate civil-war-torn seventeenth-century England—a world where Hamlet once brooded and Othello jealously raged. Here faeries and sprites gambol in English woods, railroads rac...

A supernatural mystery set in Singapore featuring a "detective whose beat reaches to the fringes of Heaven and Hell," by the author of Snake Agent ( Booklist).No mortal has ever heard of the Book, and few in Heaven even believe it is real. Instead, they regard the stories of a bound volume older than time itself as something of a creation myth. But Mhara, the Emperor of Heaven, knows the Book is very real, very powerful, and very much missing. It ...

The Utods appear to be massive, animal-like creatures, wallowing in their own filth. And yet they possess physical and mental powers unknown to man and their world is one of complex philosophy and amazing technology.When interstellar explorers capture a number of Utods, it seems strange that they cannot communicate with them - whilst, somehow, their own ideas communicated themselves to the Utods all too easily.Now Earth is devastated by a terrible conflict of its own making...

A supernatural detective in Singapore tries to save his wife—and the universe—in this "thoroughly original fantasy" by the author of Snake Agent ( Publishers Weekly).Detective Inspector Chen is getting used to visiting Heaven. It is a peaceful place, but the eerie calm and ever-present scent of peaches make him yearn for the chaos of Singapore Three. He has come to visit Mhara, the Emperor of Heaven, who ascended to the celestial throne after his ...

The spell-casting detective and his demonic partner go to Hell on a fact-finding mission in this "pleasantly suspenseful . . . fantastical mystery" ( Publishers Weekly).For years, the embarrassing secret of the Singapore Three police department was Detective Inspector Chen—a specialist in the supernatural whose jurisdiction extended to Heaven and Hell. But when a rampaging goddess nearly destroyed the city, only to be stopped by Chen and his demonic partne...

"It doesn't seem too hasty to exclaim, 'Classic!'" —Booklist, starred review"An original voice, and an original vision: crystalline, precise, mordant and devastating." —Ellen Kushner.A Mythopoeic Award finalistMythic Delirim Books is proud to make World Fantasy Award and Locus Award winner Theodora Goss's 2006 story collection In the Forest of Forgetting available in electronic format. With an introduction by Terri Windling, this b...

Miss Ada Quicksilver, a student of London’s Lovelace Academy for Promising Young Women, is spending her holiday in Ireland to pursue her anthropological study of fairies. She visits Dublin’s absinthe bars to investigate a supposed association between the bittersweet spirit and fairy sightings.One night a handsome Irishman approaches her, introducing himself as Edward Donoghue. Edward takes absinthe to relieve his sleepwalking, and she is eager to hear whether he has experience with...