"This delightful book" for young readers "is full of creative activities, interspersed with plenty of fascinating historical facts" ( School Library Journal).On this here ship, we follow the pirate's code: No frolikin' in the bilges, no songs about scurvy, and most important, each buccaneer must keep his pistol ready for action at all times. Break the code, me bucko, and you'll be forced to walk the plank.In The Big Book of Pirate Stuff, C...

"To everyone in the pursuit of better loving."In his debut poetry collection, "This Time We Lead with Love," Michael MacLeod explores the raw, unfiltered, and profound layers of human connection and what it means to truly love the things we say we love. Through a series of daily poems throughout the month of February, MacLeod invites readers into a world where vulnerability is strength and to know love is to know yourself.Weaving in themes of intimacy, abun...

In Covenant Power, teacher Sharla Goettl uses captivating storytelling to bring key endowment principles to life, presented in the imagined voices of the scriptural figures who taught each principle best, such as Peter, Eve, Nephi, & Mormon. Through these stories, you'll gain an understanding of how the endowment prepares us to receive Christ’s covenant power. They also highlight connections between the scriptures and the endowment. God designed temple covenants to enable lasting ...

‘Brave and beautiful.’ Stylist Magazine ‘Social media’s answer to Carol Ann Duffy’ Sunday Times STYLE ‘Divine.’ Cecelia AhernShe Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body.Charly captures the formative experiences of today’s young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at onc...

Josh Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading.This is a book extract including chapter 1 of Bird Box.Malorie raises the children the only way she can; indoors.The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are nailed over the windows.They are out there. She might let them in.The children sleep in the be...

WARNING: This book contains thirteen DARK and twisted poems, please do not read if you are uncomfortable with violence, twisted love, psychologically and emotionally twisted situations.Dark Poetry is a collection of dark psychological and emotional poems.To have one written for you send a Prompt, Word or a Picture.I’ve never cut myselfBut I’ll understand if you doI can’t blame youIt must feel so goodI can pic...

“The Frog Prince” (originally titled “The Frog Prince; or, Iron Henry”) is a German fairy tale first recorded by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 and first translated into English in 1823 by Edgar Taylor. In this version of the tale, YOU are the Frog Prince. As you read through the story, you choose your tale by selecting the options at crucial decision points. If you make the right choices, your tale will end Happily Ever After! If you make the wrong choice...you can always start over.T...

This collection of poems is about today, yesterday and tomorrow. They're about an unrelenting sun, and a moon that shows up just in time each and every night to ease our stresses. They're about shadows you never think too much about and past loves that still know how to make you remember a moment of happiness, even when you don't want to.

Exploring grief, yet neither bleak nor overwrought, this powerful short story won the 2013 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. The judge, Carl Nixon, commended its 'seemingly effortless artistry' and its skilful and well-sustained handling of demanding narrative techniques: 'the author does not miss a beat', he said. Cleverly juxtaposing the past and present, the narrator draws the reader into her life. The judge concluded: 'Beautifully controlled use of simile and ...

Things are different now. Life has been replaced by death. The population has decreased immensely due to the many dangers in this strange new post-apocalyptic world. Life—what of it is left—is different than it was before in every way but one. Those who are left still need to eat.There's just one problem.The food supply is gone.

Lifes funny ways is a book of poems about reconnecting with your inner spirit. The ways in which we are reminded of our strengths, our weaknesses, our ego, our pride. The journey we travel, along the road with You - even when we dont know it. The way that You try to guide us - it can be a very bumpy ride! You try to help us with humour, with love and compassion, but, Sometimes we fail to listen. You keep trying and trying. So, When all else fails - You give us a swift kick, to get us out o...

“Well…that’s going to be a problem,” you mutter to yourself, staring down at the body lying awkwardly on the basement floor. A quick check confirms your suspicions. No pulse, skin already cold to the touch. Definitely dead.When Jamie Marsten wakes up to find their unwilling guest unexpectedly dead in the basement, it’s a race against time to dispose of the body before someone stumbles onto their secret.Only one problem: it isn't quite as simple as they make...