Gus and Friends return for an all new adventure and learn new valuable lessons.While Gus the Garden Dragon is busy cleaning his cave with help from Opal and Felix, Crystal the Phoenix stops by to ask an important favor. Crystal needs egg sitters to keep a watchful-eye on her soon to be hatchling.The Friends soon become bored with watching a motionless egg, so they decide to leave it resting in the cave while they go outside to play. When the friends return, they find the eg...

The Zidu'Si is being rebuilt and the Shadow is fighting for dominanceThe balance of dark and light is again threatened in Ersetu. The land of Aurderia is at the center of the struggle between the forces aligned with the dark, and the rest of the world. Shuran, a young man grown from elemental magic powers beyond his comprehension, faces his sister who is consumed by darkness. With his growing powers, Shuran travels the realms gathering allies and building his Zidu’...

The Zidu’Si is nearly complete. After trapping four of the Gizzu’Su in the gugtu prison below what was once the Zig’Mada, Ereshkigal, Queen of the Netherworld, is weakened and seeking her fellow dark Sumerians. While Shuran has brought Bastien back and accepted him to the Zidu’Si, there is yet many questions left unanswered.

Long-time peace journalist Steven Youngblood presents the foundations of peace journalism in this exciting new textbook, offering readers the methods, approaches, and concepts required to use journalism as a tool for peace, reconciliation, and development. Guidance is offered on framing stories, ethical treatment of sensitive subjects, and avoiding polarizing stereotypes through a range of international examples and case studies spanning from the Iraq war to the recent unrest in Ferguson, ...

Responsibility, Bravery, Friendship.A fairy named Opal shirks her responsibilities and is unable to provide garden seeds to a young gnome named Felix on planting day. Felix takes it upon himself to enter the dark garden without permission to retrieve the lost seeds.Though frightened, Opal feels she must follow Felix into the forbidden place. Plans go awry for the fairy and ...

Where walls stand high, deceit runs deep...MacKenzie Dillon serves as a Protectorate soldier in the New Republic, the new order that was created from the ravaged mind of a leader who had long ago given up his sanity. Now the New Republic is protected by a wall that keeps out everything that exists in the Wastes and keeps everything within it subjected to the severest restrictions of freedom and mental conditioning.There he uncovers the real reasons...

Gus and Friends return for an all new adventure and learn new valuable lessons.While Gus the Garden Dragon is busy cleaning his cave with help from Opal and Felix, Crystal the Phoenix stops by to ask an important favor. Crystal needs egg sitters to keep a watchful-eye on her soon to be hatchling.The Friends soon become bored with watching a motionless egg, so they decide to leave it resting in the cave while they go outside to play. When the friends return, they find the eg...

Techno-Magic evolves from spells using hashtags.Colby regains a magical gift he never knew he lost in the first place. His reawakened power draws more enemies than the bullies he faces daily in school. There’s no time to learn the complicated rules of his magic. Colby creates a technological solution that merges magic with his mobile devices.With the help of his quirky family and fr...

Techno-Magic evolves from spells using hashtags.Colby regains a magical gift he never knew he lost in the first place. His reawakened power draws more enemies than the bullies he faces daily in school. There’s no time to learn the complicated rules of his magic. Colby creates a technological solution that merges magic with his mobile devices.With the help of his quirky family and fr...

In the fight to control magic, a new player has entered the arena. A druid of mysterious origin and unimaginable power has arrived using an ancient portal linked to Stonehenge. Colby and his friends are seeking answers as well as a means to save Colby's father. The problem arises when Colby's magic begins to falter. The Hashtag Magic application has become open source.The mobile application, Hashtag Magic has inexplicably ended up on the Internet in the form of a game. While mundan...

Gus the Garden Dragon is alone and feeling sad during the sleepy winter. When a fretful winter sprite named Crystal is found hiding in his cave, Gus helps her with facing her truth. In turn, the newly changed sprite helps Gus find that he is far from alone and forgotten by his friends new and old.This new tale in the Gus the Garden Dragon family, tells a ta...

A Land of Fantasy and Elemental Magic is falling into chaos from Ancient Sumerian interference.When Chaos took his twin sister at birth, Shuran was secreted away to grow abnormally fast in the powers of Essence. With the help of a motley crew of magic users, he begins a journey that takes him across the realms of Aurderia in a search for answers to his visions and the location of his missing father.During his quest of adventure, Shuran will gain allies among...