AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF LOVE, FAITH AND RESILIENCEThe third installment in the GRIT series, The JyothiKalai Story is an evocative graphic memoir of caregiving and the transformative power of belief. Born visually impaired and later diagnosed with autism, Jyothi finds her voice and her feet in the world through music, guided by the love, patience and resolve of her mother, Kalai, who refused to let dire circumstances dictate her daughter's fate. What...

Ellie the mouse and her woodland friends on a cozy Thanksgiving adventure filled with pumpkins, pies, and plenty of reasons to be thankful.

The Fermi paradox isn't a paradox... It's an answer!Repelled by humanity, not least the state of their post-1940s architecture, the rest of the cosmos decides to keep the little perishers at arm's length, blackballing Earth from the intergalactic community. Only when a string of bizarre and unexplained deaths occur are two representatives of that reluctant universe forced back to investigate.

Discover the Mental Math Secrets to Become a Human Calculator!Schools taught you a way to do math that works when you have a pen & paper. But the same methods, takes a lot of effort when you have to do math in your head. This is because it uses a lot of your working memory (the short term memory used to complete a mental task).For example, try to mentally multiply 73,201 x 3. It might take only a few seconds to multiply the individual digits. But if you multiply right to le...

Paige Stevens blinked while talking to friends and discovered it was night, seven days later!The media said the event happened to hundreds of individuals across the planet. No one knew why. Many thought it was nonsense, a hoax.They'd all vanished and returned at the same time.All except Jin.Her best friend was gone, and it’d been a month, with her alone.At rock bottom Jin returned.But he’d changed. He remembered what happened in the gap in th...

Ninth born of house Ndlovu-Sana, Tatho Ndlovu-Sana is researching Sedibeng palace records for the sake of her sisterhood.But big brother Malusi and his psychotic wife show up to say hello.The problem, getting to the palace from his own lands would have taken days.So, what does he really want?

Shyama got the gift of foresight from his ancestry line because of their past lives' good deed. Amid a newly founded economy, life is miserable in the capital of Mauritius as a vegetable seller. Temptation to use his repressed gift to gamble on horses transformed his life, but everything has a price, as his grandfather told.This is a short story inspired by a bridge named—Pont 50 sou, found in Mauritius. Literally means 50 Cent Bridge.

You never lose anything. That which shatters finds itself whole. They say some can never be whole but that is not the truth. All becomes whole simply because it changes.The meltdown of a single nation blew apart the house of cards which made the world economy and birthed the Final Crash. A chain reaction was set off that altered the landscape of the planet down to the planet’s crust. Governments, borders, society the crumbled Earth held a violent rebellion against Nature and itself...

A deeply emotional journey through love, loneliness, overthinking, dreams, heartbreak, and the silent battles we fight within ourselves. This book is for the people who smile outside while carrying storms inside — the overthinkers, quiet lovers, and emotionally tired souls trying to survive life one day at a time. If you have ever felt lost, broken, unseen, or simply wanted someone to understand your heart… these pages may feel like home.

A deeply emotional journey through love, loneliness, overthinking, dreams, heartbreak, and the silent battles we fight within ourselves. This book is for the people who smile outside while carrying storms inside — the overthinkers, quiet lovers, and emotionally tired souls trying to survive life one day at a time. If you have ever felt lost, broken, unseen, or simply wanted someone to understand your heart… these pages may feel like home.

The stories set against the background in which we live will capture the imagination and provide food for thought. The tales will make each want to read them to the end and to reflect and ruminate on the content afterwards. Described as a 'medley' because the content of the narratives are so different.

A Poetry Book Society Spring Special Commendation 2024In the archives of the Houghton Library at Harvard blazes the incandescent work of V.R. 'Bunny' Lang (1924–56), the American poet and playwright whose name has been all but erased from literary history. The fiery nerve centre of the literary scene around mid-century Harvard, and best friend of the iconic New York School poet Frank O'Hara – who referred to her as 'one of our finest poets' – Lang herself has langu...