Power continues to accumulate within the World Tree, bringing the return of a destructive masked god ever closer. Well, it’s still at least a century away, but only Krai seems to take any solace in that.With the statue of Luke now lost somewhere within an impregnable treasure vault, Sitri devises a plan to avert the incoming calamity and save the lost Swordsman. It will require risking lives, cooperating with a former foe, and committing what would be an immense crime in Zebrudia. ...

Integrated Behavioral Health: Applying the Biodyne Model in Healthcare offers a fully modernized, post-pandemic reframing of integrated care.Tackling today’s most pressing realities – health disparities, trauma exposure among patients and providers, and the structural challenges that limit access, equity, and sustainability across global healthcare systems – this authoritative text blends evidence, strategy, and innovation across three focused sections:Sectio...

While the rest of Grieving Souls enjoy their time in Yggdra, Krai heads home early in hopes of getting some rest. What he finds instead is a number of well-meaning people who want him promoted to Level 9. Strangely, though the advancement exam is usually done solo, he gets teamed up with two other promotion candidates. The assignment isn’t just a difficult quest: it’s practically a suicide mission, one for which the Explorers’ Association is desperate for a solution. With little say in the...

With summer break over, Lera returns to the royal capital to begin a new year at the noble academy. Hoping that this year won’t have any of the chaos of the previous, those hopes are quickly dashed when an older student starts bothering her. It’s not long before this incident drags her into a greater dispute she really wants no part of. If that’s not bad enough, she gets a surprise visit from her father, Ribbons is being her usual self, and Bear keeps foisting work onto her.On the ...

Upon getting back from Kreat, Krai finds that the seventh member of Grieving Souls, Eliza Beck the Vagabond, has once again swung by and dropped off the spoils of her travels. Much to Krai’s delight, this haul includes a mysterious Relic, a dark blade unlike any he’s familiar with.However, the Sword Saint is once again feeling very aggrieved, an occupational hazard that comes with being Luke’s mentor. In an attempt to placate him, Krai gives the man the newfound Relic as a gift, an...

The purification of Marin’s Lament might be imminent, but Krai’s curse troubles are far from over. Not if a certain vulpine phantom has anything to say about it. From the vault of Peregrine Lodge, a small box makes its way into the hands of Hugh Regland, and from there, into the clan house of First Steps. And so the storm is unleashed, and the Divinarium’s prophecy is fulfilled at last.Krai’s battle with the lingering fury of a long-dead queen results in a petrifying curse laid upon...

Winter storms trap a seventy-two year old man, two Belgian Shepherd police dogs, and a former prostitute now employed by the Federal Department of Health in his isolated ranch house for seven weeks. He educates visiting nurse Sally Smith far beyond what she had learned from schools and on the streets. She learns the foundation of the U.S. Constitution, and much more. She learns of a future that she never imagined.A well-armed FDH "Search Team" arrives at 4:00AM in a Black Hawk heli...

This story was written as pure fiction. It is written for those people who want to remove the words, "In God We Trust" from our coins and paper currency. It might be considered as warning to people who do not completely think about the Universe. Some people think that we live, we die, and that is the end of the story. There is nothing else!People are no longer trained to think!There is one exception, however, to this story being pure fiction. The reference to the judge who ru...

This story is based on the existence of the Georgia Guidestones monument, as well as the reality of our current world governments and organizations. This story might be considered as science fiction, and I pray that it does not become science fact.There is one exception, however, to this story being pure fiction. The references to the Bilderberg Organization, the Pugwash Conferences, the Club of Rome, and the Council on Foreign Relations are to organizations that do exist.

This story is based on the current events, especially those in the Middle East. It discusses some of the events, including those of the nations who formed the League of Nations after World War I, that have shaped the current world politics.This story follows World War III, simply known as “The WAR”! It is a war that could potentially remove mankind from the face of the earth. The story is based upon the author's knowledge of chemistry, nuclear weapons, and research into the develop...

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant" is considered among the greatest of military memoirs. Marshalling the forces of the North in the American Civil War, he was the only general who was able to bring the South to heels. The descriptions of the great battles and his assessments of the generals, many of whom he knew intimately from the Mexican war, are worth reading.

At age three, Tafelina Lowell Lera Duval was disowned by her birth parents, but was that actually a blessing in disguise? Raised in a remote region of Ozeria by the kind earl of Peylon, she was allowed to hunt in a forest full of monsters, invent magic tools based on memories of her previous life, and let her extraordinary magical talents flourish.But that all begins to change with the approach of her thirteenth birthday. As the child of a noble, she’s obligated to attend an academ...