A short biographical sketch of the author From Pit to PulpitTo leap over sixty-five years, and bring the past into the living present, challenges one’s imagination; but let me try. I was a victim of asthma, poorly educated, and came from a fairly poor family. I left the village school in Gilfach Goch, South Wales, and entered the mines as a lad fourteen years of age. After some years underground, working for £1-50p per week, starting at 7 a.m. to 3.30 p.m., six days a week, I went to Ystra...

The Elven Queen is invading London. Only Rye can stop her…A coven of elvish techno-mages, the vanguard of the Queen's army, is already in the city. If they open a portal between the worlds, the army will flood through in a full-scale invasion.Rye's long-suppressed moral compass has dragged her across the gap between worlds in pursuit of the techno-mages. But in this strange city, alone and cut off from all that is familiar, her lethal skills are useless. She needs friends a...

The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable MentionIn Nine Persimmons Kerry James Evans traces a geography both intimate and far-flung—Tuscaloosa and Biloxi, Charleston and New Orleans, the Cloisters above Washington Heights, a banana orchard in the Azores, a journey to Rome. The poems move with the gravity of pilgrimage, their compass set between wandering and witness, as they cross from ballfields and shipyards into the charged realms of myth and ritual. Ev...

The doc tells the story of James, an ambitious architect, and Sophie, a passionate historian, who find themselves in conflict over the preservation of an ancient theater in Toronto. Despite their differences, they develop a romantic and professional relationship, collaborating to integrate theater into the design of a new skyscraper.

The Queen's invasion has been foiled by an act of treason.The punishment for treason is death, and the Queen knows exactly who to blame; Rye.Lord Galdoran is the instrument of the Queen's revenge. He's brought an elite team of assassins to London and he's hunting Rye, Pete, and Liz. Galdoran will stop at nothing to complete his mission.It's not just assassins coming to London. An elderly professor and his protege have fled the Queen's wrath, crossing the Gap to esca...

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process...

This book is built to empower people to take back control of their health. It gives a simple approach to building a long lasting you. Through simple daily changes, self awareness and reflection you will be able to cross over any block that has caused you not to reach your goals.

Portals are opening randomly across the realms; disaster looms.The network linking the worlds of humans and elves is collapsing. Portals are opening at random, threatening to tear reality apart and bring catastrophe to people on both sides of the Gap.The fear of impending doom drives the Queen to send her Mage Lord across the Gap to fix the problem.But things are never as easy as they seem.To fix the network, Rye, Pete and Yllmae must find a legendary book, ...

When Carly Black stepped off the school bus, nobody could have imagined it would be the last time anyone saw her. The public wants answers. In the wake of a police scandal, infamous columnist David Budge demands them! With all roads pointing to Aaron Keogh, a local salesman with money problems, DCI Sam Mainard soon discovers his number one suspect knows more than letting on. But to find the truth, Mainard must challenge his loyalties. Four years later, Karina Nylund, sister of one of Halms...

Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental value through the seamless connection of urban services and infrastructure by digital technologies. However, there is scant evidence of how these activities can enhance social well-being and contribute to just and equitable communities.Smart and Sustainable Cities? Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities provides one of the first examinations of how smart cities relate to environmental and social issues. It ad...

Fernando has been put into the full attention of Angelica. Leaving a very confused Yoet and Vladena on their own to speculate the day that now belongs to them and them alone.

In the mentally damaged mind of James comes a powerful memory, the memory of the day everything had changed in his life. The instant of when his father and him would share their last moment of family.