"What are you?" Lora whispers."What are you?" The wolf echoes, stalking towards her until it is close enough that Lora has forgotten to be afraid. "What is anyone? It's not a polite question to ask."After a disastrous birthday ceremony and coming-of-age ritual gone wrong, Lora flees home, taking her new lycanthrope form for a test drive on the streets of Glenhurst, and hoping to prove her worth. When she answers a local job posting at random, Lora lands in...

Sometimes a family is an onion farmer discovering herself on sabbatical, her alien girlfriend, and their arctic moon.A short, sapphic romance/coming out story starring a trans protagonist.

"Today I am learning to take anxiety by the hand and teach this trembling, fragile beast that we are (and yet will be) okay."In their debut collection, MJ Anthony navigates a complicated web of intersecting topics such as complex trauma, neurodiversity, lasting illness, and practicing self-love in a body long-alienated from you. Alongside the reader, the author combs tangles into threads and weaves them into a gentler future, reunifying selves and stories both old and new....

Once upon a time, there was a little boy. His name was Zetah, and he was a prince, and he had studied the stars for the entirety of his short life, all six years of it.Everything came from the stars. The stars held the patterns of seasons, of time and destiny.It was from the stars that his kingdom's gods had sent their messengers, in the time of his great-grandmother.Years later, the messengers came for his great-aunt, and again for his uncle.And someday the...

The labors of those who have edited these volumes are not only finished as far as this work extends, but if three-score years and ten be the usual limit of human life, all our earthly endeavors must end in the near future. After faithfully collecting material for several years, and making the best selections our judgment has dictated, we are painfully conscious of many imperfections the critical reader will perceive. But since stereotype plates will not reflect our growing sense of perfect...

Sports Innovation, Technology and Research gives an insight into recent research and design projects at Imperial College London. It presents the on-going development of a diverse range of areas from elite rowing performance to impact protection to sporting amenities in communities.Also included are descriptions of some of the latest innovations that have been developed as part of the Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge, an initiative that tasked engineering students to design, build and ...

This eBook provides you with the basics on running your own superannuation via a Self Managed Super Fund in Australia, and using your super to invest in property. Included is my personal diary of purchasing a property with my super, which took over 6 months to do.

The Lioness Awakens is an illustrated work of short poems with a bite. Lauren Eden writes provocative poetry about love, sexuality, heartbreak, and feminism, combined in a creative expression of female empowerment and confidence...I was alwayssuspicious of thoseHappily Ever Aftersdisappearing without a tracewith no other pages as evidence.

Organized in four sections – Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany – K.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collection explores what it is to want in spite of trauma, shame, injustice, and mental illness. It is one survivor's powerful testimony, and a love letter "to those who lie awake burning."

The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the Civil War: the virtues of a republic and the evils of slavery.In this acclaimed book, Holzer brings us as close as possible to what Lincoln and Douglas actually said, Using transcripts of Lincoln's speeches as recorded by the pro...

The #1 New York Times bestseller that started a worldwide phenomenon and inspired a major motion picture is now available in a beautifully designed Collector’s Edition.This deluxe package features 72 pages of bonus content, including:Two essays by Veronica Roth, including excerpts from early drafts of DivergentAn essay about the psychology behind fear and the "exposure therapy" of Dauntless initiationArtistic rend...