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To all Young Men. Take control. Defy the hype.Start your path to lasting wisdom.Hustle With Honor Win With Wisdom is your compass in a world of noise, speed, and constant comparison. It's not a rulebook, it's your framework to be sharper, wiser, and make impact. Now is the time.Govern your inner voiceHave purpose, not applauseForge an identity you respectHarness a capable bodyPursue real masteryLeverage solitudeChoose elevati...

Ciarin made the leap from small town life in Canada to exciting London to make his dreams of studying abroad come true.After only a month, his dream turned into a living nightmare when he found himself barely able to make ends meet. That is, until Andie walked into the bar he was working at and made him an offer he couldn't refuse.Whisked into the company of women who appreciated what he had to offer, Ciarin was finally finding his way. However, when a woman from his past e...

What caused the recent explosion on the 86 tram?Who were the people who witnessed the event?And how does the omniscient viewpoint of a narrator affect the lives of those characters it describes?A short story about intersecting lives and the expectations of narrative.

You come home one night, worn out by another day of hard work and not falling back into bad habits, to find the woman you love has left you. What now?A short story about addictions that never quite dry out and wounds that never heal.

Dunny thought that he was onto a good thing when he stole that cab and used it to rob old-age pensioners.But today he may have picked up the wrong passenger...A short crime story about payback and bad decisions.

This anthology contains six short stories about weirdness and horror, and how life changes when weird things become normal in your eyes.'On the Redeye Express': It's about an hour or two into the ride when Nick realises that people are vanishing from the bus. He's too tired to question it, and too worried that his girlfriend might dump him at the end of this trip - but when it keeps happening, what's he going to do about it?'Metatext Otis': One morning, Otis Blincher woke u...

What happens to your Facebook account when you die?Kendall Barber calls himself an obituarist – a social media undertaker who settles accounts for the dead. If you need your loved one's Twitter account closed down or one last blog post to be made, he'll take care of it, while also making sure that identity thieves can't access forgotten personal data. It's his way of making amends for his past, a path that has seen him return to the seedy city of Port Virtue after years in exile.

When Mister Smith looks out the window of a plane and sees a man standing on a cloud, nothing else in life seems to matter as much anymore.A flash fiction story about wonder and priorities.

Gavin risked everything for love...After the sheriff's son crossed a line that could never be forgiven, Gavin was faced with the impossible choice of having to endure a lifetime of torment, while staying by his love's side, or commit an unforgivable act that would ensure her safety-but condemn him to life as a fugitive.With blood on his hands and the law on his heels, he fled into the wild, leaving behind the only woman he ever loved. Now, he is a hunted man, running not ju...

Dive deeper than ever before and discover the origins of The Man from Atlantis.When TV unveiled the series Man from Atlantis no one knew the how, where and why of Mark Harris. Over time the show’s star Patrick Duffy formulated his own version of the history of Mark and his people. Here at last is the book that gives every reader and fan of the show the life and mythology of Atlantis, who they were and where they came from. Patrick Duffy’s close connection to his fictional character...

Kendall Barber is having a very bad day.His obituarist business is failing, his relationship is on the rocks and he's pretty sure one of his friends has been murdered. All of that is bad enough – and then his office explodes. Kendall's past has come back to haunt him, and it's coming with guns, bombs and a truckload of regrets.It gets worse from there.Before the week is out, Kendall will be beaten, burn, torn up and hospitalised. He'll have to alienate his closest a...

Eradicating systemic racism in our schools requires a systemic response. This book describes an adaptive framework that includes ten tenets for developing structural and curricular antiracist leadership. In three parts, school leaders are asked to: Know Themselves through self-reflection and racial autobiography; Distinguish Knowledge From Foolishness through critical race ethnography and an exploration of racial identity development; and Build for Eternity by using a model for student-cen...