For readers of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Cronin**, this is the story of one family's** battle for survival in a world where evil has already won.As they fight their way across a dying land, Shay and Cass will do anything to keep their daughter, Hope, alive. The family faces unimaginable dangers as they try to stay together, and stay alive, long enough to reach safety. But when the heart of a dragon starts to beat in Hope's chest, they fear they'll...

Meeting in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia after not seeing each other for seven years, identical twins Remy and Trapp McFlynn drive their campers across Canada looking for a writer's cabin. Never letting mischief get in their way, the brothers waste no time taking advantage of their changing geography but the good times only last so long until unforeseen developments threaten to derail their road trip.

WRITTEN IN THE TRADITION of Robert Pirsig's Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, this motorcycle adventure follows the dialogue and reunion of Stüffle von Schöngait and his identical twin Edward, who have been separated from each other for twelve years. Both inseparable when young, they went to different universities but both studied philosophy, however, Edward, an earnest student and philosopher in his own right, dedicated his life to testing the many philosophies in the canon of West...

Following the acclaim for Learning Outside the Classroom in 2012, this latest book more deeply explains how well constructed outdoor learning experiences can benefit children and young people’s academic development and health and wellbeing.Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum outlines the theory and practice to enable preservice and experienced primary and secondary school teachers to systematically incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into thei...

IT IS VERY EASY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL today to isolate themselves and let life pass them by; this is what Aaron Noble did until he learned of a fatal disease he had with a year to live. Having ostracized himself from a mother who was an alcoholic, a father who lived thousands of miles away who had started a second family, and a brother in and out of jail who was now a Bandito biker, the only person he was close to was his sister, married in Florida. Happy to let life go by counting his pennies...

IN THE MODERN ERA of over-populated cities, the decimation of forests and the emphasis on computers and working in offices, there is a man who takes the opportunity to begin a new life with his ten-year-old son when he inherits his uncle's property on the largest freshwater island in the world on the Canada-US border. Having been abused by an intolerant father and in adult life crippled by insecurity and shyness, Kurt Legge is a computer programmer in Detroit who avoids people and engaging...

Whistleblowers have become a new phenomenon these days yet so few know about what motivates them to gather classified information and publish online for the sake of transparency. The most notorious whistleblower has remained behind locked doors for more than five years yet so few have delved into the mind of this man who single-handedly held the world captive as he published document after document in a filthy display of double standards and deception. The world was allowed to witness this...

The story follows players involved in a conspiracy to silence and extract a world-renown whistleblower who has been under house-arrest at the Ecuadorean embassy in London for five years. Publishing classified information via his website PortalLeaks, Paddy Leith has been playing a dangerous game for nearly a decade, flaunting his secure 'submission platform' to those brave enough to submit sensitive documents of wrongdoing and crimes in an effort to achieve transparency. This however, has c...

This coming-to-age story begins during Reid McFetridge's first week of university, a whirlwind that swept into a storm. Called this generation's Catcher in the Rye, Visigoths in Tweed touches on the multiple coming-of-age forces at university including an overbearing father. When Reid enrolls in a philosophy class because of a girl, he discovers a new world that holds the secret to life. The storm breaks when his best friend suffers a heart attack when they are out running. Handcuffed by p...

The eccentric Roland Hellmantle and his cousin search for a map that if found might lead to an upheaval in the way we look at the story of Jesus. Motorcycling offroad through the Sierre Madre mountains in the Philippines and obstacles that would have deterred other men, Hellmantle attacks his fate with zeal and finds the map, which points them to a colonial prison in north Vietnam. A new clue leads them to Kashmir Valley where they discover a truth that some never want to emerge.

Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions are massing outside the city, air raids are a daily occurrence and the citizens are being conscripted into the desperate defense of the city.But Lom has other concerns. The police are after him, the mystery of the otherworldly Pollandore remains and the vast Angel is moving, turning all of nature against the city.But will the h...

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists.Lom has been chosen because he is an ou...