So here we are folks, we've arrived at the final volume of 'The North-East Diaries' trilogy. Unfortunately many of our friends from volumes 1 & 2 are no longer with us. Tug, Sid, Titch Irving, Martha, Barney, Wilf Rees, Sheila Potter/Bates and several others are now sadly gone. In this volume Charlie Chuck makes his final appearance along with Albert the 'tatie' lad and my dad. Several important new characters take their bow... Frances, Lorraine, Chunk, John Milk and Jim Pint the landlord ...

This wee tale was written by me (Bruce), the Westie in the title. My human dad helped with the spelling and photographs, of course, but I reckoned it was time a dog book was actually written by a member of our canine clan. What kind of story is it? Well, it's my life story-short by human standards, but it tells of a dog's life well lived. My adopted Westie brothers, Bramble and Jack, feature too, as do all the human folk who so enriched my life. I hope you enjoy my wee life story. I certai...

Welcome folks to volume two of 'The North-East Diaries - Batesy's Tale' and I hope you enjoy this ongoing story as much as the first volume.Volume one of 'The North-East Diaries - A Funny Thing Happened in Blyth' covered the early years of the nineteen-sixties. Set predominantly in the mining town of Blyth in Northumberland and following the trials and tribulations of a young lad suddenly thrust into a perplexing Northumbrian environment in the exciting formative years of the sixti...

Blyth in the 1960s - a north-east town vibrant and bustling with life. With its crowded shops and a marketplace fed by the wage-packets of workers from the local mines and factories, the shipyard and busy docks - it's a perfect place to grow up in, and a great time to be a youngster...but not so easy for some.Sidney (Hawky) Brown is a ten-year-old Scottish lad suddenly uprooted from his home in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and relocated to Cowpen...a new council estate in Blyth, Northumberland...

Darkblood: The Last Line is a flash fiction anthology where ancient gods bleed into modern lives, myths fracture under human will, and rebellion is as sacred as destiny.Across these haunting, lyrical, and often brutal stories, gods fall silent, sirens refuse to sing, celestial bloodlines crumble, and ordinary people confront the unbearable weight of the divine. From frostbitten mountain deities to digital-age descendants of Aphrodite, from cursed heirlooms to forgotten pantheons, t...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

In "Stories from the Chap-Book," readers encounter an eclectic tapestry of narratives that traverse the vast landscape of late 19th to early 20th-century literary expression. This anthology encompasses a myriad of themes ranging from the intricacies of human nature to explorations of societal norms and the nuances of everyday life. The collection is characterized by its diverse literary styles, from poignant realism to subtle romanticism, echoing the emerging voices of that era. Standout p...

The collapse of the Soviet Union and other Marxist regimes around the world seems to have left liberal democracy as the only surviving ideology, and yet many scholars of political thought still find liberal democracy objectionable, using Aristotle's Politics to support their views. In this detailed analysis of Book 3 of Aristotle's work, Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., challenges these scholars, demonstrating that Aristotle was actually a defender of democracy.Proving the relevance of c...

Securing VoIP: Keeping Your VoIP Network Safe will show you how to take the initiative to prevent hackers from recording and exploiting your company's secrets. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and case studies, technology guru Bud Bates discusses the business realities that necessitate VoIP system security and the threats to VoIP over both wire and wireless networks. He also provides essential guidance on how to conduct system security audits and how t...

From fairy tales fractured into unrecognizability to Russian mobsters hanging out with zombies, from New World slavery to modern Alaskan cruise ships, the stories in Fantasy Adrift sail across the genre. Two writers make their fiction debuts next to bestsellers Steve Perry and Dean Wesley Smith to take readers on a journey of the imagination—as only Fiction River can do.Includes stories by Irette Y. Patterson, Leslie Claire Walker, Eric Stocklassa, Rebecca S.W. Bates, Kara Legend, ...

Between the earth and the sky, between the past and the present, between the musical notes and the silence exist universes. Millions of them. The eighth volume of Fiction River presents fourteen universes, all different, all powerful. From a planetary survey ship moored in an alien ocean to a comic book convention near a strange Louisiana town, each of these universes go somewhere familiar and strange at the same time. Come visit the universe of Fiction River, which Amazing Stories called ...

Breaking the Barriers: 31 Keys to Experience Inner Peace is a topical devotional resource that aims to provide the reader with spiritual keys to help them overcome common barriers that prevent them from experiencing inner peace. These keys are intended to help the reader unlock the door of inner peace and move forward in life and get unstuck from the ruts of sadness, frustration and inner turmoil. As a result of experiencing peace, the reader is released to become the person that God wants...