Ashforge is a blacksmith living in the glacier-locked colony his family has called home for generations.And then he finds Silverlight on the riverbank, which shouldn't have been possible.Ash doesn't know what the Elders will do if they find Silver. And Silver doesn't make hiding himself easy.Silver has to find a way out.Ash wants him to stay.Obsidian Prayers is an ice-age post-apocalypse story about a himbo melodramatic blacksmith...

From the Great Divide to the living Fire Stars, there are tales all over Osaire just waiting to be told. Great loves and great loses in equal measure. Friends made, adventures are had and some find a home they never knew they were looking for.Contains the stories:Witch King: King Solna is tired of war. He longs for the possibility of ending the wars at last and finds it in Vius, a wounded warrior who is not what he seems. Solna schemes to unite their countr...

Selati, a big construct forced to work in the cobalt mines of Ilmare, is terrified of the overseers. Danger dogs his every breath, somehow the leader of his ragged work crew, and he finally has enough when the mine itself almost kills him. Humans or no humans, he refuses to let his crew die down in the dark. As his crew takes their stand in their bid for freedom, rescue comes. Freedom in the light and a whole new life awaits.It's a duty Aleledai takes great pride in, saving his fel...

People stumbling into Jack Hawthorne's little town of Reeve's Creek isn't anything new. It happens from time to time. Those who need a safe place to hide from the world. Not the same way he needs a safe place, mind, but he lives with it and keeps to himself on the edge of town.Then two come at once. One is an irritating blip on the radar of his quiet life no matter how much this stranger upset the town, and the other ... well, Sheriff Mason Carrow is there to turn Jack's world upsid...

John and Jason have always dreamed of going to space together. And they finally made it.A simple mission to advance human exploration, which is the goal of every expedition. But when the world ends? The lovers find themselves trapped on the Space Station with their tiny crew and have to find a way to survive against the vastness of space for as long they can.As weeks stretch into months, supplies dwindle, tensions rise, and their relationship is tested by the void of space....

"Beautifully written book which will pull at your heartstrings." – ReviewerA gut-wrenching story of discrimination, injustice, and the fight to free a man unfairly sentenced.Born into poverty in a crime-ridden town and unaware of his Ojibwe heritage, John Eric Aslin's earliest memories are of a harrowing childhood rife with abuse. This troubling upbringing led him to an adolescence full of crime, when at 21 he was sentenced to life in prison for an accidental death. 36 year...

Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.What is the meaning of this strange message left on the doorstep? Only Sal knows, and on a roadtrip with her grandparents she tells the bizarre tale of Phoebe Winterbottom, Phoebe’s disappearing mother and the lunatic. But who can help Sal make sense of the mystery that surrounds her own story . . . and her own missing mother?

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The renowned marine life artist and founder of The Wyland Foundation shares vital information and practical advice on protecting the world's water.Artist and conservationist Wyland has spent decades encouraging responsible stewardship of the world's oceans and marine life. In Hold Your Water, he offers an engaging introduction to this important topic, providing readers with fresh insight into the water and world around us. Taking a conversational approach t...

A story adapted from Irving Berlin's song lyrics "Anything you can do I can do better" with colorful oil paintings showing all the things boys and girls can do. The story ends with the idea that even a black woman can become president.

Children like to play "pretend." Imagining with its colorful oil paintings and simple narrative allows even very small children to talk about and understand the power of imagination.

Mothers, Comrades, and Outcasts in East German Women's Film merges feminist film theory and cultural history in an investigation of "women's films" that span the last two decades of the former East Germany. Jennifer L. Creech explores the ways in which these films functioned as an alternative public sphere where official ideologies of socialist progress and utopian collectivism could be resisted. Emerging after the infamous cultural freeze of 1965, these women's films reveal a shift from o...