Anna's life is turned upside down when a fire leaves her without a home for the next month. Her friend of many years, Melissa steps in and offers her a place to stay. The only problem is that there is only one bed so they have to share...Their friendship always seemed platonic, but little did Anna know, that Melissa had lusted after her for their entire friendship. This combined with proximity, raging libidos, and Melissa's sexsomnia means that the first night of the bed share quic...

Can a Necromancer save a dying world?The Viiminian Empire rots from within, its dominion mere walking corpses and fading memory. Everyone knows its glory is gone. Everyone except Rhea Phuul.Confronted with the painful decay of the once-mighty Empire, Rhea has taken up the mantle of the Eternals: the restoration of her society and its ancient faith. Only when long-forgotten duties are carried out might the Empire again find renewal.But Rhea must conv...

Rising like a limestone fortress from the deep blue Tyrrhenian Sea, the island of Capri has captivated travellers for millennia. Once the seat of Roman imperial power — where Emperor Tiberius ruled the known world from his cliff-top palace — Capri is far more than a destination for chic boutiques and luxury yachts. It is a living museum of ancient engineering, medieval history, and timeless natural wonder.Capri: Big Adventures on a Little Island is a pocket guide designed for visit...

LEARN ADOBE WITHOUT THE OVERWHELM. NO EXPERIENCE. NO STRESS. NO CONFUSION.You open Photoshop. Or Illustrator. Or any Adobe app.Panels everywhere.Tiny icons.Menus you’ve never seen.Your confidence drops.You close the app.Sound familiar?That stops here.This book is your step-by-step mentor inside every Adobe app.No jargon.No guessing.No wasted tim...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

In 1858 the 'Great Stink of London' made much of the city along the Thames uninhabitable. Between 1848 and 1854 nearly 25,000 Londoners died of cholera, a disease borne by foul water. Joseph Bazalgette saved the city, building sewers that would serve 4 million people and stop waste water emptying into the Thames. These sewers are still the backbone of London's sewerage system today, but the city's population is now approaching 10 million; the old sewers can't cope and acti...

Walking corpses and black-market liquor: the quiet life.Teltö Phuul, Necromancer and Library Clerk, likes his days safe and predictable. Not for him the intrigues of the Viiminian Empire, a gothic monstrosity held together by sheer force of will.Until the Empire's dreaded secret police come knocking. Caught in a web of schemes in the diseased heart of Kuolinako, the underground Imperial capital, Teltö can trust no-one. Not the Northern theocrats who abhor Necromancy, and ce...

This book addresses the sustained failure to properly fund local government in England. While there has been plenty of rhetoric and policy initiatives around devolution of power to local authorities in recent decades, continuing recently with the English Devolution Bill, there has been far less attention paid to how these endeavours will be practically delivered and, most importantly, funded. In this context, the motivation in this book is to consider how local government in England could ...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Written for youth, educators, families, and lifelong learners, each volume examines a different aspect of the human exp...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Written for youth, educators, families, and lifelong learners, each volume examines a different aspect...

Learning to Be Human is a multidisciplinary educational series that explores the skills, perspectives, and experiences that shape human growth and well-being. Combining personal development, psychology, community engagement, systems thinking, and reflective practice, the series helps readers understand themselves, their relationships, and their role within society.Community Comeback is the third book in the series and explores the role of relationships, belonging, cooperation, and ...

Dr. William Hobbys is a riveting medical romp through the War of the Roses, filled with lusty romance, intrigue, and the answer to a centuries old mystery. Written with historical and scientific accuracy, Dr. William Hobbys chronicles the lascivious adventures of a pioneer in medicine as he stumbles through one of the most dynamic times in western history.