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Erin is very not okay. And it's been this way for a long time. She is depressed. She is numb. She is exhausted down to her bones. She is a misanthrope and has bitterly retreated from the world, becoming a hermit in her small high-rise apartment. But, one day, a ray of light seems to enter her life at last: she falls madly in love with a mysterious stranger... in a dream. This jolts her like a shotgun-blast of sugary hope right to the face, banishing the doldrums and bleak meaninglessness she had been wrestling with before. It is the answer to a question she didn't even realize she was asking.Entranced by the siren song of these dreamworld trysts, she seeks them out each and every time she falls asleep. They provide a wellspring of impossible happiness which makes her feel whole again. And this soon transforms her life. It gives her a quest to pour herself into. For love can be a sublime thing and it can be a deranging force and it can also be both. She becomes desperately obsessed with her dreamt-up paramour and will try anything - no matter how difficult or esoteric or even dangerous - to unite the two of them permanently.Fate has gifted her an existential skeleton-key, the likes of which no-one should have or even wish to have. Behind some doors is bliss; behind other doors is... something else, something darker. There are abyssal strangenesses into which one can plummet forever and ever, if one is not exceedingly careful.But Erin has no time for caution. No time for it at all.Whatever it takes! She will be with her beloved!You can find out more about the novel at: whencesimulacrum.com

A Pocketful of Daisies is a collection of precious moments from being a first-time parent to the developing personality of a young girl. Filled with humour and hand-drawn sketches, it reflects on the magical process of becoming a person.

Jay Sullivan is a pathetic mess, tortured by his daughter’s kidnapping, and is nothing like the legendary assassin he used to be. Could a clue out of nowhere be the redemption he needs? Or is he destined to remain an alcoholic nomad walking through life alone? Sullivan is a legendary assassin working for a secret government organisation. He is an expert in murder, able to kill a man and cover it up without even breaking a sweat.His only weakness is his daughter, who he desperately wants to keep away from this life.So when the organisation turns on Sullivan, he is taken by surprise. A chase follows, leading to the one event Sullivan dreaded:A gun to his daughter’s head. No choice but to watch her as she’s taken away…He searches and searches, but she is impossible to find. With no idea where she is, he finds himself falling further into a hopeless depression.So when, after five years of nothing, a clue finally turns up – he decides its time.Time to brush off the old suit.Time to ready his fists again.Time to return to what he once was.Even if he is an alcoholic mess who can barely throw a punch anymore.Will he rediscover his daughter and rescue her from the man who took her? Or will he run out of time and be forced to watch her let her go again?If you like adrenaline, tense fights and big chases, you will love Assassin Down. Get ready for your new non-stop action hero Jay Sullivan…

‘MAKE IT HAPPEN' is a three-part book for small business owners which will inspire you, motivate you and help you get from burnout to balance.| PART 1: HER STORY | Victoria shares her childhood, growing up, her career before The Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club and the amazing rollercoaster she’s been on since she founded it. She goes deep on her 'struggle' with business and what that was like. Victoria shares her experience of loss and how she turned her life around.| PART 2: MINDSET | This section is packed full of the mindset tips and strategies she uses on a daily basis. In order to live a positive life, you need to start with a positive approach, Victoria shows you how and shares her experience and sets the read action points on how you too can make massive positive shifts in your life.| PART 3: BUSINESS | Victoria shares her hugely successful 'Seven Principles of Balance', these are her titan tools for small business owners and how they can too can take their business from burnout to balance. There’s an accompanying workbook and Facebook group to support the book.

Niyah Moon has no problem going to bed a night; the truth is she enjoys bedtime as it gives her the opportunity to fulfil her dreams. Following the wonderful stories her mother reads, Niyah falls into a blissful slumber. Enter the world of Niyah Moon and join her on an amazing adventure. Come and experience the Great Wall of China, the Serengeti and more.

Often at times we may feel stuck when we are not aligning with our purpose and passion, yet we must persevere because life sometimes happens in stages and phases. It sometimes is riddled with setbacks or as I call it 'powerful moments' that shows us our resilience, builds our patience and helps us grow. Our life path will take many twists and turns, so it is important to be patient with ourselves as we discover our path to living our purpose - and having self-confidence that with hard-work, commitment and practice we will get there.FAITH OVER FEAR will awaken your soul, build your confidence and elevate your self-esteem. It will equip you to have faith in yourself, in your skills, talents and in your abilities. It will take you on a personal journey showing you that from your pain and struggles comes power and strength when you face your fears, own your story and accept the lessons it has all taught you. Therefore, be patient with yourself, don't be afraid to fail and when you do get back up and keep going. Remain focused, stay aligned with your mission, purpose and passion as this is what keeps us moving forward through any rough patches.So brace yourself and get ready to discover a new you!

If you're into stories about zoo animals, wildlife, endangered species, nature conservation and animal welfare, you'll love both the story and facts in this animal rights fiction novel.This special edition (second edition) of The Zoo Animals' Faraway Dream includes a bonus chapter. Readers are invited to consider the reality of living in confinement through a story with two endings, one happy, one sad.What does it feel like to live in a cage all your life? Imagine, for a moment, you're a zoo animal, perhaps a mongoose, living with a horde of others, tightly packed inside a zoo enclosure, never knowing the freedom of life in the wild. If you always lived in a zoo, you'd think that was where you were meant to be. But what if a stranger appeared, claiming that many wild animals lived out of cages, free to go where they wanted to, what would you do?The Zoo Animals' Faraway Dream is a book to save caged animals. At the end of the book, there is also a non-fiction section, with facts, statistics and website links so teens and adult readers can find out more. For example, did you know that most zoo elephants are caught from the wild, and taken from their herds as babies, to live a life of captivity?Readers who appreciate the bold sassiness of Persimmon Takes on Humanity and the ironic reality of George Orwell's Animal Farm will love this."A touching, beautifully written story with a heart-warming cast of zoo characters. The story makes you laugh and sigh, while also urging you to stop and think about the plight of many zoo animals in our world." ~ Sonia Faruqi, author of Project Animal Farm (an award-winning investigation of the truth behind factory farming) and The Oyster Thief (an underwater odyssey).

Everyone is a real character in Letterworld. In this book you'll get to know all 26 of them.Who will be your favorite: Wendy the Witch or Finn the Fish? Or maybe you'll want to spend some time with Dan the Dinosaur?Let your new friends guide you through the Alphabet one letter at a time while you also learn about them.The book feautures 26 full-size (8x8 inches) illustrations of the various characters. The characters are both kid and parent friendly, featuring a wide variety of animals, objects, and people. If you are bored of reading "A for Apple" in every other book, then this one is for you (and your child).

Have you ever read the New Testament and came to the end wondering, "what happened next?", or "what became of the churches Peter and Paul planted?". Wonder no more, as this book will introduce you to the texts, disciples and companions of the Apostles and beyond:Didache, Diognetus, Polycarp, Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Cyprian, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose of Milan, and Leo the Great.This book is the companion to 40 Days with the Fathers: A Daily Reading Plan, and includes twenty-three Early Church texts in full-including all additional footnotes from the original editors and translators so that you can get as close as possible to reading these ancient texts without needing to know ancient Greek or Latin.See for yourself and see how God continued to grow His Church through His faithful witnesses and martyrs, and be inspired!Also included are: maps and timelines of the New Testament and Apostolic era and an index of historical heresies.

Growing up in a distressed family, having an unsettled schooling, Deon found himself not understood by the people around and often succumbed to his imaginary world of adventure. As a child Deon loved spending time in Nature and one day aspired to find a treasure, however he didn't know what that treasure would be.He finds a job at a departmental store and moves out of his troubled home but nothing much changes in his life. He feels drained and lost in the daily fight for survival in the everyday life of earning and spending.One day being in his 20s his frustration leads him to make a life changing decision; to begin a quest for a deeper meaning of his life. Deon decides to take a trip to Glastonbury and his life is never going to be the same.In his daring quest Deon accidentally enters a magical portal where he is faced with trials and spell binding encounters that leads him to find the treasure that he was always looking for.'In My World' is a stirring fiction book that takes the readers on a breathtaking journey of discovering a secret world of infinite possibilities and the fascinating reality of life that is available to each one of them, despite the everyday challenges.Travel with Deon as he uncovers the unbelievable secrets of our daily lives that we take for granted. Delve into these exciting pages and you will be charmed and swept away by the majesty of innocence, imagination, curiosity and possibilities.

Going down. Eating out. Rug-munching. Speaking in tongues. No matter what you call cunnilingus, talking about it is sometimes uncomfortable and awkward-Until now.The Cunnilinguist is a refreshingly modern guide to oral sex with a sense of humor. Written by a woman with experience at both ends of the tongue, this guide will build your confidence in giving-or receiving-oral sex.How to Give and Receive Great Oral SexDid you know that lesbians report more orgasms than straight women and receiving oral sex can double a woman's chance of orgasm? Those are two findings from a large research study into the differences in orgasm frequency among gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual men and women. However, fear not; The Cunnilinguist has you covered.In #TheCunnilinguist...You'll learn tested tips, tricks and techniques that any giver or receiver can try. The Cunnilinguist: How To Give And Receive Great Oral Sex has insights and tips for readers from beginner to advanced, single to married, and regardless of gender or sexual orientation.You'll learn tips about how to: - Find and use pleasure points - Move from foreplay to oral sex - Overcome fears and insecurities - Change up your positions - Use fingers, vibrators and dildos - Incorporate roleplay or power playAnd you'll learn what not to do!The Cunnilinguist includes the latest scientific research alongside firsthand advice from a woman with experience on both ends of the tongue.Edited and Foreword by sexuality educator Susan Harper, PhDExcerpts:"What this book has turned out to be is even more exciting that I had ever hoped. Working closely with Alex to craft a guidebook that could be used by anyone who wants to learn to give or receive good cunnilingus, regardless of gender, has been an adventure. I especially loved that this book focuses on the experience of oral sex for both the giver and the receiver.The Cunnilinguist is the kind of book I wish I'd had available to my Sociology of Sexuality students. It manages to be both informative and well-researched while also being a fun, irreverent frolic. The description of the vaginal / vulvar / clitoral anatomy is worth the cover price alone, given how many people who possess these structures don't know what they're called or how they work.This refreshingly modern guide takes the business of giving and receiving pleasure seriously, but never takes itself too seriously. It's full of orgasm-inducing tips and techniques for both giver and receiver, presented with equal doses of good humor and practical, usable information." -Susan Harper PhDThe Lover's Gift?Could this be the ultimate gift for your partner? Man, woman, transgender; bisexual, lesbian, straight, fluid; single, dating, married; polyamorous or monogamous, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, if you - or your partner - want to improve your experience of giving or receiving oral sex, minus the awkward conversations, this book is for you! Please. Pleasure. Enjoy.

Export and Expand covers the 8 essential steps in expanding your business globally. It starts by prioritising export markets; deciding which consumers, shoppers and trade customers to target; researching and contacting the right Go-to-Market partners; product development and branding; building an export team; selling and negotiation; marketing for sell-thru and creating a robust export business plan.

The dark can be scary, especially when you don't know what you're afraid of. But you're not alone, most of us have felt scared at night and the dark's not actually so bad. Discover some of the reasons for our fear, meet friendly animals who play in the night and learn to think of the dark in a new way. Oh and just in case some monsters are real...you'll be reminded that you're braver than you may think!Contains mild scares.

The Zoo Animals' Faraway Dream is a story about living behind bars, told from the perspective of zoo animals. Their experiences and antics are both amusing and tragic. Many believe life will always be the same, but one day a travelling animal appears. This shocks and confuses them, and his presence seems to ignite a 'faraway dream' in the animals' minds - is it just wishful thinking? Arguments abound, so some animals decide it's finally time to take action… "A touching, beautifully written story with a heart-warming cast of zoo characters. The story makes you laugh and sigh, while also urging you to stop and think about the plight of many zoo animals in our world." ~ Sonia Faruqi, author of Project Animal Farm (an award-winning investigation of the truth behind factory farming) and The Oyster ThiefThis is a story to save caged animals. Information and website links about confined animals in zoos, farms, labs, crates and tanks are included at the back of the book, with suggestions on how readers can help to solve this global tragedy.

Fans of the children's literature classic, Watership Down, will be glad that animals have a voice again.Extinction, habitat destruction, deforestation... How would you feel if your home was flattened to make space for others?Countless wild animals, great and small, experience this every day.This is their story.Dakota the Deer, Flint the Fox, Bentley the Bat and other animals live in a forest, co-existing in an uneasy truce with some nearby humans. Then a strange animal, Whanganui the Weasel, arrives, having fled something too frightening to speak of. Just as he fears, the humans come and their actions threaten to destroy the animals' lives.When one of the animals goes missing, it's the final straw. The animals decide to do something they've never attempted before. As they're swept up in a terrible chain of events they can't control, will they have what it takes to defeat forces they have no name for?More than an eco story: The animal characters honour young environmental activists, nature conservation campaigns and indigenous tribes across the globe, including the Dakota Access Pipe Line water protectors in the USA and the Moxateteu uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. These and related green issues, with website links, are included at the end of the book, so readers come away armed with knowledge.Can a story save the Earth? Read it to find out.

***Content Warning: This title contains themes of sexual abuse and violence.***The road to womanhood is never an easy path, especially in a world driven by ego, fear, and misogyny.For hundreds of years, women have been treated less than, not just by men, but by women too. They have been violated, abused, shamed, blamed and silenced. Denied their basic human rights. They've carried wounds and stories from the past, burdened by labels, told that they're too much yet never quite enough. They learned to please, to give away their power. To hide their gifts, and tame the wild woman inside. As a result they've disconnected from who they really are, waging war within themselves and each other, using food, alcohol, sex, relationships and shopping as a way to self-medicate and stuff down the disease of not-good-enough-ness, while pushing and striving to create success in their work and life to prove themselves and their worth.Until now.The world is craving more.More truth.More vulnerability.More authenticity.More love.More pleasure.More connection.More intimacy.More women willing to show up as their perfectly imperfect messy selves.More women willing to uncage themselves from the stories of the past and live with passion, purpose, integrity and freedom.More women reclaiming their power and owning their darkness as well as the light.In Uncaged: The Rise of the Badass 26 trail-blazing women share their stories of strength from struggle, turning their mess into their message to empower and inspire their peers and future generations. These are women united in their mission to create positive change in the world through truth, authenticity and an indestructible knowing that women are worthy and deserving of so much more.It is part-memoir, part self-help, taking the reader on her own journey of insight, exploration and self-discovery so that she too can awaken to her truth and uncage the wild woman inside.This book is an essential read for all women, young and old, and a celebration of our strength, courage and resilience in the face of adversity.

Herein is the key to spiritual alchemy, magick and yoga: the Tree of Life is seeded in the astrosome of the magician so the rituals and practices are a gateway to true knowledge. The Qabalah is the basis for the traditional sciences of meditation, magick, astrology and tarot, including the art of gematria, talismans, invocation and evocation, the pentagram and hexagram, symbolic weapons, the sphere of sensation and the astral plane. All this is seamlessly integrated with the one-year practical coursework through ritual meditations upon the paths. Preliminary work includes the Wisdom of Breath, Ritual Sonics, Assumption of the Godform and a variant form of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram. The student then moves, step-by-step, towards creation of an astral double or counterpart for forging the inner plane contacts that make real initiation possible.

Perfect bound paperback edition. The book includes six high quality full colour reproductions of fine art, including rarely seen drawings and paintings by Austin Osman Spare and Ithell Colquhoun. A study of automatism in the arts and the Left-hand path of retroversion of the senses typified by the work of Austin Osman Spare and Kenneth Grant. True automatism is a condition of mind and soul exercised outside and beyond the will of the person, whether they are destined to become a magus or merely another victim swallowed up by an incomprehensible universe. Automatism was not an invention of the Surrealists or of Sigmund Freud, but has always existed in magick and alchemy. The book vindicates the work of English scholar and mystic, Thomas De Quincey, who spoke of a more sublime form of divination by which magnetism may call up from the darkness, "sentiments the most august, previously inconceivable, formless, and without life", so exalting their character as to "lodge them eternally in human hearts".

This book is a resource and guide for academics and graduate students conducting research in Entrepreneurship using ethnographic methods. It is a guide to how entrepreneurs can be studied using the ethnographic techniques of cultural anthropologists.

These Poems are visual as well as literate; they can be read in many ways. Some can also be read down as well as across, some verses are totally interchangeable. This is a journey through a World of colour and imagination.