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Russell James Ray is credited with the first canyoneering descents of the Barrancas Sinforosa and Batopilas. It was an endeavor that spanned several years, and included a self-delusional non-first descent of the Barranca Del Cobre. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he dreams of other things.

Brett Polar is an intoxicating roller-coaster ride that will leave you as much elated as devastated. It is engaging, empowering, educational, and ultimately gives hope to people living with bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. Brett’s story involves a mental health sojourn that spans 20 years from 2000 to 2020. Prepare to ride alongside him as he goes through the bipolar motions of extreme highs, devastating lows, and all the semi-stable moments in between. His story is proof that an individual living with mental illness can not only survive but thrive!

This is the story of the greatest scandal inflicted on British servicemen and women in modern times: drug-induced violence and suicide–and an officer determined to find the truth.

Come to the stellar, paranormal, majestic, and thrilling science fiction and fantasy worlds created by the author, Jonathan Fisher. The writer of August Always and Ten Minutes on Mars brings you his latest spellbinding collection of stories. A universe of incredible characters. Mythical beings. A clashing of ancient and future civilizations and undreamt-of technologies. All within Where the Stars Be Still As Bright. This second volume includes the stories "Vincent’s Room" and "The Battle of Gilgamesh".

Born into a wealthy family in England in 1942, Christopher could’ve expected a privileged life. It was not to be. At six years of age, he entered boarding school. The burden of undiagnosed dyslexia led to an aversion to schoolwork, and violent sexual abuse from a fellow boarder became the impetus for leaving school. He embarked on a life of hard manual labour, before returning to his parents’ farm, but continual frustrations between him and his father culminated in a stint of involuntary commitment. On release in 1964, he left for Australia as a "10 Pound Pom".

In 1536, King Henry VIII faced a major rebellion called the Pilgrimage of Grace, in opposition to the religious changes being imposed by the king and his ministers. The rebels, based mainly in the north of England, were particularly keen to defend the monasteries against the government’s attempt to close them down.

Justin lives in a future when Earth’s humanity has become largely desensitized to violence and regard for others. He is a Delivery Real superstar whose daily cargo is the soon-to-be exploited and already-voided synthetic life forms that look human, but are not. He–like the world around him –views artificially created intelligent beings as either property or slaves designed to be used by their human masters without remorse of conscience.

During that time, he has been a country GP, delivering babies and doing anesthetics, a retrieval doctor with the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, worked in the emergency departments of various hospitals, and followed his passion of motor sport medicine, especially internationally in the fields of Formula 1 and World Rally.

Jason Rogers couldn’t remember the last time he had slept soundly. After surviving 20 years in the high-octane world of Russian investment banking, he knew that his time there as the high-flying international banker to the oligarchs was coming to an end. The bank he’d built from scratch in the '90s, Falcon Capital, his pride and joy, was being assailed on all sides by shadowy forces in Russian society with impeccable government connections, the “siloviki”.

King Crumble is a stubborn chocolate chip cookie. He does not like to share, play, or take his milk baths. Most of all, he does not like to go to sleep. One night, King Crumble has a brilliant idea. He decides to get rid of bedtime once and for all! He gathers together a batch of cookies to battle sleep alongside him. Will King Crumble and his friends be able to fight off their fatigue?

A care home, purposely built around a Georgian folly castle façade in Essex, Gramwell Glade is making a fortune for business developer Akin Akindele who, armed with an MBA, foresaw that high-end care homes were going to return significant returns on his investment. If we know someone who works in the care sector or spends their twilight years in a home, if we visit family or friends who have moved on into residential care, make no bones about it, something like the Gramwell Glade experience could come to us all.

Tam and Jasmine is the tale of a cat who chases a little mouse for love.

Occasionally Emily could see the glint of the river, some thousands of feet below before the clouds closed in again and she was forced to stop, breathing heavily, the shotgun still clutched to her swollen stomach.

This unique collection of poems explores religion, mysticism, and love, spiritual transcendence and the quest for the divine, devotional and theological themes, and traditional love poetry, in a lyrical and accessible style and grounded in literary tradition.

Each and everyone of us has our own human emotions. Days can be filled with happiness, whereas other days can be full of sadness. The uniqueness of one’s emotions can very rarely be understood by others. It is really difficult, if not impossible, to tell others how you feel or for them to understand how you are feeling. I have tried, in this book, to cover the inner most boundaries of human emotions, splitting my poems into different realms of human thought. Hope, fate and destiny, joy, life, the world, loneliness, love, regrets, religion, and the future are all covered.

Twenty-six years ago, the world as we knew it ended. Now, a new generation has come of age in a world that brings out the best and worst in humanity. Humans cling on to life in barely hospitable desert conditions far too extreme for the hordes of undead that dominate the arable regions of the continent. Follow nomad, Jack, and former slave, Ashe, through a hellish wasteland pursued by a brutal warlord across the Australian continent as they discover that life is about so much more than just staying alive in the process.

St Gilberts in the Indian Ocean, dubbed; "The most beautiful tropical island on the planet" is home to Rodney Leon who, having lived there for all of his 25 going on 26 years, still feels like an outsider. His heritage, inheritance, physical appearance, and occupation, all mark him out as "different".

At the end of his working life, a vicar in the city of London thinks of himself as a failure. No one now seems to treasure the beliefs and religious practices of his youth, the church hierarchy is seemingly obsessed only with modern marketing and business methods which he doesn’t appreciate, and any love between him and his wife has long since vanished.

In this collection of fourteen short stories, you will meet people you know in your own family or from down the street where you live. They all find themselves involved in things they did not expect or want or even dream about.

Imagine you are in a bar celebrating your birthday and your freedom as a newly divorced man when your eyes meet those of a stunning blue-eyed blonde. The connection is instant and electric. Finally, after such a long and desperately hard road, could true love be within your reach?