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From best-selling author K.D. West, here are eight Friendly Menage Tales - seven novellas and a novel - featuring groups of friends becoming much, much more.

Event producer, music director, and community organizer Elaina Martin has over the past three decades become widely known in Eastern Ontario, bolstering queer representation, community sustainability, and the arts. In this soulful narrative, she shares how she grew into these roles and what she learned along the way.

Ricarda and her younger brother Samuel have a whole week of school holiday ahead of them, and they don't intend to waste it! Before the week is over, they will have visited the zoo, gone to the funfair, helped grandpa to get an apple pie, hunted for hidden treasure, been given a pet hamster, and even fallen into a pond! Listen to their fun-packed adventures to discover exactly why this is their busiest week ever!

On average, we spend about 80,000 hours in our lifetime working. Most of us spend that time in the workforce without being in touch with the impact we could make if we listened more closely to our heart and followed our dreams. Your Next 40,000 Hours speaks to career professionals who want to engage with finding purposeful work and changing the world in an authentic and powerful way. Join author Elaine Siu on her journey into an illuminating second career, along with the stories of other extraordinary dreamers.

When diagnosed with a fatal illness at the age of 26, Eleanor Gray is resigned to her fate - at least until the enigmatic Dublin Helos appears and makes her an offer she knows she should refuse: Life or death? With a decision as harmless as checking the wrong box on a mysterious questionnaire, Ellie is plunged into a dangerous world where souls are sold to the highest bidder and pleasure is fueled by pain. The rules of this new life are simple: Submit everything - mind, body, and soul.

He's run away home. That's what they say every time one of Charley Winslow's friends vanishes from The Old Cross School for Boys. It's just a tall tale. That's what they tell Charley when he sees the ragged grey figure stalking the abbey halls at night. When Charley follows his pet insects to a pool of blood behind a false wall, he could run and let those stones bury their secrets.

Set in the 1940s, Elaine Soloway's memoir takes its title from the street that Studs Terkel exalts in his classic book, Division Street: America, and from the pet name her father gave her. Soloway lived in a three-room flat above her family's grocery store. In her tale of bookies, poolrooms, sidewalk playgrounds, and relatives who lived down the block, we learn about her loving but embattled parents, her adored older brother, and neighborhood kibitzers. Along with her recollections of a lively, unique community, she also shows the underside of childhood and urban life.

Sabina is a gifted 18-year-old girl living in Sydney in the year 2037. She carries a unique secret that she used to be the Chosen One who failed to stop the apocalypse from occurring in the year 2887. As she died, she asked the True Maker to let her be reborn in 2019 and to keep her powers.

Arden Beacon has nothing left to lose. Having fought monsters, the deep waters and the establishment to fulfil a promise the man she loved—she is no closer to peace. But against the odds, she has found Jonah once more and they are together now. She means to keep it that way. Jonah, Arden and Chalice are bound for Clay city. Warnings come that the scorned yet powerful Miah and Bellis have joined forces and turned their eyes to the capital, now following the direction of the slippery Mr Lindsay.

After getting captured in the town of Silver Spruce by the dark witch Phaedra Glint, Holly Smart must contend not only with her, but with her army of dark bear shifters and the lost souls released from the Underworld. As she tries to reunite with her lovers and her friends, Holly must find a way to fulfill an ancient shifter prophecy that states she will choose one of the firstborn sons as her king and bear a child who will unite the clans in peace.

These are the stories of things out of water - of sea bed deserts choked with ghosts; of the lonely, roving children of the fen. Here your garden grows below ground. You will be born into a cradle of your own bones, shadows will burst from your eyes, and your mouth will fill with thorns. Storms will twist inside you, and the ghosts of your past will follow you and chart your future.

After many ordeals, Sabina faces her nemesis Rangda. But will Sabina overcome the evil that she tries to stop? Having stopped Pierre Beaumont's evil scheme, Sabina and Alex are recuperating in Hawaii. Peace doesn't last for long though, as the mysterious Martin Al-Sham re-emerges. Martin's associates kidnap Alex to force Sabina to help him with a dangerous expedition.

On December 7, 1941—"a date which will live in infamy"—the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans to what government officials themselves called "concentration camps." None of these citizens had been accused of a real crime.

Now that Holly is aware that Silver Spruce is a haven in a generations-old war against the dark shifters of a nearby town, she realizes she has her work cut out. After dark magic poisons Keller’s mind, and he gets captured by an evil witch, Holly and her team return to Golden Oak for the ultimate showdown with the dark shifters threatening their world.

Elaine Schaller lost her 33-year-old daughter Cindy to a ruptured brain aneurysm in 2007. The shock of her death left Schaller certain she would never again experience a happy moment, even questioning whether she wanted to continue living in a world without Cindy. She knew she needed help. At her first session with a grief counselor, she listened to the unusual suggestion that she write letters to her dead daughter every day. These letters will provide a source of comfort, encouragement, and inspiration to anyone who has experienced profound loss.

Shandi Fossey is mixing cocktails at the bar in Hush, the hottest hotel in Manhattan. The place oozes fantasy of the hottest sort, but for Shandi, it's a temp gig until she lands her dream job...and it's a lot better than pulling beers at the Thirsty Rattler back home. Then music producer Quentin Marks walks in and offers to buy her a drink. He's got the connections she needs and can open a lot of doors. So why is the only door she wants to open the one to his room upstairs? And why in the world is she putting a man ahead of her future?

This story is the coming of age adventure of Edee, desperate to find his missing father, forced to leave his first love, Tilda, and honor his duty to the community. Meanwhile, an invading force is spreading its cancerous roots and violently eliminating nearby Nations in search of a magical gem that can harness universal power. Society is crumbling around Edee - the rivers flow weaker; disease is spreading; murders at an all-time high, and the song of the earth is beginning to fade.

DSI Billie Wilde’s romantic relationship is intense—but it’s nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, especially since the new chief of police is gunning for her squad. If they don’t get a handle on a series of deaths—which seem to have a connection to Alice in Wonderland—they could wind up being demoted. And the identity of one of the victims has made things devastatingly personal for Billie.

Holly finds herself growing closer to Trevor in a way she never expected. This causes a ripple effect that has significant consequences for Holly and the rest of the group. However, when Holly and Trevor realize they are trapped inside the town, they have to turn to a mysterious vampire to help them figure out just what is going on. Can they trust this stranger, or are they all about to walk into a trap?

The “modern” education system. It hasn't changed much since it started back in 1837. The same rules apply. Whether your child pays attention to the teacher or not, it's up to them. The problem is, even if the child tries to pay attention, many find it difficult to learn this way. In fact, compared to active learning, traditional lecturing increases the failure rates by as much as 55 percent. On top of that, it can result in thousands of dollars in private tutoring and extra resources.