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This anthology contains a mix of mostly humorous short stories.

Zmam is a multilayered journey where Israeli secret service conspiracy, physics, and philosophy collide in foreign cultural and legal terrain before a Canadian tourist. A young state of Israel reborn in war hosts many a secret. Among them, the events surrounding one intellectual family unwittingly muddied in operations of the country’s own security service.

Melody is an amusing 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome. She narrates her story of meeting an enchanted talking bird, and they use a 3-D printer to create a flying machine pulled by two dragons. She soars over the playground to amaze her friends and confront a group of bullies.

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After surviving the Rwandan genocide, Samantha Nyamwasa sets out to avenge her family. This audiobook follows the adolescent Samantha Nyamwasa as she travels through a war-torn Rwanda during the genocide of Tutsis in 1994. Samantha survives rape, genital mutilation, and the murder of her family. Despite all her ordeals, she stays strong and is determined to reach her goal: to murder Colonel Patrick Bagosora and avenge her family.

After fighting for months to defeat countless enemies, the group has spent most of Holly’s pregnancy living in peace and quiet, but it cannot last. With the baby apparently poised to finally bring peace to the warring clans, new enemies and new dangers threaten Holly’s world and even the baby herself.

An ice-cold glass of water on a warm day sounds like an appealing suggestion to many, and it’s likely the done thing in your neighborhood. But it might surprise you to know that outside the Western world, drinking cold water is seen as positively bizarre. With roots in Chinese medicinal practices, hot water is the drink of choice on a hot day. It sounds a little odd, doesn’t it? As odd to us as drinking cold water is to Eastern culture. But is there something to it? Inside Drinking Hot Water, you’ll learn why switching to hot water might be the right move for you.

In the 1000th iteration of the universe, sensing that her death is drawing closer, the Supreme Deity of the Milky Way Galaxy decides to reincarnate into a human form to stop her demise. In her visions, the only one who can save her is a human who is yet to be born. The True Maker creates Gaia and sends her on a mission: to join the Zetan species and create the Garden of Eden on Earth to prevent humanity from going extinct during the Mount Toba Ice Age. On her quest to save humankind, Gaia meets the Zetan siblings Kailow and Areela. Together they set out to find the Zeto Crystals.

When Ron Calhoun was born in 1933, no one guessed where his incredible life would take him. Growing up on a farm during the Great Depression and World War II, Ron learned early the lesson of helping others. His grandfather opened his root cellar full of the family’s farm-grown vegetables to hungry neighbors with no money needed in return.

Adam G. Fleming, artist, entrepreneur, and cross-cultural worker, talks about how to build culture.

This anthology contains 10 quirky and mostly humorous short stories. It contains the following stories: "Jared Pond and the Temper Complication", "Jared Pond's First Mission", "Jared Pond and the Yakuza Connection", "The Soccer Date", "The Pursuit of Dangerous Dave's Treasure", "Jared Pond and the Swedish Fish Factory", "The Disgruntled Soccer Terrorist", "Jared Pond and the Quirky Malaysian Agent", "Kingsley's Quest in India", and "Jared Pond and the Tamil Guru".

Brownsville Bred (adapted from her autobiographical stage play) is a young adult novel told in a series of vignettes - some funny, some heartbreaking, that together tell Elaine Del Valle’s journey growing up in the toughest project in Brownsville, the toughest neighborhood in New York. But her story refuses to be ghetto-ized. It bursts with the details of life and touches everyone. Prepare to be handheld through a journey that will make you feel more than inspired...It will make you feel capable!

After defeating the dark witch, Holly Smart returns to the House of Bears. Now, she is pregnant from one of the six firstborns of the bear shifter clans, but not knowing who the father is puts a strain on their hard-won relationship. Not to mention Johnny’s newfound magical abilities and his intimate connection with the witches of the Silver Spruce Coven, Holly has enough on her plate without new and unknown threats stalking her from beyond sight.

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.