About Summary & Analysis of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

What will happen if the world doesn’t get to zero carbon emissions by 2050? You may not want to know. Luckily, Bill Gates has spent billions of dollars finding out exactly what we need to do to fix it. Join him in his highly-accessible guide to getting the globe to zero emissions by 2050.

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About Subsurface History of Humanity: Direction of History by Victor Torvich

In “Subsurface History of Humanity: Direction of History”, Victor Torvich gives a sweeping overview of global humankind’s history for the last 44 thousand years. The book will help you to make sense of human history. Victor Torvich found the objective direction of the history of humankind.
How fast humankind is moving in the found direction? Is that move controllable by humans? Why humans rule the Earth? Which force is driving humanity’s development? These are other questions Torvich answers in his wide-ranging book.
The book concludes with a discussion of which circumstances could shortly lead us off the uncovered course.

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Victor Torvich looks at history from a viewpoint of a precise science. Insights from his scientific papers on the complex system of humanity helped him to find out where mankind is headed.

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Solar Warden by Peter Fuller

“After Air Force pilot Steve Richardson crashes his F-35 in the mountains of Afghanistan, the last thing he sees before blacking out is the UFO that caused his flame out.
And it’s coming for him.
Steve didn’t expect to survive his injuries, but he did…to find that the universe, as he understands it, will never be the same again.
Steve is aboard the space carrier SWS Nautilus, flagship of the Solar Warden fleet—a military arm secretly tasked with defending Earth from an extraterrestrial threat he can hardly believe is real.
Asked to join the program, he struggles to master technology half a century beyond his training and experience. But he has to learn it if he’s going to help defend humanity from complete and utter annihilation.
And he has to learn it fast.
The Nautilus is under attack, the enemy vanguard is on its way and the aliens may not be the only ones who want to see him fail.”

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Peter Fuller worked in the Military History Department of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for eight years. He has studied military history for decades, written numerous articles and lectured at major museums and universities on the subject of military history. He has also been a regular panelist at NORWESCON since 2017. He has studied the UFO phenomenon since grade school. He is a member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and has had a few “close encounters” of his own. Most recently, he interviewed the son of a United States military officer about his late father’s work on several special access projects for the secret space program.

Fallen Reign by Nazri Noor

Half human, half angel, 100% pissed off.

Mason Albrecht’s life changed the day the angels tried to kill him. Heir of a fallen angel king, Mason is an abomination, an anomaly… and a living weapon.

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Nazri Noor is a California-based author of Filipino and Malaysian descent. While capable of fluently cursing in three languages, he only writes in English, and has been doing so in a professional capacity for over 18 years. His urban fantasy novels feature wise-cracking heroes who save the world with wits, style, and magic: think sass and class, while kicking ass.

Born of Wind by JB Lesel

When the elements collide, the truth ignites

Meleena never quite fitted in among her fellow aquatic Meruyans, always skipping school to hide out and marvel at the natural world around her. So when she wins a place on the coveted Council Apprenticeship team, no one is more surprised than her.

As she embarks on a tour of the nations, Meleena’s curiosity catches the attention of the Warix, a race born with the power to control wind. But she is unprepared for the secrets she uncovers as she explores this new land. The Warix are locked in a deadly civil war, and her own people are being oppressed and exploited with no way out.

Desperate to resolve this tangled conflict, Meleena sets out to locate an ancient weapon sought by both sides. Can she unite these warring peoples in time to save her own?

The debut novel from J.B. Lesel throws you headlong into a diverse world where the elements take physical form to shape the lives of all. Perfect for fans of James Cameron’s Avatar, and The Last Airbender.

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J.B. Lesel is a fantasy writer and science nerd, living in California and sometimes in the forests of Germany. She enjoys witchy arts and crafts projects of all kinds, and of course reading and writing. She likes to explore the world’s nature and human cultures through travel, being in the wilderness, and sometimes volunteering abroad on wildlife biology research projects.
She has a Master’s of Science in Business Psychology and works for an ad agency in SEO/ data analytics.
Her debut novel, BORN OF WIND, coming March 2, 2021, and she is now working on #2 for the planned “Of The Elements” series.

About Is Mise Cara / I am Cara

Do you ever wonder what happens in the afterlife? What happens when a child dies? This book told a story of one family’s experience after their daughter’s passing in December 2019.
Is Mise Cara [Irish Gaelic for ‘I am Cara’] is the story of a charming young girl who passed away in December 2019 after significant health problems including a brainstem tumour. Cara’s death seemed to open a ‘Pandoras Box’ of angels and spirits. Pandora’s Box refers to things that are best left untouched. The angels are beautiful yet mysterious. But who are these other creatures? Why do deceased spirits emerge, and what are their underlying messages? The spiritual guide and international, best-selling author Lorna Byrne plays a central role in the book. She advises Cara’s parents on how to deal with the supernatural creatures by focusing on the positive energies that surround them. Cara’s afterlife has reinvigorated her family and provides hope amidst grief.

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Dr Kieran Patrick Mervyn is a research and management consultant and Visiting Professor at London South Bank University. He is widely published in academic and practitioner journals.
A native of Belfast, Ireland, Kieran has lived in Leeds since 2004 with his wife Faye (co-author of Is Mise Cara) and five-year-old son Finn. Cara passed away in 2019 aged 11 [See www.ismisecara.com].
25% of the royalties from each Amazon.co.uk 'Is Mise Cara' book sale will be donated to Yorkshire Brain Tumour Research and Support. This will supplement other charitable activities that Kieran and Faye are involved in to fight the scourge of brain disease.

About Isdaman the Little Filipino Hero

Dreadful and frightening monsters have come to destroy a small rural village. Only Isdaman, the little Filipino superhero, dares to stand up to them! However, he is just one boy—does he have what it takes to defend the village and bring back the peace?

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Paul Bacera is a filmmaker and Youtube creator. Being raised Filipino, he has always had a love for Asian culture, history, and entertainment. His channel, The Asian Theory, is a celebration of all those values.
Isdaman is his first children’s book and was created to inspire Filipino kids everywhere to be proud of their heritage and to believe that they can rise above all the challenges of life.

About Featured Book: Princess of Independence by Icarus Bobain

Princess Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso is a forgotten figure of the Italian Revolution
Born into a family of nobility, Belgiojoso learned at a young age what
foreigners interested in ruling the Italian States could be like.
She spent the rest of her life dedicated to uniting her home country and ousting those foreigners
who only brought harm and discord to the country.
After a failed marriage to a prince and being banished to live in Paris,
Belgiojoso met many key players in the French Government, helping to further her cause.
Her social circles were ones that everyone desired to be part of.
When Belgiojoso becomes a mother, with no father to help her, she still works toward her goal of a unified country, raising her daughter to understand the importance of her heritage.

Will she have to choose between being a mother or being a patriot?

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About The Sins of the Past

Once an ancient race of supreme beings ruled over the earth. Banished by the light centuries ago, one has returned. With the help of its disciples, it desires to plunge the world into a new age of darkness and horror.

Ephraim Godwin is searching for the truth about his family’s disappearance. After conventional ways failed, he turned to the world of spiritualism, only to discover it filled with charlatans and tricksters. As a known skeptic, Ephraim fights to shine a light on those who prey upon others as he searches for the truth.

As Ephraim attends another séance, he discovers not everyone is a fraud and is drawn deeper into the world of the supernatural. With the help of noted spiritualist Zona Whitlock and famed explorer Doctor Livingstone, he hopes to stop this evil from consuming the world.

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Writer of things that go bump in the night. While everything I write will always have elements of horror in them, I will also include other genres as variety is important. My books move from splatterpunk to Cthulhu to good old fashion monster stories. Check me out on Facebook to see some awesome huskies and to get news on my upcoming projects.

About WHISPERS IN HER EAR by K.C. Dressler

“Daughters see their self-worth in their fathers’ eyes.” Anonymous Author, 1920’s

How often have you heard the familiar questions? “Why do women stay in an abusive relationship?” “Why don’t they just leave?” Whispers in Her Ear asks the unfamiliar question: “Why are women destined to meet their abuser?” How can the answer lessen the perpetuation of abuse toward women?

Whispers in Her Ear takes you through K.C.’s hellish descent from a sheltered life to one of violent abuse and stalking. With every attack, any identity she had diminished. Her story is unique because it focuses the conversation on a crucial aspect of abuse never spoken about, until now. When does the early on-set of domestic violence begin? How does domestic violence evolve? Not after women meet their abuser. Not when women ignore early warning signs. It begins when the pivotal father-daughter relationship is at its inception.

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K.C. Dressler has a Master’s degree in Counseling. While writing Whispers in Her Ear, she conducted research to prove her theory: a strong correlation between women who have experienced psychological and/or physical abuse from an intimate partner and unresolved father-daughter issues. Whispers in Her Ear is based on an essay K.C. wrote, The Soft, Blue Blanket, published in Enthropy Magazine. As a survivor of domestic violence and stalking, she knows firsthand how a father-daughter relationship that lacks what is intrinsic to a little girl maintaining self-worth, can result in its demise and a woman bound to meet her abuser. K.C. lives with her thirteen-year-old son, Milo, and his adorable Siamese kitten, Quinn Esme.

About Ídolo de ídolos

Adventure, and some ocasional romance.
Idolo, it’s an invitación to discover, that Lille kid, that a lo of us still have sleeping so me where in the botton of our hearts . Talks about the crazy adventure of a super Star, a great singer, who in the top of his glorious moment , live one of the crazies adventure that the
Child inside every one of us ever imagine go thru.

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Wilfredo alcantara.
Olive at NC, father of two girls.

About Origins by David Miller

Every Legend has a beginning! Some are just bloodier than others!

In Feudal Japan, warriors are trained in every conceivable form of combat know, but when Kumamoto Castle is attacked—not by people, but by an army of mythical creatures—samurai Saito Izumi is more than up for the challenge.

But while Saito stands side-by-side with her lover and their best friend defending the castle to the death, she must also uncover the reasons behind the attack. What she learns may break her heart and will change her forever—if it doesn’t kill her first.

An ancient tale of mythical proportion featuring the vampire Saito Izumi
From the author of STONE OF DESTINY – Book One in the Irish Cycle Series

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DAVID MILLER grew up in New York in the early ’70s watching Dark Shadows during the day, the Night Stalker at night, and the weekly Creature Feature movie on an old black & white RCA television set every Saturday night with his father. It was there watching the classic Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolfman movies his love for the supernatural was born.

It’s no wonder now as an adult (chronologically anyway) he writes stories with fantastical creatures, mystical happenings, and occult goings-on, of worlds where anything can happen…and usually does. Nor should it be surprising among his favorite TV shows are Supernatural, Buffy, Angel, and his newest guilty-pleasure; Wynonna Earp.

About A Lullaby in the Desert

‘Here in the desert, the truth began to take hold of Susan, teaching her that her strength, her confidence and her mind were her own and no one else’s.’
A Lullaby in the Desert tells the story of one woman’s unrelenting journey to find freedom. Born in Iran, Susan is forced to flee in order to escape an arranged marriage, leaving her mother and everything she has known behind. Years later, Susan has settled in Erbil where she must continue to navigate the daily threat of racial prejudice and a violent patriarchal society. Yet even as she struggles to survive, life is further disturbed by the approach of ISIS in 2014. Like many others, Susan is forced to make a life changing decision. Stay in Erbil and let ISIS decide her fate? Or risk everything in search of a freedom she had never known?
The subjection and danger that Susan must overcome during her gruelling journey shows an instinct for survival and human resilience that is truly eye opening. A Lullaby in the Desert may share one woman’s fight for survival, but it shows the reality that many have, and still, face.

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MOJGAN AZAR was born in Iran and lived most of her adult life in Iraq. She was living in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2014 when the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham swept through the area, displacing millions and trapping Mojgan in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Her harrowing experiences have inspired her writings, and for the first time she is making that story known to the world.

About William Ottoway’s Utopia and other stories by Christopher Griffith

‘Come, Manou, this is superstitious clap.’ So says William Ottoway to his island’s priest, for the modern world has surely extinguished any notion of the supernatural? But some who have lived before our technological revolution hold grave concerns about this new reality which has all but supplanted the numinous element of human existence. Despite warning from his best friend’s mother against attempting to replicate paradise, William puts faith alone in idealism to create a utopian society in the tropics. All seems well, until his serpent brother appears with temptation…

William Ottoway’s Utopia concerns the dream of a man who seeks to escape stresses of everyday life for promised ease in this world’s tropics; to his dismay, he is unable to flee influence of the one appliance which has arguably shaped all our experience in the last half century, the humble television set! William is a good man, but will he be ravaged and ruined by his brother Tom who brings discord and disharmony to his island paradise?

Rick With A (Bipolar) View details the experience of a young man suffering from bipolar disorder who wants to be a professional DJ. Unsure whether or not the repetitive beats of electronic music and his obsession with trance and techno may be the cause of his illness, he nevertheless accepts offer of a Friday night gig and ‘takes the roof off’ the nightclub, coming down back at home in glow and reflection of his achievement.

If all this sounds too intense then do please head over to Break Out the Bubbly!!, a comic piece set in a supermarket whose Manager is acting in very strange manner indeed. The initial boredom felt by our hero Emily is quickly shattered by Carol’s arrival and subsequent farce as she seems intent on closing the shop during opening hours to conduct inquisitions in the boardroom! The champagne keeps going missing, you see, and she needs to find the culprit. Is he, or she, a little closer to home than everyone thinks?

Fantasy for the next story, Saman’s Revenge, in which our titular hero is seriously miffed with the Earth-goddess Thera; she’s punished him an aeon ago for misdemeanour which he firmly believes really wasn’t his fault at all. Anyway, when you’re immortal and old as the hills themselves it doesn’t bother you too much to wait a few millennia before exacting your revenge on modern day teenagers Jack, Roxie, her boyfriend Mark and his brother Norman. But what is the young people’s relation to Thera, and temple ruins on top of the village hill, Shadyridge?

Which leaves Young Shakespeare, my imaginative retelling of some of Will’s ‘lost years’ when he reached London; after all, who wouldn’t want to fall in love with Anne, listen in awe to Sir Walter Raleigh’s perorations on, well who knows, meet his future friend and rival Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe, then cogitate at length upon the Reformation against whose profound change the budding writer begins to conclude he might wish to work?

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I had always done well in English at school, and without the first clue what I wanted to do with the rest of my life I decided to play to this strength of mine and applied to study English at university!

In addition, I had always found English Language something of a bind (too dry and analytical for me, I concluded sagely…) so the course I settled on was straight English Literature; of course, the serious study of poetry and prose proved also to be dry and analytical so that one day early in my second year I found myself in the university library writing the opening paragraph of what would become my first novel – Saman's Revenge.

Strangely, this new urge to create instead of critically analysing texts coincided with a descent into mental ill health, serious enough condition that I was forced to convalesce at home where I found time enough to finish writing Saman's Revenge; and from that point on, the creative well within me simply would not stop springing and spurting forth new characters with new stories to tell.

Over the next couple of years I wrote three more full-length novels, Rick With A View, WilliamOttoway's Utopia and then what at the time I concluded was my masterpiece; this last, however, completely emptied my reserves of energy, its effort draining that very well I had naively thought would always flow freely, leaving me at completion to cling on to the one element I had always found easy to produce in my composition – dialogue.

I had started writing poetry at the same time as prose, much of it acting as therapy to help heal my illness, so I took this medicine of mine and alongside it began to write stage plays, surmising naively that this would be a more comfortable task, an easy job to ascend the mountain top of none other than one William Shakespeare! But I would have to read too, I realised, the oxygen of books and more formidable tomes allowing me to gain wisdom and intellect enough to reach that very same peak.

Under such delusion, I returned to university – surely it was no coincidence that a glut of talented writers I had been reading about had all taken the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and if that course was necessary possession to reach the heights my hero had then I would have to apply for and hopefully gain place upon it, even if I lived a hundred miles away and would still have to work my day job to make ends meet?!

Somehow, I managed it. I didn't score highly on my units but I passed, just as I had been disappointed not to rate better in my undergraduate effort, but I had now been to two strong universities (the other one Bristol), I was still reading widely, I had written four novels, and the poetry I produced continued to regularly burst over the banks of my subconscious. Now was the time, I knew, that I would make my name as the next famous playwright; so I gave up writing plays and returned to scripting novels!

And here's the thing -without the illogicality of that decision, there would be no Break Out The Bubbly!! or Young Shakespeare in this collection, for it was these two full-length novels I proceeded to compose before making decision to convert them, along with the first three novels I had written, into short stories. And the rest, as they say, is present. I had done with the novel that had almost had done with me, taking the remaining five which due to my erratic wanderings in writing were now mix of prose, poetry and play, shaping and editing them into the collection I present to you here.

I hope this information goes some way towards explaining the rather unique writing style you will find in the stories, ranging from short, bare sentences to more substantial prose paragraphs; it may take some getting used to as you read through, but I can assure you that there is method behind it and I have thought deeply not just about every story included here but about every sentence, phrase and indeed word within their worlds. My training at Bristol and UEA taught me to pay attention so whilst the length of time I have been writing, some twenty years, instructed me likewise but from different angle, most acutely through the words of those characters who speak to each other, and to you, in these pages!

About JC’s Cure For Cancer by Mike Scantlebury

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JC’s Cure – Summary
Jeremy Ceremony is a normal sort of young man. He wants to do well and he wants to earn a living. Why not? He thinks he’s found the cure for cancer. Surely someone is going to give him some cash along the way?
Amelia Hartliss meanwhile, Secret Agent, has been given a routine mission, to go undercover and find a new arrival in Britain, someone who might have been sent here with murder in mind. Her investigations take her to an unlikely destination – a suburban church, providing support and beds for the Homeless. While there she is told about a regular member of the church congregation, a man called Jeremy. She is shocked to hear he might be able to cure cancer. It would be so useful!
Jeremy’s boss has the disease. Melia’s lover’s father had been taken ill. The Vicar at the church too. They are all suffering. They all need treatment – fast. And then, the greatest surprise. Melia’s oldest adversary, her nemesis, arrives in Manchester. To kill her? No, to say goodbye. He too is afflicted. His time is limited. He is trying to make amends, he says, but dare she trust him, after everything that has happened between them?
Melia finds herself conflicted, her emotions ravaged by people she used to think of as friends – they’re not – and people she used to think of as enemies – they’ve changed. If only her boyfriend Mickey was there, but he is abroad, on a secret mission. No, Melia is going to have to tackle this pressure alone, finding support where she can, but drawing on her own inner resources. After all, they call her ‘Heartless’. Surely she is tough enough to cope!

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What can you say about Mike Scantlebury –
that isn’t scrawled on walls already?
Well, he says he was born in absentia (the small town on the Bay of Biscay), beside the dock of the bay, but moved to England when young, and not yet able to navigate astutely. His family settled in the West Country of England, near a cross cultural base called Temp Chelney, where his father became a cupboard maker and mushroom breeder.
When the borders were changed in the 1980s, Mike packed his service slippers and moved to a barn in the nearby city of Bristol. This is where he first got involved in folking, falsifying and faking. Later, he became qualified.

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About My Dead Blue Caterpillar

Nothing is what it seems! No one is who they claim to be!
Everyone has secrets but no one has secrets as big as Harold’s. When Karen Pine finds out her husband is sleeping with a multitude of women, and has a book full of their names and addresses, she has to decide if she: A.) wants to kill him. B.) wants to punish his women or C.) all of the above.
As she struggles with the discovery of a secret book, the reality of what it all means, and searches for answers, more and more secrets start to come to life about her husband.
Karen is soon sucked into a mind-bending, mysterious, and devious revenge story. But it isn’t until Harold suddenly disappears, that things take a turn for the worse. Leaving Karen to fight a battle she could never imagine, even in her wildest dreams.
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My name is R.D. Murray I'm 44 years old and I was recently run over by a car in New Jersey, nearly losing my life. I decided to return to my love for writing in hopes to reach people and give people fun, suspenseful and mysterious stories.