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They stick out. They change the conversation. They challenge the traditional narrative. They are outcasts - isolated, different, misunderstood. Being normal is nice. But being an outcast is a real part of the human experience. Have you have ever had the feeling of being alone in some way, of being on the outside looking in? If so, then the characters in these short stories will move you - sometimes by their depravity, sometimes by their sorrow...and sometimes by their joy.

Dear listener, this is a work of my heart. These are somersaults in my chest, put into words. May they be of service to you on your journey in this wild game called life played in this incredible place called Earth. And may our deepest poetry be written in the silent elation of our smiles.

Welcome to a new adventure starring our courageous young heroine Jamie McFlair, who so successfully thwarted her nasty uncle's monstrous plans a few months ago. But as we rejoin her, Jamie McFlair is...sad. Huh? Well, she just found out that she and her best friends - Daisy, Mel and Jenners - are being split up and sent to different schools. Not one to admit defeat, Jamie discovers a way out of this unpleasant situation: Rubbsling's Academy for Creators, a school for famous kids.

Aoife knows everyone in Dundalk’s underworld. Too well, in some cases. But when she meets Annie, a beautiful whirlwind of a woman, and brings her to the Town, she finds that she doesn't know nearly enough about her. Annie is magnetic and wild, and Aoife’s desire to learn more quickly becomes a need, and then an obsession - to know this dangerous woman, to love her, to keep her.

Kayla Stone wants answers. This time, she knows exactly who to ask. Kayla Stone and Father O’Shea have a turbulent, violent history. Yet she needs to confront him a final time. For once, Kayla knows exactly where he is. There’s only problem; he’s locked up in a maximum-security prison. O’Shea’s past is as gloomy as San Francisco’s infamous fog. But in a city rife with gangsters, Kayla isn’t the only person with justice on her mind and revenge in her sights.

Professor Luke O’Neill has become one of the most well-known and trusted voices of Ireland’s COVID-19 pandemic. A world-renowned immunologist, he was thrust into the spotlight as the media and public desperately grappled to make sense of a crisis that saw the country grind to a halt. In these high-octane diaries, Professor Luke reveals what life was like behind the scenes.

Clarence Locke was a bore and a boar. Thursday’s cocktails had, inevitably, gone the way that their first date at Brise’s had - a disaster, as far as Antonia was concerned. Antonia knew that it was time to throw in the towel, but try as she might, it seemed nearly impossible. More than just her nagging heart retreating to the knowledge that she was in love with a dead man, it was Clarence himself; he kept forcefully taking the lead, even when she didn’t want him too.

In the year 1933, an elderly Dr. John Watson is looking back over his life and his time spent with his brilliant friend and master of deduction Sherlock Holmes. He writes in a letter to the listener that he has assembled a list of seven untold adventures that span from his and Sherlock's early years until the time of Sherlock's retirement. Watson explains that he wishes to leave, not only his family, but the public with a final compilation of adventures that he and Sherlock shared while he is still able.

Time had flown, and Antonia wasn't entirely sure where it had gone. It seemed to her that she had just moved into Westamere Manor; had just discovered that her house was haunted; had just met the man whose ghost she was living with. And yet, the weeks and the months had passed, and it was already late October. In a flourish of busyness to prepare the manor for the winter season, Antonia completely missed the last few days of October.

Time had flown, and Antonia wasn't entirely sure where it had gone. It seemed to her that she had just moved into Westamere Manor; had just discovered that her house was haunted; had just met the man whose ghost she was living with. And yet the weeks and the months had passed, and it was already late October. In a flourish of busyness to prepare the manor for the winter season, Antonia completely missed the last few days of October. Before long it was the 31st.

Get to know the rules of the road fast with this 100 questions-and-answers learning aid. This short book will help you pass that theory exam, stress-free, with a no-frills, straight-to-the-point test, and with the answers that follow, you can quickly correct your mistakes and move on to the real thing.

Kayla Stone heads to Dubai with one thing on her mind. Justice. But, when the glimmering Arabian lights refuse to part with their secrets, Kayla must cross into the city’s dark side. Attempting to bring down a global effort to kidnap and sell children, Kayla vows to stop the criminals in their tracks. This time the stakes are higher. This time even more lives are on the line. This time Kayla’s fighting in unfamiliar territory.

In a bid to get away from the violence and trauma of the last few months, Kayla Stone returns to her hometown of Sydney. But she’s barely off the plane when the ghosts of her past fight back. When she stumbles upon an underground trafficking ring dealing in the sale of children, turning the other cheek is not an option. Kayla’s risked her life on shadowy streets before.

Life is cheap in the impenetrable shadows of Mumbai’s notorious underworld. Lives are bought and sold here. Fear is the ultimate currency. Kayla Stone expected India to be life-changing, but not like this. When a young child is snatched right in front of her eyes, Kayla decides it’s time to make a stand. It’s a decision she was born to make.

Driving Great Results addresses the frustration around the core elements of running your business. Don't reinvent the wheel for tools that have already been proven. The time-saving tools in this book will allow you to spend your time on the things which really matter: your people, customer satisfaction, market and product differentiation, and doing the things you love to do!

A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Corporal Ethan Miller USMC is a shell of a man. Haunted by a tragic event from his past, he lives a life of self-inflicted penance, feeling underserving of love and isolating himself into a broken existence of anger and guilt. His nightmares had only just begun when he is violently plunged into an epic journey that will ultimately test the limits of human endurance.

Pyralis’ boy is nine years old. A simple fact only in contention if you ask him. His actions today seem a little unstable. Not knowing what day it is, claiming conversations that have never happened, asking Hadriel if he's going to the forest again. Hadriel has no intention of going to the forest. He just wants to try cooking a damn fish.

Kidnapped in broad daylight from a busy Edinburgh street, Hannah Wilson has no idea what her abductors want with her, as they chain her in the back of their van and speed out of the city. They tell her she's perfectly safe when she's terrified for her life.