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Sheba yearned for her life to begin. But that could only happen when she'd gotten what she'd always wanted: a family. Only then could the agony of the thought be replaced by bliss. Only then could she begin to live. Being a bastard is hard anywhere, but rural eastern Europe after the Great War was its own brand of brutal. Still Sheba survived and even found love in spite of it all. But miscarriage after miscarriage replaced hope with doubt then despair and finally torture. She could let go of the hope for a happier past but not for that of a happier future. An overwhelming choice loomed over her. How could she ever choose betwen the love of her life and her future children when neither one could bring her happiness without the other? Everything she had painstakingly tried to build was threatening to come crashing down. Could the fortune-teller have been right? Was what she already had enough? Or was letting go giving up?

In a world where the safety of everyones future is secured by a special time-organization, Seth Stawarski finds himself in yet another routine job. The task is simple: kill subject #736, a young man destined to incapacitate the organizations agents, and vanish without a trace. Disobedience means dying a traitor to his kind. Shouldnt be a problem, should it?

One's an inexplicable fool, stumbling through life; the other is a listless cashier waiting for something better. Their lives unravel over the course of a summer day, forcing them to confront old truths in new clothes, all the all the while drifting towards a chance encounter under a sinking sun.

From Herman Melville’s claim that “failure is the true test of greatness” to Henry Adams’s self-identification with the “mortifying failure in [his] long education” and William Faulkner’s eagerness to be judged by his “splendid failure to do the impossible,” the rhetoric of failure has served as a master trope of modernist American literary expression. David Ball’s magisterial study addresses the fundamental questions of language, meaning, and authority that run counter to well-rehearsed claims of American innocence and positivity, beginning with the American Renaissance and extending into modernist and contemporary literature. The rhetoric of failure was used at various times to engage artistic ambition, the arrival of advanced capitalism, and a rapidly changing culture, not to mention sheer exhaustion. False Starts locates a lively narrative running through American literature that consequently queries assumptions about the development of modernism in the United States.

Are we truly different from our ancestors, or are we more alike than we think? To Our Core explores this question by drawing intriguing parallels between ancient writings and modern behaviour. In this book, we travel through timeless themes of love, humour, scandal, and philosophy of ancient Rome to uncover what lies beneath our surface. We will discover whether we have truly changed or remained the same at our core.

Have you ever experienced a breakup? Lost a friend? Thought you weren't good enough? This book takes you on a journey about the stories of the lost souls. Some stories are happy and sweet, and some show you how tough life can be.

Tim Wynveen, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book prize, has outdone himself with his new novel, masterfully weaving themes of creativity, memory, time, loss and reconnection into the fragmented lives of the Owen family Ten years after their parents die in a car accident, Cyrus, Isabel and Hank Owen are still trying to put their lives in order. Hank, the eldest, is in prison. The second-born, Isabel, is on the verge of divorce. Cyrus, the youngest in the family, is consumed by a crazy dream -- to one day become a rock star. Three siblings; three solitary figures looking for a way forward; three separate melodic lines that, when they meet, cause more dissonance than harmony. As the story begins, Cyrus quits school and hits the road with the Jimmy Waters Revival, a curious entertainment that combines the southern fire of a Jimmy Swaggart with the oral narratives of a modern-day Homer. Even within his adopted musical family, Cyrus struggles to find his way, too caught up in his dream to see his life for what it really is, and after twelve years of wandering, he returns home a broken man. Yet his time on the road has taught him how important it is to strike a balance between individual and group, soloist and ensemble -- lessons that will serve Cyrus well when he tries to make a new start with Hank and Isabel. As he pays more attention to the needs of his fractured family and old friends, he begins to create for the first time in his life the sweet and elusive music of human connection.

Your mind is beautiful and cosmic. It can give you the best experiences of your life and make you feel invincible, but at the same time make you doubt yourself and be your biggest enemy. This book is about the chaotic stories of the mind of a 19-year-old girl who has had her fair share of experiences and feeling in this life. I hope it resonates with you and makes you feel understood and a little less crazy. I hope it encourages and empowers you, but also tangles your emotions a little bit. Enjoy reading

All the reasons to fly covers the omnipresence of love, death, agony, anxiety, happiness and challenges the world one lives in poses. Ghosts from the past and new born experiences and perspectives mingle together, building an outlook on why we should want to learn how to fly. And we we should learn to fly as soon as possible. The sky is not the limit.