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Exploring topics ranging from faith and the soul to society and morals, Refracted Reflections: Faith, Morals, and Society endeavors to highlight some of the steps toward gaining and achieving a perfected coordination and synchronization of the outward aspects of conduct and the inner aspects of thought within the self, whether related to understanding the intricacies and characteristics of the cosmos, or dealing with matters related to soul, birth, life, death, and beyond.

A prequel novella set in the Dominus universe by JP Kenwood. February: Home from the first war against the kingdom of Dacia, Gaius Fabius ignores his obligations in Rome and returns to his secluded seaside villa in Southern Italy. Under the pretense of a holiday trip, his best friend and secret lover, Lucius Petronius, surprises him with an unexpected visit. Later that evening, the lusty masters share the delights of Gaius’s blond pleasure slave, Nicomedes.

Charles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his smugly conventional bourgeois upbringing. Now he has just graduated from university, only to make the discouraging discovery that his education has rendered him unfit for any kind of useful employment. Wondering what to do with the rest of his life and longing to escape, a chance remark overheard in a pub sets him off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s Britain. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works as a window cleaner, a drug trafficker, a hospital orderly, and a chauffeur.

Have you ever wondered how the rich keep getting richer, and how they have achieved true financial freedom? The answer is that they make their money work for them. They’re not only able to make a lot of money, but they’re also able to use that money to generate more passively. One primary way they do this is by investing in the stock market. This audiobook serves as general guidance for those just starting in the stock market. You will learn all the basics about the stock market, how to invest your money, and how to protect yourself against losses.

This is a book for children with fun poems; the poems have been written with children in mind and can stimulate their imagination, curiosity, and development. The inspiration behind these poems came from my own experiences when I was a child and what I would have enjoyed. Hopefully these poems will be heard by children worldwide and they enjoy reading them, encouraged to expand their imagination.

I have a huge passion for writing and enjoy letting my ideas run wild. My endeavour in life is to encourage, uplift, and motivate. I strive to do this in my writing and in all I do and say. I am in awe of nature and her vast treasures. I receive much pleasure and inspiration from observing nature in her many beautiful forms. I hope that my writing can bring out this love and passion I have for nature and her splendour. I hope to immerse my listeners in my thoughts, descriptions, and experiences.

His name is a whisper in the darkness. He is a shadow in the night. For centuries, he stalked the earth, leaving death and destruction in his wake. Sorcerers feared to talk of him. Vampires feared to face him. Then one day he was simply gone. Vanished. Dead. But can the world's most powerful warlock ever truly die?

Vampires have brought war to Maidstone. Eddie is the only thing standing in their way. The Syndicate is the deadliest group of vampires the world has ever seen. Led by the 1,000-year-old vampire, Sebastian Redvers, the group has conquered town after town. Now the Syndicate has arrived in Maidstone. Eddie is prepared to stay out of their way until they attack his favourite pub. Then all bets are off and he goes to war with the vampires. But Sebastian is no ordinary vampire. He has the backing of a powerful warlock who has made him impervious to magic.

Eddie Lancaster has been running from Rachel for 13 years. Now she's finally caught up with him. This time his friends are in her crosshairs, too. Running is no longer an option. Eddie must stand and fight the woman who has haunted his nightmares for over a decade. But the odds are stacked against him. Rachel is a far more powerful warlock than Eddie and with a newly improved mind-control serum in her arsenal, there is nobody she cannot command.

When police realise that all 637 kidnappings are linked, they know they’re in over their heads. They hire the warlock, Eddie Lancaster. Eddie follows the breadcrumbs, and they lead him to the Lower Realm - a world parallel to our own. It is home to many different supernatural beings. As he meets fairies, imps, and gnomes, he quickly realises that he’s gotten involved in something far more sinister than a simple kidnapping. Panomie has something far more disturbing in store for his victims.

Eddie Lancaster can provide any magical service for a price. This time the price is his best friend's life...Eddie is a warlock, but not your typical warlock. He can siphon magic out of anyone and anything. When Ashley Sheridan asks him to remove her magic he does so, unknowingly getting wrapped up in a situation better left alone. By helping Ashley, Eddie has put himself in the sights of the malevolent seer, Killian Myers. The choice is simple - perform a ritual that will make Killian invincible or watch his best friend die.

To soon old, too late smart. Over the course of my life, I have happened upon sayings that apply to specific situations in our lives. Actually, they relate powerful lessons. Over time, I jotted down many of these real-world insights and also began to compile a list of my personal experiences that I expected to pass along to my children. But I was married for 13 years then divorced. We were not blessed with children. So I passed these sayings along to pipe fitter apprentices who worked with me, and the lessons were received very well.

In the second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Skinner includes new material on The Prince, showing how Machiavelli developed his neo-classical political theory, through engaging in continual dialogue with the ancient Roman moralists and historians, especially Cicero and Livy. The aim of political leaders, Machiavelli argues, should be to act virtuously so far as possible, but to stand ready "to be not good" when this course of action is dictated by necessity.

Most people dream of escaping the rat race, their everyday humdrum lives on the treadmill. Time is their invisible enemy. What could be more exciting than relocating abroad to your very own trailer by the sea: mortgage free, cheap living, surrounded by sun, sea, and sangria?

Penny and friend apply for jobs in London. They are excited to be going to the capital since neither girl had been far from their rural homes. Now is the start of a great adventure. The house Penny arrived at looked very gloomy as also did the gaunt figure who opened the door.

Noir struggles with his broken mind. As well as dealing with the darkness that threatens to consume him, he must also teach a group of battle mages, attend the wedding, and save the world. Silence fears his latent powers may be out of his control and is weighed down by doubt and self-loathing. A strange dream and an even stranger morning bring him some answers that ultimately lead him to more questions. The Wizards return from the Elven archives to find that Noir has a dangerous lesson plan for them, while Banhier has given his trust to his nation’s greatest enemy: the wolves.

Bob, is a lovable overweight man with his mind constantly on food. He wakes up one day to accidentally become a ******. I would like to tell you what he becomes, but if I told you he was a secret agent/spy, then it would no longer be a secret. As the story unfolds, things get more complicated and his full potential is unleashed upon humankind. This is a story of romance, scantily clad grannies, overeating, things that go “bang”, and a lot of nonsensical ramblings.

Unlike most adventures, quests, or journeys that started a long time ago - or the old catchphrase “Once upon a time” - this story starts now, in the modern world 2019. If you want to know something, you have technology at your fingertips, ready to spit out any information that you desire. However, what if something isn’t available on a search engine? I am not talking about some small detail like what a random celebrity’s budgie’s name was - something much larger, far more important, and unique.

It is 2002 when Kwamboka, a Kisii girl from Western Kenya who refused female genital mutilation as part of her tribe’s puberty rites, returns home after laboring in the fields all day. Exhausted, Kwamboka falls asleep and awakens a few hours later to the smell of smoke. She manages to escape the fire that engulfs her house, only to see her uncle waiting outside - the one who is supposed to protect her according to Kisii law. Kwamboka realizes that he has murdered her mother and now attempted to kill her.

Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in the bar sends him back to the England of 1913, when he was just 18 and longed to enter the seemingly magical world of the glamorous Alington family and its three lovely daughters.