The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars.

After the death of her estranged father, artist Rita struggles with grief and regret. There was so much she wanted to ask him-about his childhood, their family, and the Mi'kmaq language and culture from which Rita feels disconnected. But when Rita's girlfriend Molly forges an artist's residency application on her behalf, winning Rita a week to paint at an isolated cabin, Rita is both furious and intrigued. The residency is located where her father grew up.

On the first night at the cabin, Rita wakes to strange sounds. Was that a body being dragged through the woods? When she questions the locals about the cabin's history, they are suspicious and unhelpful. Ignoring her unease, Rita gives in to dark visions that emanate from the forest's lake and the surrounding swamp. She feels its pull, channelling that energy into art like she's never painted before. But the uncanny visions become more insistent, more intrusive, and Rita discovers that in the swamp's decay the end of one life is sometimes the beginning of another.

All forms of yoga can provide benefits physically, emotionally, and mentally, however Yin Yoga works the deeper levels of the body/heart/mind: the yin tissues of fascia, tendons, ligaments, joints and bones, as well as the energetic channels of the meridians, nerves and blood system. One big difference noticed by students of Yin Yoga is the long-held, passive nature of the posture, which gives time for a deeper journey to unfold, a journey into the meditative aspects of yoga, a bridge to living life mindfully.

The second edition includes--a more functional approach to the practice of yoga, emphasizing the concept of targeted areas; the importance of stress in reducing fragility and building antifragility; understanding the nature of creep and the importance of counterposes, with a revised list of effective counterpostures; many new photographs of the postures and their variations for different body types; a more current overview of the physiology of tissues and the energy body reflecting new understanding in the science of fascia and cellular signaling; and many other enhancements.

As in the first edition, the book presents comprehensive information on how to do the practice, including how to get into and out of the pose, contraindications and warnings for those who may have trouble with particular aspects of the posture, and other important information. Why we do the practice is discussed by looking at its benefits in three main sections: the physiological, energetic and mental/emotional benefits.

An expansion of the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning story. Arboreality is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the winner of the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell's astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change.

AN UNDERWATER TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AGAINST MONSTROUS ODDS

When Ceph, a squid-like scientist, discovers proof of the ocean's slowing currents, she makes the dangerous ascent from her deep-sea civilization to the uncharted surface above. Out of her depths and helpless in her symbiotic mech suit, Ceph relies on Iliokai, a seal-folk storyteller, who sings the state of the sea and has seen evidence of clogged currents as she surfs the time gyres throughout the lonely blue. Navigating the perils of their damaged ocean environment, and seemingly insurmountable cultural differences, Ceph and Iliokai realize that the activities of terrestrial beings are slowing the spiralling currents of time. On a journey that connects future and past, the surface and the deep, the unlikely friends struggle to solve a problem so big it needs a leviathan solution.

The human spine is unique in its structure and function. Primarily, it provides stability through the core of our body, allowing forces to be transmitted from the upper body (arms and shoulders) to the lower body (pelvis and legs) and vice versa. Secondarily, the spine allows tremendous range of movement. Unfortunately, in modern yoga practice we find the primacy of these two functions reversed, with flexibility prized over stability. This focus on spinal mobility comes at a grave cost to many students. Stability is lost, and when that happens, dysfunction and pain often follow.

Just as all tissues and areas of the body need a healthy amount of stress to regain and maintain optimal health, so too our spine needs the appropriate levels of stress to remain functional throughout our lives. How we choose to exercise the spine makes a difference, though. Knowing the way the spine is built, specifically, how your spine is built, will allow you to tailor your exercises wisely to match your goals.

Your Spine, Your Yoga is the second book in the Your Body, Your Yoga series and focuses on the axial body―the core, from the sacral complex, which includes the pelvis, sacrum, and sacroiliac joint, through the lumbar and thoracic segments of the spine, to the cervical complex, which includes the neck and head. The structural components of each segment are examined: from the bones, to the joints, ligaments, fascia, tendons, muscles, and even the neurological and blood systems. The range and implications of human variations are presented, as well as the ways these variations may affect individual yoga practices. The sources of restrictions to movement are investigated through answering the question What Stops Me? The answers presented run through a spectrum, beginning with various types of tensile resistance to three kinds of compressive resistance.

Whether the reader is a novice to yoga, anatomy, or both, or a seasoned practitioner with an in-depth knowledge in these fields, this book will be valuable. For the novice, there are easily understood illustrations and photographs, as well as sidebars highlighting the most important topics. For the anatomy geek, other sidebars focus on the complexity of the topic, with hundreds of references provided for further investigation. For the yoga teacher, sidebars suggest how to bring this knowledge into the classroom. Your Spine, Your Yoga can be used as a resource when specific questions arise, as a textbook to be studied in detail, or as a fascinating coffee-table book to be browsed at leisure for topics of current interest.

Your Upper Body, Your Yoga is the highly anticipated final book of the Your Body, Your Yoga trilogy -- the definitive investigation of how your uniqueness affects your movements, postures and your yoga.

This remarkable trilogy looks at the variations of human anatomy and its effect on the body's biomechanics. Used as a standard text for many yoga teacher training programs it provides yoga students and teachers a system for exploring what asanas are possible and sensible and which postures should best be left alone. This third book in the series looks at the upper body: the shoulder complex, arms and hands. But, there is more. This final book also includes explorations of how asymmetries and proportions affect our practice.

You are unique. No one else in this whole world has your biology or biography. Why suppose that your yoga practice should be, or even could be, the same as anyone else's? How far apart should your hands be in Down Dog? Where should they be pointing? Should you avoid hyperextension of the elbows? Is hyperflexion of the shoulders safe? The answer is -- it depends! Your Upper Body, Your Yoga looks at the upper body from both the Western anatomical/biomechanical point of view and the modern yoga perspective. It is filled with detail, discussion, illustrations and practical advice for bodies of all types.

Proportions and asymmetries are highly variable from person to person. The implications of asymmetries for a yoga practice and whether these asymmetries need to be changed, accommodated or simply accepted is examined along with variability in our proportions and their effect on postures.

Whether the reader is a novice to yoga and anatomy or a seasoned practitioner with an in-depth knowledge, this book will be valuable. For the novice, there are easily understood illustrations and photographs, as well as sidebars highlighting the most important topics. For the anatomy specialists, other sidebars focus on the complexity of the topic, with hundreds of references provided for further investigation. For the yoga teacher, other sidebars suggest how to bring this knowledge into the classroom. Your Upper Body, Your Yoga can be used as a resource when specific questions arise, as a textbook to be studied in detail, or as a fascinating coffee-table book to be browsed at leisure for topics of current interest.

Rylla McCracken dreams of escaping her family's trailer in the Dust States to go to college, but on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, her mother demands she drop out of school to work for Lockburn chemical refinery instead. When Rylla learns Lockburn is planning to dam the Guadalupe River-the last flowing water in Texas-she defies her mother to protest in the state capital. The protest ends in disaster, but her ensuing viral infamy gains Rylla an acceptance to the mysterious Wingates University.

At Wingates, Rylla befriends a diverse group of students, all working on new technologies to save the planet. Besides mountains of homework, Rylla struggles with guilt for leaving her brother behind in the Dust, where tensions with the Lush States are escalating towards civil war. Succeeding at Wingates seems like Rylla's best chance to help her family, until she uncovers a terrible secret about the school's billionaire backers. Now, Rylla and her friends are in a race against the rich to reclaim the world-altering technology they've developed-before it's too late.

A bird's eye view of life, love and bacchanal in the Caribbean - the likes you have never read before.

Sunil Sunny Darsan seems to have been born into the idyllic family but all he wants to do is escape. His family's legacy is impressive: a grandfather who is a rags to riches icon and owner of the largest plantation in Trinidad and his parents who are the first Trinidadian couple to graduate as lawyers.

This is a family that seems to have it all - wealth, power and a renowned family name. However, like all families, this one has its secrets.

When Sunny's parents divorce and his grandfather dies, his father, Vijay, is left the plantation. Vijay's natural instincts come out as he shirks his paternal duties and pursues his major interests: womanizing and gambling. Sunny's mother struggles to keep him and his sister, Leila, clothed and fed while their father gambles and parties. Unfortunately, she can only protect them from so much and when Sunny and Leila visit their father at the plantation for a holiday, it's the end of their innocence. Sunny finds himself on a path of discovery of a painful secret that will affect him and his sister for the rest of their lives. Amidst the challenges of his childhood and emerging manhood, Sunny tries to survive, desperately searching for an avenue of escape from the dysfunction that is his life.

Trials and Tribulations offers a window into life on the tropical island of Trinidad from the suburbs of Port of Spain to the cocoa plantations of the countryside, in addition to murder, deceit, adultery as well as racial tensions, all from the perspective an Indo-Trinidadian youth during the mid to late twentieth century.

The former Blessed Virgin Mary has spent the past two thousand years looking after others, only to find that her true story has been erased. No one knows the real Miryam, the flesh and blood mother, the woman who taught the foundations of a world-wide religion to her often disobedient son.

As she lives through her latest reincarnation, she struggles to understand why she keeps returning. Will her study at a Theological College finally allow her to free herself? Will she be able to retell her story, make herself real? Will she find the other half to her soul?

Bullied at school, ashamed of his parents, and tired of who he is, 12-year-old Joseph Ward is certain things are as bad as they can get. Until tragedy strikes and he finds himself locked up in St. Theodore's Academy for Wayward Children, a reform school overseen by a cruel and merciless headmaster.

Joseph has a secret gift, though. A gift that takes him to magical and terrifying worlds. His only hope of escape is through these places. But something unimaginable lurks within them. Something dangerous. Something hungry.

Do you want expert strategies to Win at Chess AND get the girl? Then keep reading...

At the age of 5, I first learned how to play Chess. I developed a real knack for the game. For years, I read books and studied the opening, middle, and endgames tirelessly. I became one of the best players in my hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick. In 1988, during the World Blitz Championship in Saint John, I won a match with the World's Junior Chess Champion and continued on in the tournament. Since then, I've used my skills to teach others the strategies that worked so well for me.

I found Chess strategies I studied for years accurately reflected what was required to get the girl.

In this book, you will discover:

- The essential steps you need to take before facing your opponent

- The 12 most frequent signals women send when they are attracted to a man

- Opening moves in Chess which will give you the greatest chance of gaining control of the board

- The right and wrong ways of asking a girl out on a date

- The one secret Chess strategy I've used for years which works every time

- What to text a woman after a first date which will have her captivated

And much more....

Roughly 600-700 million people in the world play Chess. Therefore, approximately 10% of the people on the planet play Chess. If you think you don't have what it takes to be in the top tier, I'm here to tell you differently. With enough practice and Chess strategy study, you WILL be one of the best. If you've been struggling to get the attention of that special girl for months, with the right attitude, preparation, and strategy, you WILL capture the Queen.

Is it possible to live at your best for 10 years? I believe it is and that it is within your reach. Through my book Your Best Decade I will provide you with a tailored blueprint to live according to your values successfully for a rich, more fulfilling life lived at your greatest potential.

Reviews:

Reading Your Best Decade really helped me narrow in on exactly what I needed to do to reach my goals. - Nurse

Living out our best decade is a choice and we are making the choice to do just that! - Health Care Professional

Living out my best decade means envisioning the life I want for my future while making choices each day that will help get me there. - Teacher

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Enjoy this steamy comedic series about tabletop gamers in love by geeky romance author Ivy Collins...

Save vs. attraction.

I'm a grown adult, and if I want to play Towers & Tyrants, no one is going to stop me. In fact, I'm going to TowerCon this year to find a game, and Finn O'Roarke has just offered to pop my cherry.

Er, my geeky cherry.

Wow, that doesn't sound any better at all.

Thank god Finn is a professional. He's been a celebrity gamemaster for the last few years now. I'm really lucky he offered me a spot at his table-people normally have to sign up months in advance to get a piece of that action.

His game, oh my god, not him.

Look, no one can blame me for getting ideas. The moment Finn shot me that deliciously irresistible smile and asked me out to lunch, I was doomed. I hope it's not a crime to admire your gamemaster's butt?

Someone hand me a d20 and shut me up already, please.

Dating & Dragons is the first novel in the Dating & Dragons romance series, though all of the novels can be read as standalones. This spicy contemporary romance is perfect for gamers who play Dungeons & Dragons, and it has a guaranteed happy ending. The story is novella-length, for a quick afternoon read.

Suffering sea monsters! Can Hubert brave the storm?

Meet Rainbow Reef's fabulous fish kids: Aiden, the panicky pufferfish, Sparky the doggone friendly dogfish, Olga the eight-legged bully, her little sister Red, and Hubert, a tiny hermit crab who is working on his spy skills.

When Hubert and friends play hide-and-seek in the spooky Kelp Forest, Red Octopus gets lost. With a storm raging, can Hubert bring her home safely? Finding a tiny octopus in the ocean is trickier than detecting one grain of sand on the beach. Fortunately, Hubert has a secret weapon.

Read about it in The Hunt for Red Octopus.

Meet Rainbow Reef's fabulous fish kids: Emma and Aiden, the panicky pufferfish twins, Sparky the doggone friendly dogfish, Olga the eight-legged bully, Sturgeon the (wannabe) Surgeon, and Hermit, a tiny hermit crab with sky-high ambitions.

Hubert wants to play cards with his best friend Sparky the dogfish. Too bad Sparky's other friend, Olga Octopus, thinks Hubert is too small to play. When Hubert accuses Olga of cheating, she carries him out past the drop-off and abandons him where the sea monsters live. Can Hubert outwit hungry sharks to get home safely?

Lost and stripped of his protective shell, Hubert has to dig deep - into the sand - uncovering a cave with a surprising secret.

Marina Royale is the first book in the Saltwater Spy School series. If you're looking for fantastic sea creatures and laugh-out-loud adventures both kids and adults will enjoy, you will love these fast-paced stories from Apricot Banks.

Enjoy this steamy student teacher romance by geeky author Ivy Collins...

What are your professor's best attributes?

Professor Elijah Oliver is hot, snarky, and British. Half the girls in this class are only here because they love hearing him insult them. But he really is a genius, so I guess I'll give him that.

Do you feel your professor cares about your success in class?

He's constantly nitpicking at me in particular, so I'd say so.

What do you feel your professor could do better?

I don't think that's fit to print on a survey.

Is there anything you would like to tell your professor? (All answers are confidential and anonymized.)

You drive me so crazy, I could pin you to a wall and kiss you senseless-

Wait. I think I need a new survey.

Date My Professor is a standalone contemporary romance with a guaranteed happy ending. This hot, geeky novella contains naughty students, controlling British professors, and nerdy programming jokes. The story is novella-length, for a quick afternoon read.

Alison and Simon lost their daughter to a careless driver who escaped serious punishment. Decades later, at a beach resort in Thailand, they meet other tourists who have suffered similar losses.

A casual conversation about whether killing a person is ever justified leads to a series of life-altering events for all of them.

The teenagers of Maggie's Knee have been vanishing without explanation, their disappearances blamed on everything from adolescent rebellion to shadow people in the woods.

Farren Murakami, an eighteen-year-old who has suffered more than most, finds out first-hand where the youth have gone when she's recruited to join a tribe of teens living in an abandoned camp hidden deep in the woods. It isn't long before she learns there is more to the story than just runaway kids; a sinister presence dwelling in the forbidden buildings tucked far back in the camp seems to have handpicked her for its purposes.

In her search for answers, Farren discovers her involvement with the tribe goes farther back than she can imagine, and that whatever lives in the forbidden buildings wants much more than the fealty of some kids playing in the forest.

Oja the Indian is a soul-stirring collection of poetry and prose rooted in themes of prayer, love and migration.
every year, millions of migrants travel across borders in pursuit of a higher life.
this movement - whether by force or by choice - also accompanies psychological and emotional displacement.

mokradi, in his signature storytelling approach, takes us through one such journey that follows the unfolding life of Oja, a 21st Century student-migrant from India. as Oja navigates through the cultural and societal challenges of 'the promised land', we explore with him the essence of sacrifice,
of desire,
of yearning,
and of identity.

a stranger in a strange land, Oja must overcome these shared adversities of an immigrant if he is to break through to the other side.

the inquiry then follows,
will he?