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The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual-assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events.

Tricked by a strange creature, a dying boy is kidnapped. Mistakenly saved by his captors, they are all suddenly hunted by a mad man. Suddenly, Elias and his captors are at odds with everyone in the land, as they try to solve the riddle of the fire berries. Join the crew of the Whisper, a swift airship, as they sail through dangerous skies, dark tunnels, deadly valleys and wonderful cities. Will the Jackboot catch them, or the smoke charmers kill them? Will they find a cure for Elias before time runs out?

As the Red Army marches from the east and the Allies from the west, Germany's Third Thousand Year Reich is about to come to an abrupt, violent end. Trapped in the middle are men like Otto Kunkel, forced to fight in a war that he didn't want but has to pay for the consequences nonetheless. To what limits would you go to survive in a world of death that is falling apart from around you?

Matthew Graham committed the mistake of his life when he cut off his brother’s nose—however much he deserved it. In revenge, Luke Graham has Matthew abducted and transported to the Colony of Virginia, there to be sold as indentured labor—a death sentence more or less. Matthew arrives in Virginia in May of 1661, and any hope he had of finding someone willing to listen to his tale of unlawful abduction is quickly extinguished. If anything Matthew’s insistence that he is an innocent man leads to him being singled out for the heaviest tasks.

In the year 1843, embittered Afghan War veteran John Sparrowhawk is released from the debtors’ prison by the beautiful and enigmatic Miss Evangeline. Penniless and alone in the world, he takes employment with his mysterious benefactor, agreeing to stand guard over a house in Bloomsbury for the duration of that December. The task sounds simple, but in fact is anything but.

Safely returned from an involuntary stay in Virginia, Matthew Graham finds the Scottish Lowlands torn asunder by religious strife. His Restored Majesty, Charles II, requires all his subjects to swear fealty to him and the Church of England, riding roughshod over any opposition. In Ayrshire, people close ranks around their evicted Presbyterian ministers. But disobedience comes at a high price, and Alex becomes increasingly nervous as to what her Matthew is risking by his support of the clandestine ministers—foremost amongst them the charismatic Sandy Peden.

How could anybody steal a dog like Gizmo...? When petty criminals "Flash Harry" Smith and Jack ("The Lad") Jones start nicking dogs, they soon realise they’ve bitten off more than they can chew...Their victim, Elizabeth Parker-Smyth, is a high-flying movie producer with a Grand Design of a house and a designer dog to match. Their hostages, Gizmo and Doodle, are the co-stars of her next film: "Nobody’s Poodle". Their nemesis, Annie Capello, is a quirky, big-hearted pet detective, who tracks the dognappers through cyberspace and finds herself entangled in their shenanigans.

Despite finding the legendary stone as a boy, Jeremiah can’t shake the feeling he is destined to always be an outsider looking in. This restlessness haunts him into adulthood until he leads a quest to return the stone to its original home with his spiritual father named Padre, a fellow fugitive, a giant, and a mysterious woman named Jameela. Chased by two bands, Jeremiah and companions evade until confronted by the relic seekers and a decision.

Christmastide. A time of feasting and good cheer. Gifts, cards, and blazing holly logs. Snow falls while family and friends trim the tree and kiss under the mistletoe. But it isn’t always joyful. It’s the coldest time of year. The days are short, the nights long. Chilling myths lie concealed behind the raucous revelry...The ghoulish events in the frozen workhouse...The undead presence at the costumed ball...The pantomime that became a massacre...The winter goddess with the heart of ice...The thieves who woke the dark side of the festive spirit...

The alien Big Foot, Athelstan, is back, but this time he is not alone. Accompanied by a trio of trouble who need him for their dissident organization, Athelstan must make hard choices and come to terms with the consequences of his actions. Meanwhile, James is still recovering from the emotional and social backlash he incurred helping Athelstan escape from Earth during his first visit. Both James and Athelstan are caught between opposing forces that could prove too great to overcome.

Today is a day like any other on Earth. People wake and work. Minds plug into electronic devices. Social networks spark with spontaneous brain sputterings. And news anchors across the globe offer an ounce of vital information for every pound of mind-numbing nonsense.... Then, the figurative bomb hits. Screens are ablaze, and radio is abuzz with a news flash like no other: Earth has been inherited. The planet has a new owner. And he's not happy to find his endowment overrun by a planetary pestilence.

This is the ultimate guide for women in education. Written by leading members of the grassroots #WomenEd movement, it offers guidance on how to attain and succeed in leaderships positions, alongside nuanced analysis and debate of topics including: the gender pay gap, gender stereotyping in schools and beyond, the realities experienced by BME leaders and how flexible working cultures can redress inequities.

The Australian Citizenship Ceremony tells the story of Awsame (awe-sa-me) and Barrisa (ba-ris-a), who escape their homelands in Africa and face the trials of hunger, people smuggling, exploitation, and the politics of being a modern-day refugee. The hardships they face forge the characters they become with hope, determination, and humor, their only ammunition as they tackle the challenges of integration and migrant life.

High above the Black Mist, Grand Fortune city is cloaked in a strange Night of Darkness. Isabella and her father must escape the city before the fury of Angus Grand destroys them. When her father is mortally wounded, the young Isabella is left behind in the dangerous city with her uncle. Her life hangs in the balance as Angus Grand seeks to burn her alive, but when Isabella learns she has a brother, she resolves to both find and save him.

Twenty-five years of fame comes at a price for Nick, leaving him hard - a machine to produce nothing but his music. True to his British upbringing, he's very set in his ways. Things are just as he wants them - no deviance. In steps Kate - a studio musician who, by a strange twist, manages to get hired into his band. Everything starts out with the boundaries firmly placed, and it doesn't take long for Nick to realize she's going to change his world.

Welcome to the first Kurt Lobo Casefile. Welcome to the Endless, Sprawling, Neon City beneath the broken EverNight. Welcome to the life of WolfSpliced Detective Kurt Lobo. There are many, many cases before the events of Kneel Downe’s first book Virulentblurb: Fractures. Here is just one of them…A damaged serial killer is stalking the city streets. Bodies left at random. Ritualistic in their method. Brutal. Can Detective Lobo find the JackPort Killer before events get too close?

Twelve-year-old Ankido is on a quest to save his missing father through the magical realm of Mesopo. Mesopo is the land where all fantasy originates, a land whose words and language are in peril. Can Ankido save his father and restore all these words in time? It was a red velvet box, the size of a school book. Ankido lifted the lid, revealing an old-fashioned quill made out of a reed.

Czechoslovakia, 1938 - Friedrich Pflommer, a married man with two children, has fallen hopelessly in love with the most unsuitable person possible - the young, volatile Kai, an exchange student living under his own roof. As Nazi forces gather on the border, Friedrich is playing a high-stakes game and risks losing everything.

In The Adventures of Caroline and the Emerald Dragon, you can follow Caroline as she and her parents embark on an epic journey across the Sea of Seahorses to the Emerald Isle. They are searching for the Emerald Dragon so that they can retrieve the time machine. Without it, they can never return to the past.

Polly Granger’s life changed the instant she stepped into a London lift. Transported to another realm with two strange men as fellow passengers, she accidentally launches a successful and lucrative career as a dimension-hopping monster slayer. But after five years, a relaxing visit to her luxury Bay Area condo ends abruptly when she sees news footage of a 20-foot-tall extraterrestrial rampaging through British streets...crying her name.