Melody rarely sees her grandad laugh. He brags about being as strong as rock, and everyone knows that rocks don’t smile. But Melody understands the importance of laughter and happiness, and she is determined to bring a smile to her grumpy grandad’s face. Embark on an exciting new adventure and help Melody discover the secret to her grandad’s happiness. Together, you’ll jump on trampolines, tell your best jokes, paint rocks together, and bond with friends. Join Melody in learning about the power of joy and the importance of spending quality time with loved ones. With colourful illustrations that pop off the page and interactive prompts, this enchanting tale teaches us to find joy in the simple things, to spread laughter, and to live freely. Uncover the magic of laughter, love, and the unforgettable memories forged between Melody, her smiling rocks, and her grandad!
Young Lance Barlow seeks adventure by riding with a Missouri militia group, but its brutal attack on a farm family prompts Lance to rebel and switch sides. He teams up with a freed slave to ride with the newly organized Pony Express, unaware of the danger that lays ahead.
The look. The sound. The smell. It's not over yet. Rainstorm Press presents "I'll Never Go Away Vol. 2" Written within these pages are the tales of those who have loved, lost and taken. With explicit thoughts and actions, this book is perfect for those who love a frightening story. Horror is not just blood and gore. Real horror are those thoughts that play with our mind. Stories include: Daughter's prey Dale Eldon Perpetual Pill Tom Barlow She's The One For Me Vincenzo Bilof Second Wife Rob Bliss Protector Rasmenia Massoud Dance with Me Rocky Alexander And More!
Lance Barlow is 19, and he's riding with a Missouri militia group known as the Border Ruffians. He'd joined them wanting adventure, but their wanton murder and destruction is too much for him. Finally, Lance rebels and switches sides.
Andorian, Calamander, damaged transport vessel and blank tabletop counters for use with FSpaceRPG, FEDRPG, TayanaRPG and other tabletop roleplaying games.
Dr Newton Barlow and the Purgatorians are back.Now that the fight between good and evil has become routine, one-time sceptical physicist and unhappy medium, Dr Newton Barlow, is badly in need of a challenge.It arrives in the shape of a crime so cunning in its planning, so dastardly in its execution, that even the hyper-logical Dr Barlow will struggle to prevent it.But with Barlow and his team navigating a flood of mind-curdling distractions, and an adversary that seems to know their every weakness, things are destined to get a little messy for the Purgatorians. Plus, with his girlfriend demanding a slice of the paranormal action, his old employer getting a bit too close to his personal life and his current employer using his home as a hotel, Newton's challenges are hardly the kind he was seeking.Missing links, an enigmatic jester and the unexpected nature of portraiture, Tom Fool is a fast and furious comedy about the perils of notoriety.
Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.
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