Shad Engkilterra

When four men spend a long weekend in an Alaskan cabin during the winter, they decide to tell stories. This is a collection of 16 short stories in different genres and themes. Meant to entertain and enlighten, these are stories told using the Canterbury Tales, the Decameron, and Le Morte D'Arthur as a guide. This is a work of fiction though some stories are based in fact.

Being creative is hard. It means swimming upstream against what the world wants you to do and what you've been taught most of your life. You may even think that you're not creative. Rubbish With Penguinate , you'll get essays and short stories that will help you become more creative. More importantly, you'll get practical suggestions about activities to do to improve your creativity. Being creative isn't easy, but it is fun. With Penguinate you'll think more about everyday life in new ways, and you'll be able to put your natural creativity back to work to make the world and your life better.

In the small town of Amurgrad on the banks of the Amur River, Steve and Irina are confronted with the Curse of the Golden Kopeck. Will they be able to break the curse or will they age prematurely? When Anton Nikolaevich calls Irina about something the museum could use. She has to go to Amurgrad to get it. On her arrival, she finds her school friend has aged beyond his years. Steve thinks it's rubbish until he picks up the wrong coin. Now they have to break the curse or come to face old age before their time.

Alex Travelline loves everything about being a pirate, except for the paperwork. While the Pirate Union keeps pirates from attacking the same ships, it also requires an infernal amount of documents, forms, and time spent at the PU headquarters. When Pirate Internal Affairs recruits Alex to help the PU with a problem, he reluctantly goes all in and finds out that something's rotten at the PU. With his new crew members and few stalwarts from his original crew, Alex must find out how to foil a plan to end life as he knows it. Hopefully, he can lose his passivity and his tendency to go unconscious enough to defeat those who would end Swash. The Pirate Union is a rollicking sea adventure featuring plenty of pop culture references, daring-do and some of the strangest pirates you have ever meant. Throw your political correctness overboard and join the Jolly Rogue's adventures through transformations, magical creatures and deadly encounters.

Irina is working with the American Intern Steve to find the lost treasure of Nikolai Nikolaevich. In Far East Russia, things become more difficult when the two of them encounter the criminal element of Blagoveshchensk. They must find the treasure and get it to the museum or it may be lost to history forever. Part Nancy Drew and part Indiana Jones, Adventures on the Amur will lead you through exciting journeys of intrigue, puzzles and the history of Russia's Far East. Join Steve and Irina on this first adventure as they discover the link between Nikolai Nikolaevich and the Boxer Rebellion that saved one of Russia's cities.

What's it like to live in government subsidized housing? Speaking from experience - it sucks No one wants to live in the projects. As a child, my broken family was forced to move into the HUD projects of California. I lost my house, my dog and my dad. Mom kept us safe from harm and helped us to enjoy our time, but there were still parts of life in the projects that were terrible. The stories in this book are mostly true. They capture the essence of living poor in the United States in the 1980s. You can get away from the projects, but could you ever get out of them?