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A rollicking ride of a magical realist, coming-of-age story that explores sex and gender in ways that will have you laughing out loud. Be prepared to travel light with a somewhat murderous female protagonist en route across the country - where it's so hard to be a strong, violent, little ape girl - looking in all the wrong places for forever kinds of love.

In an explosion of love’s metaphors, Fowler’s debut magic realism collection, Suspended Heart, takes on American fabulism with a cast of unexpected heroines in the narratives of life and loss - women whose hearts fall out at public malls, women whose bodies bloom with changing seasons, women who sprout blades or have multiple eyes, sleep as snakes, or birth saints like Lapis Lazuli babies. There’s a fearlessness to this prose, a melody of life and magic and loss. This Collector’s Edition contains three previously uncollected stories.

Heather Fowler's fourth collection of fiction speaks to the language of need. Desperate, obsessive, even demented need is voiced by characters ill or ill-advised. From modern to historical, cyber to stalker, explicit to tender, the relationships in Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness translate love and lust into disorder.

The English Creek Avenue Kids is a series of adventures and stories told by the communities creatures that live there. The group includes all forms of non-human nature.Toby and Ian are the main characters and narrators of the stories. Their adventures depict the myriad adventures and life lessons which we as humans face in this day-to-day adventure called life.

Raising chickens in the backyard has proved to be one of the favorite hobby or profession for most people. However, to be successful, you have to learn the basic principles and guidelines which must be followed to get efficient results. Irrespective of the kind and age of chickens you are dealing with. In short, this audiobook is a complete guideline and the result of my six years of chicken-raising experience for anyone who wants to get an efficient result in this field.

David and Jonathan are paramedics that deal with life and death and the consequences of human choice. On Rescue 12, they respond to the tragic drug overdose of a group of teenagers at a high school party. One girl survives to tell what she witnessed in her near-death experience. This encounter results in the spiritual awakening of David and forces Jonathan to confront his own Christian faith which he abandoned when he came out as gay to his father.

Many aspiring musicians most often don't get the balanced mentorship that they need to be functional away from their music. Most grow up desiring to travel the world and play on the big stage but, they end up neglecting their natural God-given role as just being a good man or woman, husband or wife, and father or mother. Musicians are often told that they have a "musical gift", and end up going through life believing all they are supposed to do in life is play their instrument for a living.

The US Navy's first planned battle of WWII is told through the extraordinary, little-known story of USS Duncan, the first Allied warship to penetrate a Japanese battle line. From their first encounter with their celebrated captain and tyrannical executive officer to a deadly night afloat in shark-infested waters to a homecoming turned into a PR campaign, The Gun Club is a vivid day-to-day account of life on a warship, told largely in the words of the survivors, and is one of the most detailed and compelling accounts of a war cruise ever written.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a lover, a partner, and a best friend? To be able to find someone who fit you perfectly? This is the beginning of a new understanding of relationships and love. Relationship and Intimacy coach Nate Fowler explores how exciting long-term relationships grow and keep thriving for decades; why relationships fail; how sex, money, and power change relationships (and what to do about it); and most importantly, how to feel satisfied with your craving for passion in your own relationship.

Fifteen stories of hellish horrors come together in C. Dennis Moore's latest collection, What the Blind Man Saw. Rudy finds a dead baby in his trash can. Another man will do anything to escape Hell and take vengeance on Heaven. Cody has done a bad thing, and a disfigured goblin is set on making him pay. Sean Leonard goes out for pizza one night, but on the way back home finds himself on an endless highway, and the clocks have stopped moving.

A man frozen in time...Geoffrey was an experiment in cryogenics. But someone forgot to wake him up...50 years ago! Now he's awake and finding out the world isn't exactly the way he left it. Hell on Earth...The Lord led the righteous to Heaven and left Hell to literally open up on Earth. And Hell is spreading like an infection. Unfortunately, it's inside that infection where Geoffrey has to go in search of answers, the most important being: Why wasn't he taken?

Comedian Jermaine Fowler performs his first ever stand-up special, poking fun at his life in hilarious detail, from being raised by his young parents to growing up with a brother his family thought was mentally challenged.

The whole reason Hallie even joined this expedition into the temple hidden deep inside the Sumatran jungle was to escape her demons. Yet the moment she arrives, the temple seems hell-bent on revealing every uncomfortable truth she’s fought so hard to keep hidden—and determined to plunge her into darkness once more.

After losing his twin brother, Dimitri has felt adrift in the world. Joining this expedition to find an elusive dragon temple seemed a far-fetched fantasy, but a much-needed distraction nonetheless. Little did he know that the real fantasy was waiting for him inside. Now, doused in dragon magic, his passions have been stoked, and the naughty details of the ritual he keeps hearing about lure him into a chamber where he’s faced with an impossible choice.

Born to a race of creatures who strictly police their presence among humans, Kris possesses a gift only one dragon in each generation may possess—a human form which requires no magic to maintain. But he has paid dearly for this gift, as it has relegated him to a life of monastic solitude, exhaustive training, and an existence devoid of even a casual touch.

Corey isn’t like the other explorers who have entered the long-lost dragon temple deep in the Sumatran jungle. Whereas to his eyes, their predilections are hardly discriminate, he longs for a partner—a woman who will be his equal, who might love him as much as she challenges him.

You are on a Scrum Team with a problem. You need some changes to the data base behind the application you are creating, but the tables are controlled by another team, they are busy with their own priorities and do not want to help. What should you do? This case and the others in the series come from the real-world experiences of a group of Scrum professionals who meet regularly to discuss the Scrum Framework and how to apply it to actual situations they have encountered.

You are a Scrum Master and you are joining an existing team. There is a problem, though. The Product Owner is unhappy. There is a high priority item on the Product Backlog that the developers are refusing to add to their Sprint. They say that Scrum gives them the right to choose the work they do, and they claim the so called "high priority" item is not very important at all.

You are an Agile Coach and your client has asked you a question. He is an engineering manager and the company has just announced a "work from home" policy. Developers may now work from home instead of coming to the office. The Engineering Manager has asked you if there are any "Agile Metrics" he can use to make sure his developers stay busy and are not being lazy. He is investigating software to record when people log in and log out, and count their keystrokes in between. What should you tell him to do?

You are a Scrum Master and your team has a problem. Their work depends on another team to enhance the back end of the application but they are not being very helpful. Your team tells you that the other team's performance is an "impediment" and that you must go whip the other team into shape. What should you do?