These poems are the echoes of a soul that lives a life at one hundred miles and hour always. A soul that has traveled continents and back, overcome heartbreak, experienced the purest of love, is steeped in luck for the family and true friends she has around her and is humbled from the majestic experiences of being a parent. This book was written to be a reminder that there is passion in every corner of life, there are unexpected days of true happiness yet to come and that even the toughest of times do not remain forever. The collection contains varying styles and themes, but the majority aim to read to you a story wrapped in the verses of poem which can relate to each and every heart and mind. You and I may not take the same message from a poem, we may not read it in the same way, yet we will all relate to the words on some level and be catapulted back in time to a memory or in years to come, the words may tiptoe into your thoughts and a smile may threaten to turn up the corners of your lips.

Psychic LaShaun Rousselle and Deputy Chase Broussard must solve a series of bloody murders in the swamps of Louisiana. Is the killer man or supernatural beast? LaShaun and Chase intend to stop the carnage, whether their target is human or not.

This is an anthology of poetry and prose in English and Romanian put together by Mihaela Cristescu and SE Crawford, illustrated by Luminiţa Şerbănescu. It contains contributions by the following authors: Abdullah NOMAN Adela EFRIM Alex PLEȘCAN Anamaria BELIGAN Andrei PORA Belinda CURBY C. A. BROADRIBB Carol AMOS Claire HAIEK Cristian Liviu BURADA Daniela ANDRONACHE Danny DRAPER Dianne CIKUSA Domnica POP Elisabeta ISANOS fayroze Florin COSTINESCU Florin GOLBAN Frances AN Ivona BOITAN J. Anne de STAIC KC TONKIN Loredana TUDOR-⁠TOMESCU Lucia ȘTEFANOVICI Luminita ȘERBĂNESCU Mădălina ȘERBĂNESCU Marius CHELARU Mihaela CRISTESCU Nicolae PETRESCU-⁠REDI Norm FAIRBAIRN Paul O’LOUGHLIN Peter CARTWRIGHT Peter GHELERTER Petre Ioan CREȚ Raul BAZ Ștefan DIMITRIU Sue CRAWFORD Thomas THORPE Vasile POENARU Victoria DRAGU DIMITRIU Victoria MILESCU Here are the editors’ comments: Mihaela Cristescu: “38 Romanian and Australian Perspectives Between Dusk and Dawn, cea de a treia antologie româno-⁠australiană de poezie și proză scurtă, reflectă în unghi ascuțit privirea cititorului cuprins de cuvânt într-⁠o lume a bucuriei personale, percepută prin vers și pentru vers, prin ritm și nuanțe contradictorii între cele două emisfere, o dată in plus, București – Ottawa – Sydney. Mulțumim autorilor publicați, editorilor, artiștilor plastici, jurnaliștilor, fotografilor, editurii, precum și tuturor colaboratorilor, prietenilor, cititorilor – tuturor celor care vor parcurge paginile volumului urmărind alternanța vibrațiilor lingvistice.” Sue Crawford: “We have pounded the pavement and walked the wallaby track together and now we are searching between dusk and dawn. An elusive and illusory concept: something starting which is also finishing somewhere else. We have long calibrated the sun and moon, and the day and night, in relation to our spinning earth, but the ideas and visions in this collection evade a calculating lens, unsettle a convenient axis. It is an honour to co-⁠edit the English works. In congratulating everyone involved I wish to echo a view expressed at the Sydney launch of On The Wallaby Track by Luke Carman who said that Mihaela Cristescu’s Romanian-Australian anthology project is the kind that could ‘very easily not have happened in the first place’ let alone continued in strength. This strength has been demonstrated by the will and talent of all the writers and artists who have moved across national and language borders to act jointly and create a memorable new work.”

Holmes being away for the day Watson receives an anonymous request for a meeting at Waterloo station. More for interest sake than any other reason, he attends the railway station and is confronted by a man whom appears in the last vestiges of physical and mental stress. According to Brinton he has but little time before both his imminent death and worse, his immortal soul is cast forever into eternal damnation. Detective Inspector Lestrade joins Holmes and Watson in their quest to tackle a series of grisly murders that point to a Satanic cult of Vampirism.

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is a new standalone urban fantasy novella from New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire. When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline. But something has come for the ghosts of New York, something beyond reason, beyond death, beyond hope; something that can bind ghosts to mirrors and make them do its bidding. Only Jenna stands in its way. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

HOLIDAY HONEYMOONS Was it too late to make her his wife? SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN HE'D EVER LOVED…. One snowy Christmas, John Gulliver came to a sleepy New England town as a stranger. He had a new name, a new face, and even the woman he'd loved and lost didn't recognize him. Because everything from their shared past—except their passion—had been a lie…. Now John wanted to reclaim the bride who should have been his six years ago. And be a father to the son he'd just discovered. Finally having a family would be the greatest Christmas gift of all. But telling Leigh the truth was not without its price…. HOLIDAY HONEYMOONS. Because when you combine holidays with weddings, something magical happens!

"The remarkable story of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), an impoverished abandoned boy who became the notorious libertine, famous writer, and correspondent with figures such as Voltaire, Louis XV, and Catherine the Great in decadent 18th-century Europe."--Provided by publisher.

China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.