Love transcends humanity… A lonely tech genius who creates the ideal robot boyfriend feels more for her creation than she bargained for. An aimless college dropout finds the perfect lover in the spirit of the earth itself… until the earth starts cheating on her. An AI struggles to conceal its love for the secret agent it was programmed to protect. What does it mean for a human to love someone who isn’t? Is it possible for two wildly different entities to know each other well enough to share true intimacy? The relationships in these six fantasy and science fiction short stories range from romantic to platonic to somewhere in between. But every story is full of love and longing and the struggle to bridge an impossible divide… and that makes them all just a little bit strange.

The 6-Chord Songbook: Hits Collection allows the beginner guitarist to build a repertoire of acoustic songs without having to remember reams of obscure chords: Just six will do! Artists such as David Bowie, Dolly Parton and The Beatles are all presented with these special arrangements, making this the perfect way to play your favourite songs, build your confidence, practice your rhythm and start performing. Songlist: - (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame [Elvis Presley] - A Girl Like You [Edwyn Collins] - All Along The Watchtower [The Jimi Hendrix Experience] - Big Sur [The Thrills] - Both Sides, Now [Joni Mitchell] - Boys Don't Cry [The Cure] - Brimful Of Asha [Cornershop] - Caroline [Status Quo] - Common People [Pulp] - Complicated [Avril Lavigne] - Don't Panic [Coldplay] - Driftwood [Travis] - Fairytale Of New York [The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl] - Father And Son [Cat Stevens] - Fight Test [The Flaming Lips] - Girl From Mars [Ash] - Girl From The North Country [Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash] - 'Heroes' [David Bowie] - I Feel Fine [The Beatles] - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry [Hank Williams] - In My Place [Coldplay] - Jolene [Dolly Parton] - Just Like A Pill [Pink] - Knockin' On Heaven's Door [Bob Dylan] - Last Christmas [Wham!] - Love Is Strange [Everly Brothers] - Love Me Do [The Beatles] - Mad World [Tears For Fears] - Massachusetts [The Bee Gees] - Mr Tambourine Man [The Byrds] - Ms. Jackson [The Vines] - Not Fade Away [The Rolling Stones] - Redemption Song [Bob Marley] - Ring Of Fire [Johnny Cash] - Run [Snow Patrol] - Sail Away [David Gray] - She Sells Sanctuary [The Cult] - Songbird [Oasis] - Staying Out For The Summer [Dodgy] - Step On My Old Size Nines [Stereophonics] - Sweetest Thing [U2] - Take It Easy [The Eagles] - Talihina Sky [Kings Of Leon] - That's Entertainment [The Jam] - The Boxer [Simon & Garfunkel] - The Universal [Blur] - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out [Smiths, The] - Two Princes [Spin Doctors] - Walk Of Life [Dire Straits] - Waterloo [ABBA] - What's Up [4 Non Blondes] - Wonderful Tonight [Eric Clapton] - You Can Call Me Al [Paul Simon] - You're Still The One [Shania Twain]

The official origin story of LiS fan-favourite Steph Gingrich featuring LGBTQ+ romance, inevitable heartbreak, and the punk-rock beginnings of Drugstore Makeup. Setting the stage for her appearance in Life is Strange: True Colors, this official Steph Gingrich novel sheds light on the Drugstore Makeup years and the story of how Steph crash-landed in Haven Springs, Colorado. Steph Gingrich has finally run out of couches to surf. Now she's back at her dad's place in Seattle to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. When running an RPG session for her local gamer café, Steph meets Izzie. Izzie is electric: a punk, a girl who likes girls, and a hella good guitarist. Steph finds the punk life is exactly what she needs, she loves the music, the art and the fashion, but most of all she likes the girl. Entranced, she offers to drum for Izzie, forming the band Drugstore Makeup. A hit in more ways than one, Drugstore Makeup compete in a battle of the bands before deciding to tour the offbeat punk venues of America. But Steph and Izzie soon find themselves on different wavelengths, unable to communicate, and wanting different things.

This early work by Hans Heinz Ewers was originally published in 1915 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Spider' is a short story of black magic based on 'The Mysterious Sketch' by Erckmann-Chatrian. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.

Child of mama is a story set in the rural Gikuyu country during the British colonial period in Kenya. Kimonde is born and grows up against this background, in the comfort of his dependable mother, Muumbi, but in the glaring absence of Mumbuuri, his father. After struggling with his studies, he secures a plum job in the city, but soon loses it, courtesy of his friends’ reckless company. Strengthened by the sympathy and encouragement from his mother and maternal uncle, he soon nds even a better job, again in the city. His attempts to form a love relationship with a life partner are thwarted by his father on the one hand, and by his fiancée on the other, for their own reasons. Child of mama is a story replete with family drama of proportions. A worthy read.

In a world overrun by demons, the few humans that remain alive face an impossible fight. In the midst of this battle, Father Helder Pont, a young priest finds his way to safety in a church on the East Coast of the United States with two other men of the cloth, Markus Rossi and Gideon McElroy. Although their situation is desperate, Helder has a plan. He has a medallion with half of an ancient prayer that will eliminate the demonic threat. The other half, unfortunately, is in Rome. Somehow they must make their way across the world to the Vatican. As the men prepare to leave, they encounter a young woman fleeing the demonsand to Helder, at least, she is no stranger. Sita Taylor is the love of his youth, lost when his father sent him to seminary. And now she joins them on their quest to reach Romea love that both strengthens him and pulls him in many directions. Along the way, the group faces danger from both pirates and demon hordes. Only time will tell whether theyll reach the Vatican aliveor whether the answers they seek will be there if they do.

This fourth edition was prepared in 2015-2016 as a supplementary text for a graduate music cataloging course. This edition is rewritten to a large extent to conform to the new instructions and paradigms represented in Resource Description and Access (RDA). RDA instructions for printed music, recorded music and music video are accompanied by advice, examples, illustrations and complete catalog records, including versions in MARC21 format. Consistent with RDA, the chapter on form and choice of access points found in earlier editions is gone, replaced with a chapter on authorized access points. The concept of “uniform title” has evolved into the concept of the “preferred title,” as part of an authorized access point, which might require manipulation and addition of some elements for disambiguation and collocation. Only three chapters are used for description of printed music, sound recordings and video recordings. Many of the older LP examples were removed as were VHS video recordings. Multimedia packages are now rare in the marketplace, but streaming audio and video are quite evident so examples now include those media. Facsimile examples from the third edition have been retained and many new examples have been added. Most catalogers today are using RDA in combination with MARC21. Accordingly, in an appendix, we have rendered each example in MARC21 format using the OCLC Connexion approach to MARC21 record formatting.A lengthy bibliography in earlier editions has been replaced by a brief list in the introduction, with pointers to online resources that are both current and constantly updated by working catalogers.

In this story, two significant events in Canadian history intersect: the Rollout of the Avro Arrow on October 4, 1957, and the ongoing land claims of the First Nations Mississauga. Lois Michelsen is almost fourteen when she is uprooted from her childhood home in small-town Ontario and moved to Centrewood, a brand-new, model satellite community located on the outskirts of Toronto. Her father views it as his ‘ideal city’, since its plan is based on concentric circles instead of a grid plan, which Lois prefers. Only the adjacent abandoned farm with its fallow pastureland, resurgent wildlife, winding stream and quiet woods offers her solace through the long, hot and lonely summer. There she befriends a newly hatched painted turtle, discovers a red salamander and finds herself protected by a bald-headed eagle. Concerned about Lois facing a new school alone, her mother foists on her a 'new little friend' from the neighbourhood: a little hussy named Mitsy whose ‘cat’s eyes’, sharp tongue and lewd behaviour wreak havoc. Unlike normal dreams, Lois is susceptible to 'waking visions', when real time is suspended in dual planes of reality. Her father is lead aeronautical engineer for the Avro Arrow. When she attends the Rollout in Malton, her sensibilities open her up to the ‘waking vision’ of an Indian chief standing on the tarmac next to the Arrow.

Time traveller Max Caulfield has been keeping a secret from her close friends, Chloe and Rachel. She’s not from their reality! Now Max thinks she may have found a way home, back to her own Chloe… and so it’s time for the truth to come out! Based on the fan-favorite BAFTA award-winning video game Life is Strange, ‘Strings’ picks up from one of the endings of the original game and follows Max into a new alternate reality. Here, Rachel never died, and she and Chloe are a couple. Here, too, is a young man with an unexpected new power – the ability to disappear – who may offer Max the ability to return home to her original timeline… Collects Life is Strange #9-12. “Make sure you read this.” – The Xbox Hub “This book is the shizzle. Two thumbs up and aces.” – Mass Movement “Life might be strange, but this is hella cool.” – The GWW