The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and Bendigo in mid-Victoria. It concerns Dr James Beaney, a very colourful and controversial surgeon, who amassed a fortune from his practice, and displayed it in the jewellery he wore, the mansion he had built (which still exists today) and in his social life. He was, however, a generous benefactor to...

Anyone painful memory with traces kept back in particular placesIt will be unique, but they have vanished in a haze of antiques!

Wedged between a rock and hard times, Hank finds himself in Las Vegas-the City of Sins. There he finds himself in the midst of people who would do anything to get ahead and those who'd make him seek pleasure unlike before. In the struggle to survive and write, Hank experiences more than he thought the Las Vegas could ever give.

HE LOST, HE LOST! features four major reasons that Trump lost - not just the election but popular support, based on a series of cartoons with a spirit of levity. The commentary is written in this same spirit, while providing some background to explain the comparisons made in the cartoons. The four reasons Trump lost are these: - Trump is Bats in that he is like a bat flying in the dark so he can't see what's real very well, and he's running...

A legendary gunfighter teams up with 2 bumbling idiot bounty hunters and their friends to bring down a gang of outlaws.

In the tradition of Squid Game and The Hunger Games welcome to the dystopian future of mass entertainment in 2084 for a counselling show with a difference: Patient vs Counsellor. Where the counsellor must guess the patient's serious psychosexual problem to win a star prize, or face humiliatingly Forfeit-Fun. On tonight's show we have three contestants: Katy, a former beauty queen now obese, counselled by Captain Stanislav Boglosovic, a former military...

**Book Title: Embark on a mesmerizing journey of love and passion with Raja Kumar's enchanting ebook, "Ephemeral Embrace." This captivating tale unfolds across ten beautifully woven chapters, each a masterpiece in its own right. From the tender whispers of destiny in "Whispers of Destiny" to the resounding symphony of sensations in "A Symphony of Sensations," Kumar crafts a narrative that invites readers to lose themselves in the magic of romance....

First published in 1925, public domain in the US. The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters-depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs,...

"Are All Managers Born Useless? Or are they crafted thus? In Management School, you are taught to be as listening and as flexible as a laminate bench top. To steer your staff to misery, burn them over, turn them over, watch them slink out the door broken and busted. Then you can push the knife into allergy-free cake on Mental Health Day." Not my words. A transcript was passed to me from a harried reporter wishing anonymity. He'd interviewed an enigmatic...

Welcome to Arima, officially known as The Royal Chartered Borough of Arima-the easternmost and second-largest borough in Trinidad and Tobago.In 1887, the town, in a historic gesture celebrating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, petitioned for municipal status. Queen Victoria granted this request the following year, marking the official establishment of Arima as a Royal Borough on August 1, 1888.Nestled in the heart of Trinidad and Tobago, the Borough...