Originally published by Chipmunkapublishing, and now thoroughly revised, Assignment Yggdrasil is a groundbreaking novel about how far governments can go in the fight against bioterrorism. Set during the presidency of George W. Bush and the height of the War on Terror, the United States Department of Defense has secretly garnered intelligence confirming that, within a decade, groups intent on mass murder will possess bioweaponry capable of annihilating either the USA…or the entire human species. A special operation, Assignment Yggdrasil, has begun in an attempt to avert the so–called ‘Ragnarok,' doomsday. Although they appear human, subjects have been genetically converted from human to transhuman, given immunity to all biological pathogens known to infect humans, as well as special abilities from other species. Only the new species, the transhuman, is predicted to survive the bioterrorist Ragnarok. The government has staked its bets on these transhumans, hoping they will rebuild American democracy in the resulting chaos. Yet the government is performing this transhumanism covertly, infecting thousands of citizens with the virus through their food, drink, and medicine. Some test subjects have died unwittingly under experimentation and the government is hiding everything. An equally furtive resistance has formed, led by various radical groups who dispute the bioethics of the operation. In a precarious showdown with the government, the rebels question whether the removal of humanity is really a gift and if the end justifies the means.

Description Reflections on Life is a collection of poems which describes the life experiences of the author who has lived with the personal legacy of child abuse, followed by the descent into mental illness (schizophrenia and OCD) and alcoholism. The poems carry a message of hope by exploring the complex mental landscapes of co-morbidity, dual diagnosis, psychosis, childhood, the power of ideas, emotions, thoughts, pain, loss, actions and relationships. The poems invite the reader on a journey through a world where the experience of mental distress has carved a creative channel through the darkness and loneliness of illness and points to a way forward. The author has experienced mental health problems since early childhood (OCD at five, schizophrenia since his teens). He has experienced stigma and discrimination from family, school and society but has learned to forgive along the way through the medium of poetry. The author has lived with severe and enduring mental illness, suicidal ideation, a plethora of psychotic symptoms, voices and perceptual aberrations, as well as the efforts of a sometimes unhelpful and clumsy mental health system. He has learned from the experience of others and how to put his own suffering and distress into a broader social context. About the Author The author was born on 22 October 1964 in London and, with few exceptions, has lived and worked in London all his life. He is the younger of two brothers born to Polish emigre parents who arrived in the UK in the late nineteen forties, after experiencing traumatic childhoods separated from their own parents and witnessing conflict and war in some of the major theatres of the Second World War. The author lives in Ealing, west London which has a vibrant Polish community and is educated to university level. He is currently a postgraduate student at King's College London. The author's childhood was spent in a family home with a number of lodgers which, by any means, was overcrowded. There were many people in his life from early on; each with different, sometimes difficult, personalities which did little to fuse the immediate family unit into a secure base from which a child could thrive. Soon after starting school, the author began to experience cognitive, behavioural and emotional problems. These went unrecognised for many years, during which the author suffered in silence and fell back on his own resourcefulness in developing coping strategies. The author has had obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) since about the age of five and this had a devastating impact on home life and school. At first it was an obsession with numbers and letters of the alphabet. There was much confusion and anxiety in the young child's life. Soon the obsessions multiplied and mutated into more physical aspects of movement (going in and out of doorways, walking up and down pathways and stairs, opening and closing, repeating things aloud) which were accompanied by thoughts and feelings of doom. On many occasions, the stress was so great that the author's young mind would switch off and become empty of thought and fixed in a void but with the recognition that things had to be put right, sorted out and put back in place.

Six-years-war has ended, by the strength of only one man. สงครามหกปีสิ้นสุดลงแล้ว ด้วยพลังของชายเพียงคนเดียว Everyone calls him "Swordmaster". ทุกคนเรียกเขาว่า “ซอร์ดมาสเตอร์” Unfortunately, this is not the story of such time of glory, bloodshed and..... แต่โชคร้ายที่เรื่องนี้ไม่ใช่เรื่องราวแห่งเกียรติยศ การนองเลือด และ.... Ruby: Sola, why don't you just tell them that this is the story of a man in a harem full of beautiful flower girls. รูบี้: โซล่า ทำไมเธอถึงไม่บอกพวกเขาไปล่ะว่านี่คือเรื่องของผู้ชายในฮาเร็มที่เต็มไปด้วยสาวดอกไม้แสนสวย Almond: Could you not disturb her? This is the most important part of our story, and it could decide the future of us all. อัลมอนด์: อย่ารบกวนเธอได้ไหม? นี่เป็นส่วนสำคัญที่สุดของเรื่องราวของเรา และอาจจะตัดสินอนาคตของพวกเราทุกคน Ruby: And I want to ask you why the novel cover doesn't have me on it? Since I'm the main heroine and all. รูบี้: ฉันอยากจะรู้ว่าทำไมปกนิยายถึงไม่มีรูปฉันอยู่บนนั้น? ฉันเป็นนางเอกนะ Sola: I am so fed up with pen tool.. uh... better not talk about it. So, we used a photo of flowers instead, and I think you are not the main heroine. โซล่า: ก็ฉันสุดทนกับ Pen tool แล้ว เอ่อ...อย่าไปพูดถึงมันจะดีกว่า เราก็เลยใช้ภาพดอกไม้แทน แล้วฉันก็คิดว่าเธอไม่ใช่นางเอกหรอก Almond: It's a budget cost too. Those artists charge us over US$200. We are broke. Plain and simple. อัลมอนด์: มันยังเป็นเรื่องงบประมาณด้วย ศิลปินพวกนี้คิดเงินเราแพงถึง US$200 พวกเราไม่มีตังแล้ว ก็แค่นั้น Ruby: That's really expensive, huh. รูบี้: มันแพงจริงๆด้วยนะ Sola: Could you girls stop talking? So, I can continue with the synopsis.... โซล่า: หยุดพูดกันหน่อยได้ไหม? ฉันจะได้เขียนสรุปเรื่องต่อ.... Ruby: I don't understand why this is so important. รูบี้: ฉันไม่เข้าใจว่าทำไมมันถึงสำคัญนัก Sola: Ruby, listen. If we don't have a good synopsis, people will not buy our book, and then..... โซล่า: ฟังนะรูบี้ ถ้าเราไม่มีสรุปเรื่องที่ดี คนก็จะไม่ซื้อหนังสือของเรา แล้วจากนั้น.... Iris: Then what? I want to know it too. ไอริส: แล้วยังไงต่อ? ฉันก็อยากจะรู้เหมือนกัน Sola: Then there will be no book 2. โซล่า: ก็จะไม่มีเล่ม 2 Iris: No book 2, so what? Why should I care? ไอริส: ไม่มีเล่ม 2 แล้วยังไง? ทำไมฉันต้องสนใจด้วย? Sola: Our universe will collapse, and we will disappear forever.. โซล่า: จักรวาลของพวกเราก็จะยุบตัวลง แล้วพวกเราก็จะหายไปตลอดกาล... Iris: What did you say? ไอริส: ว่าไงนะ? Almond: Well, too late now. You talked too much. We have run out of writing space... อัลมอนด์: สายไปซะแล้ว พวกเธอพูดมากเกินไป เราไม่มีเนื้อที่เหลือจะเขียนอะไรแล้ว.... Ruby: What!!!!!NO!!! I don't want to DIE!!!!You do something sis!!! I should have done that human thing with our lord when I still had a chance. Noooooooo...... รูบี้: อะไรนะ!!!!!ไม่!!! ฉันยังไม่อยากตาย!!!!ทำอะไรสักอย่างสิคะพี่!!! ฉันควรจะทำกิจกรรมของมนุษย์กับท่านลอร์ดตอนที่ฉันยังมีโอกาสอยู่ ไม่นะ ไม่...... Iris: Buy it now. People!! Yes, I mean, you!! YES! YOU!!! BUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYYYY.... ไอริส: ซื้อเลย ทุกคน!!! ใช่ ฉันหมายถึงแกนั่นแหละ!!เออ!!! แกนั่นแหละ!!! ซื้อ!!!!!!!!! Iris is shouting as loud as if this is the last moment of her life, but no one listens. ไอริสตะโกนสุดเสียงราวกับว่านี่คือวินาทีสุดท้ายของชีวิตเธอ แต่กลับไม่มีใครฟังเลย

Olympia Carter: bounty hunter, Unseelie fairy, girlfriend…and vampire? Of the many things obstructing Olympia’s chances at a peaceful life, her missing murderer and her severe adjustment to being undead only scratch the surface of her problems. Olympia’s focused on hanging onto some semblance of her old self—until chasing a mark leads her right into the heart of a centuries-old secret. Now, it’s up to Olympia and Leandra to infiltrate a mysterious cult and get answers to problems that have been plaguing Mayfair for a long time. This sapphic power couple is going undercover.

Freya and the Valkyries must stop a war before two worlds are destroyed in this third book of an exciting series that School Library Journal described as perfect for “those looking for Rick Riordan read-alikes.” In the world of Asgard, living among Odin, Thor, and Loki, are the Valkyries of legend. They are Norse goddesses who reap the fallen souls from human battlefields and have the power to cause death with just one touch. At the end of The Runaway, Freya and the Valkyries were about to leave the human world when they learned that the Frost Giants, Fire Giants, and Dark Searchers had united to declare war on the Realms. Bitfrost, the legendary rainbow bridge linking the human world to Asgard, had been closed. With their only entry back to Asgard barred, how can the Valkyries get back to fight to protect their homeland? Loki claims he knows a secret route, but can they trust him? And even if they find a way—is there anything they can do to stop the war? As the War of the Realms spills over into Earth, Freya and the Valkyries must find a way to save not just the Norse world but the human world as well. With everything at stake, can Freya become the Hero she was destined to be?

Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland and outlines the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world. The book begins with an Introduction that helps put Scandinavian mythology in place in history, followed by a chapter that explains the meaning of mythic time, and a third section that presents in-depth explanations of each mythological term. These fascinating entries identify particular deities and giants, as well as the places where they dwell and the varied and wily means by which they forge their existence and battle one another. We meet Thor, one of the most powerful gods, who specializes in killing giants using a hammer made for him by dwarfs, not to mention myriad trolls, ogres, humans and strange animals. We learn of the ongoing struggle between the gods, who create the cosmos, and the jötnar, or giants, who aim to destroy it. In the enchanted world where this mythology takes place, we encounter turbulent rivers, majestic mountains, dense forests, storms, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon and snakes in a landscape closely resembling Scandinavia. Beings travel on ships and on horseback; they eat slaughtered meat and drink mead. Spanning from the inception of the universe and the birth of human beings to the universe's destruction and the mythic future, these sparkling tales of creation and destruction, death and rebirth, gods and heroes will entertain readers and offer insight into the relationship between Scandinavian myth, history, and culture.