In a post-apocalyptic world... Duncan must provide for his people as the new Chief of Ivy Island. He discovers that his father had been blackmailed by one of the village leaders. He needs to find what his father wanted to keep hidden. The abandoned underground city proves that what he thought was a fairytale, is history. When he goes raiding for the second time, he finds more than what he bargained for when a woman name Altha is pulled from the river. Can Duncan right his father's wrongs and be a successful leader? Altha has been told her mother was killed by raiders. She now lives alone and must provide for herself. A soldier destroyed her garden, she must scavenge for food or starve. Can she escape the soldier that torments her? Bargaining with the raiders led by Duncan might be her only chance...or might place her in a worse situation. Will she find happiness in life again? Buy now.

"Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves."---Arianna Huffington, New York Times Book Review Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done—but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome. He combines rigorous scientific research with a rich array of examples of writers, painters, and thinkers—from Darwin to Stephen King—to challenge our tendency to see work and relaxation as antithetical. "Deliberate rest," as Pang calls it, is the true key to productivity, and will give us more energy, sharper ideas, and a better life. Rest offers a roadmap to rediscovering the importance of rest in our lives, and a convincing argument that we need to relax more if we actually want to get more done.

'Padhle Beta, pyaar wyar ke chakkar mei parega to kahi ka nai rahega – If you study, you will have a good future.' This is a claim often repeated to children and teenagers by parents and teachers in many parts of India. They often forget that there is also a world beyond studies, a world of creative pursuit and more than it. My higher education and further career thoughts have been completely haunting me. There is no polite, polished way of saying this: studying from one of the best schools in my area with the most chosen stream in the district has not yet benefitted me in any way! Many of us are either forced or brainwashed to choose any stream after school by our parents, who are labouring under the illusion that correct stream is the gateway to money and success. I always had a doubt; but now, years after studying and still, I know for sure that studying what we like and doing what we enjoy may not always lead to money and success but it is definitely the route to happiness.