In Outside the Palace of Me, internationally renowned Canadian multidisciplinary artist Shary Boyle offers a powerful look at how we see and imagine ourselves and each other. This book, based on the touring museum exhibition of the same name, reflects on global and individual struggles of identity to wonder at the possibilities of a just, joyous, and collective future. Presenting masterful ceramics and watercolours as well as animatronics of dizzying proportions and a dazzling spectrum of handcraft, Boyle has created a visionary new project merging the languages of carnival, theatre, and the art museum, inviting readers to reflect on their roles in, and responses to, the most urgent questions of our time.

Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past—a past of death, suffering and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England with his beloved wife Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and defined him. As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are transported to St. Petersburg in the early 20th century, to the Winter Palace of the Tsar. A time of change, threat and bloody revolution. And as Georgy overturns the most painful stone of all, we uncover the story of the house of special purpose.

Me and Li Cheng Ngan just had an argument. After each quarrel between the two of them, he always seemed to ignore me, and also forbade outsiders to talk to me. How boring and tasteless I felt, when I had the opportunity, I sneaked out to play. A Do still follows me, she is always next to me like a picture and a shadow, no matter where she goes, she can never escape. Well, I don't hate this A Do, except for being a little stubborn, everything is good, and she also knows martial arts, which can help me chase bad guys. We went to the tea shop to listen to the lecture, the teacher preached the letter about foaming at the mouth, next to the part where the Fairy Sword cut off a person's head from a distance of a thousand miles, I asked A Do: "Hey, do you believe in the world? Does this have a Fairy Sword?”

This book represents the reality of the hell, which is really existing. The Pastor Sarah Seoh visited hell many times and tells us very surprising things. First of all, she saw not only non-Christians but also Christians in hell. Second of all, she saw many Christians outside the Jerusalem City in heaven where it is different from hell. She explains why Christians are in hell with the verses in the Bible. The Bible tells us that Christians go to hell if they sin repeatedly without repentance to death even though they believed in Jesus. Jesus said if your hand and foot makes you sin, cut off your hand; otherwise, you will be thrown into hell (Mark 9:43-49). She finds everything in the Bible that Jesus told us exactly happens in hell and warns us to live holy life according to the words of God in the Bible. She says that the reason why she wrote the book of hell is for even one soul not to go to hell with the heart of God.

In her previous life, the person she married was not a decent man. As a noble empress, she was still framed by the person she trusted the most. She was hacked into pieces and died due to injustice. In her rebirth, the struggle for imperial power was still unavoidable. She cast all the misfortune she had suffered in her previous life into the shape of a sword or armor. It would shake the world and shake all the rivers and mountains. Who said that she was venomous, jealous, and unscrupulous? She would wipe out her enemies and help her husband ascend the throne. Who said that she, Feng Ning Yan, would hold the hand of government and shake the foundations of the country? Then she would kill all the deceitful officials and ascend the throne! However, who would know that what she did was not to rule the world, but to live forever. Her goal was the name branded deeply in her heart by her past life. Shen Lingjue, I will not let you down in this life.

Marno and the four heirs of Celebre try to find a way to defeat the evil Hrag dynasty.