In book 3 of Flin's Destiny and "The Earth Time Continuum," Raggleroot, an angry old man who has been imprisoned deep into the earth due to Flin's great grandfather, Hovgard, is determined to destroy the cathedral and all those in it with his deranged pits and seeds he has been engineering for decades. Meanwhile, Blade and his men have taken control of Clover Cavern, leaving the leprechauns to slowly lose their magical powers and at some point, they will surely die. But if you thought that was bad, the Earth Time Continuum which is the heart of mother earth, has been stolen and without it the earth, both down under and up top, will cease to exist. Is it destiny that this young man find and restore these lost treasures before it's too late, or will all come to an end?

After Flin and Flowell get carried away inside the stomach of a giant jellyfish, Flin stumbles upon a leprechaun village just below the Earth's surface. A magical jadestone keeps this village, called Clover Cavern, alive with magic and hidden from others. This stone was once given to the leprechauns by Flin's great-grandfather, Hovgard Newby, hundreds of years earlier. When this precious jadestone is stolen, Flin is asked by Froggit, Head Leprechaun of Clover Cavern, to find it and save the village from death. While Flin is busy trying to find the stone, Flowell, one of his best friends, gets captured by Blade, an evil threat in the underworld, and must be rescued before it's too late.

Skylar Montgomery finds her visit back home in Winter Haven, Alaska to be more than she had bargained for. It is supposed to be a weeklong vacation home for the holidays. Instead, she finds her workhorse boss Landon Finley bringing work her way. She starts to fall for her boss but quickly realizes her past love, Sawyer James Hartt, is no longer just the past. It is unfinished between the two. The two come to terms that they are still madly in love with one another, and Sawyer will do just about anything to make a second chance count with Skylar. Both Sawyer and Skylar face life and death with a dangerous man who torments Skylar for her rejection. She is tested and pushed to her breaking point of revenge. This is a story of a girl who thought she lost everything and almost did at the cost of love. But she later finds the journey leads her to a place she is meant to be all along.

The caves of the Canadian Rockies and the Columbia Mountains, on both sides of the BC/Alberta border, span an area from the Crowsnest Pass in the south to the Prince George area in the north. This first regional Canadian caving guide offers extensive information for each cave, including location, cave survey, history of exploration, access maps and all the necessary technical details needed for safe exploration.

For the ancient Maya, food was both sustenance and a tool for building a complex society. This collection, the first to focus exclusively on the social uses of food in Classic Maya culture, deploys a variety of theoretical approaches to examine the meaning of food beyond diet—ritual offerings and restrictions, medicinal preparations, and the role of nostalgia around food, among other topics. For instance, how did Maya feasts build community while also reinforcing social hierarchy? What psychoactive substances were the elite Maya drinking in their caves, and why? Which dogs were good for eating, and which breeds became companions? Why did even some non-elite Maya enjoy cacao, but rarely meat? Why was meat more available for urban Maya than for those closer to hunting grounds on the fringes of cities? How did the molcajete become a vital tool and symbol in Maya gastronomy? These chapters, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, showcase a variety of approaches and present new evidence from faunal remains, hieroglyphic texts, chemical analyses, and art. Thoughtful and revealing, Her Cup for Sweet Cacao unlocks a more comprehensive understanding of how food was instrumental to the development of ancient Maya culture.

John E. Mylroie and Ira D. Sasowsky' Caves occupy incongruous positions in both our culture and our science. The oldest records of modem human culture are the vivid cave paintings from southern France and northern Spain, which are in some cases more than 30,000 years old (Chauvet, et ai, 1996). Yet, to call someone a "caveman" is to declare them primitive and ignorant. Caves, being cryptic and mysterious, occupied important roles in many cultures. For example, Greece, a country with abundant karst, had the oracle at Delphi and Hades the god of death working from caves. People are both drawn to and mortified by caves. Written records ofcave exploration exist from as early as 852 BC (Shaw, 1992). In the decade of the 1920's, which was rich in news events, the second biggest story (as measured by column inches of newsprint) was the entrapment of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Kentucky, USA. This was surpassed only by Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic (Murray and Brucker, 1979).