The person best qualified to turn you into a better you is¿you! All the answers lie within, and finding them just takes a little inspirational guidance. In My Heart Has Wings, Kris King, a personal growth expert, shares the story of her own journey to becoming the best possible version of herself. Fifty-two personal reflections on surviving breast cancer, losing a child, building a small business, and other poignant stories, reveal how Kris learned to find purpose and meaning from life¿s experiences. Paired with inspirational photographs, poems and quotations, her stories will lead you down a path of self discovery, week by week. Each vignette is followed by thoughtful questions to help you reflect and learn about yourself, your life, and your true desires.

A young girl discovers her mother's secret marriage to a pilot killed during World War II, and over the course of decades, unfolds a captivating love story that lives on long after her mother's passing.

Handsome heartbreaker Hugo, Lord Roxburton, the ‘Don Juan of St James’s Street’ and Lord of all he surveys… Utta, the lovely, gifted young Swiss ice skater with ‘wings on her feet’… Carole, the ‘Cleopatra of Broadway’ with a fake family history and her claws into Hugo… Don Carlos Jacãra, the sleazy Hollywood ‘talent scout’ with Utta in his sights… Set in St. Moritz and London with this thrilling cast of characters, Wings on My Heart is a stirring story of love, lies and innocence, betrayed on an epic scale.

This novel tells the story of a woman who is the subject of an impressive work, "The Lady with a Yellow Shawl," by the best-known local artist Briseux. This work is acquired by a gallery. The narrator sees a woman in the gallery looking at the picture very intently and suspects her to be the original subject of the portrait. Mrs. Staines has a handsome but shiftless son Harold, who decides to become an artist. They move on to Paris, where Harold makes copies in the Louvre, The woman delays the marriage but then challenges him to paint her portrait, after which she promises to settle a date. Harold struggles with the portrait, and one day whilst he is absent from his studio during a sitting, the young painter Briseux appears and denounces the painting as rubbish. She offers to give him money, but instead, he finishes off the portrait. Briseux exhibits the picture at the Paris salon and it is deemed a masterpiece that establishes his reputation. Will the lady settle a marriage date with Harold?

Visual novels (VNs), a ludic video game genre that pairs textual fiction stories with anime-like images and varying degrees of interactivity, have increased in popularity among Western audiences in recent years. Despite originating in Japan, these stories have made their way into global culture as a genre accessible for both play and creation with wide-ranging themes from horror and loneliness to sexuality. The History and Allure of Interactive Visual Novels begins with a comprehensive overview of the visual novel genre and the cultural evolution that led to its rise, then explains the tropes and appeal of subgenres like bishojo (cute girl games), detective games, horror, and eroge (erotic games). Finally, the book explores the future of the genre in both user-generated games and games from other genres that liberally borrow both narrative and ludological themes from visual novels. Whether you're a long-standing fan of the genre or a newcomer looking for a fresh experience, The History and Allure of Interactive Visual Novels will provide an accessible and critically engaging overview of a genre that is rich in storytelling yet often overlooked.