Between 1824 and 1832 Romantic Poet, Giacomo Leopardi, wrote the Dialogue between a Goblin and a Gnome.The Story behind is quite simple: the human race destroyed itself, nobody was aware of it, or cared. The sun kept going up and down; the universe worked as it did in the last five Billion years...On Earth, the time for the Little People has come...Everybody wondered how the Tall People could have died, having so much to enjoy life.The Pumpkins are a family of Wonder miners and dealers from the Ripeshine Village. They mine a crumbled Mall near a large market place where they sell the goods they collect.Things change when they discover a secret warehouse of toys and reactivate N.E.C. a little toybot that soon becomes a member of the Pumpkin family...Yet, their lives are about to change.Something from the long-lost past wakes up in the Shining Mountains, unifying the fierce Cyborcs in a conquering force...Something bad...

A young boy describes how he picked out his Halloween pumpkin and carved it and compares his experience to God's love for him.

The ultimate vegan cooking bible! From the plant-based newbie to the experienced vegan, this cookbook will inspire you to become the best plant-based cook you can possibly be. David and Stephen (a.k.a the No. 1 Bestselling Happy Pear twins) are here to teach you just how many different meat-free meals you can make using the same key ingredients and methods. Using their simple recipe grid method, you'll learn how to adapt each dish to your taste, to your budget or to whatever you have in the cupboard. You'll also discover over 200 versions of healthy and delicious recipes anyone can make, including: - Fluffy coconut granola for breakfast - Home-made vegan pizza for lunch - Creamy broccoli pie for dinner - Carrot cake with vegan cream cheese frosting for dessert Teaching you the fundamentals of taste and texture, soon you'll have the confidence to swap ingredients in and out and even come up with vegan recipes of your own. 'These lovely boys always create incredibly tasty food' Jamie Oliver 'Proper good food . . . hearty, decent and delicious' Russell Brand 'The poster boys for a healthy way of life!' Sunday Times 'Great people, unbelievable food' Joe Wick

“I’ve got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth…” For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn’t been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she’s never known. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters—and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany tries to make the best of things, but she doesn’t fit into her new luxurious, but super-strict, home—or get along with her standoffish sister London. The only thing that makes her new life even remotely bearable is the strange boy across the street. Marcus McKinney has had his own experiences with death, and the unexpected friendship that blossoms between them is the only thing that makes her feel grounded. But Tiffany has a secret. Another man claims he’s Tiffany’s real dad—and she has only seven days before he shows up to demand a paternity test and the truth comes out. With her life about to fall apart all over again, Tiffany finds herself discovering unexpected truths about her father, her mother and herself, and realizing that maybe family is in the bonds you make—and that life means sometimes taking risks.

A delightful, heart-warming story about a perky pumpkin who just wants to fit in this Halloween. Halloween is approaching and it's time for the kids to pick out their pumpkins. The pumpkins have been looking forward to this all year, and are excited to meet their new owners. But when everyone is being chosen, there is one pumpkin who feels left out. He is the smiliest and happiest pumpkin of them all, but of course nobody wants a happy pumpkin on the scariest, spookiest night of the year! Will this little pumpkin find a home in time for Halloween? Adults and children will love to read aloud and follow the story of this perky pumpkin as he hopes to find the perfect family. With adorable and colorful illustrations, The Happy Pumpkin will make a wonderful addition to any Halloween-lover's bookshelf while teaching little ones an important life lesson about not judging others based on what they look like.

Shakespeare said, All the worlds a stage; all the men and women merely players. We all have different scripts; but we all search for the same thing. From Macbeth, we get an answer for what it is we search, and nothing is but what is not. My book, Beyond the Garden, takes a look at conventional, fundamental religious thought which is prevalent today, and especially in thoughts such as the gay issue. I suggest that there is another view of life which includes all men and women as brothers and sisters and their sexual preferences. Just as Martin Luther King and the eightys ladies sought to bring freedom to the oppressed, so should the knights of today seek to bring freedom to all mankind. The new frontier becomes an inescapable acceptance of all humanity because that is the issue of unreality prevalent today. Each of us needs to learn that the one thing needful in this world of woe is understanding, acceptance and lasting relationships. This book offers a suggestion for those who want to find true freedom and oneness with his brothers and sisters and God. While some of the more conventional religious books have mainstream thought, Beyond the Garden differs in that it acknowledges other thought patterns to show the offal of our existence until we understand who we are. By coming to this understanding, we discover true freedom. The story of the biblical Cain represents the story of Israel; more than that, it is the story of everyone in his God given freedom outside the garden without compassion. The mark of Cain becomes the standard by which one lives in his freedom. For me, the mark represents an attempt to find true freedom which falls short of our goal as humans, or as Erich Fromm would say, Escape from Freedom. To get beyond the garden is mans lot in life. A more profound inspiration seems to compel us back to the garden where we will find our hearts desire. Herein the quest begins. In other words, we search for the truth beyond what is not!

Single mother Malika “Pumpkin” Tavares lost faith in fairytales after she fell for a toad. Now she believes she’s not cut from the storybook, heroine cloth and searches for Mr. Good Enough amongst the sidekicks and supporting men of the town. Love at first sight isn’t a cliche for town royalty Armand “Manny” Charmayne. For generations the Charmaynes have spotted their soulmates by seeing a golden aura the first time they laid eyes on The One. When Manny meets Pumpkin he sees…nothing, but sparks fly off the richter scale. The more he gets to know her the more he considers defying fate, if only he can convince her to take a chance on love again.