After two heartbreaking losses, Luna hungers for adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger's journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don't stop him. His decision to go on reading changes his life. Months later, they meet at a bookstore. Fascinated by his stories and adventurous spirit, Luna goes to a rural rice-growing village in a country steeped in an ancient culture and a deadly history. What she finds there defies anything she could have imagined. Will she leave this world unscathed? An epistolary tale of courage, resilience, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.

Inaya - the daughter who knows her father to be dead. Imaad - the son who has persistently betrayed and disappointed his father. Zahra - in search of the man who saved her childhood and protected her mother. Salmaan - An autistic youngster who finds it difficult to navigate himself in the big, wide world. Today. Inaya - The news of her father being alive shatters her existence completely as she is left with an air ticket and a damning decision. Salmaan - Her brother, autistic and confused escapes through an unlocked front door and discovers a world that is cruel and far from safe. Imaad - A drug dealer on the brink of uncertainty drowning in a sea of betrayal and animosity. Zahra - Finders not keepers of the man who changed her life and future. Then, one moment, a fatal incident rips their souls apart and transforms their landscapes forever.

Can Bow the monkey find his way through the forest back home? Join him on his journey to find out.

Singapore in 1942 saw the greatest defeat of the British and Allied forces of WW2. Much has been written about the terrible time endured by the 85,000 troops who surrendered to the Japanese forces on 15 February 1942. Much less has been written about the circumstances surrounding the many civilians caught up in the fighting and subsequently interned or forced to endure occupation. Such was the speed with which the Japanese captured the Island that little time was given to removing resources that may assist them in furthering their aim of creating an Asian empire. One example is the fact that the island had become the centre for all the gold reserves of the Malay States and Singapore. The Japanese knew this and for nearly four years searched the island for the gold. To this day some of this gold may still be at large as no one ever kept a record of what gold was on the island and how much was consumed in paying the cost of the subsequent guerrilla warfare.

Natalie Woodson, a rich and beautiful but impossibly spoiled woman, and a handsome and carefree pilot, Derek Thomas, whom she has chartered to fly her from New York City to San Jose, Costa Rica. Incurring catastrophic phenomena en route beyond their control, they soon find themselves isolated in a hostile land. What begins as a simple exercise in survival soon develops into a daily fight for existence against almost insurmountable odds. Confronted with their mutual animus toward each other, they soon realize that their salvation and only way out is to unit in purpose and in spirit.

Learn the ancient art of bonsai with a modern twist and permission to bend the rules in Freestyle Bonsai.