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The Fall of a Great American City is the story of what is happening today in New York City and in many other cities across America. It is about how the crisis of affluence is now driving out everything we love most about cities: small shops, decent restaurants, public space, street life, affordable apartments, responsive government, beauty, idiosyncrasy, each other. This is the story of how we came to lose so much—how the places we love most were turned over to land bankers, billionaires, the worst people in the world, and criminal landlords—and how we can - and must - begin to take them back. Co-published with Harper's Magazine, where an earlier version of this essay was originally published in 2018.The landlords are killing the town. As New York City approaches the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. By unremarkable I don’t just mean periodic, slump-in-the-art-world, all-the-bands-suck, cinema-is-dead boring. I mean flatlining. No longer a significant cultural entity but a blank white screen of mere existence. I mean The-World’s-Largest-Gated-Community-with-a-few-cupcake-shops. For the first-time in our history, creative-young-people-will-no-longer want-to-come-here boring. Even, New-York-is-over boring. Or worse, New York is like everywhere else. Unremarkable. This is not some new phenomenon, but a cancer that’s been metastasizing on the city for decades now. Even worse, it’s not something that anyone wants, except the landlords, and not even all of them. What’s happening to New York now—what’s already happened to most of Manhattan, its core, and what is happening in every American city of means, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, you name it—is something that almost nobody wants, but everybody gets. As such, the current urban crisis exemplifies our wider crisis: an America where we believe that we no longer have any ability to control the systems we live under.

The Addition the Fun Way Book for Kids uses cartoons and stories to help kids memorize the basic addition facts. Each of the numbers become a character, ie. the five drives, the four is a door, etc. Children learn to associate the story with the number characters which lead to the answer. Memorization is fun and easy and has been proven effective, especially for children with learning differences and who have difficulty retaining the answers to the math facts. The book follows the same format as the widely popular Times Tables The Fun Way Book for Kids, published since 1992 by City Creek Press. To see more products, like subtraction cards visit City Creek Dot Com.

"Isabella Fontaine and Ken Brosky's incredible talent for storytelling takes the reader on an amazing action-packed ride fueled by endless creativity and limitless imagination. TGC is like a high-stakes version of Harold and the Purple Crayon meets a contemporary, above ground Alice in Wonderland." - Bookfetish.orgOnce upon a time, a pair of brothers used magic to bring their fairy tales to life.Now they’re everywhere, hiding in plain sight. A dwarf running a company that brainwashes clients. A wicked stepmother operating a twisted orphanage where nothing is as it seems. A magic fish who grants wishes … at a cost.And a prince whose nightly hunger must be satisfied with blood.The nightmares haunt 18-year-old Alice Goodenough. Every night, she sees the creatures unleashed by the Brothers Grimm. Every day, she hunts them down. Armed only with a magic pen and a trusty sidekick named Br’er Rabbit, Alice must use all her wits to vanquish the evil. Her wits … and a very sharp sword.But there are no guarantees. No second chances. With each new creature she vanquishes, Alice’s nightmares grow more horrific. The Corruption is spreading. She will either vanquish the malevolent evil for good, or she’ll die.And Alice is not the first to wield the magic pen. Will she succeed or will evil kill her first?"Original. Creative. Exciting. Smart. Fontaine and Brosky weave a brilliant modern day fairy tale focused on taking the old ones down." - Page Turner Blog****This book contains all 12 episodes in the series****Over 2000 pages collected in one edition!Book 1: Prince Charming Must Die Book 2: Happily-Never-After Book 3: Revenge of the Castle Cats Book 4: The Orphanage of Doom Book 5: Blood and Thunder Book 6: The Order of the Golden Dragon Book 7: The Giant Slayer Book 8: Darkness RisingBook 9: Malevolence Book 10: The Black Towers Book 11: A Dance With Death, Part One Book 12: A Dance With Death, Part Two

Living the ideal life is a human right…unless you’re unregistered.Bristol lives under the watchful eye of the Metrics as an unlucky second child. The government grants its citizens the ideal life. Perfect spouse. Perfect job. Perfect home. But dare to have more than one child, and you’ll become an outcast­—the unregistered.Now, he’ll protest the abusive system in the only way he knows how, painting controversial murals in the hidden parts of town.But the government doesn’t condone dissent. And the frustrated unregistered citizens need to be handled. The relocation plan goes into effect and all unregistered must be sent to far-off desert states.Will Bristol and his friends be able to escape the government's clutches, and survive long enough to discover an unknown world.If you like Allie Condie, Dan Wells, Caragh M. O’Brien, Kyla Stone, and J.B. Simmons you’ll love this gripping dystopian ride into a sci-fi world!“Exceptional near-future totalitarian nightmare of obedience and forced sterilization. Lynch’s complex book packs in scathing commentaries on police brutality, crime prevention, population control, classism, and state-sponsored murder.” - PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY★★★★★What reviewers are saying:★★★★★ “One of the more innovative and gratifying novels to enter the dystopian genre.”★★★★★ “A science fiction story with a lot of heart. I warmed up quickly to all four of the core characters within this grim dystopian world.”★★★★★ “Omg’sh! Read this in one day!! Megan Lynch, you rock!!”★★★★★ “An unforgettable world and cast of characters.”★★★★★ “Engaging, with deep, thought-provoking ideas of government.”★★★★★ “A fascinating read with potentially serious social implications and a couple of major twists that keeps readers guessing.”

Meet Jimmy. Exorcist. Shameless. Cursed. Not All Exorcists are Equal....One is MarkedWhen defrocked ex-priest, Jimmy Holiday, agrees to help an old friend with his sick daughter, he doesn’t expect the horrors that await him.The Blackmoor residence rests upon the outskirts of town with a history of magic, mayhem, and death,Jimmy must decide if the young girl, Lucy, is only ill, or if the haunting of the house and her apparent possession are real.After the house appears to affect him as well with colors of magic dancing before his eyes, rooms warded by a witch, and a ring of power in his voice, Jimmy is met by a transient who tells him he has “the Mark.”Whatever being “marked” means, Jimmy doesn’t care. All he wants to do is help Lucy. But, helping Lucy means performing the one thing he swore he would never do…an exorcism.Will he survive long enough to save the child—and his soul?If you like Darcy Coates, Jack Ketchum, Robert R. McCammon, Willow Rose, and Joe Hill, you’ll love this ghostly dark fantasy filled with enough occult and supernatural to scratch that horror itch!“Defrocked priest Jimmy Holiday's narrative voice is a strong blend of insightful, self-deprecating, and sincere.” - Publisher's Weekly ★★★★★What reviewers are saying:★★★★★ “A real mixture of horror, fantasy, the paranormal, and a bit of romance and humor thrown in for good measure made this series well worth the read.” – Readers Favorite★★★★★ “The book is a page-turner, but definitely not for the faint of heart. There were a few chilling scenes that will leave me with nightmares for weeks.” – Book Chatter★★★★★ “DeVor weaves a clever plot and brings the reader a huge mixture of emotions such as fear, anxiety, wonderment and complete shock.”★★★★★ “Move over, Stephen King. Danielle DeVor is on her way!”★★★★★ “The author has invoked pure spine-tingling flesh-crawling terror from every chilling page.”

Join Albion in this steampunk adventure romp and global bar crawl to save the world. Pillage and plunder is what air pirates do, but for Albion Clemens, that will have to wait. The Manchu Marauder needs to find his American stepfather, Captain Samuel, lost to the wayward winds of a Steam Age Europe.Unfortunately, Captain Samuel has stolen the Laputian Leviathan, a powerful pirate artifact that's got agents of Queen and calamity sniffing at his coattails. The skies are a-twitter with rumors of some nefarious theft: someone is ripping up and stealing national landmarks, leaving the aerial navies of Europe helpless. It's an idea so ludicrous it has to be true. What's Captain Sam got to do with it? And why does the Darjeeling only taste good in Auntie's galley?With the aid of a buxom detective Inspector, a seditionist British journalist, and a knife-happy helmswoman, can Albion get to his pa before their high-flying pirate life is transformed into a Future that Never Was? “Adventure is what I expected going into this book, and adventure is what I got. The atmosphere was entrancing, the airships were captivating, the action was spot on. I can’t wait to see what the author has in store for us next!” - Mystery Author, M. W. Griffith ★★★★★AUTHOR INTERVIEWQ: Tell us about you and your workA: Hi! This is usually a hard question for me. Am I a child of two worlds? Yes. Do I call both New York and Hong Kong home? Yes, and that has pushed me into writing anachronistic work like steampunk. Am I a food writer, a trained chef, and a motorbike enthusiast? All yes.But they say the acorn is pulled into being by the oak tree it is going to be, and I was always going to be a novelist first and foremost. I grew up reading Douglas Adams and Madeline L'engle and Roald Dahl, and they were my friends when I moved around too much to have any. My wife and I basically live in a library.Q: What books do you write?A: I'm working on a ray gun series at the moment where I crash noir, Gothic, and western against a scifi backdrop. I adore fantasy. Ultimately, I want to push out of genre completely and go into lit fiction, but that judgement is up to the reader to make. Steampunk will always have a sweet spot with me. THE LANDS BEYOND FUTURE THAT NEVER WASSPECTRE OF WARQ: Why should readers pick up your books?A: My wife and few fans say this better than I do. They tell me I don't write weak female characters, and that I offer a voice to the voiceless. They say the writing is like a fine merlot and that the balance of action to hilarity is refreshing. Personally, I think the reason to pick up my books is the same reason you would give for following a stranger into a bar. You might not like it, but at least you will never regret it.Be sure to scroll up and hit that BUY NOW button to jump into a world of adventure, steapunk, and of course, pirates!

"Anne of Windy Willows" is the fourth book in the "Anne of Green Gables" series by L. M. Montgomery. It details Anne Shirley's experiences over three years teaching at a high school in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Here her biggest challenge is the high-status Pringles family who are not what one would expect them to be. Anne captures her experiences in a series of letters to her intended, Gilbert Blythe, who is completing medical school. Read Anne's journey in her own words and find out how she overcomes the hard times.

The final volume of The Grimm Chronicles ends with a bang as Alice Goodenough confronts her own mortality while attempting to save the world one last time! As darkness threatens to suffocate her, Alice must find the strength to seek out a mysterious creature that claims to have the power to bring back a loved one. In the process, she'll discover that there's more to the magic pen than meets the eye and will have to journey to a mysterious land filled with familiar--and dangerous--characters.This volume contains the last three episodes of the series:Episode 10: The Black TowersDeath has come again, and this time he's claimed a loved one of hero Alice Goodenough. While she reels in the aftermath of a heartbreaking loss, those around her are forced to cope with the terrible consequences of a world without a hero. Alice has learned a terrible lesson: the hero is not safe. Her loved ones are not safe. So long as the Corrupted walk the earth, death will stalk her like a shadow.In her dreams, she's plagued by a golden boy and a statue with a terrible thirst for darkness. The boy believes he is the key to saving the human race and calls to Alice while she sleeps. But can Alice pull herself from the abyss and sally forth, or will she end up in the heroes' graveyard?Episodes 11 and 12: A Dance With DeathThe hero's journey comes to a close in this epic two-part adventure! Alice Goodenough has passed through Death and now finds herself in a strange land with only her nemesis Sam Grayle for company. Their presence doesn't go unnoticed ... soon, they find themselves in the middle of a war between the good and the Corrupted. Old foes return. New allies are made. Lines are drawn and then crossed as the Corruption spreads, threatening to destroy the land itself and cover this strange world in darkness forever.Alice and her allies must stop it. But to do that, they'll have to find the source of the Corruption: an old enemy whose power has only grown stronger. And this time, the Golden Dragon has an army ...Like Katniss in The Hunger Games and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, hero Alice Goodenough is going to need to use more than her fists if she hopes to survive this nightmare!

Travelling storyteller Joel ben Izzy recounts an international mix of creepy tales that will take you from a taxi in Hong Kong to a graveyard in Israel, from the frozen Yukon to the suburbs of Los Angeles. You'll end up in a cave in the hills outside of Rome where Joel found the title story - or rather, it found him. As he recounts it you'll hear the bizarre tale of Joel's first job as a storyteller, which was very nearly his last. You'll hear the following: Creepy Car Tales (from California, Hawaii & Hong Kong) How I Got Bill the Chicken (California) The Cremation of Sam McGee (Canada) King Solomon & Death/The Graveyard in Safed (Israel) The Green Hand (Italy) This collection of stories, all told with music to match, is as funny as it is scary. It received an Award of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board.