Oshibana Complex


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Welcome to Shika-One City, humanity’s final home. Nations have come together. Gender and race are petty concerns of the past. But not everything is well in Shika-One. Humanity can no longer procreate and has to synthesize future generations. But there aren’t many genetic templates to go around and meeting yourself on the street is a daily occurrence. With so many people wearing the same face, the synths of Shika-One strive for individuality in a world where stepping out of line can lead to the shredder. In this pulsing neon world lives Xev and eir friends, all hard-working synths who maintain their designations to earn the XP to live and hope to afford the holographic shams that cover up their similarities. That is, until a new synth makes Xev start to ask big questions that might upset the status quo. In Shika-One, life is cheap. Xev is about to discover what e’s worth.







Bulletin


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Flowering Your Mind


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Looking for a new way to lift your spirits and boost your health? Suzanne Faith, a full-time RN living on Cape Cod, combines her 30 years of experience as a psychiatric nurse and certified dementia professional with a lifelong passion for Oshibana, the art of pressed flowers, in a new book that shows us how to improve brain health with flowers. An expert in caregiving and dementia care, Suzanne has helped thousands of families deal with the challenges of dementia, and she’s developed numerous Alzheimer’s and dementia-based curriculum for healthcare professionals. An award-winning artist and illustrator, her unique pressed floral techniques have taken her around the world, bringing joy through a medium that transcends the boundaries of language. Suzanne spent the past 20 years researching and writing Flowering Your Mind to help everyone learn fun, creative ways to use flowers to improve well-being, heal, stimulate brain activity, and even fight dementia. You’ll read about: The intersection between creativity and the brain Creating for emotional health Oshibana therapy Designing a flower garden for health and harmony How flowers effect emotion Healing with color How to preserve and arrange flowers Coloring your world . . . And more! Suzanne Faith, RN, Certified Dementia Professional, artist and author, expertly brings together: · Flowers · Cognitive Health · Oshibana Pressed Flower Art · Pen & Ink Drawings · Brain-building Activities Founded in Science










Greaveburn


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A HERO MURDERED. A GIRL ALONE. A CITY OF VILLAINS. From the crumbling belfry to the citadel's stained glass eye, across acres of cobbled streets and alleyways that never see daylight, Greaveburn is a city with darkness at its core. Gothic spires battle for height, overlapping each other until the skyline is a jagged mass of thorns. Archduke Choler sits on the throne, his black sealed letters foretell death for the person named inside. Abrasia, the rightful heir, lives as a recluse in order to stay alive. With her father murdered and her only ally lost, Abrasia is alone in a city where the crooked Palace Guard, a scientist's assistant who is more beast than man and a duo of body snatchers are all on her list of enemies. Under the cobbled streets lurk the Broken Folk, deformed rebels led by the hideously deformed Darrant, a man who once swore to protect the city. In a darkened laboratory, the devious Professor Loosestrife builds a contraption known only as "The Womb." With Greaveburn being torn apart around her, can Abrasia avenge her father's murder before the Archduke's letter spells her doom?




Agrindex


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Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes


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Blindsided by an attack that destroys her home and blamed for murder, Karolina Dalca, a half-vampire, escapes, only to plunge into the magical societies from which she was sheltered. Betrayed by those around her, she abandons her dreams of becoming an investigator and flees, trusting only herself. Her police internship would never prove more useful. Hoofing it through the wilderness, she makes it to her university dorm, disheveled but delightfully deflowered. Enter a full vampire: one wielding dark magic and a ride out of Canada. A fugitive from the law, Karo complies with his demands to escape, unsure whether his requests are bewitched. She vows to clear her name and avenge her mother's death, but Karo's family secrets aren't so easily left behind.




The Thunder Heist


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A relentless thief. An impossible heist.Meet Kef Cutmark. Pirate, monster-slayer, scourge of the Twisted Seas.After a lifetime of running from her past, she's returned to Zorith - a tangled jungle of a thousand boats, all lashed together to make a floating city-ship. Zorith is powered by a device that draws energy from lightning. Mysterious, unique, and locked in an unbreachable tower, it's the envy of Zorith's rivals.And Kef? She's here to steal it.If she can take the device and cripple Zorith, maybe she'll find justice for all the hurt the city has caused her. But with an unreliable thieving crew, hunters closing in, and her past bearing down upon her, failure looks more likely. And if she fails, she'll never find peace again.