A land in ruins, a trust broken, and a ruler at breaking point in a world where nothing is quite as it seems. All Cail has ever wanted to do was serve his people. Steadfast, honourable, and loyal, he was born to rule, but he has seen his world torn apart and watched others playing the hero while he was doomed to failure. Now the cracks are showing. Fighting to retain his sanity, Cail becomes lost to his people, a lurking shadow, separated from those he loves. Can he ever come back from his despair? Has he gone too far to redeem himself? And will the interference of the mysterious Aeryn hinder all attempts to restore him? Feats of great courage and sacrifice dominate as Cails friends try to unravel dark mysteries and save his life. But Cails path home is paved with agonising loss, betrayal, and torture soon everything he cares about is put in jeopardy. 1. Homequest: Liberation 2. Homequest: Decimation 3. Homequest: Separation

If you're a fan of Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Star Wars and Robin Hood etc then you'll love Tales of Roumanhi, Homequest: Liberation with over 400 exciting pages of adventure as opposing sides struggle for freedom and supremacy. T'skya is young, inexperienced and expendable when she is sent to Roumanhi from the Homequest, a vast spaceship that is coming to the end of its functional life; her duty to secure a new home for her people. Heading for a city, she crashes in the desert, only to wake up in an ancient forest on the wrong side of the mountains with a spear in her flesh, surrounded by hostile Roumanhi forest dwellers who think she is an enemy. She soon learns that the dwellers from Wilderwood enclave have good reason to hate and fear the race now dominating their lives. Their families have been split up, their people brutalised and enslaved, their treasured land ravaged and plundered and their monarchy slaughtered. The natives with spears and arrows are no match for the more advanced enemy with their blasters and laser cannon. Eventually T'skya formulates a dangerous plan to secure Roumanhi freedom, endangering those closest to her and leading to revelations that change all their lives. Liberation is a tale of heroic sacrifice, of tragic loss and passionate desire, of ancient races and peculiar creatures, of treasured mythology and warfare. It is the story of a group of diverse people, both friend and foe, who share a goal - Liberation. 1st review: 26 July 2010 'The descriptions of the lands and characters bring the story alive, with interesting twists and turns, leaving me impatient for the next book in the series. Well worth the read and an excellent 'first' for the author.' Rosemary W. Website: www.homequest-liberation.com Facebook: homequest:LIBERATION Twitter: @JEBrowning

This book takes a "project" orientation towards teaching Paradox. As the reader works through the book, he/she will build a complete, working Paradox for Windows application (which also appears on the book's disk). The book contains a comprehensive 400-page ObjectPAL command reference.

Advice on making connections with other homeschoolers, finding online courses and homework tutors, communicating with broadcasters and legislators, and using such sites as the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress.

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on a firm's Cuban entrant program, focusing on: (1) the amount and sources of federal funds it received; (2) how it spent the federal funds; (3) the propriety of its paying for leases with federal funds; and (4) how the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) carried out its administrative responsibilities. GAO found that the firm: (1) received about $1.7 million from the Social Security Administration's Office of Refugee Resettlement, $16.5 million from the NIMH Refugee Mental Health Program, and $585,000 from the Department of Justice's Community Relations Service; (2) provided community-based mental health services to 245 Cuban youth resettling in the United States; (3) did not comply with its proposed 18-month maximum participation limit until NIMH issued a policy guideline limiting participation to 6 to 9 months; (4) could not evaluate its program's effectiveness, since it did not follow up on participants after discharge; and (5) spent $196,150 more than it was authorized to during three award periods. GAO also found that NIMH did not: (1) adjust program funding to reflect the varied number of participants during different award periods; (2) adequately document or maintain program-related proposals, budget requests and cooperative agreements, program expenditures, or monitoring reports; (3) develop an indirect cost rate and allowed the firm to charge the government $2.4 million in indirect costs it categorized as burden allocation; (4) take any enforcement action for the firm's failure to timely submit acceptable financial status reports; or (5) maintain adequate documentation to support the propriety of the firm's charging the government for the costs of its leasing arrangements.

Thinkers and activists from many orientations and traditions are now coming together to explore ways to reconstitute rites of passage as a form of community healing for our public and personal ills. Crossroads is a comprehensive collection of over fifty cutting-edge writings on diverse aspects of the transition to adulthood. "In no uncertain terms, Crossroads opens our eyes to our responsibility to the adolescents who are now growing up without sacred rituals and hence without knowledge of spiritual roots in their culture. Many of the writers have first-hand experience and first-rate ideas of how to transform this cultural crisis. Crossroads also challenges us to integrate our own inner adolescent. Piercing insight with realistic hope " -- Marlon Woodman The Ravaged Bridegroom

At twenty-five, Gemma and Rory decide to marry. Having been best friends and lovers since university it is a logical move. Just a quiet registry office affair and that will be that. Then both sets of parents get involved, and the idea of a laid back occasion is blown out of the water. Will Gemma and Rory's relationship cope with the strain and can they find their happy ever after . . . ? Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.uk

When your fib is fab, fiction is born. When you spin a yarn and give it colours of life, a story emerges. When you blend these and add real-life experiences, a book emerges. A heady mix of all that, “Her Story, His Story” is bound to keep you glued to the book till the end.