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For many of us, the goal of life isn't ultimate wealth, a massive amount of stuff, or the perfect car. Though we strive to gain materialistic possessions and a social status, often times we find that the achievement of gaining such objects has little effect on our lives. There is always something which is better that needs to be obtained. Why is this? What is it that drives people's ambitions and motivation in life? What are we all striving for but many can never fully gain? It's happiness, plain and simple.

David Malone, a peacekeeper in the rundown Crystal City, discovers a plot within the movement of life's lottery, wherein the benefactors are stealing the entire life-force of the donors in order to perpetuate their own life across decades in a high-tech act of human sacrifice. How can something created to stabilize the human race after the holy wars get so perverted?

Presenting your lover with 24 roses signifies that they are always on your mind, for each rose represents one hour of the day. 24 Roses is a series of poems that explore the powerful and varied raw emotion that is love in all its glory. From the innocent love of childhood sweethearts to the weathered relationships of those who grow old together, and the anger, infatuation, despair, and romance in between.

What if the girl of your dreams turned out to literally be, a girl in your dreams? For Sam, meeting Susi in the same pub every night when he closed his eyes was exciting until he started to realize that this dream world, this half-light, offered more than his real life did. But now, in this place between reality and dreams, this place that is nowhere and everywhere, Susi has started to change; she is becoming confused and distant. Sam begins to realize that there must be a link between this world and reality, that something is drawing him to Susi each night.

Another Blood Jet is A. J. Huffman's new collection of poetry. This collection is a multigenre, literary horror collection of 48 poems that intermix personal memoirs of moments of a volatile relationship with bloody and surrealistic visions of the speaker's everyday life and madness. The goal of this collection is to take the listener on an emotionally tangential ride that twists their minds and guts in empathy. Collectively it creates a diversely intriguing mix of imagery, metaphor, and real-life memoir.

An alien on the run from bounty hunters arrives on Earth and hides in the body of a gangster who has just been murdered by his own gang. He finds himself in conflict with the gangster's determination to avenge himself on the gang and redeem a past failure while at the same time he has to deal with the bounty hunters.

Let's face it: Selfie pictures aren't going away anytime soon. In fact we can all admit we have taken some of these photos ourselves and posted them to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, or Google. You can post a sweet selfie picture pretty much anywhere.

Essential oils are extracted from flowers, leaves, fruits, peel, seeds, wood, bark, roots, and other natural materials. There are thousands of different kinds of essential oils, and each has unique properties and characteristics. They are highly volatile, so they are easily absorbed by the skin, and one must take care in the use of them.

These six plays are Japanese classics from the 14th century and are presented in the order of a traditional Nō programme. Nō, the Japanese word for "skill", is a form of Japanese musical drama that originated in the eighth century, and is the oldest major theatre art that still survives today. Alongside Nō plays were kyōgen plays, which were short works typically inserted as a comedic interlude of sorts between the more classical Nō performances.

Duke Vincentino, the ruler of Vienna, fears that under his mild sovereignty, the people may have become lazy and lax. He decides to “go over cover” in the disguise of a monk and appoint his deputy, Angelo, who is a reputed paragon of virtue, as temporary ruler. On assuming power, Angelo inaugurates draconian provisions regarding sexual propriety. One of the first victims of this new regime is young Claudio, who has impregnated his lover Juliet, and is accordingly sentenced to death.

When it was first published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was considered highly controversial for its blunt portrayal of domestic abuse, alcoholism, and the dismissal of Christian values by some of its characters. Today, this gothic novel is considered one of the greatest in English literature.