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  Aristocratic Education - From...

  Stephen leacock

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  Stephen P H Butler Leacock FRSC was born on the 30th December 1869 in Swanmore, near Southampton, England, the third of eleven children. 
  The family emigrated to Canada in 1876 to live on a 100-acre farm in Sutton, Ontario.  There Leacock was home-schooled and later enrolled into the elite private school Upper Canada College in Toronto.  Academically he was very strong and enrolled at the University of Toronto to study languages and literature.  He left there after his alcoholic father abandoned the family and finances were too stretched to continue his attendance.  He now enrolled in a three-month course at Strathroy Collegiate Institute to become a qualified high school teacher and with it a regular income. 
  Leacock published humorous articles in many Canadian and US magazines but his real passion was economics and political theory.  In 1899 he enrolled for postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago and earned his PhD in 1903. 
  His marriage to Beatrix Hamilton produced a single child 15 years later.  Over time father and son developed a love-hate relationship, partially caused by his son’s diminutive stature of only four feet.  
  He accepted a post at McGill University and kept it until he retired in 1936.  His work ‘Elements of Political Science’, was adopted as a standard textbook for two decades and was also his most profitable.  He now also began public speaking and lecturing.  
  In 1910, he privately printed some articles as ‘Literary Lapses’.  It was then released by a recognised publisher, and he became a commercially successful writer.  His collections of light-hearted whimsy, parody, nonsense, and satire were now frequently published along with biographies and several award-winning volumes on Canada. 
  Politically Leacock was a difficult creature.  He opposed women’s right to vote, was a champion of Empire but advocated social welfare legislation and wealth redistribution, but he often caused friction with his racist views. 
  Leacock has been forgotten as an economist, but it’s often said that in 1911 more people had heard of him than had heard of Canada.  For the decade after 1915 Leacock was the most popular humorist in the English-speaking world. 
  Stephen Leacock died on 28th March 1944 of throat cancer in Toronto, Canada.  He was 74.

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  New Arabian Nights

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his best work in the genre. The first and longest story stars Prince Florizel of Bohemia who appears in the later collection of stories "More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter." (Summary by Don W. Jenkins)

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  St Pete Academy of Real Magic:...

  Jerry Banfield

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  If you have ever felt that reality is more flexible, more alive, and more responsive than most people admit, this book is for you. 
  In St. Pete Academy of Real Magic: The Welcome Lecture, I invite you into a fictional world set in St. Petersburg, Florida that may not be fiction at all. I speak to you as if you are one of the first eight students enrolled in a yearlong private academy where the central lesson is simple and radical: you are the creator of your reality. From that foundation, I explore what becomes possible when you stop seeing yourself as powerless and start looking at your life as something you are consciously shaping. 
  This is not a fantasy novel about wands, spells, and magical bloodlines. It is a grounded, provocative, and highly personal welcome lecture about real magic as I see it: telepathy, remote viewing, intuition, conscious creation, life after death, communication with those who have passed on, transforming your health, reshaping your finances, and learning to see meaning in everything you experience. I share the stories, examples, and worldview behind the Academy, including how I believe I manifested this very reality into existence. 
  I wrote this as fiction so you can enter it with curiosity, imagination, and freedom. You can read it as a story, as a thought experiment, or as something much more personal. Whether you are skeptical, open-minded, spiritually adventurous, or quietly convinced there is far more going on here than we are taught, this book is meant to stretch your sense of what is possible. 
  If you are ready to question the limits of ordinary life and step into a world where your thoughts, choices, and desires matter far more than you have been told, welcome to the St. Pete Academy of Real Magic.

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  Charm Me

  Samantha Chase

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  Life has never been better for Jamie Donovan. Always has been. And now that it’s his turn to take charge of the family pub, he truly feels like everything in his life is just the way it’s supposed to be. Or it was until an early morning knock on his door ended with a baby on his doorstep. The man who can normally charm his way out of any situation doesn’t know the first thing about taking care of a baby and running a business. And so he turns to his siblings for help. And once they tell him their solution, he wishes he’d never asked for help. Fallon Murphy has always prided herself on being good with people. In all her life, she’s only met one person she hasn’t been able to get along with. Unfortunately, their parents are best friends, and avoiding him just wasn’t a choice. When his sister calls stating an emergency, the last thing Fallon expects is to find an abandoned baby—one that belongs to Jamie. As much as she’d love nothing more than to see Jamie fail at something, she would never put an innocent child at risk. They’re rivals. Sworn enemies. And now…roommates. Can one small baby help turn adversaries into lovers? Or maybe even…a family?

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  2015 Top Ten Gay Romance

  J.M. Snyder

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  2015 Top Ten Gay Romance brings together the best-selling short stories published by JMS Books that year.
  From first love to true love, from submission to sensual, from heat to sweet and everything in between, the couples in these stories are sure to keep you turning the pages as you fall in love with them. 
  With stories by J.M. Snyder, JL Merrow, Edward Kendrick, Hunter Frost, Drew Hunt, Lisa Gray, A.R. Moler, Rebecca James, Jeff Adams, and J.D. Walker, this head-over-heels collection goes beyond bedtime reading. Whether happily ever after or happy for now, there's an ending for everyone in here! 
  Contains the stories:
  
  - Hat Trick Overtime: Summer Camp by Jeff Adams
  - The Courage to Heal by Hunter Frost
  - Surprise Gifts by Drew Hunt
  - A Pebble in the Water by Lisa Gray
  - Partners by Rebecca James
  - Let Go of Loneliness by Edward Kendrick
  - Batteries Not Included by JL Merrow
  - Djinn: What's In Your Box? by A.R. Moler
  - Just My Style by J.M. Snyder
  - A Cowboy for Keeps by J.D. Walker

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  Almighty - A Short Tale of...

  Justine Avery

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  When a staunch atheist is introduced to the Lord Almighty in the most casual—and childish—way, it's not the end of the world. It's a Tuesday. 
   
  Bradley Michaels is just another man ending just another workday at just another job. He can list the usual complaints, can point his finger at the usual causes, and he can go about his routine as if one day is absolutely no different from the next. 
   
  Until God himself just shows up uninvited and shakes up Bradley's entire existence by flaunting his own. 
   
  It's not fair, but Bradley never claimed life is. And he tries to handle the new, omniscient presence in his head with calm attention and cool collectedness. 
   
  But God happens to be a bit of a kid. He likes to joke, to prod, to stir things up. And what God sets his mind to, God succeeds at. 
   
  Just as Bradley believes he's got life all figured out, God has to throw a wrench into it. 
   
  But not at all in the way that Bradley—or you—can expect. 
  Just when you think life is going according to plan, you find out your plan sucks. And it's time for a new one.

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