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Estratto da Le Terre Avvelenate: La città di Nan-li è avvelenata.

“The Le Terre Avvelenate” è cronologicamente il secondo libro della serie di fantascienza sociale “Nobili di Beinan” ed è un prequel della trilogia principale, fornendo in particolare il contesto di “Fantasmi del Passato”. In questa serie di scene all’inizio del racconto, la guaritrice Cara esplora una foresta vicino alla città principale di Nan-li, raccogliendo campioni di acqua, terreno e vegetazione lungo il percorso. Dopo aver sottoposto i campioni ad analisi dettagliate, Cara e la sua ...

Excerto de O Território Envenenado: A cidade de Nan-li está envenenada.

“Território Envenenado” è cronologicamente il secondo libro della serie di fantascienza sociale “Peers of Beinan” ed è un prequel della trilogia principale, fornendo in particolare il contesto di “Fantasmi del Passato”. In questa serie di scene all’inizio del racconto, la guaritrice Cara esplora una foresta vicino alla città principale di Nan-li, raccogliendo campioni di acqua, terreno e vegetazione lungo il percorso. Dopo aver sottoposto i campioni ad analisi dettagliate, Cara e la sua coll...

Bed Bugs 2.0: Lessons Learned from July infestation

It happened! Despite my precautions with a metal bed frame and mattress encasement, bed bugs paid me an expensive visit in July 2025. Here’s what I learned:

Bed bugs don’t feast on cockatiels. They prefer humans.Bed bugs prefer to live in your mattress and bed foundation, but can live elsewhere.Any fabric that touches your bed must be washed/dried on high heat over 140F. This includes pillows, pillow cases, sheets, and blankets.When using a powered dryer, dry on highest sett...

Os delegados chegam. Excerto de “Adeus A672E92 Quintus”

O planeta natal original dos beinarianos, A672D92 Quintus, está em perigo, pois o seu sol começa a expandir-se para uma nova e deve ser abandonado. Só há um problema: a sociedade beinariana está tão dividida que não há navios para a evacuação.

Faça uma viagem pelas estrelas enquanto a busca pela paz transforma a sociedade beinariana e transforma dois líderes improváveis ​​em lendas.

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Review: Wild Harvest Crunch Bars fails to appeal to cockatiels

I love my cockatiels. If you know nothing else about me, it’s my life long dedication to my birds. With Clara’s first gotcha day on September 1st, 2025 you know I had to find her a treat to enjoy to celebrate.

Enter the newest treat choice from Wild Harvest (formerly Hartz), now available at Walmart: health benefits crunch bars. I decided to try these out because at $2.97 per package, I thought they would be a good value, especially since the treat sticks I usually buy cost more than twic...

Arrivano i delegati. Estratto da “Addio A672E92 Quinto”

Il pianeta natale originario dei Beinariani, A672D92 Quintus, è in pericolo poiché il suo sole inizia a espandersi in una nova e deve essere abbandonato. C’è solo un problema: la società Beinariana è profondamente divisa, così divisa che non ci sono navi per l’evacuazione.

Intraprendi un viaggio tra le stelle mentre la ricerca della pace trasforma la società Beinariana e rende due improbabili leader leggendari.

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Caffeine Cravings: coffee, tea, and soda

For most of us it’s a daily morning ritual. Get up, make coffee, and drink at least one cup before we done almost anything else — though bowel movements and showering might come before we finish that cup of coffee. In the USA and likely elsewhere we are a culture of caffeine addicts with numerous jokes about coffee popular almost everywhere you go. Jokes aside, caffeine addiction is real and can kill people with heart failure, high blood pressure, and other cardiac health challenges. It th...

Study Questions from Chapter One of “Cleopatra VII : Student-Teacher edition.”

Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous women in history. What most people know about her comes from political slander spread by Emperor Caesar Augustus — Octavian, nephew to Gaius Julius Caesar.

The real woman was much more interesting.

Here are the study questions that follow and relate to chapter one of “Cleopatra VII.”

We begin Cleopatra’s story in the middle of her civil war with brother Ptolemy Theos Philopator.  Compare and contrast Cleopatra’s personality with her...

Study Questions from Chapter Two of “Hypatia of Alexandria: Student-Teacher edition.”

Hypatia of Alexandria has the only textbook edition to be recorded in both regular edition and audio edition (see links at end of this post). Her story is one of courage in the face of both antisemitic and anti-education violence. As the very last librarian of the Great Library of Alexandria, she saw her entire world destroyed in her sixty year life.

Here are the study questions that follow and relate to chapter two of”Hypatia of Alexandria.”

Hypatia works at learning how to re...

Cover Art Evolution: Thirteen Years of the Great Succession Crisis

Prince Yubi leaves his ship in “Benji, Zax, and the Alien Prince.”

August 12th, 2012. For the very first time I upload a book to Smashwords.com. The effort, a sci-fi novel originally intended to be fan fiction for the cherished 1983 scifi series for children called “Benji, Zax, and the Alien Prince,” takes two years to write. In the end, that single book became a five book series with the final book “Princess Anyu Returns” becoming the story closest to BZAP.

2012 covers. Only t...