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In this thrilling novel by Van Allen, a young couple hopes to rekindle their flailing relationship in a remote mountain cabin. Their get-away from the city quickly turns into a desperate fight for survival when they run into a vicious killing machine, a natural predator.

Chris - born Lazarus - had to contend with everything from abuse to assault and attempted murder growing up. Whether it was his birth mother, his foster families, or adoptive parents, no one seemed to care about him or want him. Even the police were not on his side: At age sixteen, he was arrested for defending himself against abuse. He spent birthdays and holidays alone in a group home, thinking of ways to end his life. Everyone told him he would end up in jail or dead. But at the group home, he met some people who changed his life.

Local painter Calder Brumen has three goals in life: be the best artist in San Francisco; make good on his promise to his best friend; and marry the mermaid with the glittery leg tattoos. When the vanishing woman leaves sandy footprints behind, Calder decides she’s more than a figment of his imagination, and his infatuation becomes an obsession. But a mysterious temptress worms her way into his best friend’s world, and Calder has to figure out how to save his childhood pal from the evil clutches of a witch...without losing his chance at landing his happily ever after.

A modern interpretation of the original Tao Te Ching. The meter has been preserved to its original intent, while the subject matter is about skateboarders and non-skateboarders instead of merchants and farmers. May this bring peace, empathy, compassion, and stoke to all who hear it.

In his first collection of condensed stories, James uses his quick wit and bizarre sense of humor to provoke laughter and gaiety. From the awkward moment that ensues after his boss mistakenly discovers a pornographic image on his cellphone, to the struggles of toilet training three cats in a one-bedroom apartment, James always has a way of finding the silver lining.

Once upon a time, Snow White defeated the Evil Queen and took the magic mirror as a prize. Generations later, the mirror is stolen.... A birthright of blood and burden.... As the last living descendant, Lauren White is tasked with guarding their prized possession. Using her blood to seal its magic, Lauren protects the world from corruption. The price of protecting the ones she loves includes guarding her own heart. When the mirror is stolen, she must do whatever necessary to retrieve it, even if it means fighting the Evil Queen’s descendant.

Everyone knows the story of Pandora.... However, every 5,000 years, one of Pandora’s descendants must pass the trials of the gods and master each element to renew the one thing that keeps humans from sinking into misery and the evil of this world: hope. Without hope, our world is doomed. The goddess, Hera, came to me and revealed the truth about my lineage. Now I have less than six months to learn how to use magic and win these Olympian trials before time runs out. But with the gods and Titans vying to control me, the last thing I need is to lose my heart to them.

A vision of an explosion in a laboratory triggers a strange headache and dreams depicting a day in the future for an unsuspecting computer programmer. Michael Ward attributes the dreams to stress and coincidence until they reliably repeat themselves day after day. He soon discovers he isn’t alone in his dreams. A terrifying shadow will seemingly stop at nothing to sever his connection to the future.

A mashup of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy, set in New York during prohibition, the characters interact with actual historic figures, including mobster Jack “Legs” Diamond, heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, and World War heroine Edith Cavell. The story follow an alien anthropologist, Tashan Zho, on a rescue mission to the distant planet Earth in 1926. Zho, is transported into the dying body of bootlegger Ryan Costello.

This audiobook is dedicated to making sure that you understand the industry and so that you know how to navigate through it successfully and easily. Many people can misinterpret what this saying means, and it can get them into trouble because they spend so much more than they need to. This audiobook goes into detail about the importance of needing a strategy, move through mistakes, understanding the limits that you have as well, and make sure that you are able to navigate yourself successfully.

Mark Bell is being haunted. Ever since his friend, Samantha, drowned in the Treasure Pit, he’s been running from her ghost. When his path takes him to a historical site and shipwreck in Texas, he hopes the past will stay where it belongs. However, the more he uncovers, the clearer it becomes that something is not right. Old friends need his help, and he doesn’t know if he’s the man to get the job done.

Bullet: I fought my way through life. Family was an important part of that. I kept myself away from them not wanting to see the disgust of my father. My club was all the family I needed. When I was taken and forced into a living hell, the one thing that kept me going was the unknown girl next to me. Getting her out alive was my priority. After I do, I have to make the toughest decision of my life. Trinity: I was never wanted. My father used me to his advantage. I was taken for his debts. I thought I would die. I wanted to.

Are you a fan of the upside-down worlds of the Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, or Black Mirror? How about Stephen King or Neil Gaiman? Then spend some time reading these 26 twisty, turny stories that cross genres and blur the lines between reality and fantasy. In "Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six", a timid bank clerk working in the Arizona frontier encounters a strange man and an even stranger gun. In "Captain Coffee", a caffeine-powered superhero comes to the rescue...and many more fun ways to spend a few minutes of your day.

The Chine, the second installment of Teddy Raye’s exciting Her Minder series, continues the gripping story of Sydney Chapin, the Agency’s best and brightest, and her Minder, the compelling Doctor Dahlra Gar. From the spine-tingling opening lines, to its thrilling showdown, The Chine is a pause-resisting story of espionage, erotic Dominance, and heart-stopping action.

Guns & God: Lines in the Sand is an electrifying adult crime-thriller involving murder, conspiracy, and infidelities that jolt a community as two neighboring families collide over political ideas about gun laws...when patriarch Luke “Fuzzy” Rose learns that a family member will stop at nothing to overtake the family business, all hell breaks loose, sending the family on a manhunt to end the dark plot and exposing its plans for civil war.

Why are Homo sapiens a suicidal species? Why do people bring innocent children into this violent, overpopulated world? Why do people ignore the mounting evidence of environmental collapse? Why is humanity courting its own extinction? In addressing these questions, Field Guide to a New Species identifies two species of human Homo sapiens, which have been around for the last seventy thousand years or so, and Homo veritas, which are just evolving into being.

Meal Prep: 50 Simple Recipes for Health & Fitness Nuts is all about preparing easy meals using fresh, whole foods. This meal prep recipe book empowers you to take full charge of your daily nutrition. Marc McLean, author and Online personal training and nutrition coach, pulls together the favorite recipes he uses every week. Some recipes are basic. Some are a little fancier...but you still won’t find it difficult to cook them. The majority of recipes take less than 30 mins to prepare and you’ll love devouring them.

Learn 50 lessons to achieve your goals, and find inspiring stories from the world’s top athletes.

Ed Lewis writes an America that transcends war, peace, and the strange combined turbulence of racism, poverty, and madness that makes up America in the 21st century. With deft strokes he gives us characters that haunt us like black-and-white photos: jet-setters, troubled teenagers, Vietnam vets, migrant workers, and ordinary people. His stories are inhabited by the Americans of Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. One wonders how a Hollywood producer dipped his fingers in the unearthly fissuring fabric of the American everyman.

Joey is a very curious little boy who notices a strange black image that seems to follow him everywhere. The image follows him up the hill, the image follows him down the hill, the dark shadow even follows him when he stands on his head!