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The 911 call was harrowing. “I accidentally killed someone. Please!” the man said, his voice rising. “Who?” “My stepmom. My name is Ian Anselmo. Sue-Ellen Anselmo, she’s in the car with me. My dad is going to kill me. I guess I strangled her. I don’t remember doing it. I remember the argument.” The call disintegrated quickly, with the 20-year-old howling and sobbing so pitifully that the dispatcher could not understand what he was saying, except that he was calling from a cemetery.

A Thousand Lifetimes will resonate with everything you knew, and hoped, was true. Here is the very real story of one woman’s life with rescue animals, and in particular, Celeste — a beloved canine who found a home in the author’s heart and never left. Celeste was plagued with a number of mysterious health problems. But despite being deaf, and being a dog, Celeste was able to communicate everything she was experiencing, thinking, and feeling through Carol, a professional Animal Communicator with the ability to converse with animals telepathically.

Something is buried beneath the watcher tree in the woods—a metal box with treasure inside. But what kind of treasure? Gold? Secrets? Memories? And who buried the box at the base of the spookiest tree in Stony Brooke? The tree with a reputation for snatching children and gobbling them up. Jordan and Holly discover the box on one of their adventures and crack it open to find unusual objects inside.

Mena Garcia and the ABE crew embarked on a mission of space exploration in the next universe 15 years ago. Mena finds herself in a world controlled by a river. Can she challenge the river and save her crew? Commodore Rebecca Garcia is determined to find Mena and crew in the next universe. Accompanied by unexpected crew the new commodore is challenged and relies on her skilled crew for the future of humanity.

Meet Kacy Marie Aspen. A young and curious girl with schizophrenia who just turned 17. Upon discovering the house and witnessing several odd figures standing out front, she soon finds herself being stalked by them almost everywhere that she goes. As she struggles to determine if what she is seeing is real or in her head, will she confront these strange characters and find out their story? Or will she descend into madness and learn that it might be all in her head?

Dr. Niskayuna Xivray—inventor, surgeon, explorer, computer programmer, and Olympic medaling archer—is the director of the Xivray Institute, a loose affiliation of quirky scientists and adventurers. The doctor also has a personal secret that would shock the world. Working with a new recruit with mysterious abilities of his own, the Institute takes on its toughest challenge yet, an unknown enemy who's psychically controlling the president of the United States.

When Conrad and his wife set out to meet their friends for a simple weekend retreat, all they wanted was an easy weekend full of catching up and drinking. But when the group discovers a map that shows them the location of a hidden waterfall in the heart of an uncharted valley, they can’t help but jump at the opportunity to rediscover it.

The Return, book five in The Garcia Galactic Chronicles, continues the story of discovery for space explorers. An emergency detachment from ADAM Station brings lost time and separation. The Commodore is kidnapped, and crews desperately tries to uncover the cause and the threat to humanity.

The Resistance, the fourth book in The Garcia Galactic Chronicles, continues the story of discovery for human space explorers. After relying on advanced technology, space explorers are trapped in four planetary systems, resulting in unexpected separation.

Fear not—you are not alone in this journey. Moreover, there are well-charted pathways to subdue this phantom. Welcome to your navigational guide, The Imposter Syndrome Workbook. This comprehensive workbook is your co-pilot, guiding you to identify and confront imposter syndrome head-on.

Reeling from the loss of Earth, Commodore of EVE Hank Casey’s mission changes. A surprise passenger and alien technology are discovered which lead Tony Garcia and Hank on a mission of redemption. Marine leaders train civilian forces to increase their combatant numbers to liberate a planet that can potentially host a colony for the future of humanity. All the while, Mena Garcia is thrust into a leadership position—will she dig deep enough to finally finish something that she started?

The Reset begins the story of discovery for Mena Garcia, the scientist who unknowingly unearths an alien artifact that holds the key to catastrophic end of life on Earth.

Jaynie Floyd, a celebrated mystery writer, has a book on the New York Times best seller list. It’s wonderful news and her agent wants to send her on a book tour to promote it. However, Jaynie is newly widowed and doesn’t want to go.

Take an average-looking 32-year-old woman, an internet typing blunder, a group of doting gay men, a social-climbing gorgeous Latin poser, and a humble British nobleman and you have Just Call Me Lady. With the help of her "Queer Eye" team, Connie Botello blossoms, and a web of assumptions and comic faux pas ensues when she buys an online noble title and assumes the persona of Lady Constance Widford of Exeter, England. Love, deception, exotic locations, arrests, and celebrity all complicate this once small-town girl's life with a lovely, redemptive conclusion.

The first three audiobooks in the Tala Ridge Shifters series, a young adult paranormal urban fantasy.

Throughout this audiobook, parents of kids with PANDAS (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with strep) and PANS (pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome) share their answers to these questions and more. In stories of heartbreak and healing, they describe how the symptoms of these disorders really look behind closed doors and how relentlessly fighting for the right diagnosis and treatment led their kids to heal, slowly.

With the king missing and unable to help, the two alphas must find a way to save the children of their packs. As if that isn't challenging enough, they must ensure the human children survive as well. In the midst of this problem, a new group of shifters move to town. Friends? Foes? Only time will tell.

Just when Terrell thinks everything is calming down, a white-out blizzard arrives hours before expected, stranding a bus load of second-graders in the middle of nowhere. Can the shifters of Tala Ridge arrive in time to prevent disaster? And if they do, can they face what's coming?

Terrell, the teenaged alpha of the Tala Ridge Wolf Pack, faces leadership challenges he never expected. It's hard enough stepping into a role Terrell wasn't prepared for, but dealing with Buck, the teenage alpha of the outcasts, is fraught with danger. Is the pack safe with unknown wolves sniffing around? Will the two teen alphas find a way to work together? Or will the past they had no part in shaping make them enemies? When two teen alphas square off, will their packs survive?

My purpose was handed to me in the shape of an envelope, a simple paper container with a sealable flap that holds a little bit of hope for our everyday heroes. As it turned out, a life of stationery was my destiny, not a stationary life. And it all began on the heels of a broken heart. For the better part of my life, I dreamed of and even prayed for an epic love story, and this is a love story on so many levels. I just never expected it to come at such a great toll. But then again, if you look back through the course of history, the greatest love stories always do.