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An intriguing woman knocked on the door to your craptastic new house and offered to sell you some knowledge about it for a small fee, and then she showed you a secret room in your basement where the former owner smoked hallucinogens and performed occult rituals. Would you be curious to explore it with her? If you’re a morose and horny retired professor like Herman Tilling, you sure as hell would! But it might not end up the way you expect....

In this updated version of the 2000 book about the sightings over Washington, D.C. in 1952, The Washington Nationals examines the case in depth, adding additional commentary, witness interviews, and new information.

Looking for a way to invest in the long game without waiting to see returns? Ready to leave behind your day job and build your own thriving business? Want to take control of your financial situation and make your money work for you? If you’re interested in using real estate to scale your net worth, you’re not alone. According to Connected Investors, there are approximately 2.2 million real estate investors in the US alone. And with investors buying up record shares of the housing market, interest in real estate investments will only continue to rise.

Whether you need to give a wedding toast as a best man or maid of honor, a retirement speech, an award or promotion speech, or any other kind of toast, this handbook offers you a done-for-you blueprint to help you organize your thoughts and turn giving a toast into a painless, stress-free process. As a clear, concise, and no-fluff book that you can enjoy in just a weekend or less, Toast: Short Speeches, Big Impact is an invaluable tool for anybody scared of public speaking—or short on ideas.

In the late 1800s, deep in the woods of a small New England town, something was called forth for the purposes of revenge and death. Something evil, something bloodthirsty, something unstoppable. Now, what has lain dormant for over a century has been released on four unsuspecting teens trying to enjoy a quiet weekend alone. All they want to do is watch some movies and play some games. But their fun is cut short, and what starts as a series of strange and unsuspecting events soon turns into a bloodbath in which no one is safe.

PI Jarvis Mann was captivated by the sultry tones of his female client.... Emily White with girl next door looks and shimmering eyes that begged for help…. She is being stalked but isn’t certain by whom…and this wasn’t the first time.

While on the way home from her bartending job, Amy Hargrave witnesses a brutal murder. But the police question her account of the alleged crime. There is no dead body at the scene. No blood splatters. No blood residue. No evidence that a crime had even been committed. But Amy knows what she saw. Not knowing whom to turn to, Amy seeks help from Nick Price, private investigations. Amy’s story intrigues Nick, and he agrees to look into it. But as Nick Price digs deeper, he quickly realizes that what happened in the alley that night is a small link in a sinister chain of events.

Emma Hall is an aspiring screenwriter whose latest screenplay is causing quite the scene in the script-hunting world. Francis Callahan, an ambitious movie producer and director who is rising fast in the movie world, gets wind of the screenplay, and immediately schedules to meet Emma in person. Emma is both excited and nervous. Francis, after all, was her old best friend from high school, and she hasn’t spoken to him in years. While ecstatic that she is finally receiving serious consideration for the job that is her dream, she is afraid that things could get awkward, very fast.

Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the proliferation of artificial intelligence-enabled technology–and specifically the advent of legal prediction–is on the verge of radically reconfiguring the law, our institutions, and our society for the better.

In the small Maryland town of Morgan’s Landing, fourteen-year-old Julie Morgan is living in comfort with her wealthy family. She disappears on her way to school after a spat with her twin sister. Detective Jim Brady, married and the father of two, has been on the Morgan’s Landing police force for twelve years. He identifies a few suspects in the girl’s disappearance—Is it the fired school janitor, a paroled sex offender, Julie’s computer teacher… or his own teenage son? Jim can’t believe his son could be involved, but his wife is convinced the boy is hiding something.

It was his responsibility to fight for those who could not fight, punish those who needed punishing, and righting the world of all the wrongs—to Captain Vicarelli, that was his mission even out of the Corps. Once separated from the Marines, he took his mission to his home, New Orleans, rife with murder, rape, and crime. The Corps had trained him and trained him well. He was a skillful killing machine of unusual propensity.

Dive into the heart of a war-torn land where beauty and brutality collide in Sketches from the Periphery, a stunning debut novel and international best-seller by MP Summers. Set against the volatile backdrop of Darfur in 2005, this gripping tale follows Alexander Barr, a young American contractor thrust into the chaos of the African Union Peacekeeping Mission. At just twenty-two, Alex trades college textbooks for the unforgiving desert, where every step reveals a world of resilience, violence, and haunting mystery.

It was his responsibility to fight for those who could not fight, punish those who needed punishing, and righting the world of all the wrongs—to Captain Vicarelli, that was his mission even out of the Corps. Once separated from the Marines, he took his mission to his home, New Orleans, rife with murder, rape, and crime. The Corps had trained him and trained him well. He was a skillful killing machine of unusual propensity.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the quintessential Gothic horror novel that introduced one of literature’s most iconic villains—Count Dracula. The story unfolds through diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings as Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor, travels to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula with his estate purchase in England.

For centuries, the Niruku Corporation has led humanity’s expansion, sending transmigrants—genetically engineered colonists—on generation ships to settle new worlds. But beneath its facade of progress lies a harrowing truth: the transmigrants are slaves, their reproduction strictly controlled, their lives cut short, their existence erased once their purpose is fulfilled. Geneticist Kaylie Stewart uncovers Niruku’s darkest secret and escapes with Estia, an orphan whose hidden past could bring down the empire.

In 1963, Neil Vincent, a middle-aged World War II veteran and "Christian atheist," is working at Westfield Court as a chauffeur. He spends most of his spare time reading. Mary Claire DeWinter is a young, blind, Catholic college student and reluctant heiress. To secure her inheritance, she has to marry within a year, and her aunt is pressuring her to marry a rich man who teased and bullied her when she was a child.

Unearth the sinister secrets that lie within Beyond Wicked True Crime Stories - the cursed tome crafted for the depraved minds thirsting for terror. Prepare to be consumed by the chilling tales of abominable acts, where the boundaries of morality are shattered and the shadows whisper of unspeakable horrors.

Bartles has it all: a captivating companion, an inner-city apartment mid-way up the tall-tower, and an imminent promotion. For him, life is great—except for his obsession with entropy and its promise that nothing lasts forever. When he digs too deep into the forbidden archives of Aleph-1—the avant-garde CPU that controls the Infinity Drive—Bartles’ perfect life is shattered, plunging him into an unrecognizable world of blood-red wastelands, empty mega-cities, and receding oceans. A dangerous place inhabited by new apex predators, where the remnants of humanity struggle.

The year is 2176. Humanity is ruled under a one-world government. Those in power enjoy lavish lifestyles and the grandest medical care, allowing them to live an average lifespan of 200 years.

When a student in Professor Brad Parker's lab at the Maine Translational Research Institute in Wells is wrongfully accused of sharing answers on an exam, he tries to help. Only to encounter a series of unexpected obstacles. Burglary. Bribery. A suspicious suicide. And then the professor who accused the students of cheating is killed. Leaving Brad and his fiancée, FBI Agent Karen Richmond, desperately trying to understand what's going on behind the scenes.