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Overwhelmed with unnecessary stress and piles of useless stuff? Discover how to ditch society’s expectations and live by your own rules. Exhausted from chasing ill-fitting definitions of success? Struggling to manage your daily to-dos while failing to make progress on what truly matters? Author and digital nomad Gary Collins has thrived since walking away from a stable, unfulfilling job to build a joyful, debt-free, and off-the-grid lifestyle. After teaching thousands of people to step off the burnout treadmill, he's here to share the step-by-step process for living your dream.

Years ago, Drakulon - a planet of living vampires, where it rains blood instead of water - faced a terrible drought. So, they sent space scouts out into the cosmos to search for a new home, one where blood was plentiful. The bravest of these volunteers was the beautiful and bold Vampirella, who found herself marooned on a strange new world - one called Earth.

It’s been a decade since veterinarian Charlotte Parker has been home to Aspen Cove. After the death of her mother, she hasn’t been able to bring herself to face her painful past. But, if ever there’s a time to start over, it’s Christmas. What she doesn’t expect is to find the man of her dreams staying in the room next to hers at B’s bed and breakfast.

Intermittent fasting isn’t just a weight loss strategy or a hack that bodybuilders use to lose fat quickly while maintaining lean muscle mass. It is, at its best, a healthy lifestyle informed by human evolution and the study of metabolism. It asks the human body to be much more efficient and self-protective than it is accustomed to being in modern times.

A small, isolated mountain town is thrown into fear as teens begin to turn up dead, completely drained of blood, but with no apparent puncture wounds. Fearing a serial killer walks among them, the local sheriff sets his eye on a young man who has had past trouble with the law and foretold the disaster on his radio program. Also showing up in town is a well-known newscaster looking for a big story that she can spin into national news. There is also an old legend about a blood demon....

Margie is an indigenous young girl whose best friend is a wolf. Together, Margie and the wolf go on many adventures and make new animal friends. They are different, certainly, but they are all filled with love and fun. As a team, they play games together in the wild landscape of the Australian bush, but rest assured, Margie and the wolf are always side by side.

Mia hadn't been working at Stover Pharmaceuticals long before she overheard her boss, Calvin, arguing with his girlfriend. When she storms by, telling him that she'd never be into his fantasy and was done with him, Mia blushes and goes back to work. But Calvin saw her, and for the first time takes an interest. Now, Mia can have all she wants, as long as she submits to Calvin and his naughty desires...desires that will change her body in a small way....

After college friends Melanie, Kristen, and Tom watch a demonstration with a shrink ray, they begin to come up with naughty ideas for its use. When the girls surprise Tom in his room after having borrowed the device, they play out the scenarios most could only dream about.

Twenty years ago at the highly-secretive prison known as the Scarlet Hole, a woman grew to 1,000 feet tall, then mysteriously vanished. Now, the prison is operational again, home for some of the worst inmates on the planet. However, growth serums are now illegal, but prisoners are shrunken down based on crimes. The warden, Gloria Hamilton, daughter of the lead researcher, learns that her only link to proper procedure has been severed. Now, she can treat the shrunken prisoners any way that she sees fit....

After Doctor Katherine Walker decides to let a few students play with her matter manipulator, she realizes there's much sexual fun to be had. Now, after building her own device, she learns just how much fun can come from shrinking and growing.

Keri has always been a science nerd. After watching a demonstration of growing and shrinking potions, she decides to bring some home to show her friend, Jack.

Deep in an underground facility, Karen Murphy has been working to create a matter reduction chamber. When her tests for organic matter fail, she comes up with a workaround with the hopes of one day shrinking people. When a visitor from another lab stops by, a mysterious accident releases the shrinking solution. Now, a lab full of women and one man must figure out why they are shrinking and how it happened.

Jack has worked alongside his wife and female coworkers at UniTech for years. He's always wondered if Megan had been into girls before they got together. Now that the company has perfected a working shrink ray, he finds that she just may be willing to let him have a little fun, as long as she's included. And of course, the shrink ray.

Kate Sheridan thought she had a handle on life. She had a good job as a legal assistant, great friends, and a life in New Orleans she enjoyed. Until that life came apart at the seams. Now her boss is dead, murdered along with one of his clients, and Kate is on the run from the police who think she's a prime suspect. And things are going to get worse before they get better because what her boss stumbled upon involves far more than just some personal injury case in the Big Easy.

The year is 1964, and the top secret group Operation Red Dragon has been utilizing advanced technology and superhuman soldiers to keep Kaiju - prehistoric survivors and modern mutations of varying size and strength - from destroying humanity since the end of World War II. Theirs has been a constant struggle to keep these horrifying creatures at bay, and despite some close calls, the world has remained safe. The struggle is about to escalate, however. The Daikaiju - the largest, most powerful creatures in all of creation - are about to make this secret war very public.

Bequeathed a rare diamond by her late uncle, heiress Rachel Verinder has no idea it was stolen from an Indian temple or that it has a cursed history. When the diamond disappears on her eighteenth birthday, multiple suspects - including Rachel’s suitor, Franklin Blake - are implicated in its theft. Determined to prove his innocence, Franklin begins his own investigation. Did one of his fellow Englishmen steal the jewel? Or was it whisked back to India? The case, which unfolds through multiple narratives, takes startling twists and turns in pursuit of the truth.

Other than the Virgin Mary, no woman has so captivated our attention as Mary from Magdala. From her portrayal as a prostitute to speculation that she was Jesus’ wife in popular fiction like The Da Vinci Code, images of Mary have abounded for centuries. These portrayals, however, often have very little basis in truth. In this fascinating audio course from Fr. Raymond F. Collins, you will explore Mary Magdalene in the Gospels, Gnosticism, and popular culture.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Antoine Lavoisier, who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook; Humphry Davy, who discovered 'laughing gas'; Charles Darwin, who changed people's ideas with his theory of evolution; Gregor Mendel, who first discovered the science of genetics; Louis Pasteur, who saved millions of lives by killing germs; Francis Crick, who helped to discover the structure of DNA.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Marco Polo, who taught the world about China; Ibn Battuta, who travelled to 44 countries; Christopher Columbus, who discovered new worlds; James Cook, the first man to sail around the world in both directions; David Livingstone, who explored Africa; and Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space.

First there was The Last Quarry, then there was The First Quarry - now look who's caught in the middle.

The enigmatic hit man Quarry - star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film (The Last Lullaby) - is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both contracts….