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Celebrate legendary horror studio Blumhouse’s legacy with this lavish compendium that takes you behind the scenes of the films that have reshaped the horror genre, from The Exorcist to the Paranormal Activity and Halloween franchises. With Blumhouse celebrating its 15th anniversary throughout...

Things aren’t easy as the devil’s daughter. A soul is missing, and I must find it. I have one week to restore the natural order, or risk the Underworld crumbling and chaos destroying the world. No pressure.

My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a telepath-spiker, I can read a person's thoughts. I can also spike deadly power straight into their brain. Since narrowly escaping a paranormal prison with my life, I made a promise to use my abilities to protect myself and my friends—including my boyfriend, alpha leader, Lucas Blacke. No more hesitation, no more second-guessing, no more rules.

In late 1936, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in Northern Spain, spurred to join the fight to preserve his country’s democracy from the insurrectionists by the rousing words of a political essayist. Months earlier, Spanish generals launched a military coup to overthrow Spain’s newly elected left-wing government. They assumed the population would welcome the coup, but throughout the country people like Isidro remained loyal to the ideals of democracy, and the Spanish Civil War began in bloody earnest.

Mourning the sudden loss of her sister, Callie Danoff wants nothing more than to embrace a fresh start in a new town, leaving the haunting memories of her sister’s death behind. But when her brother Ramsay drags her to a spooky boardwalk, the two become entangled with a local vampire gang and its enigmatic leader, Elijah. Callie refuses to accept their existence...until she and her brother unknowingly ingest vampire blood. Now, they only have three days before they turn into vampires themselves.

Yasmin Hernandez - 4.0 student, hard worker, volunteer. Starting Blairwood University is her chance at a new beginning. It doesn't matter that it's all a lie, does it? Nixon Cole has it all - money, good looks, charm, and a national championship win to wrap it all up. But there is more hiding behind his charming smile than he lets on. Until he found out the secret she's been hiding.

When she was a child, Tavi's family was taken from her by a serial killer that was never caught. As an adult, she puts on the appearance of normalcy while burying herself in law enforcement as a detective. All her private energy is spent trying to find answers to what happened to her family…and preparing herself for the day she exacts revenge. Jericho is as much a predator as Tavi is. He's caught the scent of old prey—a serial killer he's been a step behind. Discovering the next victim surprises him. Tavi is clearly a detective who gets her man—every time. The tug of war is on.

America, 1887. In a country healing from the horrors of the Civil War, the American West has never been more treacherous. Evil men do as they please, and the corrupt justice system does little to help their victims.

In the wake of devastating terror attacks that have annihilated the familiar contours of life, Carla Garcia stands as a beacon of hope and resilience in her once-peaceful suburb of San Antonio, Texas. "Savage Earth San Antonio" is not just a story of survival; it's a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of the unthinkable.

A creepy boss and men who steal my work send me running to IEP and away from science. I want a new life, and I’m going to another planet to find one. One rule: no more science. But when I end up on Macros, nothing has changed, and I’m forced right back into the lab. I don’t want to be a biologist. And I refuse to fall for my boss. But Rahl is nothing like the guys back on Earth. Maybe, life on Macros is what I’ve been searching for, after all.

It was only supposed to be for one night...Ariana wasn't expecting much when she pulled into the small town of Garoureve. Just a place to sleep for the night, a quick meal, and maybe a drink. What she found instead was a man with a smile who spent the night worshiping her body like it was his religion. When morning came, she left with unexpected regret and a mark to remember him by. A mark that meant a lot more than she realized. A mark that meant her one-night stand wasn't going to be her only night with him.

Personal branding and reputation management expert, Lida Citroën guides leaders through this new paradigm of executive presence and influence. Through inspiring examples, compelling stories, and practical exercises, Citron helps leaders tap into their passion, connect authentically with others, and create space for inclusivity and community.

Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People". His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian.

What would it be like to be able to tell any individual's future - everyone except your own? Reene sees it as an opportunity to help people and agrees to accept the legacy from her grandmother. Of course, the true extent of the gift must be kept secret or chance being enslaved and at the will of the government, criminals, or someone with money and power. Besides her best efforts, a mysterious group discovers her gift and decides she can help them attain their goal - one with global consequences.

For Fiella, life in the magical village of Moonvale used to be peaceful. Her world is turned upside down when a magical attack destroys her trinket shop and everything she has worked for. She is devastated, but finds solace in her new friendship with an anonymous penpal, whose letters ease her troubled mind.

“Luis Jaramillo weaves a captivating tale of family, tradition, and the enduring power of love.” —Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this “wild, wondrous novel about the magic that is...

Kylie Tate survived a life of dominance and abuse. An up-and-coming criminal defense attorney, she has been assigned to a first-degree murder case that could make or break her career. The downside - the second chair is fellow attorney and violent ex-boyfriend John Sysco. When she catches the eye of enigmatic billionaire Alex Stone, she can't help but be drawn to him. Unfortunately, John is not willing to let her go - especially not into the arms of another man. Alex vows to stop at nothing to keep Kylie safe. But the closer they get, the more Kylie wonders if Alex is truly her savior.

Marriage and children aren’t in the cards for family law expert Georgina Swofford, but that didn’t stop her from butting in just enough to ensure her friends from The Homegrown Café Book Club found their "happily ever after". Hers will have to be fake - with the man she almost bankrupted in divorce court five years ago.

Poppy Grim dreams of starring in a real-life rom-com. Instead, she's an overworked, lonely grim reaper with chronic motion sickness from ferrying souls to the afterlife. She adheres to all the reaper handbook rules except one—she regularly visits the love she lost twelve years ago when she passed. She's not worried—humans can only see her when they are about to die, after all—until Jake looks up and says her name.