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One of the hardest parts of game mastering is coming up with interesting adventure locations for our characters to explore. These locations need to be fantastic, detailed places that capture the minds of our players every session we run. Sly Flourish's Fantastic Locations is an audiobook of 20 system-agnostic locations you can drop into your favorite fantasy role-playing game. Each location builds on a fantastic theme, such as a mysterious ancient structure under the ice, a cursed castle of a mad king, or a fallen celestial fortress.

Jim and Kram are back in their second hilarious romp around their secluded Southeast Alaskan island. With a serial killer at large (a cereal serial killer, to be more accurate), an unlucky entrepreneur with an out-of-control facial tic, and the nephew of a notorious crime boss setting up shop on the island, Lieutenant Jim Wekle will have his work cut out for him.

Five years removed from a life as an apprentice to a group of heroes who battled supernatural evils, the once-promising student Janzen Robinson has become a package courier. He now works the daily grind, passing time at a hole-in-the-wall bar and living in a tiny run-down apartment on the south side of Cleveland, Ohio. Then from the ancient recesses of unyielding darkness known as the Abyss, a creature has been summoned: a Stalker, a predator whose real name must never be spoken. It's a bastardization of the natural order, a formidable blend of dark magic and primal tenacity.

Jess Oppenheimer, "the brains" behind I Love Lucy, weaves this wonderfully entertaining tale of how his life experiences led him to create the iconic sitcom. Packed with humorous behind-the-scenes stories of stars like Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Jack Benny, Douglas Fairbanks, and Fred Astaire.

With these captivating initial glimpses into her storytelling psyche, Jo Walton shines through subtle myths and reinvented realities. Through eclectic stories, subtle vignettes, inspired poetry, and more, Walton soars with humans, machines, and magic-rising from the every day into the universe itself.

For nine years, Calvin Thorne was an elite agent for an international crime-fighting agency known as O.P.U.S. (Organization for the Pursuit of Untouchable Syndicates). After being betrayed by his superiors and tricked into assassinating an innocent man, he resigns and apparently vanishes from the face of the earth. Two years later, O.P.U.S. is attempting to erase the connections tying the agency to the illegally contracted murder, and the only agent who knows what really happened is Calvin Thorne.

When thirteen-year-old Glennon McCue, his mom, and his fragile sister are left with their uncle at his lighthouse on Isle Philippeaux, Glennon desperately wants leave the desolate isle and return home. But his father is away, so Glennon is forced to spend his break surrounded by fog, rats, and chilling myths. Nothing seems quite right . . . with the island or with his family.

Here at Clearwater College, friends become enemies and lovers strangers. No one is safe. Nothing is as it seems. Kyle Bennett goes off to college, doing what so many young men his age do. Little does Kyle know that the place he will call his home for the next four years is a snare shrouded in innocence, a purgatory of peril, a creeping lair of sorrows, secrets, and shadows hellbent on swallowing him whole. In this heaven soon to become Kyle’s own personal hell, the phantoms of the past and the specters of the future come to life. For Kyle, his fate comes in the form of a gorgeous female face.

Being into food - following and making it, queuing for it and discussing it - is no longer a subculture. It's become mass culture. The food landscape is more expansive and dizzying by the day. Recipes, once passed from hand to hand, now flood newspaper supplements and social media. Our tastes are engineered in food factories, hacked by supermarkets and influenced by Instagram reels. Ruby Tandoh's startlingly original analysis traces this extraordinary transformation over the past seventy-five years.

Christmas time in Vienna: for the two Master Sleuths, sled dog Athos and cat diva Pearl, it was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in the Austrian capital. But instead of getting comfortable in front of the fireplace and enjoying some delicious Christmas cookies, the two four-pawed detectives suddenly find themselves at the center of a murderous intrigue.

Break free from the office grind and design a life of adventure, flexibility, and fulfillment. "Work Anywhere, Explore Everywhere" is your ultimate guide to thriving as a digital nomad, where the world becomes your workspace.

There was once a normal man named John. Everything in his life was perfect until he got a letter that changed his life one day. This letter is from a Man named Mr. Candy, who has a Manor and invites John. When John goes to the Manor, many bizarre things happen. Mr. Candy has many secrets that John will uncover, and he will stop him. His Son also goes on an adventure in a Haunted house!

La méthode du Dr Mouly alliant traitements hormonaux et naturels pour permettre aux femmes d'être actrices de leur ménopause ! Toutes les femmes seront ménopausées un jour et même si le sujet de la ménopause est moins tabou dans la société, il y a encore des crispations autour du THM, des traitements au naturel... Curieusement alors que les dernières études américaines vantent le THM à la " française ", peu de femmes ménopausées en France suivent ce traitement. Or, les risques de cancer, d'infarctus, d'ostéoporose, de santé mentale...

Il pensait que son plus grand désir était de moderniser le monde des métamorphes. Il avait tort. Corrigan, récemment nommé Seigneur Alpha de la Fraternité, les dirigeants des métamorphes, hérite d'une lourde responsabilité dans un monde en plein tumulte. Lassé des abus de pouvoir de son prédécesseur, il aspire à dépoussiérer cette société archaïque. Mais entre l'enquête sur la mort brutale de l'alpha de Cornouailles et des attaques répétées à Londres, ses plans sont relégués au second plan. De plus, être Seigneur Alpha n'est pas son seul problème.

We've all been there. Those cringe-worthy moments when life throws us a curveball and we stumble, trip, or spill. In Oops! The Comedy of Everyday Fails, author Shu Chen Hou shares hilarious anecdotes and relatable stories about the art of tripping over air, cooking catastrophes, technology troubles, and more.

A brilliant idea to get you started on your own business venture with minimal investment is to begin a vending machine operation. Vending machines are everywhere, and the demand for them is increasing every year.

CEO Steve Nolan is wealthy, successful, and in danger. Now, thanks to his business partner, he has a bodyguard—a rigid, controlled woman with a smoky voice that invites steamy thoughts of rumpled sheets and oh-so-satisfying sleepless nights. April Porter has met incredibly handsome, high-powered men before. Guys just as smooth, who didn't take her seriously, and who broke her heart. So she's just here to do her job and stay focused and professional. Even if Steve Nolan isn't just another rich jerk. Even if the sexual spark between them keeps getting hotter.

It's no secret that Mary Kay Inc.—home of the famous "Pink Cadillac"—is one of the best run and most successful companies in the world. But what many people may not realize is that Mary Kay is much more than a Pink Cadillac. While this widely recognized icon is a symbol of top performance, it stands for something greater—a way of doing business with a personal concern for people that has made Mary Kay a different kind of company. This book explains the methods and mindset that can bring the same kind of success to your organization.

Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an all-volunteer force? In this volume, Michael J. Robillard and Bradley J. Strawser examine the question of whether and how American soldiers have been exploited in this way. Robillard and Strawser offer an original theory of "moral exploitation".

Janzen Robinson is no longer a man torn between two worlds, having decided to come off the bench and dive head first into Cleveland's magical underworld. With his new partner and perpetually exhausted friend Grove, he's just starting to get a handle on all the supernatural happenings when disaster shows up at their doorstep.