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Once upon a time, a beautiful queen was cursed by a dark faery. That curse, inherited by twin princesses, Aura and Luna, binds their lives in the strangest of ways. At an early age, the girls were more than sisters. They were the strongest of allies until a combination of jealousy, anger, and dark magic tore their relationship to shreds. Aura took everything from Luna: her home, her family, and her love by murdering the prince who'd chosen her instead of Aura. Luna wants revenge, but she's running out of time.

Harkness is absolutely not a hero - but unfortunately for him, he's been volunteered by his village to save the world, and he quickly finds that modern-day sarcasm is no match for ancient dragons. Harkness, a medieval peasant with a millennial's mindset, is quite happy to sit back and make quips while everyone else does the hard work. His calculated laziness is interrupted when the gods send an ancient and terrible scourge-by-dragonfire upon his village, and he is forced (peer-pressured, really) into trying to save his fiancee from the dragon who has kidnapped her.

Often hired by a secret government agency to do undercover work, Bob Devaney was escorting a mysterious woman named Novak to the White House when they were ambushed by gunmen. Novak used a device like an invisibility field to make an impossible escape - and then knocked Devaney out with some kind of ray-tube. When he woke up, Novak was about to terminate him for knowing too much, but a message arrived from a mysterious individual known as Mr. Inconnu: Devaney was to be recruited for something called the Prometheus Project. The Project turned out to be the largest disinformation operation in history, targeted at the aliens who ruled the galaxy.

For the first time, music legend Rudy Pérez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage. Named the most successful Latin songwriter in history, Rudy Pérez is the creator behind some of the bestselling records of Beyoncé...

Hello again, it's me—Max the Selected. I'm here with my group of degen . . . collectors, "The Selected". By the way, we're already a Great Group. So, you can call me Lord Max now. Would you be scared to declare war on a Great Clan? Well, I'm not. I'll take on two at the same time without flinching. Probably. In any case, it's always the right time for good deeds and justice. This world needs a new hero, and it might as well be me . . .

A word of caution to decent folk and God-fearing travelers: there walks among us a man not born to honor nor to law, but to spite and cruelty. He is called Douglas Flannery O’Kemp, though most know him simply as the Bastard O’Kemp. He was sired by a planter of ill repute and a servant woman of northern stock, pale as snow and marked by heathen tales. From his first breath he was raised on blows, and from his fifteenth year he carried his father’s scalp to market for coin. Since that day, he has known neither home nor mercy.

La rencontre avec Jésus nous permet de changer l'image que nous avons de nous-mêmes. La réussite de notre vie dépend, en effet, de cette image. J'essaie de voir comment nous pouvons résoudre nos problèmes psychiques grâce à la rencontre avec Jésus.

Beneath the canvas of the traveling circus, the line between wonder and dread begins to blur. When strangers gather under the dim glow of lanterns and firelight, they find themselves caught in stories older and darker than the show itself, stories of curses that cling to the land, of prophecies whispered in smoke, and of destinies shaped long before they were born.

When the Blackout arrives, Dax Harper finds himself alone and fighting for survival on the chaotic streets of New Orleans. He is on the run, desperately searching for his estranged sister as the riots intensify. An unexpected encounter with his ex-girlfriend thrusts Dax into a leadership position - one he's not sure he can accept. As the hours pass, the city floods, pitting Dax in an epic battle against time and a mysterious new enemy threatening the future of humankind.

One moment everything is perfectly normal, and in the next the power grid across the entire United States goes down and sends the country back to the Stone Age. With the cities completely overwhelmed with death and destruction, the forests of the Pacific Northwest seem to be the only place of possible safety or refuge. That's what brothers Randall and Thomas think as they fight their way to their family's secluded cabin to locate their grandparents, parents, and cousins, only to instead find themselves proven completely wrong as a new deadly threat from the woods emerges.

A reporter on the rebound. An ex-cop with nothing to lose. A truth worth killing for. Crime reporter Will Finch doesn't believe Gianna Whitelaw jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge—no matter what the suicide note says. But when her powerful father, U.S. Senator Franklin Whitelaw, shuts down the investigation, Finch is forced to walk away. Until private investigator Eve Noon sends him a cryptic message. She knew Gianna. She knows what happened that night. And she knows Finch is tangled in it more than he realizes.

Crime reporter Will Finch and private investigator Eve Noon are out of time. A villain from the ashes of the Soviet Union has cast a shadow over San Francisco, threatening not only their lives, but also their enigmatic ally, Sochi. But the real danger is still unseen—an even deadlier force pulling the strings from the dark.

In the chaos of Jonestown's final hours, two children vanished into the Guyanese jungle, escaping the horror that claimed nearly a thousand lives. Given new identities and a second chance, they were supposed to be safe.

As crime reporter Will Finch puts the final touches on his latest book, private investigator Eve Noon makes her way to his remote island retreat. But someone is watching. Someone is waiting. And before she arrives, the nightmare has already begun.

Amy Wilson believed in doing the right thing. That was her first mistake. When she votes for pandemic safety measures as a member of her local school board, she unleashes a campaign of terror against her. Vandalism escalates to stalking. Anonymous threats become physical attacks. The mysterious figures behind it all seem to know her every move—and there appears no limit to what they're willing to do to her.

The Official Redneck Phrasebook: Talk Like You Ain’t Got No Sense is your one-way ticket to the hilarious, head-scratchin’, beer-sippin’ world of redneck lingo. Packed with over 1,200 real redneck sayings, this ain’t no grammar guide — it’s a full-throttle, front-porch-approved handbook for speakin’ fluent fool. Whether you were born in a holler, raised by raccoons, or just want to fit in at a mud bog, this book’s got your back.

Will Finch, a San Francisco crime reporter, is drawn to a small Oregon town where a murder exposes dangerous secrets. The local sheriff controls the town with an iron grip, determined to block Finch's investigation at every turn. At the center of the case is the victim's fiancée, a senator's daughter, whose silence only deepens the mystery. As Finch follows the trail, he uncovers a web of corruption and betrayal stretching far beyond the wilderness. The truth could cost him everything.

Donovan Porter knows what it means to survive—but survival comes at a price. Wracked with guilt and hunted by his past, he sheds his name and flees to Mexico, reemerging as T.C. in a land pulsing with danger, desire, and discovery. Immersed in vibrant culture and shadowed by vice—sex, drugs, and the underworld—T.C. is searching for more than escape. He’s searching for himself. Then she appears. Mysterious. Magnetic. A spark in the haze. When T.C. agrees to show her the streets he’s come to call home, he has no idea what fate is about to ignite.

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.