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The healing touchstone of millions, this modern work by one of today's most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding addictive thinking in adulthood and unlocking the chains that bind our inner peace and happiness. The first and third person instructive life stories, personal reflections, and exercises seem like we are right along for the ride.

The Death of Science is a twisted and humorous foray into the vast multi-faceted universe of Rootworld. Like a contemporary Twilight Zone, this satirical science fiction fantasy tale will appeal to fans of both Tales from the Crypt as well as other Death Incarnate Brilliances like Terry Pratchett and Piers Anthony.

Carla pitches her old boyfriend's plan to patch the thinning Ozone to POTUS, but he isn't buying it, so she get's her new boyfriend, Jorel, head of the Planet Preservation Corporation and frontline investor to Space-X to talk Elon Musk into delivering the restorative to the atmosphere on one of his automated rockets.

Doctor Datson is getting older, but that doesn’t keep him from still getting into mischief. When one of his lab experiments reanimates some old fossils, it is up to Truman and the rest of the gang to track down the dangerous creatures and find out who’s responsible.

Cecil is a well-read and world-traveled bird of nearly flightless origin. After a daring escape from Egypt on the back of a camel, an ocean crossing in the belly of a whale, and a short stint on the back of a condor, he finds himself in Terra Austris. He quickly seeks out the most intellectual beings of the new land and ends up the friend of the native horses and egrets, friends he finds lacking his tact and ambition, but they will do for now.

While embarking on a world-class journey in search of a place where he belongs, Cecil learns that real adventure involves a lot more running, swimming, and flying than his reading has prepared him for. Yearning to escape the confines of animal society, he ventures into unknown dangers, eventually leading him to true love and the tribe land of Duskiny where he may find there's more to life than reading and that love is for the birds.

Back in '99, everyone was moving on from the psychic high times to a time when computers were threatening to destroy the economy in a Y2K scare. But it wasn’t quite the time when everyone had a cellphone in their pocket yet, either. Ninety-nine was an in between time. A time when highway driving relied more heavily on faith than on phones. Mike and Steve get a little bored while driving home on Halloween after their shift at a fast-food joint. The vehicle that they decide to joke around with has no idea how to play games.

A group of friends occupy their summer in the Florida swamps. When some of the kids make bad choices, things turn for the worst. John is good, but can he rally his companions to stand together?

A family loses their eldest child to an unjustified murder, and the father refuses to abandon his dead son's graveside. While the man's wife and son struggle through his absence at home, the passersby, along the route of Fulton Industrial Boulevard, grow rather fond of him. When the owners of the cemetery catch wind of the estranged man's dedication to the dead, things take a surprising turn for everyone involved.

Mason has been getting a taste of real living while visiting his aunt and uncle Down Under. Don't mind the shiner. Just a boxing match with a kangaroo. They're friends now. He finds that in Australia, there are a lot of things scarier than catching an STD from a koala. Like everything!

After running away from home, a teenager finds himself facing some difficult and skin-crawling experiences while on vacation with his new family. He finds himself thrust into manhood out in the woods where the night sky has clearly been hiding some secrets. Between those hours of asleep and awake he comes to a horrifying realization that beefalo aren't the only strange creatures near their lakeside camp.

When demigod Hazeus returns home to a parallel magical realm called Rootworld, his parents, Father Time and Mother Earth, give him a collection of adult-rated MVDs that put him on the fast track to becoming the all-powerful God of the Globe if he can learn to take responsibility. While watching, he interacts with and befriends a young King Arthur, Lancelot, and Merddin, all trying to establish their kingdom. Merddin is always cranky because of the reverse flow of time and Mother Mott just wants a vacation on the Isle of Avalon.

When Heath inherits his father's antique piano, he becomes consumed by mastering Beethoven's passionate sonata. But as his playing improves, a sinister thirst awakens within the instrument. Blending the psychological horror of Stephen King with Anne Rice's gothic sensibilities, this spine-tingling story explores the thin line between artistic devotion and madness. As the piano's hunger grows, Heath must face the terrifying possibility that some melodies are better left unplayed.

Tanner is seventeen and finally writing about the horror she experienced as a thirteen-year-old sister who had lost her baby brother to the maws of a hamper from hell; and all on her only day to truly relax! The Lumpin Family Circus had seen its last days after the magicians grew tired and old but Tanner sneaks out of her window and dares a trip to the Art district. She's trying to save her brother and her sanity but finds more than she's bargained for.