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There, inevitably, comes a time when a child must cast off diapers and learn to use a potty. It is one of those crucial stages in a young life, but it doesn’t ever come without a lot of tears and some stress, for you and them. This book on potty training aims to help you navigate the tricky period when your child has to start using a potty but doesn’t always seem to grasp the concept.

It's Christmas Eve - a time of wonder, magic, anticipation....And terror. A father who will go to any lengths to feed his hungry children. An unsuspecting woman who inherits a house with a deadly secret. A murderous widow who shares a train carriage with Jack the Ripper. Two burglars who bite off more than they can chew, during a late-night raid. These, and many more bedtime stories, come hideously to life, in Mark L'Estrange's 19 tales of terror - each set on the most festive night of the year. 

I watched as the policeman took out a notebook and read from an open page. He spoke in a whisper. Inspector Lestrade's face turned ashen. He turned towards me, looking grim.

A university student doing a thesis on fear takes his research too far. A man learns he is next in line to be the Grim Reaper, but does not want to give up his life. An angel forces a man to relive his worst memory. A former Nazi hiding in Canada is haunted by more than just his past. A couple haunted by an unspeakable act committed with the best intentions, with dire consequences. People haunted by whispers of the past try to forget and move on. But no matter how hard they try, how far they run, it waits for them...and just when they think they are safe, the whispers begin again.

It's Christmas eve at 221B Baker Street. On the stroke of midnight, a delivery arrives addressed to Sherlock Holmes. The message is a cryptogram which reveals itself to be so obtuse that it has the famous consulting detective baffled. Holmes becomes so obsessed with revealing the secret of the cypher that Watson fears for his well-being in refusing to eat or sleep. Holmes can only deduce that time is of the essence, and that a means of deciphering must be discovered which has never before been employed. Watson wonders what new adventure will emerge, should the puzzle be unraveled. 

If you're looking for fun new ways to talk about pooping, then Poophemisms is for you. From going to throw down some brown to chumming for sewer rats, you'll never run out of ways to tell your friends and loved ones you're going to crap! Poophemisms is a veritable dictionary of defecation, with over 1,737 different ways to say you need to take a dump. Arranged alphabetically, the book covers everything from "adding a wing to the manor" to "zapping the porcelain". 

Anger Management for Men is the comprehensive self-help guide for men that provides effective anger management tools and teaches how to take control of powerful emotions, so you can live a happier life. If there’s one thing hindsight always teaches us, it’s that a calm response would have been much better, even though, it felt good to say or do mean things while we were angry, panicky, or afraid. But regret can surely feel worse.

It's the year 1906. Rumors abound that a deadly plot is hatching–not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles, but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task is to discover whether such a plot exists, and if so, foil it. But are the assassins targeting the young and progressive Ch'ing Emperor, or his imperious aunt, the fearsome Empress Dowager Cixi? The murder of either could spark a civil war.

Finding ways to make money that doesn’t force you to directly exchange your time for money is something we all dream of, but how many of us actually make it a reality? The problem is that it’s all too easy to look on with envy at the "lucky" few who make it work, while still doing nothing in your own life to force the shift.

After 17-year-old Natalie Willis is dropped off at her Birmingham, Alabama, home following a Halloween party, she discovers that the house has been ransacked and her parents and younger twin siblings have been brutally murdered. Natalie is attacked by one of the killers, but rescued by the police who arrive in time to save her. Fast forward seven years to another Halloween night. Natalie, now a reclusive author of children's books, stumbles onto another crime scene when she checks to see how her neighbors fared during a tornado. 

Lab-built monsters, genetically created from dinosaur and reptile bases, are terrorizing people all over the world. Used in attacks by everyone from terrorists to governments, they are the latest weapon to be unleashed on the global public. Max Alexeyev is part of a secret military group formed to strike at the heart of the monster problem: the labs that are churning them out. Melanie Viña is an active duty US Marine sniper out for revenge. They meet in Africa and join forces to locate and destroy the largest of the labs.

The Dean of a Swiss university persuades Sherlock Holmes to investigate the background of a would-be lecturer. To Dr. Watson, it seems a very humdrum commission—but who is the mysterious "Lieserl"? How does her existence threaten the ambitions of the technical assistant level III in Room 86 at the Federal Patents Office in Berne by the name of Albert Einstein?

A collection of original short stories. Hear tales of vengeful ghosts in the woods, an immortal murderer, the devil's tramping ground, shadow dancers, gifted children, and much more.