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Victor Standish: Urban legend, abandoned child, mocker of monsters: “I learned to walk on cat-feet by living on the streets of too many hard cities for six years...since I was seven. I know why dogs howl at the dark and why cats prick up their ears after midnight. All too often I hear the beating of black wings and the scratching of half-seen shapes on the pavement hidden by shadow. I have always known I am an outsider, a stranger no matter where I roam among those who are still men".

Adam, the not-so-mighty super-mouse, goes on an adventure to take on the humans to get his favorite snack: cheese! However, through a series of misadventures, he finds his true value is not acting as a superhero, but in being himself. He also comes to realize his family loves him just the way he is.

Each of us is a Frankenstein’s Monster. A piece of us is in every person we will ever meet. Usually we refuse to see those disturbing sides of us in others. The best stories lure us into facing them. Let us talk fear and the thin ice of living which can yawn abruptly to drop us into unexpected madness. Fear is the emotion which makes us blind. Touch the fears of each of these stories to perhaps grasp the whole of the different parts of your awareness like the blind men with their elephant.

A new collection of baffling murder puzzlers and thrilling crime stories. Six of the author's best mystery stories in a novella length collection. Listen to "The Cruise Ship Murder," "No Where to Hide," "The Boxoffice Caper," "Dark Hunger," "The Greensox Murder Case," "MrNice@xxx.com."

Deep in the middle of nowhere, a demigod left the heavenly realm to rescue a princess and protect her from evil forces that would do her harm. Little did he know that this rescue mission would lead him back to the enchanted castle ruins of his childhood, where friends become family and adventure is waiting around every corner. Galdaria is a magical land of giant ogres and tiny fairies, evil witches and mischievous gnomes. Dragons, gods, and supernatural monsters from the abyss have been known to show up as well.

Craig, an autistic 10-year-old, finds a way to reach out to the outside world through his love for airplanes.

An ordinary day on the beach turns into an adventure when Stacey encounters Shelley, a surfing, flying sloth. For ages four to eight.

On the first night in her new, or rather, old farmhouse, she hears noises and investigates. What she finds opens her eyes to new possibilities. Ideal for children ages four to eight years old.

Peril Beneath the Waterlily is an adventure story for 7 to 11 year olds. By a strange turn of fate, two children find themselves in an underwater world where they make new friends, but also face new dangers. In order to return home, they have to use all their skills and courage to overcome the pond-dragon.

Magic. Death. Life. And what lies between them. The supernatural is no delusion or illusion. Those who wander the lost paths find that out. Some survive until the dawn. Many do not. It is a world of terrible wonders if you but look closely into the shadows as these 13 tales reveal. Explore new realities, obscured by smoke and darkness yet brilliantly tangible, in this extraordinary collection of short works by a new talent. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams.

After escaping the Vault, a prison for gods, twin siblings Preeti and Vineet make a desperate journey to another world: The Abyss, also known as the human world. The Abyss is nothing like they imagined, and soon they find that they may like it more than the world of the gods, especially when relationships form with their human friends. Three years are all they have to hide from the Goddess of Law, a woman determined to either imprison or kill the twins and take their spot as rulers of the gods.

Come. The ghosts of those masters are standing upon the last edge of reality. Listen to their fading voices. They wait with the last vestiges of their souls to teach you. Now, before it is too late. Listen to Ghost Writers in the Sky. Learn from the ghosts of the true masters of writing. And as an added bonus, you will laugh along the way. Part ghost story, all manual on how to improve your writing, Ghost Writers in the Sky will leave you a better writer.

In a world of nightmare, do love, courage, and laughter stand a chance? Seven dark tales answer that question.

Voodoo in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania? A mystic travel trailer that has a life of its own and takes its name too seriously? A deadly, unbeatable worker of dark magic out to unravel the fabric of reality? A Hellhound named Puppy? All in a normal day for the last Lakota Heyoka, Toomey Starks.

This novel is 2nd in a Trilogy about the 17-year-old activist and co-conspirator with John Brown at Harpers Ferry, his daughter Annie Hope Brown, who falls in love with her father's 1st-in-command and is having John Henry Kagi's baby. However, she has kept the pregnancy a secret, and is now clawing her way back to Kagi in the company of a man named Wesley Lane, secretly a Pinkerton Agent out to make a name for himself as the man who has killed her outlaw father to reap the reward of thousands as well as the fame.

Book one of 50 in the Junior Geography Detective Squad, 50-state, mystery, trivia series.

A physically challenged cast off girl, a mysterious Greek physician, and a Hollywood party to die for. All come together for a tale of horror, friendship, betrayal, and redemption. The undead Texas Ranger, Sam McCord, travels the world, seeking justice for the murder of a teenage prostitute. The clues he finds takes him to Amsterdam, Jerusalem, and to the hidden catacombs beneath the Vatican itself. Finally, there he must come face to face with his worst nightmare.

Victor Standish, street gypsy living on the haunted streets of the French Quarter, should live in fear. But his is a philosophy of defiance…and love: "No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be wounded by the beauty of this world, to seek truth and meaning, to hunger for wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are."

At seventeen, Annie Hope Brown is a woman in 1859 when she conspires against the US government with her infamous father, John Brown, and his Kansas Raiders. These men are anti-slavery forces Annie helps prepare to pull off the first home-grown terrorist attack in the US. The attack on the US Armory at Harpers Ferry as seen through the eyes of a love-struck, idealist young lady who abhors slavery and falls in love with her father's right hand man, John Kagi.

This award winning story is the predecessor to the Junior Geography Detective Squad (JGDs), 50-state, mystery trivia series. We meet the characters - Matt Patterson, his sister Mary Beth, Jolene Ariette and Guy Lombard (Matt's best friend). We follow the teams as they are on a party train looking for clues leading to a mystery destination. Where will the Train of Clues take you?