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Two novels by the award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields, dramatised for BBC Radio Carol Shields was one of Canada’s most renowned contemporary authors. Often compared to Jane Austen, her deft, witty and compassionate works depicting the everyday lives of ordinary people won her numerous...

One hundred years ago, H.P. Lovecraft created the Necronomicon, a grimoire of lost souls, magical rites and forbidden lore. Now, locked away, the hoarder of horror is after new voices, new blood, to add to his collection. Listen as he shares the tales that come to him, whispered through the keyhole and written in the dust. From ghost stories to encounters with demons, haunted houses and a fateful Celtic goddess, they will draw you into his claustrophobic and disturbing world.

Jackson has barely reached manhood when lightning heralds the end of the world as we know it. The lightning has awakened the Lamians: descendants of the mythological creature Lamia.

Dakoda and her parents moved to Hawaii from Washington when something tragic happened to her twin sister during the summer at a college party. Dakoda was so upset with her parents for moving her to a new state where she knew nobody. To make matters worse, the locals in Hawaii don't like outsiders and made her life a living hell when she first moved there. Three guys in particular really had it out for her.

Two weeks into the zombie apocalypse, Emma Johnson decides to go to the mall and runs into zombies along the way. A strange mystery is revealed about Emma.

Emma and her friends must prepare for the imminent zombie outbreak. Elsewhere, Tom and Karen try to stop it.

Emma keeps having those recurring dreams of her parents holding her since she was two years old. Just like in the previous dreams, she sees a zombie, and it seems as if her parents are trying to help it by coming up with a vaccine. Flashback to the past when her parents died in a car accident, the FBI is hard at work in trying to piece their own puzzle to find the lab which Emma’s parents ran. Reaching the venue, they discover another zombie. The new situation creates a panic and fear that grips everyone as they scramble to figure out what’s going on.

Emma Johnson is 12 years old. She lives with her aunt and her two cousins, as her parents died when she was two years old. At home, she is treated more like a servant than a member of the family. She often thinks about her parents, who were both virologists and worked on secret government projects. She wonders what really happened to them. A few theories exist as to the real cause of their disappearance and if they really are dead.

Jesse has a best friend named Jocelyn and Jocelyn is about the most beautiful woman a person could imagine. Jesse doesn’t mind, though. She’s okay with being the plain girl with the hot friend. She’s okay with a life of second place, and she’s happy to be free of all the drama that Jocelyn has to deal with all the time. When Sebastian shows up, though, he makes it pretty clear there isn’t anything about Jesse that he thinks is plain.

This short story unfolds as journal entries. The journal’s author takes you through his grief stricken teenage life, having lost his girlfriend to the afterlife. The lad uncovers something fascinating about the magical book that he’d found in his attic, but what are the consequences to all this newfound power?

Allow the poetic expressions of Eloquent Love Notes to guide you through a journey of admiration, love, and raw emotions. The author desires for you the experience the beauty of words written from the heart. The author wants you to search within your soul to explore love at its most purest form.

Doctor Kimberly Cortwell is not having fun. The virus has caused nothing but overpowering work for everyone, and it doesn’t seem like there’s an end in sight. She’s not particularly surprised to have a new case at the hospital but this case is special. Seth Ash is not reacting to the illness like other people do. Something is happening in his body, and whatever it is just might be the key to making real headway against the pandemic. It would be a truly exciting and wonderful thing if the man wasn’t so irritating, smug, self-righteous, and handsome.

Liam and Junior are two local teens who get their thrills by vandalizing local homes and terrorizing residents. Inside a neighboring residence lives Sandy. She becomes an easy target of the local teens, who trespass in her garden-filled yard that surrounds her old wooden home. She is far from a helpless victim, though. She lures them in, one by one, as they struggle to stay alive against a heartless opponent.

Humans are mostly made of water. Tessa is mostly made of molten iron. The petite firefighter had always grown up fearful of her abilities, and went through life harboring this deep secret. Until her encounter with a strange man, Tessa wasn’t sure what kind of freak she was...Begrudgingly; she begins her quest for self discovery. Will Tessa ever know freedom, or will she know happiness instead, or are the two synonymous or inseparable?

Cora is ready to prove that she’s more than her name, but it is almost impossible for people to believe she’s at the law firm for any other reason. That’s what happens when your family name is on the masthead. If she can work a deal with Zechariah Tyson, though, the man who owns a mountain filled with high demand resources, nobody will ever be able to question her abilities or her right to be at the firm based on her merits. It’s a foolproof plan, except for one thing she didn’t expect. Zechariah Tyson!