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Vampires? Check. Werewolves? Check. Death prophecy to hang over your head? Double check. Seventeen-year-old Emma Hutchinson struggles to find her place in the world she has been born to as she tries to decide whether she should be with Michael, the boy she has been dreaming about since she was three, or if she belongs with Dominic, her betrothed.

In a rural Appalachian town, a man reckons with the violence and lassitude of his neighbors after a dark and confusing encounter in the woods. His life, as dull and steady as the weather hanging over the town where he lives, becomes a phantasmagoria when he is haunted by waking nightmares about a dead girl no one else can see. In this short work of Appalachian magical realism, a man is plagued by the ghosts of murders he didn't commit.

In today’s society, marriage is seriously at risk and we have declared war on divorce. We are assisting couples across the world define, understand, and soar in marriage through the Marriage Made EZ, and using God’s Word to pass on a legacy of commitment and mentorship for generations to come.

A classic pulp horror short story about kids who should have left forces they couldn't understand alone. I hope you enjoy hearing a new chapter in the “Brother’s” universe as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Rip, the leader of the Vietnam era "Old Dogs", follows a twisted and torturous path on the behalf of one of his old dogs. His probing brings out an insidious and mortal threat, a threat whose coils are wrapped around every aspect of the investigation. But Rip calls on his old dogs for one more mission on the behalf of their dead companion, but will the old warriors be enough, or will the great evil rise in triumph?

During the last part of the nineteenth century, the detective story took off as a popular genre as literary magazines vied with each other to draw in readers with gripping page-turners by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Guy Boothby and Wilkie Collins. This collection brings together some of the great detectives of the Victorian era, from the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes, to the mild mannered Father Brown, to the feisty J. G. Reeder.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

Novelist and essayist Mallon talks with Freeman, critic and American editor of Granta, about the great, lost art of letter writing and the current frenzy of electronic messaging. A discussion with the audience ensues.

R. Austin Freeman's famous forensic investigator, Dr. John Thorndyke, is asked by a former student to help on his first murder case. A prostitute has been murdered, and it seems a woman has done the heinous deed. Dr. Thorndyke helps find the actual murderer with the evidence available.

In this memoir, Ya' Londa is speaking her personal "authentic truth" about the pain, fear, shame, and guilty stains sexual abuse left on her for many years. It shares her very real struggles and open wounds of the internal and external. For many, the naked truth is piercing with honesty, faith, courage, and healing. This book will be a very helpful ministry tool of learning to all parents, teachers, pastors, youth worker advisors, and church leaders to study.

Hear extraordinary stories from ordinary people about how God "nudged" them to either do (or not do) something in their life and what happened because of it.

Growing up on a farm in a rural part of West Texas, I learned lessons of love from my Christian parents, whose loving examples helped mold me in to the man I am today. It was important for me to pass on this strong, godly foundation to our three children. In His Love for Me, my daughter Robbie and I share stories of God's grace, mercy, and love that will encourage you and inspire you to build and strengthen your family's spiritual foundation.

The town of Cree is a town formed by the Cree Were Bear tribe. They are a people that love family and also love their privacy. Every year like other bears Chogan roams in search for a mate but he becomes ensnared in more ways than one. When he is faced with outsiders threatening to end his life and the life of the woman he loves, he is forced to make a deadly decision in order to save her.

This audio guide will teach you the basics of feeding and caring for your chickens. You'll learn where to buy your chickens and what kind of birds to buy. You'll also learn where to keep your chickens and how to hatch your own biddies.

The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead. Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? Perhaps a greater social consciousness and community-based living will take over or, conversely, the competition for limited resources may result in everyone fighting for themselves.

A freelance writer is invited to an elderly man's home to witness his telling of the family history to his sons. The patriarch's reason for requesting a stranger into his home as he shares his tale is a simple one. He wants the young man to write the true history of Family Dracul, to trace the lineage back to the very first member of a family cursed. But, the old man has another agenda. He wants to warn humanity; what happened in the past was nothing compared to what is to come.

"The Stars in Their Courses" by John Freeman [1880 - 1929] was published in Poems of the Great War in 1914 on behalf of The Prince of Wales’ national Relief Fund.

The Fair Fight is a pulsating historical novel set within the world of female pugilists and their patrons in late 18th-century Bristol. It's an un-pauseable story which takes you from a filthy brothel to the finest houses in the town, from the world of street fighters to another of champions. It is about fighting your way to the top - and not only with your fists. Alive with the smells and sounds of the street, The Fair Fight is a major debut with incredibly wide appeal.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852¿March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th century American author. Up until recently she was known primarily as a "feminist" writer, for her classic stories like "A New England Nun" and "The Revolt of Mother". However, she also wrote many well-crafted supernatural stories which have only recently begun to attract appreciative critical attention. These stories combine pragmatism and supernaturalism and are very much in the tradition of an "Americanized" Gothic.

The Assyrian Rejuvenator, published in 1907, is one of R. Austin Freeman's novels written under the name Clifford Ashdown and the first to feature well-known protagonist Dr. Thorndyke—a medical-legal forensic investigator. In this tale, inflated claims about the powers of an expensive elixir put private investigator Romney Pringle in pursuit of a ruthless con man. The trickster has reason to believe that his customers won't complain, but Pringle sets out to destroy the crooked business.