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Secrets always find their way out. Thirteen-year-old Maia thinks she has seen it all. She has survived a soul-extraction attempt, been threatened with death, and faced off with saboteurs trying to bring down her nation. She lets nothing get to her anymore-not even the memories of her deceased mother's terrifying communique. All Maia wants is for the Alliance Initiative to resume. She longs to visit the under-ocean civilization of the Jjord, ride the underwater transport lines, and to learn about the Jjordic energy farms that could save her ruined planet. Most of all, she wants to goof off with her friends. But, around the charming city of Zagran, evil is gathering. Maia does not know it yet, but the secrets she thought were safely behind her are dangerously close to being discovered. And worst of all, the countdown to her planet's planned extinction has already begun. Maia and the Secrets of Zagran is the second book of the Lightbound Saga, the MG/YA science fiction series that features non-stop action, unexpected plot twists, captivating characters, and a spunky teenage heroine. If you like fast-paced adventure, thrilling new worlds, and epic storylines, you'll love this page-turning coming-of-age series from author S. G. Basu. Pick up Maia and the Secrets of Zagran to enjoy this fantastic series today!

THE END IS HERE Morgan Bailey's complicated life--dragon boyfriend, witches, vampires to slay, the ongoing pursuit of coffee--is about to turn more complicated. The Fairy Queen is calling in a favor. She wants Morgan to exterminate the djinn. If that isn't bad enough, her nemesis Alister has gone completely mad, and most alarmingly, Inigo isn't quite himself. It's enough to make a vampire hunter yearn for the simpler days: stake 'em and leave 'em. But Morgan is more than a vampire hunter, she's a vessel for colossal cosmic powers that yearn for release. Now, with the fate of the whole world in the balance, she'll discover the secret to those powers, and learn what it means to be Kissed by Eternity. Book 6 of the Sunwalker Saga

★★★★★ "Rose/Joanne teaches us how to move through grief in ways that have previously gone unaddressed by society. Engaging content and Rose's unique and loving delivery make for a fantastic read." - Amazon Customer__________What if life knows better than you do what you need? And what if everything-even loss-could contribute to your happiness? Wouldn't that make the large and small losses you experience daily easier to take, and life itself a friend rather than an enemy? Yes it would. The problem in not knowing how to process loss is what keeps millions of people suffering with anxiety, addiction, despair, and depression. But you don't have to, because this little book will help free you from what makes you unhappy so you can live with joy and purpose. The inspiring, often humorous wisdom will help you feel better right away, clear your harmful habits of thinking, release guilt and regret, and find yourself in love with life again, by letting go of...Fears, beliefs, guilt, and grief that no longer serve youThinking that loss is a punishment-or that you deserve less than happiness-which are never trueCompromises you make to please others while neglecting your own needsThe wants that make you miserable, which you can exchange for your greatest desiresThinking that you're alone and at odds with the world, when in reality, all of Nature-every stone, twig, and bird feather around you-knows better than you what you need and will always support you on your heroic journey!Letting go of what you need to is the shit that makes flowers grow. In doing so, you will feel lighter and more capable of joy than you ever believed possible, as you'll allow yourself to be truly human. Enjoy your new life and order your copy today!

There are dragons in the world. There are goblins, beasts and trolls. Magic and darkness lurk in the hearts of men who seek power. When life is given to legend, what hero will stand and fight? What power will rise to quell the fire of Anderoth's Dragon? The dwarves unleashed it first, ages ago from the depths beneath Locksly Sur Anon and it was Lord Anderoth who drove it back under the earth with the Trident of Norcule. The dwarves fled to a new home, their tower left abandoned and the story turned to legend. The dragon, nearly forgotten. But the greed of one man claimed the old tower, now known as Locksonon, and made an alliance with the Torokka goblins to remake the dwarf weapon craft to fill his desire for riches. But the Torokka cannot be so easily controlled and they killed a curious party from Morthonesse, including the heir to the throne. Seeking justice, his younger brother, Corbin, runs away to seek aid from the elves and finds a grouchy wood troll named Bark. But can they discover the truth behind the secrets of the tower... And if Anderoth's Dragon yet lives?

Stanford-educated Evan Rand's skills as a political fundraiser could help win Republican candidate Robert Wallis the Californian governorship-a tall order in a traditionally blue state, but Evan is known for his ability to produce results.Most would say Evan is a driven, intense professional with a rock-solid grip on reality. They're wrong. Beneath a rapidly crumbling façade lies the real Evan Rand-a man slowly slipping into insanity.For Evan, political maneuvering and campaigning no longer hold any allure. He's drifting away from people, including his longtime girlfriend, choosing instead the numbing effects of sedatives and pornography. Driving the hills of the Bay Area at night, listening to wild-voiced conspiracy theorists on late-night radio talk shows, Evan seeks insight and emotional fulfillment he cannot name-and worse, cannot find.With his professional and personal life spiraling into hopelessness, Evan will have to choose between a seemingly empty, shallow world and the seductive allure of the darkness.A powerful, reflective, character-driven piece, Concerning the Dust offers a portrait of a man on the precipice of despair and depravity, where the smallest misstep can prove fatal.

You're seated next to the ferryman on the River Styx and ask him how he's doing. He simply lifts a boney finger toward the sign at the bow the vessel that reads "Headed to Paradise."A Short Journey into the Land of the Dead is an ecstatic performance in the form of poetry that walks its reader through the afterlife by way of haunting comedy and electricity, bringing us at times to the brink of the author's own personal insanity. This work toes the line between self-soothing and self-destruction, threatening to fall apart or fix itself in every line. Nick Bonarski guides us through a dark forest of mystery, oddity and travesty, hope, fear, and battlegrounds that look an awful lot like theater, however, tap into something a little more human than the stage let's on. A true work of shadows, each time the light swings through this unlit underworld, a new shape comes to life, to dance, to sing, or to re-experience it's former self from a time it once lived on the other side of death.

Uncle B. Publications and Larque Press, LLC, present the triumphant return of PULP MODERN. Volume Two, Issue One features fiction from multiple genres, including crime, horror, and science fiction. Pulp Modern resumes its mission to publish the very best fiction from around the world. In this issue, writers from Europe, Canada, the United States, Asia, and Australia contribute a diverse selection of short stories for the most discerning readers.

Are you living life with passion or merely existing? Do you have aspirations you have yet to pursue? Is there something holding you back from reaching your full potential? Be Empowered: A to Z is a guide to helping you live your best life. Written in a conversational tone, each chapter includes memorable quotes, examples, and personal stories. Each chapter focuses on a different area of empowerment including, maintaining balance, being grateful, staying positive, and overcoming obstacles. There are three thought-provoking questions at the end of each chapter to help you reflect on how to incorporate the chapter principles into your daily life.

This book is a valuable tool to help anyone suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder recover. It provides core positive belief systems, spiritual insight, and coping strategies to benefit those with OCD challenge their disorder so that they can find peace, and relief from mental torment.

Chinese factory workers. A police captain with a deformed leg. American alcoholics in Shanghai. Babies pooping in garbage cans. "Daydreams of Shanghai" is a Kickstarter funded project- 103% funded in January 2017 with dozens of copies pre-ordered. Ting, an employee at a large Chinese cigarette factory, must weave through the obstacles presented by modern day communism and corruption. She dreams of escaping the polluted and hopeless city of Huangyan to start anew in a wealthy metropolis. Harry is an old American alcoholic that arrives in Shanghai to teach English at the "Happy Family English School." He encounters Chinese culture at its most absurd and American culture at its most degenerated, while dealing with a recent divorce. "Daydreams of Shanghai" is a rare and unfiltered look into modern Chinese culture, as well as that of the scarcely seen expatriate community slowly growing in China. Based on true events, the novella explores intricacies of the dark side of the earth in critical detail. "This is definitely a book!"-lonely man "I've always thought about visiting China..."-unknown "Hearing Kaplan's account of what happened really makes me want to reevaluate my life."-former American coworker in China "This is from the darkest and wickedest corners of my brother's memory chest. 'What happens in China-stays in China, ' and this is my only chance to learn those secrets. However, it's no secret that I puked a few times when reading the first few chapters and our parents are so outraged that they stopped answering Dimitriy's calls. At this point, our only daydream is that he stops this nonsense nightmare by getting obsessed with a hobby more benign than sharing the traumas he survived in China."-Concerned Sister "You're f**king sick."-Editor

Armed with two skirts and endless joints, two immigrants with an American experience set out to reach Los Angeles with three hundred dollars. Between finding compassion in a Florida trailer park, defending the honor of wearing european swim trunks, having a romantic debauchery in New Orleans, and picking up a retired Mexican coke dealer walking along the highway, these two "Droogs" manage to find the meaning of life with the guidance of a blurry speedometer.

Warning: Any individual not fully prepared to indulge in conventions of sex and marriage is herewith forewarned. This novella, and the accompanying additional source material, may in fact induce mutation in some sexual relationships.

A raw autobiographical poetic memoir, Diary of a MisEducated Baby Mama is unapologetically honest about the sad and sometimes unspoken realities of being a single mother and the complexities of dealing with fathers who are not present in their children's lives. This short but powerful debut piece from Tamykah Anthony-Marston is also sprinkled with much inspiration for those who have had and continue to have similar experiences. Diary of a MisEducated Baby Mama encourages sisterhood, female empowerment, forgiveness, hope and faith.

"Nick Jordan could be Mitch Rapp's grandad! I read the whole book in one sitting!" - an Amazon Reviewer For three years, the Nazis have held France hostage, terrorizing its citizens, and deporting Jews to work camps in the East. A company of brutal SS Panzer troops have taken over the City Hall of Caen and control the heartbeat of the city. Local bands of Resistance fighters operate in the shadows to disrupt, derail, and destroy German operations.The OSS recruits Nick Jordan, an accomplished Yale athlete, to join an elite commando unit. He and his fellow candidates are put through a year-long training regimen at a covert base learning skills and tradecraft far beyond those of the typical soldier. Their initial mission, Operation Wolfhound, takes them into that German-held territory to seek and kill enemy forces in support of the D-Day invasion. The Nazis have never faced a weapon like Nick Jordan.

We're getting the band back together!" For Kyle Brightman, bipolar advertising-industry burnout, this is good news and bad news. Good, because he'll get to see his zombie-killing friends again, and be reunited with Cate, the zombie he loves (yeah, yeah, I know, read PARADISE ROT and you'll get it). Bad, because having to blast his way through battalions of bloodless corpses took a brutal toll on Kyle's already fragile psyche. But duty, and booty, calls. And soon Kyle finds himself on another tropical island, duped again into creating an ad campaign to lure unsuspecting Middle Americans into the greedy mouth of ancient madness. This time, it's vampires. But with the help of a) his comrades-in-ass-kicking; b) the love of a good (cold) woman; c) the enduring power of Herb Alpert; and d) the awesomeness that is Charo, Kyle just might find a way to save thousands of lives. And what little's left of his sanity. Splattered with folklore, dripping with history, ONCE AGAIN, WITH BLOOD, Larry Weiner's sequel to the uproarious comic romp PARADISE ROT, is what you get if Jimmy Buffett, Carl Hiaasen, Sarah Silverman and Hunter S. Thompson took turns pummeling Anne Rice with a cricket bat.

KGB spy Aleksandra Zolotov has three secrets that may end her life. - She can see the future.- Her mission to seduce a powerful US Senator is doomed to fail.- To survive, she must sacrifice everything she's ever loved. In a world where her enemies are her only allies, Aleksandra plays a dangerous game of secrets, lies, and betrayal where one wrong move will leave her tortured, murdered, or worse. Will this broken product of a brutal system find the strength to trust the one man she's supposed to betray? And if so, will her love allow her to finally be free, or will it destroy her?

Kekhmet, the empire of the Two Lands, is a faded shadow of its former glory. Once the shining jewel of the world, the empire has been split apart by the invasion of foul Hesso marauders and the depredations of corrupt governors. The gods and goddesses of Kekhmet are all but silent, and the people struggle to find hope in their hardscrabble lives. When Tjety, an exiled Ranger of the goddess Mayat, discovers a ransacked fishing village along the lawless northern frontier, he marshals his training and divine hekau magic to hunt down the vicious cultists responsible for the attack. But can he find them before their prisoners are twisted into mindless slaves serving a ruthless necromancer bent on shattering the tenuous balance between order and chaos? Ranger of Mayat is the first episode in PISTOLS AND PYRAMIDS, an ongoing weird western series best described as an ancient Egyptian spaghetti western with magic. And mummies. Lots of mummies.The print edition includes four B&W illustrations by artist James Hale and a map of Kekhmet.

This is the 4th volume of The Inquisitive Pioneer series of science and math activities which use primarily basic materials but all involve measurement and calculation to analyze the data. Like all the others in the series there is a paper template slide rule and slide rule use instructions for encouraging numeracy skills. This book acts as the compliment to book one by having a cross-section of activities from the web site: www.cosmicquestthinker.com from which all the books derive. This book has topic areas of conservation of momentum, conservation of mass, Archimedes Principle labs, and many more.

From stalagmites widening into "seven-layer wedding cakes" to a trip through a rock shop that feels "like fingering / all the candies / in a trick-or-treat bag," rocks, minerals, and jewels seldom fail to dazzle and delight young and old alike. Open an abalone shell and you could find a pearl "sleeping on a bed / quilted in rainbows." Crack open the world of geology through a poem, and you'll find all sorts of gems for the mind. The poems in this collection do just that, merging science and verse to enchant young rock-hounds and those who enjoy poems that contain all the sparkling pleasures of a crystal geode. These poems range in length and form, including haiku, concrete, narrative, free verse, tanka, and sensory, and are aimed at intermediate and middle school readers. Judi Rypma is no stranger to rocks and minerals-or to poems. This is her 8th book of poetry, and when she's not collecting rocks or writing poems, she's teaching children's literature.

What young boy would not want to know the secrets hidden beneath the sea? Juan was such a boy, but he needed a turtle to take him there. On his birthday he was given a turtle and his adventures began. There were whales and dolphins to play with, stingrays, swordfish, seahorses and more to explore. However, he did not take care of this gift and his adventures were cut short. What could he do? You'll have to read the book to find out.

Top 10 Best Seller in Supernatural and Horror 2016.What could this team of paranormal investigators expect to find when their travels lead them to an abandoned house deep in the wilds of the Appalachian Mountains? A mere ghost or haunting would have been a pleasant experience compared to the horrors that awaited them, and the truth they would uncover. Possibly the most puzzling and horrifying aspect of this investigation was the incredible power and hatred that this entity possessed, and where this energy came from.The fact that this menacing fiend had found it's way into their lives, and how it had done so, left these friends and team mates amazed, astounded and terrified.Based on true events.

When a king begs a dread boon, dare she refuse him? Remeya--fosterling and maid-in-waiting to the king's sister--worships the old and forbidden horned god alongside the princess. Despite the centuries-old taboo, a few believers still perform the rites in secret. And the king quietly tolerates their heresy until Remeya retrieves a cursed sword from its watery grave and bestows it upon him. As the king's mind unravels into violence, no one near him remains safe, not even his best beloved. Especially not his best beloved. Fearing for all their lives, Remeya frantically seeks a means of curbing the king's wrath. Appeals to religious authority and personal displays of public piety prove fruitless, while leaving salvation to her god delivers no sign that he will act. Unless Remeya learns to engage more deeply with her beliefs--beyond obedience, beyond devotion, and into surrender--the princess will lose her head and Remeya her soul. Hunting Wild is the evocative second tale in the Blood Blade fantasy series. If you enjoy vivid characters, exotic worlds, and intensifying suspense, you'll love this engrossing coming-of-age story by J.M. Ney-Grimm in which a teen girl grapples with how to connect with her god. Buy Hunting Wild now to forge faith from desperation in the eleventh hour!EXCERPT FROM HUNTING WILDThe pebbles of the underground stream bed dug into the soles of her feet, and the chill of the shallow water numbed her toes.The rough surface of the ceiling sloped down, scraping her back, forcing her to bend, to crouch, to curl enough that she caught her balance with her hands in the wet.The light faded swiftly. Had she gone far enough?She paused, eyes adjusting.The glimmering ripples of the spring's source cast dim flickers against the rocks pressing her down.ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.M. Ney-Grimm lives with her husband and children in Virginia, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains.She's learning about permaculture gardening and debunking popular myths about food. The rest of the time she reads Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, and Lois McMaster Bujold, plays boardgames like Settlers of Catan, rears her twins, and writes stories set in her troll-infested North-lands.

"At 19, Elena Paige feels like everyone is sailing into the future while she watches from the shore. Her dad is starting a new family, Sage, her best friend, is getting her degree in writing; Jo, her girlfriend is playing her piano to stardom, and even Ethan her once dependent brother is making huge strides toward independence and success. When the opportunity to explore her gifts at the Parapsychology Institute comes along, she doesn't look the gift horse in the mouth, but maybe she should. Once there Elena will be tested and pushed to manifest a gift she has yet begun to understand and forced to question how high a price she is willing to pay to be more powerful than anyone imagined she might be."--

This intriguing memoir takes you inside Ceaușescu's Romania, where Sergiu Viorel Urma was the sole reporter for the Associated Press from 1974 through 1987.Urma's narration begins in May 2014, when he returned to his native country for a chance to see the dossier compiled by the Securitate, Romania's version of the Soviet KGB. It had taken him nine years to access his folder. And now, he cannot believe his eyes...Urma goes on to chronicle his eventful career path, taking readers back to his senior year at Bucharest University, the same year Moscow and its Eastern Bloc allies-with the exception of Romania-invade Czechoslovakia to stifle the Prague Spring.In 1973, after a twenty-three-year period during which the Associated Press did not have a reporter in Romania, the agency opens a Bucharest bureau and hires Urma as an assistant. The following year, he becomes the only reporter working for a Western agency in the country-and the West is very curious to know what Ceaușescu is up to...The newly surfaced dossier sheds light on Urma's time as a reporter in Romania, highlighting just how dangerous the political climate was during this fascinating chapter of modern history.

Two female vampires crave the blood of innocent young girls and women. A deeply disturbing glimpse at the darkest side of humanity, as told through the lives of Iris and Anya Greenwood, two women who live as a prosperous suburban married couple. Iris is the portrait of a woman tortured by dark instinct, held prisoner by a private lust and craving for the unspeakable. Hidden in a wealthy suburb of Richmond, Virginia, Iris and Anya have accepted the fullness of who they are, and the terrifying acts they must perform in secret to survive. Burdened by generations of darkness and hidden depravity, Iris uncovers the depths of human evil exposed, and the reality of a natural, apocalyptic bloodlust passed down from mother to daughter. The Greenwood revelation is the truth of human hypocrisy unmasked, and the deadly corruption that often lurks unseen behind the walls of privilege, and behind the smiling faces of cultured civility.

The chili in Texas is red-hot . . . and so is murder!Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, and Eve head for West Texas to compete in a Fourth of July chili cookoff. Thousands of people have descended on a sleepy little ghost town, turning it into a boomtown for chili mavens, gamblers, musicians, and media. Raucous excitement fills the air, but so does chili when a sabotaged propane cooker explodes, killing the much-hated current champion. The victim leaves behind a tangled trail of sleeping with other men's wives, cheating at cards - and maybe at chili cooking - and deadly anger. With Sam a possible suspect in the murder, emotions run hot as a bowl of Texas red as Phyllis has to untangle these threads in order to put her finger on the killer!Livia J. Washburn's beloved Fresh Baked Mystery series is back with another novel full of tasty recipes, dastardly doings, and brilliant sleuthing by Phyllis Newsom and her friends. THE GREAT CHILI KILL-OFF is a delicious dish of murder and detection.

Conner never thought much about fate, predestination, the supernatural, or God's ultimate plan. At least not until that bullet somehow impossibly missed him and chipped a golf-ball sized hole out of the asphalt where his right lung should have been. He should have been bleeding out next to the bald tire of a dated hatch-back sedan. 'Hidden Steps' gives us a bird's-eye view of a pivotal year in the life of a young man named Connor. We watch him stumble blindly through a wild, violent, and troubled period of his life. Danger and life-threatening situations are the norm, as are seemingly impossible and unbelievable events that he has trouble explaining away. We watch each story unfold from Connor's perspective and then we peel back the curtain and get each chapter from a new perspective; that of the angelic and demonic beings that are locked in an ancient battle for our destiny. The reader gets a glimpse of the epic conflicts, and the planning that go into carrying out God's plan. At the end we see that the random things we experience everyday may not be so random after-all.