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With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Waiheke Island. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Billionaire Ben Myer, sick of the limelight, wants to leave the world of paparazzi and parties behind him. Buying a large piece of land in Alaska, he sets his sights on building an epic, compound like mansion there. Unfortunately for Ben, the land is inhabited by a creature of dark legends...and it isn't about to share.

Four kilometers beneath the plains of southern Africa a search party discover a lost world of vicious, gigantic Carboniferous Era insects, surviving virtually unchanged for 350 million years in a vast magma chamber. The search quickly descends into a terrifying fight for survival against creatures thought only to exist in prehistory and nightmares.

For centuries, stories had circulated of an Aztec city so rich that precious gems adorned the buildings and the streets were paved with gold. But like so many Aztec locations, this one had been abandoned and swallowed by the jungle. Since the time of the conquistadors, expeditions have set out to find it. None have ever returned. At their antique shop in 1938, Rick and Rose Sinclair come across what may be a map to the lost City of Gold in an Aztec artifact. The adventurous husband implores his more level-headed wife that this is their opportunity to become rich.

Terror crawls from the shadows and Scott Ward emerges from his mundane existence into a waking nightmare. Mutant camelback crickets with razor-sharp teeth prowl the streets, turning the village of Stones Throw into a battleground where survival becomes the only instinct and due process is a bullet. As the infestation grows and the town’s charming facade deteriorates, fear tightens its grip and Ward is forced to grapple with the primal choice of flight or fight. Scuttling horrors hide in every shadow, and each move plunges him deeper into the harrowing abyss of his once-familiar world.

Religiously raised Cyril Hayes spent most of his life believing that he should love his neighbor, but that gay people were sinners and would ultimately spend eternity in torment. His whole faith becomes unraveled when he meets the new kid in school—Avery Branson—who not only happens to be gay, but is also Christian. To Cyril, these two things are unable to coexist. But can they?

Prisoners of a war their side lost, five men are held captive behind enemy lines in a Vietnamese torture camp. They are weak, they are afraid, and they are hunted. One night, everything changed. Their captors are taken out, the base destroyed. Having escaped the decimated site, the soldiers, along with a few others, attempt to make their way back to civilization. They soon find themselves being stalked. Not by anything human but rather a force that can control nature. It swims, it hunts, and it is hungry.

Danny's family were brutally slaughtered by a Sasquatch before his eyes when he was a small child. No one believed him. Now, grown up and a professional soldier, Danny has returned home to make the beast pay. Unfortunately for him, not everything is as it seems, and there just may be more lurking in the woods than he's prepared to deal with.

Living in the idyllic seaside town of Palmetto Beach is a dream come true for Mitch Sanders, an aspiring marine biologist who studies from home while his wife, Ashley, scores the perfect job at the Bioengineering Clinical Research Institute of Medicine, which is about to make an astounding medical breakthrough.

Ruthless drug kingpin El Gato, known for his iron fist, is enraged as a megalodon engulfs his prized submarine, swallowing $20 million worth of cocaine and methamphetamines in the process. Fueled by vengeance, El Gato hunts down once-famous but now washed-up TV fisherman Chris Newman and the brilliant paleo-ichthyologist "Abbie" Marnoch at vacation destination Persuasion Island, and makes them an offer they can’t refuse:

The Narrows are the most shark infested waters of the Caribbean, a three kilometer wide strait steeped in folklore that exists between the islands of St Kitts and Nevis, upon which ships full of people risk passage every day. In 1970 the Christena ferry disaster claims the lives of over 233 passengers, and a young man named Marcus is part of the daring rescue operation, battling abnormally aggressive sharks and stormy seas to rescue victims.

Leyenda Island, a tropical paradise off the coast of Mexico, offers tourists a haven of sailing, sunbathing, and snorkeling. Yet beneath the surface of this idyllic retreat, a savage predator lurks. When a potent new drug is dumped into one of its inlets, a rogue tiger shark develops a ravenous craving for the toxic substance. Its hunger becomes insatiable, and when it can’t get its fix, it sets its black eyes on the island’s inhabitants, unleashing a reign of terror that threatens to shatter the tranquility of Leyenda Island forever.

The legend of the Ozark Howler is as old as the mountains themselves, the bloody tales of terror, mutilation, and murder a foundation block in the region’s folklore. Skeptics dismiss the Howler as nothing more than tall tales and the work of overactive imaginations, but those who have seen the monster tell a different tale. Carter Renfrow is hiding from his past and living the life of a wanted man when a multi-car pileup interrupts his plans, and two worlds collide in an epic clash with life and death hanging in the balance.

Catching the beast is one thing. Smuggling it safely out of Indonesia is something else altogether. Whisked overseas for a mystery job, Australian Park Ranger and dangerous animal expert Matt Sanders finds himself presented with the opportunity of a lifetime: to find and capture a uniquely dangerous cryptid long hidden by the thick rainforests of Java. It is an opportunity too exciting to turn down.

Aiden Walker barely survived the first alien Kaiju incursion in the U.S. where tens of thousands died. A fourth Kaiju has landed in Kiribati in the South Pacific. The aliens learned from their first defeat. Now, Major Walker and his constant side kick, Sergeant Costas, face an even greater challenge with Kaiju Kiribati. The rules have changed, and failure is not an option.

Jonas Drammond used to be one of the best guides in the world. That changed, however, when he lost an expedition he was leading into the depths of the Amazon rainforest. Five years on, he's a shadow of his former self, drowning his sorrows in a bottle. Then a researcher from Brazil reaches out to him with a job only he can do. She thinks she has found the location of the long-lost city of Z deep within the Amazon, and Jonas unwittingly stumbled upon its entrance during his last expedition.

It killed the ancient Mayans and drove them from their cities. Now it's loose in America. Ordicordyceps unilateralis, the zombie fungus, is turning people into mindless killing machines. Miami Special Investigations Squad Detective Kyle Bane has never seen anything like it. Cordyceps Rising forces him to lay aside his training as a cop to become a cold blooded killer to save himself and his friends. Can he save Miami? As he sees the great White Wall of Downtown skyrises in flames, he begins to doubt his abilities.