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After listening to a brutal murder take place over her phone's voicemail, schoolteacher Samantha Harris sets out to discover who's responsible for the crime. Unfortunately, while trying to solve one murder, she inadvertently uncovers another. Now, pulled into the center of her normally quiet town's latest murder, Samantha begins to see her enigmatic friends as cold-blooded murderers.

Nietzsche called homo sapien the “murderer of all murderers” when he declared that “God is dead” at the turn of the 20th century. Yet the great god Pan died nearly 2,000 years ago. Thamus, are you there? Take care. The Obsolescence of Oracles followed. All Earths’ mightiest Heroes swallowed. And what of the Poets hallowed? “Who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?”

Rawry is a young dinosaur with a special super power—his smile. But when he loses one of his teeth, he fears his super power is gone forever, so he comes up with hilarious ways to fix the situation.

She was a stuntwoman in Hollywood during the Golden Age of Motion Pictures, a time when stuntwomen were few and far between. She doubled for some of the industry’s most famous leading ladies, appeared in some of the most popular films, and broke ground for women in entertainment. She supported causes, made a difference, and left her mark in arenas other than just show business.

Do you struggle with working out regularly? Have you started an exercise routine only to be back to where you started in a couple of weeks? Then you’re in good company. Kara had zero motivation for years. But she eventually flipped the switch and hasn’t looked back.

The Parenting Backpack differs from other parenting books in that it first focuses on parental reaction to children’s behaviors and asks the listener to identify the sources of those reactions, which are often a result of their own upbringing. Susie Garlick provides strategies to help parents change their reactions in a way that benefits their child’s social and emotional growth. When we change our reactions we change everything.

1951. The Day the Earth Stood Still had just taken the world by surprise with Michael Rennie's portrayal of Klaatu. Motion pictures had seen a surge of female protagonists and heroines defying the norms of the time with films such as The Sword of Monte Cristo and Anne of the Indies. 20th Century Fox's subsidiary label, Astrys Pictures, embarks on something new, a Flash Gordon-type duo of movies...except with a female spaceship captain and action heroine.

Ariel Archer's debut into the world of serial story-telling (originally appearing on Kindle Vella), featuring iconic fictional Hollywood stuntwoman Alivia Chambers as Marshal Tessa Blaine in Sentinel Ridge Pictures Presents "Lady Lawgiver," a western serial adventure set in 1880's Colorado,

Maggie Cartwright never expected to find herself as a mercenary, never mind one facing an apocalyptic threat the world hasn’t seen in living memory. A solitary auto mechanic and a smith by trade, she’s more comfortable making blades than using them. Slaying monsters professionally is a difficult, hazardous job that’s as likely to end with fangs in your throat as a solid paycheck, even for professionals working in a team.

Our base was asked to send a representative to serve on an urgent project at Langley Air Force Base. Of all the potential candidates who could fulfill that role, I was chosen. I am more than capable of meeting and exceeding whatever skills are required. I’ve dedicated two decades of my life to the US military, and I intend to support and defend my country until I am no longer capable. But the deeper entrenched I become in this assignment, the more I question its morality.

An exceptionally-skilled thief, Ari lives deep in the forest with no one but her bobcat Jagger for company. She is determined to keep to herself as civil war drags on around her, but when a mysterious stranger appears with an unexpected job offer, she has no choice but to leave her quiet life behind.

When Caroline, a gifted ornithologist who wants a life of travel and adventure, gets pregnant against her wishes, her husband, Charlie, assumes she will change her mind. She doesn't—and as their daughter, Grace, grows up, she falls through the devastating schism that has grown between them. Told by all three of the characters involved and set against the backdrop of Lake Superior, Finding Grace is a piercing chronicle and a poignant comic-of-age journey for a daughter and her parents.

We begin on Catalina Island in the city of Avalon. Charlie decides she’s going to move to the island and become a fisherwoman for the rest of all time. She’s not sure how she’s going to accomplish this, but all she knows for sure is she needs to repair her heart after losing her baby and the man she thought she’d love forever. As soon as Charlie steps onto the island, she meets Mona, who will change her life.... Next comes Jason and his irresistible niece Makayla. Can she resist this island and all of the people who don’t know the meaning of a personal bubble?

Neurodivergent Elemental Roan doesn’t belong in any of the worlds. She boils things, she dreams of death, and she keeps to the shadows whenever she can. But her copper freckles and ashy red curls make her about as subtle as the benyu, the fiery bird of the mythkeepers’ stories. On her 19th birthday, Roan’s village is beguiled by conquering Woodlanders. In an effort to save her people, she throws herself into a reckless blood bargain with Galin, the roguish Woodland general who challenges her heart, complicates her sense of self, and unmasks the true nature of her magic.

Charlie heads to New Orleans. This book starts off in an unusual way with a new wedding and a new life. Charlie is continuing to find herself in a world that she wanted to leave behind. She's finding joy in life again and a man who makes her laugh. But more important than romance, Charlie is finding herself. Charlie leaves New Orleans and doesn't last long back home in Oregon before Stephy finds a new adventure for her. This time, though, it's all different.

Michael is one of San Francisco's most notorious VR gamers in a world of uninhibited debauchery. Now at the turn of the 22nd century, the effects of cultural collapse compel the gaming aficionado to leave his sedated existence and venture on a quest for virtual utopia. But first, he must traverse nine levels inside a computer-brain interface or pay the ultimate price. The promise of living the rest of one's days in a computer simulated paradise may be too enticing to resist, but for Michael Tillman and his girlfriend Valerie, reality is hardly what it seems.

I’ve finally got my sister back. Now, if we can just catch up with our friends and find a way home...it’s only 300 miles away. When we’re offered a deal that seems to include everything we need to get home, the only choice is to accept. Never mind that the cost is our silence, along with taking a slight excursion along the way. The clock is ticking and we’re sworn to secrecy. Can we reach home in time and keep our promises? The road ahead is nowhere near easy. Tag along with Quinn and Riley as they attempt to reach their safe haven before devastation erupts.

Cora Jones is ordinary in every way imaginable. Until she finds an extraordinary compass from her late brother. In fact, the faded gold compass appears to have enchanted capabilities, leading her to fantastical dreamscapes. In these exotic locations, Cora must overcome some of her deepest, darkest fears. Night after night, Cora voyages beyond the mundane walls of her bedroom to conquer feats that test her mental and physical fortitude. Endowed with a newfound bravery, Cora feels more equipped than ever to handle the mishaps of middle school.

When Charlie’s world falls out from beneath her, a deathbed promise, and a loving best friend, sends Charlie on a whirlwind to find herself and live the dreams she promised Bentley she’d live. Come join Charlie as she races around the world to live the dreams of her, Bentley, and Stephanie as she becomes a new person with each new location she comes to until she finds whom she was always meant to be.

Charlie loses the love of her life, and we see that love through flashbacks as she learns how to live again. Will she find a new love or has she had it all along? Her relationship with her best friend Steph saves her when nothing else can. Charlie has to be careful, though, not to betray the closest person in her life as she relays her story to the news cameras, the courts, and the world, who needs to listen to find out how this woman could possibly have lived the life she's lived.