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Inside these covers, find not simply stories of daring do, of intrigue and espionage, of Kings and Murderers. No, within this tome are not tales, but maps. Maps that lead to the origins of some of our best known stories and folklore. And keys. Keys to open doors to not only the past and the secret beginnings of such standards as Cinderella's Slipper, but to new ideas founded in history and mystery.

This work is intended to stand unto itself as more a living, breathing portrait of art painted with carefully chosen words, than just as a really interesting story told. The intent here is for the listener to view the landscape through the eyes of the main character, to feel what he does as he ambles along in this adventure. When the main character feels the pain and pleasures of the old dirt road, then all will only be right if the listener feels these same identical experiences.

Jason Straiz is a New York detective working on a case to bring down a major crime lord. He keeps his life simple. Work. Family. Friends. Until he meets Selene. Selene is a lawyer on a mission. Her goal is to bring down the monster that has been terrorizing her for years. When she meets Jason, the attraction is intense. When Jason comes to her aide after tragedy strikes, he becomes a target.

One of the most glorious paths through a child's wonderland is down the aisle of a candy store, a dream world of confectionery delights that entice youthful exuberance with a myriad of colorful wrappings and sugary possibilities. And such was the delightful atmosphere at the Sweet Things Candy Emporium, where, on the sunny morning of April first, Becka Marshall opened the doors to not only her childhood dream but to the dark prospects of an unforeseeable nightmare.

Kindle Your Writing: Tips on Making Your Amazon Kindle Book Great is a how to book on how to design the Kindle book of your experience. This book gives details for how to make your Kindle book greater. Through tips from what to do in the description section of KDP, tips on how to market the Kindle book, and other aspects. This book prepares you to become a better writer of Kindle books. Also, I discuss making royalties and the KDP royalty system and how it works. It is all in this book.

Five years after his wife's death, scientist/inventor Joseph Caldwell has become obsessed with the afterlife with hopes of one day contacting the love of his life. Taking the opportunity to conduct a paranormal investigation at a mansion rumored to be haunted, Joseph tests his experimental devices, probing the other side of death. But in doing so, he discovers a deeper truth to the claims stated of The Atherton Manor.

It is believed Homer was blind, yet this adaptation proves his vision was far reaching and his insight into the human condition more relevant than ever. The Iliad is revitalized in this contemporary version with a central focus on the epic's deadliest hero, Achilles. This time, Archie is 27-year-old combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, achieving moderate celebrity as the crowd favorite of an underground fight club.

A book about the terrifying, flesh-eating, brains-eating zombies! All brand new rules and works in short stories! The worst side effects they don't tell you about, a prison experiment gone wrong, a tale of an over-run city, some creative ways to kill a zombie, and more!

Why not get two tales of pure terror for the low price of only one? If you are not frightened by the body-snatching of husband and wife by the long-forgotten spirits of the wife's great-great-grandfather and his "beloved" and their plan to wreak havoc and carnage upon mankind, surely, your mind will be twisted and left in shattered awe at the forlorn story of a woman driven mad by her own nightmare and its abrupt thrust into reality, tearing away everything that might have left her whole...or you.

Diversity vs. Racism: A Challenge to Mankind, is a most revealing audiobook on the deleterious effects of racism, sexism, and homophobism in our society and throughout the world. It brings to the forefront the cancerous nature of these negative psychological diseases of the mind that exists within the depths of our society (souls) from the out house to the white house. The amazing passages of this masterpiece will explain the devastating effects of bias thinking at all levels of our society.

You are a youth pastor or youth worker, and someone dies. It could be the grandparent, or parent of a youth in your ministry. It could be a peer who is killed in a terrible accident, or it could be a student in a local high school or middle school. How will you respond to help the families, the individuals in your youth group or the youth at the local high school? Could it be that God has put you in the situation for a divine purpose? I think that is why you are reading this now.

1972 - A Saga of Change is not a historical novel; it is fiction based on some events in India, around 1972. Every war or a large scale revolution, accelerates social change. This novel attempts to study the social and attitudinal changes that occurred in an Indian region, close to Indo-Pak border, by considering changes that occurred in some typical students and residents of a town close to the border.

What would you do if your great-great-grandfather wanted your body...so that he could make his beloved live again? Everyone thinks that Julia has gone insane, "just like her father". Unable to convince anyone, she takes matters into her own hands to stop the evil plans of the revenants haunting and taking over her life, before they can resurrect their spirits into bodies and wreak havoc on the world.

Did Anselm, in his "Ontological Argument" (first advanced around 1070), make one of the greatest intellectual discoveries of all time, or did he merely fall into an interesting blunder? In his day, Anselm was criticized by Gaunilo. Subsequent philosophers have generally considered Gaunilo's criticisms to be weighty. Descartes' attempt to resuscitate Anselm's argument led to Kant's supposed refutation, which most later philosophers have considered to be fundamentally sound.

Didier is an elephant, but he isn't sure if he likes being an elephant all that much, with his big, awkward body and boring life of carrying and lifting things for his human owner, Mr. Rahol. He lives in Mumbai with his mother, who tells fantastic tales about living in the wild before humans captured her and turned her into a domestic animal. Neither she nor the rest of Mr. Rahol's herd of elephants, however understand why Didier would rather be some other kind of animal instead.

Raven truly believes she is going mad. Erotic dreams fill her nights, causing her to question her sanity by the light of day. They lead her into a world she never knew existed and a heritage that can only be found in nightmares. Dragon wants nothing more than to own the mortal soul of the beautiful Raven, a woman who can make his ancient scars disappear, proof that she is far from mortal.

Oregon Trail Journey To A New Hope, is the story of one young woman on the journey West to a new life, from the South where they used to live. Something terrible happened there and it changed their entire family's lives forever. It's almost time for the Civil War and unrest is brewing and with her pastor father, mother, and her brothers, Hope wants a new life out West at the end of the Oregon Trail. Along the way they encounter bad weather and other pioneer hardships, as well as love.

The protagonist, Jesús, is ugly. Extraordinarily ugly. He is so ugly that his friends and relatives are convinced that behind that ugliness there must be something else. A malefic power or possibly a momentous fate. The truth is that fairly special things happen wherever Jesús is. His biological father is a mystery. His half-sister is a child-prodigy who excels at everything she does, his mother becomes the president of the country, his best-friend Vero is a computer tycoon, his brother-in-law also makes it in politics...But for all the success around him he still feels unsettled.

Don't miss this terrific collection of horrifying tales by Garon Cockrell, founder of popculturebeast.com.

In “The Domain of Arnheim”, Edgar Allen Poe combines an explication of his aesthetic theory and a physical description of a landscape-garden, Arnheim. The builder of Arnheim, Ellison, is described by a narrator as a fabulously wealthy man, interested “instinctively...in the creation of novel forms of Beauty”. He is interested in shaping nature, in molding it into a “purely physical loveliness.”