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The Highlanders may have found a way to evade the monsters hunting in the mist, but they can’t shake the terror and the loss of hope that accompanies hiding from an enemy they can’t see let alone kill. Many fear that desperation and apathy will become commonplace as the Governors continue to fill their coffers and ignore the plight of their people – then all will be lost. But a chance encounter with Jakob Kestrel brings a glimmer of hope.

Leaving the Blackwood Tower, having learned the truth of what happened to her, Lorainne is desperate to get back to a normal life. Away from werewolves. When she returns to her new apartment one night to find a shocking reminder of a dead and buried past, she questions her hold on reality. Struggling to hide her terror from her daughter, the only relief she finds is when Patrick unexpectedly shows up. Despite wanting her distance from his kind, she soon finds herself desperate for his company.

These friends will face new challenges that will test their skills, ingenuity, and resolve. How they deal with the danger posed by an intruder may surprise you. They will take chances to help and protect one another that gets them into and out of trouble. Because of their actions, you will gain insight into their depth of friendship, bravery, and inclusion. As you will learn, nothing stays the same, so come be a part of the adventure. This story is best shared and discussed. Talk about what you would do under these circumstances. Then, ask yourself, can one person make a difference?

Despite pressures to cease and desist, Archer dares to ask the question that would bring the new regime to its knees: does universal truth exist? Using his wits and some good fortune along the way, he begins to understand that there may be more to life than meets the eye. Unfortunately for Archer, adults start to take notice.

What if avarice after billionaire-ism is just a subset of ordinary hoarding disorder? What if someone discovered a way to repair that? Who would benefit? Who would oppose such a cure, and how aggressively? The Money Cure is a comic romantic adventure set in the near future, when a housing crisis forces working people, from retail employees to programmers, to live in illegal housing called underhousing.

The Beast Keepers is the story of Jonathan F. St. Roche, a young veterinarian, who takes a job in the rural Ohio town of Carrollton. He soon discovers it is a safe haven for a menagerie of mythical creatures (including a pregnant Pegasus, a flying monkey with a sprained wing, a centaur with Cushing’s disease, and a unicorn with a sweet tooth), who rely on him for their medical care and shelter from the outside world.

In this book, The Eruption of Possible, Dr. Abdur-Rahman transitions from the focus on an individual's transformation to the community of ex-offenders who have to remain hidden because once their past is discovered they are judged by what they did and not who they have become. He suggests that not only is there a correlation between being a former practitioner of crime and the knowledge of how to end the cycle of criminal thought, but successfully transitioned ex-felons also have to become a major part of the equation when it comes to developing strategies to reduce crime and gun violence.

Abandoned on a remote highway after bandits murder his parents, young Olifur finds safety with Fritjof. The gruff woodsman teaches him and other orphans to live off the land. When Fritjof falls ill, Olifur will risk everything to save his mentor—even travel to far-off Melar seeking a doctor. However, the city of Melar is more perilous than Olifur imagined, and doctors aren't cheap. His quest leads him first to a hazardous job working on the elevated trains high above the city.

In a kingdom far away lived a very loving, blessed, and generous father. One of the father's greatest desires was to share his kingdom's wealth and blessing with others. He had seven sons whom he dearly loved. The father assigned each of his sons to travel to a city and gave each of them a very challenging and difficult task. The first son set out to embark on his journey and did not return. The second son left for the city following his father's instructions and did not return. The third son, dressed in a green robe, left for the city and also in search for his brothers and did not return.

Medically Speaking, Who Connects Your Dots? builds on the foundation of the need to critically think about what is happening medically in the world around you and even to you! Your eyes will be open about what the media is now permitted to "medically propagate" to you and for how long this has been occurring. Critical thinking is an extremely vital process of analyzing information--from opposing sides! This method of thinking is based on asking questions from an unbiased perspective, equally weighing all the data.

When the smoke has cleared from the battlefields and the Civil War has finally ended, fervent Union supporter Beth Bennet reluctantly moves with her family from their home in Meryton, Ohio to the windswept plains of Rosings, Texas. Handsome, haughty Will Darcy, a confederate officer back from the war, owns half the land around Rosings, and his even haughtier cousin Cate Burroughs owns the other half. In a town as small as Rosings, Beth and Will inevitably cross paths.

You want time-travel, prophecy, and heroic women? How about magic & a futuristic dystopian Earth? No problem. What more could you want...?Undead assassins & shape-changers? Yep, got them too! Telepaths & wyverns, I hear. Why not find out? Escaping death, Leonie is teleported from one danger to another ... and another planet. With her unique origins now revealed, Leonie yearns to move on, but prophecy has her in its clutches. On an alien world where civilisation is so different, racial indifference is the same.

It was 2050, and Dr. Erwin Little, CEO of the Center for Life Sciences, was preparing to conduct the most dangerous scientific experiment ever attempted. But he needed a volunteer subject, a human willing to be euthanized and then returned to life. The goal was to go beyond the many Near-Death-Experiences documented over decades, and determine what life, if it existed after death, was really like. Was it just a dark, blank time like before birth, or was there something else?

A renegade general and a pair of indestructible soldiers await a fuel tanker on the lawless and spent planet of Kilth. While there, the general befriends the young starport mechanic. The landing of a small personal craft carrying a disoriented maiden and her lifeless brother causes the general to enlist the help of an eccentric, sometimes maniacal ship captain to help return the young woman to her home world.

Long ago, Milon Redshield, the first warrior-king of Windkeep Castle, brought down a curse on the kingdom for his cruel treatment of dragons, the Goddess Nilene's chosen guardians of nature. Thousands of years later, Windkeep is still burdened with the curse, and Queen Tessia is having to defend her kingdom from repeated assaults by the weather witches and their allies.

Mr. Bennet had very often wished that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him. Alas, he did not live long enough to do it. After her father’s untimely death, Miss Elizabeth Bennet reads a letter from him in which he tasks her with the protection of her family. Elizabeth is willing to do everything in her power to fulfill her father's dying wish, even if it means marrying a man she cannot love. There is, however, one man whom she can love. Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Jakob Kestrel seeks to free the Highlands. To succeed, he must defeat both man and monster, Stalkers, Wraiths, and slavers all seeking to kill him. Talia strives to eliminate the pirates haunting the Sea of Mist. But before she can do that a more lethal hazard threatens, and only Davin can save her. With battles raging all around them, Bryen and Aislinn begin to realize that they need to go to Shadow’s Reach, suspecting that the heart of the darkness seeking to smother New Caledonia lurks there.

When John Harmon Returns to England to claim his inheritance - and his intended bride - only to be found murdered, the fortune passes to the most unlikely of people. A satirical romp in humanity by the master novelist, Charles Dickens. In classic Dickens style, he explores what truly makes one wealthy, and how we view our fellow creatures.

Evidence of Christianity is about the adventurous journey of two characters who desperately want to help the people of the City of Morphoo, a city lost in darkness. With an inner drive to set people free, Hunger and Thirst take inspiration from their grandmother as they set out to climb a mountain outside the city in hopes of finding answers at the top.

In this memoir, Anthony Candela, a self-described "all-around regular guy," traverses a lifetime of challenges. Some of these are accidents of birth, like his poor eyesight and slow trek to blindness, and some are of his own making, like choosing to compete as a scholar-athlete. Infused with lots of New Yorkana, a touch of California, and a few related historical references, this memoir conveys that in any environment, life does not always follow a prescribed course. Moreover, as humans, all of us are imperfect.