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Leave your preconceived notions at home as you embark on a mind-bending journey with six of today’s most visionary authors. Brimming with humor and heartache, this collection of short stories maps the roads we took to get here and the paths that lie ahead. The present may be a gift, but the future and the past both come with a price.

Sarah grew up behind closed doors and drawn curtains, where secrets festered and survival became a full-time job. Her childhood home—tucked at the end of a gravel road in small-town Kentucky—held more than its fair share of darkness. In *The Girl in the Window*, S. Lee Davis delivers a gut-wrenching and beautifully told true story of trauma, silence, and resilience. Told through a child’s eyes and a survivor’s memory, this memoir traces the path of a girl who was overlooked by the world but never stopped watching it.

Emily and her friends are off for a fun day at the Museum of Naturally Cherrypicked History! What starts out as a demoralizing and utterly boring exercise in forced self-loathing shortly transforms into a battle for survival as an ancient monkey sorcerer and his wicked former Pharoah enabler transforms the museum and surrounding city into a blazing inferno of undead dinosaur destruction! Can Emily, her friends and their chaperone parents turn the demonic tide? Is the city even worth saving at this point?

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you, “We need Mister Rogers more than ever.” This audio collection features interviews with fans, friends, and colleagues whose lives were changed by the simple wisdom and kindness of Fred Rogers. For the first time you’ll hear both celebrities and everyday...

It was more than twenty years ago that Tom Manetti last saw Maisie Deavor. At the time he was in the grip of severe, morbid hallucinations. He had insisted that her friends in Deipan were monsters—that one of them reached a tentacle inside its abdomen, unveiled a ball of black sludge, and had thrown it at him. Maisie had him pegged as crazy and broke off contact with the smitten young man.

When Emily and her best friends, Laurel and Nicole, discover an ancient mummy in a forgotten sarcophagus, their curiosity moves them to unwittingly remove the sword impaling the cadaver. In doing so, the girls have released an ancient evil, one that is wicked beyond words and bent on vengeance. Besides this, the mysterious black slime this resurrected monster has released in the surrounding crypt has the power to reanimate the long dead!

A weekend mountain retreat for Emily, her father, Lincoln, and friends Nicole and Laurel gets pretty repulsive when the grotesque family camping in the adjoining lot start setting off fireworks in the middle of the night. But fireworks and a bad night’s sleep could be the least of their concerns, when the girls decide to investigate the mysterious source of the deep, booming croaks that occasionally thunder across the mountains. Their investigation may be rife with peril, gruesome revelations and may even yield surprising, politically incorrect connections to Lincoln’s childhood.

When Emily and her best friends, Laurel and Nicole, discover an ancient mummy in a forgotten sarcophagus, their curiosity moves them to unwittingly remove the sword impaling the cadaver. In doing so, the girls have released an ancient evil, one that is wicked beyond words and bent on vengeance. Besides this, the mysterious black slime this resurrected monster has released in the surrounding crypt has the power to reanimate the long dead!

The discovery of a humanoid creature with tentacles for arms may not be the strangest discovery of the weekend for Emily, Laurel, and Nicole, but as the girls unravel the morbid mystery of the creature’s origins, they will no doubt find it to be the most disturbing. There is a deranged evil afoot in the mountains, being carried out under the false pretense of medical science, and Emily and her friends won’t leave until the mystery is solved and the evil is vanquished!

The dread permeating the air that Emily has felt within the halls of Michabo Middle School comes to surface when Awxil, a bizarre, bulbous pink-haired creature, reveals itself during math class. Awxil explains that it intends to flavor up the brains of the students with tasty fantasies, which is pretty odd in itself, but when pink gas is released from Awxil’s rear, Emily realizes that the school is in serious trouble.

One young alien, on her evil homeworld of Karftharch in the crimson dimension, yearns for existence in the sunlight amongst the fabled humans of the higher dimension. Her dream is soon to come true, as the Karftharchians have engineered human body replicas in a scheme for a covert interdimensional invasion of the human world, coinciding with an accidental launch of Tooskenen’s ancient ship from Earth by Emily, Laurel, and Nicole.

Emily’s best friends, Laurel and Nicole, don’t believe in Santa Claus! That’s about to change. On a last-ditch effort to validate the big guy’s existence, Emily hides behind the Christmas tree to keep lookout and alert her friends when and if he arrives. Meanwhile, Satan’s vile grimps have invaded Michabo, ready to fill the children’s heads with hatred for the holiday.

Halloween is in the air in the town of Michabo. Emily, Laurel, and Nicole are on their way to Sweet Sorrow Ice Cream and Candy Shop to get a sugar fix. But something else…something not very sweet, something evil and annoying, has come to the quaint town. What is this obnoxious entity? What drives its insatiable need to spread and sow seeds of darkness? I’m not sure myself, but listen on anyway!

Get ready to puke with joy at these four sweaty, politically incorrect tales of spooky supernatural and psycho-murderer mayhem! Emily, Laurel, and Nicole will have their hands full this witching season, you bet! Will the disgraced former police officer, Mr. Blubbertongue, destroy Halloween in his twisted plan to help his mail order bride lose weight? What is really going on inside that container of low-fat cottage cheese?

Do you sometimes feel like you are “not enough?” You’re not alone. Imposter syndrome can affect many different people in unexpected ways, causing anxiety, fear, stress, and a variety of other symptoms. Is This Seat For Me? shares the stories of a diverse group of accomplished individuals who struggled with self-doubt and found ways to overcome it.

A young Jay Gatsby finds himself working as a foreign spy in this historical thriller set at the beginning of World War I. The unexpected appearance of a woman from his past, famed journalist Ella Kaye, soon complicates his mission. Racing through war-torn Europe, entangled in a dangerous web of lies, they struggle to maintain the secrets that will keep them each alive.

Inside all of us is an inerrant instinct—a natural intuition called super-consciousness. This super-consciousness is also known as the Seven Sacred Energy Centers of the Body. These centers are pure energy and will help you hone your skills into the mastery of self. Here…you will find your unique masterpiece--the purpose why you were born. These energies help your physical body function most efficiently as you advance your consciousness into a place of knowing where all is possible—as you Engage My Magic Within.

Anna Beiler is too wicked to be Amish. Or so she is told. Well into her Rumspringa (the time when Amish teenagers are free to experience the modern world before deciding which life to choose), Anna yearns for a life outside her order in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Anna convinces an amateur documentary crew to drive her to a party in the Pennsylvania mountains where she plans to make her escape. An accident leaves Anna stranded in Centralia, a town condemned for a coal mine fire that burns below the ground, a literal hell on earth.

Expert Ghost Hunters from Haunted Events UK search for life-after death in the notoriously haunted Old Street Market of Sutton Town in historic old England. The area is so haunted that within minutes the investigation's medium is contacted by not one, but four spirits, warning them not to split up or risk their lives. Ignoring the advice, they split into two teams.

5-Star Selling: From Beginning to Excellence offers critical basic sales training for new salespeople and many important advanced improvement tips for experienced veterans. The chapter titles illustrate coverage of many useful topics needed on a salesperson's road to becoming an accomplished professional in a rewarding career. The author, based on his own extensive experience, provides a proven formula for success in today's sales environments.