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Amur grew up among the Nosi, a matriarchal society where decisions are enforced through violence, until he was chosen by Dorone and taken to live among the elderim, beings of immense power. Stripped of family, increasingly at odds with his own drug-altered body and mind, Amur now lives by the sea, where he hones his fighting skills and contemplates revenge against his former lover.

An age-old demon is summoned, the sacrifice is laid before him. Amidst the incantations and dark prayers, a new monster is given life. Born to seek vengeance from what has been taken from him, he will ensure every day is an absolute nightmare for the seven teenagers responsible for his cursed creation. A tale that owes debt to the classic years of monster literature and cinema, The Embalmer will prove to be the ultimate victim as well as a taker of human life. The battles, many holy, some far less, will take the listener inside the mind of the monster.

Five teenagers go on a dangerous quest. A sleepover at their friend's house. But little do they know what's ahead of them during a full moon and a foggy night. Enjoy five different stories told by actual people as they try to survive a night with their friends.

Stuart Ridge has a problem. When his bigoted father discovers he's gay, he tries to kill him. Thankfully, his mom steps in and helps him get away, but what's a 17-year-old boy supposed to do when all he's ever known is home? Eden Raleigh's got nothing left, just a guitar and a backpack with some clothes. After his parents died, it left him and his sister to fend for themselves. Now they're about to lose the family home and be on the streets. There's nothing left to do but get out while he can. However, everything changes when he meets Stuart at a bus station in the middle of nowhere.

As thievery and deceit befall the continent, a new generation of Maca leaders will rise. Daniel, the new Maca of Ishner on Thalia, struggles to right the wrongs imposed on his people for nearly 200 years. Determined to uncover the depths of the Sisterhood’s treachery, Daniel and the other young Maca of Thalia face danger, as new threats lead to a battle to save their land and people.

Don’t you have free time during the day? Do you want improve your life and be more productive? If you answered yes, this book is for you! Now I want to tell you how to remedy that. When you finish listening to this book, I can assure you that your mind will change. What do I teach you? I will help you transform any aspect of your life much faster than you can imagine; five best tips for study to have an unlimited memory; and more.

"Bloodlines Vol.1" is a captivating compilation that brings together the first five novellas of fan-favorite characters from the novel "Stanley Swanson - Breed of a Werewolf." The anthology delves into the intricate and diverse backgrounds of these characters, providing listeners with a deeper understanding of their lives and experiences.

King Arthur wanted to search for the holy grail because it gave immortality. We will never know if King Arthur existed, but, in a way, he did achieve immortality. We are still talking about him after all these years. Arthur is a historic sacred figure to many British, embodying all their aspirations of nobility, honor, and goodness. The stories of the past are connected to each other. Everything that has ever happened since the beginning of time - the stars, the constellations - have been witnessing everything.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz proposed that the universe is composed of simple monads, each individually reflecting the entirety of time and space through the unsurpassable wisdom of God. This book, meanwhile, is composed of quatrains which reflect the brevity and fragility of mere human existence and reflect the all-too ineluctable skepticism of the author.

Michael Maw collects action figures, not dolls. He doesn’t have a single doll in his collection, that is until his 15th birthday. One of Michael’s friends gives him a doll as a joke, but Michael is not going to accept a doll for his birthday. How do you get rid of a doll no one wants, with hideous skin, ugly, sharp teeth and that also seems to always follow you, no matter where you go?

Kyle has been with his aunt for days, and not a single person has been at the park. The park seems empty, but the truth is tons of people go there - during the night, when most people are sleeping. But Kyle will soon learn the truth of why everyone doesn't go to the park. Because, no one can see them!

Sound interesting? The author thinks so, too! Listen to Mermaid Melody and experience the world of underwater fantasy. This is a great story for kids.

This book is about the life of the author. It focuses on her faith, her hope, and her endurance during the years of her illness. In this true story, you will learn the how and why about the effects that changed her family’s life—the author’s Crohn’s disease, the 14 blood clots, toxic gut syndrome, colitis, tumors, ulcers, vertigo, weight gain and loss, pregnancies, the many surgeries, and how her body would not wake up after some of her surgeries.

In this updated edition, The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged, re-affirmed, and re-imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years, as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement, respectively.

For the fan of good poetry interested in the diversity of American expression. The anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body. Three sections—"Foremothers and Forefathers," "The Disability Poetics Movement," and "A Language of New Embodiment"—gather the poems and statements on poetics together in a meaningful whole.

Many behaviors keep us from closeness with the Good Shepherd. But the good news is there's transformative power in Jesus. If you are an imperfect person looking to grow spiritually, you'll want to listen to this audiobook!

African Americans have had every reason to doubt America’s democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. In The Darkened Light of Faith, Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition, which is urgently needed today.

Former Ethiopian refugee Yonas Hagos shares his amazing story about his plight in Ethiopia, his emigration to the US, and the business journey he took to become the owner of dozens of restaurant franchises. From Scrappy to Self-Made describes how Hagos beat all the odds to become the owner of more than four dozen restaurant franchises that have earned him $10 million, and counting.

Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen, reimagined and transformed to bring us news of America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The two strands in this brilliant story collection—speculative history and tender, painful depictions of Black life in urban America—are joined by African notions of circular time in which past, present, and future exist all at once.

In a small Michigan town, in the late 1950s, the widow Etta Klein—wealthy and Jewish—has for more than thirty years relied for aid, comfort, and companionship on her Black housekeeper Harriet Gibbs. Between "Aunt Harry" and Etta, a relationship has developed that is closer than a friendship, yet not quite a marriage. They are inseparable, at once absurdly unequal and defined by a comic codependence.