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Interwoven with legends and lore, this story chronicles one man's adventure on Lake Superior, one of the world's most dangerous bodies of water.

Speed reading can be described as any of several methods used to improve your ability to read faster. Both psychologists and educational experts working on visual acuity concluded that, with a certain amount of training, an average individual could easily identify minute images displayed quickly on a screen for just 1/500th of a second. You too can take advantage of this skill which can be learned easily with the tips in this book. So let's get started!

There are millions of people today suffering from alcoholism, but most don't seek help because of the stigma associated with the disease. They also don't know who to turn to for help. How to Control Alcoholism is a book meant to help you identify, control, and overcome alcoholism. By knowing what your alcohol triggers are, the many excuses you use for drinking and the options you have for alcohol treatment, you can better understand what's happening.

Are you sick of turning your home upside down just to find something? Are there places in your house you're too ashamed to show friends or guests? Are you losing the war against clutter in your home? It's time you do something about it. Clutter is sneaky. If left to go on, it will consume your home and your life. What's more, instead of experiencing the joy of less, you experience damaging stress instead. But it doesn't have to stay that way. To beat clutter for good, it's not enough to just clean up.

After the march on the Vatican by the Islamic State, the radical group begins its push deeper into the European and American Fronts. But when the True Cross - the wooden remnants of the cross Jesus was crucified upon and the holiest of all relics - is stolen from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by the Islamic State, it becomes clear that the relic is to be bartered to an arms dealer for weapons so devastating that Europe and the United States could be rocked to their very foundations.

Pirates on a treasure hunt. An ancient weapon lost long ago. Only these two can save the Overworld. Trish never saw herself as a hero. She lives in a quiet village and spends most of her time happily crafting. But when a gang of pirates throws her life upside down while searching for a legendary weapon called the Blade of the Sea, she ventures outside of the safety of her village to find it before they do.

As a guest, Dr. Watson is observing the induction services of The League of Mendacious Men. To gain admission to the exclusive club a prospective member must tell an original tall tale. The evening begins pleasantly and ends in a violent tragedy. Sherlock Holmes navigates a tale of murder whose solution is lost amid a sea of lies.

In The Rising Minister, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves matching wits with a poisoner. The lives of everyone in the house of Mr. Clive Brown, at present a junior minister in the government, are at risk. Can Sherlock Holmes discover the identity of the killer before the culprit strikes again?

For millennia, they have stared through the invisible force separating their world from ours, and grew hungry. Now, they've found a way through. Darkness from their side swallows our skies, their diseases eat through our human bodies, leaving behind soulless husks... and worse. Only two things can save us: a mysterious power locked in a small chest covered with undecipherable glyphs, and the seven-year-old girl it chose as its protector.

The pirate federation has tracked down the Blade of the Sea, and it's time for a final reckoning. Now that Trish and Patrick have formed a team of warriors, it's time to find the Temple of Kunesh and protect the legendary land of creativity and ultimate power. Will they be able to stand up against the powers of Captain Blackheart and her feared crew of pirates? When put to the test against the Ender Dragon, will they abandon all hope and flee, or step up to the challenge in order to save the world?

General Compton, known as the Viking general, is found dead in his study at his country estate. Dr. Watson is first on the scene and calls in his friend, Sherlock Holmes, to solve the complex case. A suspect confesses, but Holmes has his doubts. His investigation has shattering results for all concerned.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a bizarre murder scene on a lonely lane on the outskirts of London. A beautiful young woman has been killed, and it is up to Holmes to solve the crime. Dr. Watson dutifully chronicles Holmes's powers of deduction, which lead to the triumphant conclusion of the case. The Sherlock Holmes Uncovered Tales are a series of original stories based upon the immortal characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes relates a story from his earliest days before Dr. Watson had become his friend and chronicler. In this tale Holmes is drawn to Hardwick Hall in the south of England, which has an eerie sobriquet: The Spider Web. The young detective matches wits with a wily and dangerous criminal. Holmes first demonstrates the skills that would do him in good stead in the future. The Sherlock Holmes Uncovered Tales are a series of original stories based upon the immortal characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has gone hideously wrong. Divine manifestations have become commonplace, the fundamental laws of physics are mutating, and only a young Hungarian grad student understands what has happened. This short story is a 2013 AML Award winner.

Matt's story jumps ahead to 1971, where his 21-year-old son, Clay, joins him in the family business. Matt and Clay are off to a rousing start as they are hired by an underworld figure to help him surrender to the authorities, because he's afraid he'll be killed before he gets to say his piece in court. Clay's going to learn the hard way that the job is not as easy as he thought it might be. Murder is never easy.

Hidden temple and secret passages. Mystical ninja guardians. A wolf that means business. Trish and Patrick are committed now. The only problem is they're after a legendary temple that may not even exist. When they pursue a strange man into an underground cavern, they discover instead a clan of ninja guardians who will stop at nothing to see that the two never leave to reveal their location. But when pirates arrive, the struggle goes from simple survival to all-out war.

Growing up with a sheltering mother and a belligerent father, Kimball Hayden's young life goes from one of innocence to the depths of chaos. When a vicious syndicate of murderers and extortionists begin to run the streets, Kimball soon becomes the focal point of their attention. His family is placed within the crosshairs, friends go missing or are found dead, all messages from the Gangster Prince. But when Kimball's world shatters and he grieves a great loss, the sleeping giant within him awakens.

In Niger, a coup that is staged and funded by ISIL puts a vicious leader in command. People are summarily slaughtered, the government is in shambles, and a terrorist regime rules with impunity. But deep inside the sublevel of a defunct hospital is the key to annihilation. It is a secret known only to the members of the ISIL regime and the Iran Ministry of Intelligence. The world is impotent to respond, and there seems to be no counteroffensive to stop the rogue efforts that could bring the world to its knees.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson become involved in a case that begins with blackmail and then takes a horrifying turn. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard calls in Holmes for assistance in this baffling mystery. The case of The Iron Dog requires all of the deduction skills that Holmes can conjure as he weaves through deceit and murder. Dr. Watson is there to catalogue all the action in this new thriller.

Oliver Webber has a secret. In fact, his family has been the keepers of this secret for thousands of years. What he doesn't know is that the ancient evil that his family has guarded has just been loosed, and Oliver is the only person on earth that can stop it. People everywhere are disappearing, an evil madman dead-set on ripping the very fabric of our existence, and a demon possessed civil war general seeking revenge, set the Mississippi Delta on the edge of annihilation.