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In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital centre of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America—addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. 

From the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair. 

My career as a firefighter/paramedic stretched from 1974 to 2000 when were inventing EMS as we went along. These are stories from those years on the street. That place I named so long ago, the other reality that exists just outside most people’s everyday lives. It is a place that seems to exist parallel to the normal workaday existence: yet it is only a car accident or cardiac away for any of us. It manifested itself in brushfires, house fires, shootings, stabbings, hangings, accidents with injuries, cardiacs, codes, drownings, and a thousand other emergencies.

Join Jackson Arthur in calling out the strange, unnerving, and terrifying in these and other haunting tales. During a power outage, phantoms from the past return to carry out primitive vendettas. When a lonely boy loses his new best friend, fear and anguish pierce the veil between life and death. A bad trip results in a visit by not-so-funny clowns. Can a mourning father save his lost boy at a deserted cabin in the woods?

Some art takes on a life of its own. A beautiful house. A loving family. Two kids, a dog, and a tenure-track professorship teaching art at the local university. Dan Rineheart is living the dream. But all dreams must end. When an anonymous painting arrives at the university, Dan is tasked with uncovering the artist. No title. No name. No signature or frame. It’s a disturbing work of grotesque perfection. A work of art...that changes with each viewing. So begins the nightmare. Where painted clocks tick-tock in the dark hours before dawn.

It’s the '60s: a time of war and revolution. It is a time of demonstrations and riots. The nation is tearing itself apart. Robbie Doyle's life, too, is in chaos. Robbie's father had died suddenly. He and his mother had moved to Florida, and now he was lost in a new school and town. Then the day Kennedy was shot, he would meet people that would define his next years: Samatha (Sam) and Nick, both from the wrong side of things. Civil rights, Vietnam, and the draft would change them all. The one place he found peace was surfing at 29th Street South. 

Mitch Herron has left his past behind. With his evil masters destroyed, he’s found peace in the South Pacific. But when he’s drawn out of the shadows, Herron is snared in a deadly trap. Herron soon discovers that the threats he now faces have one common motivation, putting him on a collision course with a new player seeking to spread chaos in his new backyard. 

One shot to stop an empire. Mitch Herron has a bullet in his gut and a cell to call home. But when a problem arises that only Herron’s unique brand of carnage can solve, he’s put to work for his captor in return for the chance to keep breathing. As he plays his part in a gambit that will kill thousands and enslave millions, Herron baulks when the mission gets personal. But extracting himself from this mess will mean defying an empire. If he fails, there’s a hole with his name on it.

Something strange is happening in Cleveland. Peaceful, law-abiding citizens are turning into violent criminals. Homicide detective Noah Wright isn’t willing to accept the incidents may be supernatural in nature…until he comes face-to-face with the True Self, a dark elemental determined to blanket the world in darkness. Can Project Specter stop the force in time, or will all secrets be revealed? 

Meet Caitlyn Grey. She can blink, separating her mind from her body. She should be a hero. Instead, she’s on the run, on the far side of the world. Because what hunts her is an agency like no other. From the devices in our pockets to the media that shapes our perception, the Foundation has access to everything…and answers to no one. Except Agent Michaels, an eccentric investigator who once walked its shadowy halls. Alone, they won’t stand a chance. Together, they might have a shot at stopping an unthinkable new weapon, one that will shatter the very fabric of our world.

When their best friend is murdered, Angela begs Slater to take the case. Maggie, the little sister he barely remembers, offers to help. It turns out the feisty redhead is one hell of an investigator. As their feelings turn romantic, Maggie and Slater follow a trail of deception and murder, hoping to prove their dead friend innocent of what they fear most. No one is safe, and the men involved will stop at nothing to cover their tracks - tracks that will lead the pair into the bleak world of human trafficking and expose the darkest secrets of Point Road and the Jeffries family.

Retirement sounded so good. When Mitch Herron’s plans go up in flames, he hunts down the crime cartel responsible, but his simple quest for vengeance soon twists into an unpredictable and deadly game. With his future and his identity on the line, Herron is forced to deal with old friends and new enemies down the barrel of a gun. Yet, none of them were ready for the most deadly player of them all - Herron himself.

When Tommy's Uncle Willy gives he and his wife three hundred dollars to help them out, both Tommy and Tina know it's more than just a gift. But what does Tommy's uncle want in return?

Driven is a candid and entertaining personal story taking the listener through the little known world of the stuntman. Forty-five years of memories offer a fascinating look that chronicles the rise of a stuntman turned director. With behind-the-scenes tales from such films as Predator, The Warriors, Rollerball, and James Bond, listeners will experience the sheer determination it takes to maintain a career as a stuntman and climb the ranks of the film industry to become a director.

Meet Caitlyn Grey: 26, agoraphobic, and blind. She travels the world without leaving home. Caitlyn can blink - sending her mind across earth. It’s a skill she’s kept hidden, one she shares with this killer. To the police, it’s the impossible: How could a blind woman see a crime that didn’t leave prints? But to Michaels, it’s just the break his investigation needs. He’s uncovered a pattern among the dead doctors, scientists, and professors - a connection to a Cold War experiment that weaponized the mind. 

This is the second collection of stories from Justin M. Johnson.

The Windsors face a choice no parent should ever have to face. Unfortunately, the decision is not theirs to make....

The Mid-Metro Bridge is known by just one moniker nowadays: The Bridge. And everyone knows it. It's the place where people go to jump. But the Mayor has other ideas. Will it be enough? Or will it be too much?

This an audiobook about cancer, and how I dealt with it. Most is a diary, with some added comments.

A class trip gone wrong.It began as just a normal trip abroad with some friends. But, in a foreign country, with no idea how things work, Steve makes a mistake that has dire consequences.Justin Johnson is an Amazon.com best-selling author. This is the eighth story in his new project, Ten Thousand Words or Less!