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Back in 1979, when Solomon Zuch and Delphyne Shea were in high school, they shared an intense, romantic liaison on Halloween night. It became one of Solomon's most treasured memories. Twenty years later, Solomon is the married manager of the All Hallows' Eve Shoppe, a pop-up store that reopens every year to sell Halloween supplies to customers in north Columbus, Ohio. Delphyne Shadow, as she is now popularly known, calls herself the Madonna of the Underworld, and every year she hosts the most infamous Halloween party in town, the Nightmare Bash.

Exiled from his homeland, Cor’il Silvermoon was left to roam without direction. Bestowed with unimaginable power by the awakening Threads, he struggles to understand his purpose. But when he discovers that terrible forces are tearing the Realm asunder, Cor’il realizes that no one can withstand the storm alone. Forced to confront the mythical monsters that pillage the land, he faces a Realm that has become much deadlier, encountering new friends, dangerous enemies, and impossible challenges.

Christmas Everywhere takes you on an amazing Christmas journey. Our story travels around the world looking at how different countries and cultures celebrate Christmas. Did you think that everyone celebrates the same way you do? While some themes at Christmas such as family, generosity and celebration are constant, the way people enjoy Christmas across the globe can be very different

The causes of affairs illuminate the path of recovery and prevention. Affairs don’t happen in a vacuum. The decision to cheat is not a simple impulse. Most of the time, the decision represents the cumulative effects of many factors that have been either hidden or ignored. Our lack of knowledge about the causes of affairs is the leading cause of our failure to recover from them. This book offers the listener an in-depth understating of the individual, relationship, and environmental causes of infidelity.

Three Brothers from Virginia tells the tale of Matt and his two enslaved brothers, Paul and Luke, who thrive upon their insulated Virginia farm until the Civil War forces them to stare into the face of a reality they so long eluded. As Paul flees to New York, Matt joins the Confederate army, and Luke remains a slave, the brothers are thrown into sweeping battles, riots, and a cloud of enmity, their values and lives tested by a festering intolerance that threatens the only truth they ever knew.

The Fate of Eleven Universes Rest in the Hands of a Hapless Trucker who Can’t Read a Map… Eleventh World is widely considered the largest waste of magic and technology ever perpetrated by a governing body. We call it Earth. Humanity? We’re a bad joke told only in posh backrooms by the raunchiest politicians. Even so, when villainous forces threaten to destroy our universe, the beings profiting off Eleventh World take notice. They summon their best cybernetic dwarf problem solver to find the bomb and save the day.

Think Die Hard with a Dadbod—a writer on an isolated farm sees his retreat interrupted by rekindled romance and a gang of thrill-killers.

Emmerson Ross has been a good girl all year, and Santa is sure to deliver the best gift this holiday—a promotion at her dream job. Everything is going her way until her father’s accident forces her to return home. Home is the last place she wants to be. You can’t hide from your past in a small town.

When the doors to the North Columbus Wow-Mart open at midnight on Black Friday, ringing in the “Wowzathon” event of the century, chaos breaks out. A rampaging mob threatens to tear the store apart. Santa Claus is drunk, and a washed-up Halloween diva takes his place. The store manager’s daughter disappears. A turkey breaks loose. The security guards go into hiding.

In the novel A Democracy in Heaven, the four Americans making an interstellar journey to collect botanical samples from exoplanets beyond the Solar System discover a remarkably Earth-like world orbiting KW Sagittarii—Earth-like, with one crucial difference: The planet is populated exclusively by albinos, and they've never seen a person of the Black race—the race to which the head pilot of the interstellar ship, the Obama I, belongs.

Why is a black cat haunting the New York Mets? Kate and Mike arrive in New York for a big game against the Chicago Cubs, but Cookie, the team’s star hitter, is rattled by a phantom feline. Without a win at that night’s game, the Mets’ season might be over.

A family joins the cult of a subterranean god. A demon invades a classroom. A married couple experiences the terror of nuclear annihilation. A rookie police officer solves a decades-old mystery.

In part two of the trilogy, Yadel travels through Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present as he and Yoshen struggle to market their new Hanukkah holiday and fight off Simon and his zealots in ancient Rome. With humor, love, and nail-biting drama, the adventures of Yadel, Yoshen, and Clausius continue where part one left off, bringing listeners into the origins of Judaism and Christianity little known to most, the wars and struggles that shaped both faiths, and the fictional flare of time travel.

Elliot longs for a story that excites him. After waking to find one at his doorstep, he must choose between answering a mysterious call for help, or staying in to battle the blank page. He soon realizes the adventure may entangle him in a web of manipulation and high-stakes games of risk and ruin.

Genetic Engineering and cloning leads to the development of a popular exotic pet business. However, some exotics are very limited and tightly controlled due to their dangerous nature. This just leads those who want one to take the risk and look outside official channels and go into the Long Grass to find the animal they want. But is it really worth the risk to own a velociraptor as a pet?

Harry Ellis was a janitor. Everyone thought he was a bit strange. He spoke in nonsensical words and talked to his mop. The teachers at Rutherford Bacon Elementary School were about to find out the truth.

You have never seen a book like this before. No such book exists, and I felt, from my unique perspective with many colorful experiences, it was my duty to create it. I hope this book helps young men to make good choices and stay safe. The nightclub and house party scene is not only dangerous, but incredibly toxic. Many women are mentally unbalanced, some very much so. I have suffered many hard lessons over the years and experienced my fair share of trauma as a result. By sharing my stories, I'm hoping you may be able to avoid poor decisions I've made in the past.

We understand that not all doctors are insensitive assholes. Some of them are wonderful empathetic human beings who want to help people. We love those medical professionals! Let's make more of those in medical school. Our goal with this book is to illustrate what needs to change in the medical field to make doctors more sensitive to what patients are going through.

Travel Tales: The African Safari Reader is a collection of African wildlife safari stories, including some very scary tales of coming close to possible danger with wild animals in your African travels, but fortunately managing to just escape unscathed. This book includes lots of tales of close calls and lucky escapes by travelers, with lions, snakes, hippos, elephants, Cape buffalos, crocodiles, baboons, hyenas, and more. I hope dangerous African wildlife encounters do not happen to you, but if they do, I hope you manage to escape and overcome them.

Pam and Emily are two sisters who live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Emily is a born investigator and is notorious for eavesdropping on conversations she hears on the streets of New York City. One Saturday, the sisters happen to overhear two gangsters planning the murder of millionaire Alan Norman McBride. They decide it is their duty to warn McBride and stop the murderers in their tracks!