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A true-life adventure sure to shock as well as inspire. AK47s, masked thugs, and brutal urgency erupt from Roy Hallums' account of his abduction in Iraq, shredding through those frequently sterile cable news reports revealing that another "American contractor is being held hostage . . ." Hallums...

Tim is thrilled when his parents allow his best friend, Biscuits, to come on holiday to Llanpistyll, Wales, with them. He and Biscuits are having an absolutely brilliant time eating ice cream, having picnics, and making sandcastles - until a deadly, fiendish enemy in the form of the bully Prickle-Head and his sidekick, Pinch-Face, arrive, and things begin to go wrong.

Karol Truman provides a comprehensive and enlightening resource for getting in touch with unresolved feelings which, she explains, can distort not only happiness but also health and well-being. Leaving no emotion unnamed, and in fact listing around 750 labels for feelings, Truman helps identify problem areas, and offers a "script" to help process the feelings, replacing the negative feeling with a new, positive outlook.

Nine years after a tragic accident, Hannah “Brennley” Evans has returned home to the snowy mountains of Whistler, Canada. After failing school and the death of her grandmother, the woman who raised her, Hannah is drawn back home. This is the very place that destroyed her, the reason she now goes by Hannah Jennings. Struggling with his own tragic past, Rhys Axton, an infamous sexy snowboarding champion, wants nothing more than to be the next Olympic hopeful. Sex, snowboarding, and working out are all he cares about, which helps shut off the demons that haunt him and the family who rejected him.

"Buried Alive" (1908) is a witty satire by Arnold Bennett about a shy painter. Excerpt from the book: "The peculiar angle of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic - that angle which is chiefly responsible for our geography and therefore for our history - had caused the phenomenon known in London as summer. The whizzing globe happened to have turned its most civilized face away from the sun, thus producing night in Selwood Terrace, South Kensington.

He has no name. No past. Only a number and a mission. When Agent 917 wakes in a seedy motel, his memory is gone. An encrypted phone buzzes with mission orders. A dime-sized implant pulses inside his skull, awakening violent instincts. The rules are simple. Kill the target. Go back to sleep. Programmed to eliminate evil at its source, 917 is a ghost in the system—he hunts a sadistic surgeon and a cult hiding in the heart of New York City. But with every kill, cracks appear in the wall of his artificial amnesia. A daughter. A betrayal. A choice. As his past bleeds into his present, 917 must...

His abductors forced him to a lying position in the box, placed a lid on top, jammed in four lengths of 3/4-inch plastic pipe for breathing tubes, and started shoveling in dirt to fill the hole. To cover their handiwork, they scattered some worn-out tires over the burial site. Then they drove away.

You scream, but no one hears you. The coffin swallows every sound. The soil presses down, heavy and final. Your chest burns, your arms cannot rise, your legs cannot move. Death is not a quiet sleep — it is a prison without escape. For centuries, people have feared one fate above all others: being buried alive. From ancient myths and medieval plagues to safety coffins, graveyard bells, and real-life cases of the “dead” awakening beneath the earth, this book uncovers the chilling history of premature burial. Step into the shadows of folklore, superstition, and science.

CAfter I’m Buried Alive launches the witty and adventurous Sexy @ 60 Cozy Mystery Series, where age is no barrier to reinvention—or intrigue. Vic Gardner is on the cusp of sixty, unemployed, living in her parents’ house. Despite a career in fashion photography, her latest purchase was a Target sweatshirt on sale. There is no lower point. Her loving family thinks her new career is taking care of everyone else—her parents, her nephews, the dogs. . . But when Vic gets a late-night call from her best friend Miranda, everything changes. The next day, Miranda is dead. Purportedly an ...

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

Everything on the job is going as expected. The target has been dealt with, and all that's left to do is remove the body. But a surprise is waiting for Quinn and Nate, one that completely changes their mission. Then when the client who gave them their new orders disappears, they find themselves on their own, with a human asset holding a dark secret that several parties are interested in obtaining, by force if necessary.

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold, one day at a time.” —Wall Street Journal...

Soon after witnessing the escape of violent psychopath Bobby Crayline from prison, Alabaman detective Carson Ryder takes a rare break in the mountains. But his vacation is interrupted when an anonymous phone call summons him to the scene of a grisly murder. With more savage killings, and the heavy-handed FBI only inflaming the situation, Ryder and the local detective Donna Cherry sift through the increasingly bizarre clues. Is there more than one killer on the loose?

True crime writer Dougal Lachlan swore he'd never set foot in Twisted Cedars again. Not even for his sister's upcoming wedding. But an email promising the story of a lifetime pulls him back to his hometown against his better judgement. Thirty years ago, five librarians were murdered across quiet coastal towns in Oregon, leaving a trail of unsolved mysteries. All signs point to a serial killer. As Dougal plunges into the investigation, he enlists the help of local librarian Charlotte Hammond.

This novel collects all three books of the Crawl Trilogy. Trapped underground, the seven survivors of a bomb blast find themselves fleeing from a faceless enemy down large, dark tunnels carved through the damp earth, their only source of light from their cell phones. As their numbers begin to dwindle, they begin to realize that maybe nobody is coming to save them. And maybe they aren't where they think they are. Crawl is a sci-fi horror novel. Enjoy. :)

Smith Brown is not ready to die. When he awakens six feet underground with no memory of how he got there or who put him there, his once ordinary life is violently upended into a harrowing struggle for survival. Trapped in a confined wooden coffin with only a cell phone, a lighter, and a dwindling supply of oxygen, every second ticks by like a death sentence. In this relentless, claustrophobic thriller, Brown’s only hope lies in the fleeting phone calls and the fading glow of his device.

"You'll Never Know started with a bang and never let up! Full of clever twists and turns, this book kept me glued until the last page! I even shed a tear or two." --Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid When his wife and unborn child are abducted, Grant Wilson...

Reporter Michael Brody is used to getting answers. The one that’s eluded him, though, for twenty long years is learning what happened to his brother Daniel the day his school bus disappeared. When the remains of the other children are discovered - and Daniel’s aren’t among them - a desperate Michael calls upon the sole survivor of the tragedy, Chris Jacobs, hoping he will finally break his silence.

When severe weather uncovers a grave in the forest, Trooper Johnny Lister is shocked to discover it’s the body of her long-lost uncle, Gabriel Lister, who disappeared nineteen years earlier. Now she must not only deal with her father and his spiteful family, but she also learns that the police of nineteen years earlier did not investigate Gabriel as a missing person. Now she must conduct her investigation without either groundwork or case notes to draw from. Johnny initially focuses on Gabriel’s prison sentence for drug trafficking, which his family claims was unjust. As she tracks what...