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A festive holiday party turns into a nightmare when a guest is found dead, and a snowstorm causes a blackout. PI Dean Steele dedicated a significant portion of his life to serving his country. Now, a story from one of his past missions is on the verge of becoming a TV show. He is invited to attend a Christmas party with his military buddies and some entertainment industry professionals. Soon, a snowstorm hits, and a missing guest from the party is found dead. With the police unable to reach them and another body turning up, Dean does everything in his power to take control of the situation ...

In 1957, little-known comedian and actor Andy Griffith won acclaim for his portrayal as a country drifter who uses his powers of persuasion to become a television host in A Face in the Crowd, so it was only fitting that the role helped propel him to become the face of one of America's most beloved sitcoms. The Andy Griffith Show starred Griffith and a motley crew of eccentric characters, most notably his sidekick Barney Fife (played by Don Knotts).

They came to return a package. They stayed to explore their deepest desires BELINDA I've been happily married to Ryder for years, but when a package meant for our hot neighbor gets delivered to us by mistake, everything changes. Inside is a larger version of a personal item we own, and when I catch myself fantasizing about our bearded neighbor using it, I decide to return it... with my husband in tow. RYDER I've never admitted my attraction to men, never explored the desires I've buried deep. But when Drake opens his door—shirtless, confident, and completely unfazed by us accidentally ...

People have always been afraid of the dead. Since the dawn of humanity, people have both cared for those who are deceased yet also tried to keep them away. There are a myriad of legends and beliefs about the dead coming back, and one of the more persistent ones is of the vampire.

El estudio de los evangelios apócrifos - relatos de la vida o dichos de Jesús que no entraron al Nuevo Testamento - es una disciplina popular entre los académicos que llena ya varios estantes de cualquier biblioteca respetable.

Emma Griffin is a famed FBI agent in her field. When she is called to a production set to investigate several missing actors and actresses, an oppressive, venomous tension greets her upon arrival. With multiple suspects and countless conflicts in play, both the film and the case have turned into a nonstop action-packed drama, laced with nuclear-level toxicity. While the independent director loses his marbles at every turn, the rest of the crew seems to have too many screws loose.

I signed on to map the unknown, not to die in it. As an Omega cartographer, I joined a Syrix explorer’s crew to chart the unmarked edges of the Veil—a nebula so dense it eats ships whole. The Alpha captain is brilliant, arrogant, and entirely too calm when everything goes to hell. One wrong jump. One silent predator. One ship torn open like aluminum foil. Now it’s just the two of us, stranded in the hollow of an ancient alien ruin that’s somehow still alive. Its walls hum. The air shimmers. Our pheromones spike every time the lights pulse. He’s trying to keep me focused on ...

FBI Agent Emma Griffin has had to overcome many obstacles throughout her life to get to her happily ever after. But somehow, death and destruction always loomed over her shoulders. When she is asked by her neighbor Paul to find Sydney Parker, a girl who has gone missing from a nearby college, Emma jumps on the case. On the surface, Sydney seems like a high-achiever. A good student, a good daughter, and a girl who champions for mental health awareness. So, what could have possibly happened to cause her to vanish from her apartment?

I woke up in a forest without any memories. Without warning, I'm thrust before the Fae King of Silverhold, and he's demanding answers. But I’m a blank slate, and my own identity remains elusive. His anger is palpable because I've trespassed on his land. But I have no recollection of how I ended up there. The king is wary of strangers and won't set me free before he learns who I am. But despite the king's icy exterior, he's dangerously seductive, and I'm drawn to his irresistible power. Soon, our primal attraction becomes impossible to resist. Glimmers of my past resurface—a history ...

I had a one-night stand with my ex’s brother. Now I’m living with him and carrying his baby. Joshua Blackwood is the one man I swore off forever. My ex’s brother. Grumpy, tattooed, and off-limits. But a storm, a kiss, and one reckless night change everything. Now he’s the only place I can go when my home falls apart. Living with him is torture. Every brush of his hand, every heated look, every secret photo he thought I’d never find— They break down the walls I swore to keep up. I shouldn’t want him. But I do. And worse? He falls first. Then two pink lines shatter the fragile ...

From the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.

The Liberian Civil Wars examines the incredibly deadly conflicts in the West African region, and how they changed the nation. You will learn about the the wars and Liberia's transition like never before....

“Scotch-Irish” is an American term that became popular in the latter 1800s, referring to the largely Protestant immigrants to the United States originating in the northern Irish province of Ulster. The majority of Scotch-Irish were people intentionally settled in Ulster as a counter to the native Catholic Irish, who immigrated to Ulster from the lowlands of Scotland and the borderlands between England and Scotland.

Halfway into the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one, but two golden eras - the Renaixença and the Industrial Revolution. It was during this explosive period of creativity, thriving prosperity, and invigorated patriotism that a steadfastly nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon was born, one that was about to take Catalonia by storm with his brilliant eye for unorthodox art and his legendary - or as some would say, notoriously - out-of-the-box ideas.

The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th century for good reason. The war with the Third Reich involved an unseen cloak-and-dagger struggle between the participants, but beyond that, an even larger and longer contest took place in the shadows. The men responsible for this unprecedented leaking of life-or-death information would enter history as the Cambridge Five - though in fact, they may have been only the core of a much larger group.

Don't tell a soul, but I walked away from my NHL career for one reason: Josie Richards. Fifteen years younger, yet she owns me in ways no one could understand. She's my enemy on ice—a figure skating ice queen with a rebellious streak that makes more than my palm twitch. But after her ice skating accident, she's broken. Fear controls her now, and I'm done watching her drawn in it. I'm her new coach—on and off the ice—and I'll drag her back to the top if it's the last thing I do. What didn't I expect? Knocking her up. I thought raising my niece prepared me for fatherhood.

Patagonia is in the southernmost region of South America, comprising about 400,000 square miles going from the Colorado River in the north to the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in the south. Longitudinally, it covers the whole continental soil, going from the Atlantic shore to the Pacific’s waters, including a few islands near the coast, part of the South American plate.

On the outskirts of the remote town of Sherwood, everyone is abuzz about the big glamorous new mall that is soon to open. To add fuel to the excitement, some lucky shoppers will be able to spend the night at the Village Square Mall before its grand opening. As the malls' doors are being locked shut, a wickedly rad party is about to commence.

I thought the worst part of a blackout was waking up in a strange place. Turns out waking up next to a dead woman is far worse… Memory lapses have plagued PI Dean Steele since childhood. This time when he opens his eyes, there's a woman lying nearby. A woman he doesn't recognize. As Dean tries to determine how he ended up in the woods next to a dead body, he attempts to piece together the things he remembers. But the situation takes a bewildering turn when the dead woman’s body disappears from the scene. Someone doesn't want Dean uncovering secrets, and things get even more heated when ...

Gnosticism is one of the great mysteries in the history of Western religion. At its core is an ancient Greek word, gnosis, a word prominent in the writings of Plato which refers to a deep personal knowledge or understanding that often transcends the physical world. The Gnostics painted a picture of a fallen, broken world in which physicality was a product of a lesser deity. This deity was created in defiance of the One and in order to trap humans and blind them to the truths of their predicament and divine origins.