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Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutionary nation. Although this story has long...

From one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evolution). Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on...

In foggy Victorian London, a new kind of killer is terrorizing the Whitechapel neighborhood. He rips open his victims, steals their organs, and drains their blood completely. Police are baffled, and the poor residents of the East End are terrified to walk the streets at night. Milton Church and his friends formed the Incorrigible Lads Mystery Club to have a little fun, but now they find themselves plunged into the depths of the murder investigation. Soon enough, the task of finding the killer deemed Jack the Ripper falls on their young shoulders, endangering all of their lives. While they ...

The Gravediggers and friends thought that Ushaville had sucked all the horror out of their lives, but it looks like they find themselves in another hairy situation. They decide to buy a punk bar and go into business, but the customers look just a bit too furry. Well, that bites! As the people of New Orleans experience a change of attitude during the full moon, the Gravediggers must find an ancient, evil swamp witch, and convince her to give them the antidote. It's a howl of a scary time as the group of friends try to make the monsters sit, stay, and hopefully, roll over and play dead. Will ...

He was left to die, in the steaming jungles of Vietnam, by his commanding officer and the rest of his battalion back in 1975....they shouldn't have done that. Forty years later. Homicide Detective Iris Williams and her partner Detective, Annette Toni, are assigned to a case where the victims are left in the most bizarre manner. The killer's hiding place is somewhere in the abandoned subway tunnels under New York City. The media is calling him, The Piggyback Killer.

J. R. Miller (1840-1912) was a prolific author and pastor of Presbyterian churches in Pennsylvania and Illinois in the USA. His lasting fame is through his more than 50 books, many of them still in publication. British narrator Christopher Glyn’s clear and expressive reading brings alive the timeless truths of J.R. Miller’s teachings to a modern audience.

A few days before Christmas, a young woman was found wandering the streets of Upper Manhattan wearing only a New York Giants jersey. The young woman was sent to the local hospital, where she died. The doctors ruled the death a homicide. Detective Iris Williams and her partner Detective Annette Toni are assigned to the case. Soon after, the body of a young man is found murdered in the most macabre way, then another, and another.... Detectives Williams and Toni soon realize that the murders are like nothing they’ve ever seen before.

In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.

Three novellas to expand and enrich the world of Victorian Gothic: A Spurned Woman follows a reclusive old woman, tired of life. When she is surprised by a young mother, begging help for her stricken child, the old woman reluctantly agrees to return to the village which once wanted to burn her for witchcraft. Bedlam is set between Victorian Gothic Volumes 2 and 3.

The content in this special two-volume anthology details the many facets of aikido as it was formulated by Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969). Each chapter contributes to a piece of the aikido puzzle by providing historical details, insightful technical drills (bare handed and with weapons), and components that have flavored this art with a spiritual essence. From the Ueshiba wellspring flows a number of streams—political splinter groups offering their own take on what aikido should be and how it should be practiced. Each branch may stand on its own, but a good number of scholars and ...

Explore hidden sci-fi desires, get taken by Mothman, travel back to the myths and tales spiced up with fiery lovers. Get lost in this steamy collection and embrace the shifting magic with these sizzling stories of passion.

What if the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud was not about an alleged murder, or a stolen pig, or an elopement, but ran much deeper, to the very blood of the two families involved? Ushaville, West Virginia is like a tiny European city in the middle of the piney wilderness. Four failed punk musicians’ van breaks down in Ushaville, and as they meet people in the town, they discover Ushaville’s bloody secret. The punks group up with a faithless priest; a skeptical ghost hunter; a real, magical fairy; a weak-minded professor; a Cherokee man; and a local bartender. This ridiculous, unlikely ...

The average human has 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day—up to 41.6 thoughts a minute. That makes the brain an incredibly busy organ! The National Science Foundation estimates that 80 percent of daily thoughts are negative, and of these, 95 percent are repetitive. It’s no wonder so many of us are stuck in a cycle of negativity and rumination.

Embark on a self-discovery journey with R.J. Miller's 2-in-1 simplistic approach to DBT and CBT, blending his initial works, "What The Heck is DBT" and "What the Heck is CBT." This workbook goes beyond the typical DBT/CBT skills guides; it is a comprehensive narrative that delves into personal experiences, evoking a range of emotions while empowering you to thrive.

Can you imagine being a Registered Nurse in NYC during 9/11? Have you ever thought about what being a healthcare worker during the pandemic was like? These are just 2 of the many amazing stories you will encounter in Dare To Care. Each of the stories in this book are about either the patient or the healthcare professional. These stories demonstrate resilience. They offer hope during adversity. These stories will inspire you, the reader.These trusted authors share with the world the things they’ve seen; the laughter, the tears, the devastation, the miracles, all of it. Dare to Care is a ...

The zombies are gone, and life for the Gravediggers has become a fairy tale. Unfortunately, it’s the old-fashioned, terrifying kind! Hordes of something green and nasty have invaded New Orleans, and the Gravediggers are learning that big, bad things come in small packages. As folklore comes to life, Paul and the others find that their crappy songs are not the only earworms in town. It’s a gray matter as something whispers madness into their ears and drives them into a state of paranoia. Can a wild hunt to the land of fairies and folklore show them the way? Will they be able to satisfy ...

Stan Armstrong dedicated his entire life to science. Branded as a maverick and a risk-taker by his colleagues, his unorthodox experiments and outlandish theories of time and space resulted in loss of funding and, ultimately, his termination from tenure at the university where he’d spent his entire career. Stan’s insatiable quest to explore extreme hypotheses and to prove the unproven were matched only by his neurotic lust to peel back the mysterious layers of time and space to expose the hidden secrets of the universe.

Dead men tell no tales, but they do eat brains! Why won't the forces of evil just die and leave the Gravediggers alone? Weren't vampires and werewolves enough? Something new is arising in New Orleans, arising from the cemeteries! An ancient Voodoo curse won't let anyone rest in peace. Can the Gravediggers travel to Haiti to stop the original curse and save New Orleans from the evil horde? More importantly, will they ever find a bass player who doesn't die?

The Gravediggers made short work of the goblins, but something else is coming up from below to give them hell. Hell’s bells indeed! It’s getting awfully hot in New Orleans, and not only from the weather. Those infernal forces of evil just won’t let up, and it’s really burning through the gang’s patience. When an ancient Middle Eastern demon shows up ready for trouble, the band of misfits must find salvation, and fast. A weird cult preacher arrives on the scene, and the Gravediggers end up in India. Paul’s whisky is not the only fiery thing in his life, and when the human ...

Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders is a U.S. Navy officer who has striven to be the best even if it earns her enemies. A graduate of the Naval Academy, she is an electronic weapons officer tasked with coming up with new weapon designs. When she gets assigned to an aircraft carrier as a Navy fighter pilot's backseater, a missile attack on her plane leads to a mission to try to save the port of Los Angeles from a suspected terrorist attack. She must channel her overwhelming competitive drive in order to work as a team with other Navy personnel and the Coast Guards to find a needle in a haystack. ...