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Jack Bishop is desperate to get back to Earth. When a Krettelian slave sneaks aboard their ship and promises Jack a way home in exchange for her people’s freedom, he jumps at the offer…even if it means betraying one of the most powerful races in the galaxy. Following a secret meeting on the Mansa homeworld, Jack agrees to risk his life stealing a Solar Core for the Krettelian resistance. He sneaks on board a cargo ship chartered for a new colony, but the heist is sabotaged…and now a whole empire wants him dead. Can Jack use the Core to save humanity? Or did he just condemn it?

When Tom awakens, he is greeted by law enforcement, medical treatment, and a sense of normalcy - all the things that have been missing for the last day. What Tom doesn't know is that some nightmares are meant to be relived, and The Great Storm is far from finished.

Many researchers associate certain phenomena with episodes of high strangeness. They speak of a curious feeling that comes over the experiencer, an odd silence that falls over the area where the incident occurs and a sense of dislocation from time. In Mysteries in the Mist, author W. T. Watson proposes another marker of the paranormal … mist, fog and clouds! Ranging from cryptids to UFOs to ghosts to mysterious disappearances, Mysteries in the Mist looks at tales of high strangeness and their repeated association with mist, fog and clouds. In these pages, the reader will also encounter ...

The Earth is a husk, humanity is long extinct, and Charon has used his stolen Solar Core to harvest Proxima Delta’s star, dooming its populated system. The crew of the Adeona are divided—Jack thinks they should keep fighting, but Rogan and Brackitt just want to lay Tuner to rest in Detri. By going their separate ways, Jack gets the chance to testify before the Ministry. But their bureaucracy is almost as exhausting as the hitman sent to kill him, and time is running out. Jack and Klik are left to unravel a new conspiracy alone. Can Jack stop Charon from creating his singularity?

This volume contains four classic spiritualist works, three by W. T. Stead and one by his daughter, Estelle. William T. Stead (1849-1912) was a well-known British investigative journalist who became interested in Spiritualism in the 1890s. In 1892, through the gift of automatic writing, he began receiving spirit communications from the recently deceased American temperance reformer and newspaperwoman Julia T. Ames, describing conditions in the next world. He published her messages in Borderland, the spiritualist quarterly he founded in 1893, and later in book form under the title After ...

In a world gone mad, no one is safe. Ever since leaving the salvage yard, Noah Chambers has been plagued by the infected and hunted by the men who patrol the streets. In order to survive, he'll need to summon strength he never imagined. Will he survive?

Arriving in Wheaton, Hannah uncovers the shocking revelations of her past before falling victim to a new manner of horror. Captured and held in a deadly camp where survival means absolute submission, every moment becomes a battle against evil and time…and the resurgence of the virus. Will she and Cody survive the unforgiving landscape of a collapsed world? Or are they doomed to perish...or turn?

Cast out by humanity yet burdened with a conscience, Sheni Dupont wouldn’t say he’s found his calling in space piracy. But in the cramped and rusty halls of the ship he shares with reptilian captain Gecki, starfish pilot Xotl and the weird green enigma known only as Alan, he may have found a home. So when a loan shark threatens to repossess their ship if they don’t pay back the credits they’ve borrowed, the crew of the Silver Hart are forced to take the only job going – stealing a crystal egg from a backwater planet on the brink of cosmic destruction.

In 2001, a group of Portland, ME area theatrical professionals began creating a series of audio theatre programs: Nightmares on Congress Street, "classic horror stories to chill and thrill". These productions have all been broadcast on Maine's NPR station for the past few Halloween Eves.

Book One of the Twyla & the Warbirds saga, Family Lost, traces a difficult path for an American-Ukrainian rural girl from Boonville California. At a tender age, Twyla Campbell loses her family in a freak aeroplane accident. Her young life is salvaged from indenture by the neighbor boy, who teaches her to fly.

Suddenly the whole world found themselves in a shelter in place protocol. Everyone was forced to work from home, many being furloughed, frantically searching for new streams of income, being forced to dive into the world of an entrepreneur. And as many would find, it's a lonely world. But it doesn't have to be, if you are using the right success habits. Surviving the lonelypreneur life takes a team of resources, along with a daily action plan, and a winning mindset. Knowing how to set goals that you can actually succeed at, and finding joy and excitement in the process. It's about creating ...

Imagine Monty Python writes horror...Welcome to the wonderfully horrific world of Bizarro - that dark, forbidding corner of the horror genre where absolutely anything goes and one may delve into the farthest recesses of the authors' warped imaginations. Prepare yourself, dear listener, for a journey into the unknown reaches of terror, from which you can only hope you will return with your sanity intact...

It’s been a long school year down in sunny Somerset, Florida, and it’s only halfway over. Logan, a teacher, and his freshman son Ulysses are really looking forward to their long Christmas break together, especially after both Adairs nearly died solving the one percent murders earlier in the school year. They are both in need of a nice, relaxing family Christmas break. So they go back to their New England roots, up in Maine. It will be a classic Maine Christmas at Logan’s parents’ new Victorian bed and breakfast on a small island on the Kennebec River.

It’s always darkest before the dawn. Jack Bishop and the crew of the Adeona have left the Milky Way in search of the mysterious extroplanet known only as XO-R15. But their journey through the Stellar Abyss takes a toll. The longer they spend traversing the eldritch void, the more cracks in the team begin to grow. Mysterious frigates drifting through the unknown. Faceless shadows stalking the vents. And a dark world filled with dangers unlike anything they’ve seen before. Will Jack finally unmask the conspiracy plaguing the galaxy? Or have they made a one-way trip for nothing?

The crew of the Adeona are stranded on the extroplanet XO-R15 while the ancient Prymalis threat closes in on the cosmic community. Total galactic annihilation awaits. But even after Jack finally sends word to the Ministry, everybody’s too busy fighting each other to listen. Planets fall. Mysteries are revealed. And the crew of the Adeona starts to crumble. Can Jack unite the warring factions of the galaxy for long enough to stop the Prymalis? Or are the odds stacked too high against them?

The final book in the Ruins series! Escape at what cost? Trapped in a new horror, the survivors struggle to regain their freedom. Is there life outside, and will any of them live to see it?

When the silver mines of M-1819 suffer a catastrophic breach, Roger Hawthorn is the Compliance Officer sent to lift the orbital station’s subsequent lockdown. The company’s reclusive founder, Petar Novikov, insists that everything is under control–that by signing a few harmless documents, Roger can be on a shuttle headed back to his pregnant wife as early as tomorrow.

Having endured the battle of The Arches, the remaining survivors journey in a new direction, hoping to find salvation. Is there anything left in a dying world, or has all turned to ruins?

This is a collection of 15 essays on a variety of occult-themed topics, covering the full spectrum of classic esoteric and related subjects, which include Hermeticism, magic, ancient wisdom and philosophy, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Theosophy, spiritualism, metaphysics, and New Thought by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of those subjects.

Written and narrated by an award winning trial judge passionate about judicial education with more than 40 years of courtroom experience, this book provides the listener the collective wisdom of almost 27 years on the bench in a heartfelt and entertaining way. The plain-spoken advice helps new judges, attorneys and member of the public understand the rule of law and what it means to be a judge. Paul Luvera, a member of the National Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame, believes this book should be required listening for all trial judges.