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Olivia is taken from the sidewalk near her college and thrown into a van. Her captors, who she soon discovers are vile, sadistic monsters, abuse her immediately, both mentally and physically. Then she is taken into a house, into a locked room, where everything is cotton candy pink. The pink furniture is designed with rounded edges and corners bolted to the floor, and the seams at the bolts melted. This is where the nightmare begins. She is now a part of their collection.

Blending expert insight, practical advice, and anatomically accurate fart jokes, Sackier, Hunt, and Guest explain everything about diverticulosis and diverticulitis—and how to stop these colonic miscreants from affecting you, including: How digestion works – and what to do when it doesn’t. How to avoid ending up with a designer colostomy bag. What Joseph Pujole (pronounced poo-hole) a 19th-century French farting performer can teach you.

For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and best-selling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission accomplished.

Tens of millions of Americans owe a combined $1.5 trillion in debt for student loans. Much of this staggering expense has been unnecessary. Attending college is more of a tradition - a cultural rite of passage - than a necessary step toward a successful career, thus not justifying its steep cost. As countless entrepreneurs and creative hustlers have shown, there is a path to success outside of the institutions of so-called higher learning.

New York Times best-selling author and legendary political insider Roger Stone lashes out with a blistering indictment that exposes the true history and monumental hypocrisy of the Bushes. In his usual "go for the jugular" style, Stone collaborates with Saint John Hunt - author, musician, and son of legendary CIA operative E. Howard Hunt - to make this a "no-holds-barred" history of the Bush family.

Charles Knight returns to the United States after seven years traveling the world. He embarks on two concurrent professions: one as a major investor in a small pharmaceutical company, and the other as the head of a black market drug-smuggling and distribution operation. Charles has to sort through the legal and illegal, moral and immoral, and right and wrong as he navigates the war on drugs and the crony pharmaceutical industry.

Charles Knight is released from an especially unpleasant stay in prison, only to rejoin a society overwhelmed by looting, riots, arson, viral panic, mob-think, and economic decay, with a presidential election in the balance. The cronies are in charge, abetted by their media lackeys and political puppets. They’ll do anything to get what they want.

AMERICAN GUNFIGHT is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event–the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in November of 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C...

The greatest gold discovery in history draws a young Charles Knight to West Africa, where he unearths deception, violence, and romance. Xander Winn - a Dutchman on his own mission - mentors Charles on his voyage into the world of speculation and African politics. But a psychopathic rebel leader, the purveyors of a six-billion-dollar fraud, a team of mercenaries bent on early retirement, and the US government all get in his way. Everyone wants him dead. But Charles plans to strike it rich.

Graham Richards was shopping with his family at an outlet mall when an active shooter began indiscriminately murdering people with a rifle. Graham was shot in the face and when he woke up in the hospital, his family was dead. And now, all he wants is to be left alone. Living out in the woods, growing his own food, and using solar power for his energy needs, he hopes to live the rest of his life in obscurity.

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more...

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of “the scene” in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry...

Jack Harris, a 19-year-old Chicago native, is struggling with the universal question asked by all teenage boys- what will he do with his life? Jack never met his father, which further complicated his dilemma. His mom, Shelly, raised him the best she knew but remained mysteriously silent about his father. On his thirteenth birthday, Shelly presented Jack with an old leather-bound journal filled with hand-written entries on the timeworn pages. She didn't say where she got the book, only that it belonged to a man named Farley Hayes. This journal kept by a mysterious Nebraskan became Jack's ...

A cabin in the woods hides a deadly secret from a pair of criminals on the run. Play time takes a demonic turn when a child discovers a hellish portal in the snow-covered playground. And a satanic cult turns a family vacation into a living nightmare.... Take a trip into the netherworld with Scare Street’s latest collection of diabolical horror. Fourteen terrifying tales lurk within this new volume - more than enough to keep you occupied as you voyage deep into the shadows.

A common assumption about investors is that they don't care who wins as long as they're making money. For some investors, this mindset still rings true. Yet, many investors today want to make money and do good. Using a user-friendly format and insights from noted investment professionals, Sustainable Investing: What Everyone Needs to Know demystifies sustainable investing. By covering everything from the changing investment landscape and the roles of social and religious values in finance to how to build a portfolio with purpose, the authors provide an essential introduction.

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the first Americans? Young Mattie McKennon, spunky and curious, was starting her married life in the unsettled Nebraska Sandhills. Her husband, the local sheriff, spent his time chasing cattle rustlers, leaving her often to fend for herself in this solitary expanse. Then one lonely night, the full moon whisked her away to an earlier place and time. Mattie finds herself under the charge of a Pawnee man, who mistakes her for an Apache girl. The unlikely pair set off on a two-hundred-mile journey upriver to a mysterious destination. Along the way, ...

Kyle didn't like being told what to do. When his brother demanded that he get himself a home right now - no stopping, no passing "go", and no collecting 200 dollars - the order didn't sit well with him. So, he stopped at a bar in an unknown town. He met a girl. They drank, left, did drugs together, and when he awoke in the morning, her decapitated head lay in his lap.

Salutations! Pod Mortem is a horror podcast dedicated to bringing you scene-by-scene horror film reviews with healthy doses of trivia, commentary and yuks. Join Reneé, John Paul and Travis as they bring you varying points of view on contemporary, classic and cult horror films every Monday!

In John Hunter’s classroom, students fearlessly tackle global problems and discover surprising solutions by playing his groundbreaking World Peace Game. These kids - from high school all the way down to fourth grade, in schools both well funded and underresourced - take on the roles of politicians, tribal leaders, diplomats, bankers, and military commanders. Through battles and negotiations, standoffs and summits, they strive to resolve dozens of complex, seemingly intractable real-world challenges.

Coffin Blossoms. A reminder that hope does spring eternal. In death itself, there is often beauty, life, and on rare occasions, even humor. The 24 stories in this anthology straddle the line between humor and horror in unique ways. Some wearing a wry smile. Others with tongue firmly in cheek. Ghosts, demons, vampires, myths, monsters, and murderers turned on their heads and shaken ‘til dizzy, then presented for you here, in Coffin Blossoms....