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Beware of the night, for it shows no mercy. Anxieties run rampant as the last sprinklings of light twinkle out on the inky horizon. The shadows dance their choreography in the damp, dusky air. Night is taking over, and it knows how to keep a dark and deadly secret, for it allows no witnesses. And that screaming you hear nearby? Watch out, because you might be next. The Sinister Supernatural Stories series brings you delicious horror that focuses on elements of the supernatural. Pull up a chair and dig in, but never after dark—everyone knows bad things always happen after dark.

One year ago, Amara vanished. No clues. No note. Just a brother who never stopped searching. Seth never believed the police report. Not after she told him about dreams that felt too real, or the fear he saw in her eyes. Now, a year later, the trail leads him back to the forest... and into another world. A place where the ocean burns skin to steam, and factions rule by blood and power. Here, Seth wakes up in a body that isn’t his, wielding abilities no one can explain. To the people here, he’s someone important, someone who could turn the tide of a brutal war. But Seth didn’t come to fight.

Fleeing an abusive relationship, Ellie Carson suddenly finds herself in The Unworld; a peculiar in-between, mimicking our reality. A place with infinite entrances for those who aren’t looking. A strange realm filled with forgotten things, people, and beings that shouldn’t exist. The underside of the cross-stitching of time, never seen and all binding. The way out is always shifting, and may not exist at all.

David Boone, a man with a perfect life, a nice house, a beautiful wife, and a beloved dog. With the house to himself for a week, David is thrilled to have time to pursue his dreams of becoming a successful writer. But as the hours tick by in his dark and empty home, solitude begins to feel suffocating and his grip on reality starts to slip. Suddenly plagued by nightmarish visions and hallucinations, David begins to wonder just how much of what he is seeing is only his imagination. Would you even know if you were losing your mind?

A Breakthrough Idea Explained Like Never Before. If you've ever wondered what motivates people, how to influence others, and how to unlock optimal potential, this book is your key. In Narrative Wins!, Joe Caruso and his coauthors (R. Curtis Bristol, MD and Shawn Mahoney, PhD) illuminate the powerful concept of narrative—the hidden force behind every decision we make. The stories we believe about ourselves, our work, and our worlds silently but powerfully determine what we see, what we ignore, and how we act.

Caught in a blizzard, a handcart company desperately needs help, food, and supplies. They will send ahead three men to seek assistance at an old army fort, only to discover that the fort is not only abandoned, but also locked from the inside. Through an unfortunate accident, one of the men becomes injured, requiring them to stay at the old fort. Over time, they will piece together the horrendous history of this place and discover that all is not as it appears to be.

Condemned by day to the dark side of red, a lonely, magically talented, and horribly breathtaking vampire spends his nights slipping over the veil. There, he revels in terrorizing young adults to their deaths. But for one girl, who's melted his heart: Emily Hunts. But when the world threatens to take her away, when he learns of her true loyalties, his mask is unveiled, and he must take her to the other side of red.

For almost six centuries the First Unified Imperial Combine has ruled the Orion arm of the galaxy in the name of Earth. But things are about to go horribly, horribly wrong. All alone at the very edge of human territory, a clandestine Imperial facility has fallen silent for reasons unknown, and special operative Elm Caden has been tasked by the Empress herself to find out why. All Caden wants is a straightforward mission with a simple conclusion; what he finds is a woman whose mind is missing.

In the opening flashback, an imaginary African American actor named Albert (Bert) Brown, dressed as a railroad porter, sets up the story. The twin protagonists are a famous New York actress, Anna Carroll (prefers Annie), who is dedicated to seeking revenge for the civil war death of her father, and the man who caused that death, a railroad construction engineer from Georgia named Wade Clay.

David’s mother discusses David’s emotional alienation with his history teacher (an African American woman with special abilities and a magical cat, Halloween) and wishes that he would go back to being the loving, giving boy he once was. She makes that wish come true using a wooden button ring (a wishing ring) and Halloween. That afternoon during the ball game, David gets knocked out. He wakes up in the powder magazine at Fort Sumter and learns the year is now 1861. He’s been wished back in time.

Ladies, the book you are about to listen to is a compilation of the reflections of men. This piece of literary gold is for your benefit. Man Square was created to give women an accurate assessment of most men's basic requirements for a long and fulfilling relationship. A square has four equal sides; a man has four equally important requirements.

Set in the racially turbulent '60s, Davids Valley is a drama overlain with magical realism. A self-isolated, disaffected young resident surgeon, Dr. John David III, is pushed by Esther Freeman, an African American ghost, to visit his stroke-crippled and dying mother, Alice David, in Davids Valley, Oklahoma, John’s hometown, which was founded by his grandfather. After a prolonged absence, at home John discovers he has a son, Sonny, by the strong-willed, independent Native American woman, Betsy Guy, whom he has left behind.

Willow Burrow: the most isolated town in America. A small mining town tucked away against the base of the mountains in the upper reaches of the United States. After a cave-in at the mine reveals a previously undiscovered underground chamber, something is awoken from an ancient slumber. Cut off and being closed in on, the people of Willow Burrow will have to fight for their lives against the thing that has been stirred from the depths.

Restoration of Wood is a comedy set in Austin. Howard Goodson Woodley, whom everybody calls Wood, is a self-absorbed Anglo divorce lawyer in a law firm started by his grandfather, a three-time governor of Texas.

A Football Story, set in football-crazed Dallas, Texas, is an action-filled drama told with dark humor. The story begins on Christmas Eve, 1988, with Burl Ives singing “Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas” and immediately flashes back six weeks as Matt Story, a young, undermotivated NCAA infractions officer, accompanies his boss, Dick Brotherman, to view a routine post-probation compliance signing at a football powerhouse, Texas Methodist University.

Christmas Angel is a collection of memories of three events in the life of a retired surgeon, a man who is self-admittedly not perfect and who has not always been religious. A grumpy sort of a fellow who blames his personality defects on his genetics, as do most of us who are well-educated enough to appreciate the value using DNA as an alibi.

A young ranger recon sergeant major, Danny McCarty, returns home following the apparent suicide death of his father. What Danny doesn’t know is that he’s being recruited by his aunt’s Forty Two club for his military and outdoorsman skills to root out his dad’s real killer and bring them to justice. A series of encounters follows wherein Danny goes to jail, breaks out, goes back in, and breaks out again. Between escapes, he wins a football game, blows up the mine with a homemade bomb, and has several confrontations with his brother, his girlfriend, and three persistent thugs.

Once in a Blue Moon, intended for all ages, is the magically realistic story of the Rainwater family and their island in the middle of Good Bear Lake below Shadow Mountain in Colorado. Gabriel Rainwater is the family patriarch and Chris is his 20-year-old grandson. The Rainwaters are members of a clan of superhumans known as Rangers, whose mission is to escort human spirits into and out of this world, and Gabriel is their head man.

A gang of roaming gunslingers down on their luck cross paths with a mysterious one-eyed preacher. When the priest offers them their long sought after "honest work", they will jump at the chance. But this strange encounter was no mere coincidence, something these outlaws will soon find out. Their destination? Hollow Canyon, a place thought to be more of legend than of fact. Inside the looming, towering stone walls, an ancient evil awaits. An evil that has set its sights on finally freeing itself from the confines of the wicked pass.

You will learn how to assemble a balanced and talented leadership team, to understand the definition and value of a true business leader, and what resources are critical to business success.