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Investigative reporter Phil Carsons' original assignment was risky: travel deep into the Amazon to locate a lab in which dinosaurs are being weaponized by rogue genetic engineers. Still, he was confident that his status as a famous journalist would protect him. But when a helicopter crash lands him in the middle of a terrorist camp, things are suddenly more serious. And when monstrous creatures descend upon the camp, Carsons is thrust into a terrifying battle for survival. Outnumbered and outgunned, Carsons and the terrorists form an uneasy alliance.

Great White sharks lurk off popular beaches – killer crocodiles and man-eating pythons prowl the Everglades. But for Abigail O'Neil, raised on the swamp, the most terrifying monster was her own father – a black-market croc-farmer notorious for feeding unwary victims to his jagged-toothed pets. Growing-up privy to unspeakable horror, when Abigail finally fled home, she thought she'd left it all behind. But now someone is stalking her – and they know all her deepest, darkest secrets.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is an American legend. In his short term in office he accomplished more than many politicians do in a long lifetime of public service. JFK’s story is also an American tragedy. His untimely death and the image of his grieving widow, indeed his grieving country, touches even the hearts of Americans who were not yet born when he was assassinated. For these reasons and more we continue to learn about and study this celebrated American president. And the best way to learn is with John F. Kennedy: The Tragedy of a Political American Legend.

Less than half of the world makes more than two dollars a day, and many countries have a GDP per capita of less than a thousand dollars a year of income per person. If you had passive income sources, like royalties, then if you could earn two thousand dollars a year, or more, then you could retire like royalty to many tropical island paradises, boats, beaches, forest cabin retreats, motor homes, villages, deserts, and other vacationing paradises.

Starting with the birth of Jesus Christ and ending with the Eastern Orthodox/Roman Catholic split, Catholicism: Nine Events That Shaped the Early Catholic Church takes a vast subject and breaks it down into easy-to-understand pieces that form a whole. By focusing on just nine events, we are able to dive deeply into relevant history and politics while still bringing you a short history that covers the major occurrences in the early period of an important institution.

Ex-Marine Jon Morgan has washed up in the tropics, haunted by his past and estranged from the only person he cares about—his daughter. When she takes a job at a new luxury resort on a nearby island, Morgan sees a chance to make things right. But the island’s beauty hides a secret: its only native inhabitants are a massive, unknown species of crabs. And the developers’ greed has awakened something monstrous. After stumbling upon the gruesome truth buried in the dunes, Morgan realizes the paradise is about to turn into a nightmare.

Living in the idyllic seaside town of Palmetto Beach is a dream come true for Mitch Sanders, an aspiring marine biologist who studies from home while his wife, Ashley, scores the perfect job at the Bioengineering Clinical Research Institute of Medicine, which is about to make an astounding medical breakthrough.

Carthinal is alone in the world. His parents and grandparents have died. Without money and a place to live, he faces an uncertain future. After joining a street gang, Carthinal begins a life of crime. Soon after, he sees a performing magician and decides he wants to learn the art of magic. But can he break away from his past and find the path to his true destiny?

They thought it was just an old camera. They were wrong. When Jesse and his friends buy a vintage Polaroid from a strange woman at a flea market, they expect retro fun and creepy snapshots. But the first photo they take shows someone they know—terrified, mid-run, seconds before death. By morning, he's gone. Each new picture shows another person. Another scene. Another death that hasn't happened yet.

Assigned to transport experimental military hardware to a base in Alaska, Colonel Hatch and his men were supposed to be prepared for anything. When their plane runs into a freak electro-magnetic event however it's soon clear that isn't the case. Fighting the elements, the soldiers quickly learn that they aren't alone and soon things take a turn that no one could have seen coming because it turns out that monsters are indeed real.

Summer, 1986. Five friends gathered in a basement for a game of Dungeons & Dragons. The plan was simple: roll the dice, fight some monsters, and kill a few hours before curfew. But when lightning strikes and the old arcade cabinet in the corner shorts out, the game comes alive. Steel meets bone. Magic burns the sky. Every roll matters, every wound bleeds, and the dungeon they built starts to build itself. Now the friends who dreamed of adventure are trapped inside it.

Beneath the Vatican lies a labyrinth older than Rome itself, with sealed halls carved long before the first gospel was ever written. A place where the Church hides what it cannot destroy. When archaeologist Eamon Kade and relic recovery specialist Roxy Kane team up, what they uncover will change the world forever. An adventure spanning countless continents, forgotten monasteries deep in the Himalayas, and secrets buried deep beneath Vatican City.

When Jordan H. and his friends find an old Choose Your Own Adventure book at a forgotten bookstore, it seems like a harmless throwback—until the game begins to bleed into their lives. With each turn of the page, reality shifts, and the book's sinister challenges come to life around them.

The world is ending. Breanne just wants to read her book in peace. House-sitting in a sleepy coastal village while her parents serve overseas, Breanne expects quiet days and dog-eared pages. But when the monstrous Kaiju Godrisaur emerges from the Pacific Ocean, obliterating island nations and tearing a path toward Australia, peace dies screaming.

When a mysterious cassette tape arrives in the mail, Brian “Biz” Humphrey thinks it’s just another prank. But what’s recorded on it isn’t music—it’s a message from Trevor Langston, a boy who vanished three years ago. As Biz and his friends dive deeper into the eerie recordings, they discover something terrifying: the tape is connected to a long-dead radio station and a sinister broadcast that never stopped. Each time they press play, the past comes alive—and the ghosts of the missing kids return, desperate to finish what was started in 1979.

When people vanish in the woods of Fox Hollow without a trace, it isn’t the first time—it’s just the first time the world notices. Strange lights. Empty homes. Time lost like spilled water. And something watching from above… waiting. But these are no ordinary invaders. They are the ones who have always been here. Manipulating. Collecting. Altering. And the Earth remembers. Koda, a towering guardian born of root and stone, blood and bark, feels the forest stir with ancestral warning. The stars blink. The glyphs burn. The old gate opens. What returns is not conquest—it is harvest.

The ocean is vast. The danger is ancient. And nowhere is safe. For the Wagner family, sailing across the Pacific was meant to be the adventure of a lifetime. But beneath their ageing yacht, Nauti Buoy, something stirs—something thought extinct for millions of years. Then the nightmare begins. Hunted by plesiosaurs—ferocious predators from a forgotten age—the Wagners are thrust into a relentless fight for survival. From award-winning author Deborah Sheldon, Nightmare Reef is a harrowing tale of one family’s battle to the death against nature’s brutality.

Aiden Walker barely survived the first alien Kaiju incursion in the U.S. where tens of thousands died. A fourth Kaiju has landed in Kiribati in the South Pacific. The aliens learned from their first defeat. Now, Major Walker and his constant side kick, Sergeant Costas, face an even greater challenge with Kaiju Kiribati. The rules have changed, and failure is not an option.

It killed the ancient Mayans and drove them from their cities. Now it's loose in America. Ordicordyceps unilateralis, the zombie fungus, is turning people into mindless killing machines. Miami Special Investigations Squad Detective Kyle Bane has never seen anything like it. Cordyceps Rising forces him to lay aside his training as a cop to become a cold blooded killer to save himself and his friends. Can he save Miami? As he sees the great White Wall of Downtown skyrises in flames, he begins to doubt his abilities.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit California Central Coast—Five Cites Area—Pismo Beach, Shell Beach, Arroyo Grande, Grover Beach, and Oceano. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.