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Desperate to support his wife and two children, Nudelman tries his hand at countless jobs, palming himself off as a carpenter, ghost writer for a wealthy businessman, and even attempts selling himself to the Chinese. At war with his bizarre neighbors the Szorsky’s, Nudelman contemplates justifiable homicide.

Few Biblical figures are as intriguing and mysterious as Enoch. He is mentioned only a few times in the canonical Hebrew Bible, but the impact of his story went on to affect the theology of many books written during the Second Temple Era. It also set the foundation for the development of many of the ideas found in the early Christian movement. Enoch’s importance continued beyond the destruction of the Temple and survived in a new form in later rabbinic tradition. Discover the mystery of Enoch, and the fascinating impact it had on the development of Judaism and Christianity.

Werewolves are real, but the wolf next door is in a 12-step program. Witches roam the world, looking for companionship on dating apps. Ghosts haunt the dark, but there are worse things going bump in the night. And God does exist, but he’s a rude cubicle dweller whose greatest wish is for his football team to be champions again. Twenty humorous and horrible explorations of the world await listeners willing to ask the hard questions about decomposing zombies, vigilantes with unusual calling cards, and the outcomes of cursing your romantic rivals.

This is a unique, coming-of-age road trip featuring a feisty, often salty, and insensitive senior citizen, who still has some coming-of-age to experience in his twilight years. On one level, this is a story that takes listeners on a wild, raucous journey through the gritty and dangerous streets of New Orleans and into Sammy Levine's complex past as he tries to make amends for shortcomings in his life and a lingering guilt that drives him to make a daring break from his nursing home and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

O.J. Simpson in an alternate reality and blind ninjas ushering in the apocalypse are just two of the beautifully written tales in this seminal work of art, from the mind of a human being the likes of which God and the devil wholeheartedly agree upon. While drenched in comedy, Laughter's Cold Shadow takes on the darkest of subject matter: murder, rape, racism, the nuclear family, ninjas, Nazis, zombies, police brutality, drug cartels, hedonism, psychopathy, and more.

Eli hoped to do his time and get back to living life outside prison. However, that hope faded when he watched a prisoner rip a guard’s heart out and toss the body over the railing onto a funeral pyre of burning mattresses. The landscape of the prison begins to change as more and more strange characters strive for dominance in the anarchy that follows. Eli and his new friend, Tay, must navigate the chaos as the gods of the Aztec creation story emerge over the next 12 hours on the block.

Jewish identity is complicated because it entails religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and national components. Each of these contributes to the identity of who is a Jew. This book surveys biblical and rabbinic views on what constitutes Jewish identity within traditional Judaism but also reviews the positions of Reform and Conservative Judaism.

Welcome to Necrolopolis, a fantasy world with a postal system as inefficient as our own, an undead pharaoh with an ego as big as his pyramid, a ghoul with an unhealthy interest in soup pots, not to mention a faction war between mummies and ashlings. A necromancer's job is never done, especially in a city of four million undead souls!

Encouraged by serial killer Ed Kemper, an inmate escapes from California Medical Facility, the prison that houses the criminally insane. Correctional Officer Dave Snapper, whose car, a pristine '68 Mustang, once driven by Frank Morris, is used in the escape. Snapper, known as Snap, is put on administrative leave, pending an investigation. A body shows up in Wisconsin linking the CMF escapee to the crime. Trying to clear his name, Snap launches his own investigation with Milwaukee County Sheriff Detective Gale Miller.

Warriors don't always win, and good does not always prevail in a world of war and bloodshed. The young maiden that was once the hope of a nation has fallen to the enemy, and the king continues his tyrannical reign over a once great land of magic. While all hope appears to be lost, old ones begin to awaken at the shifting tides of the world, and they could be the final turning point of it all.

We have only explored five percent of the ocean. The ocean takes up 70 percent of our planet's surface. By that logic, we only know about 25 percent or our planet's geography. The sea is like the Earth's lungs, breathing in and out, supplying the Earth with life and balance. We don't know exactly how old the Earth is. We don't know how deep the deepest part of the ocean is. We don't know how vast the universe is.

The Legion would then be deserted on a planet scarcely able to support them and left for the Reptilians to annihilate completely. The new Prime Minister, who had plotted the whole thing, had dangerously underestimated the Legion, and the Legion of the Damned would not die.

In Earth’s Time, the fourth book of the award-winning science fiction and fantasy series, The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham, Stig and Meg find themselves back in their world. They arrive in Chelldrah-ham, having passed through the rift from Earth. Stig now has memories of times way before he was born. Relying on his knowledge of machines, aided by Meg and her empathy with nature, he must lead his human comrades in the fight against the corrupted forces of humankind.

Some crimes are never truly solved—because the silence becomes part of the story. Endgame is the powerful final installment in A.J. Salara’s Great Bookie Robbery Trilogy, a landmark true crime series that has redefined how we view crime, consequence, and cultural memory. While High Stakes revealed the planning behind the heist, and Blood & Betrayal explored the paranoia and collapse that followed, Endgame takes aim at what lingers when the headlines fade and the wounds remain.

All Huck wants for Christmas is a revolution...and donuts. Vive la Revolution! The American Revolution began with the Boston Tea Party. If Huck Carp has anything to do about it, the next people’s revolution will begin in the drive-through of a sleepy donut shop in a working-class neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. It started as a single random act of kindness when an early morning customer paid forward the next person’s order, and so did the next, and the next, and the streak had been going all day long.

Overthinking is a habit—a really icky one, like biting your nails. At least that accomplishes something. It may be a messy manicure, but it is an end to a means. When you overthink, though, you obsess and analyze until solutions become barriers, and you become consumed by that one thing to the exclusion of all else. Overthinking can be chronic and almost addictive, but you are not bound to it for eternity! This book will help you keep analysis paralysis from separating you from the important things—and people—in your life.

My life's not bad, but it could definitely be better. I'm stuck in the tiniest of bungalows with my sisters, and I work a job in journalism that barely keeps the lights on. Between work, bills, and hardly any space to breathe, I've been yearning for a way out. When I land a gig to write the biography of Dawson Lancaster, one of the richest—and most jaw-clenchingly frustrating—billionaires around, I think that maybe this is the big break I've been waiting for. All I've got to do is move into his sprawling mansion, schedule a couple of interviews, and write the book. Simple, right? Wrong.

Earth is dying. Hope is light-years away. In humanity’s final hour, massive colony fleets depart a crumbling Earth, bound for distant exoplanets and the promise of survival. Onboard one such vessel are Kael Thuum and Bryce Halden, two friends chasing a new beginning among the stars. Their destination: a world orbiting a black hole. As the fleet draws near, the laws of reality begin to bend. Time fractures. Dreams bleed into waking life. Something ancient waits beyond the event horizon.

The heist was flawless. The silence that followed wasn’t. In the explosive second volume of The Great Bookie Robbery Trilogy, A.J. Salara returns to 1970s Melbourne to chronicle the unraveling of a crew once believed to be untouchable. The money is gone, the job is done—but the danger has just begun. The perfect crime gave way to a perfect storm of secrecy, suspicion, and betrayal. Blood & Betrayal isn’t a story about how the heist was pulled off. It’s about what came after—when the celebration faded and fear took root.

Along with the expected Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Easter, HellBound Books are delighted to present, among others, tales of terror involving Bastille Day (viva la Revolucion!), Saint Lucy Day (a Christian feast day celebrated on December 13th - St. Lucy is the saint patron of the blind and mentioned in The Nun 2!), Earth Day, and the delectable White Day (celebrated in Japan on March 14th - one month after Valentine's Day - in which folks return gifts presented to them on Valentine's Day).