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The circumstances surrounding the bizarre photograph initially inspiring Meredith Carson to ghostwrite Jack Wagoner’s horrifying account are now included in this audiobook and remain unexplained. When Meredith Carson accepted the task of ghostwriting the frightening narrative you are about to hear, she had no idea how that decision would affect her.

The village of Krume is plagued by a haunted wood and a hungry witch. It’s been that way for as long as Hans and Greta can remember, though they have never seen the witch themselves; no one has. When men start to disappear once again in the cover of night - their bloody hearts turning up on doorsteps - the village falls into frenzied madness. Hans and Greta, two outcast orphans, find themselves facing accusations of witchcraft and are met with an ultimatum: burn at the stake, or leave the village forever.

After thinking they had finally found peace, the group finds themselves in the midst of chaos. Having to break Gabe out of prison, Ellie and Zach have to turn their backs on their people once more. Deciding they have to end this all for once, the three of them set out to destroy Gabe's father once and for all.

Whether encountering Audacious Women, people who make Regrettable Decisions, or discovering how some folks handle Truly Inexplicable Moments, Wait...Who Got Goosed? Vol. 2 poems for mature listeners will illicit some gasps, a lot of laughs, or maybe a few shakes of the head.

Have you ever felt like… Your brain was working against you? Your best life was going to pass you by? You are not alone! Joby thought his life would be different. He thought after paying his penitence in the favelas of Brazil, his life would return to the once promising projection it was on. But it’s not. It’s worse. His mother is dying of cancer, his son Eli and estranged girlfriend, Lizzy, need support Joby can’t provide, and an endless flow of menacing thoughts flood his mind, day and night.

We meet the main character, Yann, in 1960. He is a semi-retired French journalist, professor, and Camus scholar who is plagued by a lifetime of regrets. He finds hope in an unforeseen friendship with Klaus, the only son of Karl, a German soldier who saved Yann’s life in 1919. Klaus is a depressed young man burdened by history and challenged by the stories that he encourages Yann to revisit and to share.

Chip, a thoughtful chocolate chip is unique in a bag of chocolate chips. His view of the world gets much bigger and slightly scarier when Mother Daisy and her daughter Kit open the bag and Chip starts talking to a nearby Egg. Soon Chip's wonder at the wider world gets scary when he sees what happens to his friend egg and what Kit does to his fellow chocolate chips. With the transformational process of mixing and baking Chip gets turned into a brownie, but that doesn't change his thoughtfulness.

Judith clerked for the Tennessee Court of Appeals, practiced for ten years, and then was named to a judgeship with a domestic relations docket. The problems began almost immediately, with her home being shot up. And then things got worse.

When a young lion lures a human away to protect his pride, he meets a crab, and their friendship changes everyone’s lives forever. At Pond School, on the banks of the Nile, the friendship of a hippo and a demoiselle crane is tested when a class assignment changes the bird’s way of thinking about his lifestyle. At Central Park Zoo in New York City, giraffe brothers Joff and Ruzz must put their sibling squabbles aside to help a lost dog reunite with her owner, and in this effort, both learn what being tall means.

Ten-year-old Keely Rosalie Tucker is a modern-day knight with no armor. Constantly bullied by a neighbor boy, Keely struggles to find her place in the world in which she is comforted only by the stories her Gramms has told her about enchanted, faraway places, where unicorns, fairies, and angels protect children from life's everyday pains and dangers. Now all Keely has to do is figure out how to call them to help her.

Mesagan, immortal son of the God of Light Susegi and the Goddess of Love Unacoria, was born with the gift of foresight. But one thing his parents taught him was that the future is always changing, affected by one’s choices in the present. It has been three months since the events of Cole’s Hunt and only nineteen years since Mesagan told Deucalion “Cal,” the light wolf he loves, “See you in twenty-eight years.” Mesagan met Rislucian, Cal’s young son from a previous relationship during the events of Cole’s Hunt for a reason.

On the planet Entitya, on the island of Sinuatollion, Mendina’s father Susegi, God of Creation and Light, offers Mendina the chance to have her soulmate made for her, but she declines, having met her first love Tarius. She and Tarius live a life together and have a daughter, Solange, staying together for almost nineteen years. When Tarius is mortally wounded by Tajincour, son of the God of Darkness, Nefarion, neither Mendina’s kiss of love nor her unicorn horn are able to heal him, and Tarius dies.

Reborn after near nuclear eradication, humanity struggles in a world defined by a secret history of conspiracy, rivalry and inhuman domination. As an ancient powerful race attempts to retake planet Earth, a courageous and sophisticated band of freedom fighters, the Cerberus rebels, leads the resistance in a daring battle to free humanity from the grips of an alien power struggle. In the Middle East's legendary Fertile Crescent, millennia-old artifacts are unearthed. Shockingly, they appear to belong to one of Cerberus's own.

Nolichucky, the house on Burnt Mountain, appears to be a secluded family lake home, forever frozen in the 1930s. But beneath its placid exterior lies a secret history and a mysterious power that profoundly affects young Luke Brooks. After spending a seemingly peaceful weekend there with his father and two teenaged friends, Luke's life is forever changed and he must thereafter confront an unexpected and potentially world-altering destiny.

In 1973, Spencer Perrin was coming of age with his best friend, Alan. Now, he's an elderly man trapped in the throes of Altzhiemers. When he befriends a nurse at a retirement home, he finds comfort and familiarity. Luke immediately understands Spencer is living back in time, but he's happy to help the man with whatever he needs. In fact, he feels an overwhelming need to protect him from the truth—a truth Luke isn't even fully aware of yet.

Vavra, the first immortal winged unicorn, was born even before the god Mesagan and the goddess Mendina. Over five hundred years later, Vavra’s stepchildren, the twins Cornelia and Cygnet, go to Mauvewood to meet their grandparents and build a relationship with the community there.

No amount of military training could have prepared me for the chemical reaction that took over my body when I saw her for the first time. The second she set those emerald eyes on me, I knew I’d never be the same. But she’s quick to remind me that she doesn’t date. Well, me either, but that isn’t stopping me from pursuing her like my life depends on it. The problem...I have only two days to convince her I’m not like the coward who broke her heart and what we could have is worth fighting for.

Eastern Light, the third volume of espionage thriller series Across Latitudes, opens during the heady, uncertain first days after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. As the deadly war unfolds, Paul Drake’s unlikely alliance with the enigmatic Katerina Volkova escalates to an even greater level of danger as the pair navigate between the West’s confused, imperfect democracies and an autocratic, repressive East.

Embark on a spellbinding journey through the mystical world of Almora, where powerful forces clash, ancient prophecies awaken, and magic lurks in every shadow. In Sorcerer Seed, the first installment of Curt Sylvester’s Sorcerer of Almora series, listeners are introduced to Maylore, a man with no memory and an unknown destiny that threatens to reshape the world. Together with his newfound companions—each harboring their own secrets—they venture through Almora’s perilous landscapes, from wolf-infested craters to ancient caves that whisper of forgotten magic.

Retired diplomat Sam Hough boards a transatlantic flight to Paris after making a seemingly innocent promise to find the five-year-old son of a dying friend, a son the friend has never known. With only the thinnest of clues, Sam quickly realizes that those who agree to help him soon disappear, those who don’t disappear refuse to help him, and still others want to kill him rather than help find the boy. Clearly there are things his friend neglected to tell him. But what did he leave out—and why?