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All Adam and Eve Gaunt wanted was to get out of the house for the weekend. Having limited funds, what better place to go than a flea market? How could they have known that at Legiondell, they would walk through a door taking them into a new life of vampirism, cannibalism, sex, and murder?

Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power, and sexuality. This book explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure perceptions about how and why women are capable of physically dominating roles in modern fiction.

A skin-health pioneer in surgical alternatives to healthy skin, anti-aging, and scar revision discusses the facts and fiction for skin health maintenance for long term results. Danne was the first scientist in his field to recognize the power of enzymes in skin treatment such as its ability to hydrolyze dead skin cells and not enzymes in the products, but the idea of stimulating the many enzymes already IN the skin and body that orchestrate everything.

And Eve Said Yes: Seven Stories and a Novella presents the listener with a compelling assortment of characters wrestling with life challenges against the backdrop of various world religions.

When Walter Thomas accepted the invitation of his friend Brett Fisher to attend the services at a small oneness Pentecostal church he did not know what he was getting into. Something in the atmosphere of the cult-like church tapped into the darkest recesses of his soul, and he found himself changing and becoming enmeshed in events that ultimately led to a series of gruesome murders. In this fact-based fictionalized novel, Thomas Weston knocks the props out from under the false oneness Pentecostal religion, exposing the deception and hypocrisy.

From April 1975 to January of 1979 Pol Pot murdered nearly two million of his own people out of a population of seven million, thus introducing a new word into the English language, "auto-genocide": the murder of one's own people. The world just stood by and let it happen. Why was this allowed to happen? What events created this monster? Was it the dropping of two and a half million tons of explosives by the USA on a neutral country in its war with Vietnam?

In July 1944, Lt. Henry Supchak was flying his second-to-last mission over Germany when his B-17 bomber was hit by antiaircraft fire, disabling two engines and wounding him in the thigh. He attempted to reach neutral Switzerland, but was forced instead to order his eight crewmen to bail out over Austria. He parachuted into a pasture where a shepherd boy and his aunt stared in disbelief at this “man who fell from the sky”. Almost immediately, German infantry surrounded the pilot and took him away to solitary confinement.

Answering an urgent call from Empress Ruki’ Grey’con, Admiral Jedidiah Fitz and Colonel Race Jennings return to the Rising Star of Antares. When they arrive, their former Queen Danielle is told that the Kron'Shulooka has returned and so has the beast of the trenches - the deadly Antarian Dragon. Empress Ruki' reveals to them that several tombs were discovered empty when the Dragon's screech returned to Serintin once again.

The ancient Antarian scrolls spoke of legends regarding a female warrior from an unknown house. In this second installment, the life blood from the beast of the Valley of Trenches can bring fortitude to the new empress of Antares. There will be two paths before her. One path will bring her own destruction, the other the annihilation of Earth. The empress must choose the right path blindly because of the missing scrolls. Will she choose the right direction, or will time run out on saving humanity from the Warlords?

In the summer of 1885, ex-convict George Graham bigamously married Cora Lee, foster daughter of nationally known temperance revivalist Emma Molloy, and the three took up residence together on the Molloy farm near Springfield, MO. When the body of Graham’s first wife, Sarah, was found at the bottom of an abandoned well on the Molloy farm early the next year, Graham was charged with murder, and Cora and Emma were implicated as accessories. This sensational story made headlines across the country and threatened Mrs. Molloy’s career as a prominent evangelist and temperance revivalist.

Why are there so many divisions America? What can we do to fix these divisions that are tearing the US apart? Fractured America discusses these many divisions and how to fix them. It begins by looking at the first racial divide going back to Civil War times. Then, it fast-forwards to discuss the present conflicts, such as the controversy over the killings of blacks by cops and the Black Lives Matter movement. It describes the difficulty of ending segregation and ending or delaying affirmative action.

The body wedged in the doorway, floating on a pool glass shards and red liquid, was very much alive. But the body laid out under a palo verde tree in my retention pond was very much dead. The live body wedged in the doorway was blinded in the line of duty, living a demoralizing life of forced retirement with no enemies and no hope. The corpse under the Palo Verde tree was a county code enforcer with a plethora of enemies - and I was the targeted fall gal for the murder. A cozy mystery set in the desert southwest that started as two women on an adventure.

Following an earthquake,, tourists have begun to disappear in the Lorenzo Caverns. The FBI claims that a bear is the culprit, but the local sheriff and an esteemed archaeologist suspect that the missing people have become the victims of a bloodthirsty alien creature.

Conrad Jones has done it again with his Alec Ramsay books - crime thriller writing that will have you chewing your fingers as you listen! Soft Target is the first book in a series of thrillers that follow the hunt for a nefarious killer. The book begins in famous US tourist destinations where suicide bombers cause carnage before attacking the United Kingdom.

Welcome to a realm where each planet has a soul that lives on even after that planet's death, searching the galaxy to free other planetary souls from their rock-encrusted wombs. With every planet they devour they become stronger, bonding with mortals and giving those mortals mutated powers until they can destroy the planet they are on. Welcome to the realm of the fantastic, where a winged woman fights alongside a cyborg, a telepath, and a seer for survival. Where anything is possible and were-beasts roam the land.

A wormhole opens a passage to Earth. The Antarians sent a warlord scout to investigate the newly discovered life-forms. Their Antarian lust for blood must be quenched.... The Eridonians prepare the people of Earth for the coming onslaught. Join Navy Captain Jedediah Fitz and USMC Major Race Jennings on their quest to fight Earth's newest enemy.

What do you do when your husband of 10 years is cheating on you, and you decide - well...he is not getting half! You bump him off, of course! Told from two different perspectives, the wife’s and the husband’s, Virtuous Woman vs. Cheating Man is a black-humor romp that takes you into the depths of the twisted id, inside the human heart, and causes you to emerge - a little dazed and confused, but still hopeful: That in all this craziness in this world, there might still be - true love.

Sardius Sardonyx is a cop on the edge. He is an on-the-verge-of-being-reformed alcoholic, a stoner, a man who wakes up every morning dreading the day. The ghost of every person who has ever been shot by his police gun comes back to haunt him - including an old girlfriend. Sometimes, they tell him secrets. Sometimes, they help him solve his cases. But mostly, they’re about raising hell.

It all started on a cold morning while Mary was helping her father with the farm chores. The precious lamb lay almost frozen. But Mary was determined to give the lamb a chance. And by helping the little lamb, Mary also gave the world a very lovely gift!

The United States is crippled by conflict, occupied in part by the ruthless Islamic State of America (ISA). The rebel Freedom States have held them at bay through long years of bitter fighting, but greater dangers lurk below the surface. The Shadows, a special organization run by a leader known only as "Sitch" is the next target of the ISA, who have deployed a troop to find and destroy them.