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Good evening, horror seekers. What you are about to listen to is not for the faint of heart. In this book, you’ll find… Three lighthouse keepers who vanish without explanation, leaving behind diaries that foretell events that haven’t yet occurred. A car accident victim finds himself trapped in a strange house with a young boy who insists “dead is dead”. Four friends on a hunting trip encounter a legendary monster in the Kentucky woods. A dark figure that appears after a man’s near-death experience demanding payment for his borrowed time.

There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most-read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers. But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive.

2024 GOLD MEDAL EVVY AWARD WINNER FOR HORROR! 2024 BRONZE MEDAL EVVY AWARD FOR THRILLER/SUSPENSE! It’s a Friday in New Orleans, ten days before Mardi Gras. As Carnival season begins, eerie events unfold, coinciding with the first downtown parades. These inexplicable occurrences, termed "Harbingers," mystify locals. In a Bourbon Street strip club, a mysterious figure in a cloak adorned with ancient symbols disappears in a puff of smoke. Simultaneously, during the parade on St. Charles Avenue, an unannounced float labeled "Krewe of Moros" appears. High atop the float rides Harbinger of Doom...

Award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars—Elvis Presley and Bruce Jenner. For the last forty years, award-winning songwriter Linda...

In The Killer Inside Me, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky" Jim Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be...

Emma Gavin writes best-selling novels about werewolves, but that doesn't mean she believes in them-and she certainly doesn't think she'll meet one. But that's exactly what happens when her books catch the attention of a rich and powerful pack of Manhattan Weres who have kept their existence hidden for centuries. Alarmed by the accuracy of her novels, they're determined to find out if a renegade is acting as her informant.

This is the second audiobook in the "Wilderness Series". Up in the Rockies, where a man could live free, Nathaniel King and a rugged mountain man named Shakespeare McNair head for a rendezvous of trappers and fur traders.

I arrived in Emerson Pass Colorado with my entire life in one small suitcase. Compared to Boston, life wouldn’t be easy in this tiny frontier town. Everyone was counting on me. My family…to provide for them back home. The mayor…to teach all the children living here. I was determined to make it work and succeed in the unruly West. But things didn’t start off well. A stray gunshot spooked the horses, and I ended up face-first in the snow. Until rescue came in the strong, capable hands of a handsome stranger…

Whether you are already competing in high-level competitions or just starting out on your golfing journey, the tips and advice provided in this audiobook will only make you a much better player. It will teach you how to eradicate those terrible holes from your game and how to reclaim your focus mid-round after a poor hole. Golf can be incredibly frustrating, but when you get it right, it is a fantastic sport to play. This audiobook will thus help enhance that feeling of enjoyment and ensure you have even more fun playing.

Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken - but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After 11 years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed.

Brought to you by Penguin. How much does our speed and our decline depend on our minds, not our bodies? In this thought-provoking and inspiring book, top 25 Master marathoner Nick Thompson invites readers to defy the inevitable decline that comes with age. After setting the American record in...

After the death of my beloved aunt and a troubling experience with a stalker, I’m ready for a fresh start somewhere quiet. I leap at the chance to become the pastry chef at a quaint dude ranch in western Montana. Soon, I’m happily working under the talented and sexy, Caspian Moon. If only I could concentrate fully on my cakes instead of yearning for the boss who has made it clear that employees are off-limits. Even if they don’t want to be.

**Awards:** New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist, 2024; Royal Dragonfly First Place in Letters, Diaries, and Journals, 2024; Global Book Awards Silver Medalist in Biography and Memoir, 2024; Wishing Shelf Red Ribbon, 2025; Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Memoir, 2025. More than a sailing memoir, We Ran Away to Sea is an intimate exploration of how two strong, loving people pursue meaning — and how, over time, they come to understand each other more fully. They had built a life many would admire — a strong marriage, two children, creative work they loved, and a restored ...

PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR LANDRY DRAKE RETURNS IN THE FOURTH BAYOU HAUNTINGS THRILLER! One night in 1880 a band of drunken vigilantes went down the Vermilion River, burned a town and committed horrific acts against its citizens. Their identities remain a secret to this day. TV investigator Landry Drake hears an odd voicemail - a girl’s cryptic plea for help that makes him want to know more. He visits a friendly little town in a rural Louisiana parish that’s full of people who seem to have something to hide. Landry finds danger everywhere as he uncovers a string of unsolved disappearances ...

From cocktails to cold tea, and swanky dinners to school-gate antics, Rachel Walker has lost her old life—and her identity. But when the new term begins, and she’s swept into the Parent WhatsApp group chat, she’s determined to find her purpose again. Then a fellow mum turns up dead after the PTA Bake-Off party . . . and Rachel was the last person to message the group. With rumors flying and trial-by-mum-chat in full swing, Rachel joins forces with closest friend Jane and their new ally Frankie.

Dr. Charlie Knight fears life is passing him by. He's in his late thirties, and treading water as a family doctor in the same small town he grew up in. Just as he's planning his escape, something changes. He develops a gift, an extraordinary insight for any doctor: a sense of exactly how many days his patients have left to live. But in a country town like Marwick, his patients are his friends. His own family. The people he grew up with, and the girl he still loves. And Charlie discovers this gift may not be a gift at all.

Evil never truly dies. It waits. And now it wants Landry back. After vanquishing the coven that cursed the bayou, famous paranormal investigator Landry Drake and Cate Adams try to reclaim a sense of peace aboard a riverboat cruise up the Mississippi. But the calm is short-lived. When a mysterious carnival troupe boards the ship, led by a sinister figure known only as the Hypnotist, the illusion of safety vanishes. Landry is lured away, then taken—delivered into the hands of a demon and his old nemesis, the banished witch Charity Device. In the French Quarter, amidst a twisted realm of ...

After a decade of playing hockey, a single injury ended Trapper Barnes’ career. But when he discovers that the woman who owns the local bakery is the girl who once shattered his dreams, the painful secret she’s been harboring all these years threatens to turn Trapper’s idyllic small-town future into a disaster. Will it take a forest fire threatening the mountain village to force Trapper and Brandi to confront their history?

This “must read” reveals a side of American history that you’ve never heard of before. The author, The John Birch Society CEO Art Thompson devoted much of his life to uncovering the agenda behind common historic events and organizes it in a way for the reader to think for himself. By not accepting everything taught in schools as fact, this book will raise patriotic Americans to their feet to educate others in the essential task of preserving liberty and independence for future generations.

Cymbeline Barnes has been waiting for a grand adventure. When the town competition is announced, she sees it as her chance to spread her wings, even if people think she’s wild and rebellious. But when she learns that the competition is for men only, her hopes are dashed. Should she give in to societal pressure and do what most women do now? Marry a man of fine standing and have children? After all, it’s only her pride that’s keeping her from admitting that she’s fallen in love with Victor Olofsson.