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True Stories of Terror and Mystery from the American Wilderness They are the shadows in the trees, the eyes that watch from the darkness, the creatures science refuses to believe—and yet people keep encountering them. In Cryptid Encounters: Volume One, real people recount their chilling, first-person experiences with the unexplained and the inhuman. From remote forests in Alaska to forgotten backroads in the South, these gripping accounts bring readers face-to-face with creatures that defy logic and challenge everything we think we know about the natural world. Told in vivid detail, each ...

This is not the happy family you think. The fire crackles, my son smiles, the man jokes whilst I pour drinks. But my husband has disappeared. The man is a stranger. My skin crawls every time he brushes my hand. He says if I don’t play along, he has photos that will destroy my family. What happened the night before my husband disappeared - the night I don’t remember?

After a tragic accident leaves Adam Walker guilt-ridden and adrift, he wants nothing more than to disappear. But life has other plans. Abducted by an interstellar team and taken to the planet Opturius, Adam is asked to do the one thing he no longer believes he can. The jagged mountains of Opturius rise beneath an alien sky; its canyons veined with glowing moss, its deserts ringed by spires of crystalline stone. The planet is not lifeless—it’s alive.

When Fred formed his own parahuman clan out of necessity, he understood that it was going to come with new responsibilities. Much as he hoped those tasks would center around extra paperwork and perhaps the occasional mandatory class, enough time around the supernatural has taught him to be ready for anything. Or so he thought. As a freelance accountant for the Agency, Fred soon finds himself being tossed into new, unexpected, and perilous situations.

By 2002, The Streak - a historic 13-year run of consecutive wins by the Spartans, a high-school football team from Concord, California, that couldn't be beat - was still going strong. In this revised edition of When the Game Stands Tall, author Neil Hayes, who had unrestricted access to the De La Salle team, writes from the inside about the games, the players, and their visionary coach, Bob Ladouceur, who managed to amass the highest winning percentage in football history (.995) through standing for something greater than winning.

Few people know the answers better than Emma Hayes. As the coach of Chelsea FC Women, she has led the club to 14 major trophies. She is a widely celebrated figure in sports media as a woman starting to get equal recognition in this space, and has been named TV pundit of the year by both Broadcast Magazine and the Sports Journalists Association. In this book, Emma shares her experience of managing a high-performance football team to draw out life lessons and techniques that listeners can apply to their own professional and personal circumstances.

JK Sullivan has recently retired from the US Army. She is offered an "easy" bodyguard job protecting British Princess Tabitha who is spending the summer in the US to escape the British media. Princess Tabitha's time in the US is top secret. She will have a different hairstyle and different clothes and be basically unrecognizable as the Princess that is all over the British Press. The one thing JK doesn't count on with this job is falling for the lovely and genuine Princess underneath it all.

Enter Ava's seductive world of feminization... With an anthology that contains 50 of Ava's steamiest romances. This amazing collection contains over 500,000 words and will only be available for a limited time! Each book in this bundle would cost 2.99 on its own but you can get all 50 here for only 5.99! That's a discount of 95%!

Fleeing from a vengeful king has sent the former NPCs across Solium's borders, into the kingdom of Alcatham. As wanted fugitives, they head to the small farming village of Briarwillow, hoping to blend in, lay low, and avoid trouble at all costs. Unfortunately, Briarwillow has problems all its own, and its troubles quickly become theirs. If they hope to survive long enough to escape, they'll have to tackle an all-but-forgotten mystery buried at the town's border as well as seek the wisdom of a mysterious group of mages.

After discovering just how filled with magic, intrigue, and adventure the parahuman world of being an Undead American can be, Fredrick Frankford Fletcher did exactly what was expected - he became a certified parahuman accountant. Myths and legends, as it turns out, are not so great at taking appropriate deductions and keeping their receipts, and Fred is more than happy to return to a life others view as woefully dull, expanding his accounting business to cater to various monsters and their respective financial needs.

Falling for your Ice Queen boss is a really good idea...right? McKinley's creative dreams are in tatters, and a job interview as a retail assistant at the Headquarters of the biggest chain of women's sex stores in the United States is the only hope she has of keeping her head above water. She just has to get through the interview with the renowned dragon CEO Alev King first.

Our bedtime stories are designed to let you drift off with no nagging feeling that you need to listen through to the end. Their purpose is to let you slowly fall into peaceful, restful sleep. With that in mind, we present actor Broadway and big-screen star Phillipa Soo reading Chinese fables and folk stories. These traditional tales have a long oral history dating back to the Middle Kingdom of old.

It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an effervescent young mother, impulsive and free as a bird. Rita is a sensible professor's wife with a love of gardening and a generous, old soul. Glory comes from New England society; Rita lives in Iowa, trying to make ends meet. They have nothing in common except one powerful bond: The men they love are fighting in a war a world away from home. Brought together by an unlikely twist of fate, Glory and Rita begin a remarkable correspondence.

This collection includes books one to three of the Star-Crossed Alien Mail Order Brides series, Joran, Vadir, and Kash. Join these three alien males as they go in search of love on the far side of the galaxy, on a primitive planet the resident lifeforms call Earth.

After several years as a vampire, starting a business, founding his own clan, and proposing to his girlfriend, Fred is finally beginning to settle into life as an undead accountant. Unfortunately, not everyone is happy about his continued survival, or the dangerous friends he's made along the way. The Blood Council has dispatched a representative to determine if Fred is fit for the position he currently fills as head of a clan, and the stakes for failure are deathly serious. Worse, Fred will have to muddle through without the help of Krystal, who is off on a mysterious task of her own.

Sirileth has broken the world. The ground bleeds, the seas rage, and the skies are torn asunder. Eska will not let her daughter face the consequences alone, but can she help without donning the mantle of the Corpse Queen once more? And will the people of Ovaeris accept help from a monster? They might not have a choice as a stable portal to the Other World is now open, and the Beating Heart of Sevorai is ever ravenous.

Then - In charge of her little sister at the beach, Claire allowed Eleanor to walk to the shop alone to buy an ice cream. Placing a coin into her hand, Claire told her to be quick, knowing how much she wanted the freedom. Eleanor never came back. Now - The time has finally come to sell the family farm and Claire is organizing a reunion of her dearest friends, the same friends who were present the day her sister went missing. When another girl disappears, long-buried secrets begin to surface.

Morgan Hart is a bodyguard and martial arts expert. Her new client is renowned for being a stone cold Ice Queen—very hard to please, having fired her five previous bodyguards. Leigh Rayson is from a very wealthy family. She is straight and engaged to a man but Morgan can't help but be drawn in by her magnetic beauty. Morgan soon discovers that all is not what it seems and Leigh has been keeping secrets. Will Morgan get to the bottom of the mystery? And will she be able to resist the lure of her gorgeous client as she does so?

Eleven spellbinding tales of transformation, survival, and grit from the creators of the New York Times bestselling original audiobook MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls. In MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses, a collection of outdoorsmen share...

Titan was one of the nation’s most loved and respected Heroes, until an infidelity scandal tore his image and family apart. After decades spent out of the limelight, Owen Daniels has decided to take up the mantle of Titan once again to try and make amends for his years away. Unfortunately, the Titan Scandal is still common knowledge, and no Hero team wants such a polarizing figure. With no other options, Owen is forced to take a job overseeing a group of corpies, corporate-sponsored Supers who do rescue work… as long as there are cameras around.