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Stella Reid and her grandkids are loving Halloween, until they stumble across a skull that unearths a mystery that reaches back decades and has personal ties to Stella.

With a new grandbaby to care for at home, Stella “Granny” Reid has little time to spare. Her hands are especially full since Savannah, her teenage granddaughter, developed a crush on a boy guaranteed to break her heart. Gallivanting around with her best pal Sheriff Manny Goldford simply isn’t an option—until a freshly murdered body is discovered. Holding a criminal record unlike anyone’s in McGill, Dexter Corbin was a man who wouldn’t be missed at Sunday school or the darkest local tavern. But he never deserved to meet his end so soon—so violently.

"From early childhood, often to my extreme discomfort, I was sometimes aware beyond the usual range of the five senses. I tried to ignore the implications of this awareness, but it was too insistent; so in an attempt to understand what was happening I laboriously trained the faculty of far memory. This book describes, among other things, how I did so and what happened to me as the result."

The fourth of Joan Grant's Far Memory novels, Lord of the Horizon, the sequel to Eyes of Horus, is set in Egypt at the close of the dark XIth dynasty and is a profound commentary on the power of fear and the unlimited ability of light to shatter it. Lord of the Horizon is the story of Ra-ab Hotep, heir to the Nomarch of the Oryx. Ra-ab is 21 as the story begins. The dawn for which Ra-ab and the Watchers of the Horizon fought in Eyes of Horus has come, but to "Send Fear into Exile", as the Watchers' password promised, proves difficult.

In the early days of the Roman Empire, the noble Etruscan civilization in Italy is waning, Vesi, a young Etruscan noblewoman, is violated by a renegade supernatural being. Outcast then from Etruria, Vesi bears Horatrim, a child who carries inexplicable knowledge and grows to manhood in only six years. But a savage Roman attack leaves Vesi unresponsive and Horatrim homeless and vulnerable, and he travels to Rome where his talents confound powerful businessman Propertius, who arranges to adopt Horatrim as a son, changing his name to Horatius.

Frankenstein - his very name conjures up images of plundered graves, secret laboratories, electrical experiments, and reviving the dead. Within this audio, the maddest doctor of them all and his demented disciples once again delve into the secrets of life, as science fiction meets horror when the world's most famous creature lives again. Collected together for the first time, here are 25 electrifying tales of cursed creation that are guaranteed to spark your interest.

Morgan Llywelyn, author of 1916 and Lion of Ireland, returns with a powerful fantasy saga that sweeps from the dawn of history to our own near future. It is the story of Earth and her elements, and of the men and women whose fate lies in her hands.

In 1906, George Soper of the New York Department of Health, was asked to conduct a private investigation of an unusual typhoid outbreak in Oyster Bay New York. This fascinating look into medical detective work forms the backbone of Relentless: The Search for Typhoid Mary. At the same time, Mary Mallon - Typhoid Mary, was leading a life she had built starting as a 15-year-old Irish immigrant as a successful cook for New York's wealthy, powerful and important families.

Miss Clara Seaford has loved Julian Astor, Viscount Bentley, since she first saw him at a debutante ball. Years later, Julian is forced to marry Clara to pay off a large debt owed to her father. A misunderstanding on their wedding night and an extended trip for Julian lead to an awkward beginning. When her husband unexpectedly returns for the Christmas holidays, Clara vows to ensure there will be no confusion about the depth of her love for him.

Everyone claims her name is Annabelle. The year is 1814 and she's married to Captain Keldon Buchanan, a man who despises her. The more she learns about her life, the more she realizes why she's chosen to forget it. She's a liar and an adulteress. She doesn't understand why she wanted to destroy her marriage when her heart tells her she belongs with Keldon. Keldon harbors his own secrets.

It lies within our choice to gaze upon a world unlimited beauty, opportunity, and treasure! It can be said that the labor of the alchemist is not to transmute inferior metals into gold but rather to transform his entire world into one of his own making. The purpose of this program is to help you become an alchemist in your own life, to help you discover your life's "gold". In this three-hour program you'll find powerful principles and methods that will enable you to create tremendous abundance and financial prosperity.

The mind of man contains the greatest of all forces - that thought is one of the greatest manifestations of energy. Whosoever understands the use of thought-force can make of himself practically what he will. Not only is one's body subject to the control of the mind, but that, also, one may change environment, "luck", circumstances, by positive thought taking the place of negative.

When well-known community activist, Lacey Taylor goes missing whilst walking her dog, the police are at a loss to find any evidence as to where she is. A local man finds the collar, which belonged to her dog near Crosby Beach, home of the eerie Iron Men statues (Anthony Gormley's 'Another Place') and DI Annie Jones calls in the canine units to aid the search. What they find shocks even the most hardened detectives on her Major Investigation Team.

Her father called it the running game. Count the exits, calculate the routes. Always be ready to run because they'll always be coming for you. Whatever happens, they'll always be coming for you. Rachel had let her guard down and they had found her. She could run now, leave the city and try her luck beyond the borders, but with no money and a dark secret to hide her chances of survival are slim. But then she meets two brothers with a dangerous past and secrets of their own. Can they help her turn the game around?

A scientist makes two stunning discoveries: First, his lost soul mate is alive in an alternate universe, and second, the Earth is doomed. Science prodigies Lije (Elijah) Grant and Laura Bess Austin have been soul mates since they were kids. But as Laura Bess is flying off to college, the plane goes down and all aboard are lost. Lije is devastated; the love of his life is gone.

This one-of-a-kind program will inspire you to achieve what you desire most in life, regardless of your age, occupation or environment. It will inspire you to realize that anything is possible, and to believe there are always opportunities to succeed despite how bleak the outlook may currently appear. Indeed, everything we desire is within reach, if we just choose to pursue it. These 30 people, and their inspiring rags to riches stories serve as proof.

One little lie - the tiniest whisker - throws pampered Miss Wheaton into a pickle... and into the arms of a notorious duke. She was only trying to help a friend, how on earth could things have gone all in a muddle? The more she attempts to tidy her life, the more sordid things seem to get. Now rumors have marked her a hussy, her best friend has gone missing, and that dratted duke is doing unexpected things to her heart! However will she untangle herself from this mess?

Great Expectations is the 13th novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.

In the dark winter of Orkney, King Lot's wife delivers a stillborn daughter. In the lonely desperation that follows, she begs her husband for a single boon, to allow her sister, Morgan, to come to her, promising in return that Morgan can guarantee them a son. Ignoring the advice of his kinsman, Elóil, Lot agrees. Morgan predicts that Margaise will conceive the son she wants, but warns her that the boy will kill his father and destroy his kingdom.

No power. No internet. No phones. No clue what has happened and worst of all, no people. The few survivors are alone, stuck in a world where everything they have come to rely on is taken away in the blink of an eye. Gary, the businessman, in a second chance relationship, trapped with no transport 150 miles from his new partner and desperate to find her.