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St. Louis is a concrete jungle of fetid heat, acid rains, and cutthroats. With JB Dix gravely wounded, Ryan and his group become captive guests of a local barony. Freedom lies in the success of a deal: Recapture a runaway teen, daughter of the ailing baron. But the dangerous power behind the throne rests with a self-proclaimed holy man. His gruesome manipulation of life and death are about to put the group in a race for their own salvation. Every day is a devil's bargain in Deathlands.

Best-selling author Colin Wilson has long pursued the nature of peak experiences, and here are the results of his 40-year investigation. Through a wealth of engaging anecdotes, he reveals how the peak experiences of such historical figures as Yeats, Blake, and Sartre, among others, influenced their work. Plus, he offers clues to unlocking this spiritual power in our own lives.

Colin Wilson was one of the most prolific and eclectic writers of the 20th century. In more than 150 books and countless articles and contributions to other works, published over 50 years, he covered subjects as diverse as existentialism, esotericism and the occult, religion, biography, and several volumes of autobiography.

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#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty...

A blood ritual demands a life to save a people. Can Madeline forgive the past enough to save her nemesis? Madeline’s nemesis from the law firm has been snatched through the veils between the realms, and she's landed in the hands of a people known as the Choi. Was it Madeline’s spell gone awry that brought her? Guilt pushes her to make it right. Skye Greatmother knows that her people, the Choi, face extinction without the ritual. She’s betting the future of her people on the blood power of a strange woman from a foreign land.

Climate Change and the Road to Net-Zero is a story of how humanity has broken free from the shackles of poverty, suffering, and war and for the first time in human history, grown both population and prosperity. It’s also a story of how a single species has reconfigured the natural world, repurposed the Earth’s resources, and begun to reengineer the climate. The book uses these conflicting narratives to explore the science, economics, technology, and politics of climate change.

Home to Texas. Harvest festivals and berry picking. Just what Gladys needed. Unless you count the murder of an old rival. When Gladys falls under suspicion, will her cousin leave her high and dry or help hunt for clues?

Madeline Higginbottom is a warrior in the courtroom. But her trial skills are useless when she’s transported to an alternate dimension and forced into the role of foretold savior. And with the prophecy’s actual mission unclear, her odds of surviving long enough to get home shrink by the minute.

Evangellyfish is a ruthless, grimly amused, and above all, honest look at one of the darkest corners in the western world. Douglas Wilson, a pastor of more than 30 years, paints a vivid and painful picture of evangelical boomchurch leadership...in bed. Chad Lester's kingdom is found in the Midwest. When Lester is (falsely) accused of molesting a young male counselee, his universe begins to crumble. He is a sexual predator, yes. But strictly straight. Detectives, reporters, assistant pastors, and old lovers and pay-offs all come out to play.

This book will guide you towards becoming an entrepreneur and establish your own business. What makes this book different from others is that it contains tones of ideas and true-life stories, of pensioners who set up businesses in various entrepreneurial fields; in manufacturing, sales, writing, voluntary organizations, and much more.

A collection of paintings has complicated Lord Rothvale’s life in ways he could never imagine. Actually, make that a beautiful art specialist from the University of London responsible for the complications in his life. He’s sure about one thing, though. Before Gabrielle Hargreave blew back into his sights on a stormy summer night, he never felt this good. She’s turned his world upside down, along with his wounded heart. But Gabrielle is sporting a wounded heart of her own, and she’s terrified of risking it again on someone like Ivan. Will he hurt her as others have done?

While Life as Play chronicles the author's life-long spiritual journey, his goal is to provide a road map for those seeking Oneness with Everything. In its audio, you will discover how to allow your innate Playful essence to express itself in every moment. Think of Mark's story as a tour and initiation into a life of Play. This book is filled with tales of the unexpected and the unique circumstances that characterize a life of Play.

Daddles delightfully captures the innocence of childhood as a brother and sister fall in love with a plain hound dog during their summer vacations in Maine. Though owned by the “meanest, dirtiest and most shiftless family in Haddock Harbor,” the young siblings “adopt” Daddles for two glorious summers. The intelligent, endearing hound dog wins the hearts of all as he joins in with capturing a thief, escaping a house fire, and dodging trouble at a local circus.

Charlie Mo is a young skirt-chaser that inherited a small fortune from his deceased parents. He relished being a womanizer with an army of Gold-Diggers until he lost everything that was left to him. Being down on his luck, Charlie Mo builds a close bond with his boss and closest friend, Tin Can, that gives him hope he can turn his life around. But for every positive step Charlie Mo makes costs him three steps backwards. It takes getting suckered one last time for Charlie Mo to find real love, real character, and realize the one who fools him the most.

Scott Meachum is having a rough night full of bad luck. But nothing could prepare him for the life-altering decision he has to make.

Dealing with narcissists can be emotionally and psychologically exhausting and traumatic. Most narcissists feel entitled to everyone’s attention, and exploit others without guilt or shame. Often times, the victims never really know what hit them until it’s too late. Award-winning author Naila Farrah knows a thing or two about falling victim to a narcissist. She aims to empower people like you to take back control and start living a new life free from your narcissistic abuser’s grip.

If you were given a second chance at life, what would you do with it? Kevin Parker got that chance when he nearly died from a drug overdose, losing his leg in the ordeal. He made the decision to fight back against addiction, beginning a spiritual journey of self-development. Along the way, he became a coach and a public speaker to inspire others to overcome their own struggles.

In less than one hour, Bill Wilson sketches the historical development of Alcoholics Anonymous....

There was a cool cat who swallowed a hat. I don't know why he swallowed the hat. Hey, dig that cat! A sax, a trumpet, a trombone, and more... Join Cool Cat and the Meow-Meow Band for this jazzy take on the popular children's rhyme, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly".