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College student Meg Talley survives a violent attack, but when she insists her assailant was a hideous, monster-like creature, she is called hysterical. Journalist Douglas Morgan, private eye Nick Grundel, and horror novelist Blake Corbett, however, have each theorized the mangling, incredible though it seems, might be the work of a werewolf. Now they team up with Meg to peruse an intensive investigation. Neither skeptics nor believers are prepared for the bone-chilling terror and cataclysmic violence that will be unleashed in the night of the January full moon....

A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. The sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009. August Epp...

A gripping story that reveals what happened to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocated its headquarters there, illustrating how radical changes in American politics impact our psyches and divide our communities. “A timely and engagingly written account by an...

The Russian military has surged, invading the devastated United States in large numbers. Russian civilians are arriving, laying claim to the spoils of war. Events from John's past bring new dangers for the few remaining survivors as the Russians begin an all-out effort to capture and send him to Moscow for trial and execution. Precipice continues the story of the V Plague survivors' struggle to evade both the infected and the invading army.

When Dr. David Black takes an internship at a very old psychiatric hospital back home in Alabama, he vows two things - that he will be a better husband to his beautiful and loving wife Pria, and that he will stop cheating on her. Then his enigmatic supervisor Dr. Cassie Allen, a self-proclaimed witch with ties to the underworld, begins to draw him into her darkness. David finds it hard to resist her wicked sensuality, but even harder to resist her evil pull.

Such a sweet little boy. Such a dear teddy. Why is everyone so afraid? Sandy isn't afraid. She's the babysitter. And she and Jamie are going to be great pals. But Sandy should never tell Jamie she loves him, not even teasing. Maybe most boys Jamie's age don't know much about sex... but Teddy does. And Jamie does whatever Teddy tells him. A bright smiling boy and his Teddy. The lure of evil. And a wave of sickening violence that sweeps the terrified town. What fiend in their midst could do such hideous things?

Famous for his advocacy of "critical pedagogy", Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals.

Wendy has loved her husband, Atlas, since she was twelve years old. He was her first kiss. Her first love. Her forever. Together, they built what everyone else called a perfect life. They married young, raised two beautiful boys, and were still deeply in love. Until Atlas pulled away. Wendy does...

Tú no eres el carro que manejas. Cada mañana te paras frente al espejo y revisas el carro: la cara, el peso, los años. ¿Y cuántas veces al día te preguntas cómo está, de verdad, el que va manejando? Este audiolibro propone una idea sencilla que no vas a poder olvidar: tu cuerpo es el vehículo, y tú eres quien lo conduce. A partir de esa distinción, todo cambia: la manera en que te ves al espejo, la forma en que eliges a quien viaja a tu lado y lo que crees de ti el día que el carro falla.

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the...

An exciting new thriller from the USA TODAY-bestselling master of undersea adventure. Tiller Galloway, black-sheep hero of HATTERAS BLUE, BAHAMAS BLUE, LOUISIANA BLUE, and DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA, is back! When the IRS begins asking how a blue-collar oilfield diver and ex-con drug smuggler ended up so rich, Galloway flees with his son Max to Cancun, Mexico. There, July Toll, whom Tiller knew from cave diving in Florida, has been hired to help hunt for a mysterious "Site X," associated with the collapse of the Mayans circa AD 900.

In this gripping memoir, Andrew W. Seefeld traces the hidden emotional architecture that shapes our lives long before we recognize it. Through an unflinching personal narrative, he examines how early wounds give rise to protective strategies — achievement, control, perfectionism, and emotional withdrawal — that help us survive and even succeed. But what happens when the very strategies that once protected us begin to consume us?

I fell in love with Gavin Dunn when I was twelve. All it took was one game of spin the bottle and I was ruined. One kiss, and three seconds, and no matter how many boys I kissed, they didn't make me feel like he did. The problem? He belonged to my best friend. I kissed him first. She kissed him...

William Osler was one of the big four founding fathers of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and later became the Regis Professor of Medicine at Oxford. But this acclaimed physician was so much more. This is a remarkable story.

Listen to history's first ever account of a gunshot wound to the spine.

The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes—naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last 10 years, the most popular living author of American sea fiction has spent thousands of hours researching for Shipmate, the Academy's magazine. The extraordinary personal stories of adventure and courage he's collected span American history, from the Mexican War to the War on Terror.

Thomas Alva Edison, February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931, was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. In this recording, Edison discusses some of his numerous inventions.

Dean Brandon has fought his inner monster since childhood. Although suppressed, even in adulthood it's still caged inside him, and the violent urges are always there like a recovering alcoholic needing just one drink. The creepy old lady warns him not to write the book he is planning. But that novel is more important to him than any of the previous ones. It's the story he needs to write to exorcise the monster once and for all.

Thierry Laroque, war hero and retired mechanic in rural Tennessee, would like nothing more than to live out his days in peace and quiet, but a dark secret buried in the distant past continues to haunt him. When his Wall Street power-broker brother—the person he blames for the loss of his one true love—shows up destitute at his door after decades of estrangement, Thierry comes face-to-face with the ghosts of a life frozen in time.

When his former senior chief, Steve Auger, is brutally assassinated, former Navy SEAL officer Matthew Barrett has a choice to make. He can slide back into an all too familiar pattern of alcohol abuse and depression, or he can shake his demons and hunt down the murderers responsible for his friend’s death.