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From a family restaurant to a hot-dog shaped car, from an empty road on a moonlight night to a classroom holiday celebration, this anthology of personal stories from award-winning and bestselling authors, shows that hope can live everywhere, even—or especially—during the darkest of times. No matter what happens: Hope wins.

For Marnie Barnes, realizing she’s a Mary Bennet is devastating. But she’s determined to reinvent herself, so she enlists the help of her bubbly roommate and opens up to the world. And between new friends, a very cute boy, and a rescue pup named Sir Pat, Marnie finds herself on a path to becoming a new person entirely. But she’s no Lizzy, or even Mary—instead, she’s someone even better: just plain Marnie.

Private Investigator Mallory Dimante has no time for a pro-bono cold case. Focused on developing the detective firm she’s building with her partner, Jake Steiner, she needs work that can keep them and their new Seattle houseboat afloat. But she can’t say no when she comes face-to-face with the victim of a devastating acid attack.

Bethan listened as her father explained to her mother the mission that he was giving to her brother, Lynn, and her Uncle Bryn. After she’s heard all of the details, she left the big house and returned to her small house where she began to pack. She was frustrated at being unable to apply the skills that she’d been learning from her father since she was just a young girl, knowing that if she’d been born male, she would have been sworn in as a deputy marshal within a year.

Turn on, tune in, and drop-dead! Whispers from the Abyss returns with this best-of audio collection, which brings together some of the best tales published in this long-running Lovecraft-inspired anthology series. Find out why Amazing Stories Magazine described Whispers from the Abyss as HP Lovecraft's "mutant bastard offspring, whose mission is to misbehave dreadfully and have a wonderful time doing so.

Question: What would be the most humiliating and debasing thing that could ever happen to a woman? Just ask high school principal Bonnie Willis. Thanks to a Burmese gut infection that has begun to spread throughout the community, the health department has set up curtained examination areas in the middle of the gym. And all faculty and staff are required to submit to a very intimate medical exam.

Who is Mister Manners, the elusive vigilante marauding Florida? He's been gluing shopping carts to car roofs, hiding pythons in unsuspecting tourists' beds, and did he really try to kill a mob bagman by burying him in horse manure? Weird news reporter Alexander Strange is determined to discover the answer to that question. If he can keep from getting shot, survive a blustering hurricane, avoid toxic toads, fend off the Queen of Murder and Mayhem, and, oh yeah, not piss of Mister Manners, himself.

From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed colonies have created irresistible opportunities for those brave enough to seize them. New worlds, found family, mystical secrets, and deadly science weave together in this lesbian-centric anthology focusing on a very different kind of first time - a first encounter with a world, or being, entirely unlike our own.

The Necronomicon was not the first book by H.P. Lovecraft to terrify readers with tales of dark and twisted horrors from beyond. No, the Al-Azif, or Book of the Insect, is the first work that told mankind of Cthulhu, Azathoth, and other terrors. Indeed, it was the book that inspired "The Mad Arab" Abdul Al-Hazred to write its more famous successor.

An unexpected betrayal forces Hasting to abandon his closest ally. With his heart turned black, he rekindles the savagery of his race. In sacking Nantes, his bravery and luck earn him a place in the skalds' songs. Word of his deeds reach his kin in the North, and more and more sea captains sail to Francia to join him, hoping his luck might help theirs.

Johnny's wife Tina is in trouble. Big trouble. While walking their dog, she took a shortcut home through the neighbor's yard and accidentally trampled some of his flowers. Ordinarily, that wouldn't be a major crisis. But Johnny and Tina happen to live next door to quite possibly the meanest neighbor in the world - Aaron McDougall, a grumpy, perpetually angry old curmudgeon who is known to go ballistic at the slightest provocation.

The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations.

Whether you’re just wondering how on Earth we can finally be free or maybe that there is no hope, either way, Just Imagine will answer both questions. Perhaps you are worried about the future of our generations or what a world of love actually looks like. Again, either way and in visionary based detail, Just Imagine will answer many questions.

John Desrosiers is one seriously embarrassed and sexually frustrated guy. At 46, he's never actually seen his foxy wife Vikki nude. She’s just too inhibited and too modest. So, in the bedroom, it's always lights out and no male-friendly frills for him. Sure, he loves his Vikki to the moon and back. So, when she calls him one morning to announce that she’s about to receive a big promotion at work, she invites him to come share the moment with her, and, of course, he hurries right over.

Barry Donahue may be a Protestant minister, but he's also a guy - a guy who loves his gorgeous wife Faith and one who has male urges galore. Naturally, being the wife of a minister, along with her own innate modesty, causes Faith to be more than a little unadventurous in their sex life. This leaves poor Barry feeling more than a little frustrated!

Private Jake Elliott was apprehensive as he walked to the commander’s office. He couldn’t think of a single transgression that would have attracted the major’s attention. When he left the command building 10 minutes later, he was still numbed by the short visit. Tomorrow, he would no longer be a cavalryman, but would be returning to the family ranch outside of Fort Benton in Montana Territory. But it was the reason he was being discharged before his enlistment expired that had been the biggest shock.

Do ideas race in your head, one competing to outdo the other in an infinite loop, preventing you from getting to the action stage? Do you intend to do many projects to change the world but find yourself unable to get started even on the first one in your long, winding to-do list? I got you right this time! You are not lazy, you are a perfectionist! Be embarrassed no more after today as your never-ending piles of tasks are going to be neatly checked and tucked away. No more sweating, snoozing, and sabotaging, for smiling is the new norm!

Burdizzo Book's Matty-Bob and Em invited some of their favourite indie authors to write stories inspired by their most beloved songs. The result is The Burdizzo Mix-Tape Vol.1, their most diverse anthology yet. These are tunes that resonate from the beach to the mountains, from rain dogs to spirits in the sky, from Old Ones to cold ones. Be it multi-dimensional romance across space and time, Cold War sexual paranoia, campfire cowboys, gypsy caravans, or demented disco balls, there is a song for everyone within these stories.

Babylon Berlin mit Magie: ein historisches Fantasy-Hörbuch aus der Weimarer Republik. Das Leben im Berlin der Zwanzigerjahre gleicht einem Tanz auf dem Vulkan. Zumal sich die Magie auf der Straße und im Nachtleben breitmacht. Eine Frau verschwindet und taucht wenig später als Steinstatue wieder auf. Nazis machen mit einem aus dem Nichts beschworenen Adler Jagd auf politische Gegner, und selbst das Varieté fügt den ohnehin schon abgefahrenen Nummern ein paar übernatürliche hinzu. Sogar der Reichstag berät über die Möglichkeit einer Wiederbewaffnung mit magischen Mitteln.

Lynn glared at Ryan Mitchell and wanted to smack his smug face. Even though Ryan meant to insult him, Lynn knew that there was a very good chance that what he said was right. He’d suspected for years now that Dylan Evans wasn’t his real father. It didn’t take a math wizard to figure out that he’d been born nine months after his mother had been rescued from Fort Benton.