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Dory wakes up in the padded room of a psychiatric hospital with no recollection of how she wound up there. She soon finds out she's been Blue-Papered - involuntarily committed. She gets sent to the wrong counseling group and discovers a whole new world of psychiatric patients she'd never known existed. At first, she just thinks they're cutters, all marked by similar scars, but then she finds out those scars are from carving into their own bodies to satisfy their bone-crazy addiction. When they find out Dory's never tapped into her bones, she becomes their target.

Why did Norman Mailer stab his second wife at a party? Who was Edith Wharton's secret transatlantic lover? What motivated Anais Nin to become a bigamist? Writers Between the Covers rips the sheets off these and other real-life love stories of the literati - some with fairy tale endings and others that resulted in break-ups, breakdowns, and brawls. Among the writers laid bare are Agatha Christie, who sparked the largest-ever manhunt in England as her marriage fell apart; Arthur Miller, whose jaw-dropping pairing with Marilyn Monroe proved that opposites attract, at least initially.

This volume relates the stories of the Borgias and the Cenci. The former, a family of Spanish adventurers, came to dominate the Italian peninsula, and, when Rodergio Borgia became Pope Alexander VI, the world of Christendom, in the late 15th century. The Cenci was an aristocratic family, in which rampant sexual and domestic abuse led to murder and very public execution.

A Baker’s Dozen - A collection of 13 classic Christmas stories.

Most of us know our sun sign. But our sun sign is only half the picture, the daytime, public half. Your natal moon sign represents the deeper aspect of who you are, your private, intuitive self, that part of you connected to the collective unconscious. It symbolizes your emotions, the depth of your intuition, your capacity for recognizing synchronicity, and

This book invites you to explore gratitude through the lens of Christian teachings, practical applications, and reflections from saints and modern Christian leaders. It seeks to inspire a deeper spiritual connection and a more joyful, fulfilling life rooted in thanksgiving.

Time Is on Your Side tells the compelling story of a handful of characters. Alison is a beautiful, dedicated high school history teacher who, as she approaches middle age, having never been married nor having had any children, is beginning to feel like the happily-ever-after relationship ending that she had always hoped for may be a pipe dream.

When Brynn and her best friends, Peyton and Raven, stumble over a dead body at her aunt's grand opening party for the B&B, they already have plenty of suspects in mind. But when Chief Baedie threatens to shut down Aunt Aggie's B&B before it even opens on Christmas Eve, the girls, along with Jinx the cat, decide to solve the case on their own. Using the skills they acquired on their last case, they set out on a whirlwind adventure trying to piece together the one clue they found.

Listeners are invited to sit back and enjoy this collection of classic Yuletide tales....

Many world changers who pursued life with passion lit those initial fires at home. Their parents framed their experience by providing in their living spaces a fertile environment for learning and exploring. Your child’s mind is a dynamic, living container that will be filled with something. Education begins on day one. If we as parents are too busy to step into our role as life mentors to our children, their little minds will learn from other sources.

They arrived without warning, raining death and chaos across the surface of the Earth. Humanity fought back, and although we didn't win, we did cripple them, fighting them to a standstill on the planet and in orbit. Now, more than a hundred years later, the world is a very different place. Technology varies wildly from region to region as does which race dominates the other. After so many decades of détente, the enemy is once more on the move; but not just against the surviving enclaves of humanity, also against members of their own species.

Keira Gully has always felt different. But when her family dies in a tragic accident, she discovers the terrifying truth. To put her life together, she holds a memorial for her family, except distant relatives send her cryptic warnings to not touch the dead. She ignores their insanity and helps a dying man at the grave site. But when she senses his spirit return to his body, she remembers the warning.

When high school seniors, Brynn O'Connell, and her best friend, Peyton Patterson, discover a dead body during the Copper Cove Festival, they had no idea their lives would forever change...for the better. Standing next to the victim is the strange new girl in town, Raven Masters. When Brynn identifies the murder weapon as belonging to her Grams, the three girls set out to prove Granny Winnie is no killer! Brynn and Peyton must learn to set aside their prejudices and trust the quirky new girl. After all, she seems to be an old pro at sleuthing.

One woman’s quest to join an esoteric pain cult operating below the city of Las Vegas has earth-shattering ramifications. Guided by visions and a cast of potentially nefarious characters, Sybil transforms her mind and body in an effort to cross impossible thresholds. Enlightenment and physical oblivion walk hand-in-hand.

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first crime novelists and paved the way for later female writers of detective novels, like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. Among her prolific output are twelve novels featuring her main character, detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force. This collection contains the third group of three novels in the series: Initials Only (1911), One of My Sons (1901), and The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917).

Shrouded in a world of intrepid agents and fatal assassins, a fearless operative dares to escape his allegiance to the cause. When his renown rises after successfully orchestrating a string of daring train raids, Confederate scout Drouet Broussard is inducted into a covert league loyal to a lethal cause - the Knights of the Golden Circle. With war raging, Broussard’s assignments become successively bolder and involve him in the ultimate mission: A presidential assassination.

Sandi is just a girl, a mom, a lover...and now a killer. There is only one chance left to sabotage the opposition that seeks to annihilate democracy and the republic. This counter-coup fits Sandi like a glove. If Sandi succeeds, not only will the power and basic services will be restored, but our way of life as well. If Sandi fails, many will fall. Either way, someone's going to get their heart broken. Either way, someone's going to die! This is the long-awaited finale of destruction, revenge, and blood. Will hope win out in the end?

Sandi used to sleep with Jimmy, her man. Now she slept with her AK-47 with a detachable scope. Her Bible lay dusty in the cab of the truck. The nightmares of the past years haunted her. Sandi wasn't the fun, happy, busy girl she used to be. The Opposition took what she most held dear. She could still barely stomach the horrifying images in her head. This time, she was not going to let it go.

On any given day, Chief Carrie Stewart has her hands full, between meth cooks, pot farmers, drunk and disorderly calls, and the ever-present day to day hassles of running an underfunded police department. But when first livestock and then people start dying, it will take the help of a mysterious man and all her resources to discover the truth. Is she the hunter, or the hunted?

A Praying Heart will take you on a journey where you will learn what God says about prayer as well as strengthen your prayer life.