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How far would you go to protect a child in your classroom? Would you be willing to stand up to the grim reaper?

“It’s fine if neither of you can see her. I’m just tired of having all this bad energy around.” Beth has always been a bit different than the other children. Her parents have accepted her, but society still hasn’t. Instead of letting it get her down, Beth decides to try and solve a murder mystery that happened over a decade ago in her newly acquired home. With the aid of a new friend, Beth is determined to find out what happened to the Maydale family, and why they have yet to find peace in the afterlife. They say seeing is believing, but Beth is wondering how much she should ...

Step back in time to the late 1800s, where the mystical lands of Dartmoor serve as the backdrop for a tale of magic, mischief, and democracy. Meet Snuffle Weed, a cantankerous goblin with a greedy thirst for water that knows no bounds, much to the chagrin of the local water sprites.

When turbulence turns lethal, eight members of an aviation crew find themselves targeted by a shadowy killer at 30,000 feet. As the bodies stack up and panic threatens to snuff out their last moments, it falls to Lisa Portwood—a sharp-witted flight attendant and former FBI agent—to uncover the truth behind the chilling chaos. With her instincts and resourcefulness, Lisa must peel back layers of deception, revealing a meticulous murderer who has ingeniously disguised each death as an accident.

In today’s environment, financial advisors are faced with many challenging conversations that meet at the intersection of money and emotions. Enter Better conversations. Better outcomes., presented by BMO Global Asset Management. This podcast seeks to enhance advisor conversations by exploring topics relevant to today’s trusted advisors. Ben D. Jones and Emily Larsen interview experts covering wealth advising from every angle and provide ideas for client engagement, portfolios and practice management that can be put into action today. Make your next conversation a better conversation. ...

Studies have shown that 20 minutes of meditation twice a day are actually more effective than drugs in reducing mild hypertension. In this audio version of her book How to Meditate, the author reviews both the spiritual and physical benefits of meditation.

The tremors were faint, but grew stronger, releasing a swarm of quakes when a cataclysmic super-volcano erupts in North America, killing 100,000 souls instantly. Summer turns into a long winter, lasting more than a decade. Food shortages result in widespread famine. Humanity hadn’t fared well. Looting and riots killed more humans than even the Creator predicted.

It’s a worldwide test that everyone’s agreed upon. Its main purpose? Thinning out the human herd. The population was growing too fast. Death by starvation was more common than murder or accident. Changes had to be made. An initial strategy to decrease the population was used, but the outcry against it was too massive to dismiss.

A woman with no past holds the key to a brighter future for a gruff detective with big dreams and bigger aspirations. Kim - a name that may not even be hers - hasn’t had it easy in life for the past few years. She’s struggled to survive after waking up with no memories in a world where identification is a necessity. By chance she’s come into contact with the one person who thinks that her newfound abilities might be the solution to saving more lives than just hers. Can she learn to trust someone else when she can’t even trust herself?

Zora James knows the pain of loss, the lick of flames, the passion of purpose. But she's never known the heat of love. Yet when she meets Alastar, the sexy Ranger with a hero complex, Zora knows her life will never be the same. Alastar Adams knows the sting of rejection. But he's never known the healing heat of love, the power of unexpected happiness. Yet when he meets Zora, the elegant law student with the soul of an angel, Alastar knows his life will never be the same.

Issa, tribal chieftain and warrior, dies trying to protect his family and tribesmen from slave traders but is given a second chance at life as an angel. Having lost his home, daughters, and life by forces beyond his control, Issa, a guardian angel for four centuries, has yet to come to terms with this "failure". So when a rogue demon attacks and almost kills his wife, Serwa, Issa goes on the hunt.

The Sophic Hydrolith, or Waterstone of the Wise, is an influential alchemical text that compares the alchemical process with that of the Gospels of Christ. Through the analogy of Christ, the work describes the process of obtaining, and more importantly, the application of the Philosopher’s Stone.

After surviving an attempt to end his life, Spencer is determined to make it through whatever horrors await him to get what he wants. Lead by a guide he’s not sure he can completely trust, Spencer will have to put his faith in the unknown and hope that he’s strong enough to see the end of his journey. Facing off against things that the human mind can’t possibly comprehend, a man with nothing to lose will learn the true meaning of regret, remorse, and recovery.

Enter a house that holds more spiritual energy than any other, and listen on as the mystery of the Maydale Hauntings unfold. Starting with the original family of despair and ending with a child who sees more than most, the Maydale Hauntings is a complete series about horror and unexplainable phenomenon. Each family will have to learn to stand together in order to have a fighting chance at surviving an experience no one would ever believe. Ghosts are very real, and the ones who stick around on Earth are not to be trifled with.

The population was growing too fast. Death by starvation was more common than murder or accident. Changes had to be made. An initial strategy to decrease the population was used, but the outcry against it was too massive to dismiss. Thus, The 12 Mile Course was created. The course boasts a 36 percent success rate of a child finishing it alive. Chris, a boy on the cusp of turning 16, is about to find out just how effective the new system is at making sure only the strong survive.

Mandy, Serena, Tina, Dan, Matt, and Jordon are about to find out why they’ve been summoned to the Hayback Woods with mysterious invitations. Six students from Almward high school have been invited to touch the Darkrock: a strange rock no one has ever heard of before. Not knowing whether the invitation is a blessing or a curse, the teenagers decide to test the waters and find out just what their own desires may be. Little do they know that they’re about to get a lot more than they bargained for.

What if there was something that only one of your senses knew was there? How far would you trust yourself to find out the mystery of what lurks just outside our ability to detect it? Six strangers are interrupted form their daily lives when they find out that they can detect a hidden creature in their city with only one of their senses. What exactly is this creature, and what does it want? Chasing down the entity with sight, smell, taste, sound, touch, and intuition, these ordinary citizens will discover that in this world, there's something more than what meets the eye.

This thirty-first issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of five sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - each from a different featured master of speculative fiction. Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 31 features "Fortune Cookies" by Hunter C. Eden; "That Time of Year" by D.K. Cassidy, "The Pairing Witch" by David Alan Jones, "Similar" by Holly Heisey, and "#Eddie_and_June" by Daniel Arthur Smith.

Before she was an author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels, N. D. Jones was an educator. In her essay, she reflects on her 20-plus years as an educator in a field where most public school teachers and administrators are middle-class White women responsible for the academic future of more than 20 million students of color. Jones’ insights come from her years of facilitating cultural proficiency professional development for employees in a White-dominated public school system where all is supposed to mean all, yet racial inequity and disproportionality persist.

When the heavenly council member Soal, representing the Holy Trifecta, amplifies their network of warriors across the universe, an unsuspecting group of college students finds themselves invited into a secret society. The secret society offers them the allure of powers and the answers to some of life’s enigmatic questions. This leads to four students - Blaine, Josephine, George, and Rose - being thrust into the midst of an ancient conflict.