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The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with approximately 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, prison, or community custody. With true crime podcasts like Serial bringing these statistics to the forefront of our minds and giving us an insight into what the...

These stories represent decades of collaboration between author David Niall Wilson and a wide array of talented authors. All have been professionally published - some have been reprinted and collected. All are the result of two muses meeting on paper. Meet a modern day Don Quixote, fighting Y2K bug nightmares, and striving to save the woman of his dreams. Learn how Edgar Allen Poe might have found his tales. Face off on a lonely mountaintop with Lovecraftian nightmares.

Includes a conversation between Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. Stephen King teams up with longtime friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the town of Castle Rock - paired on audio with King's Edgar Award-nominated story 'The Music Room'.

An epic story of a forgotten hero. Haunted by the murder of his family and scorned by an ungrateful kingdom that blames him for the demise of their beloved Queen, Silurian Mintaka decides he can't fight for his king anymore. To re-enter the hostile fray of his peers would probably end up with him killing them all. An old man reaches through his darkness, convincing him the people's need outweighs his loathing of them.

Find out how you can harness your positive thoughts to get everything you can imagine. How to get more of what you desire is simple, but only for a select few. Now you can use the same thinking as successful people, and by doing so you will see your results skyrocket! It's time to dream big. You can do it!

Das große Finale der "Gwendy"-Trilogie. Gwendy, inzwischen in einem hohen politischen Amt und für Klimafragen zuständig, begibt sich zu wissenschaftlichen Zwecken in die Erdumlaufbahn. Dabei ist sie aber auf ihrer eigenen geheimen Mission unterwegs. Der Wunschkasten ist zu ihr zurückgekehrt, mächtiger und zerstörerischer denn je. Die Aufgabe, die Welt zu retten, könnte für sie zu einer Reise ohne Rückkehr werden.

Wiedersehen mit Castle Rock. Die kleine Stadt Castle Rock in Maine hat die seltsamsten Vorkommnisse und ungewöhnlichsten Besucher erlebt. Warum sollte es der 12-jährigen Gwendy anders ergehen? Eines Tages tritt ein schwarz gekleideter Unbekannter an sie heran und macht ihr ein Geschenk: einen Kasten mit lauter Schaltern und Hebeln. Wozu er dient? Gwendy probiert es aus, und ihr Leben verändert sich von Grund auf.

Ask and the Universe Will Provide is about you becoming the creator of your future and helping you manifest your desires. Do not chance leaving it up to others; now you can design your future today. This really is your survival kit for changing your life to how you want it to be. The life of your dreams is waiting for you inside of Ask and the Universe Will Provide.

Wentworth, Ohio: a small, friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business. On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it's just a normal summer's day - with Frisbees flying, lawn mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome-red van idling up the hill....

If you are under the impression that building confidence is all about tapping your inner strength, hold it right there! This book will take you through an easy-to-follow process of building self-confidence that is simpler than you imagined; Jedi easy! Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.

Black Sheep casts a slant on a range of human experiences from life to death, sex to romance, from speed thrills to halting boredom and from drinking alcohol (in moderation) to headily excessive bad language. This is a fascinating left-field tour of the world of psychological science. Get ready for the many hidden benefits of being bad that you really won't have seen coming.

A lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project puts him out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge. Driving his wife and friends away with his growing obsession, he...

A phantasm from a darker past makes its presence known to Khae Wys, Queen of the Elves. Braving the perils of a haunted tower, the queen seeks the counsel of the mysterious Fae, for only they can predict what is to come. A future that doesn't bode well for her only living child. In a desperate attempt to save the heir to the Willow Throne, Princess Ouderling is exiled to the only place capable of protecting her. Highcliff, the home of the coveted Crystal Cavern and the dragons that watch over it. The Duke of Grim, however, has other plans for the princess.

Garraty, un jeune adolescent natif du Maine, va concourir pour "La Longue Marche", une compétition qui compte cent participants. Cet événement est très attendu. Il sera retransmis à la télévision, suivi par des milliers de personnes. Mais ce n'est pas une marche comme les autres, plutôt un jeu sans foi ni loi... Garraty a tout intérêt à gagner. Le contraire pourrait lui coûter cher. Très cher.

A storm is brewing over the ocean. One that will destroy life as they know it in the kingdom of Zephyr and beyond. The Banebridge Companion Novels chronicle the events that bring together three people, with unique and dark backgrounds, in a last-ditch effort to keep the lore and secrets of their beloved kingdom from falling prey to a malign sorcerer and his army of demons.

Featuring Stephen King, Clive Barker, Stewart O'Nan, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Keene, and many others! Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King...

Dream no longer. Make your wishes become reality. Today is the first day of your new life of happiness, so make it happen. Why wait until tomorrow for what you can do today? Enjoy the journey of life the way you choose to and long for. Do you have wishes that you long to come true? Look no further, as Cosmic Ordering is here to help you through the steps to fulfilling your dreams and ambitions. The same dreams and ambitions you long for but have never been able to achieve.

Imagine Sherlock Holmes solving cases where the clues include a mysterious cask of Amontillado – the haunting cries of a raven – an unnerving asylum – a man’s uncanny doppelganger!

There’s something strange about the woman living on top of the hill and the people of Fishmonger Bay leave her alone. At least until the day she pays a visit to the village witch. Banding together, the villagers decide to take action. One magic user is bad enough; the emergence of another - intolerable. With her life spinning out of control, Reecah Draakvriend struggles to unravel the dark secret hanging over her head. Trying to fit in with society, she must decide whether to slay the dragon or become a victim of her people.

When Gwendy Peterson was 12, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life, and she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented. With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger, and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, to keep it from them.