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Are you ready for a different kind of superhero? Using disguise and guile, the mysterious and charismatic Checkmate has been exposing corrupt politicians for years. This notorious vigilante is both hunted by the authorities and hailed by the press, and their biggest fan is rookie journalist Cheryl Walker. But now Checkmate has drawn Cheryl into an unlikely partnership. Sinister forces are at work, a powerful, faceless cabal that has wearied of Checkmate's crusade and intends to use Cheryl as bait to finally destroy the vigilante.

The Colonial Scouts are an elite group of explorers who seek out habitable planets for the Colonial Expansion Board. They travel through space via programmable wormholes. Natica is drowning in siblings. She hopes that if she becomes a Scout, she will rise above her brothers and sisters and shine. But when a man dies because of her mistake, she leaves the program and returns home a failure.

There's a dog, of course. But what connection does he have to a little girl who disappeared years before? Things at Welcome Home, the home Polly and her mom run for military veterans, are not going as swimmingly as they would like, and Polly may have messed up her relationship with Tyler, the smart, sexy and wonderful love of her life. Oh! And there are chickens. Let's not forget the chickens.

Polly Parrett meets Polly parrot. Together, can they solve a murder mystery? Things just don't always go the right way for pet-sitter, Polly Parrett. Dogs and cats can be tough enough; now she finds herself having to cope with a moody macaw, a volatile new resident at her mother's halfway house for veterans, and oh yeah, a dead body. What's more, the parrot and Polly share the same name, which not only makes for a lot of confusion, but it just might be that the parrot is the smarter of the two.

The Raven Edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) presents his complete literary output in five volumes. In addition to 11 prose pieces, volume five contains all of Poe’s verse and also his only play, the unfinished drama, "Politian". Poe’s poetic output consists of 54 pieces, most of them short, but it also includes four longer pieces, The Bells, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and perhaps Poe’s most iconic poem, The Raven.

The Colonial Scouts are an elite group of explorers who seek out habitable planets for the Colonial Expansion Board. They travel through space via programmable wormholes. Impani, a brilliant girl with a dark past, dreams of escaping the streets by becoming a Scout. Because she is homeless, she feels she must study twice as hard to get into the program. The day before her final exam, however, a transporter malfunction sends her jumping uncontrollably from planet to planet.

Polly Parrett is juggling the care of her wheelchair-bound mother, her pet-sitting business, and the sale of the family home. On top of that she finds herself having to deal with an arrogant but really sexy realtor, and Christmas is coming! None of that seems important, though, when she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and must find the real killer before an innocent homeless man and his dog are wrongly convicted.

Love at first sight can be wonderful…unless you fall in love with a murderer. The local minister dies under mysterious circumstances and Dwight Pollard, indeed the whole Pollard family, are hiding something - something related to the minister. To fulfill a promise to a dying friend, Constance must find the truth behind the minister’s death, even if that will condemn her love.

Guilt, the venom running through humanity’s veins. The cancer eating mankind’s soul. Death, both courted and earned, well-fed upon denial. Balanced on the delicate edge between madness and damnation, clarity comes to us all. There is one thing more terrifying than the darkness at the edge of your vision staring back. The seed of that darkness peering from within your heart. What is real? What is imagined? Right, or wrong, the price of your answer is your soul.

Bacchus was once the god of a bountiful harvest but has since become the god of excess. He rewards his followers with wealth and power, and his followers honor him by sacrificing girls. When a coven takes her friend, a teenage witch rushes to rescue her. She is outnumbered and outmatched. The only thing on her side is...nothing. There’s nothing on her side. Will she be the next sacrifice on the table?

Brittany has been named leader of her three-person coven. In addition, she has been given custody of a two-week-old unicorn who has been rejected by her mother. These unexpected responsibilities have triggered Brittany’s depression and lack of self-confidence. However, the tyrant witch queen is dead, and because she died while battling Brittany, the young witch feels obligated to right all her wrongs. When Brittany learns that the late queen kept a secret dungeon in another dimension, she becomes determined to find a way into the realm and release the prisoners.

In Book Five of the Brittany Meyer Novellas, Brittany is new to the world of the occult, but already she has accomplished amazing things through magic. Unfortunately, this makes people think she can do more than she feels capable of doing. When Stone the Earth Troll mistakenly names her Queen of the Humans and asks for her help solving a murder, Brittany adds "detective" to her list of impossible tasks.

In Book Three of the Brittany Meyer Novellas, Brittany’s magical powers are both devastating and beyond her control. The witch queen, however, wants to harness Brittany's growing powers by sending her away to be trained in the dark arts — and to force Brittany’s compliance, she imprisons Brittany’s aunt in a modern-day dungeon and threatens her life if Brittany doesn’t submit.

In book four of the Brittany Meyer Novellas, Brittany tries to come to grips with her unusual abilities, most of which she doesn’t understand. She is mentored by Tusks, a demon who is enamored of her due to a love potion gone awry. But when Tusks is abducted and spirited away to another dimension for judgement by a demon master, Brittany knows she must put aside her self-doubt and go after him. A decision that is easier made than done. The demon realm is vast and can only be reached through astral projection - which she’s only managed once.

In Book Two of the Brittany Meyer Novellas, Brittany has just learned she has magical powers. Unfortunately, Queen Imogene, the queen of all the witches in South Florida, has realized it too. Queen Imogene is a tyrant. She enslaves demons, employs ghouls, and keeps a modern-day dungeon to hold people who oppose her. And she sees Brittany as a threat to her regime.

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here, he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightful humorous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts, including "The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa", "The Exorcism That Failed", and more.

A collection of Christmas radio plays by Mike Murphy: Six heartwarming tales celebrating the festive season performed by members of The Online Stage.

When the mortal coil wears thin and the great unknown draws nigh you might spy the narrow gap between the mystical and the mundane. You might even notice something's looking back. Transcendence takes a hard look at humanity in nine tales of difficult choices, great rewards, and journeys beyond expectation.

After 14 years making maps at TerraPlaya, every day feels like a Monday to Lucy. Just when she resigns herself to an uninspired existence, her reality is shaken when a mysterious woman joins her team. Lucy soon learns that the world is full of magic, and not everyone is using it for good.

A terrorist on the run hides in a brothel. Desperate for respite after evading authorities for days, he hires a prostitute even though he has lived his life as a chaste man. The well-off idealistic young man and the poor woman doing what she can to survive clash but also inspire each other in this dark tale of failed dreams.