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In a world where things like magic exist and werewolves and unicorns are real, a governing body called Council of the Mists presides over the paranormal world and keeps humans slightly in the dark. We meet Ruby Lee, an ordinary girl who isn't so ordinary, in "The Last Unicorn". In "Wicked Wichita", we meet Lee Mustow, David Honeywell, and Mattie Wonders who find that "three" is a magic number. Finally, in the third story "Paranormal Pekin", River Underwood, a paranormal researcher and witch, is trying to solve a centuries-old riddle with the help of James Honeywell.

Have you ever wondered where people go when they are in a coma? Well, Travis Williams is about to find out. When Travis decided to fulfill his dream and drive across America he didn’t bank on that 16-wheeler crossing lanes. Lucky for him that he’d managed to escape the collision and lucky for him that there was a sign pointing to a hotel just up that road - at least that’s what he thought it was. But why did it feel as though they’d all been waiting for him? Just who was the woman who greeted him and why wasn’t he being allowed to leave?

Remigius dei Girolami, a Dominican friar and lector in the Santa Maria Novella church in Florence as well as a political philosopher and theologian, wrote in the context of the Guelf-Ghibbeline conflict in Florence in the early 14th century. Unfortunately, Remigius is rather poorly known, as he is eclipsed by his more famous teacher, Thomas Aquinas, and his Florentine contemporary, Dante Alighieri. Nevertheless, Remigius authored an impressive array of texts, ranging in topic from theology to science to music to politics.

Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the historical novel (including discussions of Scott, Thackeray, and Conrad), Rollyson shrewdly probes Faulkner's dynamic and changing uses of the past. Also taking advantage of his own work as a biographer, Rollyson has updated, revised, and expanded his original book - extending his dialogue with recent Faulkner critics.

Easter, Halloween, and especially Christmas are times most people love to spend with their families and friends, exchanging gifts, telling stories, watching TV, and enjoying good food. Whereas I cannot advise on what best to give as gifts, the best stories to tell, or what to watch, I can hopefully give you some ideas on how to keep your holiday and festive guests nutritionally satisfied.

Seeking adventure, Liz and Garret Adams leave their home port, Mystic, Connecticut, and sail their 36-foot sloop to Florida. The fiery orb melts across the horizon, cannons rumble, cheers resound, and the partying begins as Sloopy sails into Key West harbor. Malevolence brews amid rustling palms and tropical breezes. Liz’s uncontrollable psychic powers kick into gear, thrusting the unsuspecting sailors into a race to save a friend from unjust incarceration.

The story of the childhood, school years, and early career of the great Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova, her struggles, her victories, and her search for her own unique artistic identity.

This practical guide for administrators promotes the idea that stress can be channeled constructively into peak performance and productivity and used for an added edge of zest. You’ll discover what professional and personal factors commonly produce stress for you, learn how stress affects you, and identify its physical, emotional, and behavioral manifestations. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to intervene, prevent, and offset the debilitating aspects of negative stress so that you can draw vitality from it.

Follow Vala Lynn, a young orphan on a journey to discover herself and what ties her to the lost white dragon, all while finding love.

Join the kids as they embark on their final camping trip from hell. Upon arrival, the usual camp counselors are missing. Alton, a man who no one knows, is there to greet them, and as the night moves on, they start to realize that he may not be all that he seems. Three tales of horror, gore, and gut wrenching await.

Yoga Classics Vol. 1 inspires your meditations and your yoga practice with sage advice from true yoga masters. Included in this volume are the doctrine and practice of yoga by Swami Mukerji yogi of the South India Order and an introduction to yoga by Annie Besant.

Irene and Michel are cartoon satirists coming away from a traumatic event. They take a vacation to Italy to gain some new inspiration and to recoup their emotions, unwittingly pursued by their deadly foe.

Here is the story of The Houston Five that shocked the nation in the fall of 2014. Attorneys for Annise Parker, at that time the openly gay mayor of the City of Houston, launched a campaign in an attempt to intimidate and silence Houston pastors from addressing LGBT issues from their pulpits. The attorneys selected five pastors to whom they sent subpoenas, demanding they release copies of their sermons and their notes regarding and conversations with church members on the topic.

Time is a luxury in today's busy lifestyle. These short stories will give you the thrill and chill in short order. Just a few chapters and you are on to the next story. These stories will give you the excitement of a full-size novel that fits into any busy schedule.

Love, joy, excitement, learning, sharing, are all present in this story, as well as, hate, confusion, anger, and violence. Can trying to help someone improve their life cause harm to your own? Can innocence have tragic results? Josiah - The Day of Fate will keep you involved as the characters make their way to a united event, the Day of Fate. Harm will be done. Loss will occur. Penalties must be paid. Confusion, not clarity, will reign that day.

Sometimes, we as people experience such earth-shattering love that it takes a period-of-time to recover from its loss. Sarah J. Heidelberg explores the depths of human desire, passion, and desecration of all hope, yet ends on an alternate plane of joy, fulfillment and a realization that pain is only a part of life's journey!

Kindle Your Writing: Tips on Making Your Amazon Kindle Book Great is a how to book on how to design the Kindle book of your experience. This book gives details for how to make your Kindle book greater. Through tips from what to do in the description section of KDP, tips on how to market the Kindle book, and other aspects. This book prepares you to become a better writer of Kindle books. Also, I discuss making royalties and the KDP royalty system and how it works. It is all in this book.

The protagonist, Jesús, is ugly. Extraordinarily ugly. He is so ugly that his friends and relatives are convinced that behind that ugliness there must be something else. A malefic power or possibly a momentous fate. The truth is that fairly special things happen wherever Jesús is. His biological father is a mystery. His half-sister is a child-prodigy who excels at everything she does, his mother becomes the president of the country, his best-friend Vero is a computer tycoon, his brother-in-law also makes it in politics...But for all the success around him he still feels unsettled.

What would you do if your great-great-grandfather wanted your body...so that he could make his beloved live again? Everyone thinks that Julia has gone insane, "just like her father". Unable to convince anyone, she takes matters into her own hands to stop the evil plans of the revenants haunting and taking over her life, before they can resurrect their spirits into bodies and wreak havoc on the world.

Why not get two tales of pure terror for the low price of only one? If you are not frightened by the body-snatching of husband and wife by the long-forgotten spirits of the wife's great-great-grandfather and his "beloved" and their plan to wreak havoc and carnage upon mankind, surely, your mind will be twisted and left in shattered awe at the forlorn story of a woman driven mad by her own nightmare and its abrupt thrust into reality, tearing away everything that might have left her whole...or you.