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Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics exploring the nature of reality and perceptions. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Home For The Holidays: A son comes home for the holidays to find his parents have shrunk to two feet tall. Abrama’s End Game: Abrama learns the gods created her dimension as their play-space to visit, and is forced to fight across realities ...

Over the course of a few days, a woman shares the personal details of her abusive past with a dedicated bartender.

Nora has always been the odd duck in her squad of three - a trait that never bothered her before. But now that Lucy and Addy are going off to college and Nora is stuck in Delinki, she's ready to find her match. Which is why her senior year goal is to score a serious relationship by prom. Step one: Hit the dating scene. Step two: Keep the loyal guy friend on the sidelines as an escape plan. Step three: Do not get caught kissing the escape plan!

Goals are something we use to incentivize ourselves to do things we wouldn’t otherwise have the desire to do. There is something inherently wrong with this at its core. Goal-setting and tracking merely works to ensure that we spend more time doing things we aren’t truly passionate about.

Sit down with “The California Divorce Experts”: Mark C. Hill, CFP®, CDFA® Financial Divorce Consultant; Peter Roussos, Marriage and Family Therapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist; and Shawn Weber, CLS-F*, Family Law Mediator and Divorce Attorney, for a frank and casual conversation about divorce, separation, co-parenting and the difficult decisions real people like you face during these tough times.We know that if you are considering divorce or separation, it can be scary and overwhelming. With combined experience of over 60 years in divorce and conflict management, we are here for ...

This is it. Everything that we've been through during this last year has led to this moment. We're all a little traumatized by the things that we've seen and done, but at least we're still here. Not many others can say that. I'm not the same girl that I was when I caught that first whiff in the school courtyard, and I never want to be seen as that weak again. On the other hand, I've seen sides of my guys that I didn't even know they were capable of exhibiting. We all have pieces of ourselves that we'd like to keep hidden, apparently.

Ten years ago, a powerful machine intelligence unleashed a nano-engineered superdrug on humanity. Civilization is now a collection of mindless addicts confined to automated treatment centers that tower over drone-dominated cityscapes. Having escaped and grown up in the forests of Northern California alongside their younger brother and brilliant scientist/survivalist mother, Clo and El stayed safe while society collapsed around them.

I'm just a Star Wars Fanatic with a dollar and a dream. Stand by for my musings on Star Wars, Sci fi and living in a place called "Shaolin".

Sean Cardinal O'Malley explains why evangelization is at the heart of our faith and that there is a mandate to share the Gospel with the world. Passing on the faith is not an option but an imperative. In every century, believers have to hand on the faith to the next generation and at the same time offer the wisdom of the Church to a world that is content with foolishness. Drawing upon the scriptures, philosophy, and literature, he illustrates how this passing on the faith is ultimately God's enterprise.

Gabby Lane is a senior MI6 field agent. When a rogue British spy goes missing after the murder of a Germany politician, and Gabby is sent to Frankfurt to collapse a terrorist bank, she discovers that the murder and the bank are linked. A major crime network, run by Oskar Zetkin, tries everything they can to stop Gabby's mission.But who is the double agent?

Gabby Lane and her team of Agent Hans and Agent Laravelle go undercover to penetrate and destroy Nox Ventura, a European-wide crime syndicate that is stealing secret information from governments and selling it on to clandestine organisations. Just as Gabby starts to get the upper hand in her operation, MI6 discovers that Nox Ventura is planning a far bigger robbery that will collapse the security and defences of Western Europe. Gabby must lead an assault on the criminals’ vast underground complex beneath one of France’s grandest chateaus and stop at nothing to prevent the coming attack.

A spine-chilling collection of creepy, unsettling and unnerving stories. 'If You See Her Face' by B. M. Croker. 'The Ghost at the Blue Dragon' by William J. Wintle. 'The Shadows' by Henry S. Whitehead. 'The Grey Cat' by Barry Pain. 'The Yellow Globe' by Alexander W. Drake. 'The Devil of the Marsh' by H. B. Marriott-Watson. 'The Spectre Spiders' by William J. Wintle. 'The Curious Vehicle' by Alexander W. Drake. 'Number Ninety' by B. M. Croker. 'The Black Cat' by William J. Wintle. 'The Permanent Stiletto' by W. C. Morrow. 'Passing of a God' by Henry S. Whitehead. 'The Chamber of Doom' by William J. Wintle. 'The White Cat' by Hugh Walpole. 'The Loosened Cord' by Alexander W. Drake. 'Mrs. Brassington-Claypott's Children's Party' by F. Anstey. 'The Inmate of the Dungeon' by W. C. Morrow. 'The Red Rosary' by William J. Wintle. 'Caveat Emptor' by F. Anstey. 'The Former Passengers' by B. M. Croker...and over 20 more unsettling tales.

There is only one CEO in recent times who has faced–and succeeded at–the extraordinary challenges of leading three major companies–Gillette, Nabisco, and Kraft–into prosperous futures by doing what matters on the fundamentals. That CEO is Jim Kilts. In this vivid first-person account he...

Unable to approach her own long-buried history of loss and displacement, Historian Joan Severance takes refuge in the cool library rooms and the crumbling probate lists from Renaissance times. As Joan's disturbed, hyperintuitive mind falls increasingly under the spell of Valparuta and the charismatic resident archivist, Chiesa, a beautifully dressed heroin addict, she is forced to confront her long-submerged past.

Der größte Goldschatz der Menschheit. Eine internationale Intrige. Eine grausame Offenbarung. Als Sondereinheit für Blue Shield ist Tom Wagner mit seinem Team auf der Suche nach dem legendären El Dorado. Aber wie so oft läuft es nicht wie geplant. Das Team wird getrennt und sie müssen buchstäblich auf mehreren Fronten kämpfen: Hellen und Cloutard machen Entdeckungen, die die anerkannte Geschichtsschreibung über das Gold von El Dorado über den Haufen werfen. Tom ist inzwischen im Auftrag des US-Präsidenten unterwegs, um zu verhindern, dass eine gefährliche Substanz in die Hände von Terroristen fällt.

In Third Miss Symons, Miss Mayor captivates listeners with her remarkable storytelling, skillfully contrasting her main character against a vibrant, ever-changing world. This succinct narrative, approximately a third the length of a typical novel, showcases an elegant harmony of form and style, where every detail is meticulously crafted, leaving nothing rushed or overlooked. (Summary from the Preface by John Masefield)

Most people don’t fail financially because they aren’t smart. They fail because they wait too long to start earning. Income Before Intelligence dismantles one of the most damaging myths of modern money culture: the belief that you must fully understand, master, or perfect something before you’re allowed to make money from it. This book exposes the hidden cost of overlearning, overplanning, and overthinking. It shows how intelligence, education, and preparation, when misused, quietly become tools of delay. Delay that feels productive. Delay that feels responsible. Delay that keeps ...

This captivating collection showcases seven short stories from some of Englands finest writers of the turn-of-the-century. It opens with the delightful humor of J. M. Barrie, renowned for his creation of Peter Pan. Following Barrie, Israel Zangwill offers another witty tale, known for his keen insights into social and economic issues. The final contribution comes from the immensely popular Marie Corelli, whose poignant storytelling resonates deeply. Despite being less recognized than some of her contemporaries, Corellis literary sales surpassed those of Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and ...

Aliens conquered Earth. In mere minutes, our key cities lay inside impenetrable Domes with humans scrambling to survive within. The clock is ticking as any chance for human survival bleeds out - unless she makes an impossible choice. Susan "SMASH" Ma Ash has nowhere else to run. Surviving on scraps in her hideout from the aliens, the teenager witnesses as one of the last human army units are attacked right outside her location. When the surviving soldiers take shelter in her home, she is forced to help them on their mission at the cost of her own safety. Tarek Kutriah clings to one last ...

Gabby Lane is a Senior Field Agent in British Intelligence. When she is sent on an undercover operation to kill Europe's largest arms dealer and find a British spy who has disappeared, she discovers that the two men are connected and are part of the criminal gang who are stealing western weapons.