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Kazumi is a teenaged ninja warrior eager to prove she is ready to ascend to the vaulted rank of Night Blade; an elite group of female demon slayers. Denied by her mother, the High Priestess of the Yoru Ya-iba clan to complete her training, Kazumi sets off on her own to prove her mother wrong. But chance and fate have other plans for young Kazumi when she is attacked by a monstrous chaos beast in the forest and left for dead, or so she thinks. Soon after, Kazumi realizes the horrible truth: she has become the one thing she has spent her life training to kill.

Maddie Castle thought she’d seen it all as a private investigator, but when Bentley Roycroft pleads for help finding his niece, Daisy Miller, Maddie is drawn into one of her most harrowing cases yet. Daisy has been missing for nearly a year, but a recent clue—a mysterious flash drive—could hold the key to her whereabouts.

In a world hovering on the brink of eternal darkness, Kazumi, the fearless teenaged demon slayer, and her companion, Sunny, the enigmatic fox-devil, emerge as humanity’s final shield against the malevolent House D’Vross; sinister vampire lords ruling over Gethem. Fueled by vengeance and burdened with the weight of her ancestors, Kazumi, the newly anointed High Priestess of her clan, seeks justice for her fallen family, wielding her razor-sharp katana and lightning-fast wakizashi. All the while, Lily, the demon spirit sharing her soul, offers dark bargains for freedom.

Kazumi, Vampire Hunter: The hunted becomes the hunter! Kazumi and Amos turn the tables on their pursuers and take the fight to the enemy.

My transition into the Shadow Bone clan has been less than smooth, with my drag queen ex continuing to break protocols. On top of juggling my unusual family dynamic; my bloodthirsty mentor and vampire leader are at odds about my future as a death dealer. When the coven high priestess unearths a prophecy about a medieval witch that transitioned, and was lost to blood madness, Rene and I hunt for a scroll that depicts her. After another attempt on my life and the death of a clan member, we believe this conspiracy predates the Lycan war, and another is coming.

If you are on a path to connect with your inner child and reparent yourself, this list of affirmations is offered as a reminder of some values that may be important to you on your journey.

An unstoppable killer stalks the city, leaving a mounting body count in his wake. As panic and fear grip Pittsburgh, the FBI is brought in to assist the local police with the manhunt, hoping to prevent further bloodshed. Retired Pittsburgh K9 Handler Maddie Castle is pulled into the manhunt. She has experienced the killer's deadly handiwork firsthand. He left her crippled in both body and spirit.

When we are forced to travel to a forgotten realm, I learn Rene has a history with the dark warlock who runs it. But our host is taken with me and agrees to give us what we came for, provided I agree to his terms.

In the shadowy world of vampires, I find myself torn between two powerful forces. As my enigmatic mentor prepares me for a deadly dance at the vampire ball, the irresistible allure of our charismatic leader's advances threatens to consume me. But dark forces conspire against our vampire clans, harboring one sinister aim: our total annihilation.

In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago's western suburbs between the 1960s and '80s, adopted twins Julie and Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. Their sisterly bond holds tight as the two strive for identity, individuality, and belonging. But as Julie's parents continue adding children to the family, some painful and tragic experiences test family values, parental relationships, and sibling bonds.

As we try to acclimate to having the lycans as part of our world and our family, we find that some members of the pack are not happy about their newest addition. As both the clan and the pack continue to be adversarial, my own daughter begins to have reservations about our alliance.

When a mundane is brutally murdered by a Lycan, the entire community erupts in fury, and an investigation is launched to uncover the truth. The situation escalates when Dimitri launches a surprise attack on the Shadow Bone clan. Has an old enemy risen from the shadows, or has the previous clan head orchestrated these events to throw us into chaos? Tensions reach a boiling point when the witches reveal their new security force, acting without the Twilight Conclave's approval.

Join Princess Eleanor as she and Dredge go on many new adventures in Aris as they make new friends as well as a few new enemies.

How can we raise the next generation to have an unshakable faith in God as they navigate the challenging terrain of modern culture? Offering years of experience and countless success stories, author and parenting expert Lee Ann Mancini says what our children need is a heart change, not just a behavioral change, so that they become effective disciples.

An attack. A lost daughter. A war. After Jana's attack leaves her fate uncertain, Rene and I must broker a peace treaty with the forest lycans to ensure her safety. But the source of the lycan rogues remains a mystery, and the new warlock security force wants to ensure humanity's survival by killing them all. After I am attacked by Dimitri's rogue vampires, we begin to suspect that there is more to the Lycan conspiracy and we go searching for the source. But when our true enemy is revealed, it puts everyone alive in danger and a link to Rene's transformation is exposed.

When she was nineteen-years-old, long before Meredith Clark came to Nashville and met Joel Etheridge, on her way to escape her hellish ordeal in New Orleans, she ended up stranded on the side of the highway in rural Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, and was taken in by Pastor Fred Blake, his wife, Miss Marcie, and their nine-year-old daughter, Carlyn. Meredith spent almost a year as a member of their family and made a lasting impression on little Carlyn, who is all grown up, now.

Taught to kill without question, Emma is tasked by her demanding headmaster with going undercover at Grover Cleveland High School. There, she must do the seemingly impossible—truly become a better person in order to win the trust of Grover Cleveland's most virtuous student, Susie Robinson, and help Susie gain the affections of her crush, Brayden. Susie is a straight-A teacher's pet, naturally suspicious of the manipulative and deceitful Emma, and the one person standing between the success or failure of Emma's mission to assassinate an international political figure.

She was a business hotshot back in the day. Decades later, can this empty nester return with a vengeance to save her beautiful town? Durango, Colorado. Sue Cleary worries she’s lost her mojo. Leaving the workforce as a high-powered forensic accountant to raise her four boys, the now 50-year-old fears all she has to look forward to is boredom. But when she discovers her idyllic community is about to be sullied by a New York developer with big plans for a tasteless tourist trap, she leaps into the fray to defend her picturesque hometown.

Do you struggle with working out regularly? Have you started an exercise routine only to be back to where you started in a couple of weeks? Then you’re in good company. Kara had zero motivation for years. But she eventually flipped the switch and hasn’t looked back.

Join Asva, an eight-year-old explorer, as he is on vacation in Honolulu, Hawaii, with his travel-blogger parents. With the help of their van driver, Kalani, Asva and his family go on a tour of Kualoa Ranch, Oahu, famous for its Jurassic Park film locations. Asva's anticipation soars as he remembers the magical scenes from the movie. He's excited to explore the lush landscapes and legendary tales of dinosaurs. However, things take an unexpected turn when he finds himself in a jungle with real dinosaurs.