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The most notorious “Penny Dreadful”: Pulp-Lit Productions is proud to present this new edition of Varney the Vampyre, the most scandalous example of the Victorian Age’s most notorious style of popular literature.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy - Jason Reynolds conjures 10 tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.

Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him "Baby Moses" when they shared his story on the ten o'clock news.

A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and ‘30s.

It’s time to return home to yourself. To your softness. To your strength. To your divine feminine magic. You weren’t created to hustle in survival mode. You were created to attract, radiate, and manifest effortlessly, just by being the powerful Black woman you are. This book is your daily guide to reconnecting with your inner goddess. The version of you that’s magnetic, wise, sensual, soft, and strong all at once. She’s in you already. She’s just been waiting for you to speak life back into her.

Born in 1832 in Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was best known for Little Women, her phenomenal bestseller loosely based on her childhood experiences with her own sisters. Adapted numerous times for stage and screen, it is dramatised here alongside her follow-up novel Good Wives and the thrilling sensation story A Marble Woman.

Inspired by How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't - a previously published book by the Schiffs' father Irwin, a widely published economist and activist - How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes incorporates the spirit of the original while tackling the latest economic issues. With wit and humor, the Schiffs explain the roots of economic growth, the uses of capital, the destructive nature of consumer credit, the source of inflation, the importance of trade, savings, and risk, and many other topical principles of economics.

Will Ryder and Francine, the AI powering his homemade spacecraft, have taken to the stars, the first step on their quest to save the Earth from alien invasion. They have to travel across the Milky Way to reach Francine’s homeworld, a route fraught with danger and adventure for even a cutting edge ship, but Will and Francine’s ship is cobbled together in a rush with Earth materials, and it won’t make the journey without significant upgrades. Will is in over his head and out of his depth, but he was chosen to be Earth’s savior and will fight to overcome any obstacle to his mission.

She’s fighting the bond that ties her. Ava is tired of the men in her life hurting her. She lost her parents at a young age and since then has been under the control of the men who betrayed her. She fought to sever those ropes and built a life with determination and the desire to stand on her own. Ava has known about the world of shifters, vampires, and witches that hide in the shadows. She let a shifter string her along for a year, only to reveal himself and break up with her because she wasn’t his mate. So, she chooses to ignore their presence and vows never to get involved with them again.

Link doesn't know it yet, but the ancient art and artifacts surrounding him are one piece of the legendary Triforce, a relic of immense power. The evil sorcerer Gannon, and his demon army, invades the Hyrule Warriors, and Amysrya is right in their path. Before long, Link, and Hyrule's benevolent ruler, the Princess Zelda, are drawn into conflict with Gannon. Link gains a breath of the wild as he embarks on the magical journey.

Adapted by David Mamet from a translation by Vlada Chernornirdik. In this classic of Chekhov’s canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth. But Vanya is enchanted by the professor’s new wife, while Sonya has fallen for the town’s melancholy doctor. Includes a conversation with Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life.

Callahan Murphy is a ruthless Irish mafia boss with blood on his hands and vengeance in his veins. When he strikes a power deal with a New York crime family, marriage to the Don's daughter is just another strategic move—until everything goes to hell. Because the bride he's promised? Vanishes. And her younger sister is offered in her place. Lucia de Rosa is untouched, unwilling, and unprepared for the savage man who now claims her as his own. She thought this arrangement was temporary—a mistake that could be undone once her sister returned. She was wrong.

Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding Black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of Blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer Black college graduates than would otherwise exist.

In the wild, unexplored coastal jungles of West Africa lives a wild human boy named Tarzan, the adopted son of a tribe of fierce almost-human anthropoid apes - but in reality, the unknown heir of a wealthy and titled English noble family. Then one day, a small party of American treasure-seekers is marooned on Tarzan's beach, including a lovely Baltimore belle named Jane Porter.

From what we know of history, Egypt, along with Sumer, were the foundations of civilization. The Fertile Crescent, which stretched from the Nile Valley to the twin rivers in Mesopotamia, gave us our earliest glimpse of organized man. But organized how? For one, both locations gave us writing -- hieroglyphics in Egypt and cuneiform in Sumer. There is still some debate about who was first.

In Tort Law, we examine the black letter rules of tort law tested on the MBE and in law school. By combining a simple approach to legal learning, with the innovative appeal of an audio study aid, Tort Law provides you with a concise overview of the subject matter in a way that makes it easy to learn, understand, and memorize. Tort Law also includes numerous hypothetical examples and analyses to help you apply the rules of law to analyze any given fact patterns.

Loose Balls is, after all these years, the definitive and most widely respected history of the ABA. It's a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports -- told entirely through the (often incredible) words of those who played, wrote and connived their way through the league's nine seasons.

In The Millionaire Next Door, Tom Stanely identified the millionaires around you. In the Millionaire Mind, he told you how they think. Now, he tells you how to get their business. NETWORKING WITH MILLIONAIRES The affluent market segment is growing seven times faster than the household population...

Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world...

Research on this syndrome continues to evolve, but in the meantime patients and their medical providers are left feeling lost and hopeless. In this new and exciting audiobook, dual-boarded neuropsychiatrist J.D. Claunch, MD dives into the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of long COVID. More than just the science of this illness, Dr. Claunch paints a picture of the suffering and medical trauma experienced by patients with long COVID and older versions of this post-infectious chronic illness, like chronic Lyme and myalgic encephalomyelitis.