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This is a unique, coming-of-age road trip featuring a feisty, often salty, and insensitive senior citizen, who still has some coming-of-age to experience in his twilight years. On one level, this is a story that takes listeners on a wild, raucous journey through the gritty and dangerous streets of New Orleans and into Sammy Levine's complex past as he tries to make amends for shortcomings in his life and a lingering guilt that drives him to make a daring break from his nursing home and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

O.J. Simpson in an alternate reality and blind ninjas ushering in the apocalypse are just two of the beautifully written tales in this seminal work of art, from the mind of a human being the likes of which God and the devil wholeheartedly agree upon. While drenched in comedy, Laughter's Cold Shadow takes on the darkest of subject matter: murder, rape, racism, the nuclear family, ninjas, Nazis, zombies, police brutality, drug cartels, hedonism, psychopathy, and more.

In this new book, Vardøger takes the reader on the voyage of his life from childhood to parenthood, from embracing religion to rejecting religion, from faith to facts. Various spiritual teachings, consciousness phenomena, scientific evidence, and philosophical concepts are assembled into Vardøger’s idea of “the golden thread” that harmonizes the universal morals and concepts of the major world religions. This is the story of one man’s search for spiritual truth. This is Maverick Vardøger’s Lead Line.

Eli hoped to do his time and get back to living life outside prison. However, that hope faded when he watched a prisoner rip a guard’s heart out and toss the body over the railing onto a funeral pyre of burning mattresses. The landscape of the prison begins to change as more and more strange characters strive for dominance in the anarchy that follows. Eli and his new friend, Tay, must navigate the chaos as the gods of the Aztec creation story emerge over the next 12 hours on the block.

Jewish identity is complicated because it entails religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and national components. Each of these contributes to the identity of who is a Jew. This book surveys biblical and rabbinic views on what constitutes Jewish identity within traditional Judaism but also reviews the positions of Reform and Conservative Judaism.

Welcome to Necrolopolis, a fantasy world with a postal system as inefficient as our own, an undead pharaoh with an ego as big as his pyramid, a ghoul with an unhealthy interest in soup pots, not to mention a faction war between mummies and ashlings. A necromancer's job is never done, especially in a city of four million undead souls!

Encouraged by serial killer Ed Kemper, an inmate escapes from California Medical Facility, the prison that houses the criminally insane. Correctional Officer Dave Snapper, whose car, a pristine '68 Mustang, once driven by Frank Morris, is used in the escape. Snapper, known as Snap, is put on administrative leave, pending an investigation. A body shows up in Wisconsin linking the CMF escapee to the crime. Trying to clear his name, Snap launches his own investigation with Milwaukee County Sheriff Detective Gale Miller.

Warriors don't always win, and good does not always prevail in a world of war and bloodshed. The young maiden that was once the hope of a nation has fallen to the enemy, and the king continues his tyrannical reign over a once great land of magic. While all hope appears to be lost, old ones begin to awaken at the shifting tides of the world, and they could be the final turning point of it all.

We have only explored five percent of the ocean. The ocean takes up 70 percent of our planet's surface. By that logic, we only know about 25 percent or our planet's geography. The sea is like the Earth's lungs, breathing in and out, supplying the Earth with life and balance. We don't know exactly how old the Earth is. We don't know how deep the deepest part of the ocean is. We don't know how vast the universe is.

The Legion would then be deserted on a planet scarcely able to support them and left for the Reptilians to annihilate completely. The new Prime Minister, who had plotted the whole thing, had dangerously underestimated the Legion, and the Legion of the Damned would not die.

Winds of war sweep across Europe, threatening to engulf the entire globe. After the cloning company Phoenvartis is taken over by a World Council henchman, he launches an inquisition of torture and murder. A revolutionary group opposed to the World Council has gained access to the cloning machine, and they plan to revive a madman from the 20th century. Meanwhile, the previously cloned Founding Father and a group of former Phoenvartis employees flee to the central highlands of Vietnam. From their jungle base, they form a coalition of freedom-loving patriots from around the world.

In Earth’s Time, the fourth book of the award-winning science fiction and fantasy series, The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham, Stig and Meg find themselves back in their world. They arrive in Chelldrah-ham, having passed through the rift from Earth. Stig now has memories of times way before he was born. Relying on his knowledge of machines, aided by Meg and her empathy with nature, he must lead his human comrades in the fight against the corrupted forces of humankind.

First, his doppelganger is killed—then it’s his father. Rick Shepherd is being stalked by a murderer. When Rick Shepherd, a physician, approaches his office on a busy Manhattan street, he finds police cars, an ambulance, and crime scene technicians. He soon learns a passerby was shot three times in the back, murdered at the front door to Rick’s office.

All Huck wants for Christmas is a revolution...and donuts. Vive la Revolution! The American Revolution began with the Boston Tea Party. If Huck Carp has anything to do about it, the next people’s revolution will begin in the drive-through of a sleepy donut shop in a working-class neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. It started as a single random act of kindness when an early morning customer paid forward the next person’s order, and so did the next, and the next, and the streak had been going all day long.

Earth is dying. Hope is light-years away. In humanity’s final hour, massive colony fleets depart a crumbling Earth, bound for distant exoplanets and the promise of survival. Onboard one such vessel are Kael Thuum and Bryce Halden, two friends chasing a new beginning among the stars. Their destination: a world orbiting a black hole. As the fleet draws near, the laws of reality begin to bend. Time fractures. Dreams bleed into waking life. Something ancient waits beyond the event horizon.

Be a Dreamer is a powerful collection of inspiring short stories and guided journaling activities designed to ignite imagination, strengthen emotional intelligence, and help boys believe in themselves. Each story is based on a real child the author knows, bringing authentic voices and relatable lessons to life.

Etienne Arceneaux, a Louisiana game warden and lifelong son of the bayou, is used to quiet patrols, half-full ice chests, and the occasional drunk fisherman. But when he finds an abandoned skiff stuck on an oyster bed—gear intact, no sign of struggle—something feels wrong. Then he realizes it belonged to Ben, a childhood friend he hasn’t seen in years. A good fisherman. As Tee begins to ask questions, the answers grow darker: fishermen going missing, shrimpers whispering about boats running at night, and bodies turning up in pieces—picked apart by more than crabs.

What if... Vikings had already carved out a thriving civilization on the East Coast of America when Columbus arrived? ... John F. Kennedy defied fate and survived the assassination attempt, changing the course of history? The power of "what if" lies in its ability to ignite curiosity, challenge perceptions, and spark endless possibilities. What If... is a thrilling anthology of speculative fiction short stories that dares to explore alternate realities, twist history, and reimagine the world as we know it.

Caught up in conflict and thrust into battle, a young man must escape the Holy Roman Empire, leaving his home and beloved family behind. From Saxony to the Alps, he finds himself outside Saint Georgenberg’s Monastery in the Tyrol. On a hillside, under the stars, he dreams more than dream… a vision of fire and a child outside a great fortress in the wilderness. At the base of God’s holy mountain, the boy summons him. With pleading eyes and outstretched arms, his lips move, “Come. I need you… Come. I need you…” Then the child adds one last puzzling word, “Come. I need you… father."

When Game Warden Etienne “Tee” Arceneaux’s oldest friend goes missing, all signs point to a tragic accident. But the boat turns up empty, and Tee discovers a body tied like bait. What begins as a quiet investigation in the marshlands of southern Louisiana quickly unravels into something far more sinister. The deeper Tee looks, the more he realizes that the people responsible may wear badges of their own.