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Twenty-two-year-old Liz Linden and her nineteen-year-old brother, Jacob, have lived in the storm drains that run under Las Vegas for almost one year. There are many others living in the makeshift camps. She does her best to make their concrete camp into a home until she can save enough money to get them out of the tunnels and into an apartment. Of late, her wish to get out has become desperate, as she's come to realize something else is down there - the offspring of malice and hypocrisy. It lives, it grows, and if not stopped, it will fully exist.

Natalie Rausch said she'd die for a chance to meet DJ Crazy Todd, but she didn't mean to be literal. A bitter divorce shattered her family and turned her into a 13-year-old weapon in the hands of two people who want nothing more than to destroy each other. Once an accelerated student looking at early college, Natalie let anger at her parents lead her down a desperate path of self-destruction. No amount of rebellion gets her mom or dad's attention - or stitches up the hole inside her where love used to be.

The Elders say Abigail committed suicide, but Tamar secretly harbors doubt. They were best friends, two high school seniors looking forward to the future.... Now, she's gone. Could Abigail's death be linked to that forbidden book from the Old Days? Why did she have to read that stupid thing, anyway? Haunted by these questions, Tamar eventually learns the shocking truth from an Apostate who passes along the notorious book. As suspicion mounts against her, Tamar must do the unthinkable to avoid Abigail's grim fate.

All Sadie Salt ever wanted was to make smiles whiter...and to track down the creature that murdered her parents. She spends her days as a dental assistant to the humans in her small town of Grimloch and her nights doctoring to its, well, not-so-human residents. Unfortunately, the nightlife doesn't know how to stay in the shadows where it belongs. Sadie's working tirelessly to pay off a nasty debt to a fairy she doesn't want to cross, coping with magic she can't use, and dreaming of a relationship with the local Sheriff - not that that's going to happen.

A vacation is a tremendous ordeal for Emma, who doesn't like to venture outside her comfort zone. Jay is Emma's greatest admirer. He is an incorrigible optimist, as well as an ardent world traveler. For the most, Jay is naively blind to the depths of Emma's quirkiness and eccentricities. However, even he is beginning to understand that the never-ending obstacles that she constantly sets up for herself are getting increasingly out of control.

A nuclear warhead detonated at 300 miles above the center of the United States would effectively take out the entire electrical grid and infrastructure of the 48 contiguous states. Most people don’t think this is a possibility. But what if it is? What if a country like North Korea actually has the capability to do this but has led us to believe they don’t? What if they had acquired stealth technology that would let them launch a missile that we didn’t know about until it was too late to stop it?

This book will teach you how to get out of debt, save money, and improve your financial situation.

Are you a busy woman in your 30s and trying to lose weight? Are you done trying magic diets and pixie dust? If so, this is the audiobook for you. I have read many diet books that involve a lot of cooking and magic formulas to lose some weight. I was disappointed, so I decided to write my own about what dieting long-term looks like, so we can always look good, not just sometimes.

It’s time for you to become a healthy and vigorous individual, and this can be done by having the right body weight through HCG. This diet approach was developed in the 1930s by A. T. W. Simeons, who noted the weight-loss effect of the HCG treatment for underdeveloped gonads. Dr. Simeons took particular interest on how HCG made the patient eat less without experiencing hunger pangs.

You're about to discover everything you should know about the ketogenic diet, the benefits, and recipes. The phrase "ketogenic" stems from the natural process of "ketosis", which allows our bodies to thrive when the intake of food might be low. Ketones are produced during this process as fats break down in our livers. The entire goal of the ketogenic diet is to force our bodies to stay within this state of high metabolism.

"In this resource for poets, Lockward offers practical advice and insights about establishing sound, voice, and syntax in poetry while also providing writing prompts and other poems as inspiration." A poetry tutorial to inform and inspire poets. Includes model poems and prompts, writing tips, and interviews contributed by 56 of our nation's finest poets, including 13 former and current state Poets Laureate.

Lauren Benson believed that her life couldn't get any worse after that fateful night she was turned into a Sanguis Bellator. Her struggle has only worsened given her present company - she's found herself kidnapped to the Bellator nest. Life or death concerns are much more serious than she first realized. Hiding in plain sight is no longer an option, and her enemies know exactly how to twist the knife. Her strength is increasing, but at what cost?

"Once upon a time there was a sad and lonely monster that was created by an evil genious known as Victor Frankenstein...."

Urban legend Bloody Mary gets summoned by the horrifying monster Frankenstein.

Lauren Benson was enjoying her senior year in college with her roommates and best friend, Taylor. With tension building for midterms, taking advantage of a night of fun to cheer on the school football team was exactly the distraction she needed. However, that was the last night she'd ever be the same again. Lethal creatures are stalking the campus and Lauren becomes a target. Will she be strong enough to resist, or will she simply fade away....

When the line is drawn, what's important enough to risk everything? In this sequel to My Night Breeze, Audra and Mateo have been struggling to keep their friends safe, while continuing to uncover the mystery of her past. There is tension between the 'Elements,' and Audra finds herself the unwitting key to a hopefully peaceful resolution. She finally has more of a life than she ever envisioned; but the timing is all wrong. Will she be able to find out the truth of her connection in time, or will the enemy overtake them all?

Audra, a junior in high school, tries her best to keep up her grades, spend time with Stephen, her best friend, and out of her older brother Jim's watchful eye. She is taken aback when she has to guide the new transfer student, Mateo, around the school. Mateo is nothing like she expected and everything that she believed wasn't possible. Can she fight the urge to get closer to him, or will their connection bring down the house of cards?

Do you know a fairy with a fever? Or a sasquatch with a stomach ache? Giada Bellantuono is the one to call. She’s no ordinary veterinarian. She has the power to heal all kinds of fantastic creatures! Now she and Sinistro, her black cat familiar, have left their home in New Jersey to train with magical veterinarians around the world. And a conference in Argentina has come just in time. A company called C&C Medicinals is kidnapping and hurting magical animals to make medicine for humans!

Giada Bellantuono has traveled all the way from Italy to New York City to follow her dreams: begin her official training as a magical veterinarian! It wasn’t easy going against generations of family tradition, not to mention saving said family from wicked witches. But when Giada hears rumors of a lost baby unicorn roaming the tri-state area, she has reason to suspect that the Streghe del Malocchio are back and behind the disappearance. She’s fought them once before, and she can do it again!

Lucy’s father is a minor league baseball player, a professional pitcher hoping to get called up to the majors, and Lucy inherited his passion for the game. But she’s never played pitcher. She worries her skills would be compared to her dad’s and she’d never measure up. And his pitching may mean big things for his career and their family, but it’s also what keeps him away from home so much of the year. Sometimes, Lucy isn’t sure what would be worse: being bad at pitching or being great.

Alma Drake was a typical suburban college student before she was turned into a Succubus by her less-than-perfect boyfriend. Ian turned out to be a powerful soul-sucking Incubus with a harem of other Succubi feeding him souls. Now Alma’s up to her eyeballs in soul debt and flat broke in terms of real-world cash. She can’t turn to her friends because she had to drop out of college to keep from accidentally killing her classmates. Her mom, who thinks Alma’s a junkie, sleeps all day and stays out all night. And Alma can’t run away, because Ian… well, Ian always finds her.