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As the big day approaches, Nicholas and his father venture out to purchase the family Christmas tree. After choosing their beautiful tree they are then given a taste of the tree lot owner's greed, so Nicholas decides instead to bring home a tiny tree that would surely have been left on the lot long after Christmas was over.

Tragedy befalls the esteemed Lancaster family as 12 adopted siblings bid farewell to their elderly father. Thanks to him, they have all been groomed for success in a variety of fields - debating, marksmanship, and fencing, to name a few. However, a dark creed in their family’s ancient tradition brings out the worst in them. The siblings find themselves pitted against one another in a winner-take-all competition for survival as they are locked within their colossal mansion. Mysteries are uncovered around every corner of their home.

Only Human is a soft sci-fi novel about a teen (name, description, and identity not specified) that is forced to "immigrate" into a slightly-absurd alien city teeming with hundreds of different species. Despite their best efforts to resist, they reluctantly find friendship, hatch an escape plan, and to add insult to injury, they also have to get a full-time job. Oh, and by the end, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance - so there’s that too.

Best-selling author Yvonne Brooks explains how you can identify the spirits attached to the misuse of money and how you can self-correct to remove current negative attachments and attractions with money. Financial Abuse: Spiritual Forces Attached to the Misuse of Money provides you with simple and easy-to-apply principles that will enable you to fulfill your desire to be set free from financial bondage, no matter who you are or what your nationality is.

Join Sam as they lead their friends, Matt and Sarah, on a winding journey into the jungle to find the lost Crimson City and uncover the mystery of the local legend of All’zmog.

Shadowlands Poetry is a collection of poems reflecting our polarized lives with equal parts light and dark, and the eigengrau that blurs the shadowy spaces between. Shadowlands Poetry is for those who embrace the cycles of life and find a balance between dreams and fears.

Sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, madness, and sadness. It’s all here, and as best Pat King can recall, it’s all true. Lyrical, quiet, hip, and deranged. A mind-bender. A trip.

Gavin has cancer, which sucks. He's run out of options and must try a trial drug in order to fight it off. He's wheeled into a ward and starts his treatment of Donozine, but what Gavin doesn't know is there is something else in the ward with him, and the thing is hungry! This is a cancer story that personifies my fear during my chemotherapy treatments.

A compilation of short stories to delight all who listen to it. Walk through some emotional moments with a variety of characters that will all touch your heart. It is hard to pick a favorite. You will find some stories with happy endings and some that are not as happy but all will touch you.

Ten Laws of Great Decision-Making explores the different approaches and influences that feed into great decision making. It identifies 10 fundamental laws that, if applied to decision-making, can help entrepreneurs and business leaders make great decisions consistently over time. Ten Laws of Great Decision-Making is a practical guide that is easy to apply to help you make great decisions for your business.

Self-Confidence: 60 Minutes to Overcome Fear and Experience Confidence and Esteem is spiritually based. The author Juliet Tomlinson wrote from her spiritual point of view and made references to multiple Bible verses. However, some Christians will find some of her interpretations different from the norm.

This audiobook contains six fantasy and sci-fi short stories perfect for your morning commute. Each story is self-contained.

We don't often think about the people we are coming out to and forget that this may be a struggle for them, too. Society for so long has stigmatized those who aren't "normal" that it may take some help for those you are coming out for to be able to cope. Well, this audiobook is here to help with that. Gives them hints on how to talk to you, what not to say, how to best cope, and plenty of references to places nearby to seek more information on how to help you through this transition in your life in a positive and productive way.

The village of Krume is plagued by a haunted wood and a hungry witch. It’s been that way for as long as Hans and Greta can remember, though they have never seen the witch themselves; no one has. When men start to disappear once again in the cover of night - their bloody hearts turning up on doorsteps - the village falls into frenzied madness. Hans and Greta, two outcast orphans, find themselves facing accusations of witchcraft and are met with an ultimatum: burn at the stake, or leave the village forever.

This is a short book of poetry that was born out of the strangest corners of my mind. It is a cesspool of uncomfortable imagery and frank introspection. Some of the ideas go to dark places that only a select group of people might relate to. I myself have felt like a completely different person when coming up with a lot of the material.

Second in the Umbra saga, Birth of Shadows is the sequel to Encumbering Ashes, following the same character line up as they figure out the origin and mystery behind one of their own. The crew meets some new people along the way, including Jayson who lost his father to the very type of person whom he was helping. Nick's lost past puts him in the wrong place at the right time. Samuel's daughters passing leaves him with more questions than answers when an ominous drawing was left behind suggesting there are worst things than death.

Johnny's life changes drastically after a stroll down a quiet moonlit street. He encounters a beast he once thought fictional yet was far more real than he could ever imagine. Johnny befriends some of the most bizarre creatures as he makes his way to find the truth about his life and why everything was hidden from him for so long.

Hunter needs to remember. Jazz needs to forget. They need each other to heal in this teen thriller of survivor love. Hunter's past is a mystery to him, erased by a doctor at the direction of his father. His best friend Jazz has dark and disturbing memories of her own that she hides behind her sass and wit. Hunter and Jazz kiss each other's scars and form a bond of empathy no two teens should ever need.

Shortly after discovering an ancient grave, Amon's sister disappeared. Twenty years later she arrives at his doorstep, screaming at full pitch. The plea for help draws him into a world where danger shuffles behind every corner.

Terrance Alvo is a clinical psychologist. He has dedicated his time on Earth to helping patients cope with the stressors of everyday living, and is always seeking to learn more about the intricacies of human behavior. He also happens to be a complete sociopath who has struggled to find a definitive answer for why he hasn't joined the ranks of the most despicable serial killers known to man. Then Dr. Alvo shifts his focus in a different direction...in a darker direction...towards understanding and honing the brain of a 17-year-old boy named Curtis Ellway.