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One of the main tenets of shamanism is a belief in the power of ceremony to manifest change in the physical world. Virtually all shamanic traditions use a variety of ritual practices as tools for personal transformation, healing, and celebration. Now, in this exciting and practical book, Toltec shaman and New York Times best-selling author don Jose Ruiz introduces and explains a wealth of these shamanic rituals and ceremonies, and provides a detailed and accessible guide to performing them on your own.

I wake up surrounded by death and my memories are gone. A man in a beige hazmat suit reaches his hand through the carnage. “Come with me if you want to live.” I know I’m supposed to know that from somewhere, but I don’t. I know the world outside me is not right.

I’m used to demons and voodoo. What I was not prepared for was my life turning into a fairytale, complete with the Wicked Step Mother. My awful step mother is the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. She’s always hated me for being a Succubus. It just got a hundred times worse after my father died mysteriously. I inherited the family company, but I can’t remove her as VP because she’s made the entire board into her zombies.

Aeron had every opportunity to explain the horses that were haunting my drawings. I asked him several times about his crazy zombie-killing horse. He omitted to tell me he was the Horseman of Death until Leif let it slip he was the Horseman of Pestilence when he introduced himself to me. I don’t know who I’m madder at—Aeron for lying to me or me for just ignoring all the clues and telling myself there was no way it was possible and trusting him.

Are you dating anyone? It’s probably the worst question you can ask a single woman, and I get to hear it every time my family gets together. Apparently, being successful, intelligent, and independent means nothing without a partner. This year, my parent’s anniversary celebration promises to be especially awful since my youngest brother just got engaged.

When a 1950s rural Mexican family of nine is forced to resettle in an urban American metropolis, its cultural clash is hopeful, exhausting, and thorny. You will meet Ramiro, a strong-willed, self-reliant, deeply passionate man who is at times a dreamer, sometimes defiant, sometimes tyrannical, but always in control of the ship that carries his lovely wife, Eliza, and their seven children. Ramiro’s hopes and dreams are modest and realistic, yet, as the title suggests, the book shows that a man’s best plans can often go astray.

At 12 years old, Bo is unexpectedly promoted from child to man during this special hunting week-end in the woods of East Texas. He faces a series of tests; corralling his wayward brothers, protecting his mother's shotgun, keeping track of his prized knife, and meeting his demanding father's expectations. He may even impress the girl he likes--who happens to be the only girl on the hunt. Travel back to a time when families hunted together and dogs were held in higher esteem than children; at least the children thought so.

12 Hours of Daylight: A Jason Jules Novella, is a story about the life of Jason Jules, a porn star dad with a heart of gold and some major family baggage. With a job that literally keeps him up all night, this Channing Tatum look-alike is living the X-rated Hollywood dream. Any 22-year-old guy would jump at the chance to star in Jason’s life...except Jason.

Twelve US soldiers, assigned to Mason's former Army unit, are left behind on a mission in Southern Afghanistan. The Pentagon has declined to explain the true assignment. What Mason learns in Afghanistan ensnares him seemingly in Washington's biggest conspiracy. In Paris, the international truth frantically unravels between Mason, his beautiful girlfriend, and a wayward Taliban leader.

One year past infection and even rural Montana has not been immune to the scourge. Spreading slowly over the world has been an infection, an infection that robs humankind of their free will and replaces it with but a single desire, to infect others. Safe in the wide open spaces of Montana, some have found a way to survive using wit, bloodshed, or the simple tenacious creativity of life.

Mason Church, a decorated US soldier, returns home plagued by the emotional scars of war and the fragmented memories of his father. Loveless, broke, and jaded, he's recruited by National Clandestine Service to assassinate Mexico's biggest drug kingpin. Sixteen-year-old Valentina Vargas witnesses the massacre of her family by the ruthless drug lord. Suddenly orphaned, she must make a decision to remain a peasant or retaliate against the sadistic murderers. In order to succeed in Mexico, Mason must partner with Valentina.

Pinkerton Detective Caleb Lincoln struggles against the worst natural disaster ever to strike the US - the 1900 Galveston hurricane - while fighting for his own life during the investigation into the murder of the Texas philanthropist whose estate founded Rice University in Houston in 1912. Chased by a mysterious assassin paid to stop him from finding the truth, Lincoln races across a continent and back before meeting his nemesis on the battlefield of a famous Texas hill even as the monumental Spindletop oil gusher explodes in the background.

The grisly murder of a beautiful young lawyer. A political scandal unlike any the nation has ever seen. Two homicide detectives assigned to the case are shot in cold blood. And one of the police department's own stands accused of orchestrating the entire ordeal. While the fallout has shaken the city to its core, for Detective Scott Priest, the daily business of solving homicides goes on. Today, it is the savage attack on a room attendant inside a luxury hotel suite.

Here are five more tales of crime and mystery, telling of those who walk crooked paths and pay the price for it. Here are crooks and cops, killers and victims, and those who walk the line between good and evil. Take a few short trips down the darker side of life, where crime can be a casual or planned event. This set of stories shows people on the run and police and ordinary citizens solving crimes. Sometimes the perpetrator gets away, but so often people pay for their deeds.

The true story of Roscoe and Vera Diamond Chittim, the world that brought them together in Texas, and the world war that separated them for two years.