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Uncomfortably Dark presents...The Baker’s Dozen! Delicious dark delights for your horror consumption! Come indulge in the dark and disturbing with 13 tantalizing tales of terror written by an incredible lineup of independent horror authors. With stories ranging from delightful to disturbing, you are sure to find something to please your sweet spot. Authors include Jeff Strand, Christine Morgan, Ruthann Jagge, Aron Beauregard, Lee Franklin, Chris Miller, Patrick C. Harrison, III, Carver Pike, Kenzie Jennings, Daniel Volpe, Rowland Bercy, Jr., Candace Nola and M. Ennenbach.

Dennis is an industrious but lonely college student magically summoned from Earth against his will and understanding to a world of sorcerers and monsters, priestesses and despots. As he explores this strange new land and the women who brought him there, he learns what it means to be a man. In time, he will know what it takes to become a hero.

Hellsmouth, an indomitable thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky's oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavor of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse, the next Secretariat. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm after a stint in prison, the violence of the Forges' history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view.

A three-year stay will award you with an education that will rival any college and enough money to aid you in whatever career you choose. I’m applying to give my mom the life she deserves, to fund my sister’s medical bills...and so that I can have the only thing I truly want. For my family I will give them my time, my soul and my body, but I will never give them my heart. This place is going to test me, and the guys very well could break me, but they won't keep me down forever.

A real hero knows how to rise to the occasion. Dennis is a college student whose only luck with the ladies is ogling them from afar and picking up their misplaced bikini tops the morning after wild pool parties he never attends. After working late nights at Conan's Pizza, his overactive Frazetta-inspired imagination are all that get him through the day. Dreams of slaying beasts to rescue babelicious women will soon be put to the test as his sudden gut-emptying illness turns out to be the side effects of desperate priestess magic.

Some tales are best told wet, dripping with blood and bowels, like a freshly slaughtered steer, its flesh and organs splayed across the butcher’s floor for all the world to see. Whether reading such stories or seeing such slaughters, the observe, and death is rarely heroic. These eight tales were run through the meat grinder and served-up raw. If you’re going in, bring plenty of napkins.

It’s all about the money. Maybe for some, but I’m not interested. I’d rather work with my hands than spend the billions my father left behind. The only thing that interests me is the apple orchard he left me. The old thing needs work, and I plan to make it beyond successful. What I didn’t expect to find between the rows of juicy red apples was a yearning for more. A beautiful single-mom teacher shows up to take her kiddos on a tour of the orchard and I feel things I haven’t felt in a long time. Mine. Every cell in my body wakes up with a desire for the strong, independent woman ...

I may be free from one of the Harkwrights, but another is taking his place. A wildcard and mystery. Whether he's better or worse than the one he's replacing remains to be seen. If I keep on baking, I might succeed in fooling myself into believing I am safe. That everything that has happened in the past two years was just a nightmare. But really that's just wishful thinking, because there are some things even fresh bread and homemade cakes cannot fix.

Applied Wisdom for Nonprofits: Eight Practical Tools for Leadership is a compact and lively handbook for anyone who works in a nonprofit organization. Jim Morgan believes that whatever your job title, you can improve your management skills with understanding and practice. He shares his proven insights into management through easy-to-remember maxims called "Morganisms", designed to allow individuals or teams to think about - and then apply - management principles to complex, real-life situations.

A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes listeners into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdores, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family's fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city, forcing her parents, Joe Boisdore, an artist descended from a freed slave, and his white "uptown" wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic.

Lewis Hiroshi, a 10-year-old Japanese American boy, finds his life turned upside down when he and his family are ordered to go to a Segregation Camp in 1945. While there, he quickly befriends and falls in love with the outgoing daughter of a soldier. All too soon, they find themselves torn away from each other, but not before Lewis makes a promise that he is willing to risk everything to keep.

Transgender, Cisgender, boy, girl, all words of a distant and archaic past. Enter a world where gender is suppressed before birth, only to be revealed on one's Choosing Day. But, beneath the pristine facade of structure and order lies the dark and sinister secrets that those in power will do anything to conceal. Tested, tried and true, the system works, but what if someone born sexless begins to identify with something it has never been? Can decades of scientific intervention triumph or will nature began to reassert itself?

Risa Birmingham, a 30-year-old, full-figured customer service representative, is content with her life until she gets stuck on an elevator at work. Then, everything changes. With no one but a mysterious man for company, Risa is intrigued by his kind demeanor, but put off by his silence. She can't help but wonder if there's more to the man than what meets the eye, or if well enough is better off left alone.

My second year at the prestigious Harkwright Academy is about to begin. This year I have even more trials to face, from attending the retreat after being claimed by Aeron, to seeing the infamous Harkwright Prince, with no more disguises in place. The cards may not seem stacked against me right now, but can I stay in the Harkwrights good graces without losing myself? Will I continue to see this place as nothing more than a means to an end, or will it offer me the things I never even knew I wanted?

Dennis rides onward toward his destiny, manning up for his quest to rescue all the college babes in peril he can find. With his women by his side, he sets upon a journey to the strange lands of the North, hoping to chase down a rumored lost hottie from back home and gain knowledge and allies he'll need when his time to face the Dark One comes. But the horseback road trip is anything but an easy ride through the countryside. Can he swing his mighty sword enough to thrust his way ever closer to destiny, or will the wilds of Galderia and the forces of darkness prove too much for him?

The journey ever closer to the Dark Lord brings greater threats to the beloved three Dennis swore to protect. He's seriously considering tossing the mantle of fate from his shoulders and keeping his women safe in Yedia, where he can stay on top of the situation. Yet, ignoring the prophecy would leave numerous others lost or enslaved, and Galderia would surely fall further into darkness. This puts the wrong kind of kink in his plan. Across the landscape ahead of him, once-vanquished adversaries, merciless forces, and new evils lie in wait to destroy him and all he fights to safeguard.

This dazzling debut from C.E. Morgan takes listeners to 1984 Kentucky for a story of a young couple confronting tragedy and chasing dreams. Aloma moves to her boyfriend Orren's farm when his family dies in a car accident. And as a bereaved Orren withdraws, Aloma's chances of becoming a concert pianist diminish.

Success in business demands the effective management of people. James C. Morgan, who for nearly three decades led the high-tech powerhouse Applied Materials to both financial success and to the designation as one of America's most admired companies and best places to work, provides a simple, straightforward set of principles and tips that he says can help anyone be a better manager. Rich in stories and practical examples, it's a must-listen for those seeking a timeless and proven management manual.

Finally, a booklet that integrates the best of business management with the realities of the nonprofit world! While helpful to any reader, the booklet is targeted at those who work in, volunteer with, and support the nonprofit sector. Jim Morgan believes no matter your role in life or job title, anyone can improve their management skills with understanding and practice.

Pippa Winterbourne runs Moorehaven, the Oregon Coast's quirkiest bed-and-breakfast and former home of world-famous mystery writer A. Raymond Moore. Guests come there to write their own crime novels. When a real-life murder takes a local's life and washes a handsome boat pilot into her arms, Pippa is yanked into a deadly plot of her own. A tangle of secrets crashes past into present, and Pippa must uncover clues dating back to Seacrest's Prohibition days, including a secret Moore himself hid from the world.