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You only have 30 days! Tick, tick, tick. That’s about how long it takes for most of us to run out of money after we get downsized, rightsized, laid off, pink-slipped, or otherwise let go from our jobs. So, what would you do? Would you be able to replace your income? Would it be with yet another horrible job or with something you really enjoy? Hi. I’m AJ. Really nice to meet you. And thanks for checking out my book. I won’t bore you with my “rags to riches” story.

Cynthia and her brothers had heard the stories about grandpa, who could summon demons and compel people to die with a curse. Maybe, they also possessed the ancient powers. At first, they caught smallish demons who had assumed the shapes of rabbits and birds and then, larger ones like those who resembled the neighbor kids.

Hot naughty maid erotica and the dirty billionaire boss. Aspen was beautiful, any time of the year, and whatever the reason you happened to find yourself there. Trey and his business partner were there for a meeting but, snowed in with just Trey's help, the three of them are soon caught up in a tangled erotic web that made the weekend anything but a total waste....

Following an exorcism gone wrong, Chief Commissioner Muhammad finds evidence of alchemy, debauchery, religious excess, and murder at a lonely hillside villa outside the city of Algiers leased to a British baron and his naturalist wife in the year 1794. On his first case since his appointment to high office by the mercurial Dey of Algiers, Muhammad’s investigation is thwarted by his inexperience, crafty Arab tribesmen, scheming European women and greedy sea captains.

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.

It always starts out so innocent. A drink, a laugh, a bet. For 40-year-old Dee Harper, her humdrum life is about to become educated. When Dee's wealthy friend, Gail, makes her a ridiculous bet, she never dreams she'll actually go through with it. After all, dating 26 men in one year, from A to Z, is ludicrous. Right? Then Gail offers her $50,000 if she succeeds. Now that is an offer she can't refuse. From Adam the cocky limo driver to Kevin the klepto, Dee learns the hard way what sort of guy she doesn't want.

Born with special abilities, N8 and the rest of “the children” have lived underground their entire lives, where they’ve been led to believe there was a nuclear war that left the Earth’s surface uninhabitable. The scientists chose what information they were given, what TV shows and movies they could watch, as well as what they were allowed to eat. It was only a matter of time before he and the others started questioning their very existence.

A self-paced alternative to the traditional daily or weekly devotional format, this book allows women to feed their spirits with peaceful replacements to angst and confusion, on her own time, when needed most. Each "conversation" (devotional) features a simple format, including a relevant New Testament scripture sample on which to meditate, reflections on what you've heard, and thought-and-spirit provoking prompts to inspire reflection and growth.

Life can be tough. You do not want to be fighting yourself in addition to everything else in your life. It is time to take action for a bright and content future. Hey, Can We Just Chill? offers you seven explosive steps to zap anxiety and live a better life. An anxious, bullied, and tainted author explores a series of strategies, through anecdotes and research, that will help improve every aspect of your being as an anxious person. You deserve to be free from anxiety so that you can focus on living a purposeful life.

Changing your habits is no easy task. You may start off at the right pace or with the right routine, but you might soon find yourself facing an uphill - might I even say up-mountain - struggle maintaining your habits. Your motivation may enjoy a burst of energy in the beginning, but dwindle to a shadow of its former self. You might have created plans, guides, and even reminders, only to watch yourself have diminishing returns. Your ability to push back your bad habits into the depths of your memory, past the point of remembrance, may not be going as well as you had hoped.

Prepare to scream forever! Howie Payne and Nick Enlow work the midnight shift at Big Carl’s Video Transfer and Media Services. An odd AVI clip begins to appear in their public drive on a nightly basis. At first Howie and Nick think it’s a serialized art house horror film someone on the day shift is sending them in secret. As the clips progress, however, the now obsessed duo discover something deeper and darker in the videos. Horror author Terry M. West would like to introduce you to the Green Room and its primary occupant, The Screamer.

Might and magic. Legendary beasts and lost civilizations. Epic journeys and bloody brawls. Necromancers and dragon riders. Ancient evils and new saviors. Chronicles of Maradoum: Volume 2 is set in the same world as the epic fantasy Convent Series, beginning with A Dead Wizard’s Dream.

Prepare to scream forever! Howie Payne and Nick Enlow work the midnight shift at Big Carl’s Video Transfer and Media Services. An odd AVI clip begins to appear in their public drive on a nightly basis. At first Howie and Nick think it’s a serialized art house horror film someone on the day shift is sending them in secret. As the clips progress, however, the now obsessed duo discover something deeper and darker in the videos.

When Rachel shows up for an interview at a law office, she doesn't expect to be handed...a baby. But she embraces her new job - and her pint-sized sidekick - because if there's one thing Rachel's good at, it's having adventures. (Plus her new boss? Totally hot.) Bryce didn't even know he was a father until last week. Now he's behind on sleep and his organized office is sliding into chaos. Ordinarily, he'd hold out for an assistant with more experience and less attitude, but he needs help, and he needs it now.

Clock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island's supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it. Clock's Watch. An anthology of heroic dark fantasy and terror.

The Nurse Mare's Tale is in a way the prequel to Dinky: The Nurse Mare's Foal, as it tells the story of Dinky's mother. This lovely story is told from the viewpoint of two aging nurse mares about to give birth, and the trials they go through. It tells us of Sadie and her friend Nellie and is accompanied with charming dialogue (both speaking and thinking). The plight of these animals is described in empathetic detail.

There is no escape. There never was. Freddy Bills is retired. Back in the day, he was fishing people out of unreality tanks and pulling needles from their heads. That was when it was against the law. Now everyone is doing it, including him...His plans were to fade into retirement, just him and his dog. That was before someone from his past appeared. There’s no escaping his past or future. He was destined to solve the Maze. He just has to figure out why.

Seventeen-year-old Raz uses his gift for acting to hide the truth of who he really is. After being a target for the bullies at his high school, he’s sworn that this year he’s going to reinvent himself. Instead of the shy theater geek he’s always been, he’s decided to portray a new identity so he can belong. Getting noticed in a small town is difficult, especially when you’ve got Raz’s reputation—because last summer gave him a black record and a secret.

While Muhammad is a student at the law college, he grows concerned for his friend when he witnesses trials for blasphemy that might result in torture and death for the accused. After searching in every port on the Mediterranean, Bivio does everything in his power to discover the identity of the mysterious 'Mountain Bather' who walks on water in his recurring dream. Will the loss of the saintly personage of a Sufi be felt by the people of Algiers as a greater blow than the devastating earthquake that shakes the home of the Barbary Corsairs to its foundations?

A fast-acting virus has killed a majority of the world’s female population. With so few women on Earth, a new law is created. The Claiming Law allow groups of men to stake a claim on a female as their sensual property, and the Outlaw brothers are returning from the Terrorist Wars intent on declaring ownership of the women they love.