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Everyone has an alternate form. Lucky people never shift into it. For everyone else, there’s the Magical Probation Department. MPD Officer Angela Jones has spent her entire career helping shifters get back into their human forms and ensuring they can manage their magical powers. Her methods are a little unconventional, but she’s built a strong community of people who help each other. A far cry from her coworkers who would rather emulate the tough guy hero of “Shift Enforcers,” protecting the world from shifters at any cost and grabbing all the glory along the way.

Jack Erthmun does not believe that the dead actually speak to him. But in their own way they tell him so much. Jack is a New York City police detective with his own very peculiar ways of solving homicides, and those ways are beginning to frighten his colleagues. He gets results, but at what cost? What's happening to Jack Erthmun? This may be Jack's last case - he's assigned to a series of unspeakable killings, gruesome murders with details that make even seasoned detectives queasy.

It is said that if ghosts were real, they'd be everywhere - at shopping malls, parking lots, in the parlor, the bathroom, on the sidewalks and boulevards. (After all, how many people have lived and died throughout human history?) But maybe, just maybe, they are everywhere - on your lap at this very moment, in the walk-in closet, in the grand oak tree just outside your window, in the shower, the cellar - mumbling, grinning, stumbling about, screaming - but only a chosen few of the living have been blessed with the awful gift of being able to see them, hear them, interact with them, tormented by them.

Nessa McRae’s life is all she could ask for; a well-earned reputation as a kick-ass tattoo artist with a list of clients out the door. All she ever wanted was to be able to pay her rent and eat in the same month, and she’s finally found that stability. Little does she know, she has an admirer...an inhuman monster hell-bent on devastating her.

An unforgivable crime. A murderous act of revenge. A killer with justice on their side. Once, the infamous Dahlia Rapist terrorised young women - and their parents alike - with his brutal acts of violence and sinister calling card. Today, Raymond Knox has shunned his former alias and is being released into society. But someone suspects that a monster still lurks beneath the surface. And when Raymond Knox is found dead, mutilated to match his victims, DCI Claire Winters is called in to catch a killer the public are calling a hero....

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Alice, Twila, Granny, Jack, Trucker, and Miss Molly are at it again, this time in a haunted hotel in Red Dollar, New Mexico. Shades of the Wild West, the ghosts are carrying six-shooters! The villain is armed with black magic, and there's no escape for anyone during the ice storm.

SBI covers a wide array of topics, often delving into controversial or unconventional subjects. Discussions are informative, entertaining, and occasionally humorous, as M A E S T R O and his guests explore ideas, share personal experiences, and exchange viewpoints on various issues.

This captivating Junior Library Guild Selection is a rhyming dramatization based on 19th-century accounts of a mysterious sea creature swimming the coastal waters of Massachusetts. As startling news sweeps the summer streets, a curious lad races toward the harbor in disbelief. And yet it’s true! There, frolicking in the water is an enormous sea serpent. The wide-eyed boy can plainly see it. And so can the crowd gathering on Cape Ann’s sandy shores.

Harry Briggs led a fairly normal life. He had a good job, a nice house, and a beautiful wife named Barbara, with whom he was very much in love. Then he died. That's when Harry's story really began and he found himself in a strange little town called Silver Lake. In Silver Lake, nothing is normal. In Silver Lake Harry has become a detective, tough and silent, hot on the trail of a missing woman and a violent madman. But the town itself is an enigma.

SEPT JOURS. TROIS COUPLES. UN MEURTRE. Le Sud de la France, un temps de rêve, une villa somptueuse avec vue imprenable sur les vignes : tout est réuni pour que Kate, ses meilleures amies et leurs familles passent des vacances parfaites. Mais Kate bascule du paradis à l'enfer lorsqu'elle découvre à son arrivée un message qui ne lui laisse aucun doute : son mari la trompe. Et sa maîtresse est là, dans la villa, avec eux. C'est l'une de ses trois meilleures amies. Mais laquelle ? Laquelle est prête à piétiner vingt ans d'amitié et à détruire sa famille ?

Er ist Freude und Schmerz, Frieden und Krieg, mein Leben und meine Liebe. Bear hatte einst geschworen, Thia gegen alle Gefahren zu beschützen. Dass sie einmal ihr Herz an den geächteten Biker mit Engelsgesicht verlieren könnte - und er sich auf der Suche nach einem Ausweg für sie opfern würde -, hätte sie niemals für möglich gehalten. Erneut auf sich allein gestellt und ohne Hoffnung, ihn jemals wiederzusehen, ist jeder Tag für Thia unerträglich.

Alguien... o algo... está asesinando a la gente en el condado de Sardis. Alguien... o algo... está asesinando a la gente en el condado de Sardis. El comisario Billy Napier y el inspector Alan Blake están haciendo todo lo posible para encontrar al asesino antes de que alguien más sea víctima del ”Descuartizador de Sardis”.

Sawyer Dixon wollte nur eins: weit weg noch einmal von vorn anfangen! Und als sie Finn Hollis kennenlernt, scheint dieser Traum in Erfüllung zu gehen. Noch nie war Sawyer so glücklich, noch nie fühlte sie sich so frei wie mit Finn. Doch als sich herausstellt, dass Finn mehr über Sawyers Vergangenheit weiß, als ihr lieb ist, merkt sie, dass sie nicht länger davonlaufen kann, wenn sie eine gemeinsame Zukunft mit ihm haben will. Auch wenn das bedeutet, sich ein letztes Mal all dem zu stellen, was sie für immer vergessen wollte.

Ein alter Camper und ein Stück Land im Nirgendwo von Florida ist alles, was Sawyer Dixon nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter geblieben ist. Weit weg von ihrer Vergangenheit will sie einen Neuanfang wagen. Doch sie hat nicht mit ihrem Nachbarn Finn gerechnet. Der gut aussehende Einzelgänger ist wenig begeistert davon, dass Sawyer vor seiner Haustür campt - und Gefühle in ihm weckt, die er seit Jahren tief in seinem Herzen verschlossen hält!

Two fake psychics, one real haunted house - what could go wrong? A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

El Coronel Abernathy ex miembro de las Fuerzas Armadas de Su Majestad se retiró a su residencia de soltero en Londres muchos años atrás. Es miembro del Club de Caballeros de Londres y es en una tarde de lluvia que comparte con un miembro del club, una anécdota de su tiempo en la armada, cuando estaba en la entonces Guyana Británica, en América del Sur. Ahí se encontró con a historia del León, un animal extraordinario extinto hace miles de años.

When monsters rule the earth...Herein you’ll find a series of sojourns to places where humans are often quite literally overshadowed by the action at hand. This collection of exciting tales from writers who love the giant monster genre runs the gamut from mutation to invasion - from insurrection to vengeance - from the distant past to a far-off future, all with a single common factor: Great big game-changing things.

The Pan of Hamgee doesn't believe in miracles but if he’s going to save K'Barth it looks as if he might need one. He's not quite as alone as he thought. The punters from The Parrot and Screwdriver are right behind him and he has rescued three of his friends from the Grongolian Security Forces, who are now of course, three of the nation's most wanted, which doesn't make life easy. He even has something of a plan for once. It involves making peace with the Resistance, trying to resurrect the Underground movement, and toppling Lord Vernon.

Paula e Maurício são de Angra dos Reis e estudaram juntos dos 7 aos 17 anos, cultivando uma amizade invejável. Para seguir o sonho de ser médico, Maurício se muda para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro e Paula permanece em Angra, frustrada por não poder realizar o sonho de estudar moda. Apesar de todo o amor e carinho, o pior acontece: com o passar do tempo, eles perdem o contato. Agora, dez anos depois, Maurício é um médico em ascensão e Paula, empresária de uma loja de roupas.