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Elizabeth Bowen was one of the 20th century's most distinctive writers. An associate of the Bloomsbury Set, she was a keen observer of upper-middle-class life and relationships. Best known for her novels of the Anglo-Irish gentry and wartime London, her fiction displays recurring themes of loss, rootlessness and displacement. This collection contains five of Bowen's best-loved works, and hears from the author herself in three radio talks on the art of novel-writing.

In this atmospheric horror story, the city of the title is the ruin of a primordial site in the Arabian desert, thought to be more ancient than the first human civilization. In its heyday, the city flourished on the edge of the ocean. The inhabitants were a species of reptile looking like a hybrid of crocodile and seal, but with horns and protruding foreheads. They moved by crawling, so the remaining buildings have low ceilings.

The bodies of a husband and wife are found in a patch of woods in small-town, rural Arkansas by a neighboring farmer. They were shot with an arrow, gutted, and left to bleed out. The killer also removed their eyes and replaced them with large cat’s-eye marbles. The murder method and signature are too bizarre to point toward an isolated incident, and FBI Special Agent Brandon Fisher recognizes this right away. His boss with the Behavioral Analysis Unit, Supervisory Special Agent Jack Harper, confirms that he’s crossed paths with this killer several years ago.

This bundle, titled Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Anger Management, contains two amazing audiobooks that have tremendously helped me in dealing with my anxieties and anger issues, and I believe they can also do the same for you!

Poppy Paisley hails from a long matriarchal line who are all named for flowers. Since she has a permanent address at Greener Pastures (her Grandma Daisy’s dementia care center) she does not really consider herself homeless. Even though she keeps her belongings in Sunny-mobile (her car) and sleeps at a different location each night....Poppy rescues others along her journey, as she wrestles with the dilemmas of what really makes a home and how does a person interpret their reality?

In the heart of Boston in the 1980s, an unlikely friendship develops between two students at Cathedral High School. Patrick is an Irish Catholic born leader. His friends follow him with blind allegiance. Nate is a young, disciplined, Black athlete, focused on finding his way out of the neighborhood alive. The two young men find themselves on hectic school grounds in a culture that shuns friendships like theirs. This is the story of a Boston friendship that crossed neighborhood lines, broke cultural boundaries, and propelled two adolescents to rethink the world around them.

Are you ready to consistently break 90? Golf is one of the most difficult sports to master. The difference between a successful drive and a ball that drops straight into the pond is just millimeters. Hitting that perfect spot each and every time you're up can take years of practice and dedication, but don't let that deter you from getting "good enough." Being good enough means having a correct understanding of the fundamentals that you can build on in the correct way, and I teach you that in this book.

With their marriage in shambles after a horrific crime rocks their foundation, Kevin and Amy Kessecker try to salvage what is left of their lives by joining friends on a private island in South Texas. Unbeknownst to them, something evil has followed. Together, they are thrust into a hilarious and horrifying fight for survival against a seemingly unstoppable adversary with unimaginable abilities.

Voice Over Secrets 2 is the ultimate guide for anyone looking to succeed in the competitive world of voice-over acting. Whether you're a voice-over artist, an actor, or simply someone looking to improve your communication skills, this book is a must-listen.

In Ports 2, the saga continues, accessing different characters and ports while taking a dive across the boundaries of life and death through the Septarine Portal to another world. Water still encompasses most of the globe, with only 12 ports and an unknown portal rising above the oceans. Much of surviving humanity lives on one of these diminished areas of land and the rest on various ships that dot the waters.

PORTS 3, the final chapter in the PORTS trilogy, introduces us to two new ports: Red Port in former China and Orange Port in the Amazon River region of South America. We meet Meiko, a relocated Japanese girl who now lives with the Yi family in Red Port as she attempts to make sense of unfamiliar and disturbing situations in her new environment.

It’s still the 21st century, but an apocalyptic world flood has wiped out one-third of the world's population. Survivors now crowd the remaining landmasses or live on cruise ships and private yachts circumnavigating the globe or docked in harbors. Only 12 ports peek out above the waterline, along with one generally unknown portal.

Seth’s show Seth Row has made his name a household word with his weekly radio, internet, and TV specials interviewing inmates on death row before their executions. Seth is often the last person to really speak with the inmates before they exit this world and the women in his life articulate that hanging out near the abyss of death rubs off on him and ghosts of his interviewees may follow him home. The story is filled with colorful inmates, varied love interests, a long-lost father who turns out to be an actual Father, and more.

Poetry is the art of life. Truth explodes between the lines of mystical poetry that dance with the divine within us all. In this stirring debut, Michael’s ethereal poetry will open and expand your consciousness, caress and massage your existence, and take you beyond your wildest imaginings. For in Michael's poetic universe, even imagination is a limitation. Allow yourself to be transported through words to the space between the words.

In this offbeat whodunit, Mayor Dankworth is found dead, and the only suspect is golden-boy high-school track-star Aiden Birdwhistle. Unfortunately, Aiden fled the crime scene, taking refuge at a tea maker’s treehouse before turning himself in to the authorities. Will Aiden be convicted of a crime that he insists he did not commit, due to the ineptitude of his attorney uncle? Or will his newfound, quirky friends uncover the truth in time to free him from an awful fate?

West Orion has returned to Hood River to wed his middle school crush Olivia Tarkington. That is, if he can keep her convinced for five measly more days, but then, when does true love ever run smooth? Their wedding week is fraught with trials and tribulation - a broken arm, near drowning, heart attack, death, and two shocking revelations. Will the besieged couple be deterred or hurdle past their obstacles and make it to the altar (or flower-infused wooden arch)?

Do you believe that a drought of the land which causes many people to die of famine or a drought of the human soul that affects the lives of those nearest to him/her is more devastating? Can droughts of the soul can be more damaging than those of the soil? The analogy buried in the book Drought uncovers the dichotomy (or juxtaposition) of both.

A tense, white-knuckle ride of a play from BBC Radio 4 in which a rather self-satisfied hero embarks, reluctantly, on a voyage of self-discovery. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 7 January 2009, and repeated on 31 March 2011.As an expert on memory loss, Greg Cooke is asked to invalidate the testimony of an eyewitness in a high-profile murder trial. He undermines the Prosecution's key witness by convincing the jury that we forget as much within 24 hours as we do over a whole year.

In the 1870s thousands of Europeans looked for a way to get to North America. Christian Schulz slipped out of Germany in the middle of the night in a snowstorm. It took a lot of courage to board the illegal, rickety old sailing ship bound for Texas. The smelly, ruthless captain warned the 177 passengers that half of them would probably die. They would face disease, pirates, rats, hunger, thirst, and the sting of the Captain’s whip. Time would later prove him right.

Chuck Sawicki outlines his intuitive, personal mentoring style that goes beyond the old "one size fits all" model. It demonstrates the benefits of connecting people and communities. His generosity, caring, and curiosity are the hallmarks of not only his own success, but the legacies of all those he's mentored.