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In a post-apocalyptic America, Jamie Teague helps a group of travelers make their way past the murderous Bushwhackers. Jamie comes to find that the strangers are Mormons headed for Utah to avoid being massacred. Knowing that they will die without his help, he agrees to take them as far as his cabin.

This story is included in Orson Scott Card's collection The Folk of the Fringe.

Are you stuck in a cycle you want to break because you feel ready to free yourself on a higher level? You are someone who deserves to be able to live your life in a way that allows you to be who you are deep down within. But how can you ever hope to do that? The truth is there’s a resource that’s ready and waiting to change the way you live: Psychic Empath (2 in 1) is for people who want to banish negative energy, connect with empathy, and unlock their inner psychic skills.

Jilted by the beautiful Lucy moves Wyatt to find a woman based on her heart rather than her appearance. After a lengthy correspondence, he decides Vera’s the one. Yet, he didn’t want her looks to influence his decision, so he arranged a proxy marriage. Vera, an upright, no-nonsense, lady, is the perfect wife, but could they fall in love? Christmas with Vera’s family in Missouri is a turning point in Vera and Wyatt’s relationship.

Experience three captivating Weirdbey Island books in a single box set! Delve into thrilling adventures, spooky mysteries, and plenty of humor. Discover why so many middle grade and adult fans can’t stop listening! Will Dylan and his fearless friends prevail, or will the shadowy forces claim their victory? Discover the answers in this electrifying, middle-grade adventure!

Analise Becke writes romance with western heroes, men she has dreamed up by combining the looks of her favorite western actor with the qualities she discovers in her online chats with the Texas rancher, Riley Morgan. She's cooked up more than a few fantasies about Riley over the last year, but knows them for what they are - fantasies of a lonely woman whose marriage is falling apart.

Lord Kadorax Darkarrow was born on Earth, but in Agglor, he's the highest-level assassin anyone can find. The leader of the famed Blackened Blades, he's made a name for himself, built a kingdom of sorts, and only had to respawn once along the way. Then a rogue band of jackals sends him all the way back to a dreary tavern in a tiny village to start over at level one. Hellbent on revenge, Kadorax sets out on a path littered with bodies - level up, find the jackals, slay their god!

It’s not easy being the youngest of seven sons in a family of notorious sorcerers, especially for Ayden Dracre. In a world where sorcerers practice only dark magic and wizards practice only light magic, Ayden has a problem: He is very bad at being bad. Try as he might, all of his spells to cause mayhem go awry. When he finds out that his family has had enough of his mistakes, he decides to take destiny into his own hands.

A pretty, single woman in the Old West where there is a shortage of women would surely cause heads to turn, as well as garner some serious suitors. As soon as Marissa steps off the stage, every man in Hunter’s Grove is mesmerized. Three likely suitors are bold enough to throw their hats in the ring for her attention: Cole, her aunt’s attorney, Alan, her farmer neighbor, and Nash, a neighboring sheep-ranch owner. Since her aunt left an unusual stipulation to her will, Marissa finds herself forced to choose one of them to marry.

Whidbey Island’s getting weird again. Eerie rumors drift around town like spirits, mystifying howls echo in the night…. And as ever, Dylan Wylde and his friends find themselves confronted with a most puzzling mystery. What starts out as just another spooky mission from The Society of the Owl and Wolf soon uncovers a dastardly crime.

Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel - welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winning magazine Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show has been an online haven for this powerful form of storytelling since 2005. Now its editors have selected their all-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazine's eight-year history and reprinted them together in one big book of listening pleasure.

When her husband dies, she has a choice to make: Go home, and face the family who made her stay with the beast, or head to Belle Fourche to the only friend she has left. Conrad Oleson can't read, and it's shamed him for longer than he can remember. When another teacher shows up on his front step, he's sure his brother is meddling, again. But when Izzy reveals her painful past, he can't stay away. And if learning to read brings him closer to her, he'll do about anything for her including teaching her how to love.

The couple finds themselves in an age-old dilemma. A love that can’t ever blossom. Glenna McKay thinks Spence Blackwood is a handsome, gentleman drifter, and she falls in love with him knowing he won’t be staying in town long. Spence is on a secret mission for the U.S. Marshals and needs to keep his distance from the lovely Glenna. He’s afraid the criminal case he’s trying to solve might involve her and her father. Glenna gets herself in danger by finding evidence that the villain would kill to have. Can Spence keep her safe?

Strange things are happening on Weirdbey Island. Odd symbols are appearing in the cornfields overnight, cows and people are going missing, old rumors are returning, and Dylan Wylde’s bang smack in the middle of everything. Soon Dylan and his trusty friends find themselves on a spooky new mission for The Society of the Owl and Wolf, as well as helping a peculiar group of people who are definitely not what they seem....

Paxton got the crap kicked out of him while foiling his mother’s plans. Even that isn’t enough to keep him in one place. Mother is still on the loose, after all, and there’s no telling what that evil witch is up to. With his new partner (don’t call her a sidekick!) Cassie, Paxton heads to Arizona to help an old police friend with a supernatural murder problem.

Ned is not just any troll. Even though Ned is nearly seven feet tall, with a nose the size of a pickle, Ned has a heart full of love! A heart that swoons over poetry and craves true friendship! And when it comes to humans...it's complicated. So complicated that, long ago, Ned fled the Enchanted Realm for the one place no one would notice a troll hiding in plain sight: New York City. But one human boy - Cody - has noticed.

Are you one of the millions of people who feel stuck? Whether due to fear, low self-esteem, or feelings of inadequacy, millions of people feel like their life isn't going anywhere. In Be the Hero of Your Life: Ditch the Excuses, Take Your Hero's Journey, and Find Your Life's Purpose, life coach J. Scott MacMillan outlines a five-step plan to overcome your fears and lead a more fulfilling and purpose-driven life.

A gateway has opened to the realm of the dead and caused a zombie apocalypse. This reboot by author Gary Reed of his original series tells the story of a group of teenagers left to survive in a world where the only threat more deadly than the living dead are the actual living! Can they survive with no adults, little food, and gasoline in a yellow school bus, while they are hunted down by the leader of the zombie army?

When Hannah Fairbanks answers an advertisement for a mail-order-bride, she thinks she's found the man she'll spend the rest of her life with. Instead she finds a man who has lied to her about everything. Stranded in Dawson, Hannah unexpectedly meets Owl, a local Lakota Indian, and is instantly smitten. His dark, exotic looks and kindness draw Hannah to him.

When Sam Cable, Texas Ranger, is assigned to protect a volatile and controversial candidate for US Senate, April Marie Fortney, his life is turned into a daily dose of hell on toast. Just when he thought the situation couldn’t get worse, he wakes up next to her dead body...with no memory of how he got there. The investigation focuses on Cable, highlighting him as the newest poster boy for an intense debate on racial relations.

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