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While camping in a remote location, Maddie Davenport gathers around the fire with her friends and family to tell scary stories. Caleb, the handsome young guide, shares the local legend of the ferocious Mountain Men who hunt unsuspecting campers and leave their mark by carving grisly antlers into their victims' foreheads. The next day, the story comes true. Now Maddie and her family are lost in the deep woods - with no way out - being stalked by their worst nightmares. There were other, more horrifying stories told that night - and Maddie's about to find out just how they end...

Hotep! When Isis learns there’s a new Egyptian temple operating in Harlem she soon discovers that Priestess Anjara is up to no good. Can the goddess next door stop her from miseducating and exploiting the brothers and sisters in the community?

Life! To help Negro women in the 1930s, Isis establishes The Thetas, a sorority dedicated to teaching them the values that will allow them to live the best life possible. However, when she tries to teach Pledge Marva Connors her lessons, she soon learns her greatest challenge won’t be Jim Crow in the South or discrimination in the North, but the negative perceptions Marva has about herself. Can the goddess teach Marva to live on her feet? Or is she destined to die on her knees?

What is a Workplace Simp? A Workplace Simp is a man who puts his career at risk trying to win the favor of a female co-worker on the job. In his quest to get her attention he cost the company he works for hours of productivity, billions of dollars court costs, legal fees, and punitive damages when they commit crimes like sexual harassment, grand larceny and embezzlement. In this eBook men will learn why Simpin in the workplace has them working against themselves and prevents them from achieving their personal and professional goals on the job.

Little Girl Lost! When E’steem finds Melissa, a lost little girl wandering around Times Square, she runs afoul of Brimstone Jack, a demon pimp out to get a payday at the child’s expense. Can the Devilish Diva beat back Jack and his exotic army of demon dancers and help the lost little girl get back home?

“Mad” Matilda Crowley has become an urban legend in New York City’s Goth scene. Known for her outrageous underground parties where anything can happen, Matilda gets caught up in her own raving insanity when she’s arrested at one of her own parties in a police raid. After she’s released from jail, Matilda learns it’ll take legendary discipline, courage, and character to her rebuild her life. Can a lady get back up? Or has she taken her last dive off the stage of life?

A Darker Shade of Black... Sixteen-year-old Matilda Crowley lives on the dark side of being light skinned. When a series of events sends the biracial teenager further down the Tragic Mulatto’s road to Hell she enters the world of the Goth Subculture and begins a journey that will change her perceptions of race, culture, and identity. Will she find light in darkness? Or will she be driven to madness?

Matilda Crowley has earned the nickname Spinsterella at Amalgamated Consolidated for her unique style and fashion sense. But when an enigmatic new hire starts working on her floor, the Goth Monster is eager to get closer to the silent stranger many in the office have dubbed the Quiet Man. Is it love at first bite for the Black Widow? Or is she destined to die an old maid?

What is a Cyber Simp? A Cyber Simp is a guy who spends his time online pandering to women on the Internet such as Instagram models, cam girls, cosplayers, and e-girls in the hopes of winning them over. In this book men will learn why chasing these female predators online by dropping direct messages and donations through superchats and Ca$happ to get their attention is a waste of their time and all the tricks they use in their trade to enrich themselves at their expense.

What is a Mangina? A man who thinks and acts like a woman. Worse, he’s a man who gives women a free pass to get away irresponsible and immoral behavior just because she was born female. In this eBook readers will learn why men who adopt this way of thinking are dysfunctional and how their sexist and misogynistic actions hurt both men and women. Readers will also learn how to break free of this self-destructive pattern of behavior and the tools to moving forward to a more productive life paradigm.

The Devil doesn’t like John Haynes. To take his soul, Lucifer recruits E'steem a beautiful she-demon to seduce him. If she can persuade John to compromise his beliefs and values, he'll allow her to join his Elect, a cadre of powerful demons in his inner circle. To balance the playing field in E'steem's favor, Lucifer isolates John by having him fired from his job . Unemployed and emotionally vulnerable, John eagerly takes what he thinks is the job opportunity of a lifetime as CEO of Morris Phillips. Distracted by his new high-powered job and its many duties, he has no idea that Lucifer ...

Fresh! In 1987, 13-year-old John Haynes is counting down the days until he graduates from IS 148, the hellhole junior high school he attends in the burnt down ruins of the South Bronx. While John anticipates going to the prom with his girlfriend Tisha, he does his best to avoid the bullies who torment him and a principal on the warpath. However, Scott Grayson the most popular boy in school is looking to make his girlfriend Tisha his prom queen. As Grayson believes all is fair in the war he wages his war to win Tisha’s heart, John learns hard lessons about love and life that shape the man ...

A podcast that explores the layers of architecture as a profession and passion.

Welcome to the Cabin. I’m Shawn James, the host of the My Self Reliance podcast and YouTube channel. This is the story of how I am withdrawing from modern society to pursue a free, natural, healthy, meaningful and satisfying life and how you can too. Join me as I build an off grid homestead in the wilderness complete with log cabins, an outdoor kitchen, a wood-fired sauna, lumber mill, vegetable garden, fruit orchard, food forest and haven for wildlife.

After leading a successful mission to take out Iraqi warlord Samhal Hussein, Sgt John Williams is hailed as a Hero by the U.S Army. However, when he returns to the South Bronx he finds his neighborhood being oppressed by a neighborhood drug kingpin. With the NYPD scared, and residents feeling powerless, John realizes that he has to declare his own war on terror to save his neighborhood and protect his community.

What happens when four Comic Con hardened sci-fi/horror/fantasy fans sit around some microphones, sip cocktails, and argue about all things monstrous? It's an informative and entertaining podcast called.... Monster Party! Expect exciting interviews with industry professionals, genre celebrities, and comedians, as well as a delightful dollop of good-natured bickering. You have been warned!

What’s a Cap'n Save Em'? A Cap'n Save Em' is a guy who pursues relationships with dysfunctional and deeply troubled women. He believes with his support, guidance, and “loving care” that the can “save” them and change them into the perfect mate for him. In this eBook men will learn why they can't "save" or "fix" broken women and why being a superhero often winds up with them being the victim of a dangerous rogues gallery such as the Baby Daddy, Pimp, and the Ex-Boyfriend and even the women they pursue like strippers, junkies, prostitutes and single mothers

Sixteen-year-old Nikki Desmond is the product of too many, too much, and too little. Too many boarding schools, too much money, and too little discipline. After being expelled from a fourth prestigious New York boarding school, her mother sends her to Los Angeles to live with her father.In the screenplays for the fabulous first season of this teen sitcom, Nikki adjusts to life on the west coast while her father works towards correcting her surly, racist, and rude behavior with a combination of tough love, humor, and life lessons.