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One day seven-year-old Ruby was walking in the woods and saw a glow. The glow was three eggs. After one of the eggs hatched, Ruby found himself with a pet Christmas dragon, which he named Reindeer. Can Ruby, his sister, and their five cousins take care of Reindeer and entertain him? What kind of magic does a Christmas dragon have during the holidays?

Conner is a love-lost soul who dreads a nagging preordained destiny. Returning to his rural hometown in Oklahoma, he finds an irresistible netherworld of heathen cranksters; meth-heads marauding the countryside.

The Dutch oven can be tricky to use at first because it needs special care and seasoning. Besides, cast iron behaves differently from your normal stainless steel or aluminum pots. But don't despair: This book will help you avoid any unpleasant surprises by teaching you everything you need to know about your Dutch oven!

I should never have touched her. As the eldest brother in an ancient brotherhood, I know better. She's innocent, untouched, unbroken. One intoxicating night of succumbing to lust and my dark obsession ignites. I have no place in a good girl's life.... She deserves to be more than my captive. I have to let her go before it's too late.

A baby rat freed from the bottom of a dumpster becomes a white ibis wandering the wet driveway after a storm. Goodbye, hello, goodbye. It was the garbage times; it was time for something else. A tale of two tales, connected by a mysterious sunlit portal.

In this landmark audiobook, Italian aeronautical engineer Renato Vesco lays the groundwork for finally learning the truth about many so-called "unidentified" flying objects. For more than 25 years, Vesco has been studying the possibility of invasion from outer space and coverups by world governments. In this audiobook, Vesco offers suggestions for future solutions. He discusses why so many government officials want their constituents to believe that these very real objects do not exist. But the truth can no longer be denied. The layman’s intelligence can no longer be underestimated.

Obsessed with books from childhood, Miriam answered her life's calling by working in the towns local bookshop. Although the shops owner is in a difficult situation she respected this hard working Amish girl...A girl who fought to save her life...to no avail. Just as the police arrive...Lucas, the towns newly trained lawyer could be her last hope...Her only friend...Her only chance...Her love of books could mean a final turn of the page. This is the authors favorite of all her books. She hopes you enjoy it also.

The vagus nerve is a large, branching nerve that begins in your brain and sends signals to your body’s major organs such as your heart, your lungs, and your digestive system. It’s responsible for your heart rate, your digestion, your reaction to stress, and many other things. That’s why a lot can go wrong in your body if the vagus nerve doesn’t function perfectly.

Inspector Alastair Ransom, Chicago PD is back, pulled from a poker game when his snitch is found murdered in a back alley. The seemingly unimportant victim comes to full-blown life and recognition as Alastair uncovers the clues to his murder. With each new revelation, Henry Bosch, aka Dot'n'Carry (due to the sound of his wooden leg) becomes more real to Ransom than when he was alive. The old veteran of the Civil War, town drunk, gambler, hobo and storyteller, who'd become a staple of life on Chicago's streets, in death, becomes Inspector Ransom's latest obsession.

Hani doesn’t know what to make of it when the king starts honoring him, but he must still find the man who killed a foreign ambassador right under the roof of the Egyptian commissioner in Kumidi—a man whose past intersects bizarrely with Hani’s. And then, the queen of the new coregent has a special task for him which may involve dragging Hani’s 19-year-old daughter into court politics. He must find a way to see justice done and yet protect his family…and his conscience.

Donald Ray “Hokey” Busby has a bit of the devil in him, but nobody thought he’d kill his best friend, Harry “Fats” Shell. Yet, one night on the Walker family farm, Hokey brutally shoots Fats down. Hours later, Hokey is found dying in a pool of blood from a single shotgun blast.

Inspected by Extraterrestrials: Gray Barker’s Extreme Book of UFO Abduction is one of the last books written by the iconic ufologist, publisher, and best-selling author, Gray Barker, whose writing influenced the plotlines of shows like Star Trek, Futurama, The X-Files, and more. The prolific Barker single-handedly kept public interest focused on UFOs for many years, and introduced many themes still discussed and investigated by today’s paranormal and conspiracy researchers: the Roswell UFO crash, men in black, ancient aliens, Nazi UFOs, the Philadelphia Experiment, Mothman....

This unique edition of Saucers of Fear features a special introduction by Barker, as well as reports from his field investigators, who - in true newsletter style - shed urgent, much-needed light on riddles such as: UFO abductions, missing time, man-made saucers, “alien” healing, antigravity, the men in black, underground bases and tunnels, black helicopters, brainwashing, and remote surveillance.

Back then, hot-headed gangsters, not-so-gentle dames and bullet-riddled corpses filled the newspaper headlines. And some of the stories below the headlines were even true. The 1920s was a period in American history when even the respectable were unwilling to stay sober. And not-so-fast cars carried assassins across Chicago, a city that for many captures the essence of the USA. In Tough Guys in the Room, the story of Al Capone and his rivals is told in separate and stand-alone topics that cover key figures and events.

In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan’s troops in their pursuit of Indian lands.

This fast-moving and sometimes disturbing book starts at the point where Brian is about to be arrested for smuggling a kilogram of cocaine into the UK in 1995, earning him a prison sentence of 12 years. The book explores his disadvantaged life growing up in Wales in impoverished circumstances with a number of brothers and sisters, all with the same mother but several different fathers. He tells of his first experience with drugs at the tender age of 16 and continues to chart his descent into drugs and drug dealing.

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During the Great Jubilee of the Aten, a mysterious series of tomb robberies takes place, and witnesses begin to die. With plague ravaging the palace, where Hani’s daughter is a physician, and Egypt’s ally, Naharin, collapsing into the hands of a usurper, Hani must make sense of what is happening - and who in high places is his real enemy.

It is London in the early 1960s and Teddy Bean is making a name for himself as a private detective. However, his personal problems are taking over, with his brother, John, only slowly recovering from a heart attack and his wife, Pearl, dying in a car accident. Added to this, he takes on a difficult case involving a woman presumably drowned at sea by her husband. Teddy needs help while his brother is incapacitated and finds it in his friend, ex-Detective Inspector Tony Halliday. With the added support of their secretary Muriel, the Bean Detective Agency is open for business once more!

Are you struggling with fatigue, brain fog, or depression? Is there something wrong with your stomach or gut? It may be your vagus nerve! The vagus nerve is a large, branching nerve that begins in your brain and sends signals to your body’s major organs such as your heart, your lungs, and your digestive system. It’s responsible for your heart rate, your digestion, your reaction to stress, and many other things. That’s why a lot can go wrong in your body if the vagus nerve doesn’t function perfectly.