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When a troubled young American couple leases a flat in Portugal, they hope to rekindle lost feelings for one another in an exotic new setting far removed from reminders of their past. But as the first hours in their new surroundings unfold, it quickly becomes apparent that their stay in the flat will be anything but relaxing. Something haunts the unit, and now it's haunting them, shutting them off from the outside world.

Delaware: the First State, the Forgotten State, and the strangest little powerhouse you never paid attention to. This is not your high school history textbook. From Lenape fishing villages to Dutch and Swedish turf wars, from Caesar Rodney’s wheezing midnight ride to the explosive rise of DuPont, Delaware has been shaping America while pretending to be invisible. Along the way it perfected the art of being indispensable without being noticed: chickens, chemicals, corporations, and boardwalks all rolled into one.

Brighten your day and dive into Flat Spell Tales! The author, Tony Martello, transforms ordinary events in our lives into fiction based on half-realities. Drop in and surf stories about romance, revenge, treasure hunts, and humor. He invites you along with him on a variety of adventures that take you into extreme nature, complex human relationships, and animal allegories.

Two weeks into the System Apocalypse, and the transformations are just beginning. Mutated insects, carnivorous toads, and angry drop bears were not on the school curriculum, but when the apocalypse hits, you roll with it. Parenting a teenager has prepared Kira for the worst; she just didn’t expect that to include the end of the world. A menacing conglomerate of alien hunters is breathing down their necks, and new threats lurk just over the hills. Kira and the rest of the Australian survivors of Brisbane must level up, bolster defenses, and prepare for an incoming invasion.

A collection of chilling tales that are "equal parts H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe". Ghosts, murderers, monsters, and more lurk within the pages of It Came from Anomaly Flats...In this first collected volume of chill-inducing stories from everyone’s favorite trans-dimensional town, you’ll find reason enough to question your own sanity, even as you try to reassure yourself that things like this only happen in stories. Don’t they?

A headless body turns up on a beach. Former sheriff detective Frank Pounds is dragged from medical retirement because he may know the identity of the body. Irreverently dressed in a t-shirt, board shorts, and rainbow-painted huaraches showing off his pink toenails, he stands over a familiar body with a distinctive tattoo. As he glares up the beach to the pier lined with camera vultures with long lenses, it turns personal.

Cast out by their town. Trapped by the storm. Judged by the choices they make when survival becomes impossible. Poker Flat has decided to cleanse itself of every person its respectable citizens consider undesirable. Gambler John Oakhurst, the Duchess, Mother Shipton, and the drunken Uncle Billy...

Young Gwenni Morgan has a gift. She can fly in her sleep. She's also fond of strawberry whip, detective stories and asking difficult questions. When a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, she resolves to uncover the secret of his disappearance and return him to his children. She truthfully records...

When Josie Jackson discovers her past is not all as it seems, her life is changed forever. After being warned not to investigate photographs she was sent of her mother before Josie was born, Josie discovers more secrets in unexpected places. At the same time, Josie meets a handsome stranger who raises more questions than answers. How can she resist his charms when he is everything she has been looking for? Josie’s colleagues, Kim and Gareth, are caught in the danger. Will Josie discover the truth before anyone gets hurt?

Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest, they communicate; Rose feeds. Thoughts and associations travel far beyond the remit of the front room in their rented flat, which they pace and which, alive with them, continually becomes new...

Talia Eden a aimé Foster Madden pendant un an, deux mois et onze jours. C'est le jour 438 que son amour est mort. Le jour où il a choisi d'épouser sa meilleure amie. Le jour où elle a juré de ne plus jamais penser à lui. Jusqu'à des années plus tard, lorsqu'il a l'audace de...

«Esta es la historia de Danny y de los amigos de Danny y de la casa de Danny. Es la historia de cómo estos tres llegan a convertirse en una sola cosa, de manera que si en Tortilla Flat mencionas la casa de Danny no te estás refiriendo a una estructura de madera cubierta con una capa de cal...

On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project.

"Sergeant Forson's Dirty-Shirt Army" is set in Eastern Oregon, at a forgotten outpost left behind by the regular army during the War Between the States. Fort Haney is now home to a troop of 57 men, raw recruits in the Oregon Volunteer Cavalry, who care little about fighting except among themselves, in spite of the fact that they are surrounded by hostile Snake and Cayuse Indians just waiting for opportune moments to strike at farmers, ranchers, and stagecoaches.

When an officer's murder in Biscayne National Park threatens to expose a corrupt agency, one man is tasked with finding the killer, but he’s running into a wall of organizational conspiracy built to conceal a devious plot. Special Agent Kurt Hunter is fighting to find the truth hidden behind a maze of twisted coworkers and inter-agency tensions. His investigation leads him through the pristine waters of the national park to the brightest and darkest sides of Miami. But when Kurt gets too close and his family is threatened, he’s forced to take justice into his own hands.

A motley crew, banished from a Western town, find strength, and weakness, in each other.

In this duo's title story, 28-year-old Dave Bradford is close to achieving his dreams. In an effort to expand his cattle ranch and marry Sirral Drury, Bradford plans to sell 400 of his cattle in Wichita. But JJ Farman, owner of the biggest ranch in the basin, calls a meeting and warns Bradford he best not try to take the cattle across Texas Flat, even though it's open range. Going around Texas Flat would add two hundred miles to the cattle drive, another 10-12 days to the journey.

Chat Lock is trailed to his ranch by a posse who suspect him of shooting a man in the back in a barroom gun fight.

A brutal war began when two bold men left Kane's mine to work their own strike. Then, something tan and cylindrical struck the roof and rolled off. The men inside didn't wait for the dynamite to blow; they lurched into the sunlight, firing as they ran. This was to be the final battle.

The grit and glory that became a trademark of Ralph Compton’s best-selling Westerns is on full display in this thrilling tale. Here Deputy U.S. Marshal Augustus Crane rides to Rawhide Flat to collect accused robber Judah Walsh for a trial in Virginia City. But Crane gets more trouble than he bargained for when the townsfolk decide Walsh can’t leave unless he reveals where he hid the loot.