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I’ve spent too many nights caught between reality and nightmare, each bleeding into the other like a twisted dream I can’t wake from. The Devil’s Backbone Society continues to host our deepest terrors. The weight of betrayal crushes me, pressing down on my chest—bitter and suffocating. I don’t know what would be worse: losing the ones I love, the ones who have become my anchors, or losing myself entirely. In the end, is there even a difference?

I didn’t wake up one day and decide to give society the middle finger. It happened slowly—one rule at a time. First, it was the “safe” career path that was quietly killing my soul. Then came the pressure to hit milestones—marriage, house, kids—right on schedule. Then the unspoken rules about how to dress, what to buy, and how to behave to be taken seriously.

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Who would you trust with the power to alter the destiny of humanity? Devastated by the loss of his son in a remote rainforest of Indonesian Papua, Quentin Darnell now must struggle to get his wife and surviving students safely back to civilization. But surviving the trek out of the wilderness is only the first challenge, because his group now possesses an object that can create anything or do anything, for better or for worse. Can anyone be trusted with such power? If they can somehow get the object to the United States, will they be heroes—or the world’s destroyers?

"It was an accident." Those are the four words I told my boyfriend after a mistaken Santa incident that I have been trying not to think about since it happened. He probably would have forgiven me if I'd admitted my screw up right away. Instead, he found out in a public recap video of the Holiday...

Nate just wants to be left in peace to study without his brother Harrison’s hockey teammates hanging around and getting on his nerves. Until he sees a familiar tattoo on a gay dating app belonging to the hockey team’s tough guy Jesse. When Harrison asks him to tutor Jesse for a class he is failing, maybe Nate can discover if it really is Jesse on that app? Jesse is used to being called dumb, but being tutored by his captain’s younger brother in a subject he doesn’t even study is humiliating.

These stories and more are featured in the third short story anthology for the System Apocalypse, continuing the saga of survival in a world transformed by the arrival of the System. Humanity has adapted to a new reality filled with Classes, magic and monsters, but the struggle for life, love and purpose never ends. This anthology brings together gripping tales from returning authors and two new short stories by Tao Wong.

Water Washes Earth is a literary fiction that reimagines the age-old tale of love thwarted by circumstance, culture, and power. It is set in the waning years of British colonial rule in Hong Kong—a city caught between two worlds, teetering on the edge of transformation. The story unfolds through the dual perspectives of Lisa, a determined Chinese woman, and James, an idealistic American. Their love is a luminous thread woven into a fabric of societal expectations, political upheaval, and the lingering shadows of imperialism.

Quentin Darnell was only a boy when his anthropologist parents were overcome by a professional failure so crushing it led to his father's suicide. Now a schoolteacher, Quentin is looking for answers that can only be found in the wild terrains of Indonesian Papua, where years ago his parents studied an isolated aboriginal tribe. Quentin leads his wife, son, and six students on a field trip to experience Papua’s pristine tropical forests. When their plane tragically crashes in the wilderness, Quentin becomes trapped in a vicious fight to protect the ones he loves.

This is the third book in the Afterlife, Interrupted series. For nearly 30 years, Nathan G. Castle, OP, has helped several hundred “stuck" — and not-so-stuck souls who died suddenly and traumatically adjust to the afterlife. Victims of fires, automobile accidents, shootings, stabbings, drownings - and suicides - come to him in his dreams seeking help to resolve their Interrupted Death Experiences.™ Father Nathan believes that providing such help is something the Holy Spirit has given him and his prayer partners to do.

This transformative guide, filled with rich insights and compelling narratives, introduces listeners to the timeless principles of servant leadership, demonstrating their relevance and effectiveness in today’s complex and interconnected world. Servant leadership, which prioritizes the needs of others and fosters an environment of collaboration and mutual respect, has proven to be an invaluable model for organizations navigating the exciting challenges of the modern age.

September 1939. To fuel his hate-filled quest for global supremacy and an eternal Third Reich, German dictator Adolf Hitler orders a blitzkrieg attack against Poland, a gateway into the East where prized lands and economic resources await. A sea of tanks and troops storm across the border, prompting Polish allies Britain and France to declare war on Nazi Germany. The conflict soon widens, consuming the European continent and beyond. In late 1941, Japanese forces strike American naval forces at Pearl Harbor, drawing the United States into a blistering Pacific brawl.

For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the American Dream come true. A glorious stretch of untamed land near the Colorado-Kansas border, it’s the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. But when a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock—with a well-armed militia—the Jensens’ dream becomes a living nightmare. This stranger calls himself Colonel Lamar Talbot. He’s come to warn them about a looming war with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacre—by launching a counterattack that’s even bloodier.

Nicole Richardson is a woman with a purpose—prove herself worthy of her place in a male-dominated field. Fiercely competitive, wielder of tough love and motivation, and terrible at dealing with things outside of her control. Between making sure the players are thriving, and coping with a changing family dynamic, a relationship isn't even on her radar.

Full-cast adaptations of four works by Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. A descendant of judge John Hathorne, who oversaw the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, he wrote several works inspired by Puritan New England, with themes of guilt, sin and retribution...

This self-help book for cult leaders is ideal for anyone with a sense of humor! Dark and provocative humor… In a satirical twist, it uses short stories about 40 different cults as case studies to teach the vital steps for starting your own cult. The lessons will ensure that your cult becomes a vibrant, flourishing network of submissive lemmings and extension of God’s will, interpretable by no one but you!

Forbidden love: Where the heart battles the mind and desire wins every time. For Nala Stanton, love has not always been kind. She fell in love with a façade, and now she's desperate to free herself before it's too late. When opportunity arises, she takes it, even though being found would surely...

The official companion to The Wild Edge of Sorrow—reflection prompts, timely exercises, and rituals of renewal for moving with grief and loss from bestselling author Francis Weller “[The Wild Edge of Sorrow] blew me away. I underlined things on nearly every page." —Anderson Cooper, All...

If you have found this book, the end of the world has already begun. Something lies hidden in the remote wilderness. It is unremarkable in appearance yet beautiful in purpose. It is intelligent yet not human. It is a gift. But gifts always come at a price. It’s 1868. Gentleman naturalist Samuel Inwood is fulfilling his dream of exploring Dutch New Guinea when things go horribly wrong. A savage aboriginal tribe takes him captive, and as Samuel fights to survive, he begins to doubt that he is the civilized man he had thought himself to be.

They thrive off the thrill of the chase, unapologetic in their pursuit to always hit their mark—or get their woman. Businessmen by day, hitmen by night, these frat brothers live, work, and kill together. They're dangerous, raw, and too ruthless for their best friend's little sister, who should be off-limits to them, especially with an enemy who is always circulating in their orbit. They could get her killed if they aren't careful.