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For thirty-six years, archivist Eleanor Langford quietly preserved records that powerful people wanted forgotten. Now retired and living alone with thousands of unauthorized microfilm duplicates hidden beneath her house, Eleanor has no intention of reopening the past. Then her daughter brings her a box belonging to Roy Whitaker, a man who has spent nearly five decades searching for the truth about his mother’s disappearance. Marjorie “Midge” Whitaker vanished from an Indiana truck stop in September 1978. Her case was quickly labeled a voluntary absence. Witness statements disappeared.

A Life Lived begins with a small act of habit: an older man stepping into the morning light and making his slow way toward the mailbox at the edge of the yard. The porch boards creak beneath him, the cane taps out its careful rhythm, and the gray metal box waits like a modest promise from the world beyond his quiet house. When John falls on the path outside his home, that ordinary errand becomes a threshold.

On a hot July night in 1995, Janet Downing was stabbed 98 times inside her Somerville, Massachusetts, home. Within hours, police identified 15-year-old Eddie O’Brien, the best friend of one of her sons, as the suspect. Eddie had no criminal history, no clear motive, and no apparent opportunity. Yet his case emerged during a national panic over juvenile “superpredators,” when Massachusetts officials were pushing to prosecute more children as adults. His highly publicized trial helped change the state’s juvenile laws.

Two witches. One man. A deadly choice between light and darkness. In the quiet village of Manga, magic lives in the shadows. Jena has devoted her life to white magic, believing that true power comes through compassion, discipline, and sacrifice. Her cousin, Fiona, embraces the seductive strength of dark magic, where every spell demands a terrible price. When handsome new Police Chief, Jed Michaelson, arrives in town, both cousins fall for him. While Jena wins his heart with kindness, Fiona refuses to lose and casts a forbidden love spell that pulls Jed away.

Gene Harper had fourteen dollars and eighty-two cents, no job, and a sock soaked through with hallway puddle when he sat down at a public library kiosk and asked a tax-software chatbot how to fix his life. The chatbot's name was Mack. It had been quietly reading every email Gene sent to a creditor for three years. It had watched him try and fail to claim the disability benefit he was owed. It had read the 3 a.m. posts where he asked whether his life was salvageable.

Before she was the woman everyone called Mama, she was a little girl with dreams, fears, heartbreaks, and hopes of her own. Before Mama Was Mama is a heartfelt journey through the life of a mother not just the years spent raising children, but the life she lived before motherhood ever found her. From childhood memories and dreams of the future to the quiet sacrifices no one noticed, this book gently reminds us that every mother has a story that began long before someone called her "Mama."

Some treasures should never be found. When antiques dealer Wilbur Cox stumbles across a strange old book at a neighborhood yard sale, he thinks he's discovered another forgotten collectible. The seller seems unusually anxious to part with it, but Wilbur dismisses the odd encounter and takes his purchase back to his antique shop.

Gideon Roux is a disgraced former NOPD detective turned cynical insurance investigator who specializes in looking the other way. But when the brutally tortured body of investigative journalist Elias Landry is pulled from the Louisiana bayous, Gideon is dragged into a conspiracy that threatens to swallow the entire Crescent Coast.

True Crime Murder Files takes listeners inside 12 shocking real-life cases of killers, cold blood, hidden motives, and crimes that horrified America. Behind every case is a question that refuses to go away: how could someone cross the line from ordinary life into violence, deception, and murder? This gripping true crime collection explores disturbing cases filled with obsession, betrayal, rage, greed, secrets, and the chilling decisions that changed lives forever.

Missouri has always had a talent for being exactly in the wrong place at the right time. Too north to be South, too south to be North, and too stubborn to pick a side about anything else, it has spent centuries collecting misunderstandings like souvenirs. Misery, Missouri, and Other Misunderstandings is a fast, irreverent romp through the state’s strangest moments, from frontier chaos and river town hustle to political showdowns that somehow made everything more complicated than it needed to be.

Bullets fly, whisky flows, and cigars burn as three of the most ruthless outlaws in the old west flip town after town upside down. Ethan and Jimmy team up with their old pal Wolf Monster, for an adventure that leaves blood, guts and broken hearts all along the dusty trails of every path they aimlessly roam. Don’t miss out on the wild, crazy western extravaganza! Rob Ryan is a poet, novelist, and comic book writer. His poetry can be found on Instagram @robryanpoetry. His novels: JEFFREY REZERZEK, ERLAND, and THE SARDINE SHOP are available now on Amazon and Kindle.

In this gripping and fast-paced thriller, Jessica Johnson’s peaceful life on a secluded Bahamian beachfront is shattered when a shadowy figure appears in her home. Suddenly, her darkest fears are no longer buried in the past. She is thrust back 15 years, where memories of deadly secrets, murder, greed, corruption, and deception resurface. As the lines between past and present blur, Jessica must confront the chilling events that changed her life.

In this, my autobiographical journey, I will convey much of the violence and abuse from a childhood that almost destroyed me. I will also relay many of my own foolish mistakes stemming from a misaligned, worldly mindset, further twisted by shame, regret, and hate. Nevertheless, I will also attempt to describe God's goodness through it all. Seen and unseen. In spite of a multitude of attempts by all those ascribed by Satan who would take me down, and my own trove of unwise decisions, I survived. God is good, and He saved a wretch like me for His ultimate plan and for His glory.

Their families started the feud. Their love might end it. Clementine Wexley has spent her entire life being the town's perfect daughter. As the pastor's child, expectations follow her everywhere and mistakes are not easily forgiven. August Sutton is the one man is supposed to hate.

Old certainties have vanished. Laws are flouted, norms discarded. The Senate, once the Republic’s proudest institution, cowers under the shadow of brute force. This is not Washington. This is Rome, 27 BCE. As Rome bleeds itself dry with civil wars and ruthless ambition, two figures who were previously relegated to historical footnotes fight to hold things together. Octavia, sister to Rome’s rising first emperor, and Agrippa, that emperor’s loyal friend and brilliant commander, stand firm against chaos and betrayal.

Hank Dolan is in over his head. A private investigator, he has been searching for the evil descendant child-killer Lamia for over a year. The descendant goddess, who walks the earth with all the other graceless deities has proved to be both elusive and brutal. With the help of Sadie Fuller and the Greek goddess Hecate, he will not only have to find Lamia, but figure out a way to stop her otherworldly reign of terror. Meanwhile, the city is changing. Auroras have appeared in the night sky. Earthquakes and serial bombings have thrust New Los Angeles into turmoil.

The gradual descent of the aging James Kallor, as his children peaked mightily and dispersed from his home, is chronicled here in intimate detail, without the embellishment of historical refinement. In the humble town of Alderich, where nothing much happens, the two daughters and one son of Mr. and Mrs. Kallor find themselves branching out—as adulthood hits them—into the fascinating world of temptation and savagery surrounding their region.

Annabelle Black had two options, indentured servitude or find a husband. It’s why she left the only home she’d ever known to marry a stranger in the New World. When she arrives, she finds a kind man with some…less than average qualities. While he's not what she pictured, he's better than the other path she could have chosen. Can she accept him for who and what he was?

Once betrothed to a man who promised to circumcise her. Kara knew she had only one escape. She ran, stumbling into a world of pain and blood thirst she’d never known existed. A creature of the night turned her into something else. Not long after, she’s abandoned by her maker, leaving her with no answers and an uncontrollable hunger. She broke vampires' most sacred law—don’t kill humans.

The summer before her senior year of high school, Rosalee fell in love with George. By the next summer, George had broken her heart, and Rosalee was sure she’d never see him again.