This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.On the anniversary of one of the hardest, most painful days in Max O'Neill's life, he receives a mysterious text message that sends him on an adventure that answers questions of his past as he follows in his long-lost parents' footsteps into an epic space adventure within the video game universe he knew from his youth. This epic LITRPG adventure takes Max from his universe to one of science fiction at the touch of a button. To embrace t...

'The Outlaws of the Wild West: 150+ Westerns in One Edition' serves as a sweeping anthology that showcases the rugged landscapes and resilient spirits characterizing American Western literature. This collection spans a vast array of narrative styles, from the sparse, gritty realism of frontier life to romanticized adventures among desolate, lawless expanses. The compilation captures an epoch where the morality was as untamed as the terrain, encapsulating themes of survival, justice, and th...

In this volume you will find 21 legends and myths of Hawaii retold by no other than HM King Kalakaua (1836 – 1891), the last King of Hawaii.Herein you will find the legends of:Hina, the Helen of Hawaii.The Royal Hunchback.The Triple Marriage of Laa-mai-kahiki.The Apotheosis of Pele.Hua, King of Hana.The Iron Knife.The Sacred Spear-Point.Kelea, the Surf-Rider of Maui.Umi, the Peasant Prince...

I’ve been claimed–the last and they want all my firsts.The four horsemen of Sherman High have decided I’m theirs.Theirs to have in every way they want.Except I don’t want to be the toy of the rich boys.I mean, I’ve never even been kissed. I’m not special.Unnoticed. Unwanted. Untouched.I’ve lived my life in the shadows, invisible and safe.Now they’re showing me off at parties and marking me in front of everyone.But our lives ar...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

This book examines ways in which families’ physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members. Attention is given to three aspects of the physical environment—disasters, climate change, and the built environment—and the challenges these may create for families. Chapters describe particular considerations within each of these three physical environment challenges, the ways they affect families, and factors that protect families, pr...

The Big Christmas Basket gathers more than two hundred illustrated novels, tales, poems, and carols into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Its range extends from devotional lyric and traditional seasonal song to domestic realism, fairy tale, comic anecdote, moral fable, ghostly fantasy, and cosmopolitan short fiction. Canonical Victorian and Romantic modes meet children's literature, American regionalism, and European storytelling, making the volume a vivid record of how Christmas ...

The world thinks my horsemen have gone soft.But they will do anything to protect me.Our enemies aren’t happy hiding in the shadows anymore.Our parents’ secrets come at a cost and put us all in danger.Trust is a risk none of us can take outside of our unit.Together, we’ll remind everyone who my men really are.And why they always win.This is the continuation of the Untouched series, Book 4 which follows after Their Cruel Play. The story...

Known for its clear readability, thorough coverage, and expert authorship, Murray & Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine has long been the gold standard text in the fast-changing field of pulmonary medicine. The new 7th Edition brings you fully up to date with newly expanded content, numerous new chapters, a new editorial team, and extensive updates throughout. It covers the entire spectrum of pulmonology in one authoritative point-of-care reference, making it an ideal resource for pul...

Terror comes in many forms and faces...A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight…Scare Street is proud to present thirteen terrifying n...

Terror comes in many forms and faces...A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight…Scare Street is proud to present thirteen terrifying...

The Ultimate Western Collection surveys the imaginative territories of the American West and its borderlands through adventure tale, historical romance, frontier realism, detective fiction, humor, and the hard-edged Western yarn. Its capacious selection moves from mythic landscapes and encounters at the edge of settlement to cattle drives, mining camps, military outposts, and contested communities. Canonical frontier narratives sit beside popular serial fiction and lesser-known regional vi...