Is your psyche prepared for more terror-brimming tales, with fates ready to haunt your mind? Ten new stories of adult horror await in this follow-up anthology to Spine-Tingling Tales to Read before Bed, each with their own gripping illustration! Delve into the beyond and endure new atrocities such as:- impossible temptations- nautical nightmares- chilling glimpses of the afterlife- accursed fantasy lands- and more...Keep a candle burning afte...

Harper Jones is just trying to get through sixth grade in a neighborhood that doesn't always feel safe. Then an encounter with an ancient protector spirit changes everything - Harper is chosen to carry a responsibility far bigger than herself, and the ordinary world she knew starts to look very different.With her friends Eva, Chantel, and Deja by her side, Harper has to figure out what it means to be chosen, how to use a power she doesn't yet understand, and how to protect the peop...

Take a rollercoaster ride through Scotland's fearsome environmental history.When the icesheet that covered what is now Scotland began to retreat around 12,000 years ago, it revealed a land stripped to its rocky bones but ready to be reclothed in soil, to bear plant life, and to be colonised by animals and humans. So began the formation of Scotland' s environment, opening a story of constantly and still evolving change as climate, weather, disease and human action have shaped and re...

The land around Hollow Farm has always had visitors.They come on foot and on horseback, by wagon and by thumb. Drifters, preachers, soldiers, salesmen - strangers who walk in off the road and never quite walk back out. Some leave bones. Some leave warnings. Some leave nothing at all except a feeling that the county is a little heavier than it was before they arrived.Wanderers & Strangers is a collection of thirty-one campfire tales told by Edmund Hollow - a man who...

This book teaches readers how to identify, challenge, and transform destructive thoughts and emotions by integrating:• Biblical truth (renewing the mind, spiritual authority, identity in Christ)• REBT & CBT principles (belief systems, cognitive distortions, emotional regulation)• Emotional intelligence (self-awareness, emotional mastery, emotional responsibility)• Confidence and mind...

"The land takes what it takes."Somewhere in the hills of Kentucky, there is a farm that remembers everything.It remembers the Cherokee priests who bound something ancient beneath the oldest tree in the orchard - something that was not evil, exactly, but was not safe. It remembers Elijah McBride, the frontier preacher who rode out of Fort Boonesborough and never quite rode back the same. It remembers the Civil War soldier who came home carrying more than the war's s...

The Sound of Burning: A Mother, a Daughter, a Murder begins the night then-fifteen-year-old Osorio’s mother murdered her grandmother while the author was in her bedroom down the hall. But this book is not simply about that crime. Instead, Osorio examines the true crime obsession that arose in popular American culture parallel to her life, from the Scream franchise and the early 2000s “copaganda” to the more recent podcast boom. She uses her own story to interrogate the wa...

How urban waterfront development in the early republic displaced working-class communities, creating lasting patterns of inequality and resistanceIn the early years of American nationhood, civic leaders undertook the construction of thousands of acres of man-made land along urban coastlines—a process known colloquially as “wharfing out,” in which landfilled blocks increased a city’s surface area by pushing outward into deep water. Workers cleared wetlands and dredg...

Discover Gottman Method interventions by studying modern couplesThe Marriage Clinic presented a complete marital therapy program based on John Gottman’s much heralded research that revolutionized couples and marriage therapy. In 2024, John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman revised and expanded upon their technique to consider the issues facing modern couples with The New Marriage Clinic. This casebook, a new iteration of Julie Schwartz Gottman’s ...

Love, faith, and Christmas in Regency England.Three heartwarming, inspirational novellas, originally published in the beloved Christmas Revels anthology series, are now gathered together in this special collection.A Light in Winter or The Wicked Will – Debt-ridden Connor Grayson inherits his uncle's title and ruined estate. But in order to receive his uncle's money, the new Viscount Roxbury must marry an ancient crone—a fate he considers... until ...

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men?COLTON'S INFERNOby Jennifer D. BokalAiden Colton’s instantly captivated by resourceful rancher Lucy Harris, who will do just about anything to keep the home she loves. But when Aiden stumbles on Lucy left for dead in a structure set aflame, the firefighter’s per...

Following the success of Flame Tree's Gothic Fantasy collections, this new title gathers together Romantic Fantasy stories inspired by the ecstasy and mystery of Time.Time – at once fleeting and eternal – is a tricksy, intangible dimension. A Breath of Time, part of Flame Tree's exciting new series of Romantic Fantasy titles, is a collection filled with stories of lost loves, love discovered, love unreachable unless Time itself is conquered; stories of tim...