Eight tales of vampires, werewolves, demons, zombies, and other horrors:M.T. Murphy - Blackmail.S.M. Reine - Something Wrong.India Drummond - The Reaver.Anabel Portillo - Lux.Jeremy C. Shipp - Figs.Samantha Anderson - Deals and Demons.Sara Reinke - Periphery People.M.T. Murphy - Spider Bag.

Robyn has found the tomb of the most powerful vampire in the world. Now, different forces in the underworld either want to steal her secret or make sure it dies with her. Two things stand in their way: The vampiress Lucifera and her werewolf companion. Whoever survives will find that the lesser of two evils is not always the right choice.

In the first three books of the Torn Between Two Worlds series, we established a framework for human dualism. In the fourth book, we moved from a philosophical discussion to a hands-on, self-help presentation, providing helpful answers to everyday issues.In the first half of the book, we define the possible spiritual illnesses that can affect you and your loved ones. These are the underlying causes that are being either unrecognized or misdiagnosed by the medical community. The sec...

You close your eyes to see. You plug your ears to hear. Behind your heavy eyelids, the screen flickers.For Hephy McHazel, a "worldbuilder" at Daedalus Game Studios, the real world is a prison and his past is a bug that needs to be scrubbed clean. When he agrees to be the first human subject for a $2.5 billion artificial intelligence named Ariadne, he is promised the power to forge immaculate digital escapes.But the boundary between simulation and soul begin...

The essential introduction or reconnection to the Bible for queer readers from the co-founders of QueerTheology.com.“As we dove back into the story of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, trying to look at it with fresh eyes, I realized I had visited the Garden of Eden before. It was as if, like Saul, the scales had fallen off my eyes and suddenly I could see what had been there all along. The Bible has always been queer.”When Brian Murphy and Shannon L. Kearns cre...

How recent breakthroughs in longevity research offer clues about human agingAll of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods, have allowed scie...

Audiobook narrated by Avi Roque and Pete CrossThe essential introduction or reconnection to the Bible for queer readers from the co-founders of QueerTheology.com.“As we dove back into the story of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, trying to look at it with fresh eyes, I realized I had visited the Garden of Eden before. It was as if, like Saul, the scales had fallen off my eyes and suddenly I could see what had been there all along. The Bible has...

All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods, have allowed scientists to probe the molecular mechanisms of longevity and aging. Understanding the fundamental biolog...

How do Enslaved People Today Win (and Sometimes Lose) their Freedom?A community of rock quarry miners in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India gave their tiny cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. But it hasn't always been identified by that auspicious moniker. The miners renamed their village in 2000, after they staged a revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who held their families in debt bondage for generations. Non-profit...

The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge—often called the “Everest” of offshore ocean racing—is considered one of the toughest in the world. Unpredictable weather and seas make each race demanding, but in 1998, an unexpected “weather bomb” hit the fleet, creating 80-foot waves and 100-mile-per-hour winds.Many bigger, better-equipped boats tried to maneuver around the storm, but the crew of the AFR Midnight Rambler chose to head directly into its path. After ...

A compelling, true life saga of the experiences of James T. Murphy, who was taken captive by Japanese Imperial Forces on April 9, 1942 in the Philippine Islands, just four months after the outbreak of World War II. Murphy survived the infamous Bataan Death March, and then—against all odds—endured more than three and a half years of brutality, starvation, illness, slave labor and inhumane treatment at the hands of a ruthless enemy before his dramatic liberation from captivity weeks after Wo...

A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?Millions of people today are still enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who founded their own town of Azad Nagar—Freedomville—after staging a rebellion against their slaveholders. International organizations championed it as a no...