CamillaI’d rather be elbows deep defusing a bomb than deal with my feelings. But civilian life is messy. It's also all I’ve got after one slip up almost sent me home from my last tour in a body bag. Now I debug lines of code by day. At night, I run an online message board for vets. When I’m not with West—a retired SEAL.It’s not what you think.We’re online gaming buddies. Geeking out and trash talking until all hours. But now, he wants to me...

Into the Polar NightA fascinating and often amusing journal written by a young French woman in 1839.She travelled through a very different Northern Europe to that of 2026 visiting Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Prussia, Saxony and Russia. She also sailed on a French naval corvette, La Recherche, which was conducting a scientific expedition to Spitzbergen before she travelled across Lapland.Her original book was titled 'Voyage d'...

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...

"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...

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 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 ...