BUY SMART. PAY LESS.Buying a vehicle should be exciting. Instead, for many people, it becomes one of the most stressful and confusing financial transactions they will ever make.Why?Because the dealership negotiates vehicle transactions every day. You might do it once every three, five, or even ten years.Buy Smart. Pay Less. - The Car Buying Playbook was written to help level that playing field.After more than 30 years inside the au...

One state. Many voices. Endless possibilities.Short Stories by Texas Authors, Volume 11 brings together a remarkable collection of stories that cross genres, generations, communities, and worlds.A young man searches for the courage to live openly beneath the lights of a small-town football field. An alien observer sent to study humanity must decide whether saving the species is worth destroying what makes people human. Two cousins follow a stranger...

"Bone-cracking terror from the stygian depths!"Sometimes, the legends are true.When eccentric billionaire Ellis Holloway hires renegade marine biologist Sam Aston to investigate the legend of a monster in a remote Finnish lake, Aston envisions an easy paycheck and a chance to clear his gambling debts. But he gets much more. There is something terrible living beneath the dark waters of Lake Kaarme and it is hungry.As the dea...

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'...

Danny Coombs once had a law career lined up — top of his class, a future already half-written. Then his best friend died in what everyone called a tragic accident, and Danny never made it past the bar. He took the only other trade he knew and became an elevator mechanic, Local 82, the same union his father had worked for thirty years.Seven years later, a coworker dies in a freak accident on the job. The official version answers nothing. Why did this happen? How did it happen? And —...

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While his co-conspirators enjoy a government amnesty, Sam Willard is in prison, paying the price for exposing war crimes. Surrounded by enemies eager for revenge, his greatest challenge is survival. But then a mysterious federal agent offers him a dangerous proposition: his freedom in exchange for infiltrating an extremist group to rescue the son of a radical politician. With an old adversary lurking in the shadows, Sam must navigate a web of deception and danger. Meanwhile, Detective Serg...

After being broken up with by her boyfriend, Michelle walks into her house and sees her father doing something. After that,your guess is as good as mine. Told in a nonlinear fashion, "Familiarity" throws you head first into a narrative filled with several bizarre characters, mysterious other worlds, and a dysfunctional family. To understand what's truly going on, you must unravel the world of antique stores, rabid goatmen, and two-mouthed women, all with a mysterious guide changing the cha...

Evil lurks in these woods. So much evil.The creepy, isolated woods near Dark Springs, West Virginia, provide the perfect hideaway for those wishing to stay out of public view: a cult of young women led by a sexual predator and a compound of white supremacists training to foment anarchy.Also hidden in the hills is a more insidious threat: a government-contractor lab owned by eccentric mega-billionaire Morocco Maru. What started out as a proof-of-con...

After his mother dies, Jake Wheeler returns to his birthplace of Dark Springs, West Virginia, seeking solace among his kin. But his family's unique comfort food includes some ingredients Jake's not sure he can stomach.They eat dead people.Discovering that skeleton in the pantry and adjusting to a new diet turn out to be the least of Jake's worries. Storm clouds have gathered over Dark Springs, threatening the family's peaceful existence. Ax-wielding clan patriarch Dallas Pi...

Rewilding Glen Affric takes us on a long journey through one of the finest remnants of Scotland’s once-mighty Caledonian Forest. This landmark volume is replete with evocative words and stunning photographs of the trees and the great diversity of other wildlife that make the forest their home. From the delicate twinflower to the talismanic capercaillie, it presents an inspiring story of how ecological restoration is helping the forest to recover, expand and return to its full biol...

New York Times bestselling author and esteemed TV critic Alan Sepinwall delivers the definitive biography of Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone**. Serling’s pioneering work not only included entertaining millions and shaping television standards, but also being an outspoken advocate on a range of social justice issues.**“What I write is a part of me,” Rod Serling once said. Serling put himself into everything he wrote. You could hea...