Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find outhow elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection ofexperiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define. In The Untethered Soul,spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer explores the question of who we are and arrives at the conclusion that our identity is to be fou...

Matt is reincarnated as the most unlikely of heroes …Being reborn as a tree wasn't first on Matt's wishlist. It's not all bad though. For he's not just any tree, but an overpowered one in a fantasy world that serves as the battlefield for an ongoing conflict between demons and the heroes summoned to oppose them.Matt can be a great tool against the evil forces. TreeTree (as Matt comes to be known) will learn all manner of skills, gain levels and wisdom, and in doing so, buil...

From the mind of the man Stephen King calls “a master of the macabre,” comes a brilliant new collection of no-punches-pulled horror stories, some never before collected and many originals that have never been published anywhere before. Bentley Little can take the innocuous, twist it around, and write a story that will change your way of thinking. Walking Alone: Short Stories is a shining example of his talent to scare you, creep you out, and make you shudder.

Adventurers seek dungeons for riches. Heroes storm great fortresses. Gods clash far above.Arek cooks lasagna and tops it with a dash of finely chopped basil.An orc who has seen more than his fair amount of fighting, Arek wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his days cooking and away from the chaos of combat.However, when Ming and her group of adventurers hire him as their full-time chef, his plans of avoiding violence crumble. He longs to le...

Coming of age is hard enough when you don't have to face monsters …When your family ends up stranded in a magical world, you don't have much choice.Jackson's class as an Ironwood Monk puts him right in the front line. He gets stronger the more he gets hit and can pass that on to the rest of the team. That is if he can get his mom to actually let him fight.No one, least of all Jackson, fully understands the importance he holds for his family's future or that of all Talos. He...

Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. Together with ex-sumo wrestler, Sakaguchi, Hiroshi scours Tokyo’s sacred temples, corporate offices and industrial wastelands to find out why one woman would be driven to murder when she seems to have it all. Hiroshi’s determined to cut through Japan’s ambiguities—and dangers—to find the murdering ex-hostess befor...

This is the chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city’s Jews and to sabotage the nation’s military installations. Plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; f...

Being a teenager is hard enough, but being ripped through a portal from your home to a magical realm is something else. Yet that is exactly what Mira, Jackson, and Sara have experienced.Their parents got sucked in too, and surprisingly life and death situations proved that they actually did know something about life. But now, these kids find themselves wielding powers they could have only imagined before or, in Mira'scase, that she would have called a nerd dream before. More...

Tales of blood, magic, and steel by masters of the craft! Stories, essays, and poetry by:Kevin J. AndersonBruce BostonGreg CoxDana Fredsti & David FitzgeraldNeil GaimanTeel James GlennMaxwell I. GoldHoward Andrew JonesBrian W. MatthewsGreg MollinJames A. MooreWeston OchseMarguerite ReedCharles R. RutledgeJane Yolen

It’s not easy being the wise magical tree in a world filled with demons and dangerous foes.Matt’s journey to survive in a world filled with heroes and demons continues!Matt now has to guide his growing nation through competing nations and kingdoms and demonic incursions, while trying to amass more power, train his forces, make more equipment, amass allies and friends, and navigate sensitive relationships with heroes and former heroes!Book two of an epic reincarnatio...

It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why, before the police do.

The explosive first entry in the bestselling, eerie and atmospheric, optioned-for-film Mystery/Thriller/Suspense series that is “practically impossible to put down.”"A story that will move you to the edge of your seat" -The Seattle Post-IntelligencerWhen a United States diplomat disappears in front of hundreds of onlookers while attending a religious ceremony in Zimbabwe, Diplomatic Security special agent Dominic Grey, product of a violent ...