Joseph doesn't remember much of his father, except the passion for nature and animals that they share. One dark and stormy night, he suddenly learns that his father was not just the famed zoologist he believed him to be, but also a mythozoologist, whose journal is packed with discoveries about the creatures of myths and legends!Joseph struggles to believe any of it; his father had surely dealt with facts, not fiction! Yet, when he frees an impolite hobgoblin trapped in a hunter's c...

SPLATTER THE NORMALFor this book, weird horror isn’t weird enough, and the extreme needs to be more extreme: the nineteen stories in Extremely Weird Splatter take the “quiet” respectability that characterizes a lot of weird fiction these days and fuses it with the elsewhere typically grounded—but very loud—transgressions of the extreme and splatterpunk. The results are messy, fantastic, and nineteen kinds of bizarre and disturbing.Join three Lifeti...

When yakuza underboss Shigure Matsunaga meets Kenneth Harris at a boring social event, he's surprised to find himself attracted to the blond gaijin with the mismatched eyes. Shigure is even more pleased when he discovers Ken not only speaks Japanese fluently, but is fluent in Japan's ways, even the more violent of the martial arts. Ken's expertise at kendo is not his most striking quality—it's the passion beneath his quiet, almost fragile exterior that ignites Shigure's lust, and the two c...

Sequel to Yakuza PrideEx-Navy SEAL Brendan O'Farrihy enrolls in kendo classes to investigate a Honolulu dojo acting as a front for a yakuza syndicate. Or at least that's what Brendan's client, Senator Harris, believes. Through his kendo instructor, the cocky, short-fused, gorgeous Kinosuke Yonekawa, Brendan learns the criminals who are supposedly using the senator's son, Kenneth, to expand their activities into the US, seem to have severed any yakuza conne...

"The deeper you go into the shadows, the heavier the chains become."To those on the outside, the occult promises power, enlightenment, and hidden truth. But for those who cross the line, the reality is far darker. Beyond the promises lies a spiritual weight—an unspoken oppression that grows heavier with every ritual, every boundary pushed, and every threshold crossed.In The Weight of the Threshold, H.J. Val delivers a raw, eye-open...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.TABLE OF CONTENTS: A Criticism of The Hegelian Philosophy of Right On The Jewish Question On The King o...

Jordie has lived through the worst. Widowed at twenty-three and left to raise a child alone, she packed up, moved to NYC and beat the odds. Now, a successful business owner, nothing can shake this indomitable woman. Nothing until a chance at love arrives in the form of handsome movie star, Nathan Harper.Jordie is nothing like any other woman he's ever met. Her quick wit and sass only add to her beauty. A late night walk and breakfast quickly becomes something more. But Jordie's pas...

London is ready to spend a peaceful holiday at home with her family, but her twin brother, Trent, has other plans. He invites his teammate, Pratt Montgomery, home for the holidays and London is less than happy about it.From the moment London met Pratt three years ago, she saw nothing but a beer drinking hockey player and refused to give him the time of day. That's all changing as she sees a side of him she's never seen before.All she wants is...him to goAll she wants i...

In the middle-of-nowhere town of Schweizer-Reneke, the quiet is a lie. Beneath the surface of Sunday sermons and routine farm life, a truth buried fifteen years ago is finally rising from the grave.When a savage murder shatters the town's peace, Detective James Van der Linde, a man of tailored suits and deep emotional scars, is thrust into a hunt for a predator unlike any seasoned detectives have seen. Haunted by a past he cannot o...

This is a hot, sexy, feel-good, friends to lovers, first-time gay romance.I'm Aaron. On Sundays, I play in the amateur football league. The rest of the time I'm a trainee plumber. In all, a confident, well-adjusted guy and a 20-year-old virgin who lives with his parents and falls apart over the boy not-quite next door.I've got a crush the size of Europe on Joe, who lives across the street, and when he's around, I transform into a prize idiot. Joe's cute, sexy, fun and the re...

Embark on a captivating and thought-provoking story – a tale from the heart inspired by real-life events – to explore what makes us human and, at the same time, nuts.Self-destruction, suicide, and twelve patients in a modern psychiatric clinic with a mystery that needs to be solved. Which of the fellow eleven patients will be the one responsible for the murder of Jacob Van der Linde, the well-respected, self-made Manhattan billionaire?You may argue...

The Physics of Vibrations and Waves (6th Edition)*. Compiled by Youfang Hu, it provides detailed, step-by-step solutions to all exercises found in the main text, making it an invaluable resource for students studying classical mechanics, oscillations, and wave phenomena. Covering topics such as simple harmonic motion, damping, forced oscillations, resonance, and wave propagation, the manual helps reinforce theoretical concepts through practical application. Each solution is methodically ex...