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Ryder, Alvir, and Beriadan are three adventurers who used to be four. After an encounter with a dragon, they are sent reeling and now, they're in Lone Mountain - a mining town that's better described as a powder keg. The dwarves hate humans. The humans hate dwarves. And, a dead heir to a mining fortune serves as the match to tear this town apart.

This is the first team history of the New York Mets - or any other team - to be told through a lighthearted analysis of uniform numbers. Ordinary club histories proceed year by year to give the big picture. Mets by the Numbers uses jersey numbers to tell the little stories - the ones the fans love - of the team and its players. This is a catalog of the more than 700 Mets who have played since 1962, but it is far from just a list of No. 18s and 41s. Mets by the Numbers celebrates the team's greatest players, critiques numbers that have failed to attract talent, and singles out particularly productive numbers.

Reminiscent of best-selling authors James M. Cain and Jim Thompson, Matthew F. Jones’ erotic psychological thriller begins on a desolate, mountain road. There a relationship begins that will ultimately change the lives of the players involved forever. Deepwater leads the listener down a steep cliff of terror with three masterfully written characters.

Sixteen-year-old Jonah looks for someone important, someone he lost. Jonah tries to connect with someone important, someone divine. Jonah fights someone terrible, someone who can enslave gods. He lives in an inescapable hotel with only two years of reliable memory. He lives in an irradiated future where mankind is rare and being surpassed by a new species. He lives in a world wherein bad men murder and rape to prove the point: You can’t escape, you can’t win, and even the gods belong to us. Jonah must prove them wrong or let everyone he loves suffer.

Everywhere, you'll find two things: Incredible stories of people loving hard and epically in spite of all the things making love impossible, and lonely people who can't make love work. Books, music, movies, society, everything makes it seem like love is a natural thing that just happens between two people. Life and the stories inside this collection suggest that love is hard as hell. Loneliness, and not love, is natural. We live alone. We'll die alone. Grab a beer. Kick back and wallow in that fact.

Such Terrible Things is a collection of stories to be told at night. Within includes, I Hit A Monster With Your Car, which is mostly self-explanatory. There is Ghosts Don't Scream - when a preacher's wife is killed, something darker is reborn. There is Little Holly and Mr. Thomas - a magic man who shares his magic with someone he ought not to have.

Luke Peters wakes one morning, feeling under the weather. After staying home from school, he is confronted, first, by an old man with a shaggy German Shepherd, and then by a young man with a scuffed, metal baseball bat. The old man tells him that there was an attempt on his life while he slept and that another was coming soon. Luke, naturally, is skeptical until a young man arrives, seeking to steal Luke’s life. Luke finds himself ensnared in a war between two unseen forces and a relentless being willing to do anything and kill everyone to get to Luke.

In this book, you'll find several thoughtful essays examining such stories and poems as "The LoveSong of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Young Goodman Brown", "The Goblin Market", "A Light in August", and Shakespeare's sonnets. This tome could be useful for anyone who’d like to make a deeper connection to great works of literature. And, of course, if you wanted to cheat off me, I couldn’t stop you.

The drug Holy Fire is the best high around, ignoring the cat-piss smell, the violent episodes, and the complete organ failure. North City’s hero is gone. His sidekick must stop the emergence of this new drug alone. Fifteen-year-old Maxwell has served the crime fighter Harry for years. Well-trained with guns and his fists, Maxwell is a very effective sidekick. Now, an old enemy has returned, pushing Holy Fire like candy.

An old shepherd lives in isolation with his orphaned granddaughter in rural Europe. He is plagued by a wolf, one that years ago killed his daughter, disfigured his granddaughter and continues to prey upon his flock, eluding all his efforts to find it. He resolves to take a stand against the beast that has taken so much from him, and threatens all he has left.

The first book in a new series of mini-anthologies brought to you by KJK Publishing. Featuring stories by Amy Cross, Mike Duke, Matthew Brockmeyer, Lex H. Jones, J.C. Michael, and Kevin J. Kennedy.

Rogues in the House Podcast has gathered the best tales of sword and sorcery from across the community. Here, brave adventurers will find stories lovingly crafted from heroic fantasy greats such as Howard Andrew Jones, John R. Fultz, and John C. Hocking. At their side are up and coming genre authors Chuck Clark, T.A. Markitan, Cora Buhlert, and many more.

In this booklet, we remember the tragedy of the Red Summer of 1919.

A cold case turns blood-hot when the butchered remains of a mobster are discovered in a gory crime scene resembling the murder of a veteran detective. Chase Hauger, a homicide detective diagnosed with terminal cancer, suspects the Enigma Killer—a serial killer known for using elaborate traps to "teach" and torture his victims—has returned after years of dormancy. Chase sets out to bring the Enigma Killer to justice and avenge his slain friend, but he quickly finds himself caught in a web of lies and a storm of bloodshed. Can he catch the killer before death catches up to him?

Burdizzo Book's Matty-Bob and Em invited some of their favourite indie authors to write stories inspired by their most beloved songs. The result is The Burdizzo Mix-Tape Vol.1, their most diverse anthology yet. These are tunes that resonate from the beach to the mountains, from rain dogs to spirits in the sky, from Old Ones to cold ones. Be it multi-dimensional romance across space and time, Cold War sexual paranoia, campfire cowboys, gypsy caravans, or demented disco balls, there is a song for everyone within these stories.

The year is 2065. The super-rich have a new way to vacation and collect rare items, Time Travel... But you cannot interact, you cannot divert from the path, and you must not change what takes place...Martin Townes is a man that simply wants to right a wrong. Nothing more, and he’ll do whatever it takes to achieve it. Even if it means shattering time.

Stan Armstrong dedicated his entire life to science. Branded as a maverick and a risk-taker by his colleagues, his unorthodox experiments and outlandish theories of time and space resulted in loss of funding and, ultimately, his termination from tenure at the university where he’d spent his entire career. Stan’s insatiable quest to explore extreme hypotheses and to prove the unproven were matched only by his neurotic lust to peel back the mysterious layers of time and space to expose the hidden secrets of the universe.

What happens when our world - and everything in it - goes wrong? Explore that question in 32 short stories written by a diverse mix of the best authors in Canada, including award-winning veterans of their craft and brand-new talent. Edited by Erin Vance and Ellen Curtis, this collection showcases the talent, imagination, and prestige that Canada has to offer.

Yig, known as the Serpent God, is older than humanity, and Yig’s reptilian children once ruled the Earth. Now they are stirring in their caves, walking the Earth in forms not quite human, slowly and patiently preparing their plans. Those who stumble on their secrets are in deadly danger...but only they can prevent the return of our darkest fears.

Keep your family safe from bulbs and batteries that go bump in the night by listening to Sparks. Fifteen electrifying tales of horror, sci-fi, bizarro, and fantasy. Visit post-apocalyptic nightmare worlds, listen to recordings of the dead, feel the friction of electric lady love, and be struck by lightning from the past.