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This classic novel is the fictional story about Henry Fleming who was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War in the late 1800s. Initially Henry runs from the fight but is later consumed with shame and wishes to be wounded. Though he does receive a minor wound not from the enemy, he manages to return to the fight against the Confederate Army of the south and does act as a flag bearer during another skirmish.

Killer Shadows invade Des Moines! May in springtime. The lilacs are blooming, the grass is green... and death lurks in the shadows. After Homicide detective Harry Reznik is called to the scene of a strange pair of deaths, he meets FBI Agent Lori Campisi, who has a history of investigating supernatural occurrences. She believes the murders have been committed by creatures released in our world by a madman. Soon, the unlikely team faced more attacks. When the case turns personal for each of them, they realize they must work together to find the answer before the capital city is devastated.

Claas ist ein junger Mann mit einer besonderen Wahrnehmung seiner Umwelt. Als sein Onkel in der gemeinsamen Wohnung ermordet wird, fällt der Verdacht auf ihn.

Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights gathers together the voices of 18 remarkable individuals who spoke and wrote as African Americans from within the Quaker community. They testify about their viewpoints on racial justice -- both within the Religious Society of Friends and society at large - and they speak of their life in the Spirit. As a collection, these selections exhibit the vitality and wisdom that three centuries of African American Quakers have contributed to and on behalf of Friends.

“Don’t read a book! Live a book!” barked my big brother, as I lay on my bed reading Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. There was no way, at the time, that Bob could have known I was, at age 16, planning my escape to Denver, Colorado, leaving behind the never-ending chaos I’d lived through as long as I could remember. And live a book, I did! Many years later, while lying sick with pneumonia on a Seattle bed, I vowed to write about it all. It was a "bucket list" item that was in jeopardy of never being completed. My life’s story had to be told — if only I could do it justice.

When the Lightstealer pushes beyond the bounds of his domain and into the Archrealm of Gaias, six total strangers have their fates interwoven as they find themselves embroiled in a tale full of might, magic, vengeance, betrayal, fellowship and love.

In 1994, probationary PCs Jim Kingsfield and Jake Jordan attend their first murder where Bingham Tyler’s stepmother is found dead in a house on a Northampton estate. Some think Tyler did it. Eighteen years later, Detective Inspector Jim Kingsfield, now married to forensic pathologist Kirsty, is unaware that he and his wife are being targeted by Tyler, whose lust for revenge will have explosive and life-changing consequences for them all.

The Earth is dying. Or fighting back. Alex, a scientist bound by reason, never believed in prophecy—until the ground itself began humming, until his son saw visions of a world on the brink of rebirth or destruction. As earthquakes intensify, storms whisper secrets, and luminous orbs pulse across the skies, humanity stands at the precipice of an era beyond comprehension. Across the planet, children awaken to a knowing—a cosmic calling woven into their bones. From the ancient temples of Crete to the rainforest depths, their voices rise in synchrony, a forgotten rhythm echoing through time.

Veronica Carter, a bitter detective with the ability to talk to ghosts, seeks out cases that cross into the paranormal. While trying to solve a mysterious murder, she encounters Jennifer Simmons, a disgraced psychologist who has returned to her childhood home to find the monster who killed her father. The violent creature has plans of its own. As their new friendship grows, both women must face the truth of who they are and what they've done. You can't outrun your past; sometimes, those things that go bump in the night come back to kill you.

BLOOD VENDETTA is a 1960s-style Acid Western — an instant cult fiction classic that’s made to order for fans of vintage Spaghetti Westerns, Japanese Samurai films, Quentin Tarantino movies, 60’s-era psychedelia, and old school guns-and-katanas-blazing action. Part Sergio Leone, part Akira Kurosawa, and part Alejandro Jodorowsky, BLOOD VENDETTA is a cinematic Far West meets Far East tale of greed and revenge, and a darkly comic (and appropriately bloody) allegory of America’s past, present, and future. Into the Western Lands come three individuals, each bent on revenge: …

What listeners really don’t like are dull werewolf stories. So, we tasked the horror community with writing the weirdest, wildest, most creative, utterly bonkers tails (ha!) of lycanthropic lunacy possible.

Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters is a book unlike any other, one that demands the Smithsonian to open its hidden warehouses so the history of ancient America can be rewritten! As chronicled by Dr. Thomas R. Horn, Stephen Quayle, and two teams of investigators and film crews, the most compelling evidence is finally unveiled involving pre-Columbian, dragon/giant-worshiping interlopers who traversed the Atlantic Ocean and secret Anasazi routes to corrupt the earliest Americans with portal-opening sorcery, human sacrifices, ritual cannibalism, and technology of the fallen ones.

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Crane is noted for his early employment of naturalism, a literary style in which characters face realistically portrayed and often bleak circumstances, but Crane added impressionistic imagery and biblical symbolism to the austere realism.

Mary fears she’s losing the two people she most admires—her lover and her father—after she’s lost her reputation. She regains them with the publication of Frankenstein. As Scott is crafting his biography of the Shelleys and Godwins a century later, he fears that he’s losing his audience and his wife. He regains them with the publication of his other “work” he’s authoring at the same—The Great Gatsby. As eternal celebrities of Western culture—the Shelleys, the Godwins, and the Fitzgeralds—their brief victories are dramatically retold in What Light Was as dialogues, verse, and meditations.

Danny’s already killed him twice…But Snipe Won’t Stay Dead and is out for revenge…Defeated by Danny after the death of terrorist Marcus Tenby, mercenary Nicholas Snipe is brought back to life in the back of the ambulance and whisked away to a government facility. When he comes out of a coma a year later, he has no recollection of the past few years.

Ulfie will mehr über die Geschichte des Krippenspiels herausfinden und reist mit der Ufafamaschi an den Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts zu Franz von Assisi. Denn dieser hatte damals als erster die Idee, ein Krippenspiel mit echten Tieren aufzuführen, um den Menschen die Botschaft von der Geburt von Jesus näherzubringen. Da hilft Ulfie gern mit! Doch nicht alle sind von dieser Idee begeistert. Ob trotzdem genug Zuschauer zum Krippenspiel kommen?

Die Holzdielen knarren, in der Luft hängt der Geruch von frisch gesägtem Holz und überall liegen Werkzeuge herum: Willkommen in der Werkstatt eines echten Zauberstabmachers! Doch wie wird man eigentlich Zauberstabmacher und was braucht es, damit Zauberstäbe Magie wirken können?

Nowhere is safe. They can get you anywhere. The most dangerous terrorists aren't foreign extremists. They're homegrown. Educated. Connected. And they just tried to kill Danny. Elite university students. Wealthy families. Political connections. They're supposed to be the country's future leaders—instead, they've become its deadliest threat.

Introduces key ideas in linguistics and semiotics to reveal how magic works Reveals how to apply effective communication techniques to your magical practice Includes case studies of magical schools, such as Hermetic magic, sigil magic, Thelema, the Church of Satan, Chaos Magic, and...

After traveling to the Second Age and finding the first Kantara scroll, Keiji takes a trip to the nineteenth-century Wild West where he meets up with the fabled Captain Elton Blake. But Keiji is surprised to find he didn't come alone; both friends and foes from the Second Age have arrived, including the sinister Berossus. Following an unexpected meeting with Admiral Radau, a man who should be dead, Keiji learns he must seek out the second Kantara scroll.