A brilliant visual guide to the most haunting, fascinating, and exquisitely macabre places around the world.Find your travel inspiration from the dark worlds of ancient mythology, Victorian mourning traditions, gothic literature, and classic horror movies. Here, for the first time, is a glorious atlas curated to appeal to anyone mesmerized by humankind’s ancient fascination with death, mystery, and the supernatural.Organized by continent, this photo-rich tr...

The Great Smoky Mountains are home to over 100 official hiking trails just waiting to be explored. But did you know that these mountains also hold a surprising number of myths, legends, and reported incidents of ghost activity? You heard right, the Great Smoky Mountains are filled with a diverse array of ghost stories, mythological tales, and legends just waiting to be investigated. This guidebook provides detailed maps, directions, and descriptions for exploring 40 of the most hauntingly ...

Choices: A Collection of Questionable Decisions features six new voices that show how choices we make shape who we are.

An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times)**“Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take you by the hand and lead you for a long trai...

Find countless opportunities to capture the beauty and natural diversity of America's most visited national park.On the border between North Carolina and Tennessee lie the forests and mountains of America’s most visited national park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Renowned for the diversity of its plant and animal life—the most biological diversity of any area in the world’s temperate zone—this beautiful place also boasts some of the last remaining pockets of Southern Appala...

Kelin Chase is educated and ready to face the working world. When she accepts a nanny job with Henry Quartermaine, it's only for the money. Then she meets little Emily-May and she falls hard for the child. But soon things happen and she has to stand toe to toe with one with Henry Quartermaine.Having Kelin stand up to him both angers Henry Quartermaine and turns him on. His body burns for her in ways he can't understand but yearns to explore. But how can he get past Kelin's dislike ...

**Discover wonder.“A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.”— New York Times**Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and changed the way we think about the world, expanding our sense of how strange and marvelous it really is.This second edition takes readers to even more curious and unusual destinations, with more ...

In this final book in The Country Club Billionaire steamy new adult romance series, Jess finally discovers the truth about Dexter and their future together. This 11k novelette is intended for readers 18+.

"Clear, frank, and refreshingly without shame as she recounts her winding and often-confusing path toward discovering her sexual identity." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (Starred Review)Furry-style fox hunts, breaking into waterparks, and masturbating in trees. It's all just part of the queer life of author and sex-educator Allison Moon. This collection of 18 memoirs celebrates the humor and tenderness of falling in and out of love and in and out of bed."This book's a winner, a fantas...

Lonely Planet's bestselling The Cities Book is back. Fully revised and updated, it's a celebration of 200 of the world's most exciting urban destinations, beautifully photographed and packed with trip advice and recommendations from our experts - making it the perfect companion for any traveller deciding where to visit next.- Highlights and itineraries help travellers plan their perfect trip- Urban tales reveal unexpected bites of history and local...

Every bookshop has a storyWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops.Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells bo...

A small village, a perverted doctor and women desperate for specialist care - the perfect recipe for disaster.Muriel was disgusted at how here doctor used her and other women, and then planned the perfect revenge.