Finalist for both the Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long FictionIncludes a new bonus short story, "With Animals"!"Instantly intoxicating. Sleep Alone thrives in a lustful, hungry ballad... A classic trinity of sex, blood, and rock and roll." —Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of TeethFor the past six years, Ronnie has worked sellin...

Jesse Williams has all the answers to all the questions, but what happens when a life-changing incident turns those answers to questions?----Despite the hand that life has dealt Jesse, he always felt under control. He was the one who decided his own fate. After the incident, Jesse is different, his life is different, and his ex-wife Desiree has certainly noticed. Can Jesse handle how he now sees things or will the old Jesse return? ----We all battle something or someone. We battle against ...

Yin Jin Jing is a set of 12 postures. This exercise routine will stretch our tendons and joints. It helps to promote both blood circulation and Qi flow along their pathways to internal organs. How to do the move is illustrated with photo. Qi theory is also briefly discussed. It is a must have book for both beginners and advanced practitioners. A step by step instruction is provided. Key points to pay attention to are listed. Eat right and rest properly. Daily exercise or walking. In additi...

The story takes place visiting a shattered moon of this mostly unknown planet, where the dominant life form is a manipulative telepathically talking vine.Discover the history of the ruined civilization on the shattered moon and meet the last remaining sentient being last there.How did the civilization end? How did this plant gain lunar supremacy? Why do I have crap smeared on my pants?These answers, and many more, will be answered as you explore one of the moons of ...

By: Rev. J.A.W. Thomas, Pub. 1897, reprinted 2025, 330 pages, NEW INDEX, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-948-3. Located in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, Marlboro County was created in 1785 from the Cheraw District. The first colonists started arriving around 1736. These Baptists immigrants to this area were Welsh settlers from Pennsylvania, Delaware and Wales. Along with the history of the area and traditions of its settlers, the bulk of this work covers numerous sketches of the followin...

If you have experienced serendipitous hints of the Divine, this narrative may well resonate. It might also inspire you to record your recollections of those existential connections. The author has logged his experiences over decades and recounts many of them from youth through Navy years, professorships, political campaigns and through journeys as a priest. JAW VI's sense of the Divine has been imaged as the Holy Spirit whom he addresses using thebiblical name, Sophia. He has long ...

This classic text is the definitive and authoritative textbook on melanoma used worldwide. The fifth edition provides the most comprehensive information needed for the clinical management and scientific study of melanoma. Written by the leading melanoma experts from the United States, Australia, and Europe, this edition collectively incorporates the clinical outcomes of more than 60,000 patients treated at major melanoma centers throughout the world, with a balanced perspective of the risk...

Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors is a collection of neo-gothic tales, nostalgic yarns, capitalist monstrosities, and one stop shopping gone very wrong (or a little too right!). Featuring 22 stories by established and new horror writers from around the world examining the dark side of malls, including: Connor Boyle, Liam Burke, Pines Callahan, Anjum N. Choudhury, Wendy Dalrymple, Cassandra Daucus, Jude Deluca, Coyote Victoria Dembicki, Derek Des Anges, Cyrus Amelia Fisher,...

[ Note: When you purchase this Ebook from any Retailer, you are entitled to a copy of the original formatted version. Visit the website and contact the author to request your original formatted copy. ]The story takes place visiting a jungle civilization, that has recently become infatuation by their own form of Social Media.Discover a company called "ChatterChimp", which is operated by an emotionally sensitive owned named" Limpdik", who has a passion for censorship....

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"They Must Be Angels" by Elle Zi Dong"The Ocean Vomits What We Discard" by J.A.W. McCarthy (reprint)"Husk" by James Bennett (reprint)"The Taint" by Anne Wilkins

The 1989 Tiananmen crisis marked a crucial turning point for the People's Republic of China. The unprecedented demonstrations of popular dissent triggered the downfall of reformist premier Zhao Ziyang, who supported the students, and the rise of his conservative successor, Li Peng. The subsequent military crackdown on the demonstrators horrified the world and threatened the PRC with international isolation. In this book, distinguished scholars from Taiwan and the United States analyze the ...

This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-business elites and foreign hegemons interacted to shape the evolution of Taiwan’s media.It examines why freedoms increased alongside democratization in the 1990s but deteriorated after the second peaceful turnover of power in 2008 and why significant improvements accompanied Taiwan’s close economic connections with the US during the Col...