Step into the eerie world of Grave Garden, where new kid Chip Peterson is about to discover that small-town secrets can be deadly. When Chip and his family move to Whispering Pines Drive, they're hoping for a fresh start. Instead, they find themselves at the heart of a terrifying mystery that has plagued the town for generations.As Chip navigates the challenges of a new school and local bullies, strange events begin to unfold.With the help of his newfound friends Jes and St...

It's fiction writing in real-time and then edited down for your enjoyment.Eric M Hunter's popular writing podcast #flashfiction takes you through the writing process from inspiration to narration. Now all of those stories and writing insights are bound in a single book with brand new author notes, amusing stories, and thoughts on the writing process edited for maximum enjoyment and education.Come for the fun flash fiction stories and stay for a look behind the creative curt...

After the horrific suicide of his wife Karolyn, Dixon Milner falls into a downward spiral of alcohol and self loathing. His days melt together as he fakes being an attentive father of his two little boys.At the request of his mother, Dixon finally reaches out for help and gives group therapy a go with little effect. He holds back the fact that his oldest son has been seeing his dead mom late at night. And now Dixon is seeing her too.A strange presence haunts the Milner home...

After the horrific suicide of his wife Karolyn, Dixon Milner falls into a downward spiral of alcohol and self loathing. His days melt together as he fakes being an attentive father of his two little boys.At the request of his mother, Dixon finally reaches out for help and gives group therapy a go with little effect. He holds back the fact that his oldest son has been seeing his dead mom late at night. And now Dixon is seeing her too.

This established textbook introduces the essentials of classification as used for information processing. The third edition takes account of developments that have taken place since the second edition was published in 2002. Classification Made Simple provides a useful gateway to more advanced works and the study of specific schemes. As an introductory text, it will be invaluable to students of information work and to anyone inside or outside the information profession who needs to understa...

This volume focuses on virus-host cell interactions, cellular genes acquired or modulated by viruses, the pathological effects of these interactions, and therapeutic interventions. Several chapters specifically address the role of viruses and genes – such as oncogenes, proto-oncogenes, or tumor suppressor genes – in the etiology of human cancer. Oncogenic signaling by PI3 kinase, mTOR, Akt, or the major cancer drivers MYC and RAF, and the role of tumor suppressors like p53, are discussed i...

The legal sector is facing a period of major metamorphosis - disruptors are making waves in the structuring, process, and service-delivery models, and client's needs are becoming more demanding and value-focused. As the landscape of law transforms many firms will be left facing a situation of, in John Alber's words, change or die. How will law firms keep up with upcoming rapid and volatile changes to the legal sector, and what form will they take after the transformation? What will the law...

It’s 1951. The Thebes State Penal Farm in Mississippi is up a dark river, surrounded by swamps and impenetrable piney woods. It’s the Old South at its most brutal—a place of violence, racial terror, and even more horrific rumors. Of the few who make the journey, black or white, even fewer return.But in that year, two men will come to Thebes. The first is Sam Vincent, the former prosecuting attorney of Polk County, Arkansas who, with great misgivings, accepts a job to investigate a ...

In this “an electrifying historical thriller that is sure to become a classic” (The Real Book Spy) the long-anticipated origin story of legendary Marine, fan favorite, and father of literary icon Bob Lee takes us to the battlefields of World War II as Earl Swagger embarks on a top secret and deadly mission.July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature—German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allie...

Earl Swagger is tough as hell. But even tough guys have their secrets. Plagued by the memory of his abusive father, apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl is a decorated ex-Marine of absolute integrity—and overwhelming melancholy. Now he’s about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet.It is the summer of 1946, organized crime’s garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. Nowhere is this more true than in Hot Springs, Arkansas, t...

A collection of three interconnected novellas that follow each generation of the iconic Swagger family—grandfather Charles, father Earl, and fan favorite hero Bob Lee—from New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and “true master at the pinnacle of his craft” (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Stephen Hunter.In City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he t...

They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary—three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them....Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars—for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him....Richard's survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked ...