It's 1881...Murderous outlaw Seth Granger and his gang, Granger's Dozen, have terrorized southern Louisiana for several years. From their cabin hidden deep in a swamp, Seth leads his men in roughing up homesteaders, businesses, and peaceful Indian villages for a "protection fee".When Chief Red Bear and his peaceful Choctaw village refuse to give in to Seth's threats, the gang decides to make an example of them by slaughtering the entire village... every man, woman, and chil...

BRAIN MATTER is a collection of 6 original horror and suspense tales with a little something for everyone. From werewolves and grim reapers to walking corpses and heartless psychopaths, this short story collection explores a wide range of content in the horror genre.In CONFESSION, a newspaper reporter visits a dying old woman in a nursing home to chronicle her life's story, only to learn that she has been harboring a gruesome secret for almost six decades.In LUNATIC, a man ...

Nine tales await you in this new collection of horror and suspense from Clive Carpenter."La Piedra Maya" - A stone from an ancient Mayan temple has a deadly surprise in store for the woman who stole it."Scritching" - A camper is awakened when his tent is invaded by creatures so creepy they will make your skin crawl."The Thing in the Hall" - A man wakes up in the middle of the night to find a blood-thirsty creature standing at his bedroom door."Beneath the Cl...

This comprehensive guide to the flags of the world provides concise, accurate coverage of every country in the world, giving the history, meaning, and symbolism of national flags, together with large-scale and smaller locator maps. The Complete Guide to Flags of the World, 4th Edition includes the history of flags, the color flags in over 220 countries and territories, flags of international organizations, large-scale and detailed locator maps for easy reference, up-to-date data a...

Young Andre Mitchell is a gifted football player who is adept at dodging tackles and dodging trouble. In junior high he was a star. But now—in high school—Dre must not only make the grade in the classroom, he must hold his own on the field and in the streets.At John L. LeFlore, Dre is a small fish in a pond full of piranhas. He's uncertain if new love interests can be trusted, or if old puppy love can mature. All of this becomes even more complicated when a run-in with local thugs ...

The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman is a compact but revealing documentary study of an eighteenth-century Massachusetts criminal case: the poisoning of Captain Codman and the prosecution of enslaved people under the archaic doctrine of "petit treason." Written in an antiquarian-legal style, the work reconstructs indictments, proceedings, punishments, and public memory, placing colonial slavery within English common-law categories and...

The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain (Vols. 1 & 2) is a richly illustrated survey of Britain's maritime and coastal identity, moving from busy commercial docks to fashionable resorts, fishing towns, ruined castles, cliffs, bays, and estuaries. Its prose combines topographical description, antiquarian notice, and picturesque sentiment, while the engraved views place it within the early nineteenth-century culture of illustrated travel books, where lan...

Hughy Terson, midshipman aboard the commerce raider Aquila, has charge of the prize crew aboard the captured passenger liner Princess. He’s an outlaw in the eyes of the Oligarchy, but the Confederation was merely the first to revolt in an inevitable process of trade liberalization. Getting Aquila to a safe haven is challenge enough. The beautiful and enigmatic Griffa Kathria Marte is another problem. Only a fool would trust her, or fall under her spell. A short and gripping space opera of ...

Healthy, Vegan and Gluten-Free Lifestyle Made Easy, Exciting and Fun!Your body needs REAL foods that are packed with nutrition in order for you to enjoy health while following a strict vegan, plant-based / animal-free diet.High-calorific foods that are more than unhealthy and contain shocking levels of processed sugars, saturated fats and other chemicals can only result on a progressive health degeneration and weight gain. ...

A mysterious box sitting beside the rail-road tracks seriously complicates Mike Baxter's life. Without tools, and unable to open it, his mental juices start to flow. There’s only one thing that could be that heavy: gold. A short story in the western tradition.

A widow haunted by her husband’s ghost. A brooding detective she can’t resist. A killer who won’t stop until she’s dead.Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And some loves refuse to let go.Max Starr lives with ghosts—one of them her dead husband. Max just can’t let him go. Grief has become her shadow, but so have her visions: flashes of violence, whispers from the dead, and the icy certainty that evil is watching.With the visions getting stronger—dar...

Dane Coolidge's Hidden Water is a vigorous early twentieth-century Western concerned with land, survival, and moral testing in the arid borderlands of the American Southwest. Centered on the struggle for water, grazing rights, and human allegiance, the novel transforms the desert from a mere backdrop into an active force shaping character and conflict. Coolidge writes in a direct, pictorial style, blending frontier romance with close observation of animals, terrain, ranch labor, and the co...