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Mark enjoyed his carefree bachelor’s life in Los Angeles. He had no steady girlfriend, no children, few responsibilities outside of work. But that all changed when “The Call” came. Genevieve, his eighty-nine-year-old mother, was on her deathbed. He rushed back to New Jersey to be by her side. Hours became days, days became weeks, then she woke up. So, he moved back into his childhood home and took over her care. His first task was to remove all hazards, which included the ...

For six centuries, the world has worshipped Jan van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece. Few know that the painter hid something inside it. Fewer still know he killed to protect it.When a fragment of a lost Nazi diary surfaces in Ghent, young art historian Sophia Rossi stumbles onto a trail long dismissed as myth—a trail leading to the missing panel of the altarpiece, stolen in 1934 and never recovered. The diary hints at something far older buried within the painting’s creati...

Dracula is dead. Now his three vampire daughters must inherit the living kingdom he built—and decide whether they can save it without becoming him.For centuries, Drevanor has been more than Dracula's castle. It is a vast, living kingdom—a refuge for humans, monsters, outcasts, and supernatural beings that have nowhere else to go.Now its ruler is dead.And Drevanor is beginning to fail.Ancient defenses falter. Gates obey comma...

They say art is an expression. For Steven Revland, art has been his salvation. A recovering drug addict and alcoholic, he has overcome numerous obstacles in his life, including childhood ADHD, dyslexia, and Tourette's syndrome. But what he lacked in formal education, he made up with passion and grit. For nearly fifty years, he has been working as an artist, and he is still designing and creating with the same passion he exhibited at the start of his career. And it is his passion that inspi...

Tom the Vam-Wolf-Zom is back - and so is the vampire bat that bit him - in this monstrously funny series about a boy who's dying to fit in."Fast! Funny! Fresh!" - Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Mr. Lemoncello's Library series"What are you waiting for? Open this book right now!" - Tom Angleberger,

Two Halloween enthusiasts get their hands on an ancient grimoire and decide to use the recipes within to make seasonal pies for trick-or-treaters. People die.

One of the most exciting and innovative hobbies you have never triedDo you want a new set of skills that will produce incredible art? Do you want to grow yourself as a person by engaging in a creative new talent? Do you love the smell of a campfire while you're working? If yes, then welcome to woodburning!Perhaps you've never heard of it, but are curious to learn something new? Or maybe you have some experience, and are searching for a book to take your s...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.SOMETHING IS WRONGBorrowed Light, Book OneBy Steven MarksA star that was there yesterday is gone tonight. By the time anyone understands why, it may already be too late.Dr. Valentina Rojas almost doesn't look twice. One missing star in a routine survey, exactly the kind of anomaly her instruments are designed to explain. But she looks closer, and what sh...

In this sweeping history, Steven Marks tells the fascinating story of how Russian figures, ideas, and movements changed our world in dramatic but often unattributed ways.On Europe's periphery, Russia was an early modernizing nation whose troubles stimulated intellectuals to develop radical and utopian alternatives to Western models of modernity. These provocative ideas gave rise to cultural and political innovations that were exported and adopted worldwide. Wherever there was disco...

Capitalism is central to our understanding of contemporary economic and political life and yet what does it really mean? If, as has now been shown to be the case, capital and property rights existed in pre-modern and pre-capitalist societies, what is left of our understanding of capitalism? Steven G. Marks' provocative new book calls into question everything we thought we knew about capitalism, from the word's very origins and development to the drivers of Western economic growth. Ranging ...

A modern take on Washington Irving's classic, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.Set three years after the Y2K panic in 1999, history teacher Ian Crane, is hunted by a ghost — a spectral demon hellbent on reaping souls on Halloween night — and behind the wheel of a midnight-black, 1969 Mustang Mach 1.

New and Improved - Revisit Five Simple Principles and Engage With Every FamilyWhy haven’t we been more successful in engaging every family in the educational lives of their children? Why do we still struggle with the notion of engaging every family as a conduit to improved student learning?This book outlines a pathway and process to engage every family, including those families that have been traditionally disengaged or disenfranchised. Updates to ...