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A deadly killer stalks the rain-soaked streets of Shinbone, spreading panic and terror among the townsfolk. The authorities are baffled, partly because there hasn’t been a single crime in Shinbone for more than a hundred years but mostly because this particular deadly killer… …isn’t actually killing anyone. Enter Hieronymous Blush, master magician and the detective responsible for solving the mystery of The Lickspittle Leviathan. Can one man stand alone against the demonic threat of The Shinbone Shadowhunter? Of course not: he can’t even tie his own shoes. The race is on….

In a world racked with so many challenges, Touched by God’s Miracles is a book that will fill your heart with hope and optimism. It will lift your spirits and cause you to pause and look at life in a new way that brings an added measure of gratitude and joy. This book answers the question, “What do people of all faiths and nationalities have in common?” The answer is that we are all God’s children and God hears and answers our prayers - often in miraculous ways.

Four future Navy officers, two women and two men, fall under the spell of charismatic leader James Drayton at Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. They form a secret society called the Great Lovers, named after a poem by Rupert Brooke. When Drayton dies in a suspicious explosion on an aircraft carrier, the Great Lovers become the chief suspects. The surviving members of the secret society must defend their friend and their own freedom in a court-martial for mutiny. Trial of Honor is a fast-paced naval thriller about honor, both personal and national.

Plan your financial worries away. David Stone has been helping individuals and business owners plan their financial matters since 1992, and in The Power of a Plan, he shares strategies you can use to improve your financial situation now and plan for the future. Markets will fluctuate and investments will falter, but with a plan, you can endure the trying times.

Two teenagers, Jon and the narrator, embark on a road trip from New York to California, fueled by youthful rebellion and a desire for adventure. Their journey takes them to Costa Mesa, where they stay with the narrator’s girlfriend and her family, but their carefree attitude and disregard for rules lead to their eventual expulsion. With no clear direction and limited resources, the duo faces the prospect of returning to New York or heading for San Francisco, uncertain of their future. The two aimless young men, out of money and lacking direction, decide to embark on a journey to New York ...

In "Lucky To Have Her," Peter grapples with understanding the paths his life has taken, adjusting to life after his wife's death. No longer protected by the buffer of a long marriage, he faces up to the compromises made early and how they directed his fate. But he also reconciles what love, in all its forms, might mean, against the heated backdrop of a decades-long, risky and passionate love affair with Gail, his unconventional sister-in-law. The story unfolds as an intimate journey backwards and forward in time, haunted by a truth that can't stay hidden forever.

We loved Billy, fed and cared for him for sixteen and a half years. Bringing him home as a four month old from the shelter that rescued him, along with his sister, from underneath a suburban porch in Upstate New York, I held him easily in the palm of my hand. (Inside, full color photographs show Billy at his best.) We will never know anything about his parents or what his life was like in the months before we brought him home. But from his first days with us, he was as sweet as any cat we have ever known. It took us much longer to understand how very smart he was. This book is a sort of ...

In 1976, adrift in the fading hippie scene of San Francisco and reeling from a broken relationship with Marcie, a struggling writer impulsively hitchhikes to Los Angeles to visit an old friend, Lydia. This journey south becomes a backdrop for his reflections on past loves, the disillusionment of the counterculture, and his own artistic stagnation, all while seeking a "clean break" and a sense of direction in a world that feels increasingly disjointed. His weekend with the pragmatic and independent Lydia offers a temporary haven and prompts a reckoning with his past and uncertain future.

Dances With Drumsticks is a darkly imaginative collection of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories by David Lee Stone. Each tale pulls you into a world where the bizarre and the eerie collide. A tormented child with a sinister imaginary friend. A dystopian future where society is gripped by a deadly disease A long-abandoned spaceship with a very odd crew and morePrepare for a journey through twisted realities, where the line between the mundane and the macabre is constantly blurred.

The complete Vanquish Trilogy, includes Shadow of the Shapeshifter, The Venom of Vanquish and The Might of Moltenoak. Shadow of the Shapeshifter Two strangers in the wrong place at the worst possible time...a lone assassin prepared to do the dirtiest of jobs...and a guard sentry determined to stop him. A dark enemy is about to rise in Illmoor, something even more chaotic and twisted than the citizens themselves. Step forward Enoch Dwellings, master sleuth, who boasts a reputation built entirely on an intricate web of carefully calculated lies. Together with his hapless but increasingly ...

An ancient and malevolent god sits on the High Throne of Illmoor, commanding obsidian dragons and raising the dead to fight in his frenzied armies. While a ragtag group of misfits and freedom fighters attempts to withstand the oppression of Vanquish, all hope for the future of the continent begins to fade. Elsewhere, a lone figure moves quietly through the countryside, unseen and unchallenged until one fateful night, when the werewolves get hungry… …and unwittingly disturb something even more dangerous than the despotic entity that has risen to dominate the land.

David Lee Stone has been a chronic oversharer since the moment he first learned to talk. In this brutally honest memoir told through a series of therapy sessions David recounts many hilarious tales from the 80s and 90s, recounting the lessons he’s learned. These include cautionary tales on why it’s never a good idea to deal with retail customers' complaints using a sock puppet, why it was entirely possible to order obscene items that didn’t exist back in the glorious days of Blockbuster Video, why discovering what your dog REALLY thinks of you is a bad idea and how the sort of BMX ...

When a ragged band of mercenaries happen upon an ancient artefact in a hidden ruin, they unwittingly trigger a series of events that will have dire consequences for the entire population of Illmoor. While they hurtle towards a major conflict with the most twisted and malevolent mind in the land, an impostor sits on the Dullitch throne, his illusion sustained by the sort of dark magic that always comes at a price… Originally published as The Vanquish Vendetta by Hodder in the UK

Love, in its many iterations, is strange and unpredictable. One thing to me. Another to you. But what is it? Where does it come from? And, why, in one way or another does it grab us all, all the time? Why so strong here? Not so strong there? This witty, adventurous novel can't answer all the questions, but it can invite you on a different kind of travel where you hit the hot, mellow, odd and irresistible locations where love shows any of its faces. From Upstate New York to North Beach, San Francisco, settle in for a ride along the continuum that includes us all.

When a legendary barbarian king vanishes without a trace, the entire realm is thrown into chaos. The only option open to the government is to send out a search party consisting of the king’s halfwit brother and a guard captain with such an attitude problem that he could comfortably pick a fight with a scarecrow. Nevertheless, mustering the same combined IQ as a pair of elderly sloths and marginally less initiative, they will boldly search the fields and forests for an 8ft armoured-killing machine with muscles likes rocks who is known to play the sort of practical jokes that end in chaos. ...

Davey Swag is not your average pirate. Orphaned as a nipper by the demonically evil Henry Morgan, he sets out on a path of revenge that will take him far across the Caribbean to the island home of a very peculiar legend. Curse of the Voodoo Ostrich is a tale of magic, mystery and…and really ugly birds that just won’t stay dead.

Not all fairy tales are about damsels in distress—some are about strong-willed girls who take matters into their own hands! In a twisted fairytale kingdom where Goldilocks walks around with a sledgehammer and the three bears dread buying the sort of furniture that's just right, a gang of marauding princesses begin to terrorise the community with a new brand of martial arts. All that stands between them and total chaos is Dimple Cute, the only daughter of a King who - for reasons known only to himself - parades around the court wearing a squirrel costume. When Dimple Cute finds herself ...

Groan Teethgrit and Gordo Goldeaxe have looted one village too many, and now the Lords of Illmoor are baying for their blood. Can Duke Modeset, exiled Lord of Dullitch, devise a plan clever enough to topple the duo AND Groan's equally reckless half-brother? Of course he can't, he's next to useless himself ... ... but he does have one secret weapon: an extremely beautiful princess who seems willing to do absolutely nothing for the good of her country.

...the natural heir to Terry Pratchett (SFRevu) David Lee Stone is a wonderfully mad talent to watch. He has a truly original comic voice and you won't forget his hysterically hopeless (rather than heroic) characters in a hurry! (Wendy Cooling) The Illmoor Chronicles include all the ingredients any self respecting young, or indeed old, bookworm could desire - wizards, goblins, sprites and vampires, plus a lot of comedy. (Kent on Sunday) Take a bucketful of Blackadder, mix in a dollop of Harry Potter, add a splash of Lord of the Rings, shake vigorously and you end up with this hilarious ...

When I started writing The Garden of What Was and Was Not, a working title at the time, I was inspired by two world changing events that happened in my own lifetime. The first was the assassination of John Kennedy. That killing erased my generations illusions about the American Dream and opened doors to the counterculture, hippies and a revolution we won without being credited. The second was the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. I experienced some of it at the scene. I worked just a few blocks from the World Trade Center, felt the first plane collide into the North Tower and watched it ...