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Veronica “Roni” Rider works in her family bookstore when she discovers that her grandma’s two seventy-year-old friends have been saving the universe for decades. But it’s hard to defend your world with a bad back and arthritis. They have a solution. They want Roni to take over.

From a social critic and journalist, a poignant book that encourages publicly grieving of what we've lost in order to move towards a hopeful future. “Detailed, lucid and richly sourced, Sarah Jaffe’s From the Ashes shows how the transformational power of grief can fuel revolutionary change...

Nathan K — he can hold two souls in his body. If he dies, he loses one yet lives on with the other. As long as he replenishes his second soul, he cannot be killed. Nathan K is immortal. And he’s not the only one.

Nathan K — he can hold two souls in his body. If he dies, he loses one yet lives on with the other. As long as he replenishes his second soul, he cannot be killed. Nathan K is immortal.

Welcome to the Marshall Drummond Case Files. These stories explore the dark mysteries and thrilling adventures of 1940s PI, Marshall Drummond, before he died and became the ghost detective found in the best-selling Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries.

The truth is you've already made the decision; you just aren't happy with it. With every passing day you decide to do nothing, you are choosing to not make a change. Or you might take a few small steps forward and then find yourself right back where you were before because deep down, you're more comfortable where you are than having to face the fears and challenges that will come with having to do something different.

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account from three public health leaders of CDC's early response to AIDS. Drawing in part on interviews from the CDC's AIDS oral history project, the authors trace the evolution of AIDS from newly recognized disease to pandemic.

Neste romance envolvente e poético, Noemi Jaffe conta, com suas próprias palavras e invenções, a vida de Nadejda Mandelstam. Vivendo sob a opressão stalinista, Nadejda se casa com o poeta Óssip, que falecerá em um gulag na Sibéria como inimigo do regime. Contudo, para que os poemas que levaram o marido à desgraça não desapareçam, Nadejda os memoriza e os sussurra sempre. Serão essas versões que chegarão à contemporaneidade.

When the Porter Agency takes on a case involving hex bags, magic stones, and a tragic train crash from the 1890s, the last thing Max Porter expects is to face changes in his family, too. But the Sandwich Boys are growing older and Max’s mother is getting sicker. While he attempts to juggle the needs of his loved ones with stopping an amateur witch from harming innocent people, he will have to reconcile these new realities against what he had expected his life to be.

The premise was simple: talk about a day that changed your life forever. But what unfolds in this collection of anonymous interviews with everyday people is about more than just one day: these stories span years, borders, and generations. Created by Max Jaffe and scored with all original music, listen to the stories behind the days that change us and ultimately shape our future. Visit https://onedaystories.net/ for more.

Max, Sandra, and Drummond return with more from The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries. Ghosts of the American Revolution, a family trapped by magic, the most powerful coven in the Carolinas - all this and more in the series that takes real history and mixes it with ghosts, witches, curses, and even Max's mother.

Welcome to the Marshall Drummond Case Files, exploring the dark mysteries and thrilling adventures of 1940s PI, Marshall Drummond, before he died and became the ghost detective found in the Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries. This installment details six unforgettable cases that center around Drummond as he hunts down and is hunted by the worst kind of practitioner of magic—an amateur. Somebody with enough knowledge to cast spells, but not enough to control them. And if Drummond isn’t careful, a lot of innocent people will end up dead. It’s all here. It’s all waiting for you.

Taking a train home, Marshall Drummond thinks he’ll be able to sleep and look forward to a shot of whiskey. Or two. But when a supernatural visit wakes him, he finds that the dead have other plans for him. There’s never any rest for Marshall Drummond. Welcome to the Marshall Drummond Case Files. These stories explore the dark mysteries and thrilling adventures of 1940s PI, Marshall Drummond, before he died and became the ghost detective found in the best-selling Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries.

For Max and the gang, the idea that dead is not the end has become second nature. But the idea that a ghost who has moved on could be ripped back into the world? That is new. And terrifying. When a woman hires the Porter Agency to help with this very problem, she doesn’t know half of what she’s roping them into. Now, it is up to Max, Sandra, and Drummond to find who is behind this atrocity and stop them. Plus, there’s a spirit to return to the Beyond, a missing girl who might have been murdered, and a possible murderer who happens to be the new client.

Upon finishing a difficult and disturbing case, Marshall Drummond is thrust right back into the thick of danger when two hitmen pay him a visit. But these hitmen have cursed bullets and that can mean only one thing—witches. Now Drummond races against the clock to break a curse and stop a witch from succeeding in the one thing all witches want—his death.

Marshall Drummond, private investigator of the strange and bizarre, can’t seem to avoid trouble. It doesn’t help that he has a knack for ticking off magic-wielding people. When his past exploits catch up with him, the time arrives to deal with those old problems. Namely, one Mr. Howe. Because if Drummond doesn’t put an end to it all, Mr. Howe might put an end to Drummond.

The Pages of Glass. Myth to some. Legend to others. For the creature Yal-hara, it is a truth which could reveal how to return to her own universe. And how she can choose other universes to conquer. Only one thing stands her way. The Parallel Society. For Roni, the Pages are yet another mystery hidden by her grandmother, another piece of understanding the Society she is meant to lead, and another danger threatening her life and the lives of those she loves. Above all else, the Pages are to be guarded, kept safe, and never allowed in the hands of creatures like Yal-hara.

A stage magician who performs real witchcraft. A group of novices who attempt an expert spell. A police detective forced to face the secret world he has denied. And Marshall Drummond stuck in the middle of it all.

Sometimes getting information is tough for a PI. But when Marshall Drummond visits his ol’ pal, Leroy, for some Christmas drinking and a little information, things become downright bizarre. Add in a couple of amateur thieves and spellcasters, and Drummond will start wishing he had stayed home for the holidays.

Old wars, new battles. Fighting ghosts, witches, and curses is nothing new for Max and Sandra Porter. But when a Civil War ghost gets tethered to their teenage son, J, everything is new. And terrifying. With the help of their partner and ghost, Marshall Drummond, the team will be up against serious and deadly problems - dealing with the head witch of North Carolina, raising ancient bones from the bottom of lake, breaking forgotten curses, and far more. But worse than that, they will have to face the most difficult challenge of all - J starts dating.