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Roger leaves the house filled with memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him. Kara finds a psychiatrist to help with that, a kind man named Mark Stephenson. Then Roger finds an affordable place in apartment 34 at Sunnycrest Apartments and a girlfriend, Lisa. Life is finally looking up. That is, until Roger realizes the girl across the hall, Alice, has a father very similar to his own.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book because of its mix of humor, Jewish history, and pathos. The narrator of the audiobook has a wicked sense of humor but is also able to convey vast swathes of Jewish history with poignancy - the pogroms, the othering, and the sufferings and tribulations, as well as the rise of zealotry and how it destroyed the Jewish people and drove them out of their own land.

There’s something in Gary’s house that doesn’t want him there. Ever since his marriage fell apart, he’s been seeing things, things that everyone keeps on telling him aren’t there. But Gary’s not just seeing things, and soon it’s more than his peace of mind that’s at stake - it’s his life.

Eli hoped to do his time and get back to living life outside prison. However, that hope faded when he watched a prisoner rip a guard’s heart out and toss the body over the railing onto a funeral pyre of burning mattresses. The landscape of the prison begins to change as more and more strange characters strive for dominance in the anarchy that follows. Eli and his new friend, Tay, must navigate the chaos as the gods of the Aztec creation story emerge over the next 12 hours on the block.

Welcome to Necrolopolis, a fantasy world with a postal system as inefficient as our own, an undead pharaoh with an ego as big as his pyramid, a ghoul with an unhealthy interest in soup pots, not to mention a faction war between mummies and ashlings. A necromancer's job is never done, especially in a city of four million undead souls!

O.J. Simpson in an alternate reality and blind ninjas ushering in the apocalypse are just two of the beautifully written tales in this seminal work of art, from the mind of a human being the likes of which God and the devil wholeheartedly agree upon. While drenched in comedy, Laughter's Cold Shadow takes on the darkest of subject matter: murder, rape, racism, the nuclear family, ninjas, Nazis, zombies, police brutality, drug cartels, hedonism, psychopathy, and more.

No Sin Unpunished is the second collection from the master of contemporary psychological horror, John Farris. The collection includes two new, never-before-published stories. Originally published as Elvisland.

Jewish identity is complicated because it entails religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and national components. Each of these contributes to the identity of who is a Jew. This book surveys biblical and rabbinic views on what constitutes Jewish identity within traditional Judaism but also reviews the positions of Reform and Conservative Judaism.

A serial sniper is loose in New Orleans, and the growing body count threatens to disturb the vital tourist industry. But nothing interferes with the partying on Bourbon Street. Follow the twists and turns of this mystery through the picturesque charm of the French Quarter....

Dr. Alton Silas, the owner of a failing public aquarium, accidentally stumbles upon the greatest zoological discovery of the new century. Pisciviri sila, the "Silas Merman": A primal, humanoid, deep-sea creature with a disturbing secret. Against all odds, Silas’s new exhibit fails. The merman refuses to appear before the public, except to scare and try to attack those who linger too long. Now, it's Dr. Sean Morgan's job to keep the creature happy. That is, until people start disappearing.

John Caldwell can’t stay away from trouble. It is September in 1904, and he is chosen to travel to London to work with Scotland Yard. He goes undercover and is involved with several encounters with thieves, Irish terrorists and spies. Admiralty secrets are stolen, so he is sent to Special Branch to find them. Once again, he works with Charles Compton in Naval Intelligence to search out who stole them and why.

Kamatari and Minoru have accepted a contract, and this could be the one to end them all. In the wreckage of an enemy city lies a book that tells of the end of the world. They must find it and use what's inside on a dangerous trek to save all of Orloins once again.

A rampaging sniper brings the New Orleans tourist industry to a grinding halt. Crescent City Law Enforcement and the Feds form a task force to search out the terrorists and drag them to justice. Homeland Security, determined to unmask the shooter, leads the investigation. Fear engulfs the French Quarter as the body count continues to climb. Clues lead the task force to suspect radicalized terrorists as the primary suspects. Not all members of the special unit are convinced. They delve deeper to investigate secrets underlying the shootings.

There is a secret war going on that has claimed hundreds of lives. They were lucky. Left behind with his team wiped out, the Captain of Alpha team has been caught behind enemy lines and is now a prisoner of a war that does not exist. Held in a medicinal prison, he fights ruthless soldiers who will do anything to access the intel in his head. From within the walls of the infamous cell 715, the Captain fights for his life, freedom, and to escape and return to his family a world away.

Patrice Cavanaugh, widow of the deceased, is about to find out the answer to that question. In the small town of Peach City, Georgia, mystery looms as Sheriff Nick Dunn of the Carter County Sheriff’s Office embarks on an investigation into the crime, one that will lead him to a multitude of suspects, but who is responsible? The decedent’s wife, a victim of his endless mental and physical abuse?

The generations-long war is coming to a head. Pucelle, the Necromancer Maiden who once led armies to victory, is now a prisoner of Orloins' mortal enemy and abandoned by the man she helped put on the throne. Mallory, the inventor who sought to end the war by giving his people an overwhelming technological advantage, has watched his battalion of Dragon's Breaths destroyed and his people betrayed by a madman. Now, the Order of the Serapahim, the once-powerful cabal of secretive wizards, has returned with a plan that could mean the end for both sides.

A killer has arrived in Atlanta and set in motion a chain of events that can only be described as a roller-coaster nightmare. Detective John Williams, a diehard Southerner, has been tasked with solving the crimes, a job made more complex given his responsibility as a single parent to his preschool daughter, Boo. When you add a new know-it-all partner straight out of the New York City Police Department to the mix, it makes matters even more difficult.

Coffin Blossoms. A reminder that hope does spring eternal. In death itself, there is often beauty, life, and on rare occasions, even humor. The 24 stories in this anthology straddle the line between humor and horror in unique ways. Some wearing a wry smile. Others with tongue firmly in cheek. Ghosts, demons, vampires, myths, monsters, and murderers turned on their heads and shaken ‘til dizzy, then presented for you here, in Coffin Blossoms....

New Orleans attorney Joshua Clark places his law practice on hold to investigate the mysterious death of an old friend. He travels to the North Louisiana town of St. Agnes, determined to unravel a hidden plot buried for years. When he reconnects with his high school sweetheart, they reignite their passionate feelings.

Few Biblical figures are as intriguing and mysterious as Enoch. He is mentioned only a few times in the canonical Hebrew Bible, but the impact of his story went on to affect the theology of many books written during the Second Temple Era. It also set the foundation for the development of many of the ideas found in the early Christian movement. Enoch’s importance continued beyond the destruction of the Temple and survived in a new form in later rabbinic tradition. Discover the mystery of Enoch, and the fascinating impact it had on the development of Judaism and Christianity.