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The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires. A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves—and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favorite neighborhood bookshop.

I’d do anything to free my wolf and finally take my place in my father’s pack, even steal a creepy-as-hell chalice from a secret treasure hoard. Too bad this goblet’s hot guardian is a homicidal psychopath who’s vowed to murder me. To complicate matters further, my team’s been sent to hunt down another sketchy artifact. My father is acting weird, my best friend just kissed me, and I’m pretty sure a dragon is on our tail. As deadly secrets begin to unfold, will the promise of freeing my wolf be worth risking the lives of my team?

After the brutal murder of his family, Gart’s voyage continues as he searches for the weapon that was promised him by the Mage Brunar. Once a peaceful farmer who only wanted to be left alone, Gart must now become something more.

All Elliott Harkness wants is to be a superhero. His parents are superheroes. His older sister is a superhero. Heck, even his dog is a superhero. But Elliott has a problem - he’s a “zero”, which is super-speak for powerless! So, while his family is off fighting crime, Elliott is stuck muddling through middle school. But when danger strikes, and Elliott is Earth's last hope, will he find the power to be the epic hero he's always wanted to be? Or will he always be just an epic zero?

Dr. Steven Collins has devoted his life to one cause: finding a way to prevent a catastrophic collision between Earth and an asteroid, like the one that killed off the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Collins spends years developing a shield - a device that uses the Earth’s own magnetic field - and finally reaches the point where he is ready to test it.

Elliott Harkness is finally living the superhero life. But after a not-so-heroic encounter with a time-traveling villain, Elliott wakes up one morning to discover that everyone he knows no longer exists—and he might be next! The time-trotting criminal has traveled into the past and changed everything. To fix it, Elliott must follow him. But if anyone in the past discovers his true identity, it could set off a chain reaction that erases Elliott from ever existing.

This is not a happy story or a romance filled with love. This is the bitter tale of a desolate existence that straddled the threshold between psychosis and evil and then fell over. Within this solemn audiobook rest the final accounts of Birdie Nook.

Ernie Creekmore has suffered too much loss and pain–including his wife and a mysterious medical condition that cranks his anger and curtails his focus. One night, Linnbert “Cheese” Oliver, a hard-luck hero in the Northwest town of North Fork and the grandson of a pioneer family, is reported missing from a late-night ferry boat. For Ernie, the player’s father figure, friend and former coach, the news hits hard. He simply cannot accept the idea that young man could be gone.

"Wake up, Matt, wake up", an insistent voice repeats in my head. From that moment, Matt McGregor's life will never be the same. Upon awaking from cold sleep, Matt, co-captain of the space freighter, HC7 McGregor-15, discovers the ship has been abandoned and life support is failing. Once he gets the systems started, he finds out his brother and co-captain, Mike, has been captured by space pirates. Matt immediately sets out to rescue Mike, aided by the disembodied voices.

Space freighter captain Matt McGregor and his fiancee, Tracy Warren, must rescue her mother, held prisoner by Marinas Christiansen Sorenson, a charismatic faith healer and leader of a religious commune, on a private planet called Eden. They enlist help from Matt's brother Marc, and sister Maddie, along with Jake Stevens, a Federation Detective. Can this unlikely group invade a foreign, possibly hostile planet, defeat Sorenson's army, and bring Tracy's mother to safety?

Veterinary tech Pepper Miller lives a quiet life in Last Chance County. She’s watching her niece until her sister shows up...if she ever does. When Victory’s father demands he take over her care, Pepper knows something has gone wrong. With a new drug in town, and her sister embroiled in a dangerous bargain, it’s up to Pepper to protect the people she loves.

Sheriff Jericho Flynn's life in the Outer Banks of North Carolina is shattered following the mysterious death of his wife. A broken man, Jericho is forced to emerge from the depths of his despair when his only son is suddenly accused of an unspeakable crime. Murder. With his son shrouded beneath a cloud of suspicion, Jericho finds himself deeply immersed in the investigation and connects the murder with the recent disappearance of a child.

In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed, with momentous implications for social and economic life. Legal reforms gradually brought an end to traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship, replacing them with positive statecraft: governmental activism intended to change how Americans lived and worked. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered public services and vindicated people's rights.

Ghoul War veteran Zane Vrexon is struggling to make ends meet as a private detective when he gets a cryptic note from an old friend, Dennis, who says his wife is in danger. Then Dennis turns up dead in his own potion shop and his widow, Vana, is the main suspect.

A fierce dragon holds me hostage. Destroying my broken wolf will free him from his curse—or so he believes. It doesn’t matter because I have things to do, an enchanted castle to explore, and a magical staff to win over. Except the brownie. That guy’s a creep. And the dragon? He’s an infuriatingly sexy psychopath my inner wolf can’t stop panting over, the traitor. But he’s as desperate for answers as I am, which is why we’re now heading to England to uncover the truth that everyone’s been hiding.

Elliott Harkness still has lots to learn. After all, not everyone loves superheroes. And when Elliott accidentally damages public property while stopping a pair of villains, he’s labeled a menace to society! But before Elliott can defend himself on television, he’s arrested by an alien police force that believes he’s responsible for the escape of the dreaded Krule the Conqueror!

On Earth in the year 2143, the New Republic struggles with a new epidemic: suicide. A managed world without challenges to the human spirit has turned utopian life into one not worth living. To deal with this problem, the New Republic grants TimeMap Inc. access to time-travel technology, and soon time tourism flourishes.

Tallis Black is not accustomed to playing the role of prisoner. Yet that is exactly the predicament in which he finds himself in this latest installment of the Lily Harper Series. Tortured, malnourished, and at the mercy of Persephone, a vengeful spirit who resides within the body of the woman he loves, Tallis future looks bleak. But the 2000-year-old Druid is not concerned with himself. Instead, he wants nothing more than to free Lily from Persephone's grasp.