John and Danielle Wolf enjoy a strong, secure marriage. They love spending time together, love a good night out, watching movies, attending plays, and dining at exclusive restaurants. Strangely enough, they even play sports together: Mesmerize the Mortal, Race the Train, and even the new craze, Hunt the Werewolf. Just your typical vampire games Initiated into the vampire brotherhood more than 900 years ago, John and Danielle have survived due to their incredible ability to adapt and change. But even though theyve battled some of the worlds worst monsters, theyre about to go head-to-head with something much more dangerous: an endless stream of heavily armed religious fanatics who know their every weakness. Known as the Sword of God, the group was created by Pope Gregory IV in the seventh century for the sole purpose of defeating the physical manifestations of eviland that includes vampires. When the group discovers that Danielle and John are elder vampires and therefore incredibly powerful, they will stop at nothing, even if it means using their clan of werewolves, to destroy the husband-and-wife team. For John and Danielle, its been a great 900 years of wedded bliss. But are their marriageand their livesabout to come to an end?
A ghoul is at large. A Guardian is dead. Trouble has come to Lumen. Trey Shield is frustrated and on edge. Aided by the shadowy figure known as the Master, the ghoul has eluded him and the Bureau for months. Then it murders a Guardian, one of the twelve magicians who protect Vaeland, and Trey has to answer to the authorities for his failure. Meanwhile, Arabella Trent can no longer ignore the after-effects of her disembodiment. Called into the service of a warrior saint, she finds herself suddenly charged with bearing the Arcana, a centuries-old magical artifact with a mind of its own. Her sudden elevation has attracted the ghoul's notice. Trey never wanted to involve Arabella in danger—but it's come for her anyway.
After ravenous corpses topple society and consume most of the world's population, freighter captain Henk Martigan is shocked to receive a distress call. Eighty survivors beg him to whisk them away to the relative safety of the South Pacific. Martigan wants to help, but to rescue anyone he must first pass through the nightmare backwater of the Curien island chain. A power struggle is brewing in the Curiens. On one side, the billionaire inventor of the mind-control collar seeks to squeeze all the profit he can out of the apocalypse. Opposing him is the charismatic leader of a ghoul-worshipping cargo cult. When a lunatic warlord berths an aircraft carrier off the coast and stakes his own claim on the islands, the stage is set for a bloody showdown. To save the remnants of humanity (and himself), Captain Martigan must defeat all three of his ruthless new foes and brave the gruesome horrors of...The Ghoul Archipelago.
For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing woman’s life hunting down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and the real-life model for Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs. “Jana Monroe is the single most influential woman to ever serve in the FBI.” —Joe Navarro, bestselling author of What Every BODY Is Saying Jana Monroe was no ordinary cop. One of the first analysts—and, at the time, the only female agent—in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit at Quantico, she consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, including infamous serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Edmund Kemper, and Aileen Wuornos. Monroe was also the model for Clarice Starling in the movie version of The Silence of the Lambs; she even helped train Jodie Foster for her Oscar-winning role. Monroe’s later years found her dealing with the aftermath of Columbine, heading up the FBI’s post-9/11 investigation in Las Vegas, and much more. In Hearts of Darkness, Monroe steps out from the shadows to tell the story of her astonishing life in shaping law enforcement and intelligence analysis. Monroe explores the cases that have stayed with her, breaking down victimology, offering new insight into the minds of serial killers, and discussing the psychological toll of the job and the obstacles she faced as a woman in the male-dominated Bureau. This is a gripping, sometimes gruesome, and always remarkable memoir of an unparalleled life and career spent chasing the monsters among us.
Medium M. J. Holliday battles demons in the tenth Ghost Hunter Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of No Ghouls Allowed. M.J., Heath, and Gilley, are back home in Boston, where their new film is sure to be a monster hit! To promote the film, the studio is sponsoring a special exhibit of supernatural artifacts at a local museum. Unfortunately, Gilley—whose mind is engaged with wedding plans—gets talked into donating to the exhibit the very dagger that keeps the dangerous ghost Oruç and his pet demon locked down in the lower realms. Before M.J. can recover the bewitched blade, there’s a murder and a heist at the museum, and the dagger is stolen. Now Oruç is coming for M.J. and her crew, and he's bringing with him some fiendish friends from M.J.’s haunted past. She, Gilley, and Heath are certain to be in for a devil of a time. M.J. may even need to recruit a certain skeptical Boston detective to help stop the paranormal party crashers from turning Gilley’s wedding bells to funeral knells. . . .
Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the stories and the process of storytelling itself help to define social, cultural and political identity. For Palestinians, the threat of losing their heritage has engendered a sense of urgency among storytellers and Palestinian folklorists. Yet there has been remarkably little academic scholarship dedicated to the tradition. Farah Aboubakr here analyses a selection of folktales edited, compiled and translated by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana in Speak, Bird, Speak Again (1989). In addition to the folktales themselves, Muhawi and Kanaana's collection is renowned for providing readers with extensive folkloric, historical and anthropological annotations. Here, for the first time, the folktales and the compilers' work on them, are the subject of scholarly analysis. Synthesising various disciplines including memory studies, gender studies and social movement studies, Aboubakr uses the collection to understand the politics of storytelling and its impact on Palestinian identity. In particular, the book draws attention to the female storytellers who play an essential role in transmitting and preserving collective memory and culture. The book is an important step towards analysing a significant genre of Palestinian literature and will be relevant to scholars of Palestinian politics and popular culture, gender studies and memory studies, and those interested in folklore and oral literature.
Victoria Laurie's ghoulishly great follow-up to What's a Ghoul to Do? in her new Ghost Hunter Mystery series Northelm Boarding School on Lake Placid has the worst bully of all-a demon by the name of Hatchet Jack. M.J. Holliday, along with her partners Gilley and the handsome Dr. Steven Sable, are ready to send him back to the portal from whence he came. The school's summer construction, an uncooperative dean, and the very tempting Dr. Delicious are all trying to distract M.J. from her ghost hunting. But with a demonic disturbance as great as Hatchet Jack, she must focus and show no mercyto send him to detention for an eternity-in hell.
The Afterlives of Specimens explores the space between science and sentiment, the historical moment when the human cadaver became both lost love object and subject of anatomical violence. Walt Whitman witnessed rapid changes in relations between the living and the dead. In the space of a few decades, dissection evolved from a posthumous punishment inflicted on criminals to an element of preservationist technology worthy of the presidential corpse of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman transitioned from a fervent opponent of medical bodysnatching to a literary celebrity who left behind instructions for his own autopsy, including the removal of his brain for scientific study. Grounded in archival discoveries, Afterlives traces the origins of nineteenth-century America’s preservation compulsion, illuminating the influences of botanical, medical, spiritualist, and sentimental discourses on Whitman’s work. Tuggle unveils previously unrecognized connections between Whitman and the leading “medical men” of his era, such as the surgeon John H. Brinton, founding curator of the Army Medical Museum, and Silas Weir Mitchell, the neurologist who discovered phantom limb syndrome. Remains from several amputee soldiers whom Whitman nursed in the Washington hospitals became specimens in the Army Medical Museum. Tuggle is the first scholar to analyze Whitman’s role in medically memorializing the human cadaver and its abandoned parts.
Princess Kumithra has lived a life of lies and awakens believing the day of her fairytale wedding has arrived. She is ready to marry her savior and hero Rarailmuir. Who saved her heroically in her youth and became the champion who stole her heart and slain a dragon. All goes well aside from the amusements of those nearest to her. She was going to have her fantasy fulfilled never aware of the problems of her kingdom. Suddenly darkness covers the island kingdom of Yoranthium and a legend of epic proportions unfolds. As the sky, land, and waters become a battleground of the heavenly cosmos and the deep dark hellish abyss in the seas of the world of Ishormot. Time falls to the wayside as temporal incursions caused by technology, mages, magics, demon witches, and spirits, have erased and changed kingdoms overnight. Plans of demons and cosmic horrors unfold and lives are lost in terrible tragedy. The once admired and mighty tropical idyllic kingdom of Yoranthium falls. The last light and bastion a beacon of hope and peace. The last hope for refugees fleeing oppression and wars caused by the nightmare of a cruel and evil world. A world that has been corrupted and falling into darkness. All Hope is Lost as many lives are lost and this story has just begun. Yoranthium Book One: Lost Hope is only the beginning of the series and a fast paced novel. There are other titles in this slated twenty book series as it's not just a world it moves beyond just some kingdoms that are explored. Aspects like Heaven, the deep dark abyss, an epic conflict of Angels and Demons unfold and mystical creatures such as Dragons, Mechanations, Yagrallmagrunds, Riarcks, Archangels, Eight Demons and the One Evil, of their God to be born, Impundalu, Altered Faefolken, Faefolken of the Dawn, and the vulnerable Elfaefolken get explored. How nature has a plan to deal with corruption and heal not only the world of Ishormot but other worlds in the Cosmos. A cosmic tale that ponders ideas of fancy on the meaning of space exploration. Delving into the very nature of the soul and DNA. Touching upon modern political spectrum. Time falls to the wayside and the Past Future interacts via Incursions with the Future Past. This series explores a wide range of thoughts and ideas in philosophy, ethics, morals, theology, mythology, Gothic Horror, including the yucky stuff (Romance) and so much more. All carefully in guise as stories and simple tales of an ever expanding world that is astonishing. A soft yet ridged Magics system that is comparable to Technology and Science with of course mumbo jumbo Mystical powers and lore. As Love and Hart is at the core of the only real power our hero's have against overwhelming odds of survival. I the Author have spent a life time in research and development for this epic tale. Traveling the world, always reading and learning and had lived in Japan and getting parking tickets in Perth. Just to pursue my need to study the world and visit museums and historical sights around the globe. It's about time I write this incredible story of Fantasy based on reality. It reads Fiction but if you see beyond the words you will find a deeper meaning in a simple story. Yoranthium could be considered a world healing book of our time.
Murder, Politics and Intrigue. When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. Now he lives in the City of Amalo, far from the Court though not exactly in exile. He has not escaped from politics, but his position gives him the ability to serve the common people of the city, which is his preference. He lives modestly, but his decency and fundamental honestly will not permit him to live quietly.
