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The antique shop is a historical landmark discovered by Tom, Mark, and Melinda in the small town of Greenville Valley in upstate New York, tormented by demonic historical paintings, possessed porcelain dolls, and wicked ancient artifacts. The Whitfields owned the antique shop in the early 1800s and lived in the Shadow Heart Castle Mansion estate, which was built on desolate American Civil War battlegrounds located in upstate New York with dimensions of American Civil War soldiers' apparitions.

While Jason heads off to school, Dianne begins her new job, while William faces challenges at his current job. While already overwhelmed with the responsibility of raising a special needs child, William also fears his days of creating music are over. Meanwhile, on Imagination Street, Jason sees a distinct message of courage forming from the clouds.

When teenage neighbors Rick and Talia go hiking in the Arizona hills, they discover an exotic-looking egg, which contains an unusual hatchling.

Estos tres libros de cuentos se pliegan, se abren y desencriptan eso que llamamos realidad: las calles de los pueblos y los caminos del campo; el aburrimiento; las conductas esperadas y las inimaginables. Sus personajes—domesticados por el trabajo, la escuela, las liturgias masculinas, la familia o las mujeres—resisten, se afanan ante el aburrimiento con el sexo o el ocio, todas formas del dejarse estar. O rebelarse. Lírico en las descripciones, increíblemente sutil, el autor se manifiesta como un creador omnipotente y benévolo, un comediante lúcido y un observador sagaz.

Against all odds, Ben the Bengal cat defeated the demon dragon and sent it back to the Seventh Dimension. Consequently, Ben's nemesis, the evil warlock Astravar, is ever so slightly miffed. A demon dragon was meant to take over the realm for Astravar, while the warlock stayed in a tower with a nice cup of tea and watched the conquest from afar. But it didn't quite work that way . . .

One should never meddle in the affairs of dragons, but someone has been doing just that. They've been making imitation dragon scale baubles that are nothing short of lethal, and kidnapping delivery drivers all over the Yorkshire Dales. They've also been leaving behind some distinctly dragon-ish traces. Beaufort Scales, High Lord of the Cloverly Dragons, is hot on the trail—or would be, if he wasn't having political problems at home.

El Ángel Arrullador es el 5to cuento de los Cuentos Fantásticos del Galpón Atelier. Libro mas música del músico y compositor Héctor Garrido Bowie. Este maravilloso relato—acompañado por la música del mismo Héctor Garrido Bowie—nos narra el encuentro de una joven y un ser ¿angelical? que transformara su vida para siempre.

It's time for the grand opening of Hawkwood Hollow’s first haunted hotel, and Maura and her friends are ready for the first guests to embark on their ghost tour. When a guest inexplicably drops dead of an apparent heart attack, it at first seems like a freak accident. But the victim's widow thinks otherwise, and she's determined to make Maura and her friends face the consequences. At first, Maura thinks the angry widow has lost her mind, but it soon becomes clear that there's a murderer in the area… and they aren't human.

After going through the portal, Markus wants to get back home. This new realm is too dangerous. Different factions of this medieval world of furry, magic, and monsters are hunting for him and his human companions. An amphibious empire wants them as sex pets, while reptilian creatures want them served raw with a nice beer to wash down the human pancreas bits that get stuck in your teeth. All humor aside, they need to find the portal back to their world, but they need to survive this savage city of Reptos and treacherous Darkphibian swamp first.

The best-selling author of Second Nature, Illumination Night and Turtle Moon now offers her most fascinating and tantalizingly accomplished novel yet -- a winning tale that amply confirms Alice Hoffman's reputation not only as a genius of the vivid scene and unforgettable character but as one of America's most captivating storytellers.

Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue's best friend, Primrose, keeps getting engaged to the most unacceptable military types. Rue has family problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is crazy, and her obstreperous mother is both. Worst of all, Rue's beginning to suspect what they really are...is frightened.

When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them anymore, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up. It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take good and evil, for example. For them, it's an outdated concept that never worked particularly well in the first place.

When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening powers - and as their own powers begin to surface - the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into "normal" society.

This is the way the world ends, for the last time. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun - once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger - has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world.

On her 16th birthday, Caitlyn Brady discovers an oak box containing proof of a secret world. A world of druids who possess magical abilities—and she is one of them. Sent to a school where she can master her own blessing, she finds herself thrown into the role of a savior, one of only two druids in existence with an extra blessing (or a curse). Caitlyn realizes that everything she once knew also contained an omission of truth. A truth she would have to learn on her own while searching for a way to protect the druids from the power-hungry rogues.

In this touching Christmas tale, a Minnesota widower has a magical encounter with an enchanted snow man—and gets a last glimpse of the love of his life. Originally appeared in Cicada Magazine. Narrated by Scott William Carter.

Seventeen years after Child of Promise, families and friends reunite for another Te Rangimarie.

Damian Blake never stays in one place too long. But when he starts on his way to Phoenix, he wants nothing more than to hide who he truly is and find a place where he doesn't have to deal with monsters...at least for a short while. So, when a local business owner offers him a construction job in a small town in Arizona, he takes it. Little does he know, however, that this small town has big, terrifying secrets. Before long, Damian finds himself drawn into a bloodcurdling world of mysteries, lies, and intrigues.

Get ready for a journey of discovery as a forty-something heroine slams into a midlife crisis. After her husband leaves her, Naomi moves into her late grandmother's cottage and discovers a world of magic. Life becomes unpredictable—and exciting—especially with a supernatural mystery that only she can solve—if she survives.

After a car accident almost killed Breanna Perry, she gets a second chance at life. When Cormac O’Shea enters her hospital room and asks her, “Do you want to live?”, she says yes. However, she isn’t prepared for what that simple word will mean, or what she’s about to lose. No longer able to pretend she can have her old life back, Breanna is faced with leaving it all behind and accepting an immortal existence. Unfortunately, that existence comes with some challenging obstacles. Helping her rival, Amber Wright, navigate the superhero world is only one of her problems.