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The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures.

In 2012, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was just a handful of geeks working out of a scrappy four-bedroom apartment in Beijing. Today, it is the world’s fastest-growing tech behemoth worth in excess of $100 billion, unrecognizable from its humble beginnings.

While tracking a potential terrorist cell, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force sends a field team to investigate. Traveling deep into the Catskill Mountains, the Albany field office discovers something far more terrifying than a terrorist training camp. With more questions than answers, the JTTF team gathers their evidence and prepares to leave the forest when all Hell breaks loose. What started as a routine investigation quickly turns into a fight for survival against a foe that knows every inch of the terrain they are fighting on.

The Wealth Ladder is a comprehensive guide to achieving financial success and creating wealth. It covers a wide range of topics, including setting and achieving financial goals, developing a wealth mindset, generating income, managing expenses, and investing. The book is written in an easy-to-understand language that is accessible to listeners with any level of financial knowledge.

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Small Town EMP: The Complete Series includes the three books Survive the Chaos, Survive the Aftermath, and Survive the Conflict. After journalist Austin Merryman’s wife died, he and his 14-year-old daughter left home to travel the country in an old RV. But the comfort and renewal they sought soon descends into chaos.

Is marriage an antiquated relic in the zombie apocalypse? Michelle Greggs had the perfect life; a loving husband, a nice home in San Francisco, and a belief in safety and security. That all ended the day the zombies rose. Against her wishes, her husband Mitch goes to one last day at his job as a police officer in the chaos of the Z virus epidemic. When he returns home as the undead, she is forced to kill her one and only love.

Influenza swept the planet. In months, two billion were dead. In the decimated United States, President Andrew Thomas signed an Executive Order to spray the national food and water supply with a flu vaccine. It spread and mutated up the food chain. The infected craved the flesh of the living and the undead walked the earth. Overnight, Emily Gray's privileged world was ripped away.

When an experiment to reverse climate change goes disastrously wrong, Jarred and his daughter Hope are forced to head south in search of warmth. This manmade eternal winter shows no signs of stopping, and with temperatures continuing to plummet, fears of a new Ice Age drive survivors into a panic. Jarred and Hope don’t have the wilderness skills needed to survive this disaster. But when their car spins out of control, they’re forced to fend for themselves in the ruthless and unforgiving forest surrounding them. And as they slowly discover they are not alone….

Es normal sentir estrés, ansiedad, dolor y otras emociones difíciles de vez en cuando. Pero cuando estos sentimientos empiezan a apoderarse de tu vida, es el momento de hacer algo al respecto.¡Meditaciones guiadas para la atención plena y la autosanación está aquí para ayudar!

Joe has everything he’s ever wanted—a home of his own, a fiancée he adores, and a stepdaughter he loves as his own. Life is finally good. But as he settles into his new home, an old friend returns. When Joe was a boy, he wasn’t alone. Boo was always there—silent, watchful, fiercely protective. Boo listened when no one else would. Boo made the bad people go away. Joe thought Boo wasn't real. He was wrong. He was never just pretend.

Noah Lysander, son of the former Marine Commandant and Chairman of the Federation, followed his twin sister in enlisting as a Marine. While Esther excelled, getting commissioned as an officer, Noah is not so driven, and when he proposes to Miriam, he makes a pledge to be a better husband and future father than his own father had been. Reenlisting for armor, Noah becomes a crewman on an M1 Davis, the most powerful tank ever developed. He quickly finds out that despite nominal peace within the Federation, the deployment demands placed on his platoon are heavy.

Jeremy Linden's a PhD student researching an HIV vaccine. He's always short of money, and when biotech startup PharmaTek reduces funding for his fellowship, he's tempted to take a job at a men's dining club as a serving boy. The uniforms are skimpy, and he's expected to remove an item of clothing after each course. He can handle that, but he soon discovers there's more on the menu here than fine cuisine. How far will he go to pay his tuition, and will money get in the way when he realizes he's interested in more from one of his gentlemen?

Fallen gods with a taste for murder. A criminal syndicate. A secretive desert town. Ex-god Royal has a bone to pick with the human race. In his previous form, charismatic Royal and his surly partner Moon all but saved the forty worlds of the Collectorate from destruction. Their reward? Desert exile on Azteca to live as humans. No public gratitude. History rewritten. Seriously. Doesn’t anyone respect a god?

The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin.

When an ambitious experiment to reverse climate change spirals out of control, the planet is plunged into an eternal winter.

Late summer in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Bim Mayer and Hank Johnson from the Finder Team try to enjoy the lull between missing-person cases while they soak up some sun in Boone, North Carolina. But the quiet days of summer suddenly turn dark when half a dozen people go missing in less than a week. And the only clues the team can find are a strange assortment of black keys.

The forest was supposed to be a refuge. But when the Wellspring cult discovers their hidden cabin—and brings armed allies with them—Hazel, Caleb, and their found family are forced to make a devastating choice: abandon their sanctuary or be destroyed. On the run once again, hunted through a toxic wilderness, the group is exhausted, fractured, and running out of water. Their only lead is a trail of cult "waystations" that might hold the key to survival... or a trap waiting to snap shut.

Weeks after escaping the toxic collapse of civilization, Hazel and her found family are holding on by grit and ingenuity. Bash’s remote cabin offers a fragile refuge—and the last clean water they can find. But even deep in the Oregon wilderness, safety is an illusion.

Dustin is an up-and-coming magician. Jane is his assistant. She's also the love of his life. While performing a new trick called The Disappearing Lady, Jane disappears — for real. Dustin is brought in for questioning. He wants to cooperate but can't answer the most important question. Where is Jane? When things look their worst, Jane reappears. Only. There's something wrong with Jane.