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With her unusual violet hazel eyes hidden behind heavy glasses, American teenager Helene Crawford is the kind of student that always has an answer; yet, she doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere. One fateful day, life as she knows it comes to a grinding halt. There was a fire. Her mother is gone. But something is not right.... The Greek mafia may be involved. Vivid dreams of ancient deities consume her sleep. A maze of clues leads her to believe that her mother is still alive.... The answers to her perilous quest lie in Greece, as Helene braves into the unknown of a new life, torn between two Greek guys and a new world that literally awaits her.

A parish priest has a gambling problem, a girlfriend, and his brother just killed his bookie. A police detective and mobster both investigate, while the town questions if it's a crime at all or a public service. It has everything you need in a mystery: gambling, drinking, Girl Scout cookies, a wedding with a miracle, a canine ring bearer, a dead man telling a terrible joke, fast food, diners, and spit takes, and road rage.

In this homage to grindhouse, low-budget horror, tongue-in-cheek action movies of the 70s and cheesy 80s horror, Cody Rexell is back in a brand-new adventure! Are you ready to groan along with the one liners and relive the cheesy horror/action vibe of yesterday?

In the summer of 2014, Firas Jumaah was working diligently to complete his doctorate in chemistry at Lund University in Sweden when he suddenly received news that an ISIS advance in northern Iraq threatened the lives of his wife and children. As the situation worsened by the minute, Firas managed to send a message to his professor, Charlotta Turner, to let her know that he did not expect to return to Sweden to complete his dissertation. She quickly organized a commando mission that resulted in the dramatic rescue of Firas from war-torn Iraq.

Whether it’s to finish college or muster up the courage to talk to the cute girl in his class, Jonathan Barnes wants nothing more than to make something of himself. To be a man and make it on his own. That is, if his constantly questioning and racing mind lets him.

This biography traces the Holocaust through the eyes of young Nathan Poremba and examines the difficult emotional and physical choices he had to make to survive. His father was murdered by the Nazis before his hometown went under deportation orders, so he made the heart-wrenching decision to flee his home in Southern Poland (Wieliczka) and leave his mother and sisters behind.

Would you risk everything to save a stranger? Off the coast of Venice lurks Poveglia, the world’s most haunted isle, steeped in centuries of innocent blood. A deranged doctor who took great joy in torturing his patients in life continues to rule his abandoned asylum after death. Few go to Poveglia willingly, but medium Kate Carlsson has no choice. It’s her job. While struggling to retrieve a young girl’s soul, Kate uncovers some shocking truths about the evil on the island that challenges her own convictions and morals - and even her life.

With a tankful of gas and a passion for baseball history, Jason Love hits the road to discover some of the most and least famous baseball sites in America. On the way, he shares some stories of American baseball, along with the romantic connection between the sport and our everyday lives. As much as it’s an ode to baseball history in America, it’s also a tip of the cap to the simple joys in life, like eating hash browns at a Waffle House and exploring new places with family and friends.

It's summer 1957, and when 14-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing—along with one of her late mother's hidden scrapbooks—Aunt Maggie can think of only one place the girl might be.

Newly hired night shift clerk Nancy Helbens Richards and her husband opt not to inform authorities when tragedy strikes. Carrying the burden of an estranged relationship with her mother and being one of Creeper Joe's 54 victims, Nancy works to rebuild her life, ironically finding unspoken protection inside the hotel just above where she was once captive. Wandering Riverton Statesman columnist Vic Ramsey puts off checking into the hotel after his colleague ends up dead writing a series of articles on the building's storied past. They share a common enemy. The question is why.

Jimmy, known by his friends as Meathead, wants to be a good kid...he really does. But his friends are wild and lead him into serious trouble. Stealing, fighting slingshot battles, and lying to girls, Meathead hilariously struggles to be honest while enduring growing pains and dealing with a terrible loss. Set in the suburbs in the late '70s, even Meathead starts to understand what it takes to grow up and be a good man.

A mysterious fire in a remote forest clearing; a woman's charred bones; unexplained tracks in the rutted road - the only clues Deputy Andi Pelton has to what happened. Then, she meets an old man living alone in a forest compound that obviously houses many people. Sex trafficking in the Montana wilderness? As Andi and psychologist Ed Northrup struggle to solve the brutal and fiery murder, Andi faces a fear she didn’t know she had.

When cattle baron Magnus Anderssen collapses mentally, psychologist Ed Northrup struggles to find the cause - a terrible event buried in Magnus's past leaving him veering between suicide and murder. Meanwhile, Deputies Andi Pelton and Brad Ordrew clash as they investigate Jared Hansen, a boy caught with rifles and a paranoid plan to kill his schoolmates. Their problem? Jared, a great kid, a school leader, has no previous problems. Ordrew’s convinced Jared’s a mass shooter-in-waiting, but Andi’s not.

Sylvia Sumner is meeting her lover Jim Hart. From an alleyway, she dashes across the road and hurries down a pathway crossing a field. Tucker Stewart, who has loved Sylvia since one, brief encounter in the woods back in high school, sees her from his office window and follows her. He fails to acknowledge that her husband, the detective-obsessed Forty Sumner, is watching them from a distance.

Lily Van Der Houghton, a newly licensed physician, is lost and unsettled on which way her life is leading her when she goes hiking to the Jacks River Falls. Lily stumbles through a hole in time and finds herself in 1763. She is not on the trail to the falls anymore but is in Indian Territory in the aftermath of the French and Indian War. To her surprise, Lily learns she has a key role in an ancient Cherokee prophecy.

To a 10-year-old, death is far from kind: It is imprisonment! To help the living get to their next day, Peter is required to work in the Conservatory, a library where every person is represented by a LifeBook. Turning the pages of LifeBooks is excruciatingly dull, so Peter plots his escape! However, that would ruin Apius’ evil plan to obtain an Ancient Hourglass that controls time. With the hourglass in hand, all of the guarded souls in the LifeBooks could be his, making him unstoppable.

Come experience the non-stop excitement of having to keep up with your energy-filled grandpa while he’s in town visiting you on vacation. He’s going to make each day the best day you have ever had. There’s not a minute to waste, because you are about to pack an entire summer of fun into a week. There’s no way of knowing just what all can happen when grandpa gets going.

Ford Barlow is banished from his home and the clansmen he loves after a tragic mistake that forces him into joining a band of thieving boys. Adventure and fun abound and it seems Ford has found a perfectly fine new home until a mysterious massacre chases the boys away from their beloved woodland hideaway, through a magical and dangerous forest, and into the arms of conniving bandits. These vicious men and his inner conscience push Ford to the brink of his moral limits in Beyond Barlow.

Have you crossed paths with the creature who likes to eat children? If your answer is no, then you are one lucky kid. Because there is a creature lurking. It began in your nightmares. But now, it's real. It has no name. And it likes to eat children!

Noah Thomas is a scrawny seventh grader who is bullied to the brink in his new town. He's friendless, except for sassy tomboy Wendy Sherman, who seems to lend him the confidence he needs to stand up to his oppressors. Stumbling into a bookshop one afternoon while on the run from some teenaged tyrants, Noah is hurled into an unexplainable adventure. Noah learns that the bookshop leads to the Akashic Records - a place that holds all spirit lives recorded in tablets of light.