Colleen Delany
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Portia is ecstatic when she learns that her parents bought Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along of the edge of Gone-away Lake. Vacant for years, Portia and her cousin Julian explore the ghostly home with the help of elderly neighbors Mr. Payton and Mrs. Cheever.. Both children excited to uncover the secrets the old home hides.
2) They
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Of the dozens of tales of ghostly encounters on the island of Nantucket that writer Blue Balliett has heard, "They" is the one that had the most profound and frightening impact on her. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural."
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The story of the Donner Party is very much the story of James F. Reed's family, not simply because the Reeds were prominent members, but because they left much documentary evidence: diaries, memoirs, correspondence and letters written en route and interviews shortly after the disaster. The adopted daughter of Reed, Virginia Reed Murphy's memoir is a noteworthy recounting of the Donner party disaster and its gruesome end. Her writing is sprightly,...
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The stories in Survive are full of suffering: From the savagery of the Donner Party snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846, to the extreme hunger and brutal cold endured by Ernest Shackleton’s support team in Antarctica in 1915.Such suffering may be hard to listen to, but it engages us, offering glimpses of something essential. When the most basic needs become paramount, some people can achieve a kind of clarity. This...
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This short story introduces you to Eileen Wilks' World of the Lupi, one the central werewolves in the series, and a powerful menacing evil which continues to plague her characters. Originally Human is a richly engaging side-trip of the epic journey in the World of the Lupi series coming to you in Graphic Audio. "Molly doesn't look her age. In fact, Molly never will, having already been around for centuries with no signs of wear. That's because Molly...
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In modern America, two soldiers will fight their way through the magical legacies of Poe and Hawthorne to destroy an undying evil-if they don't kill each other first.
US Army Captain Dale Morton is a magician soldier-a "craftsman." After a black-ops mission gone wrong, Dale is cursed by a Persian sorcerer and haunted by his good and evil ancestors. Major Michael Endicott, a Puritan craftsman, finds gruesome evidence that the evil Mortons, formerly...
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Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah-its former owner (protector? friend?)-submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending...
10) Crimson Waters
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Everyone who lives in Deathlands must endure the hellscape of a world mutilated by nukes and madness. Survival is a grim pursuit, achieved only by the most ruthless means. Yet Ryan Cawdor and his companions remain determined to persevere by doing whatever it takes to survive. When a mat-trans malfunction strands Ryan Cawdor and his friends in a gutted redoubt in the West Indies, the crystal waters offer them a tantalizing glimpse of untouched splendor....
11) Lost Gates
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Existence after Skydark is a gamble against grim odds - winners and losers decided by guns, jack and raw nerve. Still, one intrepid group pushes on, working to understand the secrets of preDark tech at the heart of nuke-altered America. Because keeping hope alive is the next best thing to a good shot at finding something better. Baron Crabbe is dangerously high on legends of the Trader and rumors of a secret cache. He occupies a redoubt but the old...
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Explore offers first-hand accounts from the world’s boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the Himalaya, the ruins of Peru, the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon, the ice flows of the Arctic, along with death in the big city. With selections from Tim...
13) Palaces of Light
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Remnants of America's past are littered across the postapocalyptic landscape, but little remains of the preDark ideals of law and order. Survival is a blood quest and lethal force the means to power. Still, a handful retains their humanity among the cold hearts and in a world where nothing lasts forever, hope is a commodity as precious as jack. Steeped in beauty and mysticism, the canyons of Mesa Verde, Colorado, survived the blast that altered the...
14) No Man's Land
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There's little to remember about life before the Big Nuke, but there's plenty to scavenge in the tainted wreckage of the post-apocalyptic frontier. The barbaric code of survival of the fittest, meanest or dirtiest makes for hard living and easy death. But Ryan Cawdor and his friends have stayed alive by holding on to their humanity-playing fair...and chilling only when they've got no choice. A civil war raging in the Des Moines River valley forces...
15) Alpha Wave
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In the post-apocalyptic world of Deathlands, the past and its way of life are as obsolete as myth. Now the days are filled with death, violence and little promise. Still, the human spirit endures and a group of intrepid warrior survivalists dare to believe that out there, something better is on offer. If they live long enough to find it. Across the flat plains of the Dakotas, an iron horse shrieks and rumbles across refurbished tracks. Inside the...
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"In Consequences I," Kesselheim recalls how when things sometimes go wrong, the key players have to make an immediate decisions. In 1979, Kesselheim and companions were involved in a canoe capcize in the frigid lake waters of northern Quebec when he was thrust into the role of rescuer. In "Consequences II," the story is told from the perspective of one of the capcized paddlers. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Rescue: Stories...
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No one knew it was going to be that bad. World War II killed some 60 million people—20 million of them soldiers—and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others. But such destruction was an impossible to imagine in advance as it was for young pilots-in-training to imagine their coming fiery deaths; or for Jews to foresee their last moments in the gas chambers; or for parents to imagine their children killed by the mortars...
18) Queen Bitch
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The UnknownWorld is reeling from change. Bethany Anne has started to make a difference in the first week of being awake. Now, America has been losing good men since their teams don't have a vampire to help them. Frank is hoping Bethany Anne can, and will, help. Further, the American Pack Council is having internal problems with their own young-and-dumb were as who want to ignore Michael's strictures. With no one seeing Michael, the fear of the Boogeyman...
19) Wombreaker
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What do you get when you combine a self-willed zombie with a half-human vampire? That burning question was left unanswered at the end of Nekropolis 3, Dark War, when we learned that half vampire Devona and her zombie Private Investigator husband, Matt Richter, were expecting twins. I know you're wondering how a dead man could impregnate a half-human, half-vampire woman. The short answer is magic. The long answer is none of your goddamned business....
20) Time Castaways
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In the nuke-altered America of the twenty-first century, time conspires against survival, especially for a legendary group of warriors led by Ryan Cawdor. Born and bred in Deathlands, Ryan dares to unlock the secrets buried deep in the wreckage of a planet. Time may be the enemy in the daily struggle to stay alive, but perhaps it can reveal something better.... Barely escaping a redoubt hidden in an old aircraft carrier guarded by killer droids, the...