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The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 classic horror tales.

When Howard Phillips Publishing announces the 12 + 1 anniversary edition (due to unavoidable production delays) of the famed Necronomicon—the very book that caused the Big Uneasy in the first place—it takes zombie P.I. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. “Shamble,” to root out the diabolical schemes surrounding the book, and the fanatics who wish to destroy it.

On September 21, 1897, the New York Sun published what was to become the most widely read letter to a newspaper. It was sent by 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, who lived with her parents in Manhattan. She asked, "Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?" Sun editorial writer Francis Pharcellus Church gave her an amazingly beautiful "Yes."

A shambling horde of new cases hits Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. in the Unnatural Quarter. Dan and his gang—including his ghost girlfriend, feisty lawyer partner, cop best friend, and little vampire half-daughter Alvina—are out to seek justice, solve mysteries, and keep their heads on straight…or at least attached. Alvina’s singing lessons for the Banshee Tabernacle Choir end on a sour note when the troll choir director plunges to her death from a high belfry, and the only witness is a deaf-as-a-post gargoyle who sits too close to the loud bells.

On a voyage, a woman meets her long term "friend" along with his wife to discover they have a mysterious oblong box in their possession. Is it merely a painting as they've told her or something much more ominous?

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 tales from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and more.

A compilation of humorous pieces showing the lighter side of mounted hunting. J. Harris Anderson, a longtime chronicler of equestrian sports, has served as a field leader, whipper-in, and racecourse outrider. With an eye always toward the jocular side of life, he's assembled a batch of his work written over the past several years that's sure to entertain and amuse.

In this passionate and powerful memoir, Sande Nosonowitz constructs a revealing narrative, unveiling verities of the world she thought she knew, but didn't. In Oblivious, we travel with her on an emotional journey to veganism.

Myrna Billington is in a life-or-death predicament. In debt to a shady loan shark and pursued by a persistent enforcer, she flees to Virginia in hopes of selling her share of the family's estate. The prospective buyer plans to build a major resort facility that will forever change the area's rural nature. Her brother, Thumper Billington, is master of the local hunt club and proprietor of the historic property. Convincing him to let her sell her part of Montfair will require subterfuge, duplicity, and ultimately the threat of personal ruin for him and those he cares about.

J. Harris Anderson's popular character Thumper Billington is at a crossroads in his life. A brief and impetuous marriage has ended, a new person has captured his interest. Has she captured his heart too? How can he assure this new relationship will be the one he's always hoped for? An avid foxhunter, he comes to a compelling realization: Life is about The Chase. Through a series of stories and lessons, told with wry humor and sprinkled with a wealth of practical tips, Thumper brings the listener along on his journey of discovery. It's Dave Barry meets Rita Mae Brown meets Dr. Phil!

The Bicycle Book takes you on two intertwining paths. One is the author’s fond oftentimes funny tale of being a newbie paperboy at the tender age of 12. Adventures in customer relations become lifetime lessons thanks to Steve’s quirky, brilliantly pedagogical dad, a top advertising executive given to Socratic Q&A dialoguing and mealtime family seminars.

Nearly Everything I Learned in Kindergarten Screwed Me Up! takes you back to where the problems began, starting on day one of kindergarten. With honor and respect to the underrecognized and underappreciated educators in our lives, you'll take personal responsibility for overextended lessons that were never intended for life beyond the classroom. Concise, impactful, and highly entertaining chapters will help you deconstruct, one by one, 18 problematic, catastrophic lessons that no longer apply.

Dragon Fire is the hot new designer narcotic flooding the West Coast. It promises to take its user to the height of ecstasy, but leaves the abuser dead in a pool of their own blood. The Golden Dragon is the enigmatic man who developed Dragon Fire. Powerful, cunning, relentless, brutal, unforgiving. For years he has remained elusive and untouched by numerous bodies of law enforcement. Until now. A handful of strong young men are about to unintentionally throw in their gauntlet and wage battle against this deadly foe.

Packed with practical, actionable ideas and systems for leaders and members of all organizations, this book is an indispensable guide to creating a workplace environment where everybody wants to come and is eager to do his or her best. Learn how to harness the 10 natural laws, basic to human interaction, and put them to work for you. Ignore the laws at your peril. They will work against you if you allow your workplace culture to develop by default rather than by design.

A group of people within a tomb are surprised by a demon. To their amazement, they are not consumed by it. Instead, they learn a GREAT, dark secret about humanity.

On a dark stormy night a group of friends share tales they've heard of everyone's greatest fear, to be mistakenly buried alive. To the shock and horror of her friends, one tops their tales. She tells her story.

A woman married to an abusive man goes to court for help. There he attempts to justify his actions. But the court finds his defense is without merit and gives him what he deserves.

During Christmas, four ghosts intervene in the life of an odious, greedy, hard hearted, miser to save him from eternal damnation.

A Washington, D.C., socialite, traveling in the western United States, meets an old friend, and finds herself startled to learn that his current occupation is a long way from what it was when he was in D.C.