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Algernon Blackwood was a writer of weird, occult, and ghost tales. He was also a contemporary of Arthur Machen, both of whom were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. It was his interest in esoteric studies that likely served as the inspiration for strange stories such as this one. In this tale a young man who works in an office is diagnosed with a heart condition. He is warned by his doctor to avoid strenuous activity, including dancing. The young man ignores his advice and proceeds to attend a dance, where he spies an entrancing young woman.

Granny may be retired as Fuchsia, Minnesota's one-woman undercover sleuth for the Fuchsia Police Department, but that doesn't mean she still doesn't need a trusty weapon. Her weapon of choice? A pink snow shovel. When Granny runs over a dead body with her snowmobile, she unwittingly sets off a chain of events that involves mislabeled corpses, empty graves, and stolen money - lots of it! Who's at the bottom of this years-old crime?

Jezabelle Jingle and her neighbors in the Penderghast section of Brilliant, Minnesota, have a mystery on their hands. Someone is stealing sections of hardwood floors in their homes, and the thefts may be connected to a long-hidden treasure left by the founders of Brilliant. Not only that but there's a dead body in a basement to add to the mix. Can Jezzie and her quirky friends figure out the puzzle and find the treasure before some other, unknown person - maybe the murderer - beats them to the punch?

Sarcastic and witty, 29-year-old Alexandria Swanson is working her way up the on-air chain at a political talk radio station in San Francisco when a New York media giant buys the station and turns it into a Top 40 music format. In order to keep her job, Alex is shoved into the midday program as the resident dating expert. There's just one problem: Alex still lives with her grandparents, and her dating life is pathetic. She enlists the help of her celebrity-obsessed grandma, Moe, and her ex-military grandpa to teach her about dating. Her hilarious, poor-sport attitude makes station ratings fly off the charts as her morals fly out the window. Alex is soon forced to explore her own tragic past as she wades through her fears of falling in love.

Half the Earth's population is wiped out in a single night of fire and terror that brings civilization to the edge of collapse. Travel with Katie Faust on a journey of discovery as she seeks to find her way in an unrecognizable world and unravel the mystery behind that terrible night.

At the age of 10, Shane Davis seeks to find the truth of his unique heritage, while his father, Cooper Davis, wages war against his own demons. Beset by an ancient curse, they are victims of Eliza Croft, a witch who transcends time and space. Only time will tell if the local Sheriff Greg Carter will be successful in battling the supernatural forces which threaten to destroy them all.

A trip to her old farm ends in Granny forking a dead body in her silo. When the body turns out to be Granny's long lost love Robert Blackford, Granny is flabbergasted. When her devious twin sister, Amelia, the very person who stole Robert from Granny many years ago, shows up searching for her long lost son, Granny reluctantly agrees to help her find him. Of course, Granny's fiancé, Franklin Gatsby, is concerned for Granny's welfare and doesn't like it when she goes out sleuthing - one of Granny's favorite activities.

Goals of this audiobook and lessons: To experience wholeness and know and accept that it is your right. To learn to activate and clear the chakras which are the energy centers of the bodies; physical, emotional, mental, ethereal. GIYAME offers the healers and the client the option of being open to all methods of self-knowing and methods of healing. I use stones, crystals, feathers, drums, chanting, light, dream work, memory retrieval, energy readings; whatever is most comfortable for the client and myself.

Strictly G.I. is a woman's historical World War II memoir created from an actual collection of letters and Vmail. Wanda served in the 149th WAAC Post Hq. Co., the first group of Womens Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) during World War II to be sent overseas. "Strictly G.I." is a phrase my grandmother used to describe herself. She advanced quickly in the ranks, and shared her proudest moments in the letters, beginning with her initial training in Des Moines to marches before the general in North Africa.

Marriage counselor Nancy Werlock didn't want to take over the family business. Unfortunately for her fate, and a bunch of conniving but well-meaning spirits, have other plans. Now Nancy finds herself fumbling through exorcisms and sorting applications for a new apprentice. Because for Werlock women, the family business is demonology. And at the Three Wishes Boutique, the customer may not always be right, but he may very well be possessed.

Marriage counselor Nancy Werlock didn't want to take over the family business. Unfortunately for her, fate and a bunch of conniving but well-meaning spirits, have other plans. Now Nancy finds herself fumbling through exorcisms and training a sexy new apprentice. Because for Werlock women, the family business is demonology. And at the Three Wishes Boutique, the customer may not always be right, but he may very well be possessed.

Scarred, careful Eliza would rather dig around in the guts of a half-wrecked Russian viper than talk to her ex. But when her ship, the USS Melissa, gets called upon to race out past Pluto she might not have any choice. They need her ex's ship and its experimental skipdrive to beat their competitors to the prize: the first alien life forms, hovering cold and inert in the deep black.

Marriage counselor Nancy Werlock didn't want to take over the family business. Unfortunately for her fate, and a bunch of conniving but well-meaning spirits, have other plans. Now Nancy finds herself fumbling through exorcisms and sorting applications for a new apprentice. Because for Werlock women, the family business is demonology. And at the Three Wishes Boutique, the customer may not always be right, but he may very well be possessed.

Meet the ladies of Portman's Creamery. Led by Irene and Chrissie Garcia-Galvan, they run their ice cream shop by day and solve crimes no one else can before the night is over. Join Pippa, Becca, Mary Beth, Stacey, and Winky on their latest case!

Nancy Werlock didn't want to take over the family business. Unfortunately for her, fate - and a bunch of conniving spirits - have other plans. Now Nancy finds herself fumbling through exorcisms and sorting applications for a new apprentice. Because for Werlock women, the family business is demonology. And at the Three Wishes Boutique, the customer may not always be right, but he may possessed.

Marriage counselor Nancy Werlock didn't want to take over the family business. Unfortunately for her fate, and a bunch of conniving but well-meaning spirits, have other plans. Now Nancy finds herself fumbling through exorcisms and sorting applications for a new apprentice. Because for Werlock women, the family business is demonology. And at the Three Wishes Boutique, the customer may not always be right, but he may very well be possessed.

Running parallel to the conventional history of Liverpool ... there is an unseen seam of supernatural stories that have been largely ignored by the strait-laced historians,' says Torn Slemen, who is, of course, fascinated by this other history and no subject matter is too strange or too terrifying to merit his scrutiny. While some stories may prove to be nothing more than urban myths, many turn out to be only too spine-chillingly true.

Granny has a new addition to her arsenal of crime fighting weapons as Fuchsia, Minnesota's most colorful detective. Now, along with her famous crook-hooking umbrella, she's acquired a scoundrel-skewering knitting needle. And just in time! Residents of Fuchsia seem to be dropping dead like flies! First, it's Granny's neighbor Sally (who gives up the ghost in her weed-filled front yard), followed by Esmeralda Periwinkle (the squirrel lover on Main Street).

The seventh sister is over the moon for a Costa Rican coffee farmer.... In the spring of 1984, John Mallory, the seventh sister in a coffee family, dies a legend when she is uprooted from Kansas City and travels to a coffee farm in Costa Rica to become a Roastmaster. Now, 18 years later, Capri is connected to her dead aunt through a surreal sense of smell. When Capri runs away with her boyfriend, she unearths John Mallory’s story and the myth of the Pleiades, a cluster of blue stars known as the Seven Sisters.

It's time for the annual Mullica Hill Summer Arts Festival, and Nancy is expected to run a booth while juggling her mother's shop, a dwindling marriage counseling practice, and trying to stay one step ahead of Houston's dead mother.