Pendulum Book One Of The Nora Pepper Paranormal Series

BOOK ONE of the THE NORA PEPPER PARANORMAL SERIES: PENDULUM Nora Pepper, a private chef and reluctant psychic, has a lot on her plate: a run-in with her high school nemesis, Vivian Waldemar-Spruce, dealing with her artist grandmother, Bernie Pepper and Great Aunt Bobbi who are rumored to be "witches" and a roller coaster relationship with her handsome ex-husband and police detective, Lucien Pike. Add to that the specter of a set of dead twins and a nerdy (probably crazy) ghost hunter and you definitely have one psychic chef who finds herself in some particularly deep hot water when she is pushed to investigate the 70+ year old cold case of Bettie Pepper, her missing great-aunt, who disappeared in 1938.

"Strange, gory killings, both animal and human, have been occurring in the Skamosh Woods area located between the towns of Ashton Bay and Irving, Michigan - a well known Native American Indian burial ground. When the killer, which seems to be neither human nor animal, threatens Nora Pepper and her unborn child, she must finally accept her psychic gifts to save herself and her baby. Enlisting the assistance of her ex-mother-in-law, Lucinda Pike, her Grandma Bernie, Stewart Schmidt of Spectral Investigations and of course, her handsome, Ojibwe ex-husband and father of her baby, Lucien Pike, Nora learns that in order to save the future of her family she must reach deep into a dark and horrific past."--Page 4 of cover.

Elena and Roz have survived a childhood in the shadow of their mother's mental and emotional illness, and abandonment by a father who cannot cope with the destructive family dynamics they all face. After their mother dies, Roz comes up missing and Elena must step up to the plate to find her sister before it is too late.

Seventeen pieces of short and flash fiction (plus a bonus selection) ranging from dramatic fiction to speculative to horror. Features the National League for Innovation winner Chocolate, Forward, winner of the 2011 Renker Foundation Creative Writing Award, story turned into short film Intent, and Night Before which was a finalist in the New York City Midnight Writing Challenge in 2014.

A “thought-provoking and powerful” study that reframes everything you’ve been taught about addiction and recovery—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Myth of Normal (Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog). A world-renowned trauma expert combines real-life stories with cutting-edge research to offer a holistic approach to understanding addiction—its origins, its place in society, and the importance of self-compassion in recovery. Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery. In the same vein as Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts traces the root causes of addiction to childhood trauma and examines the pervasiveness of addiction in society. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout—and perhaps underpins—our society. It is not a medical “condition” distinct from the lives it affects but rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Dr. Maté argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and how they perpetuate the War on Drugs. The mix of personal stories—including the author’s candid discussion of his own “high-status” addictive tendencies—and science with positive solutions makes the book equally useful for lay readers and professionals.

A charming, hilarious, irresistible romp of a novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it. Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's engaged to someone else after just two months. Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen years and has one night to finally make the feeling mutual. Andie is a private detective who specializes in gathering evidence on cheating husbands—a skill she unfortunately learned from her own life—and lands a case that may restore her faith in true love. For these three women, as well as half a dozen others in sparkling supporting roles—a young model fresh from rural Alabama, a diva Hollywood star making her Broadway debut, an overachieving, unemployed Brown grad who starts faking a fabulous life on social media, to name just a few—everything is about to change, thanks to the dress of the season, the perfect little black number everyone wants to get their hands on . . .

'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena -------------- THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . . A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down. -------------- 'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian 'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ 'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today 'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph 'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times

Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.

A magician's daughter has inherited her father's talents-and his penchant for jewel thievery. Then she meets an escape artist who captures her heart and has secrets that could shatter her illusions...