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In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.

The indomitable Amelia Peabody and her husband, known to many as "the Father of Curses", are into archaeology and mischief again. This third in the series brings the reader once more into Egypt and the shady world of black market antiquities. The winter excavation season has hardly yet begun when Amelia stumbles onto what looks suspiciously like a ring of thieves.

As the 1921–22 season begins, the Emersons are enjoying a busy period of excavation in Egypt, when they hear a lurid description of a man’s mysterious death. His widow is convinced he died of a curse, and implores the Emersons to return the “deadly” little statue that killed him to the tomb from which it was stolen—before it adds her to its list of victims.

Possibly the most important and informative book ever compiled during the Covid era and a must read (listen) for everyone. The thirty four contributors, the Canaries, to this collection of essays are courageous people. They are critical thinkers who are prepared to put everything on the line to speak their truth. They strive to alert us all to what COVID was, and what may lie ahead.

A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead with her hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. Two sisters take shelter in a shuttered old house at the end of a country road . . . only to discover they're not alone. And the author's most beloved characters, Amelia Peabody and Radcliff Emerson, make an appearance in a newly uncovered tale with a witty nod to Sherlock Holmes.

The path through trauma is one of the most difficult anyone can tread. With The Healing Trauma Summit, you’ll find that you don’t have to do so alone. Featuring some of the most prominent voices in the field, this audio collection will give you resources and options for the journey out of trauma and toward peace.

This second volume of a must-listen collection contains 15 bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors.

Young Erin Hartsock arrives in Washington DC with ambition—and little interest in politics. However, when she's offered a position on a congresswoman's campaign for the Senate, she's more than happy to flee her dead-end job to take on what she expects will be boring administrative work . . . But as the campaign heats up, disturbing events follow. There's a string of dangerous fires, a violent attack, and a seemingly accidental death. Erin begins to wonder about her colleagues all while they grow suspicious of her.

In this thrilling collection of original stories, some of today’s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief.

The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but.

Malice Domestic distinguishes the personal and private aspects of crime from the public and impersonal. Our murderers don't kill for the fun of it (serial killers) or for a misguided ideal (assassins and terrorists) or for pay (hired hit men). They only do in people they know and love (or hate).

This book offers FULL DISCLOSURE of the truth behind the lies, that have been hidden in plain sight while taking you on an amazing spiritual journey around our planet and into the higher dimensions of Esoteric Knowledge, Supernatural Phenomenon, and Cosmic Disclosure. This is not just my story, but the story of my TWIN SOUL, a physician, and how we tried to change the course of modern medicine. This is a Love Story, a Hero’s Journey, an Alchemist's Memoir of Twin Souls who managed to navigate through the World of Illusion, heal their past wounds and create an Eternal Love!

Talent in the workplace is increasingly identified as a key factor in determining success. If effectively managed it has the potential to be a productive resource capable of adding value and competitive advantage to an organization. The Talent Powered Organization takes a strategic yet practical view of talent. Drawing on research and real-life experiences with clients, the authors provide a series of conceptual frameworks to attract, develop, and retain the best workforce.

New York Times best-selling authors Mary Higgins Clark and Elizabeth Peters present this delightfully chilling collection of original mystery stories. This audiobook showcases a houseful of top contemporary writers at their very best.

An unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction stories published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster, as narrated by top voice talents.

Here is an unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction short stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Erosion",l by Ian Creasey, a man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying earth. In "As Women Fight", by Sara Genge, a hunter has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife's body in a society of body-switchers....

Have you ever come face-to-face with the devil? In a tapestry of sports, business, and dating, there is an evil presence that is not quite visible to anyone: the Bedroom Strangler. A serial killer who scales 15-story buildings, enters through the balcony, and stealthily slithers under the bedroom bed, with the sole intent of raping and murdering innocent women in their sleep. He has been classified as the worst serial killer in Ontario's history and Canada's most dangerous criminal ever, operating at the height of London's 40-year serial killer period, from 1974 to 1978.

The Epic Photography Podcast unites Team Epic in a one of a kind show. 11 hosts on constant rotation from across the globe, bringing a wealth of experience from their specialisms, and a lot of opinions to go with them!

England im 19. Jahrhundert: Amelia Peabody ist unverheiratet, kinderlos und – seit dem überraschenden Erbe ihres verschrobenen Wissenschaftlervaters – verdammt reich. Eine äußerst seltene Position für eine Frau im viktorianischen England, die ihr eine Flut von Heiratsanträgen und lästige Aufmerksamkeit entfernter Verwandter einbringt. Überdrüssig von dieser neuen Realität entscheidet Amelia, alles hinter sich zu lassen: Ihre Reise führt sie nach Ägypten, wo sie mysteriösen Mumien begegnet, die nachts nichts in ihrem Sarkophag zu halten scheint!

Non è solo la mia storia, ma la storia della mia anima gemella, un medico, e di come abbiamo cercato di cambiare il corso della medicina moderna. È una storia d'amore, il Viaggio dell'Eroe, le Memorie di un Alchimista, di Anime Gemelle che sono riuscite a navigare attraverso il Mondo dell'Illusione, a guarire le loro ferite passate e a creare un Amore Eterno, sopravvissuto anche alla morte!