Freaky Sights

Mystic Caravan Circus is on the move after their winter break. First stop? Moonstone Bay. Poet Parker and crew are looking for a permanent location because traveling won't be an option for much longer. They're expecting a normal trip. They're getting so much more ... including a mystery. The day after they arrive, a body drops in the ditch across from the city park, and what follows is a series of bone-chilling events that revolve around the island's children. It seems something weird is causing them to act out of sorts ... and they might just have murder on their minds. Moonstone Bay is a magical place and Poet feels a kinship with the land and people who live there almost immediately. Unfortunately, the terror stalking the island isn't something that can be ignored. Poet has to band together with the island inhabitants - including a feisty witch and fiery half-demon - to figure out what's happening. Their research leads them to an ancient story about a possessing demon, and the villages he left decimated in his wake. Poet is strong. Her new friends make her stronger. If Moonstone Bay is ultimately to be their home, she's going to have to go all out to protect it. Two teams are coming together to fight a war. It's going to take all of them to ensure a happy ending. Buckle up. Things are about to get wicked on Moonstone Bay.

Brandon King is your ordinary married hardworking dude, or so he thought until tonight. Working late night at a restaurant on one of the busiest football home game nights in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, his life is turned upside down and changes forever in an instant. He finds out that he is the last of a royal bloodline and not the person he thought he was and its a truth that can get him killed...again. If this wasn’t enough, he also learns about a cult trying to awaken an ancient evil who wants to enslave all of humanity. Can Brandon and his husband, with help from some unexpected friends, stop humanity from becoming slaves to this new terror before its too late? Come, be a guest at the Coronation. Also, there are puppies.

A National Book Award finalist for her story collection Who Do You Love, Jean Thompson towers into the stratosphere with her new novel, Wide Blue Yonder. It is the summer of 1999, and something big and bad is coming to Springfield, Illinois, "the place the Weather lived." Wide Blue Yonder is a novel about weather in all its permutations -- climatic, emotional, even metaphysical. Our guides through this summer of blazing heat and fearsome storms compose an unlikely quartet, each preparing in some measure for the end of the world. Uncle Harvey believes he is the Weather Channel's "Local Forecast." Yet even an arsenal of meteorological facts and figures can't stanch his existential fears. Harvey's niece, Josie, is fixed with a different predicament. She's seventeen, with nowhere to get to in the Land of Lincoln except into deep trouble. Josie's mother, Elaine, feigns cheerful efficiency, desperately masking a far more urgent quest. And then there's the loner Rolando, who hails from Los Angeles. A human storm system fueled by boundless rage, Rolando is on course to make Springfield the ground zero of his wrath. Newsweek memorably described Thompson's previous collection, Who Do You Love, as "a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one." Wide Blue Yonder burns brighter, yet moves in the same mysterious ways.

Game worlds differ from traditional fictional worlds. While literary and cinematic worlds are written to host character arcs and plots, game worlds need to be designed to host game mechanics. While Princess Leia, Mad Max and Daenerys Targaryen may leave their marks on their fictional worlds, it is YOU, the player, who will carve your personal experience into the digital firmament of every game world you inhabit. In this accessible book full of practical tips and examples, games industry veteran Edwin McRae will guide you through the evergreen principles of player-centric game world design. How do you create game-based environments and cultures that resonate with reality? This senior narrative designer will share a range of field-tested techniques that will help you design instead of derive. How do you organise all that lore? This is a common pain point for world builders and Edwin will offer tools and tactics that keep game bibles scoped, searchable and sensible. How do you make your game world fun? Through the player-centric perspective, you’ll see how storytelling can be used to support and enrich game play and achieve that Shangri-La of gaming experience... ludo-narrative harmony! Play is what we do. Story is why we do it. And the game world is where it all happens.

Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column. Drawing on his military experience, this is one of six manuals written for soldiers and civilians in 1942, when invasion by the Japanese seemed imminent. Written in his characteristic, colloquial, man-to-man style, Mr Idriess here reveals the secrets of the dead shot. What to do and what not to do are impressed upon the budding rifleman. He brings out clearly the importance of apparently trifling points. No more opportune book could have been published. Australia for the first time in its history has been bombed. Invasion looms on our northern frontier. The imperative need now is for rifles, more rifles, yet more rifles - and riflemen.

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It was an epidemic. It was a plague that shocked both those who got it and those who did not. It was coined the white sickness. For inexplicable reasons, random citizens became blind, and the sickness was believed to be contagious. Instead of teaching people to manage their disability, the government rounded up the newly-blind and caged them like animals. The quarantine facilities had no organization, no plumbing, no electricity, and no law and order. Both the blind and the seeing were terrified. When the crisis subsided, the officials in charge were tried for their role in the inhumane treatment of the citizens; they were acquitted. One vigilante group is not satisfied with the verdict. Calling themselves the Cellmates, they kidnap seven people and hold them hostagekeeping them blinded so they can experience the same fears as those who were blinded in the plague. A blend of social commentary, criticism, parody, and polemic, author Christine Faltz Grassman offers an anti-sequel to Blindness, a psychological thriller written by Jos Saramago. The Sight Sickness, Grassmans personal response to the publics fear of blindness, works to show that with the right attitude, the right tools, and the right techniques, blindness is manageable.

AWARD WINNING AUTHOR. Hard boiled crime Got a bully in your neighborhood? A troublesome squatter you can’t evict? When the courts or police can’t, or won’t help, well…good luck. Or you can ask Ritchie and Arlan. Their trade is home renovations, but their side job is just what you’re looking for. If they take on your problem, it will be gone for good. The ex-cop and ex-con are the good kinda bad; angels to some and devils to others. A dangerous city gang use apartments that Ritchie and Arlan clean out, including the drug money and guns. The gangbangers are infuriated. In a twist of irony there’s no one they can get to help. Their plan to destroy the gang is flawed and risky, but the only way. It’s a one-shot attempt where failure is not an option. TGR Books is SOLICITING READERS for brief reader review postings on Amazon for this crime novel. YatscoffBooks.com