Christopher Bloodworth

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Arkansas

This is not a book. This is an interactive experience. There are 10 horror short stories inside, sure, but that's not the only thing lurking within these pages. Check out what this beta reader had to say: "I thought I was buying a book of short stories. I didn't realize that what I would read would have such depth of experience. Most of the stories were amazing, but I have to be honest. When dealing with anthologies that contain multiple authors, there are always a few clunkers and this book is no different. The puzzles, the death override (Do the confirmation. It's pretty cool), the coupon (It works! And you get a surprise back too!) and the amount of thought put into this more than made up for any shortcomings one or two of the stories might have had. I feel as though the Bloodworth sat down and really thought about the type of experience he thought the reader would like to have while going through the book. Amazing." Ann P. Beta reader Ann is correct about the focus on reader experience. I wanted the reader to have something that they weren't quite sure about. I wanted to hide things inside the pages. I wanted people to think of the Boothworld Industries Initiation Kit as less of a book and more of an interactive experience with a paranormal corporation called Boothworld Industries. "Okay. First, I want to say that I'm a huge Bloodworth fan. I've followed him since he started writing creepypastas for reddit's nosleep subreddit, back before it was filled with the stuff that's in there now. His stories were among the few that focused more on characters and plot than just gore and scares. I don't even like scary stories, but his writing pulled me in and kept me hooked. His stories made you fall in love with the characters he wrote. That sucked because you didn't want anything bad to happen to them, which usually did. His stories also had an air of reality to them. Even though you knew what you were reading couldn't be true, his words would make you question that very notion. Like I said, I'm a superfan. I loved all of Bloodworth's stories in this book. How could anyone not? He created Boothworld Industries and it shows. There were a few authors that gave him a run for his money though. Namely Ross Baxter and Stacie Savage. Now I don't want to be mean, but there was also one story I just didn't like at all. It seemed like very little thought had been put into it. Oh well. I've yet to read a book that was 100% perfect, but this book, with all the extra goodies you find, comes closer than most." Bri K. Beta reader I really wanted the reader to walk away from this experience feeling as if they'd received something more than a book. I wanted to create lasting memories. That's why so much time and effort was put into it. Sure, I could've just thrown the stories together, but it wouldn't have been as powerful as I wanted it to be. "Jesus, dude. I've never been more paranoid in my life. Every time my phone rings I say a little prayer that the number that appears won't read 630-296-7536. Boothworld Industries is something else..." Jon S. Beta reader I could tell you more, but now it's time for you to discover Boothworld Industries for yourself.

Boothworld Industries Initiation Kit

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Plato

Benjamin Jowett

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A compilation of the essential works of Plato in one paperback volume: The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.

The Republic and Other Works

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Melanie Benjamin

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Draws on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888 to depict the experiences of two teachers, a servant, and a reporter who risk everything to protect the children of immigrant homesteaders.

The Children's Blizzard

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Alex Michaelides

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient

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As part-time Tinker's Cove, Maine reporter Lucy Stone says "oui" to her daughter's surprise wedding invitation in France, she must also make a different kind of vow--to catch a killer!

When Lucy Stone arrives at a sprawling French chateau with the whole family, it should be the trip of a lifetime--especially because she's about to watch her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, marry the handsome, successful man of her dreams. But while navigating the vast countryside estate owned by her impenetrably wealthy in-laws-to-be, the jet-lagged mother of the bride has a creeping feeling that Elizabeth's fairytale nuptials to Jean-Luc Schoen-Rene are destined to become a nightmare . . .

Maternal instincts are validated the moment a body is pulled from a centuries-old moat on the property. A young woman has dropped dead under mysterious circumstances--possibly at the hands of someone at the chateau--and unflattering rumors about the Schoen-Rene line and their inner circle flow like champagne. Then there's the matter of Elizabeth's hunky ex beau showing up on the scene as she prepares to walk down the aisle . . .

With tensions building, personalities clashing, and real dangers emerging at the chateau, Lucy is determined to protect her family, together for the first time in years, and expose the one responsible. She'll have to locate the culprit among a list of worldly jilted lovers and potential criminal masterminds, or Elizabeth's trip down the aisle could end in tragedy . . .

Mother of the Bride Murder

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Bought new. Read once. Small place where name sticker was. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

From the start, Violeta's life is marked by extraordinary events and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Violeta tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and ultimately not one, but two pandemics. Author of "A Long Petal of the Sea."

Violeta [English Edition]

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How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History

The page-turning, inside account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them.

In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz, and Alex Podrizki--the dudes--bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners. The dudes then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabul--until they were caught by Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the front page of The New York Times.

That's the "official" story. The truth is far more explosive. For the first time, journalist Guy Lawson tells the thrilling true tale. It's a trip that goes from a dive apartment in Miami Beach to mountain caves in Albania, the corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. Lawson's account includes a shady Swiss gunrunner, Russian arms dealers, corrupt Albanian gangsters, and a Pentagon investigation that impeded America's war efforts in Afghanistan. Lawson exposes the mysterious and murky world of global arms dealing, showing how the American military came to use private contractors like Diveroli, Packouz, and Podrizki as middlemen to secure weapons from illegal arms dealers--the same men who sell guns to dictators, warlords, and drug traffickers.

This is a story you were never meant to read.

Beverly Luck

@beverly908192

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Christopher Bloodworth

Boothworld Industries Initiation Kit

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The Republic and Other Works

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The Children's Blizzard

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The Silent Patient

Leslie Meier

Mother of the Bride Murder

Isabel Allende; Frances Riddle (Translator)

Violeta [English Edition]

Guy Lawson

Arms and the Dudes

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