Bücher veröffentlicht von Tell-Tale Publishing Group, LLC

If you like witches, ghosts, vampires, werewolves and things that go bump in the night, you will love what the authors from Tell-Tale Publishing have dished up for this year's horror feast. From the dead, the undead, and those beings who linger somewhere in between, they have left no tombstone unturned. So curl up in a comfy chair and get ready for a long night, because you won't want to close your eyes after reading this. Or will you?

Paper Dolls is the memoir of a girl who becomes a young woman in a passionate search for an enduring friendship. Deprived of her older sister, Tess Vanderveer, by the neediness of an Irish ghetto girl, Dove Delaney, Gwen also loses the friendship of Millie Dietz, the beautiful daughter of the family cook and housekeeper, Gladys. Gwen's mother takes Millie away to the high society of New York City in the 1930s and 1940s.

¿If the world were to come to an end, where would you want to be? World-renowned concert pianist, Rosalind Melodious Bell, Rose, had never given it much thought. She was too busy with her music to think of Armageddon. That is until one day her world tipped precariously over the edge, and she finds herself marooned on an island, a very magical island, somewhere in the mysterious and haunting Bermuda Triangle. When informed that the rest of the world has come to an end, Rose sets out to rediscover what she's lost, to learn the truth about so many things.

There is a hidden treasure in the grand old mansion on Piccadilly Street, in a place called London, but not the real London of English fame. There's also a lot of mystery and a murder that's been unsolved for decades. But it's the treasure that captures Mary's interest. Mary lives in this house along with her family, her Brownie friends and a ghost. When the ghost reveals her secret about the hidden treasure, there's no stopping Mary, her Brownie friends, or her enemies from searching for this treasure. Why the intrigue? Apparently there's a little bit of magic connected to this treasure. And so the adventure begins. Who will find the treasure first?

Mental labor, or the mental load, involves the many - and extremely varied - tasks that are involved in managing a household and/or workplace. This topic has exploded over the past couple of years, especially for women. As stated in an October 2017 Washington Post article [1], "The constant stress of trying to stay organized - and to remember to execute so many tasks every single day - is affecting women's relationships with their spouses, children, friends, and colleagues. They are experiencing mental, emotional, and physical fatigue trying to stay on top of it all." Lighten Your Mental Load shares real stories of what this load is like for both men and women across the globe and how it originated. It offers practical advice on how to lighten this burden through technology and other methods in the following areas: Home Shopping and Meals Marriage/Partners Children Pets Transportation Career Birthdays, Celebrations, Holidays, and Vacations Volunteering, Church Activities, and Hobbies Caregiving Retirement Finally, the book discusses ways to not add to the mental load of others and how we can more evenly distribute the mental labor between both sexes for future generations.

Thirteen-year-old Sam Every has traveled back in time to the Golden Age of Piracy to face Captain Jem Slayer, master of the dark arts. Deceived into handing Slayer the ultimate weapon, the Sword of Zel-Kar, Sam has lost his hands, sliced off in his first clash with the evil pirate. But all is not lost. ¿ Sam's friends have found their way back in time, and with the help of the pirate hunter, Benjamin Hornigold, have rescued him from the island where Slayer marooned him. Now, aided by a new band of rogues and a mystery friend, Sam must rise above his injuries and find the strength to again face Slayer before it is too late-before the future is forever shattered. ¿

It's 1967 and Mary's family has moved into a huge Victorian mansion. She loves her gigantic new house, especially her room. But then she begins to meet the house's other residents. Mrs. Murray was murdered in Mary's new house. At first she tries to scare the new residents away, but there seems to be a force connecting the ghost to Mary. Even the stranded Brownies, the little people who live between the walls, feel that connection. When Mary becomes deathly ill, the Brownies and the ghost team up to try to rescue her, only to encounter a witch and her evil dragons and minions. Time is running out. They must rescue Mary from a fever-induced dream world before she is trapped there forever.

A ceremony set in an Irish castle, surrounded by charming hamlets and rolling hills and ocean--what more idyllic setting could a Celtic Wizard want on her wedding day? Cathleen O'Brien returns to her mother's ancient family home, O'Brinnion Keep, for the much anticipated marriage to her love, Jason Tate. Among the swirl of wedding dress, colorful flowers, and gifts, a curse, laid on her family years before, has found her where she is most vulnerable. Her parents protected Cathleen throughout her life from the dark oath sworn by Arcon Fearsome, the Necromancer, Lord of the Dead. They captured him in their own youth, while in service to the Green Mother. He swore revenge as they dragged him from the Council chambers to his imprisonment on the fourth plane. Now, mere days before her marriage, the Necromancer is the uninvited guest and he brings gifts of fear and death. Cathleen and her mother must call on the powerful Teacher to help destroy this Dark Lord before his curse can be fulfilled. But as in life, death can take surprising turns and in the end we all stand alone.

Dare to journey through the bloody mind of a madwoman, or escape, if you can, from an underground military compound, where secret experiments may land you on the menu.¿Perhaps you'd like to see what the witches in Salem are doing this Halloween, or what really happened to Hansel and Gretel. Scared of clowns, vampires or puppets? Sit down and curl up with this unique collection of horror stories. You'll sleep with the lights on for weeks.

Ex-patriot Jack Murphy was happy racing camels with his two adopted camel jockies, Ali and Jordan and occasionally taking tours to the Valley of Kings. A terrible virus is released on an oasis in the Sahara Desert. When one of the doctors is kidnapped by a terrorist group, his wife travels to Egypt to find him. Murphy wasn't looking for love or an adventure, but he finds both in Valley of Golden Mummies.

Explore the mysteries of New Orleans' French Quarter during Mardi Gras, through the eyes of three seventh graders as they search to reconnect with their parents and avoid a nasty set of bad guys. Left alone and homeless in Haiti, Jean Benoit is sent state-side by an orphanage to live with foster parents and attend Catholic school as a social outcast. His new-found friend Oscar, known as Walmart, is mocked by fellow students as an overweight under-achiever whose mother abandoned him in Wal-Mart. The boys are befriended by Bella, an American Indian, who lives with her adoptive parents. Her birth parents are dead, but they left her a legacy she soon discovers as she begins to shape-shift. Jean receives a gift from his dead father, too. It's a magic amulet pursued by a voodoo witch named Odette, her brother Bocor, and her son, Natas. Jean has no idea how to use it. He must learn on the fly, on a wild race around New Orleans, on a train to Little Haiti, Miami and back, to the cemetery in the swamp, as the three friends try to find his mother before the black magic users get to her, or them.

Wilhelmina Evangeline Beatriz Paige is better known as "Web" to her friends because of her seemingly endless knowledge of computers. Always eager to lend a hand, she takes pride in helping the "technically-challenged" in her neighborhood as part of her "pay-it-forward" philosophy. But when her closest friends become the targets of cyber bullying and online predators, Web realizes that safely navigating the Internet is more than just using strong passwords and antivirus protection. By helping those who can't help themselves, Web embarks on a journey through which she learns things from not only her friends, but also strangers, adults, and most importantly, herself.