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An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson...

A neurodivergent-friendly and holistic guide to identifying, recovering, and growing from the stress and burnout cycle Burnout is a fact of life for most working adults, but many people lack the tools they need to truly recover from it. Even those of us who have tried therapy or self-help guides...

The CryptoNaturalist is a scripted fiction podcast all about real love for imaginary nature. It’s about cryptids and other weird and wild topics. Featuring poetry and field reports to make our world a richer, stranger place. New episodes 1st/15th.

This volume contains a variety of imaginative stories from both famous and not-so-famous science fiction writers.

These stories are set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern listeners are accustomed, and also stories rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, along with several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. Together these stories make up a collection which provides reassuring proof of fantasy's eternal power in this technological age.

A CDC, Center for Disease Control, task force commander leads his unit into a small town where all the residents have died of a pathogen that left no trace. Soon he and his unit find themselves at odds. He knows that these are test sites for some unknown, undetectable weapon and a finale is coming.

This poetry collection celebrates the impossible truths of the natural world and the magic that hides in plain sight. Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist podcast) has built a large audience of social media followers and podcast listeners with his strange, vibrant appreciations of nature. Ranging from contemplations of mortality to appreciations of single-celled organisms, the poems in this collection highlight our connection to a living universe and affirm our place in a wilderness worthy of our love.

Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist podcast and author of Field Guide to the Haunted Forest) celebrates the natural world with warmth and humor. The poetry and prose in this collection are love letters to impermanence, to our kinship with nature, to our strange ability to conjure meaning. Vivid and approachable, the work gathered here invites listeners to rediscover commonplace wonders and find new beauty in topics ranging from moss to mortality.

Nica Clearsight is the last of her kind. Following the Dragon Wars, she remains hidden in human lands. If any Black Dragons were to know of her whereabouts, they would immediately kill her for access to her vast ancestral hoard of treasure. Merrik Strongtooth is ambitious, and hungry for the prestige that holding a lordship like Thunderkeep castle would give him. Having earned his position through hard work and questing, he wasn't about to give it up just because of angry ghosts.

Normal for Me tells the story about the author hitting rock bottom when she received the diagnosis that her second oldest son was on the autism spectrum. One evening she fell to her knees asking God, “Why can’t we be a ‘normal’ family?” God whispered, “This IS normal for you.” This epiphany began her journey from anguish and grief to acceptance, peace, hope, and joy. This audiobook is ideal for not only families struggling with autism but anyone who has had to face a life detour or help someone along the way.

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A discussion of some of the world's most notorious serial killers comes to a surprising conclusion.

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When her grandmother dies, 13-year-old Christy inherits an old family secret: the pond behind her house is in fact a portal to another world. What's more, she learns that her grandfather went through the portal when he mysteriously disappeared nine years ago. As Christy undertakes an adventure into a wondrous and dangerous new world full of strange aliens and advanced technology, she’ll need to trust her instincts and rely on the unique abilities of her friends if she wants to lead everyone safely home.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 classic horror tales.

One night, while dumping a corpse in a secluded, marshy, swamp, a serial killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror.

In her home, a woman, nervously awaits a fertility expert, that will impregnate her. However, before he arrives, a baby photographer selling his services door to door and carrying a portfolio of his work does. Hilarity soon follows.

With wit and humor, a man's determined to escape Los Angeles' "Big One", an impending asteroid strike, that will take out Southern California, Northern Mexico, and much of the Southwestern United States - despite the obstacles awaiting him at every turn.

After dying in a hospital, a woman - now a ghostly apparition - discovers a waiting room from where the recently deceased are escorted to the afterlife. There, she awaits the return of an angelic little girl, "the maître d'", to take her, unaware she's destined for someplace other than where the little girl would like to take her.

Humanity learns that all energy consumption, no matter how "green", has consequences.