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	Portrait of a Nuclear Family 3.77 avg rating — 922 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Horror Collection: Morte Edition by Kevin J. Kennedy (Goodreads Author), D.W. Hitz (Goodreads Author), J.P. Behrens (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 187 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missing in Miskatonic (Travis Daniels Investigations #1) 4.21 avg rating — 161 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Hell and Back by Joe Mynhardt (editor), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author), Nick Roberts (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 81 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Don't Talk Anymore and Other Dark Fictions 4.27 avg rating — 52 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder in the Monashee Mountains (Travis Daniels Investigations #2) 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Town of Deathlehem: An Anthology of Holiday Horrors for Charity by Michael J. Evans (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matt Cowan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), D. Alexander Ward (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Condemned in Carcosa (Travis Daniels Investigations #3) by J.P. Behrens (Goodreads Author), Crystal Lake Publishing, Joanna Halerz (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Trinity of Chosen (Ages of Avarath #1) 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Legs & Other Coming of Age Stories by J.P. Behrens (Goodreads Author) (editor), Everett Cooney, Laura L. Mays Hoopes 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I’ve been busy working on the release of my debut Young Adult Fantasy, A Trinity of Chosen: An Age of Avarath. This is meant to be the first book in a longer series, but can easily exist as a stand-alone.

The cover of A Trinity of Chosen by JP Behrens. The first book in the Ages of Avarath Series. It depicts three children and a large, blue creature looking out over a landscape. A village is below them and a volcano is in the distance.

The idea behind the structure of the series is based on The Chronicles of Narnia, The NeverEnding Story, and The animated Avatar Series.

Billy has felt forgotten and invisible since the

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The Essential Ellison : A 50 Year Retrospective

by Harlan Ellison

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

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