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Nate has a talent for space combat after hundreds of victories in the Star Crusader videogame simulation. His skills are unique, enough to gain him a rare privilege: the chance to join five other Alliance cadets and escape the dull routine of the classroom. They will enter a fierce competition light-years away in the ancient Byotai Empire. Yet days after their arrival a rebellious faction begins a bloody mutiny that spreads like wildfire. The time for competition has ended; the time of war has begun.

A hard hitting story of two men - two warriors on opposite ends of the spectrum of law. Juice and James are desperate men, criminal and cop, hurled against each other in circumstances neither has chosen, but each has no choice but to face. James is a 20 year veteran on the Bowling Green police force who struggles to keep inexperienced officers from turning their back on the law for total vengeance. Juice and his sociopath partners, Cuz and Ace, have taken refuge and hostages in Carter's Tattoo. Juice does his best to keep the slaughter under control.

By the light of day, the world seems pleasant and safe. We tell ourselves we are the top of the life chain, the ultimate evolved species. When the sun sets and menacing eyes open, the lie is over. Our laughable dominance over the earth fades behind the veil of night. Beneath quiet and gloomy skies, rotten fingers claw upward from the cold ground. Coffin lids squeal. The lunatics in dank cells cackle the hymns of hell. Torturous nightmares rage in innocent minds devouring hope and sanity.

The first novella in the new Zombie Galaxy series takes the zombie apocalypse and raises the stakes to galactic proportions. Thousands of years in the future, the planet-city Caldor is ground zero when a new method of matter transmission unleashes a zombie apocalypse on the planet's 800 billion inhabitants. A handful of people fight to survive and reach the roof of a 10-mile high skyscraper, where they hope to be rescued by a starship.

A mysterious virus emerges after a meteor lands near a remote village in Peru. Authorities brought in to investigate discover the horrific virus not only kills, but it reanimates its victims, turning them into the walking dead. Believing they have contained the outbreak, samples of the contagion are brought to the United States via infected military and other victims. The virus breaks boundaries and the infection spreads. Across America the war rages as the number of undead mount and humans are not the only things infected. Nowhere is safe.

One man had the courage to stand up for what was right against the tyrants of the New American Republic. The name of Bodhi Haskins became a rally cry for patriots everywhere, giving them the will to fight and take America back from those who seek to destroy her. Bodhi’s wife, Cassandra, finds herself in the midst of a war zone after Bodhi returns to Texas to fight for freedom alongside his former teammates. She’s forced into action to save their family when NAR forces arrive, attempting to cut off the head of the Resistance and end the war.

A brief, inspiring parable about being "stuck" and—more importantly—getting unstuck. Three people, all of whom are struggling with difficult life situations, separately and individually happen upon a tranquil pond in a small, secluded park. As they muse about their difficulties, a frog appears from the pond. Their conversations with the frog lead them to discoveries and realizations that free them from their stuck circumstances.

Before us lies a grim dog-eat-dog world, where all the shots are called by the omnipresent System. The inhabitants live in endless gloomy corridors, and they appear here not only lacking memory, but also completely limbless. They are "volitional nullforms," meaning that supposedly their fate was consensual. Nobody remembers when or why it happens, but everyone must try to survive at any cost.

Designing Momentum is your practical guide to recognizing and leveraging life's transformational moments for maximum impact. Through engaging stories and actionable advice, Menswar shows you how to use Moment Momentum to propel yourself toward your goals, creating a legacy worth remembering.

When our transport crash-lands on a hostile world full of monsters and death, it's up to me, the only man on the planet, to use my strength and wits to keep the women alive. With danger lurking around every bend and the world itself against us, what am I supposed to do with five very different, but very beautiful women?

Ben Marcus was having a rough day. His grandmother died, his ex-fiancee was trying to take his daughter away, the snow was coming down, and he was on his way back from Ohio. Then something happened. As he stops at a rest stop in northwest Ohio, the power goes out. Not just the lights, but the cars, phones, and everything else that made up everyday life. He has to get home, and he has no idea how to do it.

It’s just a game...or is it? On the heels of his divorce, down-and-out history professor Lee Summerston doesn’t have a lot going for him - a nowhere job at a third-rate college with kids who don’t care about anything except how to slide through class. All of that changes, though, when Lee leads a team of old friends to virtual glory as the first-ever group to beat Mako Assault, a revolutionary new game that has emerged from nowhere to take the Internet by storm.

Becca Moore has always felt like the outcast, a misfit adrift in a world that doesn’t quite understand her. But when she learns she’s one of the Chosen, fated to mend the fraying barrier between our reality and a realm teeming with demonic forces, her life is thrust into chaos. As malevolent powers stir, monstrous creatures shatter the tranquility of her once ordinary existence, forcing Becca to confront a fate she never imagined.

In a near-future America fractured by corporate rule and brutal crackdowns, one man’s war ignites a revolution. As Homeland Security scrambles to hold the line, resistance erupts in the streets—and no city burns hotter than the capital.

Two years since the world changed forever, humankind has learned to coexist with the infected, claiming the day while the Primals rule the night. Behind fortified walls, survivors have carved out a meager existence, always with one eye towards the shadowy threats beyond their safe havens.

In a world teetering on the edge of collapse, John--a former Green Beret with a past shrouded in mystery--finds himself at the epicenter of a conflict that could reshape the nation. As sinister corporate forces and rogue military units vie for control, John joins a makeshift militia united by a common goal: reclaim their land and their freedom. A riveting tale that weaves gritty guerrilla warfare, political intrigue, and human resilience.

After returning from a difficult mission in 1634 France, Commander Sawyer struggles with the knowledge that all he’s known and trained for might be a distortion of the truth. With his loyalties and morals thrown into chaos, Sawyer and the crew of the Blackout are thrust into another Historical Contamination Act that may end the world as they know it. Their present, their future, and all the citizens of Utopia living in 2199 are at risk of complete destruction.

This collection of story poems has it's very own passport, and is well traveled. Bits of relationship fodder, breezy excursions, seaside strolls, romance, and alien abductions flow like candy. Precise and entertaining, Calloway writes close to the matter, and then whisks you away to the next adventure.

After the DZ was destroyed and the Dust mysteriously vanished, the world is eager to forget and rebuild, oblivious to the fact that they remain caught in the middle of an interstellar quest for revenge. Adrian, despite his wavering faith in the Dust Avatar, relentlessly pursues its series of strange and violent directives, all the while haunted by the sound of inhuman cries emanating from the Avatar’s domain.

With the threats brought to their doorstep, the neighbors behind the gates face a dilemma. Do they try to make peace with those who've threatened their very existence if they don't pay a King's ransom in food and supplies? Or, do they stand their ground and fight back in an effort to protect their property and themselves. Old, festering animosity within the neighborhood rises to the surface as two distinct factions are in complete disagreement as to the best course of action. Will the two groups be able to put their differences aside?