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Jay Cantrell, worried that his hands, injured in their trek across the Midwest (season 1), are infected, tries to keep the secret from his group. They’d survived the journey from Illinois to Indiana, returned home to Illinois, and crossed the Michigan border - worrying about his health wouldn’t do anyone any good. Kate, tense from her harrowing trip across the country, is forced to take on the leadership of the group...while Mac prepares his compound for his friends’ arrival and runs into unexpected complications in the form of suspicious neighbors.

Jay is without a car and hiking through winter in Indiana to reach his daughter. Jay must find the will to push through and rescue his child. Kate faces a taste of the reality FEMA has delivered in the aftermath of the coronal mass ejection. She must pass through the fire to return home, but only if she's ready to sacrifice everything. Leah and the other students left behind become firsthand witnesses to the desperation of man and what violence that can bring. They are forced to dig deep and defend themselves or risk becoming a footnote in a new, darker history of mankind.

When the American Film Institute assembled its top 100 actors of all time at the close of the 20th century, Jimmy Stewart ranked third, behind only Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. There is a certain inevitability to these three actors ranking at the top of the list; after all, they were the dominant faces of Hollywood during the height of the era known as classical Hollywood cinema, a time before the onset of television when the movies still enjoyed relatively uncontested supremacy over American entertainment.

Virtually all famous actors are regaled by the public, but even still, Fred Astaire occupies a privileged position in American pop culture. The specific films in which Astaire acted may not be especially famous in their own right - most people likely cannot recall the title of Top Hat (1935), his most decorated film - but Astaire's dancing prowess invariably creates a lasting impact on viewers.

Gage Calaway has run the Calaway Report with the help of Sydney for three years. But his obsessive behavior and the need for perfection make him hard to work with. Though Gage seems not to notice, Sydney is smart, creative, funny, and quite attractive. If she hadn’t been in love with him since the day she walked into the office, she would’ve quit long ago. When Gage is approached about becoming mayor of Calaway Crossing, he’s the first to admit he’s socially challenged. But Sydney convinces him to run, offering to help him with his social skills.

In a world where power is everything, Kalen McDonald stands at the pinnacle. Gifted with unparalleled telepathic abilities, he can reach into the minds of others, uncovering their deepest secrets and desires. But Kalen's journey has been anything but easy. As he navigates a landscape filled with powerful adversaries and moral dilemmas, he discovers that his greatest challenge lies in confronting an old acquaintance who possesses a rivaling power.

Ed Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer is a gripping, psychologically driven narrative that explores one of America's most disturbing criminal minds through a factual, non-sensational lens. This book avoids graphic detail while delivering an immersive, atmospheric true-crime experience rooted in deep research, court records, and historical context. From the fog-covered highways of Santa Cruz to the fractured dynamics of a troubled childhood, this book reveals how Edmund Kemper hid in plain sight—polite, articulate, and trusted by the very investigators hunting him.

New York City, 1880, in a time of industry, mystery, and glamour. All to be found is vice, corruption, and injustice. When prominent New York City socialites are found brutally murdered in their lavish Millionaires' Row mansions, junior detective Charles Reed, new to the city and with no experience, gets partnered with unconventional senior detective and war veteran Lucas Briggs as they're called in to investigate the most recent killing. But in their search for the murderer, the detectives realize the killings are the start of something far worse.

Kalen McDonald is a normal man in every way but two. He is married to the love of his life; has a son he adores and enjoys his career as a real estate agent. The exceptions to his mundane existence are, secretly, Kalen is a serial killer, and, secretly, Kalen has a special gift. He murders other killers, each death a temporary elixir for the pain of a past loss. As a child, the one person in his life who showed him, love, was brutally slain by a madman.

They all sold their life insurance policies to the same company—and now they’re all dead. Mac and Oliver are on the case. On a beautiful spring morning in Washington, DC, a high-profile attorney is found dead in his office. McDermott “Mac” Burke and Oliver Shaw, homicide investigators for the Metropolitan Police Department, are called to investigate. There appear to be no signs of foul play, but there is also no obvious sign of a natural cause of death.

When Clint Carmichael died, he left a shattered wife and four children. Someone had to take over the reins of the Starlight Ranch. That someone was 23-year-old Deacon. Now, 10 years later, the multimillion-dollar ranch is running smoothly under his command. His family, not so much. Deacon’s siblings don’t always appreciate his inherent need to take care of everything and everybody. But he’s determined to carry on the family legacy to honor their father

Russian spies occupy senior positions in the National Intelligence community. China is planning a bio attack on the United States, and is using the Ukraine battlefield as a testing ground for the pathogen. A senior National Security Agency executive, suspected of espionage, is assassinated on the streets of the Nation’s Capital, and the hunt is on for the person he was planning to meet the night he was murdered.

With the end of World War II finally in sight, Ensign Luke Valenti heads home to Los Angeles, eager to be reunited with the girl he left behind. As Luke navigates his rocky transition to peacetime, he yearns for a quiet return to civilian life, but discovers the US Navy plans to make him its war-hero poster boy and keep him squarely in the spotlight.

From the safety of the Deep Hole Sanctuary, two are sent to the surface for the first time in nine years. Rumors, tales, and expectations for the world above are that they will find a desolate wasteland filled with mutated animals and bands of roving hoards of starving people.

King of the New York Streets is a gritty, utterly unrepentant memoir of growing up on the mean streets of New York City during the late 1970s.

Cantankerous, old-fashioned, and stubborn as hell, Donald Wilson was the first American soldier to enter Dachau, and has suffered with the horrors ever since. Now at 95, he grapples with a recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis and believes there is nothing left to live for.

Ashville is a town with a secret history. Ancient structures lie hidden in the woods, and strange rituals are performed to keep the dead where they belong. For gravedigger Abel Cunningham, it is also a town filled with regrets. And when Abel is tasked with an unusual burial, he discovers there are more than just corpses in the cemetery.

In China's Next Act, Scott M. Moore re-envisions China's role in the world, with a focus on sustainability and technology. Moore argues that these increasingly pressing, shared global challenges are reshaping China's economy and foreign policy, and consequently, cannot be tackled without China.

This may be the most challenging of Logan’s cases. When former child star and America’s Sweetheart is kidnapped off the set of a Western film, a producer hires Logan to take on the case. However, complications soon arise, and he’s now not only searching for a kidnapper but a crazed murderer as well.

A secretive, high-tech company in central California named QuarkSpin has achieved a major breakthrough in a stunning technology -- the development of a prototype quantum computer. A powerful US senator, chair of the Defense Appropriations Committee, has covertly engaged them to develop a military application, funding the R&D from a DOD black budget. The project is code-named The Quantum Protocol. Its objective -- use the technology to unmask, from earth orbit, the ballistic-missile submarine fleets of our adversaries.