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Auroro, the man with a countdown on his life and his two assets, the wildland elf, Rynissie, and the strange catgirl, Chesheer are finally nearing Cerulean-in-the-Mountain. Auroro is set on accomplishing the task given to him by the woman he's smitten with, but things aren't so easy when one is easily distracted by the strange delicacies offered by the city with the most toxic hospitality.

Richard Teft would rather live life recklessly numb than face the suffocating reality around him. Beautiful blonde women in Samhale County are being murdered right under his nose, and if he stopped drinking himself into darkness long enough to investigate, he might be forced to accept personal responsibility for their last breaths. One by one, another pretty face joins the parade of dead women, but there is one Richard is terrified will join the lineup: Amy Jones, the sunshine of Samhale, who makes the butterflies in his stomach fly in drunken loops.

Unsurpassed wilderness soon to become a battleground. A lone warrior has harnessed the raw, natural power of one of the greatest predators of all time. And the land to which he has kinship will no longer tolerate its desolation and decimation. War has been declared, and a zoological superweapon has been unleashed. As ranchers begin to lose their cattle, their lands, and their lives, a small community reaches out to the only person who can help: Thomas Walker, a hunter turned conservationist. He will soon discover that the creature is more familiar to him than he ever thought possible.

Spring City, New Hampshire - a small town with a dark past. Overwhelmed by an early winter storm, the town is cut off from the outside world, and its residents are consumed by paranoia and bloodlust. Little do they know there is a purpose to the storm, and the malevolent ghosts of long-dead neighbors might have something to do with it. This is Spring City's last night, but its citizens won't go quietly.

Cain seeks a way beyond the veil, but thanks to the continued existence of his father's children, that isn’t an option - currently. Worse yet, the strigoi's mass extermination put his enemies on notice. Armed with the knowledge that they too are mortal, his half-siblings have fled into the shadows, shattering ancient alliances. As they reel from the shockwaves of Namisia’s death, fear, mistrust, and infighting place Eve's tenuous hold over those who remain in jeopardy.

Joseph Manley, a blue-collar worker from Idaho, loses his job during the 2009 economic recession. A strange turn of events sets him off on a road trip to seek out the fictional sitcom families from Good Times and All in the Family. Haunted inns, abandoned houses, catastrophic weather, quirky couples, gangs, hippies, soldiers, loving dads, strong mothers — even an intuitive stray dog await Joe on his journey.

In a time where computers and cell phones no longer function, money has no value, and humanity itself is threatened, 15-year-old Joshua Barratt takes to the road and pushes his mind, body and spirit to their limits. His fight to survive and reconnect with others forces Joshua to question his motives, his self-worth, and ultimately the reality around him. A gift beyond his understanding is waiting for him if he can just find the courage to seek it.

A troubled young couple on a cross-country road trip takes a wrong turn in the Nevada desert. A voodoo spirit makes a bloody pact with a house cat. A father’s confrontation with his young son’s bully turns violent. An elderly man gets personalized messages in a fortune cookie. A home invasion takes an unexpected turn. A medieval monastery is infested with an ancient, predatory evil. A used car salesman makes a purchase from a time-traveling madman. These are nine odd tales. No more, no less.

Ever since the Great Layoff of 2030, the police have led a war against artificial intelligence. AI replaced nearly all human jobs - and mankind snapped. Riots tore apart cities, suicides claimed whole families. Civil war seemed inevitable, until a strange new drug pacified the nation. When Stanley Duncan let his cyborg livestream at a local supermarket, he unknowingly invited war to his door.

A troubled young couple on a cross-country road trip takes a wrong turn in the Nevada desert. A voodoo spirit makes a bloody pact with a house cat. A father’s confrontation with his young son’s bully turns violent. An elderly man gets personalized messages in a fortune cookie. A home invasion takes an unexpected turn. These are nine odd tales.

When Dr. Wells, the head of the Place in Time Travel Agency, learns that someone's trying to track down the ancestors of his star employee, there are few people he can turn to without revealing her secrets. But who better to jump down the timeline and rescue Elise from being snuffed out of existence generations before she's born than the very person whose life she saved a 100 years in the future?

Scott, Miranda, and Dixon have no idea where they came from. At the age of seven, they fell through a portal onto the planet Cova. Their bodies were marked with mysterious surgical scars. Doctors and scientists watched them grow, always looking for answers. Were they aliens? Bio-engineered? Children from the future? On the eve of their adulthood, answers finally arrive. A scattered and tattered people from the other side of the world seem to know the truth about the portal. However, these new people hold subtle, unexplained powers. Can they be trusted?

After the chaos of the last several months, Gavin Randall’s world sits precariously on the tipping point. One tiny nudge would be all it’d take to make it come crashing down. So, having a head-on collision with fate and being T-boned by bad luck is a bit overkill. Thanks to one of the royals being murdered recently, the vampires are on edge. On top of that, the Black Circle is ready to step out of the shadows.

In Open Your Eyes: A Prescription for Change in American Health Care, Dr. Eduardo Balbona shares his expert advice on how U.S. health care can be improved from its current state, in which both patients and doctors are unable to thrive. Gleaned from his more than 30 years of practicing medicine, Balbona’s text illustrates how our ideas on medical care have developed, and ultimately at what cost.

After thousands of years, Cain awakens to find that the world has gone on without him. In his slumber, humans and people of power have stopped being afraid of, well, anything. Beyond that, they’ve become cruel for cruelty’s sake, fascinated with their ability to spread death through famine, war, and even plagues. In their minds, they have no equal. They’re wrong.

In a land of elemental magic and learner skill, a gripping tale of two friends who narrowly avoid death while attending the school under the mountain takes place. As both are forced to flee before finishing their studies, they must unravel and attempt to thwart a plot to plunge their homeland into war after ages of peace.

Desperate to avoid impeachment and possible civil war, president Robert Chamberlain signs into law an executive order annexing every sovereign nation on Earth. Drafted primarily for vanity's sake, the attempt was made to hold things together at home while projecting strength abroad. Dr. Angelica Thompson was elated the first time she ever heard her work speak. It devastated her the day the Pentagon ripped the P.O.P.E., her artificial intelligence supercomputer out of her underground lab and out of her life.

Today, the name Ronald Reagan is synonymous with great leadership. He led by example at a time when few thought it possible, and against the advice of experts, he went to the Berlin Wall and demanded it be torn down. He worked at keeping up the morale of his fellow citizens in honoring the sacrifices at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, relighting the Statue of Liberty, and giving a magnificent speech for America's children on the occasion of the Challenger disaster.

Craig is a clone killer! Each version of his brother-clone is getting smarter and more sentient. When he meets Ariel Smith, he begins to learn compassion for someone other than himself. The young teenagers experience a world where their brother and sister clones keep them living forever. In the midst of all this, they are trying to get through high school.

1898, East Africa. The Tsavo man-eaters kill 130 people over the course of nine months. The unusually large, pale-coloured, and maneless male lions mark history in what became known as their reign of terror. Now, history is repeating itself. A new pride of killers has arrived in Tsavo, staking out their own bloody legacy. One that includes the murdered wife of conservationist and former hunter Thomas Walker.