Survival City

Stephan von Clinkerhoffen's The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham: Stig's Flight of Encounters transports listeners to Chelldrah-ham, the city of riches which Stig calls home. They journey with him to strange and beautiful lands as his test flight goes astray and he crashes. Stig was so eager to test out his Spiral Drive, a power unit built for his clockwork plane. He even ignores his fellow inventor's words of warning. It's a decision that changes his life and tests whether he has enough fortitude and skill to survive.

Chris Grainger is back, hard at work trying to save his business, The Comfort Zone. After surviving the soft opening from hell, he has to strategize how to move the business forward without losing his grip. Now that his secret deception of using money from his and his lady, Angel's joint account to start the business has been revealed, he has major work to do regaining her trust, and assistance in saving his bar. Chris wants a business that will be a source of escape for the Ladies.

Matt, Jamie, and Judy have made it through the first days of the virus. But that doesn't mean anything when it comes to long-term survival. Society has collapsed, and there's no indication that it's coming back online anytime soon. In the meantime, elements of violence and chaos rise up, threatening everyone. Jamie's cousin has property up north, near Santa Fe. If they can get there, they might be safer. The only problem? There's only road there, with nothing but the high desert stretching out on either side.

Emergency service worker David Vaughn cares deeply for his neighbors, the people of New York City, so when Iran detonates an electromagnetic pulse and takes out the grid, he feels obligated to stay and help the survivors in the lawless aftermath. But surrounded by chaos and carnage, it’s only a matter of time before his helping hands harden into vengeful fists.

Head down, mouth shut - this is Askari’s new mantra. A pall still hangs over the Baratok community from the rarohan attack only a few months before, and all Askari wants is to stay out of trouble and help her grieving community heal. Until a stranger rides into camp. He offers her a chance to obtain something rare and valuable - monster blood with healing properties that could help prevent more of her people from dying. But when the mission goes wrong, she becomes the target of a relentless monster that won’t stop pursuing her until she and everyone around her are dead.

When the magical waters of the Pirate Stream begin flooding Marrill's world, the only way to stop the destruction is to return to the stream and find the source of the mysterious Iron Tide. Reunited with her best friend, Fin - who has been forgotten all over again - Marrill, her disbelieving babysitter, and the Enterprising Kraken crew must make the treacherous trek to the towering, sliding, impossible world of Monerva and uncover the secrets of its long-lost wish machine.

Following a devastating betrayal, Beth Bradley, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist, is suspended from school. Running from a home that she shares with her father who has never recovered after Beth's mother's death, Beth stumbles into the hidden city and meets Filius Viae, London's asphalt-hued crown prince. And her timing couldn't have been more perfect.

Weeks after arriving in Colorado to start a new farm, the Hollowell family is looking at disaster when 15-year-old Owen witnesses the theft of their mules. Learning that Hercules and Peaches will likely be sold to the mines, Owen sets out to track the rustler over the mountains. It’s all Ma can do to hold back little brother Till, who’s more than a handful. The outlaw’s trail leads to Telluride, the turbulent “City of Gold.” Owen gets help from a resourceful girl named Molly and dubious assistance from Till, who shows up on the train from Durango.

Though Meadowcity is besieged by Skycity's army, Sylvia Thorne manages to escape to seek help from the only people untouched by the war: the long-hidden city of Seascape. Can she convince them to interfere with a war between the cities they hid from for so long? When their leader challenges Sylvia to a set of ancient tests, Sylvia accepts without understanding the possibility that there might be more to the people of Seascape than she realizes.

The Event causes the failure of every electronic device in the town. Suddenly, the ageing Vietnam War veteran Jimmy Spears doesn’t seem as crazy as many people had assumed him to be as he built a life around concepts of self-sufficiency and minimal dependence on state support structures.

In War of Chaos, the sequel to Stig's Flight of Encounters, Stig and his friends Arn and Baits head out of the city of Chelldrah-ham on a mission to Polandrea. Their task is to determine whether the evil Bach creatures still pose a threat...Stig, Arn, and Baits must rely on their inventions, each other, and their own ingenuity to survive on a harrowing journey through a magical fantasyland fraught with hidden dangers.

After purchasing one-way flights from New York City to Paris, Kyle James and his girlfriend Ashley quit their day jobs, planned futures, and daily paradigms to see as much of the world as they could. In 114 days, they trekked across 15 countries and 38 cities with nothing but their backpacks, their smartphones, and each other. Not Afraid of the Fall is the unvarnished story of their off-the-cuff journey: from cliff-jumping off Croatia's untouched coasts to bathing with rescued elephants in Thailand and far beyond.

If you’re looking for a solution to all your food supply problems—cost, accessibility, health, and safety—it’s time to do what struggling families did in World War II—grow your own food. And you can do it in your very own organic garden. Organic gardening is most commonly associated with large spaces in the beautiful countryside. But even if you live in a tiny space in the city with no backyard, you can still create a beautiful organic garden at home.