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Jack, Naomi, and Brent ran for cover after a nuclear bomb hit Los Angeles. But nowhere is safe for long, and with their hiding place compromised, they'll have to face the outside world if they want to stay alive. Society has collapsed. Thanks to the EMP, most vehicles aren't running, the cities are in shambles, and soon, food and water will be scarce. Traveling on foot is suicide, but Jack's wife is 1,400 miles away in Texas. And he's determined to find her.

Lessons from the Set is a comprehensive filmmaking guide that takes a cinephile’s do-it-yourself approach to low-budget indie film production and distribution. The book is peppered with filmmaking tips and tricks, as well as valuable, practical insight into the process of writing, directing, producing, and distributing commercial feature films on a low budget - whether you’re working with $1,000 or $1 million.

As an empire falls, heroes will rise. High in the mountains, Lei watches the empire crumble as he maintains his self-imposed exile. Torn between fighting for the empire once again and living peacefully with the woman he loves, Lei faces the most difficult decision of his life. Like Lei, Bai senses a crossroads approaching. After a decade of fighting, little has changed. The monks hunt her, and she cannot run forever. On the other side of the empire, Delun seeks guidance from his master. His memories are soaked with the blood of friend and foe alike.

When a warning of an imminent attack on the US appears online, Jack assumes it's a hoax. He's an IT manager on a work trip in LA, looking forward to getting back home to Texas. But after the electrical grid is wiped out and a nuclear bomb levels downtown LA, his world starts crashing down. He's got only minutes to save himself. And the worst part? He's a thousand miles from Annie, his wife.

A deadly vampire disease. A savage insurgence. Will a powerful creature be her savior or her downfall? Vampire Jerusa Phoenix is painfully turning to stone. Struggling to escape an undead disease, she and her friends must locate a being known as the Necromancer to set her free. But with his whereabouts unknown and an army of savages closing in, Jerusa's prospects grow weaker by the hour. Depending on Silvanus to rally the Divine Vampires while she hunts for the cure, a powerful secret could once again transform Jerusa's life.

Countless criminals have made their mark on Chicago and the surrounding communities. Chicago Sun-Times journalist Jon Seidel takes listeners back in time to the days when H. H. Holmes lurked in his "Murder Castle" and guys named Al Capone and John Dillinger ruled the underworld. Drawing upon years of reporting, and with special access to the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times archives, Jon Seidel explains how men like Nathan Leopold, Richard Loeb, and Richard Speck tried to get away with history’s most disturbing crimes.

When Bai, a young seamstress, wakes up unharmed in the middle of a disaster, her life is destroyed. She has no memory of the event that destroyed her town, but the survivors believe she is to blame. On a quest to prove her innocence, she discovers a secret that threatens not just her life but the entire empire. On the other side of the empire, a monk named Delun ruthlessly hunts those who seek to destroy the monasteries he calls home. When he stumbles upon a plot that threatens all that he is sworn to protect, he must choose between his two masters: the monasteries and the empire.

Nick's group barely survived the last attack. Now they're holed up in the empty ski lodge to regroup, out of reach from the Denver gang. When three desperate strangers show up, Nick faces a tough decision. The wrong choice could risk their lives. Fight to Be Free is the third book in a post-apocalyptic thriller series about people pushing past their limits as they try to survive the end of the world.

Jerusa Phoenix hungers for blood, but her ghost won’t let her feed. Starved and powerful, she’s forced to choose between chasing after flesh-feasting savages or going behind enemy lines to save her imprisoned friend. After a ruthless battle to protect some innocent humans, she encounters three vampire women who make her a deadly proposition.

The mission might be their last. Humanity can’t win. Lieutenant Daniel West and his soldiers will never overcome the crushing odds of a direct assault against superior alien forces. Every simulation test they’ve run ends the same way - in death. But they have no other choice. It’s either obliterate the entire Gresian race or destroy the ancient Shaldine gate system. Forever. Good thing Daniel has no problem eradicating an enemy that shows no mercy. He won’t risk standing by and allowing the Gresians to enslave those he loves.

The ends justify the means - except when humanity’s survival is on the line. Earth’s landscape lies scorched by weapons fire after the most recent round of alien attacks. The technology the Mozari left behind has advanced scientific understanding at breakneck speeds, giving humanity the chance to fight back against their Gresian foes. Spaceworthy vessels and all-new weaponry are pumped out of orbiting factories, boarded by the brightest minds to begin colonizing new planets. But humanity is still vulnerable. The return of the Gresians isn’t just inevitable. It’s imminent.

Seth Harper had it all: a crappy job that was going nowhere, no girlfriend, and a 40th birthday no one had even noticed. It was the life he'd always feared he'd be stuck with, until he decided to make a choice to make a change. But a not a new job or a new love. A new him. With the help of the new "Persona" upgrade implanted in his brain, Seth became the person he always knew he could be. But things go sideways when he finds himself being chased by mysterious men who thinks he's Willis Rowe, a notorious hacker who had disappeared and was thought dead.

Finnian Church is trying to piece his life back together. After losing his leg while in the army, he is starting a new career as an insurance investigator. Joining him is newly hired videographer Annie Summers - a woman who lost her hearing but is trying to make it as a single mother of two. The world might see them as broken and battered souls, but as they come together to solve mysteries, they discover that they make a great team.

A man mysteriously murdered in his house. Nothing stolen, and no apparent suspects. It seems like an open-and-shut case, but is it? In this heartwarming short story by Wall Street Journal best-selling author Christopher Greyson, join Finn and Annie as they work together to solve The Case of the Attic Door!

A new threat has risen. For years, peace has reigned within the boundaries of the empire. Monks, gifted with extraordinary powers, wander the land, keeping order by any means necessary. Their gifts make them invincible, or so most believe. A lone warrior disagrees. Guided by a shadowy organization, Fang seeks to break the monasteries. Once left for dead by powerful monks, revenge has driven him to unimaginable strength. Only one obstacle stands in his way. His name is Lei, and he is no hero.

Awareness: The most profound, intimate, and collective experience human beings share turns out to be an absolute mystery. As universal a state as consciousness is to every person, it currently carries no agreed upon definition beyond its observable characteristics.... Robert A. Revel cuts through religious and academic dogma to posit something he senses is profoundly obvious: that consciousness is its own dimensional phenomenon - the fifth operational feature in our universe.

Tev is a hunter, raised from birth to protect and feed his clan. Among his people, his skills are unmatched. With a spear and knife in hand, he has never failed. He longs to explore the world beyond the boundaries of his hunting grounds, not knowing the cost that wish will have. His life, and the lives of every member of his clan, are shattered when fire descends from the sky, bringing with it dangers far beyond any that existed before. Tev's hard-won skills are all that separate his clan from complete annihilation.

In the far future, Earth's nearby star systems have been colonized. Outfitted with a device that allows them to escape into hallucinations at will, people spend most of their time withdrawn into their own minds. Tikan Solstafir, a renegade who refuses the illusory life enjoyed by others, lives in self-imposed exile on a starship. When a mysterious enemy attacks the ship, Tikan embarks on a mission to destroy the galactic tyranny and liberate humanity from its own dreams.

Penn Mitchell vanishes from the NYU campus and shows up three months later on his mother's doorstep with a book screaming to get out of his head. When the FBI discovers the novel discloses top-secret information, they bring Penn in for questioning. The interrogation goes sideways and Penn escapes into a subterranean world he thought was a figment of his imagination, a world where the US government is hiding, and at war with, an ancient race that has existed since the dawn of time.

An invasion is coming. As Tev returns to a world that has moved on without him, he searches for a way forward that honors his upbringing and protects his people. Torn between tradition and the future, the decisions he makes will shape the fate of his people. Far from home, years away from any help or support, Kindra must also decide her path and the sacrifices she is willing to make. Together they will face a threat more dangerous than any Tev or his people have ever encountered. The destiny of an entire people hangs in the balance.