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When we get to this stage in our lives, the majority of us were brought up to go to college, graduate, find a career, and that’s it. For the most part, we achieved our high school diploma, GED, or college degree. What about the adult responsibilities and challenges that you weren’t taught in school? I know it is frustrating to learn these skills on your own. This book includes personal stories from my combined 15 years of playing football and college experience.

Arizona Red Ghost is one of the more bizarre tales out of the Old West based on a true story reported by the 1883 Mohave County Miner, a weekly newspaper of Kingman, Arizona. Joe Crane runs a freight business using camels to carry goods through the brutal Arizona desert. He is attacked by three vicious outlaws looking for a gold shipment.

A hot-tempered, very neglected Mafia wife. Her 18-year-old lover in a black leather jacket with switchblade. Her missing "Made Man" husband who had been playing fast and loose with pay-offs collected for the local Capo de Capos. A dozen juvenile delinquents who were ready to rumble and just as ready to harmonize when record producers dropped by. Two tough-as-nails cops convinced that Harry Horne was guilty of everything. And a young woman with a penchant for shedding her clothes and trying to shoot Harry. It all adds up to one of journalist/sleuth Harry Horne's craziest cases.

The world spun and rolled as I collapsed at Macy’s in San Francisco to the voices of Christmas carols being sung and bells ringing. Fresh out of the ICU and a week later, a beige man gave me a beige folder with a dark diagnosis that would color the rest of my life - multiple sclerosis. This set off a tidal wave, a tsunami inside of me that ravaged my body and crushed my lungs. The MS Diaries is a memoir that seeks to impart the journey inside one man’s mind struggling with a severe chronic illness through uncensored personal anecdotes and humorous situations.

Oz Porter, a prepper and former Marine sniper, has led his people into the Appalachians, where they create a refuge, a place they name Endurance. Building log cabins for shelter, trapping and hunting in the forest for food, they manage to scrape enough to live a meagre existence. But how will they combat the new enemy? When people lose everything, who will keep them safe?

Rog Phillips' Rat in the Skull and Other SF Classics is a giant helping of classic Golden Age science fiction. The main ingredient is Phillips' science fiction masterpiece Rat in the Skull (unavailable for nearly 50 years). What the magazine editors said then about this controversial Hugo nominee novelette remains true today: "Some people will be shocked by this story. Others will be deeply moved. Everyone who reads it will be talking about it. Read the first four pages: then put it down if you can."

The nightmare comes true. Murder hornets have reached US soil, and the first to experience their deadly wrath is the small Texas town of Sweet. With the body count mounting and time of the essence, it’s up to disgraced entomologist Jason Barker and overzealous Sheriff John Sumners to save the town from an agonizing death, no matter the cost.

Onyx makes a wish in the Silver Springs magic spring: She wants more love in her life. Stone Hill High, this year, will offer a modern rendition of a timeless classic: A Christmas Carol. She is cast for the main role of a female Scrooge. Title of the play: Her Bah Humbug, which is very fitting since our Onyx despises Christmas with all her heart.

Something stinks in Skidd's Bay... Is it the masked bikini bandits on a crime spree? The urine-flavored water at Splash Downs Water Park? Or the carnal carnage of the annual swinger's swap meet at Harlot's Motel? How about the beach strewn with empty beer cans and hungover summer breakers roasting in the sun? Nah, it's the damn bloodthirsty mutant... SEWER SHARKS!

When a high-ranking U.S. Embassy official is violently murdered in Beijing, seasoned security officer Jack Decker is reluctantly dragged back into action to unravel the mystery. Teaming up with Zheng Lei, a prodigious Beijing police officer, Jack delves deep into the investigation, uncovering a startling link between the murders and the disappearance of Liang Wei, a business tycoon who publicly opposed China's Central Bank Digital Currency before vanishing into thin air.

After tragedy leaves Lynia devastated, she feels more alone than ever before. She and her sister, Lynessa, face an uncertain future, but at least Lynessa has her boyfriend, Ithon, to cling to. Yet he faces his own sorrow. As Lynessa and Ithon prepare to bind themselves together in love during this uncertain time, Lynia finds herself trapped—bound to a deal that she made.

Policewoman Peggy Ellen has secret - by night, she's a caped vigilante, known as The Queen of Spades. Her city is crippled with crime, thanks to the notorious gang, The House of Games. When police Lieutenant Jack Malone, who's also Peggy's lover, gets too close to uncovering the truth behind this band of criminals, it's up to The Queen of Spades to rescue him. Can she save him in time, or will her rescue plans fold like a house of cards?

It's Friday night, date night, in the quiet little town of Woodvale. For Suzie Palmer, this means hanging out at the All-Night Diner and maybe cruising up to Make-Out Point with her sweetheart. Little does she know there's something on it's way to Woodvale. Something cruel and insidious. Something… out of this world…

There are thousands of stories in Central City. Here are just a few of them from the mind of Adam C Mitchell, three hardboiled noir novellas and a gripping short, all following private eyes, detectives and crooks all set against the backdrop of the 1940's....

The line between bravery and stupidity is so thin often people don't realize they have crossed the line until it is too late, and they are dead. Dan Lee, A master scuba diver, twice decorated with the distinguished medal of valor for those who have engaged in specific acts of bravery. Takes you on a journey. Beyond the gates of life and death where you begin to realize why it is so important to live a good life. Full of adventure in the service of your people.