Investigating a woman’s disappearance on a New York City ferry, Detective Eve Dallas wonders…if she didn’t jump, and she’s not on board, then where in the world is she?

Life is fickle, short and unfair. Everyone had bad days. Death is the end... or is it?Ethan finds this out on his worst day in life and gets the truly rare second chance after being fired, lost his grandparents, finds his girlfriend sleeping with his vindictive brother and then gets crushed to death by a semi trying to save a girl from that same fate. In death he meets the angel of his life.Life is fickle, short and unfair. Everyone had bad days. Death is the end... or is it?Ethan finds this out on his worst day in life and gets the truly rare second chance after being fired, lost his grandparents, finds his girlfriend sleeping with his vindictive brother and then gets crushed to death by a semi trying to save a girl from that same fate. In death he meets the angel of his life, but learns all myths have some fact basis and Fate himself wasn't ready for Ethan to die this day and offers a second chance. Ethan takes the offer over the alternative and must fight. he gains power over fire and must use it to fight for his own sense of justice. His life will forever never be the same and it's time to crank up the heat!Adult content.

Ziyu Yin owns a struggling tea house. He is on the verge of closing down but refuses to give up the tea house. When San Meor offers him a chance to save the Precious Teahouse, Ziyu makes a choice that will change both their lives.Ziyu Yin owns a struggling tea house. He is on the verge of closing down but refuses to give up the tea house. The Precious Teahouse has been in his family for generations and Ziyu can't bear the idea of losing it to the bank.San Meor is the son of a farmer, and his father has asked him to find The Precious Teahouse and offer them a rare type of tea. San meets Ziyu Yin and is instantly drawn into the tea culture he finds at the Precious Teahouse.When San Meor offers Ziyu a chance to save the Precious Teahouse, Ziyu makes a choice that will change both their lives.The Precious Teahouse is a story about a group of people who live their lives without compromise, and a man who must find his place among the sentimental characters who run the charming Teahouse.

Glamorous actress Jacey Rayner somehow helps John F. Kennedy steer clear of his Dallas assassination but an even larger national catastrophe awaits, one where Jacey nearly loses her own life. Through a miraculous series of events she becomes a spiritual healer who exists in two different dimensions and helps rescue desperately ill children.Many people believe that people in America lost their collective innocence on November 22, 1963, when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. What if, through a small twist of fate he somehow avoided the assassination and survived? What kind of world would we live in? The novel "Meanwhile in the World where Kennedy Survived" explores that very question through a story told through the eyes of four main characters. The opening chapters explore the machination by which the president averts death and alludes to the grim repercussion that occurs. Jacey Rayner, the glamorous actress who plays a role in diverting fate survives her own catastrophe more than a year later, while filming an action movie in the waters off the Bahama Islands. Her near death experience leaves her with a mysterious ability to exist in two different dimensions and play the role of a spiritual healer. Decades later, struggling young journalist Dorina Pettit learns of the urban myths surrounding Jacey Rayner and the science fiction television show in which she appeared. While investigating the story as a possible piece for the magazine where she works, she learns of the web of deceit and betrayal of the producers, actors and actresses involved with the television show and how they affected a science fiction movie producer of the present day: H.R. Lewandowski. Dorina and her young attorney boyfriend Mitch discover the shocking secrets of the special effects behind H.R. Lewandowski's "Portals Beyond" movies.

Antoine Maercx is ranked 73rd in the Time Benelux edition list of 'Most important contemporary thinkers’. He arrives in Wellington to make the keynote address at the biennial Australasian Nietzsche Society conference. But from the moment he is picked up at the airport, things do not go to plan for the eminent professor.Tom Fletcher is a worried man. Middle aged and balding, he hasn't sold a house in weeks and his job is on the line. His wife is cheating on him and he is falling in love with his secretary.He is bewildered by the world. Animate and inanimate objects take on personalities and behaviours in his fertile imagination which make even the commonplace events of daily life into battlegrounds where misunderstanding and confusion reign.All he asks is to be loved, -- but not by the intimidating Carole who contrives and schemes to get him into her bed.In his mind there is a simple solution. Kill his wife and marry his secretary. But where to get the gun?Pausing only to reflect on topology and the meaning of life, Tom pursues a single minded route through a minefield populated by topless dancers and hippopotami, only slightly phased by a tendency to see people as donuts, and use Exchange and Mart as his guide.Frogs, Pizzas, Water Beds, Pygmies, Licorice Flavoured Condoms and an Ostrich all have key parts to play in this drama of everyday folk.This is a love story, or perhaps a murder story, or maybe it's just a tale about a man who doesn't own a decent jacket..... and in the background lurks the mysterious Geoffrey, without whom the story would be incomplete.

This collection of more than 200 of bestselling author Hiaasen's "Miami Herald" columns. . . shows you that Hiaasen's seemingly implausible fictional premises aren't really far-fetched at all. He just knows Florida ("Playboy").

An ancient craft, long forgotten, adrift alone, sending out a distress call.Simply trying to get back home.Imagine it's surprise when it discovers someone from its homeworld.(Doctor Who fanfic, written under creative commons terms)Teenaged George Lock didn't know what to expect when he went to live with Great Uncle Harry after both of his parents were killed in an apparent auto accident. The good news was, Harry's suburban Chicago yard was incredible forest and jungle, his huge quirky house was a treasure trove of magic elf books and other artifacts, and a really cute girl lived next-door. The bad news was that the forested backyard hid a portal to another universe that was inhabited by both elves and their more powerful enemies. Through it came immense Evil tainted Horde dragons that threatened all life on Earth, and an even more Evil witch with a taste for humans. According to ancient elf legends it was up to a White Dragon and his Chosen to stop the all-powerful Dark One and his Horde from consuming all life in the multiverse, and according to Harry the Chosen One might be young George.

A woman disguises herself as a Parisian courtesan, and with a bottle of illegal Absinthe and the thirst for retribution guiding her, seduces a French artist by asking him to make her body his greatest work to date...but will it be the last one he ever creates...?Jasmine is back in the third book in the Fury Girl Chronicles and this adventure is testing her to the bottom of her furry soul. This time Jeff's in trouble. Jeff's past catches up with him and now he's facing a decision: a stint in the Pit for who knows how long or the black door.When she hears that Jeff is off on assignment, Jasmine is determined not to be left out of the fun, but would be more fun to go rescue him or watch him twist. What's to stop her from doing both? A huge mistake, a haunting and an indecisive demon stand in her way, so what's a Fury to do?If you're Jasmine, you win and you do it Furry, uhm, Fury style.

Who first made you dream? Who made you want something more than you've ever wanted anything before? Who is your hero?Starla Jones has been working tirelessly to be as good as her hero Zip Derenger, but never can seem to get past 43rd place in her nuclear glider races. Now something big is about to change in her life.What do you have when heroes are gone? Dedication.May 5th 2190, a New America celebrates its first centennial. Marking the time when a wandering rogue turned into a Prophet Warrior aligned himself with a despot general to rebuild the war-ravaged country on Five Key Principles for Survival he found hidden away in the pages of The Book of Tomorrows—one of the last books published before the fall of the civilized world. Anonymously written by someone known only as The Author, the onetime highly controversial 21st century novel is not only the root source supporting the strong foundation for rebuilding a better world, but may also be the inadvertent catalyst that led to the destruction of the old one. However, life isn’t as perfect as it appears in the so-called utopian paradise of New America. Michael Angel is meeting Eve Adams for the first time through a government mandated Selected Breeding Program. They genuinely fall in love at a museum while tagging along with a group of schoolchildren taking a computer-guided tour of history, staged with a spectacular showmanship by a computer-animated old man, who looks like a cross between Albert Einstein and The Monopoly Man. The animated man describes everything from the creation of universe, to the formation of the earth, right on up to the evolution of life on the planet with his words vividly replicated in 3-D images. Speaking with a-bravado-of-pride for all the great things we’ve accomplished, his critical rendering of the past turns into a diatribe when recounting the savage nature of man. CHAD blames the human race for practically destroying the planet in our lustful pursuit of wealth and power, along with our species propensity for putting faith in spiritual beliefs and mythical legends, instead of scientific knowledge and logical thought. He explains how it really doesn’t matter if the lessons we learn from history are factual accounts or fabled myths. Then he clearly illustrates a direct lineage to Western Civilization through the legendary tales found in Greek, Roman, English, and eventually American literary sagas. On their way out of the museum, Michael and Eve come across a graffiti-strewn painting with the letters FWF sprayed across it. The familiar tag of the Free Will Forever rebellion has been growing in strength with the recently discovered identity of the Prophet Warrior’s heir giving the rebel group a renewed hope. But then, a revealed hereditary link to the young couple forces them to set out on a fateful journey to save their future tomorrow. The World According to CHAD is a powerful prelude to Forever Tomorrow, Book One of The Book of Tomorrows trilogy. It’s also a hard, uncompromising look at how we tend to view history through rose-colored glasses and with selective memories. Someone once said all history is a lie agreed upon, especially when adding in the human factor. But no matter how twisted the pretzel logic one employs to get the answer they want, the truth will still always be true and out there for anyone to find. The history lesson contained in The World According to CHAD, along with the New Constitution for a New America, are profoundly important written words that may very well anger some people still caught in their Matrix world of self-delusion, but for those open minded individuals who aren’t ashamed of what they don’t know, and only what they refuse to learn, will feel these words should stand the test of time alongside other substantially renowned literary works

The first volume present the curse of a mystical flower, which tries to destroy the humanity by a pact made with Angell, a young rebel girl, which lives on a island with her mother.Following the story of Angell and her mother, Amira, on a beautiful mystical island called Ieloharis. Their normal life will shatter by Amira’s past stabbing the present brutally, and her daughter had to face some horrible facts about her true family. In agony, she ran away, ending up making a pact with the cursed flower of the island. Without thinking at the consequences, Angell has to confront now the island legends which come alive.

After a genetic mutation has left the human species sterile and doomed to extinction, the citizens of New Sebastian live long and luxurious lives, thanks to Rejuvenation. But when Jericho and Gabrielle, two specimens from the Rejuvenation supply farm, escape prior to being harvested, the dark truth threatens the existence of the last society on Earth.After a genetic mutation has left the human species sterile and doomed to extinction, the citizens of New Sebastian live long and luxurious lives, thanks to Rejuvenation. But when Jericho and Gabrielle, two specimens from the Rejuvenation supply farm, escape prior to being harvested, the dark truth threatens the existence of the last society on Earth.The cure for the Deathshead plague has created a genetic mutation that has left the human species sterile and doomed to extinction. But in the last known civilization on Earth, the citizens experience long and luxurious lives, through a process known as Rejuvenation.Jericho and Gabrielle spend their simple lives in the Village dreaming of their future together, and barely notice the metallic humanoid Guardians that ensure obedience. But when she scans positive for the plague and is permanently sent away to the mysterious Quarantine, Jericho enters a frantic battle to find and save her.Jonah and his wife enjoy their carefree lives in New Sebastian, and Rejuvenation every twenty or so years keeps them eternally young and healthy. But when Jonah discovers the dark secret behind their long and privileged lives, he struggles with the bitter choice of continuing to live his long life or facing the horrific discovery head on. As Jonah helps Jericho and Gabrielle attempt to escape, they find that they are on a predefined path which leads to the last hope for the survival of the human species, and the salvation of mankind.

Daytime TV's first and only new hot e-zine: Weekly summary of soap opera's hottest news, stories, humour, gossip, blind items, fearless predictions, top stars/stories/couples/characters to watch, snark galore, review and analysis.INSIDE — UNCENSORED’S 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE — THE TRUE MAN SHOW: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH Y&R’S MICHAEL MUHNEY: THE RETURN OF ADAM NEWMAN AS GENOA CITY’S LEADING MAN; THE LATEST ON THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS; THE MAGIC THAT IS SHARON CASE; WORKING WITH THE DYNAMIC DUO OF JOSH AND JILL; WHO DOES ADAM REALLY LOVE, SHARON OR CHELSEA; AND THE LATEST ON HIS NEWBORN SON, TRUMAN! — Y&R: Is Michael Graziadei Out? — SUPER-SIZED GH RETURNS — Did Steve Burton Throw Shade At GH On Twitter? — B&B WELCOMES MORE VETS FOR STEPHANIE’s GOODBYE — What I Learned From Watching DALLAS: Season 1, 2 — CONTROVERSY: WHY FANS ARE IN AN UPROAR OVER TODD AND CARLY ON GH! — Best-Selling UNCENSORED Issues! — WHY LAURALEE BELL’S LIFE IS BETTER NOW THAT MAB IS OUT OF Y&R —Top 10 Ways To Reboot GH — LAST WEEK REVIEWS! — Casting Coach! SOAP PORN! UNCENSORED Quotes Of The Week!

The last big budget exploration mission for NASA has gone wrong. The first of eight Seeker spacecraft sent to our nearest stars has come to life. What has happened? What if the newly sentient probe reaches its Mission Objective and finds life? Can humanity afford to make its first contact with an alien race though an ambassador they have created, but do not know?The last big budget exploration mission for NASA has gone wrong. Eight remote spacecraft were sent to our nearest stars. Seeker One was sent to Alpha Centauri and it has come to life. NASA engineers are desperate to find out what has happened, but with a 6 month communications gap, how can they react in time before Seeker One reaches its Mission Objective and finds life? Can humanity afford to make its first contact with an alien race though an ambassador they have created, but do not know?

In August of 1952, the town of Ashley and all its residents disappeared without a trace. There were no clues, no answers and no evidence... Until now.Who killed Hollywood legend Ava Montez, once known as the most beautiful woman in the world? The murder has been unsolved for over forty years. But that's about to change, when the New York Reader's reporter, Rae Collins, is assigned to do a story on the life and death of Ava Montez.Four of the original suspects, the director, the housekeeper, the best friend and the husband are still alive and are in their seventies. The murderer, who has felt safe all these years, is now threatened by Rae’s interviews with the suspects. And she’s already getting too close.The only way to prevent being caught and sent to prison for life is to murder again. And Rae is to be the murderer’s next victim!Chuck and Doni have been missionaries since 1981. They live on the Big Island of Hawaii. They have two children, four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. They have helped start churches in the Philippines, Hong Kong, South Africa and also Taiwan where Chuck ministers four months each year. Chuck is the Pastor of the Kona Coast Chaplaincy on the Big Island of Hawaii, and he along with Doni are the Directors of Go Spread His Word Ministries, Inc. founded in 1990.

Duchess witness the murder of her mother by her father at the age of seventeen. After killing Ductchess mother he turned the gun on her leaving her for dead, Shockingly Ducthess survived just to relive more pain. After finding her big mommy dead in a box Ducvhess was convince that her father was behindthe brutal murder. Hurt and angry Duchess is out for revenge and will stop at nothing to get itDuchess was born and raised in the Northside of Lose Angeles where she and her father was well known. Her father ran the streets and was well respected. To the outside world Duchess and her mother was living the American Dream but in reality life was everything but perfect. After his nurmerous encounters with other womens Emily decided to stick by Pookie side and be the perfect wife he and the streets always wanted, but after fining out that Pookie cheated again, might have another baby on the way, could possibly have AIDS, and was gay Emily dedcided that enough was enough. Afraid to lose his family Pookie killed Emily and turnedthe gun on Duchess. To everyone shock Duchess survived the two gun wounds and woke up after six and a half months in a coma. Having only her Big Mommy left to depend on Duchess cling to her, but was devasted to find her Big Mommy body cut up and delievered to their home. Convince that it was her father letting her known he was coming back for her Ducthess decided to take the streets of Los Angeles on head first. With the help of her boss and potential lover Bally Dutchess feels that she could finally get revenge on her father. This is only the beginning of the craziness Duchess has allowed in her life. Will Dutchess get the revenge she deserve or will Pookie continue to have the last laugh.

Daisi Malone lives in the Presidio building in Sydney Australia. It's a strange place with vampires, faerie psychologists and ghosts also residing there. In the fourth story of the series, Daisi and her friends investigate a strange plague of shoes which leads to a confrontation with sensitive jugglers and shadows in the local cemetery.The fourth story in the Vampire Across the Hall series. Daisi Malone is back and getting into trouble again. Hundreds of shoes are strewn randomly on the streets of Newtown and Daisi, Madden, Eliza, Mark and Anna investigate. Their research leads them to a weird group of jugglers and spooky shadows at the local cemetery. Vampires? Faeries? Ghosts or other supernatural beings? And what do the exspellers have to do with it?

Gloria saw the sky come to life the last time the comet was over. She was lying out here at the end of the pier looking up on a night just like this when the meteor passed overhead, shedding falling stars in its wake. As each star fell she said that it lit up people hidden in the constellations, people no astronomer had ever seen before. She said that when they were revealed they came to life.“Gloria saw the sky come to life the last time the comet was over. She was lying out here at the end of the pier looking up on a night just like this when the meteor passed overhead, shedding falling stars in its wake. As each star fell she said that it lit up people hidden in the constellations, people no astronomer had ever seen before. She said that when they were revealed they came to life.He looked up and watched as the comet peeled back the stratosphere. The stars grew bright and then dim, bursting and popping like a rack of fused lights. When the fiery touch of the comet moved out of reach, it left silvery trails of light joining up the puncture marks it had stamped in the blistered sky. Something moved.”This free sample contains a taster of the first two shorts of Russell Taylor's book "Falling Stars". The full book with all 10 short stories can be found on Amazon.

This collection of thirteen short stories was inspired by the thirteen tracks of a collaborative cd and designed to be a companion piece to it.Authors - ML Gammella, Ruth Long, Sarah Aisling, Lillie McFerrin, Jenn Monty, Jeff Tsuruoka, Lisa Shambrook, Lizzie Koch, Samantha Redstreake Geary, Nick Johns, LE Jamez, Jeff Hollar, Bradley RichterWhat happens when a writer and musician team up to generate some buzz for a cd launch? A first-of-its-kind project is born! Thirteen sensational songs + thirteen terrific stories = one unique creative collaboration. The CD "My Friends and I" can be found on CD Baby & Amazon.This ebook companion to the cd offers a story gamut as broad as the musical scope of the cd. One creative discipline drawing inspiration from another and turning that inspiration into a promotion? It doesn't get better than that in the indie world!Authors - ML Gammella, Ruth Long, Sarah Aisling, Lillie McFerrin, Jenn Monty, Jeff Tsuruoka, Lisa Shambrook, Lizzie Koch, Samantha Redstreake Geary, Nick Johns, LE Jamez, Jeff Hollar, Bradley RichterFrom an afternoon at the ballpark to a fistful of vengeance, there's something for every reader!

An exploration of a decade of Australian Horror Films that trace a particular pattern of subsumed social thought over the period 1971-1981. This essay may be of particular interest to the film student and indeed anyone who likes to ponder the meanings of a certain genre of film.Mid December, 2015, three years after the much touted 12/21/12 date...but the fabled Aquarian 'Golden Age' is still nowhere to be seen. Instead, the world is now recovering from the ravages of the recent nuclear war, known as the Final War, and, in the name of 'security', is fast being transformed into a global Fascist state, the most basic of humans rights stripped from people on a daily basis...In the backdrop of all this is unassuming NYU Astrobiology graduate, John 'J.C' Casey, who has a great interest in the Occult, Conspiracy Theories and Aliens. After receiving an email from a mysterious man, claiming that he wants to give him vital, Above Top Secret information, J.C embarks on an amazing, synchronicity-filled adventure. The sensitive information apparently holds the key to defeating the secret society John has developed an unhealthy obsession with in recent years: the Illuminati, an ancient brotherhood of Black Magicians that he knows to be behind both the recent war and the looming Dark Luciferian New World Order...John soon comes face to face with a world he never knew existed. A world full of White Magicians, Dark Sorcerers, Angels and Lower Astral Beings. He also discovers he may be the fulfilment of an ancient prophecy, which tells of the Slayer of the Serpent, a powerful Magician destined to destroy the Illuminati Dark Cabal. Framed for murder, on the run from the law and hounded by Illuminati minions at every turn, John must now race against time to stop the Dark Brotherhood from actualizing its millennia old, Byzantine plot...J.C and his new friends have but a few hours left to meet the stringent requirements laid out in the Intergalactic Quarantine Removal Code and, if successful, will set the much delayed New Aeon of Aquarius into motion. If they fail, however, the Earth will become a Prison Planet for all time!

Erwin Richter, surveyor for hire, scoured dark crevices of the net in service to major corporations. Upon revisiting a back door he established during a former assignment to Silica Corporation, Erwin donned his virtual avatar and crept quietly through layers of files to stumble upon a virtual shaft of projects buried in a forgotten file tree. What secrets did the corporation decide to forget?Many little girls in Ireland borrow the dresses for their First Holy Communion from their big sisters or cousins. This is the tale of a girl who finds that her cousin's beautiful dress just does not fit her. She comes up with a clever, so she thinks, solution to the problem.This is an "Auntie Book" a short book to be read on a visit to a nephew or niece.

A parody on the very concept of paranormal as imagined in the movies always unfairly biased against the paranormal side.The last dragon is dying. She knows it. And she is almost glad: her life has been long, sad, and full of suffering. She is hated, hunted and harassed wherever she goes. And she wonders: what is the point of living when no one wants you to live? So when she is discovered yet again, she does not bother trying to flee. Wounded and despairing, she waits for her death at the hands of human villagers with their pitchforks and prejudice. Following her would-be destroyers, however, is a strange, solitary young soul who is also unloved, and who wishes for more than his life has allotted to him. 'The Dragon's Boy' is a short fairytale about the last dragon in the world, an orphan named Jack, and faithful, persistent love.