Fast paced action, vivid characters, assassinations, drug running and intricate plots. The screenplay takes place in Rome, Guatemala, Africa, Mexico, Texas and New York City.Sambalanga was a finalist in the screenplay competition at the 2010 Mexico International Film Festival.Jackson never thought buying a yacht could be so dangerous. A deadly attack at sea leaves Jackson wet and bewildered, fighting for his life.

This is a collection of short stories set in the roaring twenties and the great depression in Australia.Every year thousands of lives are lost when people do battle with Japanese cartoons unprepared. Don't become a statistic! Read this quick, handy guide to the unique laws that govern anime combat, and victory can be yours. Free, but potentially priceless.

A fan fiction based in the universe of EliteDony and Hera are to transport some risky goods through several planetary systems. Will they make it to their destination? Will their old battered ship last long enough to reach the space station?

Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy (November 15, 1871 – July 23, 1940), best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West.Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected "an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters (even in romantic plots), the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting."

I don't expect you to buy this. It's a stream of consciousness account of one person's day unplugged from the internet.A stream of consciousness account of one person's SOPA/PIPA protest.

Accelerating Returns is about science, progress, and the war for public opinion in the coming century. Rogue extremists known as Blockers perform acts of terror to create spectacles of worst-case-scenario science to spur the masses to action. A young, inspiring CEO takes her biotech firm from zero to empire, only to be undermined by Blockers seeking to show the dark side of technology.Rule #7 of Blocker’s Manifesto: A Blocker does not operate underground. He participates in a group. He is mainstream. All things anathema to him, he must embrace and make central to his life.Inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns, Bill Joy’s Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us, and Hugo de Garis’ The Coming Artilect War. The Law of Accelerating Returns states that technology in the coming century will be so “rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history.” On one side will stand those who welcome radical advancement in technology, versus those on the other side who attempt to subvert and destroy it. Accelerating Returns is a novel about science, progress, and the war for public opinion. Rogue extremists known as Blockers perform acts of terror to create spectacles of worst-case-scenario science to spur the masses to action. A young, inspiring CEO takes her biotech firm from zero to empire, only to be undermined by a ruthless executive with his own anti-science agenda. A disgruntled researcher sees his work usurped by a charismatic scientist and is recruited by the neo-Luddites. Blockers are not street thugs throwing rocks. They are scientists and executives in research labs and board rooms whose single purpose is to deter the inevitable integration of man and machine.

Donna McCormick is a smart, pretty college student whose twenty-first birthday is a week away. Unfortunately, so is her murder - unless the mysterious man from the darkness can reach her first.Midnight Hunter is Book One in the Midnight Hunter trilogy.Donna McCormick is a smart, pretty college student whose twenty-first birthday is a week away. Unfortunately, so is her murder - unless the mysterious man from the darkness can reach her first. Donna is pursued in her dreams by a man who claims to be her Eternal Partner. During her waking hours, she’s cornered by another who claims to be the same. There’s only one problem: neither is entirely honest. Or, for that matter, entirely human. Eight years earlier, Donna’s life was dealt a terrible blow with the untimely death of a little brother who was left in her care. Ever since, Donna has yearned to get a normal life back – and despite her best friend Mo’s efforts to the contrary, Donna has almost managed it…at least until the Underworld cracks wide open, scattering chaos and spilling out every shifty force under the moon. Most of them want Donna dead, but some will stop at nothing to keep her alive. Too bad she doesn’t know which is which. With death following Donna like a shadow, she turns to her best friend for help. But instead of help, Mo offers only more mystery. And she knows more about the Underworld than she's willing to admit.Now, Donna must choose: Cling to the mortal world where she feels safe, or embrace the Underworld where her dreams – and nightmares – come true.One thing’s for sure - doing either one might get her killed in both.Midnight Hunter is Book One in the Midnight Hunter trilogy.

Wolf-shifter Yvette Nelson is incredibly bored with her job as a waitress at Gunther’s Bar. Until one night, when a man she’s never met enters the place. He makes her wolf want to come out and play—she has to have him. Stark just wanted a beer. But Yvette brings out yearnings in him he didn’t even know he had. Together, they’ll find that letting go of inhibitions can open up all kinds of fun times, like a chance at forever.

A coup is nearly successful leaving ruler Dr. Famaron Venge to deciver what went wrong. He also has the added charge of taking care of his friend's kids, as they are besieged on all sides by murderers. And his world of Parscan suddenly has all the trappings of an all out civil war, with rival factions fighting for control.Famaron Venge the ruler of Parscan agrees to take care of his friend's kids Ohgood and Ratie begrudgingly. They decide to go to the realm known as the Caristic, to see if Ohgood is the one who can unlock it. The Caristic is a massive wonder and magic filled world inside the world, that was sealed and never to be unlocked unless the right person were to try. And every person on their 18th birthday goes and sees if they are indeed the one. Before long they learn of a coup attempt as Famaron has all he can do to keep himself and Ohgood and Ratie alive. They find deception at every turn with many of his own soldiers being a part of the coup. Famaron uses the bulk of his magical abilities to keep the murderers at bay, as spells take the place of guns. They finally get themselves a dragon to survey the wreckage of what was once Parscan, and everywhere they look death and total choas ensue. It is a time of friends in breathing and no more.

Contains: Not Long Before the End What Good is a Glass Dagger? The Magic Goes Away Unfinished Story #1 and: The Magic May Return Notes for a Series of Stories to be Set in the Fantasy World of The Magic Goes Away

Christmas 1914. Christopher Flyte is sent home in disgrace from school to the sleepy English village of Alton. He meets the mysterious traveler, Bailey - who fills his head with stories of King Arthur. The more Christopher hears, the more he suspects that Bailey's stories are more than just myths. Soon, Christoper is a pawn in a game that has been playing out for centuries...It is Christmas 1914. As Europe descends further into the Great War, Christopher Flyte is sent home in disgrace from his school. He returns to the sleepy English village of Alton. It is here that he meets the mysterious traveler, Bailey - a master storyteller who fills the boy's head with stories of King Arthur's time. The more Christopher hears, the more he suspects that Bailey's stories are more than just simple myths. Soon, Christoper is a pawn in a game that has been playing out for centuries....

Crowds make Fausto nervous. Or, to be more precise still, everything makes Fausto nervous. This presenter, for instance. He’d love to throw the radio out of the window the moment the guy goes, ‘News!’, and then proceeds to reel them off, all those boring, predictable Sunday news.Synopsis eBooks 1-6: in Book 1, readers are introduced to the four Great Dragons and all the problems they’ve had since they lost the Pearl.In the North, there’s Norbert, a frost-breathing dragon who isnow breathing fire and his Ice Crystal Palace is melting. In the East, Esma is crying and breathing out acid, her Grand Sand Castle and moat a dumping ground for waste. In the West, Wesley wanders his vast WallywoodHills Mansion despised and all alone, his people starving and jobless, their woodlands flattened to make way for Wesley’s factories. And in the South, Shawnee, a former beauty, is losing her looks and her Coral Reef Grotto is cracking and crumbling. What‘s going on, and what’s all this got to do with the lost Pearl? The travellers set off to find out.In turn, eBooks 2-6 take readers to the Four Corners of the World to meet the Great Dragons and learn a little more about each piece of the puzzle of the lost Pearl. With the aid of madcap friends they meet along the way, including a fierce but clumsy polar bear, eight rapping, dancing Fairy Dragons and a majestic komodo dragon, the travellers encounter the Great Dragons of the Four Corners of the World. As they witness their troubles and the poor state of the people, places and creatures around them, the travellers realise the missing Pearl has a lot to answer for. But it’s not until Grandmother Earth catches up with them, to set them a new challenge, that the final piece of the puzzle falls into place: they find the Pearl, but it it’s not what they thought it was. The Great Dragons have been careless with it, and that’s why they’re now suffering. Their problems can only be overcome once the Pearl is restored. Grandmother Earth now entrusts this job to her grandchildren and their team of extraordinary friends: to put right what she and the Grand Dragons got wrong.

Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This novel confronts both the value of life and its susceptibility to chance and ruin.

In a world where most of us are just surplus population, certain temptations are acute indeed. Party Discipline is a Tor.com Original from bestselling author Cory Doctorow. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When I saw you for the first time Your gaze took my soul and You became my life Though I breathe, I do not live So, give my life back or Take my breathe away.In the middle of everyone’s tale of life - which we start to write right from the day we are born - contains a page already written by someone. After reading that page named “Love," few lucky ones are able to get the same person to write their other left out pages. Most complete their tales by some one other writing the left out pages, while others leave their tale unfinished.To me how she happened? How love is going to alter my path? What happens in our tale? When I could never imagine a life without my sweet heart. Will my love remain meaningful to my life even when it will go unrequited? Some love stories will always have a happy ending(only some)

When Carson Drew's millionaire client Clayton Grove dies of a long illness, his son Matt, missing and presumed dead for many years, suddenly re-appears. When Matt sets his romantic sights on Bess, Nancy is determined to see that the wrong person doesn't inherit the fortune.

Crilshar has risen. Titan has fallen. The Alignment is at war. Following the horrors of Erebus, Anna Berenguer and Antal Justus return home. One to Titan, the other to Earth. Reunited with his old crew, Justus is driven by the guilt of losing Peter Marx, and races headlong into a fight with an enemy beyond his wildest nightmares.Volume II of the Gilaxiad SeriesCrilshar has risen. Titan has fallen. The Alignment is at war. Following the horrors of Erebus, Anna Berenguer and Antal Justus return home. One to Titan, the other to Earth. Reunited with his old crew, Justus is driven by the guilt of losing Peter Marx, and races headlong into a fight with an enemy beyond his wildest nightmares. The Dark Lord Malizar lives. Sinister, methodical, and hauntingly formidable, Malizar envisages a single future: one ablaze with war. With the help of allies, old and new, Anna and Justus prepare to face the greatest threat. Only, the menace which looms is not the enemy they thought. A darkness and silence is approaching.

Lily McClain is a confirmed SantaPhobic, which is why she's so ticked off that her regular Santa, Blake, has backed out for the night. But when she steps into Santa's red suit, she becomes an inspiration for hundreds of little girls, just in time for Christmas...This 4,650-word short story is 29 pages long.She lay abandoned, moored to the south end of Luna Farside, left for scrap. Captain Dak Smith saw in her something special, an opportunity to burn for the far horizon as an independent, free from the gloms that hold known space in thrall – but he had to get her running first. Armed with a standard-issue captain's eyebrow and an infectious grin, Captain Smith and his hand-picked crew embark on an adventure through deep space filled with scoundrels, pirates, and some incredibly unfortunate peace-loving rocks that happened to be at the wrong place, at the worst time.

Fleet Marine Striker Battalion command has conceived a plan that could turn the tide of the war. To bring that plan to fruition they need the android prototypes from top secret research facility RD3-Omega. When the facility comes under attack by enemy forces that plan is thrown into jeopardy. Sgt. Massey must evacuate the prototypes and deliver them safely to the FMSB.Blake hates the world. He failed miserably in life, and has broken up with his girlfriend, Gillian, whom he claims to love and now he doesn't know what to do. He then meets Serena--seemingly crazy, big lover of life but deep Serena who changes his world for good. But there's a catch. Of course there is. Serena is leaving.In this tale of love found, lost, and everything else in between, Blake and Serena find out what love really is about and what it means to come home.

History is a thing we make—in more senses than one. And from more directions. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.