After sequestering herself to the tiny island of St. Simons, Georgia, Adelaide's plan to 'get normal' goes awry after a crackpot astrologist predicts she’ll meet with death. Now ghosts are appearing and Adelaide Graves is forced to admit that she has unwittingly acquired another gift.To Adelaide Graves, being empathic isn’t a gift, it’s a curse. Nothing could be worse than the barrage of emotions that are constantly seeping in, that is, until she starts seeing ghosts. Such gifts don’t go unnoticed by Reed Wallace, the island’s richest celebrity, who is quick to use his own gift to strong-arm Adelaide. Luckily, she’s half-immune to his unnatural charm, though not to his blackmail. Now his scheming has got her neck-deep in a dangerous race, desperate to find a demon diary, the key to unlocking another realm.

A zombie attack on a quiet suburban home causes a family to rely on an unlikely hero.Horror in Grayscales follows a zombie attack on a quiet suburban apartment building. Bella roams through the house as her parents sleep. A strange sound suddenly emanates from the street. She runs to the window to discover three odd looking strangers walking down the center of Avenue M. When her upstairs neighbor arrives home he draws the strangers to the building and horrific violence ensues.

A bear, a 25-year-old nursing student and her dog, and one autumn week that changes a small rural community in the Pacific Northwest. This novella is about love and death and a bear trap full of doughnuts. Diana O'Neil is the fierce heroine who wants to fall in love, but is trapped herself.Would you run? If you were the last of your kind, if you knew getting caught could thrust the universe into war, wouldn't you slip into the shadows and disappear too?Hiding is Alice’s only option. It always has been.Then he comes along. Commander John Doe, the head of a new mission into one of the most dangerous areas of space. A chance encounter thrusts them together on the barren wasteland of Orion Minor. Then the chase begins.Alice cannot allow herself to slip into the hands of the Union, but John Doe will stop at nothing to find out who she is.In Episode One of Ghost of Mind, the hunt begins.

Distant Star was an experiment to make a Show like "Twilight Zone" but with absolutely no budget. Now they are published here for anyone to enjoy and do with what they will."In The Twilight" concerns and Civil War soldier and a person he meets who seems alien, but may not be so different after all.Witness a first-person view of a changed world. A solitary survivor hides in a mountain above the city, living in a trailer with the door and windows duct-taped shut. Outside, the air is poisoned with a virulent disease that has killed off most humans. Those who lived have become something else. Something that hunts and kills. Survival in this new world comes down to two, simple rules: stay quiet and protect the air. It's an obsessive and regimented life, but one day a visitor comes up the mountain that threatens everything.Part I of a can't-miss series. Part II out now.

A comic tale of men and their complete inability to come to terms with the three most confusing things in their universe; women, politics, and space aliens.For twenty-three years a dozen space-alien refugees from have been hiding out on Earth, living inside various human hosts. When they arrived they hid their spaceship in the mud at the bottom of Lake Ontario, and when the "come home" call finally came, they happily prepared to get their spaceship and go home.However, about that time someone spots a very strange sonar image in Lake Ontario, on the Canadian side. Both American and Canadian intelligence agencies send someone to check it out. At the same time, a member of Alien Hunters International is closing in on a couple of the aliens.A small group of men try to actually do something, but it's all politics, women, and space aliens, three things most men don't handle very well.

Book Two, following on from ‘A Twist of Eternity’. A character from Minervar’s past arrives unannounced with a surprise. An innocent opportunity that sparks both hers and her half daughter Nar’Allia’s imaginations. Alas, grasping this chance turns their world upside down.Time has moved on since the events that led to the recovery of the ancient father’s great machine. The machine has restored equilibrium to the world and once again there is a time of peace. Minervar and Iolrreas are living with their people in the great wood, the forest of Gel’Te’Ertenya that covers much of the western half of the continent of Dahl’Ambronis.Iolrreas’s first born daughter Nar’Allia is no longer a child and no longer living in the north and enduring the squalor of Tent Town. She has come of age and is perhaps struggling a little with what it means to be a young woman in her society. Amongst all this she is busy trying to decide what to do with her life.Minervar has not heard anything from her traveling companions of old, the friends she made and lost during the time of the first book - ‘A Twist of Eternity’.The elder races however remain disparate and few. Separated long ago by a war raged by a warring race keen on domination, a race that in their arrogance didn’t foresee that their greatest enemy would turn out to be themselves. For the war mongering ognods have never recovered from their civil war.Of the other races the dwarves stay hidden, for the most part ignoring that which goes on around them, they stay in their halls below the mountains. The keepers remain as secretive as ever. The gnomes continue to struggle with internal strife, mourning the past and the decisions they were forced to make. As for the elves, they out of all the races seem happy with their lot for the most part, yet they still harbor a dark legacy, an impending doom that hangs over them. The T’Iea’Neat’Thegoran, the dark elves, they have gone to ground, hidden somewhere in the world or maybe without, their plans foiled for the time being, but waiting for their next opportunity to strike out. But then there are the humans, the race of men, they continue to struggle with their own past, an old fear borne from great mistakes that continues to haunt them. Old hints of a forgotten past surface occasionally reminding them of their mortality and past weakness.Suddenly a character from Minervar’s past arrives at the door unannounced with a surprising offer, an innocent opportunity that sparks both hers and her half daughter Nar’Allia’s imaginations. Little do they know that grasping this chance will turn both their worlds upside down. An unexpected disaster will befall them and their family. This single event thrusts Nar’Allia way out of her comfort zone. The resulting turmoil has her making discoveries of breath-taking substance that lead her to undertake deeds of epic proportions. Once again old adversaries are pitched against each other, with more than a few ‘twists’ along the way.

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.

Scorched Corona is a collection of poetry spanning ten years of authorship, from age 12 to 22. A timeline of reflections in raw, unedited form, Scorched Corona views the world through a youth's burnt eyes, a pair each and every one of us has had the burden to wear. This is a free ebook.Like millions of others, Roger Birch and his family depend on ad-viewing income for their survival.Unlike millions of others, the events of one uncomfortable evening leave Roger aware of the government's shadier reasons for investing in Funscreen. With high-definition cameras hidden behind a 60-inch glass veil, the answer was staring him in the face all along.Every family has a Funscreen on their wall. The question is... who's watching who?[Funscreen is a satirical/sci-fi short story of 6,500 words (approx. 22 standard pages)]A unique take on the increasing commercialisation of home life and the apparent trend towards 24-hour surveillance, Funscreen is a standalone spin-off from the dystopian novel Sycamore.Praise for Sycamore: "A brilliant and relevant sci-fi from a debut author... interesting and matrix-like""Dystopian fans should not miss this one" "Great idea from the author... 1984 for the Facebook generation"

Pariah is the only true outcast in an army of fururistic super clones. This is the story where she becomes a part of a team, battles an enemy that consumes and destroys everything in its path, and discovers what it really means to stand by your family and never give up. Get ready for an adventure that will take you to a whole new world.It is the hottest day in the summer of 1965 in Jackson, Mississippi. The March on Washington and the words of Martin Luther King JR ring loud and clear in the town, yet crowds have congregated around the town square with only hatred on their minds.They are determined to remove a 12 year old black boy who sits at the foot of the town monument, a stone sculpture he is determined to paint. A sculpture began by his father who perished at the hands of the KKK weeks earlier.In this short story, on this hot, sweltering afternoon, hatred and prejudice will attempt to deny the love of a son to honour the memory of his father, but this 12 year old has only one purpose. To remain there and finish the work. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. —"This book contains an abundance of wisdom on a large number of economic issues." —Mises Review

A sister, one of hundreds not seen for decades, returns with a ship, a crew and dreams of larceny. She plans to steal from a species so alien they speak in scents and colours and cannot comprehend the treasure they carry between the stars. But for Morgan, the cloned son of a genocidal dictator, joining his sister could mean repeating his dead father’s journey into madness and death.Eenralla Land lives in a Dome. That Dome is run by the Government. The Government has a secret. A secret Eenralla gets herself entangled in. It all started when she touched the wall... Eenie's life has been anything but normal, and only gets stranger when she slams her hand against the Dome wall to catch her balance. The rule is broken and her third Strike is coming - until she begins to see flashes of something that isn't supposed to be there. The Government has a secret, but is Eenie ready to uncover it?

This is a short collection of three flash fiction stories. Each story is its own work, yet all have a mysterious appeal.This collection of flash fiction is three short pieces of a mysterious and thrilling nature. Tick tells the tale of an escape plan with an unexpected ending. The Attic follows the journey of a girl inspecting a mysterious noise. The End is a tragic tale of fear, loss and freedom, all wrapped into one. While this collection is short, each story within is powerful in its own right.

Things have changed for Atticus Higginbottom. After the near catastrophe in the Fourth Reality, Tick’s being homeschooled in the fields of science, trying to master the mysterious Chi’karda. But just as he begins to make progress, Mistress Jane reappears, now hideously scarred and much more powerful. She has tapped into the universe’s darkest secret to create the Blade of Shattered Hope, and in her quest to attain a Utopian Reality for the future of mankind, she’s ready to risk billions of lives—including those of Tick’s parents and sisters—to set her plan in motion. Her vengeance knows no bounds and when rumors begin to circulate about the secret scientific experiments taking place at the Factory, Tick and his friends—Sato, Sofia, and Paul—are faced with their most dangerous task yet. And they must not fail; for if they do, the entire universe could cease to exist.

Meet best friends Fred (Big Dog) and Ted (Little Dog) in P. D. Eastman’s classic Beginner Book. Though one is big and one is little, and one loves green and one loves red, these pup pals—along with their helpful acquaintance, Bird—prove that opposites can be the very best of friends. Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. From the Hardcover edition.

The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman’s trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine—a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal. Where the second novel in the trilogy, Time And Chance, dealt with the extraordinary politics of the twelfth century, climaxing with the murder of Thomas Becket and Henry’s confrontation with the Church and self-imposed exile to Ireland, Devil’s Brood centers on the implosion of a family. And because it is a royal family whose domains span the English Channel and whose alliances encompass the Christian world, that collapse will have dire consequences. This is a story of betrayal as Henry’s three eldest sons and his wife enter into a rebellion against him, aligning themselves with his bitterest enemy, King Louis of France. But it is also the story of a great king whose brilliance forged an empire but whose personal blind spots led him into the most serious mistake of his life. Sharon Kay Penman has created a novel of tremendous power, as two strong-willed, passionate people clash, a family divides, and a marriage ends in all but name. Curiously, it is a novel without villains—only flawed human beings caught up in misperceptions and bad judgment calls. Most devastating to Henry was not his sons’ rebellion but his wife’s betrayal in joining them. How could it happen that two people whose love for each other was all consuming end up as bitter adversaries? That is the heart of Penman’s tale in Devil’s Brood.

"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" *—Midwest Children's Book Review* After being chased by a man wielding a shovel, scared silly by a mummy, and attacked by Heather Acosta, Sammy and her pals decide they've had their fill of monsters and head home to eat some candy. But along with bubble gum and chocolate bars, they discover something frightening in their trick-or-treating bags. Something that's definitely not sweet! Before they know it, Sammy and her friends are following suspicious gravediggers, ghoulish embalmers, and shady undertakers. And somebody is following them . . . The Sammy Keyes mysteries are fast-paced, funny, thoroughly modern, and true whodunits. Each mystery is exciting and dramatic, but it's the drama in Sammy's personal life that keeps readers coming back to see what happens next with her love interest Casey, her soap-star mother, and her mysterious father. From the Hardcover edition.