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Susan Rogers just wanted one thing to go right this year. After the untimely loss of her husband, she can feel their son slipping away. So Susan, in an effort to reconnect, schedules a mini-vacation like the ones he used to take with his dad every year. Except this year Susan, within minutes, finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, surrounded by thugs with guns. Her only hope is in a tall, hairy man with fists of fury and moves like she's never seen before.

A gripping tale of human greed and arrogance. Technology has taken firm hold of the modern world, leading mankind to a whole new reality, creating unforeseen implications that will change radically the face of the Earth. Where are the limits of human arrogance in the quest for power? Have we misplaced our faith in science? In a post-apocalyptic future, will our faith in technology be our savior, or will our arrogance be our downfall?

The war has ended, but the bad blood remains. Long ago, the vampires took control. Now, they run the cities and make the rules with little regard for the race they slaughtered to get there. With no rights and fewer options, some humans serve themselves up to the elite undead in exchange for protection. The rest take their chances with the ferals outside the city walls. It's miserable, but misery can be lucrative if you're clever enough.

Claiming to be Wyatt the Mighty was not enough. He needs to be more than a name. He needs to become stronger. Vowing to never fail those he cares for again, 15-year-old Wyatt finds a way to strengthen his magical power within the fantastical world of the Realms. But though stronger than ever before, he risks alienating those he seeks to protect, and as his power grows, he finds himself caring less and less. He is determined to be the hero the world needs. No matter the cost.

Robin had made the ultimate sacrifice; losing life, love, and fate in the process. Or so it seemed. When all hope was lost her destiny was finally made clear. What would you do if you were trapped in a prison where most were put there by you? You rise....

He has that thing that they'd all pay for but can't buy: onstage and off, the 19-year-old rock drummer Checker Secretti is electric. When he plays with his band, The Derailleurs, the natives of Astoria, Queens, clamour for a piece of him. But charisma comes at a price. A Salieri to Checker's Mozart, the fiercely envious fellow drummer Eaton Striker is eager to sow discord among the Derailleurs, that he might replace the exasperatingly popular goody-goody in the close-knit neighbourhood's affections.

When a gold coin heist turns out badly, a pair of idiotic crooks hook-up with some moronic thieves (and a movie star) in order to steal the secret KFC chicken recipe. Along the way they reveal (among many other things) the connection between Gilligan's Island and the devil, what Salman Rushdie and Elvis have in common with Col. Sanders, why Betty was never a vitamin, and what Bootsy Collins does in his spare time. It also deals with the whole "why did the chicken cross the road" conundrum.

The story of how Jesus was tricked into thinking he was the son of God by a shape-shifting monster known as the Rauschmonstrum. It is a tale about love, cruelty, misunderstanding, agonizing despair, walking on water, healing the sick, and one unusual case of a person being impersonated after their death.

Welcome to the Valley Drift series. This series is the complete Devil Days series. Here is where you'll find possession and a town that is put through the mill.

Charley Rabbit is a mentally disabled young man who lives quietly with his widowed mother Mitzi in the American Midwest - but not for long! Charley develops a rapid intellectual growth spurt after being bitten by a vampire. Fressenda and her fraternal twin brothers Cass (Castor) and Lux (Pollux) take an interest in Charley and Mitzi and become part of their extended family, but Mitzi is wary and senses that the changes in Charley may be part of something mysterious, dark and sinister.

The Obsession with watching life drain from another human had heightened over the years. Until the day that one came back and tried to take his life. He now has to decipher how to kill the ones that are already dead.

Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s. Published when Patrick O'Brian was just 19, this is the enchanting, often bloodthirsty collection of 12 tales of animal adventure that would be published in 1934 as the author's second book. His first, Caesar, had been published in 1930 and was an instant success, seeing O'Brian hailed as the ‘boy-Thoreau'.

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug dealer, gonzo-porn star, and taxi-driver ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’? Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star Ronald Checker?

Flash in the Pan: Sticks like Glue is an almost random assortment of particularly short tales that focus on the everyday happenings of seemingly ordinary people.... From the plight of drunken gamblers to the attachment of inflatable friends, there's plenty to feast your ears on in a short space of time--and you never know, you might just find yourself listening to these stories over and over again!

When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is surreally transformed into a reality more akin to a dreamscape. Vultures invade the rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations towards an apocalyptic climax.

Acclaimed author M.A.C. Farrant has been hailed as “a brave iconoclast” by Publishers Weekly and is well known for her pithy wit and maverick sensibilities. Broken into three sections, The Strange Truth About Us is a fusion of fragmented prose, probing questions and caustic satire. The result is both a meditation on absence and a commentary on the human penchant for complacency.

E se Geppetto e Pinocchio non si fossero incontrati nel ventre della balena? Edward Carey, narratore dall'estro geniale e dalla sensibilità fiabesca, reinterpreta in questo romanzo una delle storie più amate della letteratura internazionale: dopo aver tentato senza fortuna di salvare suo figlio in mare, Geppetto rimane intrappolato da solo nella pancia del gigantesco animale. Qui, costretto al buio e ai difficili umori della sua nuova casa, si trova a riflettere sulla sua condizione di uomo, di padre, di figlio, di naufrago.

After writing a letter in praise of malls, our eccentric narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for several weeks, splitting his time between "making work" and "engaging the public," all while chronicling his adventures in weekly progress reports. Before long, a series of strange after-hour events rattles our hero, and he sets forth on a nightly quest to untangle the mysterious forces at play in the mall's unmapped recesses.

The Fountain of Youth water was real - and Elvis and Mark Twain were looking for it. Join Bella and Artie as they travel to Australia, hoping to ‘acquire’ the little blue bottle of Fountain of Youth elixir from Master Simon and Marty Melbourne, seasoned time travelers who are on a mission to find James Melbourne, the ‘fairy’ (time traveler) who arrived at the Land Down Under with The First Fleet of convicts, a pioneer who helped settle Australia over two hundred years earlier.Could a young woman and teenage pickpocket beat them to it? And this other guy - the tall, good-looking hunk...

What will the eminently logical Sherlock Holmes do when he finds himself in a world where nothing makes sense? Where knights in shining armor fight the Trojan War, where he must ally himself with a famous outlaw from the American West, and where Doctor Watson's insights are just as relevant as his own? Dennis McCarty has written the most unusual piece of Sherlock Holmes fan fiction ever, and possibly the most literary.