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For 17 years, Ezra Newport and his parents were habitual immigrants, traveling from their Ottoman Empire home across 20th-century Europe. As the Newports migrate to Belfast, Ireland, Ezra wants nothing more to settle into a consistent life and lay the foundation of his architectural dreams. But after a strange, mechanical bounty hunter murders his mother and prompts the disappearance of his father, Ezra discovers that his parents had actually been on the run. Now, their enemies are targeting him, and they won’t stop until he is dead.

Detective Adam Potter can’t be happier having Patrick move in with him. But there is a downside. Adam had asked his aristocrat to unpack his bags and boxes, and Patrick is accustomed to having servants do everything for him. Patrick Valdez is truly on cloud nine when Adam asked him to move in with him. But he is finding the transition into Adam’s world taxing. He misses having other people at his beck and call when he needs something done.

The final chapter of The Director series begins with Nick Hudson barely maintaining his sanity. (What else is new?) Thinking his own team, The Asgarda, may have been compromised by The Director, Nick decides the only chance he has to remove his enemy is to do the unexpected.

Randy Greebley is your typical teenage boy, with the typical teenage boy issues, except for one big difference - when he gets horny, he tends to get “horny”. Literally. His feelings for his best friend, Cricket, have grown recently, and it’s becoming more than obvious, making it harder for him to hide his other side whenever he sees her. A nerdy, middle-class farm boy, Randy doesn’t really have a lot to offer Cricket, but he can’t let graduation pass without letting her know his true feelings.

Bright, eager, and pining for adulthood, 17-year-old William Strait doesn't like being a virgin. He immediately gets entangled in a web of unimagined feelings he shares for a new girl in his class. He must do everything he can to get her, including asking his friends Freddy and Jean for advice. Will he find success in his pursuit, or will he be left disappointed with Vanessa, whom he feels renewed his belief in love and lust?

Born with special abilities, N8 and the rest of “the children” have lived underground their entire lives, where they’ve been led to believe there was a nuclear war that left the Earth’s surface uninhabitable. The scientists chose what information they were given, what TV shows and movies they could watch, as well as what they were allowed to eat. It was only a matter of time before he and the others started questioning their very existence.

Scarred and traumatized, former Marine Sergeant Joshua Cobb can no longer function amid normal civilization. He's retreated to the mountains of Alaska to live in solitude, where he can battle his personal demons in peace. Life is harsh in the untamed wild, especially when he has to face other creatures who are also trying to survive. But the bears and wolves and other dangerous animals are no match for the two-legged variety who see Joshua as easy prey.

In rural Georgia in 1948, a man was lucky to get any kind of work. Which was why Cletus Pink felt he'd been blessed when an old farmer named MacDonald offered him a job. But what was making the horrific sounds coming from the main house? Worse, why was there always fresh blood oozing out from underneath the kitchen's back door?

Prepare to scream forever! Howie Payne and Nick Enlow work the midnight shift at Big Carl’s Video Transfer and Media Services. An odd AVI clip begins to appear in their public drive on a nightly basis. At first Howie and Nick think it’s a serialized art house horror film someone on the day shift is sending them in secret. As the clips progress, however, the now obsessed duo discover something deeper and darker in the videos. Horror author Terry M. West would like to introduce you to the Green Room and its primary occupant, The Screamer.

Might and magic. Legendary beasts and lost civilizations. Epic journeys and bloody brawls. Necromancers and dragon riders. Ancient evils and new saviors. Chronicles of Maradoum: Volume 2 is set in the same world as the epic fantasy Convent Series, beginning with A Dead Wizard’s Dream.

Detectives A.J. Chance and Artie Cutter get assigned to investigate a murder in a familiar part of town. The detectives discover the victim had a connection to an old case they thought was closed, involving Patrick Valdez's and A.J.'s past relationships with Detective Adam Potter. A killer is out hunting people down who were involved with Patrick’s deceased abusive ex, and Patrick’s on the killer’s radar. Adam has to keep Patrick safe and watch his own back as the killer gets closer.

The crusade to expose unethical practices by AlzCura Pharmaceuticals and the deaths caused by their miracle Alzheimer’s cure intensifies, but the suicide of a person of interest and an astonishing response to the evidence from the Food & Drug Administration threatens to unravel the efforts to bring the guilty parties to justice.

Enter the sensational world of Caldwell Lee. Lee's magnificent compilation of poems, plus new artistic works, will keep listeners engaged and placed in a virtual world of fantasy that only Caldwell Lee can bring to fruition.

A name was tattooed on his finger. Marcus woke in a cell. No memory of how he got there or what his name was. Just a tattoo. There were others like him. They called this place unreality. They told him this was where someone was hiding him. Clues lead him on a journey in search of who he is, who he was, and why someone did this to him. Each time he finds someone connected to a mysterious symbol, something inconceivable happens. Something even the people who live in unreality can't explain.

With Carter-Winward's unique take on the complexity of human behavior within intimate relationships, she tackles issues such as monogamy, sexuality, and betrayal with her unique, nuanced eye: from shattered illusions and regret in "Days Past", to the sting and slap of betrayal in "Chance of Rain"; the ambiguities and devastation of acquaintance rape and sexual assault in "Daddy's Girl" and "Violets", as well as the redemptive dissolution of conventional boundaries in "Unspoken" and "Inside".

Emboldened by the support of Maine law enforcement officials and a prominent physician, Jackie and Curt embark on a crusade against AlzCura. They have compelling evidence of unethical business practices and countless numbers of unreported patient deaths related to their miracle cure for Alzheimer’s. But when the physician is found hanging in his office, they lose a key witness in their case against the pharmaceutical giant.

Out of the Light of Darkness is a compelling collection of short stories that deal with ephemeral moments, unforgettable relationships, and death. The longest story, a novella, tells the tale of a teen trying to understand and find the good in his father. Listeners will be pulled into the story as they see Matty struggle to see light in a man who is shrouded by darkness.

After accidentally ending up at one of his schoolmate's house, Tim drinks some beverage there with a couple of friends. Things take a wild turn as he finds himself at a singularity. He discovers that the only way back is to travel through all the dimensions.

Clock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island's supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it. Clock's Watch. An anthology of heroic dark fantasy and terror.

Becky keeps men at bay due to her brutal background and concern for her son’s safety. Second guessing who he is and disillusioned about the stranger who raised him, Justin discovers what matters most, in perfect time to lose it. His broken spirit penetrates Becky’s armor and opens her fragile heart, but she can’t compete with his wealthy fiancé. Certain death looms in the shadows of the sleepy, lakeside town.