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Welcome, Thaddeus Hellion, The Royal Grand High Imperial Architects of the System ‘welcomes’ Earth into the Universal Collective. Apparently, the most populace sentient species on this world are humans—Wow, that’s pathetic—anyway, it should be fun to watch the lot of you die. That wasn’t good. In fact, Thaddeus would go so far as to say it was terrible, since his weekly manicure appointment was more than likely canceled.

Welcome, Magnus —Insert Surname—, you have spawned into a level 70 city—soon to be dungeon. All safe zones are transitory. Due to the city’s failing infrastructure a permanent safe zone cannot be established at this time.

Richard Teft would rather live life recklessly numb than face the suffocating reality around him. Beautiful blonde women in Samhale County are being murdered right under his nose, and if he stopped drinking himself into darkness long enough to investigate, he might be forced to accept personal responsibility for their last breaths. One by one, another pretty face joins the parade of dead women, but there is one Richard is terrified will join the lineup: Amy Jones, the sunshine of Samhale, who makes the butterflies in his stomach fly in drunken loops.

Spring City, New Hampshire - a small town with a dark past. Overwhelmed by an early winter storm, the town is cut off from the outside world, and its residents are consumed by paranoia and bloodlust. Little do they know there is a purpose to the storm, and the malevolent ghosts of long-dead neighbors might have something to do with it. This is Spring City's last night, but its citizens won't go quietly.

Joseph Manley, a blue-collar worker from Idaho, loses his job during the 2009 economic recession. A strange turn of events sets him off on a road trip to seek out the fictional sitcom families from Good Times and All in the Family. Haunted inns, abandoned houses, catastrophic weather, quirky couples, gangs, hippies, soldiers, loving dads, strong mothers — even an intuitive stray dog await Joe on his journey.

In a time where computers and cell phones no longer function, money has no value, and humanity itself is threatened, 15-year-old Joshua Barratt takes to the road and pushes his mind, body and spirit to their limits. His fight to survive and reconnect with others forces Joshua to question his motives, his self-worth, and ultimately the reality around him. A gift beyond his understanding is waiting for him if he can just find the courage to seek it.

A troubled young couple on a cross-country road trip takes a wrong turn in the Nevada desert. A voodoo spirit makes a bloody pact with a house cat. A father’s confrontation with his young son’s bully turns violent. An elderly man gets personalized messages in a fortune cookie. A home invasion takes an unexpected turn. A medieval monastery is infested with an ancient, predatory evil. A used car salesman makes a purchase from a time-traveling madman. These are nine odd tales. No more, no less.

Ever since the Great Layoff of 2030, the police have led a war against artificial intelligence. AI replaced nearly all human jobs - and mankind snapped. Riots tore apart cities, suicides claimed whole families. Civil war seemed inevitable, until a strange new drug pacified the nation. When Stanley Duncan let his cyborg livestream at a local supermarket, he unknowingly invited war to his door.

When Dr. Wells, the head of the Place in Time Travel Agency, learns that someone's trying to track down the ancestors of his star employee, there are few people he can turn to without revealing her secrets. But who better to jump down the timeline and rescue Elise from being snuffed out of existence generations before she's born than the very person whose life she saved a 100 years in the future?

Scott, Miranda, and Dixon have no idea where they came from. At the age of seven, they fell through a portal onto the planet Cova. Their bodies were marked with mysterious surgical scars. Doctors and scientists watched them grow, always looking for answers. Were they aliens? Bio-engineered? Children from the future? On the eve of their adulthood, answers finally arrive. A scattered and tattered people from the other side of the world seem to know the truth about the portal. However, these new people hold subtle, unexplained powers. Can they be trusted?

In Open Your Eyes: A Prescription for Change in American Health Care, Dr. Eduardo Balbona shares his expert advice on how U.S. health care can be improved from its current state, in which both patients and doctors are unable to thrive. Gleaned from his more than 30 years of practicing medicine, Balbona’s text illustrates how our ideas on medical care have developed, and ultimately at what cost.

Desperate to avoid impeachment and possible civil war, president Robert Chamberlain signs into law an executive order annexing every sovereign nation on Earth. Drafted primarily for vanity's sake, the attempt was made to hold things together at home while projecting strength abroad. Dr. Angelica Thompson was elated the first time she ever heard her work speak. It devastated her the day the Pentagon ripped the P.O.P.E., her artificial intelligence supercomputer out of her underground lab and out of her life.

Today, the name Ronald Reagan is synonymous with great leadership. He led by example at a time when few thought it possible, and against the advice of experts, he went to the Berlin Wall and demanded it be torn down. He worked at keeping up the morale of his fellow citizens in honoring the sacrifices at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, relighting the Statue of Liberty, and giving a magnificent speech for America's children on the occasion of the Challenger disaster.

Truth Seeker Kuntza faces challenges above and below the sea’s surface, fighting deadly misinformation as well as a bizarre and complicated plot to wipe out most of the Sky Fairy Tribe. Under his instruction, lightning machines are constructed to overcome a terrible snowstorm. But what of the grave threat from the Water Fairy Tribe - Kuntza’s tribe - to the surface tribes?

Cambrian Bijou has skillfully played a fashion-conscious prince at his father's court for over 300 years. However, the game changes when wind-ship Captain Kimberlite - Constance, to her friends - agrees to assist with his latest investigation. Can their carefully cultivated romance survive the combined stresses of court life, a military inquiry, and helpful relations? Friends, foes, and family all weave their way into the tapestry of Dress Blues, but it's help from an unexpected source that may save the season.

Prince Cambrian is on a boringly routine assignment at Fort Bakarti when a much more interesting mystery finds him. A sky fairy fleet windship - lost and presumed crashed during the pirate offensive - is discovered intact on the beach near the remote Port Herio. How did the Talon get there? Where has she been for the last two months? Where is her crew now? To answer these and other questions, Cambrian takes flight with the lovely Captain Kimberlite to investigate a small nearby volcanic island, which is the only thing the meager clues have in common.

Khulani, a young warrior of the Imaziɣen tribe, knew he had a special gift from a very early age. He lived a simple life with his tribespeople following the herds of Hartebeest across the endless grasslands that they called their home. Already a successful hunt master with the potential to be a great tribal leader, life was good for Khulani, and then his world was inexplicably turned upside down.

After Lamia escaped the island prison of Poros, Viktor knew it was only a matter of time before she showed up in his neck of the woods. Now that she has, he’s got work to do. And he’s going to need help, because she’s not travelling alone. Lamia’s arrival heralds the origins of the vampire and might just give Viktor the key to their demise. But it’s not all good news...with Lamia’s maker now gone forever, there remains the question of what became of his brother.

When I crashed on this planet 15,000 years ago, I thought that my friend - the living spaceship Sleipnir - was destroyed. But it turns out the mysterious signal I’ve been receiving for the past nine years is his cry for help. It’s led me back to Romania, back to the mountain I almost died on, and - just maybe - back to the legendary being who once saved my life.

Jinx's little sister, Ayla, has warned him time and time again that one day his mischief-making will get him in to serious trouble. But Jinx isn't interested in his sister's warnings; not even when the trouble she warns him about is a cave full of goblins. Like most pixies, Jinx loves to play tricks and explore. But, unlike most pixies, Jinx takes his tricks too far on a regular basis, causing chaos and taking risks that no other pixie would even consider, much to the amusement of his faerie dragon friends, Caia and Draco, and the annoyance of just about everyone else.