Dark fantasy and cosmic science fiction novel set in 1980s Amsterdam. The protagonist Alex is drawn into a mysterious brothel harboring a millennia-old cosmic entity. First volume of a saga. Features 64 chapters of psychological horror, surrealism, and cosmic speculation.
When morality fled the world after the decline of human values, it did not disappear. It crossed the fog and reached an island.
Island of Morality is a symbolic and reflective fiction book about the virtues that escape a world losing its moral center and arrive on a mysterious island shaped by fog, hunger, silence, and hidden tests.
Through Truth, Generosity, Modesty, Loyalty, Mercy, Justice, Hope, and the memory of Patience, the story follows human values under pressure. Each virtue faces fear, weakness, need, and the cost of remaining true when survival itself becomes difficult.
This is not a direct moral lecture. It is a symbolic journey about conscience, community, survival, and the fragile line between protecting what is good and becoming what one once feared.
In the fog-choked slums of 1904 London, sixteen-year-old orphan Lucy Parkens discovers a crescent-shaped mark behind her ear – a mark that a shadowy secret society called the Circle has been hunting for generations. When a dying workhouse inmate gives her a hidden diary, Lucy learns that her mother was one of the “marked,” and that the Circle experiments on children like her. Hunted by the elegant but ruthless Madame Vesper and her agents, Lucy must escape the workhouse, flee across the rooftops of Whitechapel, and stow away on a cargo ship to Liverpool – all while protecting her dying friend Tommy and a young marked girl named Eliza. This gritty, psychological thriller explores poverty, survival, and the cost of resistance, with no supernatural elements – only the terrifying reality that some secrets are worth killing for.
In this e-book series,I have described about My Mom's Romantic Life spent with our Uncle's home at a Night. I also translated into Multiple Asian and European Languages in this book.
In the year 20XX, Bael Callum navigates life in LA by letting his AI assistant make all of his decisions for him. A chance meeting with a rebellious woman named Stellar kicks off a series of events that threaten to tear their lives—and world—apart. Bael's mother, beset by dementia, begins making grave predictions, and someone from Stellar's past draws her into a group of revolutionaries, thrusting her into the crosshairs of the brutal security state. As AI creeps into every aspect of life, a new military surveillance program threatens the tenuous freedoms Americans still enjoy, and a global catastrophe lurks in the shadows, Bael and Stellar must first save themselves if they are to have any hope of saving the world.
In 2053, in the fully automated city of New Geneva, artificial intelligence manages health, transport, welfare, memory routing, and civic life so completely that most people no longer notice what has been lost. Miriam Voss, a former welfare coordinator, receives an impossible message pointing back to March 14, 2031: the last human confirmation window for a system now governing millions. As she investigates Appendix C, she uncovers a hidden architecture beneath the official story, one designed not only to predict human action, but to redirect memory, thought, and intention before they fully form.
The Useless is a philosophical dystopian science fiction novel about post-work society, surveillance, dependency, institutional legitimacy, and the human need to remain necessary to one another. It follows multiple lives across a managed world where comfort has replaced purpose, and where the most dangerous form of control is not open force, but seamless substitution.
In the quiet town of Willowdale, a group of lifelong friends harbors a secret so dark it threatens to destroy them one by one. When mysterious deaths begin to strike, each connected by a shared cup of tea, suspicion brews and trust shatters. A Bitter Tea is a gripping small-town drama filled with suspense, betrayal, and the haunting consequences of buried truths. As secrets rise to the surface, the question remains: who will be the next to sip the poison?
Jaded, “maidenless,” hyper-sensitive. Savoy Matviyenko is a biracial femoid at odds with the world. Not a female incel, or a normie “feeeemale,” but someone caught in the murky interstices between the two. When she isn’t doom-scrolling the dark recesses of the deep web, drawing digital p*rn for sicko clients, grinding away at a dead-end job, or lurking in dingy comedy clubs with her slovenly roommate, Dax, she fancies herself a future botanist, a would-be comedian or poet, a present-day edgelord who’s *totally not like other girls.*
Once Savoy starts “courting” (stalking) Avery Bazin, a burgeoning sculptor with a penchant for Cioran, her underlying psychological imbalances tip her towards instability. Her delusional notions of romance—spurred on by her tumultuous upbringing and neurotic idealism—steer her into a crash course of self-reconciliation. Can a hopelessly romantic femoid keep it together long enough to find love in today’s caustic, chronically online culture? Or is an ADHD-riddled “BPD baddie” like Savoy destined to be forever alone with her pet slugs (ಥ_ಥ)? After an unhinged stand-up debut that almost lands her in the can, and some (*kwazy*) time spent on the brink of s*icidal collapse, Savoy must overcome the loathing of her era and find her way back to Earth.
*Femoid* is a metamodern novel whose hybrid pastiche of styles reflects the fractured mindset of Gen Z and the pluralized toxicity they were born into. It embodies a new alternative archetype in literature, giving shape to an urgent ethos for a disoriented generation.
(From the author of *Echolalia Review: An Anti-Poetry Collection.*)
Hello, dear readers!
Get ready for a thrilling, heartwarming, and often hilarious journey with Harnum, a space squirrel from another planet who crash-lands somewhere deep in the jungles of India.
Stranded and confused, Harnum must first survive among wild jungle creatures with instincts far more primitive than his own. But things only get more intense when he stumbles into the chaotic streets of Pune city, where he's mistaken for just another animal... until humans realize he's something far more extraordinary.
Captured, chased—and always thinking on his furry feet—Harnum must use his wits, courage to navigate a world that's both beautiful and dangerous.
A Science Fiction novella for young adults (100 pages), taking place in a future where east and west are at a standoff and powers of the mind become the norm until a catastrophic event occurs, throwing the lives of the teenage fighters into disarray.
Nel cuore pulsante della Milano notturna, tra luci stroboscopiche e sogni scintillanti,
Asia gestisce la discoteca del suo ex fidanzato Francesco, uno dei locali più esclusivi della città, frequentato da persone facoltose e da chi ruota intorno al mondo della moda. Caterina, moglie di Francesco, ex modella altezzosa e irascibile, è attanagliata da conflitti interiori e grossi problemi psicologici, e sfoga le proprie frustrazioni sui dipendenti del locale, spesso umiliandoli in pubblico. Un tragico evento incanala gli eventi lungo una china pericolosa e inarrestabile.
Tra boriosi figli di papà e giovani ragazze disposte a tutto pur di raggiungere la notorietà, tra giornaliste a caccia di scandali e uomini della sicurezza dall'aspetto poco incoraggiante, l'autore indaga nell'animo dei protagonisti al di là delle luci della ribalta, mettendo in evidenza sentimenti e comportamenti solitamente nascosti dall'immagine pubblica.
Nessuno è innocente, e al Mediterraneo la verità è la danza più pericolosa di tutte.
St. Augustine, Florida. 1985.
Veronica “Six” Ingram always thought her father had simply vanished. That is, until a strange boy appears beneath the lighthouse, whispering warnings about time, war, and a token that glows with power.
Now she knows the truth:
Her father isn’t missing—he’s lost in time. And she’s the only one who can find him.
Drawn into a secret world of time travelers, Veronica finds herself caught between two rival factions—one sworn to protect history, the other determined to disrupt it. With the ancient St. Augustine Lighthouse acting as a time portal, she races through key moments in history to uncover the truth about her family, her future, and the boy who might break her heart—or save it.
As timelines blur and secrets unravel, Veronica must make an impossible choice… before time runs out.
Of Time and Light is a genre-bending young adult novel blending time travel, romance, and historical fantasy, perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and Stranger Things.
Dans un futur pas si lointain, suite à l’apparition d’une nouvelle invention technologique permettant aux humains de changer de corps, la société a subi de grandes modifications aussi bien culturelles, économiques que sociales basées en grande partie sur l’apparence.
Enzo un adolescent complexé par son corps cherche à devenir le plus « beau » possible afin d’être accepté par ses camarades et par cette société. En chemin pour réaliser son objectif il va découvrir les côtés sombres de celle-ci en étant notamment mêlé à une mystérieuse enquête sur un meurtrier en série voleur de corps.
Mais est-ce vraiment la solution pour Enzo, et pour nous tous d’obtenir un corps « parfait » ? C’est ce que vous découvrirez dans « Physical Society ».
Have you ever seen a pregnant elf? Halfling quintuplets? A tiny bearded dwarf baby or a six foot tall GIANT baby?\
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In a land where Maternal Magic once protected every mother and child, birth has become deadly. Fresh out of midwizardry school, Izzie is determined to use her blood magic to save lives.
Maternal Magic is waning each year. She’s lost friends and patients. And no one knows why. Haunted by an ancient ritual that went tragically wrong, Izzie has sworn to do no more harm. But when Cosconia’s twelve races vie for the formerly uninhabitable Wasteland, war threatens to consume the continent—and somehow Izzie ends up in the middle of the conflict.
What’s a wartime midwizard to do? Izzie must face the trauma of her past—which might have more to do with their current predicament than she realizes—and possibly make peace with a very attractive, very annoying wizard.
He wakes up in a different body.
So begins the journey of Ash—short for Pin Asher9919—who awakens on a hospital bed on, he believes, a different planet after an automobile accident took the bodily life of an Earth human named Edward Fleishman. Ash is told he was the victim of a serious brain injury and miraculously recovered from being brain dead in a coma, but Ash feels he knows the truth: his spirit has replaced the distressed spirit of the former Edward Fleishman.
And so Ash's new life on earth begins, complete with a spouse who is a stranger to him, a body he is not sure how to use, a world he must learn to navigate, and a government he can't trust.
**The Visitor** is a unique blend of science fiction, social commentary, and human drama, with dystopian and literary elements. It explores identity, alienation, social and political conditions, and government overreach in our current society from the viewpoint of an outsider--an alien spirit which has replaced that of a human after an automobile accident--or is he really just a human soul affected by a traumatIc brain injury? For those who love stories like *Stranger in a Strange Land, 1984,* works of Philip K. Dick, and Kashuo Ishiguro’s *Never Let Me Go.*
He’s an arrogant ex-military cybercrime expert, I can’t resist him this could be my last chance at love.
We’re forced to work together so being with him is off-limits because it could complicate our mission, and the entire NSA system could fail.
We must stop a ruthless hacker from threatening U.S. infrastructure.
He is a ruggedly handsome alpha male with a great sense of humor and such perfect eye candy.
The electric sparks between us are evident but I must focus on solving the urgent security breach.
Together, we make an unstoppable team; Eli’s tech genius and my forensic expertise in profiling hackers. I anticipate their moves, and Eli executes plans with military precision bringing my strategies to life.
Cybercrimes won’t stop, and criminal masterminds make these cases increasingly complex.
Falling in love could get in the way, ruin my professional reputation, and put the country at risk.
Logic has always been my fallback, and surrendering to love has never been easy, but maybe Eli might be my happily ever after.
Eileen McParland, a socially awkward university professor, travels to Ireland to explore its historic castles. What begins as a simple getaway to explore her ancestry turns into a chilling mystery when she notices strange occurrences and unsettling interactions among the castle’s guests.
After a young employee, Leah, disappears. The whispers of ancient folklore and a haunting melody tied to the castle’shistory seem all too real to ignore.
As the days tick by, Eileen realizes that someone—or something—has a dark agenda, and the clock is running out. With each passing hour, the mystery grows more twisted, and Eileen finds herself drawn to Tom, a brooding psychologist and musician whose own troubled past seems entwined with the castle’s secrets. The attraction between them deepens, but so does her suspicion. Could Tom’s hidden wounds be linked to Leah’s disappearance—or is he hiding something far worse?
With a quirky detective trailing behind, the investigation races against time. As the countdown continues, Eileen must uncover the truth before the darkness claims her, too. But the closer she gets to the answers, the more she wonders if she’ll survive to tell the tale.
Zamanın Gölgesinde: Efes is a historical fiction novel that blends mystery, time displacement, and inner transformation. The story follows Mutlu, a modern man whose visit to the ancient city of Ephesus turns into an unexpected journey across time.
As the boundaries between past and present begin to dissolve, Mutlu finds himself confronting the Roman era, hidden truths, and his own unresolved questions. History is no longer distant; it becomes personal, emotional, and transformative.
Through its rich historical atmosphere and introspective narrative, the novel explores themes of time, fate, love, and identity, inviting the reader to reflect on the enduring connection between history and the human soul.
Cleo:
I had a plan to come to SFU and start a new life. Everything was supposed to be normal—easy even. No boys. No drama. My dad coaches here, and we'd already come up with our game plan for the year—go to home games and any practice he needed me at. Which was easy enough until one night changed everything. I thought I'd be able to move on from him, but everything hits the fan when I see him at my dad's hockey practice. Did I also mention that he's my partner for a major project?
Blake Wilder was certainly not a part of my plan.
Blake:
Meeting Cleo Jones at a pre-semester party was not on my bingo card for this semester. Hooking up with her the day before meeting her as my coach's only daughter was certainly as far away from my mind as possible. I had a plan. Play the game and show the scouts that I'm ready for the big leagues. But when our project has us getting closer than ever, I can't help but focus on the girl in front of me a little too much.
This unique publication is a carefully prepared edition of the medieval treatise “De Porta Primordii. Tractatus de Virtute Occulta” – "On the Gates to the Beginning: A Treatise on Hidden Power." Available to the public for the first time, this text unveils the mysteries of ancient esoteric teachings passed down through generations. The publication includes the original Latin manuscript, along with the author’s translations into English and Russian, as well as a private study tracing possible sources and stylistic elements characteristic of the 15th century. This edition will intrigue anyone interested in the history of magic and mystical philosophy of the Middle Ages.
In this world full of open questions and uncertainty Human is the story of people engaging to cope with what they perceive and experience. This future world is easy, yet strange to live in as a human.
Queen with its AI-powered, mysterious operations is providing people virtually everything. The role of a human being is to enjoy. New controlling orders, regular bright light sessions and queen bots raise suspicions.
However, we can evidence those who are human. Queen wants to make clear there is a difference between them and human. What will people do? Will they learn something about themselves, the world and Queen? The stakes are high in this adventure about what we can call human.
Human is a timely book in this era of Artificial Intelligence. Human seeks to be a timeless story touching both our generations and the future generations to come.
It the heartrending sequel to if he had been with me taking us through the journey of finns perspective of our beloved story shortly before the tragedy
It also includes the perspectives of his best friend jack and beloved autumn and how they are coping after the tragedy
The artbook featuring drawings, other illustrations, and interviews with the creators of Macross Plus. Accompanies the 4K Blu-ray release of the OVA and film version.
I was only in Bliss Peak to do two things:
See about my grandmother.WriteI wasn’t supposed to get to this town and show my behind. Literally.
But I could explain. There was a bat. In my shower. And the threat of rabies was enough to have me sprinting out of my cabin to my only neighbor’s house, with just my towel and suds covering my body.
My neighbor watched me run circles around his house before I could tell him what was wrong.
He was even nice enough to let me wait in his house with a change of his clothes while he took care of my bat problem.
Thankfully, it wasn’t even a bat.
But I still had a problem.
I’d come to these woods to write and now I was distracted. Because my neighbor had a roommate, and they invited me to dinner every night. Took care of me when I didn’t know I needed it.
And loved me through my grief.
I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with them. But I was learning that not everything went according to plan
Genres:
M M F
Romance
African American Romance
LGBT
Polyamory
Small Town Romance
Contemporary Romance
Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending—literally.
On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly a month of August 6ths since, Phoebe has relived the same day: pancakes with Mom in the morning, Scrabble with Dad in the afternoon, and constant research into how to reach tomorrow and make it to her appointment with a doctor who may actually take her IBS seriously. Everything is exactly, agonizingly the same.
That is, until the most mundane car crash ever sends Phoebe's childhood crush Jess crashing into the time loop.
Now also stuck, Jess convinces Phoebe to break out of her routine and take advantage of their consequence-free days to have fun. From splurging on concert tickets, to enacting (mostly) harmless revenge, to all-night road trips, Jess pulls Phoebe further and further out of her comfort zone—and deeper in love with them. But the more Phoebe falls for Jess, the more she worries about what's on the other side of the time loop. What if Jess is only giving her the time of day because they're trapped with no other options? What if Phoebe's new doctor dismisses her chronic pain? And perhaps worst of all: What if she never gets the chance to find out?
In this original fiction series, the world of Are You Afraid of the Dark? becomes even bigger and spookier, introducing an all-new Midnight Society and chilling, never-before-told tales for fans of the show and horror fanatics alike. With acclaimed horror writers behind each spine-tingling adventure in the series, it’s sure to appeal to brave readers of Goosebumps, Fear Street, and Five Nights at Freddy’s. Read if you dare! This series will keep you up long past your bedtime .
The first book to positively identify who the true author of "William Shakespeare" ***really*** was. It lists many of the aliases he used (including many who have already been suggested as "alternative authors") but adds a whole lot more. The book exposes the exact location of the Bard's remains, which are in a private crypt beneath a village church a few miles from his home town wrapped in a body shaped coffin.
It delves deep into each prospective alias and links them together in totally unexpected ways. The Bard genuinely wanted everyone to know who wrote his works - but only after his death. He left numerous tantalising clues that were literally "**under our nose**" and "**sticking out like a sore thumb**".
He even left "fishy" associations to Herrings and Pilchards through his aliases fake names. He used the symbolism of lambs/sheep/ewes & ewers to identify his work as his own. He was a polymath and a polyglot with a great sense of humour and a desire to educate.
**Lirien and Her Friends Save the Magic Forest**
by William Bold
**A Fantasy Adventure for Children**
Step into the Enchanted Magic Forest !
The Story: Lirien and Her Friends Save the Magic Forest
Embark on an enchanted journey through the Magic Forest with Lirien and her friends in this spellbinding children's fantasy adventure.
The Magic Forest is a place where colorful flowers bloom, playful animals frolic and mischievous elves play.
But when a mysterious poisonous rain threatens to destroy the forest, Lirien, Nym, and Eleri must come together to uncover the source of the toxic rain and save their beloved home.
Join Lirien and her friends as they embark on an adventure to save their beloved forest and learn valuable lessons about friendship, determination, and the power of working together.
**The Lessons:** Discover the Power of Teamwork, Perseverance and Creativity
As they navigate through the dangers of Rascal's castle and discover the importance of environmental protection, children will learn valuable lessons about teamwork, perseverance, and creativity, all with the goal of making the world a better place for future generations.
**The Illustrations**: Bring the Magic Forest to Life
The book is beautifully illustrated with detailed and vibrant drawings that will transport children to the magical forest and bring the story to life. The illustrations are a delight to the eyes and will captivate children's imagination.
**Target Audience**: for children aged 5-12 who love fantasy and adventure
Written by the talented William Bold, "Lirien and Her Friends Save the Magic Forest" is a must-read that will inspire, educate and entertain young readers.
Don't miss out on this magical tale, order your copy today!
We survive capitalism. Evolving into a library economy, we flourish in a garden city powered by the sun. People no longer need to kill themselves working or each other, with all of our needs met. And yet, malice lives on in paradise.
When a painter is murdered in a library of things, citizen detectives use crowdsolving to catch the criminal. A Native-American crime-scene investigator pools his expertise with a full-time dad, an ex-cop bloodhound handler, and a femme fatale.
Another fantastic story from the Once Upon a Time
in Heaven series tells about the adventures of a diver. One of
the young man’s deep dives suddenly developed into something
more and changed his life radically.
Em Guernsey, a pioneira barca a vapor conhecida como Durande proporciona regularidade e segurança no transporte de cargas e passageiros pelo Canal da Manhã, o que faz a fortuna de seu proprietário, Lethierry. Nessa mesma ilha vivia Gilliatt, um hábil marinheiro secretamente apaixonado por Déruchette, sobrinha de Lethierry, mas que era mal visto por todos, por ser tido como bruxo.
Em um suspeito naufrágio, a Durande colide e fica suspensa entre os inóspitos recifes Douvres. A fortuna de Lethierry passa a depender do salvamento de seu motor a vapor, não afetado pelo sinistro. Déruchette é prometida em casamento a quem puder resgatá-lo.
Por amor, Gilliatt parte para essa tarefa considerada impossível e, sozinho, se voluntaria para a luta contra os elementos, as criaturas do mar, as privações e a solidão.
Aelfraed breaks under the pressure of his life at university under the heavy handed gaze of his father. Slipping out in the late hours he takes a spur of the moment trip to see his brother, Aethelric. He hopes for just some time to get away from the stress however his luck is severely off. A weekend to clear his head turns into stumbling upon the attempted murder of a baker, the appearance of his father and the worst dinner party of his life.
Anthony has been reborn!
Placed into the remarkable game-like world of Pangera.
But something seems a little off... What's with these skills? Bite? Dig?
Wait....
He's been reborn as a WHAT?!
Follow Anthony as he attempts to adjust to his new life as an ant in his new Dungeon home. He'll have to learn how to survive, level-up, and grow both himself and his bite-sized colony into a force to be reckoned with.Anthony has been reborn!
Placed into the remarkable game-like world of Pangera.
But something seems a little off... What's with these skills? Bite? Dig?
Wait....
He's been reborn as a WHAT?!
Follow Anthony as he attempts to adjust to his new life as an ant in his new Dungeon home. He'll have to learn how to survive, level-up, and grow both himself and his bite-sized colony into a force to be reckoned with.
Malaria Fiddy Juan (Area 51 rhyme) is a novel of a protagonist who suffers from an IQ of 350.
The high IQ does weird stuff to his brain, making him a genius at one second, an unstable predator the other second, and something that is very dangerous the third second. Everything spirals out of control! Vladimir Ivanov runs away from his job after getting enough of the “system” and ends up on an infinite vacation that never ends. It both has an ending and doesn’t. Vladimir Ivanov uses speed every day too, which is dangerous when you have 350 IQ, and he’s jacked all the time too. He builds crazy weapons himself, does very bizarre unexpected stuff and turns slowly into a criminal. He can’t control it as he’s been loading up rage for years. Everything spirals out of control on his crazy adventure!
*Toothless* is a LitRPG Horror novel about four individuals who must navigate through a glitched game system that reads their minds and knows their fears. It is a gripping tale—
[Hold up. Let’s break the blurb and get real with the description. This is a story about 4 friends who are trapped in an RPG. However, it’s a hilarious attempt at horror that will keep you engaged and thrilled if you enjoy: LitRPG, Crunchy stats, Crazy player stunts, and a Glitched game system. If those aren’t your thing, this probably isn’t for you—and that’s okay. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the story. It’s a quick read that skims the surface of the mind and fear—enough to create questions (but requires you to look for the answers). So, without further ado—]
Read the thrilling adventure and uncover the depths of unrestrained fears [maybe?] with *Toothless*.
Brock Steele knows his name – and very little else. After a vicious attack in mysterious circumstances, Brock’s memory has abandoned him. He has no idea why he’s being hounded by a mysterious man with a gun or why bad things keep happening to the people he loves. And why are strange voices talking to him from the walls of his flat? When he’s forced to go on the run to save his life, he has to decide who to trust – and making a mistake could be fatal. Can Brock find out who he is, why he’s being hunted, and stay alive into the bargain? Sphere is the first novel in the fast-paced Brock Steele series by Alex Bloodfire.
Featuring a broad cast of diverse characters, this is a contemporary fantasy that focuses on a young man whose neurodiversity provides not only the key to his own abilities, but also his place in a cosmic conflict between government agencies, inter-dimensional beings, and generations of magic-wielding secret societies and heroes.
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a groundbreaking science‑fiction novella that follows an unnamed scientist—known simply as the Time Traveler—who invents a machine that can move through time. When he journeys to the distant future (the year 802,701 A.D.), he discovers that humanity has evolved into two distinct species:
The Eloi — small, delicate, childlike people who live carefree lives on the surface. Though peaceful, they are passive, weak, and seemingly unintelligent.
The Morlocks — pale, nocturnal, subterranean creatures who maintain mysterious machines underground and live in darkness. Their relationship to the Eloi is far more sinister than it first appears.
Through the Time Traveler’s exploration—and his growing horror—Wells uses adventure and speculation to explore social inequality, evolution, technology, and the dangers of human complacency. The novel acts as both an exciting scientific romance and a pointed reflection on Victorian society, particularly the widening gap between the privileged and the working classes.
This abridged Core Classics edition adds helpful context for young readers, including explanations of Victorian thinkers, science concepts like the Fourth Dimension, and commentary on the novel’s themes.
Short book about a thief that has to steal a specific book for their client, but finds themselves competing with the person who is supposed to be on their side as they break into a dead Wizard's Tower and face the challenges within
In this exciting, edge of the seat thriller, the Radcliffe-Marxists have been causing havoc on a terraformed Venus. Captain John “Bull” Bullock of the United Planetary Special Forces and his A-Team are sent to Venus to train the militia and try to stop the rebel terrorists. A powerful anomaly tied to a mysterious edifice has been discovered on Fall Planet, another of the six planets that form the United Planets. The phenomenon is of such power that every team, military or civilian, that has gone to investigate, has never been heard from, again. Information and technology are being blacked out by the phenomenon and it may be the first indication ever discovered of alien intelligent life. Where did it come from and who built it? Is it a weapon of mass destruction? The leader of the rebels hastily leaves Venus and heads to Fall Planet, seeking to take possession of it and use it against the populations of the planets that make up the United Planets. Bull and his A-Team, along with a beautiful physicist, must stop the terrorists before the rebels get their hands on the mysterious phenomenon and weaponize it and shut down the growing threat from the anomaly, if they can. Since no one has ever returned from investigating it, this could mean death for Bull and his team and the end of civilization.
This is a unofficial strategy guide for the Nintendo Entertainment System {NES} video game "Friday the 13th". It features color screenshots maps of the woods, and houses, and cave. It details many tips, from speed running, to glitches, and other game challenges. There are facts about the game and movies, as well as color screenshots from the movies, and color photographs of contributors whom discuss their experiences with the game. The book originally was a KickStarter book. And contributors were given the chance to include their reminiscences about the game.There are various advertisements for YouTube and Facebook pages about video games. As well as original artwork commissioned for the release of this book, by 5 artists. This book is the first in a projected "The Easy Way" series of books, focusing on completing difficult NES games. It originally sold for $20 in Hardback.
When I climbed out to the surface this morning, to scavenge some food for my village, I knew the odds were severely stacked against me. A mere nurse, I had no business going out into the sun where all kinds of monstrosities roamed. But what other choice did I have? All our scouts had already perished on previous surface runs, leaving us few other options. It was either take the gamble or let my people die of hunger.
As if to prove my fears right, I was only out in the open for a few minutes when a pack of Kinru spotted me. Standing absolutely no chance, I started to run for my life but was quickly cornered by one of the fearsome beasts.
In a last desperate attempt to defend myself, I managed to hurt one in the face…right before the creature was snatched by an even bigger monster that turned it into a snack. Then everything became a blur.
When I came to, I wasn’t the same anymore. As it turns out, wounding the Kinru had earned me some mystical energy called “Bloodpoints” which gave me access to the “Hunter’s Sight.” Now, wherever I look, I have strange words floating before my eyes urging me to assign those Bloodpoints to gain incredible skills and abilities. Moreover, if I manage to kill a monster in the future, it would seem that I could use its bones to craft powerful talismans and its organs to brew magical potions.
As I’ll learn, there’s a name for people like me who’ve unlocked the Hunter’s Sight: Venators. But if those new talents give me a chance to survive on the surface, I still am very much a green and weak Venator. I will need to keep hunting monsters if I want to increase my points and provide for my people. Who knows, someday, I might even grow strong enough to reclaim the surface from those foul beasts and the worst of them all: the Titans, the dreaded giants which drove humanity underground in the first place…
Frasei is shy young mermaid who attends the prestigious Delphic Academy to learn sea magic. But everything changes when she discovers a unique calling!
When chronic misfit Isaac Winter walks out into the freezing cold of a January night, he only has one thing on his mind: ending his own life. Instead, he encounters something in the darkness that makes life worth living. Something strange.
Something *not of this world*.
After developing an obsession with this other-worldly entity, events are set in motion that lead Isaac to a secret military organisation, strangers with superhuman powers, and – ultimately – a revelation about his own past he could never have dreamt of.
A CHANCE ENCOUNTER TURNS HER PERFECT LIFE INTO A DANGEROUS ESCAPE!
It’s a cruel and dark mystery that laces Petriville, the town that once saved Cassidy Jones and her family from the meteorite strike.
While Earth perished they thrived in a blissful utopia, orbiting Earth within the town’s indestructible sphere.
Now Cassidy is sixteen and Gina, Petriville’s founder, reveals Cassidy's assigned mate. But Cassidy meets Eric, an alluring hologram who leaves her a dire warning of Gina's malice. Cassidy’s attraction is to Eric is unnaturally intoxicating—a passion that intensifies when they share a virtual-kiss.
Cassidy yearns to meet Eric in person. But Eric is still on Earth, and Gina means for him to follow the rest of Earth's citizens—into the grave
Thriller
Michael Hollinghurst is a successful corporate lawyer living a comfortable, suburban life in leafy North West London. But on 7 July 2005, his life is transformed when he steps on a London underground train targeted by Islamist suicide bombers. While most passengers in his carriage are killed, Michael survives the explosion but is confined to a wheelchair as a result. Coming to terms with his predicament and controlling his own feelings of guilt as a survivor conspire to push him in a direction that is out of character and a tad reckless. In a quest to seek retribution, he resorts to embracing the internet and posing as a radical Islamist in order to snare potential perpetrators. Much to his surprise, his shambolic scheme yields results and is brought to the attention of both GCHQ and a terrorist cell. But before long, dark forces begin to gather and close in on him. There is seemingly no way out for Michael Hollinghurst. There is nowhere to hide. He has become, quite literally, a sitting target.
"'The Chair Man' would make an excellent book club choice, stimulating discussion and lively argument. It contains masses of detailed information, selection from which can justify a wide range of interpretations. Many readers will admire Hollinghurst. He is a good father, particularly to his daughter Natasha, who considers him "the best frigging dad in the world", and he possesses "in spades" the "primal need to feel and protect your own flesh and blood." His son Ben thinks he "could always see the good in others." But that is exactly how many terrorists are remembered by almost all who knew and loved them.
"The nearest I ever got to a "terrorist incident" was in East London, when I heard the IRA bomb go off in Docklands in 1996. I cannot predict my reaction were I to be caught up personally in such events, but I hope I would not go the same way as Michael Hollinghurst, the central figure in this entertaining and elaborately-plotted novel. It is a gripping thriller that repays careful and close reading (and I will certainly read it again)."
Graham Smith, 2020
Written by a former intelligence professional, Russia Rising is an international espionage thriller set within the tensions between Russia and the West. It tells the story of a global confrontation that erupts following the “Teddy Bear” bombing of Belarus by Finnish and Estonian-American human rights activists. It takes places in Finland, Estonia, Russia, Belarus, and the United States.
David Ivanovich Markoff, a CIA operative and analyst, arrives at the CIA Helsinki Station after falling out of favor at CIA Headquarters under suspicion aroused by his Russian heritage.
In Finland, Markoff survives an assassination attempt, becomes entangled in a moral and career crisis when he attempts to assist a Belarus KGB-imprisoned Estonian-American human rights activist, and encounters Finnish SUPO, Belarus KGB, Estonian KaPo, the Israeli Mossad, Russian SVR/FSB, and Helsinki-based criminal motorcycle gangs.
With twists involving a United States Ambassador to Finland, the precarious, paranoid world of CIA reality, the authoritarian police state of Belarus, and an impending confrontation between Finland and Russia, Russia Rising provides a thrilling journey as David tries to survive the power, politics and corruption of the United States diplomatic world.
<p><i>Northanger Abbey</i> is the coming-of-age story of Catherine Morland, a seventeen-year-old girl who’s entering society for the first time. Despite her naivete, she quickly gains two potential suitors. We follow Catherine as she tries to navigate the difficulties of romance, friendship, and responsibility—problems amplified by the fact that Catherine views her world through the lens of the dramatic Gothic novels she loves to read. Austen deftly satirizes both the Gothic novels popular at the time (especially <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ann-radcliffe">Ann Radcliffe’s</a> <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ann-radcliffe/the-mysteries-of-udolpho"><i>The Mysteries of Udolpho</i></a>), as well as contemporary society and women’s role in it.</p> <p>Completed in 1803, Northanger Abbey was the first of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen">Jane Austen’s</a> novels to be completed, but it was only published posthumously in 1817.</p>
