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They’re widely known as raiders, pirates, invaders, and savages, but despite their fearsome reputation (or perhaps because of it), Vikings continue to fascinate us today. And it’s not hard to see why. They were brave, rebellious, and fierce fighters—plus, based on Hollywood’s portrayals, they were quite good-looking. While media highlights their violence and toughness, there’s more to the Viking culture than just conquering lands. The Vikings were not just warriors but also traders, explorers, and lawmakers....

The world’s most famous lake hides more than a legend—it hides a predator. When a classified sonar image reveals something massive moving beneath the surface of Loch Ness, Lux Branson is brought in to confirm the impossible. What begins as a scientific expedition quickly escalates into a desperate race for answers, as the creature stirs from its centuries-long slumber. But they aren’t the only ones on the hunt. As the team descends into the murky depths, they face sabotage, betrayal, and a threat that isn’t just real—it’s awake. And it’s hungry. From castle ruins to underwater...

When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid becoming stranded at the bottom of the world, of course!

The fourth novel of adventure set upon His Majesty's New World. A new year brings ominous silence to the new world. As the b'ys of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment await their next mission, British and American leaders on the old world plan for the worst, and seek options that might give humanity a hope of surviving war with the blue men. When intelligence appears suggesting help might almost be within reach, the b'ys are sent on a risky mission into the unknown. Led by the son of a politician, will Waller and his men have a fighting chance? A dangerous drive awaits them.

POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION BY JERRY D. YOUNG A strong-willed heiress leads an Expedition to the Amazon Jungle in hopes of finding growth opportunities for her family’s empire. Accompanied by professional adventurer Jack Sandusky and a team of well-trained experts, she struggles to balance the responsibility of being in charge of the Expedition with the fact that she herself has no personal experience and must trust her team. She quickly learns the difficulty and the frustration of leading others in such a dangerous venture. Perhaps most frustrating is that fact that Jack Sandusky not only ...

The world thinks it knows the truth. Lux Branson knows better. After a media frenzy and a growing public obsession with cryptids, Lux is pulled into a high-stakes mission to locate an injured Sasquatch—and keep it out of the wrong hands. But she’s not the only one searching, and the others have very different plans. With government agents, mercenaries, and opportunists closing in, Lux must rely on her instincts, her team, and the fragile bond she’s forged with the creature itself. Because what’s at stake isn’t just one life—but the survival of an entire hidden species. The hunt ...

After a long and exalted military career, General Connor Gates thought he was finally ready to retire. He was wrong. When interstellar probes sent to Earth’s star system report back 40 years earlier than expected, the colonists learn that humans somehow survived the cataclysmic events of the past…but so did the enemy.

Tuk-Palteia Liam has survived the front lines of a civil war and a return visit to his home planet, but now he has to face the ultimate obstacle. Stubborn lovers. As long as Liam and Ondry have the same goals - the pursuit of profits and status - they are the perfect partnership. But now Ondry wants to protect his palteia at any cost, even if it costs him his newly won rank. Liam hates the idea of Ondry sacrificing for him, and he is not going to allow Ondry to lose status under any circumstances.

The year is 1943 and White Rose resistance leaders are caught distributing pamphlets documenting Nazi atrocities. Before their arrest and execution, they steal artwork and jewels worth millions from the Nazis who have cruelly confiscated them from political prisoners and Jews. Entrusted with the vital sixth pamphlet and the location of the valuables, Katharina Hermann escapes but is cornered at a small Porto, Portugal café by the brutal SS Officer, Karl Brunner...It’s twenty years later. When they hear a faint cry for help, Spud and Eddie investigate and are thrust into a swirling ...

He was a legend in his own time. Hated by some, loved by others, respected by all. He fought for his people against all odds. His name struck fear in the hearts of his enemies. Years after his death, his name in WWII was a battle cry for the airborne soldier, a shout of courage, of determination, of victory.

At the end of the Civil War, Jim Parker goes back to the Indians to prepare them for the future that only he knows. As an astronaut lost in a time warp in 2008, he has befriended Major Mark Barkley of the War Department, who calls on Jim for special projects. At different times, Jim is met by a rider on a huge red horse, who claims to fulfill Biblical prophesy. Jim thinks the rider is an insane preacher, but when he shows up in the middle of Custer's battle at the Little Big Horn, he begins to wonder.

After two years of pensive peace, an investigation points to the use of a Galio super-weapon as the culprit. The Jarog, Valdivia assists mankind's march into unknown space. With the galaxy's most powerful empire nipping at Earth's borders, First Lieutenant Warder must put every ounce of his skill and luck into stopping the imminent onslaught of his people in the most dangerous mission he's been given yet.

Expedition, the explosive second novel in the Locus series.

The sins of the distant past echo far into the future.

An uneasy peace settles over the strange new world into which the M/S Atlantica has been thrust by the Locus. The cruise ship leads her war-weary fleet on its first, tentative steps beyond simple survival. But an expedition to the mainland changes everything, sparking a chain of events leading to a devastating new conflict.

Where life as we know it is impossible, the real adventure begins. Venus is a hostile planet, covered by active volcanoes, but NASA launches an expedition to search for life there anyway. Their specially developed airship cruises in the clouds of Venus to serve as a research platform for its four astronauts. When they discover dangerous activities on the glowing-hot surface, there can only be one explanation: A highly sophisticated life form must be at work.

A sweltering New York City summer. A crate that radiates an impossible, supernatural cold. For crypto-archaeologist Knox Wilder, it’s just another Tuesday—until he opens the box and finds the severed finger of a creature that shouldn't exist. The discovery, coupled with a desperate plea from a remote Himalayan monastery, launches Knox and his partner, the brilliant Dr. Rhea Mallory, on a perilous expedition into the high-altitude wilderness of Nepal. They seek the lost monastery of Gampo Nagpo, a place local guides refuse to speak of, a valley from which no one has ever returned. But ...

In the frozen silence of the Himalayas, something impossible awakens beneath the ice. When a seasoned alpinist vanishes during a high-altitude expedition, what begins as a desperate search spirals into a discovery that defies logic, history, and human understanding. Trapped between survival and revelation, Daniel finds himself in a place no map has charted — a place that was never meant to be found. Blending atmospheric science fiction with mystery and psychological tension, The Alien Lab: Part I is the first step into a larger universe. For those who crave the awe of discovery, the ...

A military operation unlike any other on American soil, Morgan's Raid was characterized by incredible speed, superhuman endurance, and innovative tactics. One of the nation's most colorful leaders, Confederate general John Hunt Morgan, took his cavalry through enemy-occupied territory in three states in one of the longest offensives of the Civil War. The effort produced the only battles fought north of the Ohio River and reached farther north than any other regular Confederate force.

An ancient weapon. A buried secret. A hunt across time. Chyna Stone heads to the Russian Far East to investigate rumors of a legendary artifact: a bow carved from ivory and said to have belonged to a forgotten Siberian warrior queen. But what begins as an academic dig quickly spirals into danger when mercenaries show up with orders to retrieve the artifact—at any cost. As Chyna and her team navigate frozen landscapes, hidden caves, and ancient burial sites, they uncover clues that suggest the bow is more than a myth. It holds power. And someone ruthless is determined to use it. With ...

The Six Fingers return to Northem with a powerful, magical artifact known as the Azure Font. They mount it atop the ancient Faellic tower, but have little idea of what comes next. When the Red Lady senses something "truly evil" rising in the south, they embark on their third expedition. It takes them across the nightmarish Sea of Spires and into the heart of Atmaa, the last kingdom untouched by the Askerati hordes. As they discover, something worse than child-burning zealots has awakened.

On a cold, cloudy day in early February 1985, Shelley Wachsmann, then resident nautical archaeologist for the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, drove to Kibbutz Ginosar, an agricultural settlement near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Two brothers, avid amateur archaeologists, had found a boat buried in the lake, its outlines revealed by receding lake waters. The boat was "possibly ancient," according to the handwritten note placed on Wachsmann's desk a day or two before.