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Best-selling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known science fiction and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection contains some of the best of those stories.

Great powers no longer fight great wars. But how exactly did countries like the United States go from confronting powerful adversaries in 1914 and 1939 Europe to waging lengthy counterinsurgency campaigns in places like Iraq and Afghanistan? The answer lies in the profound geopolitical and technological changes that came in between.

In the summer of 1931, life was good for Junior Laemmle. Though only 23 years old, he was the head of all movie production for Universal Pictures, and under his reign, the studio flourished. So much so, he was about to be bestowed with the greatest honor a young executive can receive in Hollywood: a promotion to vice president of the entire company. What’s more, Carl Laemmle, his father and founder of the studio, was returning to California for the first time in years to personally present the honor to his son. Or so Junior thought.

Do I have life "more abundant"? That’s a question millions of Christians have asked down through the ages. Dan Stone asked that question during a time of spiritual frustration in his own life, and God answered by showing Dan he had been living only a part of the gospel message. Dan’s search led him to discover the truth of “Christ in you” as “the rest of the gospel” that most Christians overlook.

For those who have the intention but lack the lifetime it would take to study the entire history of spirituality, this extraordinary compendium is a great gift. Joshua David Stone has gleaned the essentials from vast research, as well as intuitive information, and woven them into a simple and engrossing exploration of self-realization.

From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren Court declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford one. Yet conservative critics have fiercely accused the justices of the Warren Court of abusing their authority....

A heart-wrenching account of one medic’s journey through the sorrow of managing the emergencies of others. This tell-all story will put you on the front line of the reality of street paramedicine. From gruesome and violent encounters to making split-second decisions which may have cost a life, experience the emotional struggle our responders have to deal with on a daily basis. Through the highs and lows of his career, ten-year Paramedic David Stone doesn’t hold back as he tells of the circumstances which haunted him and eventually drove him out of the career… and why it was all worth ...

Embark on a journey that defies conventional wisdom about health and longevity. "The Ultimate Healing and Wellness Master Course" invites you to live a full, vibrant life rather than merely avoid death. Amid rising life expectancy and an anticipated boom in the centenarian population, this book uncovers what we've learned about the art of longevity and how to maximize our time on earth.

A one time admirer looks back with a skeptical eye on the claims and teachings of Abraham-Hicks. How do they stand up in a cooler light outside the high intensity workshops and slick YouTube videos? Do the teachings make sense? Why does the organization continue to pretend Jerry Hicks is alive, more than three years after his death?

Maternal love takes a sinister turn, when a young man discovers that his mother is not quite what she seems. An ancient legend looms over a local street, as the neighborhood children search for their missing friends. And a woman awakens to the ultimate nightmare, after her bad taste in men leads to a horrifying predicament.…

A deadly killer stalks the rain-soaked streets of Shinbone, spreading panic and terror among the townsfolk. The authorities are baffled, partly because there hasn’t been a single crime in Shinbone for more than a hundred years but mostly because this particular deadly killer… …isn’t actually killing anyone. Enter Hieronymous Blush, master magician and the detective responsible for solving the mystery of The Lickspittle Leviathan. Can one man stand alone against the demonic threat of The Shinbone Shadowhunter? Of course not: he can’t even tie his own shoes. The race is on….

When CIA "fixer" Micah Dalton's friend and mentor turns up dead, he's put on a collision course with a killer who has a penchant for intricate knife-work and Native American mysticism, a sadist who is killing ex-CIA agents. The victims are hard-nosed field men whose only link to one another seems to be a global surveillance operation called Echelon. The murders appear to be acts of retribution. But for what?

Deception in the CIA, historical intrigue, and blood in the streets - Micah Dalton returns in the stunning new novel by The New York Times best-selling author.

In Vienna for a top-secret meeting with ex-Mossad agent Issadore Galan, Micah Dalton senses that something is very wrong on the streets of the Ring District. Dalton's aggressive response to enemy surveillance makes him the target of a complex plot with the potential to shatter America's strategic alliances with the rest of the civilized world.

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic story of hedonism and corruption, The Confessions of Dorian Gray imagines a world where Dorian Gray was real, and his friendship with Oscar Wilde once spawned the notorious novel. Starring Alexander Vlahos as Dorian Gray, this fourth series of supernatural horror stories comprises eight original half-hour episodes.

Not all fairy tales are about damsels in distress—some are about strong-willed girls who take matters into their own hands! In a twisted fairytale kingdom where Goldilocks walks around with a sledgehammer and the three bears dread buying the sort of furniture that's just right, a gang of marauding princesses begin to terrorise the community with a new brand of martial arts. All that stands between them and total chaos is Dimple Cute, the only daughter of a King who - for reasons known only to himself - parades around the court wearing a squirrel costume. When Dimple Cute finds herself ...

The golden age of live television comes to vivid life with the memorable and entertaining tale of Jonny Dirby, who unintentionally captivates the imagination of America with his creation of the hit show Justice Girl. This fun, engrossing work of historical fiction transports listeners back to a time when television shows were chaotic tightrope acts balancing the agendas of actors, studio executives, advertisers, and politicians - and all of it broadcast live to 50 million viewers without the security of a safety net.

CIA cleaner Micah Dalton returns for another go-round of the international espionage, government cover-ups, and high-intensity pursuit that have cemented this series in the best of spy fiction.

We loved Billy, fed and cared for him for sixteen and a half years. Bringing him home as a four month old from the shelter that rescued him, along with his sister, from underneath a suburban porch in Upstate New York, I held him easily in the palm of my hand. (Inside, full color photographs show Billy at his best.) We will never know anything about his parents or what his life was like in the months before we brought him home. But from his first days with us, he was as sweet as any cat we have ever known. It took us much longer to understand how very smart he was. This book is a sort of ...

Jerry and Esther Hicks, carried on the shoulders of Abraham and the Law of Attraction, swept up thousands of followers, publishing books and selling out workshops where they presented "The Teachings of Abraham." Tangled up in Abraham Hicks tells the story of being caught up in the enthusiasm and finding a way back out when the wheels came off Jerry and Esther's "Rock Star Monster Bus." Read about the contradictions, false lessons and greed that poisoned a once rewarding pursuit of happiness.