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When Ishmael takes a crew of academy cadets into the Toe Holds, he's unprepared for the level of trouble green hands can get into. Meanwhile, their academy liaison discovers what can go wrong when you learn the wrong lessons and try to teach the wrong students. Will they all make it back to the academy before somebody accidentally takes a short walk out the airlock without a suit?

Two superheroes become suspicious of their city's most powerful hero, the seemingly-invulnerable Magma Man, when something he says during a poker game doesn't add up. Why would he lie? Was he trying to protect someone? Was he drunk? Okay, he was probably drunk. But, is he in league with the villain? is he the villain? And if he is, how can he be stopped?

This program is read by the author. Laurie Gelman’s clever debut about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom—a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics. Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom—or mom in general...

Friedrich Engels spent two years (from 1842 to 1844) in Manchester, England, working at his father's factory. During that period he observed and recorded the effect of the industrial revolution on the labor market and the subsequent condition of what became the working class of England.

July 4, 1967. A chaplain gave him a notebook. He did not ask for it. He was a mechanic from Michigan and he had nothing to write. The chaplain said write to yourself. So he wrote to himself. He wrote in the monsoon and he wrote in the dry season and he wrote on the wire at night when the treeline was dark and the dark was the thing you watched. He wrote after the first man he knew was killed and he wrote after the village burned and he wrote after Hue when there was nothing left to write and he wrote anyway. The notebook held the things his hands could not. Danny Kovalchik is nineteen. He ...

The rescue was unnecessary. The job offer was unavoidable. Russ thought he was breaking someone out. Turns out, they don't want to leave. Now he's stuck with a contract he didn't want, a cargo hold full of problems with too many legs, and a corporate AI cheerfully logging his every move. Miri thinks they're helping. Russ thinks the payout is suspiciously high for what's supposedly a simple transport job. And somewhere between the Outer Rim and corporate space, Russ is going to have to decide what matters more—the money, or what happens when they actually deliver.

Hammered: Part 2 of a 3-part series Months after walking away, Jesse is back—bruised, broke, and out of options. Beau never thought he’d see him again, but the moment Jesse steps into his garage, all that anger turns to something hotter. They’re not the same men they were before. The walls are higher. The trust is thinner. And the pull between them is still dangerous. Beau wants to keep control. Jesse wants to prove he’s not the kid who ran. But jealousy, rivalry, and old wounds push them to their breaking point—until every fight ends the same way: with hands, mouths, and hearts ...

The job was a favor. The complications were not in the fine print. Russ has spent years keeping his daughter Miri safe on the Rim—or at least, his version of safe. When he agrees to a simple retrieval job for a pair of eccentric elderly sisters, he figures it's easy money. Wrong mine shaft. Wrong intel. Very wrong creatures with too many teeth. Now he's stuck in a collapsing death trap with a cargo that's either worthless junk or their ticket off the Rim for good, and Miri's running calculations on their survival odds that he really doesn't want to hear. The smart move is to cut their ...

Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, 1944. The pit village stirs with the dawn – a tapestry of terraced houses, each brick etched with stories of grit and endurance. The war may scar the landscape, but it can’t extinguish the spirit of this working-class community, forged in coal and camaraderie. On Deightonby Street three friends in their thirties navigate the highs and lows of life: love, conflicts, neighbours, children, and the formidable Doris Price. Behind every net curtain lies a secret – and a whole lot of drama. Will happily married Lucy Hobson give in to her mutual, passionate ...

The general population refers to them as "Odds", people who suffer from AOHD (Adult Onset Hyper-Development Disorder). Such people wake up one day to find that they're suddenly super-human. They can do things like leap tall buildings. Lift bulldozers over their heads. Read minds. Throw fireballs. Melt steel with a thought. Fly at supersonic speeds, and so on. And what happens? Uncle Sam makes them sign up with the Feds and punch a clock. Or else.

In this satirical faux autobiography, Moll Flanders, abandoned at birth, sets her rebellious heart on a life of independence in late 17th-century England. A strong-willed woman, she is determined to make a better life for herself, no matter what it takes: thievery, prostitution, seductions, marriages, or illicit liaisons. Born to a convicted felon in Newgate prison Moll learns to live off her wits, refusing to be a helpless victim and defying most traditional depictions of women of the era.

They did everything right. It wasn't enough. Zoey Callahan and Johnny Morgan graduate from college into an economy that has no use for them. Within hours of each other, their job offers are rescinded, and what begins as a shared setback becomes a test of everything they believed about the future, about money, and about each other. Zoey moves home to her parents' house in Connecticut with thirty-five thousand dollars in student loan debt and a degree that was supposed to be a key to something. Johnny returns to his family's working-class house in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where he sleeps on ...

Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job, and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death but until now hadn't met Death in person - a Black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death's scribe and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a conduit, Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity.

This program is read by the author. From the author of Class Mom and You’ve Been Volunteered comes Laurie Gelman's next laugh-out-loud novel Smells Like Tween Spirit. As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS) Wrestling team, Jen Dixon finds herself thrown in the middle of the...

“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review). Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann in the early 1800s, the...

Carlos Bulosan’s idealism and ambition would seem to position him for certain success in America, even given how young he is when he first makes the journey from the Philippines. However, after arriving in Seattle, employers are far more concerned with his Filipino background than they are with his character. Low-paying jobs - and an uncertain future - remain his daily reality.

You diagnosed it. You fixed it. You got the job done right. So why didn’t the customer come back? Most mechanics think the answer is better work, faster turnaround, or lower prices. They’re wrong. This isn’t a typical business book. It’s a story. Joel runs a solid shop. He knows his craft and takes pride in his work. But jobs slip through. Customers don’t come back. Accounts that should have stayed… don’t. And the shop getting the work he wants isn’t faster, cheaper, or more skilled. They’re just… trusted. Through real shop situations and everyday decisions, Joel begins ...

When the stock market crashes and her perfect life crumbles, Nora Kensington will do anything to keep her horse—even if it means hiding in the candy aisle of a Walgreens. Nora's carefully curated world of designer breeches and imported warmbloods shatters overnight. Her tech portfolio? Gone. Her design business? Collapsed. Her only lifeline? An $800 monthly board payment she can no longer afford. Desperate to keep her beloved dressage horse, Murray McFly, Nora takes a humiliating job stocking shelves, babysits for cash, and weaves an intricate web of lies to hide her financial ruin from ...

Some jobs are boring. This one is deadly. When college student Ben Suarez takes a third-shift security job at a desolate railyard, he expects long hours, quiet nights, and the slow creep of exhaustion. What he doesn’t expect is the feeling of being watched. The shadows that move when they shouldn’t. The whispers that slither through the empty train cars. Armed with only his smartphone and desperate texts to his girlfriend, Ben begins to unravel a chilling truth buried beneath the steel and gravel—a past soaked in blood, where the dead refuse to rest. As the nights wear on, his fear ...

Two superheroes become suspicious of their city's most powerful hero, the seemingly-invulnerable Magma Man, when something he says during a poker game doesn't add up. Why would he lie? Was he trying to protect someone? Was he drunk? Okay, he was probably drunk. But, is he in league with the villain? Is he the villain? And if he is, how can he be stopped? Follow Speed Chicken and Cambio as they pursue the answers to these questions, putting them in cahoots with a powerless wannabe superhero named Wombat, and realize that the fate of an entire planet weighs in the balance.