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Evolution Device is an entertaining mix of backstage drama and spiritual fantasy, imagining a quintessential 1970s rock 'n' roll success story from the not-quite-real perspective of an artistic muse who makes the music possible. Taking off from a fictionalized amalgam of Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, and Heart, mixed with a bit of Janis Joplin and a dash of the Jefferson Airplane, Lif Strand introduces an unusual (but refreshingly original) angle of Native American mythology into the more familiar behind-the-music elements.

Seventeen-year-old Crystal White is the new girl on Starfish Island. Dragged to the remote community by her environmental activist father, she is eager to find fun that doesn’t involve touching fish guts or listening to local folklore. During a midnight swim with some new friends, Crystal is pulled out to sea by the waves.

A look inside the culture of Amazon, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its relentless, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. When Amazon.com launched in 1995, it was with the mission "to be Earth's most customer-centric company". Through creating and sustaining a culture of innovation, the company has proven a track record of building and scaling new businesses.

Quitting her stressful job with the head office and retreating to her family's branch of the business was supposed to take away from her stress. Instead, on her first night back on the job reaping souls and taking names, she's faced with a client whose soul won't tear from his body. Her ledger clearly says: reap Kyle Riley. But he's not dead. He's not alive, but he's not dead.

We became so dependent on it, so taken by it, that it became ingrained in us like the oxygen we breathe. Technology. The basis of our jobs, our entertainment, our communication, our entire way of life.... Gone. It’s the buzzing in my head that disturbs me the most.

Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had when she was still in her teens, and her mystified parents and siblings watched in horror as she spent years in squalor and degradation. Middle sister Ruth fell in love with a wealthy man and now has a life beyond all the dreams she spun in the cramped, upstairs bedroom of their parents’ old farmhouse.

There was nothing left to do but walk. Walk miles down the highway, town after town, from one state to the other. After the leaps and bounds our society has achieved, this is what we are reduced to. Walking. Go North, they say. There's hope in the North, where the spiders haven't found us.... Yet.

After years of hiding in plain sight, the alien race known as the Taus are finally ready to get off this planet. But before they do, they need one thing first. Carl. No one could have imagined the true intentions of the Facebook event “Storm Area 51” or the dire consequences that would befall all those that came seeking answers beyond the gates.

He knew the risk it would present to the rest of his family to whisk Lyssa from the hospital and change her. Even knowing that, though, how could he be expected to sit back and do nothing when any moment could be the last chance he would have to save her? He was frightened. He was hurting. He was angry, damn it! While he was never human, can he, in a race against time to save her life, retain his humanity in an effort to preserve hers? Or must he do the unthinkable and face an eternity without her?

Lyrian Wallace was only 10 years old when the Malevolence struck on October 10, 2056. She thought the next decade had numbed her to the grief, the death, the bots, and the daily struggle for survival. She lost her parents when they became Sleepers, but like everyone else, she had pieced together a new family. Lyrian was almost content when the Alliance began taking them...The world always took things away from her. She could only live for today and never dared to hope for any Heaven.

Forced into a political marriage with a man she terms “a half mad, half Viking”, Catherine Broussard is caught up in her father’s malice, her husband’s ambition, and the Norman conquest of Anglo-Saxon England.

Andie didn't expect to be orphaned. Now she has no parents, no Nan, no one but Anne, the weird social worker who carries on conversations with old books and empty purses. Anne takes her to a small town in Texas to live with her new guardian, Celeste, an eccentric figure among many who seem to know something that Andie doesn't.

Once upon a time, the land of Heraldale knew peace. A time when dragons and gryphons shared the skies, when Wolf-Lords worked art at their forges, when sphinx mystics gave wisdom freely. But the hippogryph Galaxy, child of gryphon and unicorn, never knew that time. Living with her adoptive gryphon family beneath the oppressive hoof of the Unicorn Empire, Heraldale is a harsh, resentful world.

In 1968, eccentric billionaire Joseph Jennings builds a nuclear bunker deep within a mountain in Alaska. The caverns have been used by humans before: Ancient paintings depict figures surrounding an altar, worshipping a dark, monstrous creature. Jennings' behavior becomes increasingly erratic: He never leaves the bunker and becomes obsessed with the paintings and the creature. He disappears. The cavern is abandoned. The project aborted. Fifty years later, the bunker has been transformed into the Sanctuary.

Rayne and her friends fight to stop the invasion of Earth by ancient, merciless aliens hell-bent on enslaving humanity for compatible blood. They spent the last four years training to fight Nox, ruler of the invading race. Our five fighters never expected the aliens, affected by sunlight, to attack them at school during the day. If the good guys can’t stop the invasion now, it will spread across the world. And Nox will use Rayne to make it happen.

Caroline Emma Corbett Reid and her husband Thomas hail from Charleston, SC, but move to the estate of Alladale in Scotland when a nasty family lawsuit ruins their reputation. After five glorious years living at Alladale, the beautiful Caroline awakens tied to her bed inside her favorite suite, the Willow. After three days without food or water, she realizes her end is near.

Melody Hollenback has a problem. Her husband, Jeff, has joined what appears to be a cult. Considering his and her months-long unemployment and Jeff's clinical depression, Melody has a lot to worry about. When Jeff exhibits sudden signs of mental wellness, he is convinced the cult is curing him. He becomes increasingly immersed in the teachings, and Melody worries he is pulling away from her. In an effort to hold on to him, she pretends to join the fold. She soon discovers that the cult has long arms and keeps a tight grip on its followers.

Senior year already drains enough of spellcaster Sophie Morris’ time. But when her pre-law-student boyfriend discovers an underhanded corporate conspiracy to destroy a rival, she dives in to dig up the clues needed to expose the truth. And as soon as the corrupt conglomerate gets wind of her interest, Sophie and her sweetheart become the targets of their under-the-table heavies.

All I want is get back to normal. Whatever ‘normal’ is these days. After all, our family will be scarred forever after everything that’s happened. My sister-in-law falling prey to the serial killer that stalked our usual peaceful town is something I’ll never get over. But equally, I’m beyond relieved that my husband has been exonerated of involvement in any of the women’s deaths. Our nightmare is finally over. Or is it?

At the request of an old college chum, former CIA operative and private investigator Mari Ellwyn investigates the blackmailing of a CEO amid a high-profile IPO deal and a motivated witness determined to expose him for corruption and fraud. Mari’s new partner, Derek Abernathy, tries to help uncover the truth behind the accidental death of two farm workers in the Central Valley, only to discover that they weren’t accidental, and they’re connected to a seamy underworld of illegal drug manufacturing and toxic chemical dumping....