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Once known as the great project, a united Earth began colonizing the red planet in international unity. Any country that could afford to settle on Mars did so. It became the largest melting pot of the solar system since the formation of the United States. Of course, it was not to last. When the Great War between the Pacific Alliance and the European Union began twenty years ago, the United Martian settlements had a dilemma as they made up nations from both sides. Cries for independence went unheeded, and slowly but surely, the peaceful world was dragged into the conflict.

They have escaped the necropolis that is now Jilrir. Rebecca, Petra, Rachael, Breanna, and Allannah are no longer locked within the gilded cage and face an uncertain future. Pursued by the dark forces of the God Commech, Rebecca begins the fight to restore The House of Maine only to find one man standing against her… their guardian, the Illyan priest Sebastian Roark.

When Last Day comes, and Australia falls, Harper finds herself recruited by a mysterious US marine called Jenna Plural. Unable to go home, Harper and her best friend, Stacey, must go into enemy territory and steal an advanced prototype.

"Ich kann sie sehen! Wirklich sehen! Geister, Dämonen, Gespenster. Sie lauern in dunklen Nischen und Ecken, treiben ihr Unwesen... überall. Doch ich stelle mich ihnen entgegen und mache dem Spuk ein Ende. Ich bin Johnny. Johnny Sinclair. Ich bin Geisterjäger." Johnny Sinclairs Klassenkameradin Millie Edwards wurde mit "Pustelfieber" ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert - kurz nachdem sie Johnny seinen ersten offiziellen Geisterjäger-Auftrag erteilt hat!

When George Allenby is put in charge of building a lake in the grounds of an imposing Irish manor house, he intends to do the job as swiftly as possible and return to Belfast. Allenby is still wrestling with his time as an officer during the First World War, burdened by the many things he could have done differently.

An ordinary lad from Teeside becomes an actor by pure chance, is given a fabricated name, experiences inexplicable success and uncertain recognition, only to suffer a lifetime of chronic imposter syndrome.

Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If you love reading imaginative short stories on hot topics that make your brain think deeply but also have you laughing...

These six stories are, for the most part taken from the writer's experience as a professional actor (A Different Money, You Cannot Be My Hands and The Reputation Preceding Jack Vitalis) but there are others which include an oneiric distraction featuring the brittle but precise discipline of the fictional Japanese terpsichorean art form Littledance, a curious tale of revenge upon the cruel attack of a titled aristocrat upon an otherwise genial and hard-working interior decorator (The Tradesman's Entrance).

Five short stories about bullying, school camaraderie, and about learning how to relate to others as an only child.

Alex Bailey is a divorced single dad of a pair of teenagers, struggling to find more in his life than the daily grind. Between long hours at work and a toxic ex, he doesn't have much time to worry about anything other than how to make ends meet. However, his life is about to change when he stumbles upon a stunning naked woman in the streets. Artemis has always been known as the Goddess of the Hunt amongst many of her titles: harsh, wild, mysterious, and often vengeful. She's also been stuck in the abyss for two thousand years when she gets thrown into the streets of suburban Chicago.

With 19 spells at various clubs in the Football League, Jon Parkin has cut an instantly recognisable figure in English football for the past 20 years. At 6'4", and weighing in as one of football's heavyweights, Parkin has played more than 600 games during his time with Barnsley, Hartlepool, York, Macclesfield Town, Hull City, Stoke City, Preston, Cardiff, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Scunthorpe, Fleetwood, Forest Green, Newport County and back to York, where he is currently top scorer. This is his no-holds-barred life story.

Are you looking for a steamy romance about a flying doctor racing across the Outback to rescue a beautiful damsel in distress? Well, I’m sorry to tell you, mate, you’ve come to the wrong place. This is all about how yours truly met Jenna Plural. Nicked a bloody spaceship. What Phelks got so wrong, and what happened after Jenna took control of the fleet. Best of all, it’s told by me, Stacey Grant. Yeah, I wrote a bloody book. Would you believe it? What more could you want? So grab yourself some tinnies, sit back, and let me tell you my story.

Given the option of being assassinated by Russian FSB agents because his cartoons have offended the Russian President, or using his creative talents to start a revolution, artist, Lee Owens, decides to attack St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Sochi with a barrage of subversive art: graffiti, murals, pirated billboards, laser light shows, parade blimps, and sculptures.

When an interest in surrealism becomes a fascination, and then a passion, and then an obsession which dominates your dreams, it's time to take a reality check.

Sebastian was a man so heinous that mothers would invoke his name to scare their children. Guilty of unspeakable crimes during the Holy War, he set out to eradicate the churches in the name of the king in the House of Maine. Merciless, unforgiving, and utterly cruel, he was the epitome of evil. When it was believed that he had died on the final day of that war, humanity breathed a sigh of relief. The House of Maine gave him an honored funeral, and he lies at rest in his grave.

In a future where humankind has spread across the solar system, twenty years of war have taken their toll on the United States of America as it steadily loses ground and stands on the brink of defeat. Jenna Plural, a genetically modified US Marine, has not aged a day since she turned 24. When Jenna learns of the United States' surrender, bringing an end to the war, she refuses to accept it. Jenna begins to rally the allied forces across the solar system to band together in a new guerrilla force to continue the fight…or die trying.

Despite being an embarrassment to Amazon society due to standing at only five foot one in her boots, Miss Eve clearly has the ear of the queen. When she appoints Eve over a more qualified candidate to become the first Amazon ambassador to Middlemass, a city ruled by men, it becomes the talk of the Royal Court. What game is Queen Anastasia playing? And what possibly possessed her to pick this social outcast to be the one to speak for the Amazon empire?

In this exquisite and sensitive new novel, David Park explores the complicated relationship between poet and spouse through three luminous characters: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, 19th-century poet, painter, and engraver; Nadezhda Mandelstam, whose husband, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, died in a transit camp en route to Siberia during Stalin’s rule; and Lydia, the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her husband’s life in the days just after his death.

Patriotic young Emma Dodgson struggled to make it into the United States Marines, but now she’s there, she’s going to make sure it counts. Convinced that the United States is on the road to victory in the Great War, Dodgson’s world is turned upside down when on her first mission, she learns the USA has surrendered to the enemy. From the ashes of defeat, a new leader rises. Jenna Plural is determined to unite the free forces from across the solar system. Hope is restored to Dodgson, and she devotes herself to Jenna’s cause.

The United States has fallen, but it is not the end for Charlotte Kensett. Reunited with Jenna Plural, the Mistress of Shadows returns with a new attitude, new resolve, and a new pair of patent leather stilettos. As Jenna struggles to unite a fractured community, Kensett starts to build the most powerful intelligence service in the history of the Solar System and eliminating all opposition to her mistress’ power.