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Ron Gilmartin had an epiphany during one of his first meditations: Write a book. Never before had the thought occurred to him. His first release is a very personal book detailing his battles with addiction, how he is overcoming them, and the many lessons learned along the way.

An ancient group intends to decimate the human population and convert the remainder to slaves. Their only internal disagreement was the method. Jaeger Kunstler was their monster, but would he remain loyal, or turn rebel agent? Deepak Advani created Aura and dedicated his life to her keeping. But Aura was doomed by a fatwa.

"What if I don’t want to play"? "Then your friends die one by one until you do". After surviving a series of traumatic events, Maggie O’Bannen is at last starting to heal and the scars of the past are fading. Not to mention that things with her close friend Doc John Simpkins could be about to get interesting. However, the depiction of her exploits in a series of dime novels mean her reputation reaches far and wide and when a couple of down on their luck gunmen believe what they read, they hatch a plan to make Maggie their quarry in a deadly hunt.

After lying dormant for decades, a deadly virus is unleashed, threatening millions of lives and uncovering a shocking conspiracy. Danger lies frozen in the Alaskan wilderness, unnoticed by mankind, waiting to be released. A man’s corpse holds the remnants of a ferociously infectious disease that ravaged the globe at the end of World War I. Once the virus is set free again, a gruesome death awaits millions of unlucky victims. Everyone on Earth is at risk - or so it seems.

Dusty Fenton rides to his brother's wedding and encounters flaming lead from treacherous outlaws determined to seize control of the Crooked H Spread! Framed for murder, kidnapped from the safety of a Cowtown jail, mortally wounded in a shootout, hurled over the edge of a cliff by stampeding cattle, helplessly tied, tortured, and left to die in a burning barn, Dusty vows not even death itself will prevent him from saving his brother's bride and a young boy abducted by a rabid pack of the range's cruelest men, in this blazing action-filled western.

It wasn't a journey that anyone would make willingly. But Dale Maffitt had little choice. Wanted for hanging on a trumped-up charge of horse-stealing, trailed by a relentless posse, Maffitt's only hope lay in Mexico. To live, he must ride fast and hard over the scorching Texas plains and beat the posse to the border. Once across, he would be safe from arrest, and the posse would have to turn back.

The brutal murder of the well-known French actress Rose de Bercy has rocked London. But when Chief Inspector Winter investigates, he finds himself facing more complications than expected. It doesn’t take long to discover Mademoiselle de Bercy was not who she had appeared to be, and her past is a mystery, too. Truly knowing who she was would affect solving her murder: was the murderer an anarchist bent on revenge, a rich American who believes he was her fiancé, or, as Winter comes to suspect, someone much closer, namely his own right-hand man, Detective Inspector Furneaux?

The PROJECT sends Nick Carter and Selena Connor to the burning wastelands of Western Africa and the bitter mountains of the Hindu Kush, before a final confrontation that will decide the future of Western civilization.

The contents of a two thousand year old scroll set in motion a deadly quest for the tomb of Solomon and the long lost treasure of the Second Jewish Temple. The Project team is up against a madman who believes he is the last high priest of an ancient and cruel god. He seeks the Seal of Solomon and the mystical powers he's sure it will bring him. He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants, including murder and treachery.

The Project is a Black Ops intelligence unit reporting only to the president of the United States. When an assassination attempt takes the president out of commission, the Project is caught up in a conspiracy that threatens to spark a world war and runs a lot deeper than just trying to kill the leader of the free world. Led by Director Elizabeth Harker, the Project team discovers a cold-hearted plot to turn America into a totalitarian police state.

A centuries-old conspiracy plots to destroy much of the world's food supply as part of a plan for world domination. The Project team must stop a traitor and prevent a worldwide disaster.... The hunt for answers leads Nick Carter and Selena Connor to Greece, Bulgaria, and the United States.

Lost plans for a terrifying weapon designed by Nikola Tesla fall into the hands of a centuries-old conspiracy bent on world domination. Powerful men will stop at nothing to use the weapon to achieve their goal, even at the risk of nuclear war. Director Elizabeth Harker runs The Project, the secret hand of the US President. Nick Carter heads up The Project team in the field. Selena Connor is his teammate and lover. Together, they pursue a twisted trail of clues that tests their relationship to its breaking point.

The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama, by Louis Joseph Vance, was first published in 1914 and was the first of what eventually became an 8-book series. The main character, Michael Lanyard, also known as The Lone Wolf, is a jewel thief who in later stories reforms and becomes a private detective. In this first book, we learn of his difficult past and his journey that led to this pre-war moment, when he gets entangled with both a Paris crime mob and a woman, confronts his present and future course, and then seeks ways to escape his life of crime.

Morocco Jones figured this assignment would be a breeze. After all, sending a guy who specialized in busting up crime syndicates and international spy rings to Los Angeles to track down some two-bit blackmailer seemed like using a cannon to kill a mosquito. To Morocco, it seemed like a good excuse for a nice little Hollywood vacation—catch a bit of sun, bed a few starlets, and relax poolside with a large snifter of brandy.

Kidnapped at 16, Maggie O’Bannen returns home after seven years to be reunited with her father. No longer the idealistic girl she once was, her return is meant to help put her demons to rest. Instead, it sets in motion a series of events that will put her on a collision course with trouble, and this time, Maggie has no qualms about speeding towards it. Discovering who was behind her abduction is just the beginning. Murder with no apparent motive and no suspect soon brings her under the scrutiny of the local sheriff.

Shannon dreams of being a cinema verite type of reporter, but she needs an edge. With the help of a trust fund and a ham radio guru, she gets the help she needs, but at what price? Maxwell Burnham, known as Max Burner, is a rogue government operative, a monster who hunts "squawkers." He's also a runaway diabetic who uses his excess glucose to power his killer beam. Phi is an "Elmer," in the old tradition of ham radio. Can he help Shannon save more than 100,000 squawkers from a horrible death?

All Mark wanted was to find someone to help with his daughter’s paralysis. What he found was a mysterious military organization protecting a one-time medical facility, a nuclear power plant on the verge of a meltdown, an Asian spy and a fortified town run by women for women. Turned away by the facility and the town, Mark is determined to find help and answers to his growing amount of questions. But sometimes answers can be worse than not knowing.

Dragons, monsters, and stranded aliens. Dr. Anthony Kennan is a renowned astrophysicist and master player in the King of Gems video simulation game. But will his knowledge and skills be enough when he encounters the Chandrans, alien beings who have been trapped in the game? This story by Jim Cronin combines the best of both science fiction and fantasy worlds where Star Trek meets Dungeons and Dragons meets Ready Player One in a new and epic science fiction novel.

Nella Braddy (1894-1973), a pioneer among female editors, compiled this seven-story collection and published Masterpieces of Adventure: Tales of the Sea and Sky in 1921. It features seven authors: Frank Norris, W. Clark Russell, Major General E.D. Swinton, Donn Byrne, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Guy de Maupassant, and Edgar Allan Poe. A century since publication, we can perhaps have a new appreciation for tales of the sea (on ships both wrecked and abandoned, in lighthouses and with ferocious currents) and the sky (with warfare in dirigibles and using balloons).

Another rejection. Another no. Where do you go from here? I can’t tell you how many times I heard that word. It’s painful. When you pour your heart into that golden idea, embrace many sleepless nights, feast on ramen noodles for three months straight because you’re spending a lot of money on your golden idea, only to hear that one-syllable, soul-crushing word. “No, sorry, we just don’t need that.” Or, “That sounds nice and I wish you all the best."