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The search to find the name and home of a barefoot young girl wearing a tank top and shorts on a cold March night leads Ironton, NJ, Detective Frank Nagler down the twisting, dark path of a family whose history has ensnared many victims, including a nun from Nagler’s youth and Calista Knox, a companion of Nagler’s best friend.

Russell Horvath seems to have it all, a beautiful supportive girlfriend committed to helping him shed those pesky extra pounds, a screenwriting career poised to take off spearheaded by his best friend and agent, except for the fact that his girlfriend's advice is sounding more and more like a never ending onslaught of criticisms and passive aggressive cut-downs and his agent is less a friend and more a frenemy...if that's even a real word....

Ironton, NJ. Detective Frank Nagler returns in the propulsive A Game Called Dead to face a mysterious, taunting Internet villain: #ARMAGEDDON. A series of beatings, murders, and destruction, including the bookstore owned by Nagler's friend Leonard, set the city on edge. Then, two college women are attacked. They are all players in a video game turned real-life game called "A Game Called Dead", and suddenly the game has real consequences. In a roller-coaster ride of a story, Nagler must defend his friends and new companions from unknown dangers as #ARMAGEDDON grows bolder.

This fun new humor book celebrates Seinfeld's 30th anniversary and takes love of the sitcom to a new level. Best-selling humor author R. Scott Murphy believes Seinfeld is far more than a TV show; it's a state of mind. In fact, he's watched all 180 episodes so many times that he often sees the world through Seinfeld's eyes. The place where his Seinfeld eyes see the craziest things is the grocery store.

He was trapped on a planet of deadly dinosaurs that made Jurassic Park seem like a kid's playground! For one thing, they were smarter than the average dinosaur! The Marshall Museum sent Gene Bishop on a simple mission to the distant world of Erigon to collect dinosaur eggs for the museum’s spectacular DinoWorld park - a scrupulous recreation of the Mesozoic Era on Earth. Bishop figured it as a quick in and out - swoop down, grab some eggs and be gone. But he figured wrong.

Do you enjoy comedy? Do you know what "more cowbell" means? Infused with the crack-up-worthy spirit of Will Ferrell's classic SNL skit, these hilarious short stories transform even the most mundane events into meme-worthy moments. Everything's better with more cowbell. TV and radio personality R. Scott Murphy is a pro at finding "the funny" in everyday life.

Rookie detective Frank Nagler has barely had time to arrange his desk, when a new homicide case is assigned to him. Could a serial killer be stalking his hometown of Ironton, NJ? One by one the bodies pile up. Nine victims are killed over several months, all from different walks of life and different parts of Ironton. Each killed in a different way, forming no clear pattern, as might be expected from a single killer.

It’s April 1969, and many of the flower children who left home to escape the old morality face disillusionment, extreme poverty, and death. They give up on their dreams and do whatever it takes to survive, even if it means submitting to unconscionable evil. Stanton Clayburn, a young private investigator, has been hired to find a 19-year-old lost flower child. He is determined to bring the boy home safely, but the journey takes him back to the world that nearly destroyed him. 

Think only cartoon animals can talk? So did sixth grade whiz kid Jonah Mortimer...until one did! This little birdy has come to warn Jonah of an ancient evil - long buried and forgotten - that has laid quiet under Falter’s Rise...until now! The corrupt pharaoh, Septra’Kaal, has risen from his grave, and his mummified army marches on Wolverton! Astride a giant scorpion, Septra’Kaal is a force the likes of which Masterminds Incorporated has never seen. What will Jonah and the rest of Masterminds do when this monstrosity unleashes its plagues on Wolverton?

Fame…fortune…and a bright future. Christopher was on the fast track to all three. Then one day everything changed with just six little words, ”You don’t have much time left.” For some it might be a death sentence. For Christopher, it’s the beginning of a journey. This is a story about Christopher’s trip across Europe. Along the way he meets a spellbinding woman with the beauty of a goddess, the wisdom of a best friend, the impulsiveness of a pixie, and a sadness he must investigate. Winter acts as tour guide as the pair trek across Europe getting into trouble.

Corrag and Ben, the brave-yet-doomed lovers of The Victor’s Heritage, are reunited. But now, humanity faces a crisis - the last of the free-brained, creative folk have risen against the enslaved people of the Augment and their elite Republican Homeland overlords. It is 2072, and falling creative information flows in the Augment system mean there is little time to reach full power status and launch the planetary cover before the incoming Oort Cloud asteroids destroy civilization.

On May 20th, 1927, a momentous event occurred in aviation history. A young, brave man attempted to fly a dangerous flight that would break all known records at that time. If he succeeded, he would become world famous and a legend...that man was Charles Ginsberg. Instead, he flew four zany entertainers from New York to Burbank...or so he tried.  

Being the new kid in school, Jesse Beamish’s first day at Lawrence Stewart Talbot Middle School is already a bummer. But, finding his next class and avoiding school bullies quickly becomes the least of his worries as unusual things start to happen. There’s something different about Wolverton. Something...hiding in the shadows. Jesse soon discovers that vampires...are real! One of them is prowling the town under the cover of night, and he’s sure the vampire is coming for him next!