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The year is 2199, only days away from the new millennium. On Earth, there is a fragile peace that has lasted nearly 25 years since the war. Those who survived the chaos cling to the hope of one day escaping the dying planet. The last war was the first fought alongside machines, sentient beings designed to kill. It was their minds that freed them to kill so efficiently. They were conscious. After the war, the machines were remodeled, dumbed down, and controlled. Now, hundreds of thousands of subservient human-like robots co-populate the planet.

There is a secret war going on that has claimed hundreds of lives. They were lucky. Left behind with his team wiped out, the Captain of Alpha team has been caught behind enemy lines and is now a prisoner of a war that does not exist. Held in a medicinal prison, he fights ruthless soldiers who will do anything to access the intel in his head. From within the walls of the infamous cell 715, the Captain fights for his life, freedom, and to escape and return to his family a world away.

Dale Jones has lost everything. He’d lost his job and his money, and now, his wife has been shot and killed by Sheriff Riker. It's enough to break a man, and it does. But while on the run, Dale stumbles across something incredible: a baby animal unlike anything he’d ever seen before. A creature sent by God—or the devil—with the power to exact Dale’s revenge and bring the town of Duke, Arizona to its knees. At high noon, gunslingers on horseback meet sharp claws and bloodstained teeth. Will the sheriff and his men prevail, or will Dale and his new pet rule the West?

No Sin Unpunished is the second collection from the master of contemporary psychological horror, John Farris. The collection includes two new, never-before-published stories. Originally published as Elvisland.

Would you want the power to live again, to escape death, but at the cost of losing everyone you ever loved? What if the eyes really were the windows to the soul, a gateway to immortality? Quade Harrison discovers he can do just that, cheat death, after he is fatally shot in the year 1886. As he dies, staring into the eyes of a notorious woman who tries to save him, he is consumed by the desire to live again, transfixed on her gorgeous green eyes.

A family joins the cult of a subterranean god. A demon invades a classroom. A married couple experiences the terror of nuclear annihilation. A rookie police officer solves a decades-old mystery.

A killer has arrived in Atlanta and set in motion a chain of events that can only be described as a roller-coaster nightmare. Detective John Williams, a diehard Southerner, has been tasked with solving the crimes, a job made more complex given his responsibility as a single parent to his preschool daughter, Boo. When you add a new know-it-all partner straight out of the New York City Police Department to the mix, it makes matters even more difficult.

A murder. An elite team of Slayers and a whole lot of Immortals brought together to bring down a demon. Natalie is living for vengeance for her parent's murder. Aidan is a sexy arrogant Immortal who will stop at nothing to keep her safe. Sparks fly, lust consumes, and no one is safe from the Fallen!

Twisted Life is a heartfelt love story of pain, despair, and loss. The main character only wants a normal life but can not have one because of an alien species called the insectoid's that seem to be manipulating everything going on in his life. They are the ones behind his time travel ability's and seem to point him in the direction that they want him to go in their experiment. There's fast action, a bit of fun, and lots of imagination in this story of time travel.

Welcome to Necrolopolis, a fantasy world with a postal system as inefficient as our own, an undead pharaoh with an ego as big as his pyramid, a ghoul with an unhealthy interest in soup pots, not to mention a faction war between mummies and ashlings. A necromancer's job is never done, especially in a city of four million undead souls!

Manhattan psychiatrist Bill Madrian takes pride in the level of trust he establishes with his patients. For a patient to open up, they must truly believe that everything said in a therapy session remains confidential. But Bill has never realized the complications this confidentiality could present—until he treats Alex Bronzi.

We understand that not all doctors are insensitive assholes. Some of them are wonderful empathetic human beings who want to help people. We love those medical professionals! Let's make more of those in medical school. Our goal with this book is to illustrate what needs to change in the medical field to make doctors more sensitive to what patients are going through.

A 400-year-old vampire and a spellbound witch are on the hunt for the spell to set her free. What could possibly go wrong? Vampires, werewolves, hybrids, witches, and returned-from-the-dead exes. Just another day in New Orleans!

Werewolves are real, but the wolf next door is in a 12-step program. Witches roam the world, looking for companionship on dating apps. Ghosts haunt the dark, but there are worse things going bump in the night. And God does exist, but he’s a rude cubicle dweller whose greatest wish is for his football team to be champions again. Twenty humorous and horrible explorations of the world await listeners willing to ask the hard questions about decomposing zombies, vigilantes with unusual calling cards, and the outcomes of cursing your romantic rivals.

In 1933, Mississippi was in the throes of both the Great Depression and Prohibition. Dirt-poor living was the way of life for most. Some folks were forced to turn to any means possible to put food on the table. In Winchester County, the Lawtons turned to brewing moonshine to make ends meet. Though dangerous and illegal, their operation ran smoothly until John Kirkwood, a highly ambitious federal revenue agent, came to town. Thanks to a dirty deal with a man with deep pockets, Kirkwood sees ridding Winchester County of its moonshiners as his way to fortune.

After the murder of her sister, Emma finds herself thrown into a dark world of lust and desire. With the help of an underground club owner will she be able to catch her sister's killer and find herself along the way?

Elliot longs for a story that excites him. After waking to find one at his doorstep, he must choose between answering a mysterious call for help, or staying in to battle the blank page. He soon realizes the adventure may entangle him in a web of manipulation and high-stakes games of risk and ruin.

Meet Bobby, a local kid who shares a shabby apartment with his status-conscious mother and bigoted father, a soda jerk haunted by memories of the Nazi death camp he helped liberate. Flatbush, to Bobby, is a world of brawls with neighborhood “punks”, Hebrew school tales of Adolf Eichmann’s daring capture, and grade school duck-and-cover drills. Drawn to images of mushroom clouds and books about executions, Bobby ultimately turns the seething hatred he senses everywhere against himself.

Kragnor is an ancient gargoyle, who was released from his 700-year prison by the spell of an unknowing Kevin Arkis. Now cursed to share one body, Kevin and Kragnor must learn to work together. Kevin enlists the help of fellow high school senior, Megan Petrov, who has secrets and a curse of her own.

This is a unique, coming-of-age road trip featuring a feisty, often salty, and insensitive senior citizen, who still has some coming-of-age to experience in his twilight years. On one level, this is a story that takes listeners on a wild, raucous journey through the gritty and dangerous streets of New Orleans and into Sammy Levine's complex past as he tries to make amends for shortcomings in his life and a lingering guilt that drives him to make a daring break from his nursing home and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.