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While rescuing a meteor prospector in distress, fighter pilot Kryger is lured into a sophisticated trap and forced to flee to a planet in a newly discovered solar system. The Hullenii bugs pursue him with uncharacteristic vigor, as their glee turns to anguish, and he has no choice but to crash-land on a desert world. All is not as it seems, and Kryger soon finds himself on a perilous journey with a dwarflike humanoid.

In Bystle Vale, our heroes from Demon's Bluff finally confront King Tharchelon and discover that conditions in the Bystle Vale are not at all what they expected. In order to succeed in their quest, Cael, Brynn, Mallet and Needle must overcome surprises and best their demons of past, present and future. Join them as they journey toward their inevitable confrontation with Elija, Tharchelon and the impending full moon.

A young writer meets an older man in a Belgian bar who weaves an erotic and disturbing story about a famous author that the younger man has long admired–a story that reveals dark secrets about all three men.

Steroids, fighting, and drug deals; and that's just in the high school. St. George Utah is known for it's unbearable heat, and it's beautiful scenery. Not it's massive drug ring, but that's just what Nolan has found. Nolan is a hotshot detective with the St George police department. Nolan is bitter, anxious, and ready to prove himself. That's when he meets the man who changes his life forever. Juice and his crew are the Roid Raging alpha males not only of the school, but the entire town. What will Nolan have to do to get in with this rowdy crew, and is he willing to go that far?

Talking on Air: A Broadcaster's Life in Sports highlights the 40-year career of Ken Coleman. The audiobook details a broadcasting life seen not only from inside the booth, but also from inside the minds and throughout the experiences of many of sports' greatest names.

While on a summer vacation in Japan, Justin Toshi Blackwood attends a birthday party for his cousin Kaito and begins to bond with estranged relatives. The two young men share a great-grandfather and soon realize they have each inherited a mysterious family heirloom with one receiving a folding knife and the other a pocket watch. After discovering that the knife opens a secret compartment in the old watch containing a tiny hidden map, they hike out it into the forest along a riverbed to locate a jar containing the "Nine Stones". So begins an exciting, Pacific-leaping scavenger hunt.

Tanzanite, a rare blue gem born in fire and revealed by lightning, is found only in the Merelani Hills of Tanzania. But now the death of a gem smuggler points to another possibility. A South American mine owned by Tabitha Metals may hold the find of a century. But why is it kept hidden from the world? Geologist Brian Graham can draw only one conclusion: The mine's untraceable wealth is used to fund terrorism. And he must reveal the truth.

Self-improvement can be slow. Mastery takes years. But you don't have to be a master to be good. "Good" is good enough to greatly improve your life. And you can be good at anything, fast. Defy the monotony of the status quo. Find freedom in being good at anything. Good At Anything, Fast! gives you a framework for getting consistently better, faster. If you want to be the best version of yourself, faster than you ever thought possible, then this book is for you!

Young lawyer Ed Davis sits in his boss' fancy office, sure he is about to be fired. After two years of gradually slipping into addiction, he has finally hit bottom, and pretty much knows it. Instead though, Ed is offered a mission to an exotic island and a promise of redemption. Find fugitive gambler Orleans Moss and save his career? Seems easy enough. But Ed's personal ghosts follow him to remote Panglao island, where nothing, including himself, is what it seems.

In Prophecies of Old, our four brave heroes journey up the Demon River at the behest of Cael's grandfather, the old, burned-out wizard Boxxaway Hotheway. Fleeing the devastation of the earthquake that nearly destroyed their hometown of Demon's Bluff, the group find themselves in a desperate struggle against a terrifying agent of the ancient Cult of Yex. At every step of their battle against the relentless Elija Abel, they uncover more of the cult's wicked malevolence.

Sixteen-year-old Jimmy Hunter loves dead things. Decaying fossils and buried men no longer have the power to bite or abuse. Jimmy’s problems exist with the living. The half-Ute Indian boy must survive the angry white men his mother insists on dating without killing them. Because, like it or not, he has killed. The list he keeps has over 500 names on it. He doesn’t want to add any more.

Explosive violence rocks Canada's Slocan Valley after the shooting deaths of three teenagers in a bombing attempt at the Keenleyside Dam. A joint US-Canada military force locks down the Valley to protect Columbia River dams critical to both countries but martial law incites more violence. Geologist Alex Graham refuses to let politics stand in her way. She evades military patrols to slip into a restricted zone in her hunt for a silver mine to claim as her own. But her plans are derailed by an intentionally set fire that almost takes her life.

Peter lives in a silent world. Thirteen, deaf, and tormented by neighborhood bullies, Peter seeks solace in summertime snorkeling outings with his eccentric Viking-horn-helmeted Uncle Sverrir. But after a dangerous encounter with a giant hammerhead predator, Peter discovers he has a unique gift: He can talk to sharks.

Where Are You? is a sequel to the novel Chapel on the Moor, and follows the lives of the two main protagonists a half century later in a quest to discover what, if anything, might remain of the Chapel. In the first novel, two young adults, Merritt Geary and Frank Dole, met by accident on the occasion of the renovation and dedication of a long-abandoned rural chapel built 100 years earlier by Merritt’s great grandfather. At the end of the story, the chapel suffered complete destruction in a colossal storm, and the two parted ways after a brief but intense summer romance.

The Untouchables aren't exactly the ideal professional video gaming team. But they have heart, skills, grit, and two of the best players the game has ever seen - Marina and Belle. When the team shocks everyone and wins the semifinal tournament, everyone thinks it's a fluke...And then things really start to go wrong. Marina disappears, their sponsor won't help them, and they have no choice but to go on the road in the real world to find her, battling small-town cops, ruthless enemies, and their own fears.

Two murders. Two trials. And two kids who were not exactly guilty. The odd part is that the defendant in the first case is the lawyer in the second, which occurs in the same courtroom against the same prosecutor 15 years later. When young defense attorney David Stillman takes an alcohol-fueled hiatus from his law practice, he meets Michaela, an exotic older woman who gradually pulls the story of David's haunted and past out of him as a romance develops. The relation by David of the childhood saga of he and his violent group of teenage friends proves cathartic.

Unbeknownst to Quarr, one of the ancient enemies of her people has already arrived at their intended destination, seeking to conquer and exploit the planet. And with an evil genius member of her family offering his services to the self-proclaimed deity, Quarr is in for a shock when their scoutship emerges from subspace and is caught in an unusual trap. Unable to escape back into subspace, they fight their way to the planet where the invincible entity and its minions are conducting a reign of terror.

Stoneboats and Piglets provides a real-life glimpse into rural America during the 1920s and '30s through the eyes of a "young feller" named Larry, born on his parents' North Dakota homestead in 1922. While the story swirls throughout the prosperity of the '20s into the Depression of the '30s, Larry's memories shed light on the character and determination of his family and neighbors as they adapted and endured through this unique period of history before America's entry into World War II.

Defense attorney Samson Young has an uncanny ability to get even the so-called worst clients off the hook, as he ably demonstrated in Almost Mortal. In Almost Damned, little does Sam know that his most challenging cases are all leading up to one monumental trial, in which he will lay before the Court the visceral complexities of good vs. evil. As Sam navigates his cases in Bennet County, it becomes increasingly apparent that his clients - old and new - are surprisingly interconnected, especially when old clients rise from the dead. Literally.

Conor Nash has lived his life with a single purpose - to pitch in the major leagues. He’s been released from professional baseball contracts 10 times over a 16-year career, but he’s overcome every obstacle to finally reach "The Show" when he’s a decade too old. As he faces the specter of injury-forced retirement, he becomes a man neither he nor his wife recognizes. During his career, Conor avoided the trap of alcohol and drugs because his drug was baseball.