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Ultima Thule has been destroyed - but somehow the Thulians mounted an even bigger force to destroy Metis. The Metisians who escaped the carnage and destruction of their secret city now must somehow find somewhere safe to go - without getting snapped up by various world governments. And now the Thulians have changed their tactics to “blitz guerrilla warfare”, sending wave after wave of their ships and troops to attack vulnerable targets all over Earth, with no clue for ECHO as to from where these things are coming.

En el año 2013 una misteriosa nave espacial llega al sistema solar.Se trata de Rama, un aparato colosal de cincuenta kilómetros de diámetro, capaz de acoger en su interior una ciudad y un mar. Desierta y aparentemente abandonada, Rama parte hacia su siguiente y desconocido destino. Los humanos han descubierto muchas de sus maravillas, pero no han resuelto los muchos misterios que alberga esa nave. Sólo tienen una cosa clara: los constructores de ese mastodonte lo hacían todo por triplicado.

From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, together with a team of topnotch collaborators, comes Book Two in The Secret World Chronicle, a pulse-pounding saga of superpowers - and the very human men and women who must learn to wield them without losing themselves in the process.

Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased. Lee describes how the illicit marijuana subculture overcame government opposition and morphed into a dynamic, multibillion-dollar industry. Colorful, illuminating, and at times irreverent, this is a fascinating listen for recreational users and patients, students and doctors, musicians and accountants, Baby Boomers and their kids, and anyone who has ever wondered about the secret life of this ubiquitous herb.

Jess Derringer gets word that the woman he loved and left behind was murdered by five ruthless thugs. Jess is driven to avenge her death. His best lead to the identity of the killers is a receipt made out to a member of the Colby ranching clan. Jess and his younger brother, Sam, infiltrate the Colby Ranch by signing on as gun hands. They soon realize that riding the fence between crooks and good guys is more dangerous than they reckoned on, especially when it comes to a shooting showdown....

The world had become used to the metahumans - people sometimes perfectly ordinary, but sometimes quite extraordinary in appearance - who mostly worked with their governments as high-powered peace officers, fighting crime, and sometimes fighting rogue metahumans who had become super-criminals. Then that comfortable world ended in just one terrifying day.

Spanning over twenty years, 20 masters and modern authors of hardcore horror share their most bad-ass stories in this special edition from Red Room Press. Many hard to find and out of print, some that were banned, Necro Files covers every imaginable mode of mayhem with stories that dial into the dark side of human nature.

Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This audiobook for the first time tells the full and astounding story - part of it hidden till now in secret Government files - of the role the mind-altering drug played in our recent turbulent history and the continuing influence it has on our time. And what a story it is, beginning with LSD’s discovery in 1943 as the most potent drug known to science.

If you are serious about boondocking and being handy with your RV, then this book will show you all of the best practices to fine-tune your success. Nothing to lose, but everything to gain for your road trips ahead!

From New York Times best seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book number three in a new pulse-pounding saga of modern-day humans with superpowers. The metaheroes deal with supervillain Verdegris, who seeks to destroy them from within,before turning their attention back to the Thulian conspiracy. It’s go time once again for the meta-heroes including fire-bender John Murdock, hacker-witch Vikki Nagy, healer Belladona Blue, super-quick Mercurye - and most of all for their ghostly ally, Seraphym, the spirit of the world Verdegris knows he must trap and destroy her if he is to take down the metas.

What is it about the cat that captivates the creative imagination? No other creature has inspired so many authors to take pen to page. Mystery, horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories have all been written about cats.

Join J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement-winning author Edward Lee and Madness Heart Press as we strive to bring you the very best of twisted, sordid, and sickening stories of Czech extreme horror from seven authors, translated and published in English for the very first time. With an accompanying novella from Edward Lee, this collection includes monsters, killers, perversion, terror, and splattery gore-soaked beauty.

Destroying the Thulian North American Headquarters has not made life easier for ECHO, or the world. The Thulians continue their attacks, first in unpredictable incursions, then with another all-out assault on ECHO, orchestrated against ECHO headquarters across the world. Dominic Verdigris has not given up on his effort to obtain The Seraphym for himself, in order to use her to avert his own fate at the hands of the Thulians. Nor have the heroes of ECHO and the CCCP found life anything but harder.

Ben Darringer is quick and deadly with a gun. That's why beautiful Elena Barker needs his help. Greedy cattlemen are after her ranch. As a hired gun in the midst of an all-out range war, Ben is forced to take justice into his own hands and rely on the only law available to him - the law of the fast gun.

Clay Darringer finds Katherine Turner dazed and wandering in the desert. Katherine is the sole survivor of an outlaw attack, and once the killers find out she's still alive, her life won't be worth a plug nickel. Darringer never seems able to stay out of other people's problems. By the time they reach town, they have added a teenage boy to the entourage and fought off some deadly Apache warriors.

When Wes Montana's Arapaho mother is murdered‚ the hired gun discovers his white father, Ray Eastman‚ who had abandoned them before Wes was born‚ is still alive‚ wealthy with family‚ and may have ordered her death. Swearing vengeance on his own father‚ Wes yet finds himself on his father's side in the middle of a range war fueled by Eastman's unfaithful wife.

Exploring the initial stages of psychedelic study in Europe and America, Thomas Hatsis offers a full history of the psychedelic-fueled revolution in healing and consciousness expansion that blossomed in the 1950s - the first “golden age” of psychedelic research. Revealing LSD as a “wonder child” rather than Albert Hofmann’s infamous “problem child”, the author focuses on the extensive studies with LSD that took place in the ’50s.

Bronco Wade and old Curly hightail it out of Texas when blamed for the deaths of three of rancher Sladek's sons. Fifteen years later, Bronco and Curly discover a trail herd they are following belongs to the deadly Sladeks. At the same time, they cannot turn away, because Curly's long-lost daughter, Charity, reared as a Sladek, is with the herd. Marauding Arapaho and ruthless gun-hands keep Curly from his daughter, until the violent conclusion.

Bronco Wade and old Curly hightail it out of Texas when blamed for the deaths of three of rancher Sladek's sons. Fifteen years later, Bronco and Curly discover a trail herd they are following belongs to the deadly Sladeks. At the same time, they cannot turn away because Curly's long-lost daughter Charity, reared as a Sladek, is with the herd.

On an evening like any other, 9-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.