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National security agent Cade Rearden is used to secrets. Assigned to protect the ultra-dark organization known as The Cove Project, he grapples with his role of defending a country still in crisis after a deadly super AI has devastated much of the US. But when part of his team mysteriously disappears beneath the idyllic waters of the Caribbean, Cade finds himself thrust into a web of lies and mystery, at the heart of which lies an eons-old secret that somebody will kill to protect.

Special Forces Captain Cade Rearden struggles to control the whispers in his head. Plagued by multiple personality disorder, he nearly spirals into insanity after extremists kill his whole team and hold him captive. Defeated but not broken, he can hardly believe it when an artificial intelligence named Doris rescues him and then recruits him for an impossible mission.

The roar of the crowds, the glittering lights and the adoration of fans everywhere! Millions of young women want their chance to shine upon the stage, and now, thanks to a new Reality TV show, a handful will get their shot! ....yet behind the glamour of celebrity lurks hidden danger.... Jillian Moore, one of the world’s hottest pop stars soared to stardom and crashed down into obscurity ten years ago. Now she’s making a comeback with her hit TV show Live Like a Pop Star. But things aren’t as rosy as they seem.

On a sunny winter afternoon, Jarvis is doing nothing special when a new case walks into his life in the form of a beautiful blonde with flashing eyes. Jarvis doesn’t know it yet, but this new client is about to turn his life inside out. Audrey Lambert and her grandfather need Jarvis’ special brand of hardboiled help, and they need it fast.

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Strange and legendary Dremlock Kingdom is facing destruction from both within and beyond its stone walls in the form of goblins - creatures spawned by evil that come in all shapes and sizes - and the Deep Shadow, a hungry and spreading force of dark sorcery that infects people with madness. To save their kingdom, the knights recruit a lonely and isolated boy named Lannon who lives in a wooded valley with his crazy father, who bears a dark illness of the soul, and his foul-tempered mother.

A teacher for over two decades, Edward Temple knows all about what your kids are learning in school. He has teaching experience in rural schools and big city schools in Florida, Pennsylvania, and in Ohio. He has wanted to speak out for many years but feared losing his job.

Once eighteen-year-old Connor Moore stumbles across an almost human species, he is faced with history's darkest secret, a daunting future, and a love life he can't even begin to explain. Concealed throughout the pages of time, there has been a powerful race of human-like creatures manipulating mankind. This Elite race is made up of five ruling families, who have obeyed The Law and remained content to keep their identities a mystery.

Gifted housebreaker, Michael O'Connor, awakens inside an ultramodern criminal justice system where prison walls are replaced by surveillance equipment and a host of actors hired to determine if he is worthy of freedom. While he was sleeping, the Supreme Court declared long term incarceration to be cruel and unusual punishment and ordered two million felons released. The result was utter chaos and the backlash from law-abiding citizens and police departments reshaped the United States. Felons now enter reeducation programs where they live freely among the population.

In the summer of 1929, Weimar Germany's secret military agreement in the 1920s with the USSR to evade the Versailles Treaty and develop new weapon systems beyond the Ural Mountains is about to bear fruit. Aided by a shadowy international conspiracy of arms dealers, industrialists, and financiers, both countries are poised to dismember the newly independent Poland created in the aftermath of the Great War. To distract Britain from helping the Poles and risking a new world war, the conspiracy intends to foment a coup d'etat in the Irish Free State.

When Eli Bryce stumbles upon a plot to attack Earth, he shrugs it off. He's not in the Earth-saving business. Two decades after he was banished from his homeworld for a disaster that still haunts him, Eli and his crew of misfits struggle to survive on the outskirts of the galaxy. But when Eli, goaded by his estranged daughter, rescues a near-dead castaway with an impossible secret, everything changes.

Earl Dumarest was on his way back to his home world - the mythical homeland of cosmic humanity he called Earth. Gradually, dangerously, he had picked up clue after clue to its galactic whereabouts as his quest moved outward from the crowded center of the Milky Way.

An old grudge finds new life. Eli Bryce just wants to go back to what he knows. But when his latest job ends up being a double-cross that leaves him and his team with no easy answers, he realizes just how unlikely that really is. Now he has to find a way to do the right thing without getting killed. One of those he's pretty good at. Vengeance! is fast-paced space opera at its best, perfect for fans of golden age pulp stories full of action, drama, and fun!

When Eli Bryce stumbles upon a plot to attack Earth, he shrugs it off. He's not in the Earth-saving business. Two decades after he was banished from his home-world for a disaster that still haunts him, Eli and his crew of misfits struggle to survive on the outskirts of the galaxy. But when Eli, goaded by his estranged daughter, rescues a near-dead castaway with an impossible secret, everything changes. Eli might have no choice but to get back into the Earth-saving business. Worse, he might have to grow a conscience.

Erebus is an immortal night dweller, walking the Earth for the last half century. By day his is the occulsion of a payphone, and by night he returns to human form. Shadows are meant to live for fun and self-satisfaction but Erebus is different than the others - solemn and withdrawn. That is until he meets Aurora, a law student at Cornell University. His entire world is shaken. Feelings he never had and urges he's never understood take over.

Lives will be lost, prophecies fulfilled and trials endured…Connor Moore doesn't have the same luxury as other eighteen-year-olds. He has been called upon to assume the mantle of the Judge of an elite race of humans. Now to prove himself to a population who doubts him, he must pass a series of three trials that will test his mind, body and spirit. Things are made worse when two women vying for his affection finally meet and Connor realizes a decision must come soon.

A new evil threatens to bring down legendary Dremlock Kingdom. With two famous Knights struck down, and fear and chaos running wild, Lannon finds himself involved in another bizarre mystery as the forces of the relentless Deep Shadow plot to assassinate the squire and his friends.

Eli and the crew of the Boomerang think they finally have a handle on what they're up against. A surprising new revelation shows that things are about to get much worse.

Money, mutiny, and starships. What seemed like a case of a single corrupt Admiral begins to sprawl out of control. Eli must decide if he's willing to go down the rabbit hole without knowing how deep it goes - or how exposed he and the rest of his crew will become. Damnation! is fast-paced space opera at its best, perfect for fans of golden age pulp stories full of action, drama, and fun!

Take a town full of West Virginia coal miners, 17th century nobility, one of the longest and bloodiest wars in history, d'Artagnan (without the three musketeers), Blaise Pascal, Rene Decartes, Galileo, Oliver Cromwell and Gustav II Adolph. Shake well and simmer for thirteen years. Eric Flint's world of 1632 is an amazing and complex alternate history universe that split off from ours one spring day in 2000 and 1631. The Grantville Singles provide listeners with the opportunity to sample some of our favorite stories from the semi-monthly magazine devoted to the series, The Grantville Gazette. We hope you enjoy them.