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You never want to ruin a really good dramatic exit. When you flee home on a cyborg horse the exact second you turn eighteen, you don’t really expect to go back to the place you fled from, you know? But sometimes your old life hits you from behind. Sometimes you spend years away from home, killing dangerous people who had the bad luck to get infected by a lungful of ghostfog, only to find out that your dad, the king, is dead, and now your siblings are ordering you back home for a high stakes family reunion.

In Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later, O.E. Rölvaag continues his sweeping chronicle of Norwegian settlers on the Dakota plains, tracing the next generation as they grapple with what it means to belong in a new world. Set decades after Giants in the Earth, the novel follows Peder Victorious—Per Hansa’s son—through the turbulent years of self-discovery and assimilation.

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk. But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old.

Enter the riveting and volatile world of the Burger Bar Boys, Birmingham's infamous gang, in this relentless chronicle of power, violence, and redemption. Gangland Birmingham: The Rise and Fall of the Burger Bar Boys unravels the intricate narrative of one of the UK's most notorious gangs from their humble beginnings to their inevitable downfall.

Darcy’s heartfelt conversation with Miss Elizabeth Bennet leads to their engagement. But just when his future could not appear brighter, a dreadful revelation casts a cloud of gloom over him, threatening his hopes and plans. And when an ominous shadow of suspicion falls upon his beloved sister, Georgiana, Darcy is compelled to determine the truth. Does her angelic countenance conceal a deviant, even dangerous, nature?

Michael and his family have done all they can to help their immediate household, but as the famine and its aftermath continue, have their efforts been enough? With the weakening brought about by hunger, there are some things he is powerless to protect his family from. Is it time for the great Michael Flynn to take his family in search of a better life? Listen now to find out.

Constantinople, 1097. As an insignificant thief in the underbelly of Constantinople, Daniel wants to matter, to be known. After a botched job forces him to flee the city, he is swept up among the thousands of crusaders as they depart for the Holy Land on their mission to retake Jerusalem. Their first obstacle: Nicaea, an impenetrable city of stone walls and high towers, impervious to assault and immune to siege.

In the explosive finale of the Maxx King trilogy, former Army Ranger Maxx King, a cybersecurity expert, faces a conspiracy that could end humanity. From Seattle’s secret labs to Beijing’s frenetic streets and Afghanistan’s war-torn mountains, Maxx and his team of allies—fierce Gabby, steadfast Andres, and loyal Glen—hunt a rogue ex-DARPA scientist, traitor CIA operatives, and an Iranian physicist wielding technology that could trigger chaos on a cataclysmic scale.

Accompanied by a werewolf simply known as Charlie, James Laudon ventures out on his first mission for the DARPA-funded group. While investigating reports of mysterious encounters and strange noises, the pair find a hell of a lot more than they anticipated. Even the presence of a werewolf isn't enough to deter the monster they confront.

After getting kidnapped out of Fort Leavenworth (where he’s awaiting his murder trial), James Laudon, perennial screw-up, finds himself under the thumb of an eclectic group of assassins. The above-top-secret agency works under the umbrella of both DARPA and the Department of Defense.

Briarhill to Brooklyn is a work of creative nonfiction, in which I tell the story of my Irish family’s journey from County Galway on a coffin ship named Cushlamachree. Their destination was Brooklyn.

Liam will do anything to keep his family safe. Reeling from the death of his mother, Liam and his wife, Jenna, must do all they can to reunite with their four-year-old son, Tommy. Armed with only a cricket bat, the couple must travel across the country to reach their child. Can they evade the authorities and survive life on the road? Who are the plague doctors, and what do they want? How far will Liam and Jenna go to get Tommy back?

Extinction is almost inevitable. Twenty-six billion lives will be lost. Just nine million will survive—on the Bertram Ramsay, a space station destined to leave Earth’s orbit in a matter of months. Jaxon Leith is one of the chosen. Plucked from the Bleeds—London’s towering slums—he enters Compression, the final, brutal phase of training before life in space. But salvation has enemies. The Acolytes of Gaia have infiltrated the evacuation, determined to see humanity erased. And as launch day nears, Jaxon finds himself caught in a silent war that could doom the mission before it ever leaves Earth.

A silent war has already begun. And humanity’s survival hangs by a thread. The Bertram Ramsay Space Station was meant to be Earth’s salvation—a final lifeboat for seven million survivors fleeing extinction. But the mission is falling apart.

Just as "flipping" is purchasing an asset with a short holding period with the intent of selling it for a quick profit rather than holding for a long-term appreciation, "slow flipping" is the process of flipping a property as slowly as possible. This book explains the need to understand what wealth means on a personal level. It highlights that one needs to think of one's ideal day and put a cost on whatever is needed to make that day happen. And with that in mind, one's goal has to be written down to create a guideline for the slow-flipping journey.

The Follow-up to the Award-Winning The Wisdom of Hobbits, Mimetic Theory & Middle-earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien's Legendarium, by long-time author Matthew J. Distefano, delves deeply into J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, using René Girard's mimetic theory as the primary lens through which to view the good professor’s legendary texts.

Big Money unravels the Sentinels' battle against the Estate of Organized Capitalism's plan to manipulate U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts, driving increased defense spending. Recent Sentinel graduates and Madame Cecelia unite to expose this agenda, armed with three years of doctoral research, challenging the military-industrial complex's influence on national decisions. This historical saga reveals their struggle to protect the public's best interests.

After a short spell in the trenches in 1915, Jack Cunningham, a miner from the North-East of England, finds himself recruited as a tunneler to dig mines under the German lines, becoming involved in the underground warfare between the two sides. Telling his story through a series of flashbacks, he is tormented by a voice inside his head, questioning his memories and his obvious guilt at surviving when others didn’t, swinging between varying states of confusion and control over his situation and over what is and isn’t real.

During the turbulent late 1950s (Eisenhower Era), the New Sentinels are called upon to reveal a hidden plot (Operation Ajax) to topple Iran's Parliamentary Government, reinstate the exiled Shah, and take over Iran's oil industry, the fourth-largest in the world. When British and American oil interests secretly orchestrate a coup to seize control of Iran's oil fields in 1953, a small group of humanitarian visionaries and conscientious allies must conduct a high-stakes underground operation to protect a utopian community of farmers and foil the world powers' greedy ambitions.

Unlucky in life, Neville Pike inherits a museum from his recently deceased grandfather, but there appears to be more to the family business than he ever imagined. One of the exhibits - a devilish mask - finds its way onto Neville's face. It stirs his repressed feelings and gives him a newfound confidence that gets him through the ordeal of having blood on his hands.