For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin--barely of age herself--finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.

He's an immortal knight hungering for satisfaction. . . . As soon as Marrok sees Olivia Gray's dark windswept hair and burning violet eyes, he's sure they've met in eons past. He's felt her soft gentle curves writhing in pleasure beneath his own hard powerful body. . . Morganna! For centuries, towering Marrok, once the mightiest of King Arthur's warriors, has endured a terrible curse cast upon him when he spurned the witch. She's a modern woman about to discover ancient magic. . . . Olivia shares a mystical - and irresistible - connection with brooding Marrok. Soon after the sexy warrior appears in her erotic dreams, he abducts her, demanding she uncurse him. Their intense passion is more powerful - and intimate - than either of them has ever known. Olivia may be the key to unlocking the diary that will break Morganna's hold on his life. But in the wrong hands, the book also holds the power to destroy all magickind. As they search for answers, a ruthless wizard returned from exile is building an army of evil. When he discovers Marrok and Olivia have the diary, only their love - with the help of a powerful group of magical Brethren - can save them.

Kari Keswick and Ronan Wolvesey burned for one another, but a deadly family curse targets their love with destruction. Will magic tear them apart?Ronan Wolvesey is an eternal bachelor, always on the prowl for a woman to enjoy…then forget. But Kari Keswick is utterly unforgettable. He can’t stop his growing obsession for the beautiful pub owner. But his family was cursed a thousand years ago, and if he gives into his urge to make her his mate, the curse could cost Kari her life.Though Kari has pined for Ronan since the moment he walked in her door, she has refused to be another notch on his well-marked bedpost. But Ronan’s seductive prowess finally proves too strong, and Kari surrenders to him, knowing that he will leave her. After a stunning night like no other, Ronan realizes that he wants her forever and must face his greatest challenge: give Kari up for her own good or believe that love truly can conquer all.

No man will ever define her again. Anka MacTavish lost everything when Mathias D’Arc captured her, shattered her bond with her mate, and broke both her body and spirit. Determined to heal her bleeding soul, she joins the Doomsday Brethren’s fight to vanquish the evil wizard and seize her revenge. But becoming a magical warrior will require close contact with her former mate, the love who’s never left her heart, Lucan. And she’ll have to explain why she left him and fled to the arms of another lover… No woman can ever take her place. Lucan’s world crumbled when Anka escaped Mathias and sought protection from his long-time rival, Shock. Now she has returned, and Lucan must train her to confront a new and terrible danger that threatens magickind. With every punch, blow, and parry, Lucan discovers that Anka isn’t the demure wife he once knew, and his growing desire for this woman is a need he can’t control. He vows to do whatever it takes to reclaim her heart and make her his once more. But when the Doomsday Brethren are forced to make an unlikely alliance, it will test Anka’s resolve like never before. To survive, she and Lucan must rely on one another, face their deepest fears. . . and expose the dark secrets that threaten to destroy everything, including their love.

 When a villainous wizard escapes from exile, the devastatingly sexy Doomsday Brethren must defend all magickind in the spellbinding second book in bestselling author Shayla Black's seductive new paranormal series. Ex-marine Caden MacTavish has shunned his magical heritage all his life, but he will do anything to heal his desperately ill brother, a Doomsday Brethren warrior in mourning for his missing mate. Posing as a photographer, Caden must convince firecracker tabloid reporter Sydney Blair to reveal the source of her recent exposé on a supernatural power clash. Unfortunately, keeping his hands off the sizzling redhead proves as hard as getting them onto the potent and mystical Doomsday Diary he discovers at her bedside. A bloody rebellion led by an evil, power-hungry wizard is imminent. If Sydney divulges the book's existence, she will jeopardize magickind's most deeply guarded secrets and become the ruthless wizard's number one target. Caden has never trusted magic's cruel and dangerous powers, but he will protect Sydney with his life and magic ? even if it means risking his heart.

The sexy warrior Ice Rykard finds himself craving beautiful Sabelle Rion As a mysterious dark cloud drains the life of her beloved brother, Doomsday Brethren leader Bram, Sabelle Rion can think of little else. Still, every time she meets Ice Rykard’s intense green gaze, her body aches with need for the sexy warrior. Their attraction is explosive, incredible—and forbidden. As dangerous as he is unpredictable, Ice is her brother’s sworn enemy. But as Bram weakens, a more sinister force is gaining power. Evil Mathias and his ruthless Anarki army are on a bloodthirsty hunt for the Doomsday Diary. Sabelle must guard the potent book with her life—and Ice vows to protect the beautiful witch with his. Duty demands that Sabelle deny her lover’s fiery call of possession and mate with a man who can sway the magical Council against the impending rebellion. With the fate of magickind hanging in the balance, will she forsake the burning desires she can’t ignore or turn her back on her people for the courageous man she can’t resist?

Dangerously handsome Simon Northam, Duke of Hurstgrove, and his uptight brother Mason are hardly close, but crashing Mason’s wedding and stealing his fiancée further aggravate their sibling rivalry. Duke’s family has no notion he’s a wizard, so how can he explain that magickind’s fate lies with the beautiful, tenacious bride he longs to seduce? Felicia is an Untouchable, a rare human whose presence disables magic—even the impenetrable forces surrounding Morganna le Fay’s tomb. The evil witch’s malicious powers could propel nefarious wizard Mathias to ultimate world domination . . . if he can resurrect her. To conceal herself, Felicia must succumb to her smoldering desire for Duke, but he risks binding his life—and sanity— to a lover whose loyalties are forever torn. He faces a choice: betray his brother for ultimate survival . . . or lose the woman who tempts him beyond control.

James Rollins, the "New York Times" bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, combines cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret in an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headed "The Doomsday Key" At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh. The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve a riddle going back centuries, to a ghastly crime against humanity hidden within a cryptic medieval codex. The first clue is discovered inside a mummified corpse buried in an English peat bog -- a gruesome secret that threatens America and the world. Aided by two women from his past -- one his exlover, the other his new partner -- Gray must piece together the horrifying truth. But the revelations come at a high cost, and to save the future, Gray will have to sacrifice one of the women at his side. That alone might not be enough, as the true path to salvation is revealed in a dark prophecy of doom. Sigma Force confronts humankind's greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint -- an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key.

OPERATION DOOMSDAY . . . ACTIVE . . . Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, by an unknown lethal force that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening. . . From Washington to Zurich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past why the women he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn the incredible secret hidden on the Swiss Alps. . .

Cmdr. Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from space in 2025 after having searched for a planet that could hold the Earth's burgeoning population. He found none. He therefore embarks on a mission to limit population on the Earth. There will be 14 books in the series. Eight are completed. The books will examine psychological, moral and political problems in getting our world to acknowledge the problems.Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a 25 year odyssey around the solar system searching for places to put the world's excess population. He found none. He therefore is determined to join others who have recognised this major problem and are attempting to do something about it. Overpopulation is responsible for many of the world's major problems: global warming, the lack of fresh water, famines, poverty, youth unemployment, reduction in natural resources, and the storing of excess wastes in our air, water and on our land. The commander's 25 years of reading and thinking has made him understand the importance of eu-paranting. Many of the problems of our societies are related to the lack of parental love and the inability of parents to effectively educate their children. Several societies have licensed parents to have children based on a number of criteria-- which vary from country to country. Cmdr. Gulliver plans to visit some of these countries and learn what they are doing first hand. He is aware of the anchors of tradition that hold most of us in ruts of ignorance and selfishness. Religions, businesses, bankrupt governments and many other groups have reasons to keep their populations reproducing. The problem, as all thinking people know, is that Mother Nature in all her bounty has not given us enough arable land and freshwater to adequately nourish all of her children. She has also not provided enough natural trash cans to harmlessly hide our wastes. In the ensuing books of the series he will look at the ethical and psychological stumbling blocks that bolster tradition-- a tradition which, if not changed, will destroy most of our human brothers. The commander wants to help present-day humanity to recognise the dangers for its progeny if something is not done yesterday! If we are to reduce our population we must extend our working ages and postpone retirement. But this goes against our selfish natures. We must pay for our own retirements and our medical care and not expect the government to borrow from others to pay for us. But this, too, goes against our selfish natures. Also, in our modern day governments the corruption of power, rather than the good of the governed, is the reality of nearly every democracy and dictatorship of today. His search for utopian principles requires addressing these problems also. They will be addressed in this series that he plans to write.

Classic Science Fiction! The twins were a rare team indeed. They wanted to build a printing plant on a garbage dump. When Muldoon asked them why, their answer was entirely logical: "Because we live here."Classic Science Fiction! The twins were a rare team indeed. They wanted to build a printing plant on a garbage dump. When Muldoon asked them why, their answer was entirely logical: "Because we live here."

Laughter is the best tool to deal with stress and boredom. Made-up scientific studies show that hamsters who read books from 'Take a Break Have a Laugh" series live 10 times longer than humorless hamsters that are into Goth novels and French documentaries. In all seriousness though, after you read short stories from this book you will feel great! Enjoy!Do you feel like jumping out of a plane without a parachute? CLICK on that BIG GREEN BUTTON on top, DOWNLOAD Take a Break & Have a Laugh book and READ a story, you'll feel BETTER.Do you feel like tossing your boss into a meat grinder? READ ANOTHER STORY, it will help.Run out of these hilarious stories to read and need more? Pray that you've accumulated enough positive energy until the next installment of Take a Break & Have a Laugh Series comes out.

Millions are dead after terrorists succeed in gas attacks on major cities across the globe. Rushing home to be with his family, businessman Ted Ratelle suddenly finds himself stranded, lost, and alone in the Mojave Desert. Society has broken down quicker than he could imagine and Ted must then endure starvation, thirst, and lawlessness as he struggles to survive each day. Finding his family is a priority. To do so, he'll need to use his wits, instincts, and new survival training to find them in this deep, dark, and proactive thriller about one man's mission as he battles through a dystopian disaster. "With a strong visual sense and rugged American Southwest desert backdrop, DaSilva spins a fast-paced and engaging post-apocalyptic tale. Darkly humorous at times with a twisted streak, DaSilva captures the desperation of human nature when faced with terrible destruction." - IndieReader "IR Verdict: THE DOOMSDAY DRIFTER is an engaging and enjoyable read for those interested...

Dr. Ahuja is a world renowned Space scientist and his lovely, intelligent daughter Divya dreams to be one among the stars. The Earth is sound asleep in peace and calm only to be awakened to startling and catastrophic events. The book of prophecy and an ancient astrologer’s word has come true.Alien attack and the destruction of the entire solar system are beginning of a new start.The ‘End of the world’ is near but everyone, except Divya is unaware of it. Divya is an Indo-American high school girl from San Francisco. Her father is a scientist with NASA. On her school trip to India, she discovers an ancient book which predicts a disaster to be indicated by a sign in the sky. Divya is terrified when she sees the sign one day. But nobody believes her and finally the prediction comes true – the solar system is facing its end. Sun undergoes drastic chemical reaction due to it’s collision with a comet. The sun undergoes a phenomenon called ‘reunion of solar system’ and starts engulfing the planets. The ancient book had mentioned that a solution to this disaster was brought down on earth thousands of years ago in a meteor rain. Scientists are doing all that they could do to save the earth as the earth inches day by day towards its horrific end. The temperatures on earth increase day by day. On one such hot day, Divya goes out to the lonely beach and finds an alien friend who was brought down along with the meteors thousands of years ago. Divya is sure that he is the saviour of earth as mentioned in the book. But maybe it was too late now. She names him Ami. Ami is highly intelligent as compared to humans. He has special powers too. Meanwhile scientists try to move earth away from sun by programming satellites but as the doomsday was destined, the experiment backfires. Satellites loose control over earth and earth begins to roll randomly in space! Scientists can do nothing to stop it and everything is left to almighty. Then miraculously, as if the prayers of 7 billion people get answered, earth finally comes to halt in a new space. Everyone is relieved to have survived the doomsday. Soon there is a friend request from nearby planet Gianta. The Giantians are highly advanced and very helpful beings. They are very much like humans. Later on, it is revealed that earth was halted and saved only because of them. The humans are greatly impressed by the Giantians. The two planets are quick to share the technological knowledge to benefit mutually. But the Giantians are traitors disguised as friends. Their planet lacks natural resources and with their advanced technology they have created an amazingly beautiful synthetic world. Their intentions are obvious. They are blinded by the immense natural resource that the planet earth has. Their intention is to rule our planet and make us all their slaves. They had very cleverly inserted a Nano-chip in the delegates from earth who visited them. These people became their human robots and worked as per their command. Divya’s father is one of the human robots. But, before the Giantians could achieve their goal, Ami and Divya accidently come to know the truth. They help Divya’s father to recover back into a normal human. They want to recover others too. But it is too late. The population of human robots have increased beyond control and it very rapidly goes on increasing. Divya and Ami along with a handful of scientists are the only humans left. They get trapped by human robots all around them. Still they try to save the earth and finally Ami succeeds in saving all. Aliens are threatened as their plot completely fails. They want to take revenge and release the earth from its orbit. As a result, Earth once again starts rolling in space. But luckily, this time, it gets attracted by sun, which has become stable by now. Ami too is able to sense the signal from his star. Earth comes back in the solar system and Ami returns back to his home star.

When insidious spirits from beyond the grave try to get their clutches on the apocalypse scroll, Dru Jasper and her misfit friends are the only hope for stopping doomsday. Crystal shop owner and up-and-coming sorceress Dru Jasper is the unwilling guardian of the apocalypse scroll, an ancient instrument of destruction held in check by the last of seven wax seals. If the forces of darkness manage to break the final seal, the world will come to a fiery end. It's up to Dru to keep the scroll safe. No pressure or anything. When a chilling cohort of soul-devouring wraiths breaks free of the netherworld to get their ghostly fingers on the scroll, it's up to Dru and her friends to stop them. These freakishly evil spirits can kill with just a touch. To fight them, Dru needs a rare crystal older than the Earth itself. Her only hope of finding it is to race to a meteorite crater deep in the desert, with the wraiths right on her tail. But as her friends lose their magical powers to the...

My conversion HELPLESS IN SPACE   Randall stopped short and Captain Stark stared. They both felt a steady throbbing in the berylumin floor of the ethership’s navigating cabin. It was an alien pulsation, a steady beat of uniform pattern and intensity. Captain Stark’s face showed alarm and puzzlement. “What is it, Randall?” “Whatever it is, it’s coming from outside the ship,” he muttered, busying himself with the glittering array of instruments. The Captain fidgeted and chewed his mustache as Randall worked. He finally looked up from the instruments, his face expressionless. “We’ve been caught up by a cosmic ray stream fifteen hundred miles wide. Its hold is unbreakable. We’ll just have to let it take us where it will.” “Impossible!” the Captain roared. “We must be able to pull out.” He stomped to the engine room optophone and bellowed, “Maximum acceleration on neutrino power! No rocket ignition until ordered.” Randall froze. “I warn you,” he blurted, “don’t waste any rocket fuel. We’ll need it for landing—somewhere.”

Katie Henry, the author of Heretics Anonymous, delivers an engrossing and thoughtful contemporary tale that tackles faith, friendship, family, anxiety, and the potential apocalypse.There are many ways the world could end. A fire. A catastrophic flood. A super eruption that spews lakes of lava. Ellis Kimball has made note of all possible scenarios, and she is prepared for each one. What she doesn't expect is meeting Hannah Marks in her therapist's waiting room. Hannah calls their meeting fate. After all, Ellis is scared about the end of the world; Hannah knows when it's going to happen.Despite Ellis's anxiety—about what others think of her, about what she's doing wrong, about the safety of her loved ones—the two girls become friends. But time is ticking down, and as Ellis tries to help Hannah decipher the details of her doomsday premonition, their search for answers only raises more questions. When does it happen? Who will believe them?...

In the tenth year after the doomsday, the world finally came to an end. At the last moment of his life, Zhang Mu unexpectedly found that he had returned to ten years ago. With his memory about the future, he swore that he would change the calamitous history, saving the earth from being destroyed.

The only survivors of an annihilated human race must find one another somewhere in the cosmos and unite to destroy the alien aggressors who obliterated the Earth in this classic science fiction adventure After a three-year mission, the American starship Benjamin Franklin and its all-male crew have returned to Earth, only to discover the planet is dead, a blackened shell devoid of life. It is clear that one of a trio of alien species engineered the holocaust, but which? When the captain of the Franklin falters, engineer Carl Donnan is forced to take command of the ship. The future of what remains of the human race is in his hands. Donnan's first priority is to escape with his crewmates; the second is to find out if there are other human survivors somewhere among the stars—unbeknownst to Donnan and the three hundred men now under his charge, the female crew of the Europa also survived the genocide—and the third is to seek vengeance, for...

What if your favorite scary story was real?With eerie illustrations and chilling creepypasta interstitials, The Doomsday Archives: The Wandering Hour by Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos is the first in a deliciously creepy series, perfect for readers of Jonathan Stroud, Christian McKay Heidicker, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.New Rotterdam is no place for a kid―and that's what Emrys Houtman likes about it. Emrys obsessively documents his town's urban legends and cryptid sightings in a Wiki, along with his neighbors and fellow horror fans Hazel and Serena. It's all in good fun until one day, the trio stumbles upon the Doomsday Archives, a collection of relics with dazzling powers and dangerous consequences.When a mysterious blood-red hourglass begins appearing around town and children begin to go missing, the trio must band together to stop the horrors plaguing New Rotterdam, or risk losing their home . . . and possibly...

The electrifying second Robotech omnibus. Experience the struggles and triumphs of the Robotech Defense Force, led by the brilliant but unorthodox Captain Gloval, as they fight against the alien Zentraedi—only to find themselves fighting alongside their former enemy in a struggle against total annihilation.BATTLEHYMNFor two years, Captain Gloval and his crew had been chased through the solar system, only to be made to feel unwanted and maligned when they returned to Earth. Now, in direct violation of Council orders, Gloval commands the Super Dimensional Fortress to rise from its landing site…FORCE OF ARMSSupreme Commander Dolza had amassed the largest fleet of Zentraedi warships the Universe has ever seen… and all their weapons are aimed at Earth!DOOMSDAYA war without victors. A war that brought two races to the brink of extinction. A war without spoils, save for the devastated Earth itself... A new-age ark,...

When a sun goes nove, the tremendous explosion of tis awsome energies destroys all life in the palnets surrounding it. So when the Zoromes discovered that the sun of Ajiat would burst into nove in just a few days, they determined to explore the planet and warn any friendly life-forms the might exist there.But instead of friendship the Zoromes met only savagery, as the rutish inhabitants of this heavy gravity world attacked the exploring parties. Huge creatures of air and ground threw themselves at the machine men, and the beasts' power was so great the it overwhelmed even the Zoromes.Professor Jameson and his comrades found themselves imprisoned on a planet which faced fiery destruction at any minute!

An exclusive new World Book Day story from the bestselling author of ACE OF SPADES, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. The hilarious, heart-soaring story of one night, two friends and a list that will change everything, perfect for teen readers.On the day before the world is meant to end, Sanjeet dyes his hair pink... He's determined not to die without ever having really lived, so he's come up with the Doomsday List.Ten things he needs to do before the sky comes crashing down.Sola knows the world's not going anywhere. But, as Sanjeet's best friend, she's decided to help him out.As the seconds tick down to midnight, Sanjeet will need all his courage - and Sola's, to finish the list. Especially number ten. The one that scares him the most.And for more swoon-worthy first love, friendship and hilarity, don't miss Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar, coming soon.Praise for Ace of SpadesAN INSTANT NEW YORK...

Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history... In 1993 British computer hacker Adam Lewis finds his name in a coded manuscript that is almost one thousand years old. How did Adam’s name get in there... and why? Confronted by Adam in 2001, the TimeRiders travel back to Sherwood Forest in 1193 to discover the origins of the ancient message. But when a strange hooded man appears interested in the same thing, they begin to wonder what terrible threat this cryptic link from the past holds for the future...

Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption for fans of A Long Way Gone and What is the What When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans. The jihadists trust Abdi immediately because his older brother, Dahir, is already one of them, protégé to General Idris, aka the Butcher. If Abdi's duplicity is discovered, he will be killed.For weeks, Abdi trains with them, witnessing atrocity after atrocity, becoming a monster himself, wondering if he's even pretending anymore. He only escapes after he is forced into a suicide bomber's vest,...

A gritty, action-packed novel about a World War II suicide mission that goes sideways from a "superlative storyteller" (Publishers Weekly).In the midst of World War II, a Japanese submarine base must be destroyed. But someone needs to draw enemy fire while the goal is accomplished and the task would be a suicide mission. Only a certain kind of soldier can handle a job this risky. Now, six men have been chosen to serve as decoys, and a seventh has agreed to lead them. But none of them truly understands just what they are getting into—and will soon be desperate to get out of—in this harrowing tale by an author who has won or been nominated for more than half a dozen major awards. "The reader will find himself completely engrossed." —Best Sellers

Teens form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet.A woman faces giant spiders to collect silk and protect her family.New friends take their radio show on the road in search of plague survivors.A man seeks love in a fading world.How would you survive the apocalypse? Defying Doomsday is an anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it's not always the "fittest" who survive – it's the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring and innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is lost.In stories of fear, hope and survival, this anthology gives new perspectives on the end of the world, from authors Corinne Duyvis, Janet Edwards, Seanan McGuire, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Stephanie Gunn, Elinor Caiman Sands, Rivqa Rafael, Bogi Takács, John Chu, Maree Kimberley, Octavia Cade, Lauren E Mitchell, Thoraiya Dyer, Samantha Rich, and K L Evangelista.Table of ContentsAnd the Rest of Us Wait - Corinne DuyvisTo Take...

The UK's entire security network is mounted in an ultimate Red Alert deadline operation to avert cataclysmic disaster on a national scale. Islamic terrorism is poised to deliver its fiercest blow. The wrath of Allah let loose upon infidel Christians will be the mother of all holy chastisements in divine retribution for the mass slaughtering of Muslims by the demonic Western imperialists. An almighty and truly divine purging of the infidel worshippers that they be righteously smote down and cast into deep damnation to join their Devil. Zealous militants, the Jahidi, are sent forth on a holy mission that will wreak havoc across the country and send foreboding shock waves of the power of Islam throughout the Western world. Allah akbar! (God is great!). In a deathly race against time, MI5 and MI6 have the do or die task of thwarting this horrific doomsday threat their effort must succeed or it will be their last. About the Author Brandon Rolfe originally trained as an optometrist...

Melanie Jordan's life seemed perfect.Until masked intruders arrive at her house, demanding gold she doesn't have. A savage blow to the head puts her in a coma for four weeks. When Melanie regains consciousness, she learns her husband has been murdered and her ten-year-old daughter is missing.Private Eye Dan Reno begins investigating, but nothing about the case makes sense. Was there gold at the house or wasn't there? Was Melanie's husband hiding something? And what happened to Melanie's daughter?To complicate things, the case leads to Las Vegas, where Reno's loose-cannon buddy, Cody Gibbons, is trying to repair his relationship with his college-aged daughter, an intern with Las Vegas P.D.When clues implicate Russian mobsters and a mysterious African illegal, Reno tries to stay in the shadows, but once the crooks feel the noose tightening, they raise the stakes to a deadly level.And then, as they say in Vegas, all bets are off.

Readers' Favorite calls this high octane debut a "riveting novel with an important wake-up call." Humanity's greatest discovery . . . OR OUR LAST? In an artificial intelligence lab in Shanghai, something has gone terribly wrong. Days after a major breakthrough in machine learning, CyberGen Industries' lead AI scientist is dead—and their precious prototype has vanished into ether. An investigation reveals that, against all odds, the lab's "unhackable" system has been breached. The discovery, an algorithm mimicking human intelligence, is growing quickly—becoming more cunning and unpredictable with each passing hour. Soon its capabilities will eclipse its creators entirely. Who stole it? And more troubling, what do they plan to do with it? Ex-NSA hacker Adrian Pryor may be the only person on the planet capable of reining it in. He spent his career keeping the world safe, a vigilance for which he paid an enormous,...

Arts and crafts...and evil It's that time of the year for the Sunnydale Sidewalk Art Festival, and Buffy and the gang have been enlisted to help Joyce pre-pare for the big event. In fact, Xander's especially eager to pitch in, due to the arrival of a major hottie — a young artist named Justine. She specializes in Tarot paintings, and tells Xander that she senses much energy surrounding his aura. Xander naturally assumes his latent psychic powers have been awakened. But Buffy's not quite ready to call the psychic hot line. She has a nagging suspicion that something about Justine is not Þve by Þve — especially after she reaches for Justine's prized Tarot deck, which causes the artist to þy off the handle in a big way. Then there's the fact that vampires appear uncomfortable in Justine's presence. One by one, each of Buffy's closest friends seem to be surrendering their free will to an unknown, unseen force....

Brianna's past catches up with her, when one of the men who programmed her originally captures her. Wyatt leads the team to rescue her. And things will get ugly before he's done. Book Nine of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western science fiction adventure series full of bright characters, messy worlds, and all manner of ethical conundrums. Start first with Lost Dreams and then continue on and pick up the rest of this series!

The Double Down series continues with two men, and some interesting issues they contend with—two stories, two authors, one book. There was a time when Pete felt like he had the world in the palm of his hands, but lately everything is falling apart. His wife is growing cold, his business is in trouble, and even his friends show him nothing but contempt. Then a neighbor introduces him to paleo—the old way of eating, exercising, and even communing with the ancient sprits of the Neanderthals. All it takes is a little work, a little discipline, and a little blood sacrifice, and mysterious powers are within his grasp, but there's a price Pete never expected. It's a dark tale of terror, revenge, and suburban fads.Eric can sell insurance, but he can't sell anyone on what he knows for a fact: this world is about to go down in flames. Eric is forced to prep in secret. His wife won't listen, neither will his clients.

LOADED AND LETHAL—A LIVING TIME BOMB LOOSE IN THE WESSEX COUNTRYSIDE . . .Charlie is a specimen chimpanzee maintained by the Ministry of Defence for dubious experimental purposes. Soon after he has been injected with a devastating plague bacillus, he escapes. At first an innocent wanderer under summer skies, in only twenty-one days he will become infectious, and a population of millions will then be in hideous danger.Discreetly the authorities mount a full-scale search; but fearing the political and international consequences, they dare not reveal the sordid truth. As a result the search is compromised at every turn, while risks and tensions mount—to the very dawn of doomsday.

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Saxby's arch-enemy plots his ultimate revenge, a truckload of video games vanish into thin air, and the school office is the target of an apparently pointless robbery...In his sixth book of case files, Saxby Smart, schoolboy detective, solves three more puzzling mysteries: Five Seconds to Doomsday, March of the Zombies, and The Shattered Box. In each story Saxby gives you clues. Are you 'smart' enough to work out the answers?

An astounding tale about a dangerous quest in an eerie post–climate collapse world. A long time ago, the Vanderchucks fled the growing climate disaster and followed their neighbours into the Underground. Jesse Vanderchuck thought it was the end. Of the world. Of life. Eventually, Jesse's little sister, Olivia, ran away and Jesse started picking through trash heaps in Toronto's abandoned subway tunnels. Day in, day out. Then, years later, Jesse meets a talking dog. Fighting illness and the hostile world aboveground, Jesse and Doggo embark on a fool's errand to find Olivia — or die trying. Along the way, Jesse spins a series of fairy tales from threads of memories, weaving together the past, present, and future into stories of brave girls, of cunning lads, of love in the face of wickedness, and of hope in the midst of despair.

AMERICA WILL RISE AGAIN! Ravaged by the nuclear devastation of World War III, America is now a brutalized Russian colony. But led by a unique soldier of survival, Ted Rockson, a loose federation of secret American Free Cities rises up to fight the hated conquerer! Rockson’s name soon becomes the rallying cry of a people desperate to throw off the shackles of tyranny. Their ultimate freedom, though, depends on Rockson finding a weapon capable of defeating the Russian Empire. When a remarkable destructive device is rumored to be somewhere deep inside a radioactive hot zone, Rockson’s desperate mission is to find it. Russian patrols and the twisted hell of this savagely mutilated world become impossible obstacles, but Rockson will not give up, will not turn back, will not be defeated. The reason is simple. He’s been bred by the holocaust to be the . . . DOOMSDAY WARRIOR

FOUR AGAINST INFINITY! Reed Richards, brilliant scientist!Sue Richards, the woman he loves!Johnny Storm, her hot-tempered kid brother!Ben Grimm, top-flight test pilot! Together, these four braved the unknown dangers of outer space, and were transformed by sizzling cosmic rays into something more than merely human! The pliable MISTER FANTASTIC!The elusive INVISIBLE GIRL!The high-flying HUMAN TORCH!And the rampaging THING! Now they are the FANTASTIC FOUR . . . and the world will never be the same! A chilling tale of human endurance, and the search for life beyond death! AN INSTANT COLLECTOR’S ITEM: THE FABULOUS F.F. IN THEIR FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL!

It's the hottest adventure yet! When Patrick takes a trip alone in the Imagination Station for science project research, things get a little explosive. First, his cousin Beth gets angry that she was left behind. Second, Eugene Meltsner sees red when he realizes that Patrick went to Pompeii in 79 A.D. a day before Mount Vesuvius erupts! It doesn't help that the Imagination Station is on the blink and Whit has gone missing.As Beth and Eugene frantically try to find a way fix the machine, Patrick learns a few things about volcanoes: it's not the lava that comes first, it's poisonous gas.Will Eugene be able to reprogram the Imagination Station and send Beth to help Patrick? And what will happen to Patrick's new friends—a preacher, a looter, and a stray dog? Find out in the next adventure, Doomsday in Pompeii!

From the bestselling authors of Black Friday, Tyranny, and Stand Your Ground comes a shattering novel of the last days of civilization—and the final battle for humanity . . . DON'T OPEN TILL DOOMSDAY Six weeks ago, former US Marine Patrick Larkin purchased shares in a massive high-tech, state of the art underground missile silo for his family. It was a decision based on easing his wildest, most unimaginable nuclear fears. But then reality strikes with devastating suddenness, razing cities in a searing flash across the nation, all of it witnessed by terrified Americans on TV and the Internet. No one knows who pulled the trigger. No one knows if the last day on Earth will ever end. But Larkin and his family are the lucky ones—or so they think . . . Holed up in their fortified sanctuary, with a maximum capacity of three hundred people, the bunker is pushed to its limits—and so are the...

DEATH TO TYRANTS! World War III was finally fought—and America lost! But now, one hundred years after the Russian conquest of the U.S.A., the scattered Free Cities are about to unite and form a new nation with one goal: to forever drive the hated Soviets from America’s shores. And there’s only one man who can spearhead this second War of Independence: the famed soldier of survival, Ted Rockson. The sinister KGB, however, is planning to destroy the fledgling rebellion by incinerating its leadership in one fell nuclear swoop. But Rockson’s fought too many pitched battles against the Russians and the deadly mutant life forms in the radioactive hot zones not to sense the danger. Somehow he must survive and, when he does, he will raise his fist in defiance against the enemies of freedom—for he is the . . . DOOMSDAY WARRIOR

Fantasy. 75552 words long. First published in Double Dragon Publishing, 2009

FREEDOM’S CHAMPION Nearly a hundred years have passed since Russia’s nuclear first strike on an unprepared United States. As America struggles out of the radioactive rubble, a leader emerges to guide the American rebels in their most desperate hour. He is the ultimate soldier of survival, the Doomsday Warrior himself, Ted Rockson. But even Rockson can’t evade the clutches of the brutal Soviet invader. Captured and tortured by the KGB, Rockson manages to escape into the searing western desert where, hungry and delirious, he is suddenly swept into the whirling vortex of a violent postnuke mega storm . . . . . . and awakes in the time-trapped streets of 20th Century Salt Lake City—a city held prisoner by the hallucinatory powers of a demonic tyrant called The Chessman. Whether real or imagined, the Doomsday Warrior has no choice but to battle The Chessman in the most dangerous game of all—the game of life and death. At stake is the survival of an American city . . . and the future of the free world! DOOMSDAY WARRIOR

SUMMARY: This fourth book in Shayla Black's sizzling paranormal "Doomsday Brethren" series features Duke and Elisabeth.

This edge-of-your-seat memoir from former FBI agent Joe Navarro reveals the shocking, inside details of how he spearheaded a 1980s investigation into a colossal espionage breach that would have left the US defenseless in a Soviet attack.In 1988 FBI Agent Joe Navarro divides his time among SWAT assignments, flying air reconnaissance, and working counterintelligence. A body-language expert with an uncanny ability to "read" the suspects he interrogates, Joe dreams of snaring an assignment that will get him noticed by headquarters. Then he interviews Rod Ramsay. Ramsay is a former American soldier who is linked to a soldier-turned-traitor, Clyde Conrad. When Navarro notices Ramsay's hand twitch at the mention of Conrad's name, Joe thinks he smells a liar. He insists to his bosses that they launch an investigation. What follows is unique in the annals of espionage detection—a cat-and-mouse game played at the highest level. Navarro is the FBI agent who can't overtly...

FREEDOM’S HAZARD In the nuclear-ravaged 21st century, liberty still thrives in free cities under the ground of a wasted America—until Pattonville, second largest of these bastions of freedom, is seized by the power-crazed General Hanover. Using a newly developed lethal gas, Hanover holds the city captive in a dark and brutal reign of terror. But word has reached the one man who can save democracy for America: Ted Rockson, the Doomsday Warrior. Together with his brave team of freedom fighters, Rockson races across the ruined landscape. Their destination is Pattonville, but before they can liberate the city, Rockson and his “Rock Team” must overcome the mad dictator’s ferocious guard force. Pitted in mortal combat against mighty men and vicious beasts alike, Rockson knows he must win—before Hanover captures every free city in the nation! DOOMSDAY WARRIOR

EDITORIAL REVIEW: The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking. The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages? Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 best-selling Liar’s Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely—really unlikely—heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.

FREEDOM’S CAUSE The lightning-quick Russian victory over the United States is total and complete. The Soviet thermonuclear first strike transforms America’s cities into fire-scorched mounds of radioactive rubble, its vast countryside into a shattered wasteland. The onslaught of Russian invasion troops capture most Americans fortunate enough to survive the nuclear carnage, creating a slave labor force to serve every demand of the Russian overlords. But a handful of survivors escape the Russian net and choose to live—and give their lives if need be—for freedom’s cause. Led by Ted Rockson, the ultimate soldier of survival, the FreeFighters vow to drive the hated Russians from American shores at any cost. And when civil war breaks out between the two Soviet factions that rule the United States—the Red Army and the black-shirted KGB—Rockson knows it’s time to strike, to divide and conquer the oppressor—or die in the attempt. The battle that will determine the very course of civilization is about to begin . . . DOOMSDAY WARRIOR

FREEDOM’S BANNER Following Russia’s thermonuclear first strike, America is a shattered wasteland, its survivors crushed under the iron fist of the brutal Soviet invader. But some have chosen to continue the fight for freedom’s cause under Ted Rockson, the ultimate soldier of survival. And when Rockson receives a strange visitor who is near death, a long-rumored legend suddenly comes alive. Built by American millionaires generations ago beneath a remote Mexican mountain range lies an underground city with artificial sunlight, forests and lakes known as Eden. Life is sustained by Factor Q—a new technology that could restore America’s nuke-ravaged eco-system. But the negative forces of Factor Q are capable of destroying mankind, and the Russians are as eager to obtain its secrets for their deadly reasons as Rockson is to save the world. It’s a race against time between the forces of good and evil—a race for the survival of the world that must be won by the . . . DOOMSDAY WARRIOR

Doomsday's Child

In this action-packed environmental thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Final Theory, a good-hearted climate activist must stop terrorists from assassinating the worst fossil-fuel tycoons.Five climate criminals. One assassination plot. One man caught in the middle.It's Climate Emergency Week in New York City. Thousands of environmentalists are protesting against the ongoing destruction of the planet. Also here are the five fossil-fuel tycoons and reactionary politicians who were labeled 'The Worst Climate Criminals' by Max Mirsky, former editor of the Journal of Climatology. When Number Five on the list mysteriously dies as Max confronts him, quickly followed by Number Four, Max becomes the FBI's prime suspect. Things then go from bad to worse when his daughter is kidnapped. Max can't sit back and wait for the FBI to solve the case. He must rescue his daughter and discover who the real assassins are. And he must...

We live in a world positively teeming with threats and apocalyptic scenarios. Many of them are familiar: terrorism, deadly viruses, global warming and war, but many others most of us can't even imagine: self-replicating nanobots that can devour an entire planet, high-energy experiments that threaten to suck the Earth into a mini black hole, and even super-sophisticated scientific contraptions that can put an end to the entire universe.

An inexperienced sorceress must retrieve a priceless artifact from the enchantress who stole it, break the curse on her half-demon boyfriend, and stop her friends from turning on each other before the enchantress calls down doomsday.When a deadly enchantress steals an amulet of unimaginable power, crystal sorceress Dru Jasper must risk everything to get it back. With this amulet in hand, the enchantress could break the sixth seal of the apocalypse scroll. If she does, the seas will boil, the stars will fall from the sky, and the earth itself will split apart. Overall, bad news.There's only one way to stop doomsday: find the apocalypse scroll first. But Dru's attempts to track down the scroll run smack up against the dark secrets of her half-demon boyfriend, Greyson. His uncanny connection to the demon-possessed muscle car Hellbringer could threaten the fate of the world—unless Dru can find a way to break his curse for good. Which isn't easy, since one of...