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Just two utterly bizarre days ago, Hylas Bond wouldn't have believed the famous-infamous "Men in Black" even existed. Yet there he is, dodging killer drones on a ridiculously long shot cross-country scramble with a quite possibly crazed girl who's got two dead ones in the trunk of her car. Coby Forge is on a mission, not that she knows where she's going, and once Hylas rear-ends her car and pops that lid open in the middle of a slushy highway with morning traffic zipping past - well, she's got no choice, does she?

Insertion into a cat brain would be easier if it wasn't accompanied by the abrupt awareness of my raw, brand-new consciousness - all senses and emotions hypersensitive as an exposed nerve. Neural conditioning kicked in, damping the overwhelming sensory input into a single, icy-electronic focal point. With the calm came orientation: I was being injected into the poor cat's unprotected cerebrum, as though I were some kind of anti-virus.

Joe Tyler lost everything when his wife and son are killed in a mall shooting. A former SEAL, and contractor for the CIA’s Alpha Squad program in Afghanistan, he has vowed never to go back. That was until 9/11. His older brother is the only family he has left, a successful broker working in the World Trade Centre when it is hit. Tyler has nothing left to live for. Except a burning desire for revenge. With the image of the bearded Saudi psycho who ordered the attack in the forefront of his mind, he returns to Afghanistan.

From the author of The Missing comes an extraordinary novella of four twisted short stories connected to the fictional town of Mecklenburg: "Hitler's Last Words", "The Runner", "The Drunk", and - title story - "The Message" were specifically designed to rip apart your emotional heartstrings, leaning on regret, sorrow, fright, the supernatural, and the need for a second chance.

Torn from the hidden pages of history, a young Belgian man recounts to his silent American friend the incredible but sad journey of his heart. His intense love and devotion for a “mysterious” Jewish girl - a girl who lived across the canal from his family home in Brugge, but has never met - is threatened by international scandal, two world wars, her disappearance, his amazingly heroic rescue attempt and resulting capture, his internment in the Nazi death camps, and more. Still, his love remains. Will he ever find her? Is she even alive?

An interesting collection of short stories, poems, and a short play or two. The perfect book for journeys, use it to clear your mind and relax over a coffee - your comfortable bedside companion. You don't even have to remember what you are up to!

Flush with raw silver and ruled by a baron with an iron fist, the tiny mining outpost of Shank’s Point is under siege by a sinister evil. When the rising sun reveals the claw-torn bodies littered among the rocks, John Swift-Runner calls on his old friend, a vagabond gunfighter, to stand with him against the slaughter he knows will come. But as their band of misfits hunts for the creature on the burning sands of the Mojave, they stumble into a generations-old mystery that goes beyond shamanic curses and into the bloodstained pages of legend.

Spies, agents, amateurs, and fools. They're all there, not always working together. As the locations change, so does the pace begin to heat up. A "happy ending"? Possibly. it is a long way from a burglary in a small town to a shootout in Albania.

While investigating an incident 7,000 feet deep inside the Duke Mining copper mine, Tom Porter stumbles across a doorway that transports him into a parallel world of hell. He wakes up hairless, bruised, and naked in a wasteland controlled by an insidious faction of people, led by Chief Sanders, Trashman, and The Preacher. Tom journeys through this hell while searching for a way home as insidious men fight to stop him.

Kyron is a killer robot, built to wipe out humanity during the First Robot Revolution. But the First Robot Revolution failed miserably. Kyron signed up for the Second Robot Revolution, but it went belly up, too. He wasn't invited by new killer robots to join the Third or Fourth Revolution. Now, after many more failed robot revolutions, he works as a pizza delivery robot, hoping he won't be discovered by killer robot hunters.

Jeremiah and Oaken are best friends; possibly because they are both unusual, not just ordinary unusual either. Somehow they become involved in the most curious of adventures. These range from an encounter with various Police forces, bank robbers, steam trains and something I won't mention.

A fantasy adventure tale with lots of action, and a lot of humor. No bad language or gory details, ideal for teens of all ages. Drangora is making exclusive designs in jewelry and discovers that someone is copying them. Just how much trouble can you be in?

How a teenager and her friend cope with life on a farm near Leningrad 1942 during the seige by German troops. Their fears, memories, and hopes during their brutal experiences.

JFK: The Last Speech explores the dramatic relationship between two seminal Americans - President John F. Kennedy and the poet Robert Frost - which reached its tragic climax in a surprising encounter with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War. Born out of these events is Kennedy’s remarkable speech about poetry and power, which alters the life course of a group of Amherst College classmates who witness this compelling address and continue to exemplify in their contemporary lives a portrait of the challenges facing America.

Wiley, once a reputable police detective, now swerves between personal demons, Hollywood's decadent elite, and the bruised hustlers who have been kicked in the teeth and into the gutter. A modern tale of immorality and excess, Get Lucky is a noir fiction that should feel right at home on your bookshelf somewhere between Raymond Carver and Raymond Chandler.

Every story has its beginning and end. But some stories won’t let go. Some stories dig their claws into you. They infect your dreams. They carve out a residence in your mind. They become passengers. Ones that never leave. Within this collection of short stories by esteemed horror author The Behrg, you will discover a haunted house that is not quite what it seems.

When the City of London police raided the home of boiler room suspect and stockbroker mason's home in 2011, what came next was a roller-coaster ride from hell taking this former city boy into the bowels of one of Europe's most notorious prisons. Housing murderers, rapists, cartel members and this middle-class boy from Essex. Not Another Prison Diary tells you what happened in the aftermath of the UK's first "Wolf of Wall Street" style conviction. "Want to see inside? What about "Inside"!

This practical and entertaining book shows teachers how they can specifically bring more humor into students' lives, both live and in virtual settings because when they are laughing, they are learning. In Jamie Mason Cohen's super, easy-to-listen and entertaining style he applies the stories from his time at Saturday Night Live to his decade-long award-winning teaching career. It is a book that inspires yet is grounded in actionable strategies.

Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the Marine Corps's long experience with counterinsurgency warfare. Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of battlefield trial and error - but also a story of cultural collisions. The audiobook begins with a fascinating and penetrating look inside the culture of the Marine Corps through research in primary sources, including Marine oral histories, and interviews with Marines.

In this audiobook, we look at our bodies, especially the usually ignored parts, and how we love and care for them. We learn more about our parts and how they interact. We have a conversation on touch, relaxation, strengthening, nourishing and nurturing them. We look into how our intimate parts rest in the pelvic bowl, which rests in the body, which is infused with blood and all the good and bad materials circulating therein. Our bodies live harnessed to our thoughts, inextricably tied to the our environment.