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In a single, blinding instant all they have known is destroyed and they awaken to a hostile and uncertain future.Marooned, Angus Hirano and Eilen Macumbo fight to survive among alien inhabitants who should not exist. Within the boughs of a vast arboreal world, Eilen adapts as Angus struggles, dreaming of once again roaming the stars. Odd hints of civilization kindle hope and set the pair upon a quest for answers to questions they can scarcely form. Nomads and traders accompany them through forest and across desert plateau, until, in the heart of a far mountain, they encounter a startling, long buried past and discover a path they could never have imagined back to the stars.Between its covers, Uko's Legacy unveils an exciting odyssey while revealing the surprising secrets of a strange new world.

One lives to uphold the law. One lives to break the law.Sammi Reilly thinks she has everything figured out with her friends and band of thieves. Then they meet their match: a lone law enforcement officer. Detective Mack Johnson is just doing his job but gets more than he bargains for when going toe-to-toe against-and falling head-over-heels-for Sammi. Can Mack be more than just Sammi's way out of an abusive relationship, or will their worlds implode if thieves and cops try to coexist?Love Against the Law by Justine Klavon takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride through action and romance, showing us friendship might be the key to happiness, leaving us with new friends we never knew we wanted.

Marie Autumn yearns to willingly submit to someone. To lose control. To surrender. The woman has endured a great deal of abuse from her father, and she wishes to control the pain, in some way at least, through BDSM. Unfortunately, the dom she submits to gets consumed by the power he holds over her, which leads them down a very dark road. Will Marie escape and find love? Or will she forever be tied to the man's bed in golden handcuffs, starving because he refuses to feed her?

A mother who gives away her daughter in a relative's kitchen; a little girl who watches from behind a partly closed door; a father who leaves his daughter beside the trash cans in an alley while stealing her brother-Leah lives these lives and more in this memoir of growing up a girl in post-WWII America.Holding Up the Sky by Lessie Auletti shares parent-child relationships as seen through the eyes of Leah, a little girl born shortly after Pearl Harbor, who views both the wars between nations and those of her parents. She survives divorce, kidnapping, and family betrayal. This story of the struggles of family and childhood will have you turning the pages in excitement.

Teaching during the Jurassic: Wit and Wisdom from an Old Hippie Teacher is a memoir in the vein of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. Instead of the Appalachian Trail, we follow all the twists and turns of Martin Settle's teaching career from his first approach to teaching as a hippie subversive to his eventual triumph as a self-actualized person.Part memoir, part teaching guide, this book charts the "e;Jurassic"e; period of teaching - no personal computers, no cell phones, no internet, and the introduction of new social movements in the classroom (women's rights, civil rights, and gay rights). Settle addresses some of the universals of the profession - how to deal with administrators, behavioral problems in the classroom, the outsider student, the psychologically dangerous student, and more."e;Perfect for the reader who is an aspiring, current or retired educator, the book is also a must read for those who enjoy exploring the intersection between all domains of knowledge and long for hopeful possibilities for the future."e;- Robert Corbin, PhD, Educational Consultant, International, Discovery Education"e;In a year that's shown us just how essential good teachers are, Martin Settle's book Teaching During the Jurassic will leave you with a newfound respect for this noble profession."e;-Taylor Bowler, lifestyle editor at Charlotte magazine "e;There is wisdom in this book about not only enduring the teaching experience but prevailing as a self-actualized person. This memoir is a must read for all in the education profession."e; -Jackie Fishman, National Teacher Leadership Team, Facing History and Ourselves

Constance Studer's collection of short stories, Queen of the Sugarhouse, brings to life strongly drawn characters dealing with challenging circumstances. A registered nurse in ICU struggles to do the right thing after she makes a mistake. A homeless Desert Storm veteran grieves for his own loss of health, as well as for the loss of his father. Two women test their life-long friendship while one of them undergoes a facelift. A doctor's life is forever changed during one twenty-four hour shift in the Emergency Room. A writer, committed to a psychiatric hospital because of an accident, uses her writing to heal. A novice nurse learns her job from taking care of a confused old man who has suffered a stroke. A waitress struggles with caring for her younger brother, who has muscular dystrophy. A daughter reluctantly comes home to nurse her difficult mother, who drove first her husband then her daughter to flee the Ohio farm where their livelihood was making maple sugar. "e;Every person has a story,"e; Carl Jung observed. "e;Derangement happens when the story is denied. To heal, the patient needs to rediscover his story."e; Constance Studer's characters find healing in making pottery, taking photographs of objects not usually thought of as beautiful, in climbing mountains, in writing a novel. Healing is a process, a journey toward balance, connectedness, meaning and wholeness, rather than an outcome.

The company has been separated. The goblin chief has been defeated, but the goblins have regrouped and resumed their search. Adroegen has taken a fall over a cliff and may be gone, while Caitren is captured and will be brought before the evil lord Vyroun, who will soon wage war upon the kingdoms in the north. Gleowan and Vaenn search for Caitren, while Edelbir and Kattalin must find Adroegen, as well as a hidden kingdom of dwarves to aid them against Vyroun. The Tempter''s Bane is the second installment of The Drifters'' Road series, in which Adroegen''s friends lose their guide in lands unknown to them. On their own, they despair over the coming assault from Vyroun, and over fear that their friends might be gone. 

When Jason Williams, an alienated and unemployed artist and poet, plots with his "e;homies"e; to construct an African American hydrogen bomb-Boom Shakalaka!!!-he has no idea this desperate quest for dignity will propel him to a new world. Opening doorways to the "e;many rooms in [his] father's house"e; leads him into the multiverse's mansion of 10^500 rooms. Jason finds himself riding the rails of a ridiculously sublime "e;underground railroad"e; to the utopias of stars and galaxies within each of us.Blackland is an outrageous postmodern novel, seen through prisms of philosophy, physics, and poetry. As he swaggers and staggers through "e;the great conversation,"e; Jason tags "e;Phew Yawk Shitty"e; with the graffiti of urban angst and humor, while "e;joning"e; with hood-rat desperation and bluster on the perversities of Black lives in America. Yet, could it be the banter disguises his grander ambitions to relocate the entire population of the earth to the Andromeda galaxy? In his ongoing search for "e;the best of all possible worlds,"e; he awakens on a hay wagon in Blackland, a world where white people have opted for virtual reality and left the Earth to the mud people.Blackland's satirical humor provokes both belly laughs and moral outrage. As political satire, Blackland questions the contemporary racialized imaginaries that create our shared futures. In the traditions of writers like Paul Auster's Travels in the Scriptorium, Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Jason lives in a library of books. As his adventure evolves, he reads and writes himself not only into a world, but also into the multiverse, where he is everywhere at once. Blackland is an exuberant dreamscape, a paradoxical novel inscribed within itself that will fuel your imagination and, as it draws you on its fantastical journey, stoke your outrage, and drive you to fits of laughter.

Gray Reynolds' world is violently upended when assassins wound him and kill everyone else aboard a speedboat. He then learns from his dying wife that she helped steal $100 million from a notorious drug cartel. Gray's only hope of staying alive is to disappear.Forced to flee, Gray searches out a remote trout fishing farm in the foothills of the North Cascades that seems to be the perfect hideout. But his identity is not the farm's only secret. Traumatized by the loss of her mother to cancer, a young blind woman believes the mysterious stranger is the man her mother promised would one day come. Her infatuation, however, arouses the desires of her older married sister.Tensions escalate when a tragedy occurs, raising the possibility of the farm's imminent sale and rekindling the cartel's relentless determination to discover Gray's whereabouts.In Swimming with the Angels, Colin Kersey has woven themes of longing and grief, love and sensuality into a thriller of uncommon beauty and depth.

Goleman Eck is an abortion survivor. Literally. As such, he is subject to other people's uses of him for political, religious, and media purposes. Some for whom he "e;doesn't look right"e; threaten his life. Others know Gole as a lover or true friend.Whirling together the contemporary outrageous and the serio-comic, Robert Ready's Eck: A Romance is wholly new fiction, a quest for identity, purpose, love-even what it means to be alive. ---Novelist and critic William Giraldi, author of Hold the Dark and American Audacity, offers these lines about Eck:"e;Robert Ready's Eck: A Romance is a masterwork of shimmering prose and uncommon perception. Here is a novelist in consummate control of his material. In its observant integrity, its duet of substance and style, its sustaining grand idea of origins and the unborn living, Eck calls us back to the nourishing womb of Literature, singing of the great subjects, including the mother/son dyad and the fates we might or might not be prepared to fathom. Ready's sentences never quit reaching within and without, activating analogues as they go: many lines in this novel have never before been penned. The originality, darkling humor, and probing intelligence of the whole symphonic telling is a marvel that calls up DeLillo at his best. The sheer potency of seeing is itself what every novelist must aspire to and what makes every ecstatic reader go Ahh. This novel is an astonishing accomplishment that will not let you forget it."e;

"e;Fran Lewis's newest offering is a polished, razor-sharp double-edged sword. On one hand, it is reminiscent of the old Twilight Zone series and just as chilling. On the other, it is a poignant reminder of just how precious and fragile human life on this planet truly is. A riveting read."e; --Vincent Zandri, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author of The Girl Who Wasn't There and the Dick Moonlight PI series. Population Zero creatively focuses on the damage being done by Covid 19 as it ravages the human race, and our inability to deal with climate change.Allan Topol, national best selling author of The French Revenge---Imagine a forest so dense and so filled with trees that you cannot see anything but darkness. The smell of the dead leaves, the creatures that lived there, and the stench they created.Imagine smashed windows and abandoned satellite dishes and blocks of plaster all over the ground.Imagine... What might the world be like if humans were suddenly to disappear?In Population Zero by Fran Lewis, we experience several post-human worlds through the eyes of people who were allowed to visit for one day. A world covered in ice, a world in complete darkness, a world where deserts are plentiful, and others...Get a glimpse of what our planet would look like if humans stopped existing. Get a glimpse of the future.