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ABRACADABRA ...... Ancient words uttered to invoke a magical response and the very phrase which catapults Alexander Storm and Company into their next mind-bending race against evil. High adventure abounds as the returning cast of characters dash around the globe in an effort to thwart the rising menace. Their journeys take them to the ancient ruins of Solomon and the secretive caves of Qumran, across the mountainous regions of the Mediterranean and through the vast landscape of India. Their objective ... a morphing mystery. Their adversaries ... relentless and evil. And at the heart of it all ... a magic force so archaic that it threatens to unravel the very fabric of existence.

"Crybaby Bridge is a gore-soaked trip down memory lane. One that starts innocently enough before pulling the reader into a bible-belt nightmare that could only exist in the middle of Nowhere, America."- Caleb Stephens, author of Feeders and The Girls in the CabinIt's a typical Saturday night in the small town of Somerset . . .until it's not. When a group of unlikely teens test fate by participating in a local urban legend, they face consequences they'll carry with them for the rest of their lives. Presented in an oral history twenty years after the fact, it's Ken Burns by way of the grindhouse in this gripping tale of a bloody October night in a forgotten and vanishing America."An excellent follow-up to The Rules of the Road, CB Jones' Crybaby Bridge enriches the urban legend with a multi-voiced documentary style presentation." -Christi Nogle, author of the Bram Stoker Award(R) winning first novel Beulah

"A collection of eleven essays and one story by the acclaimed essayist Arthur Krystal. Topics range from literary figures to sports figures to cultural appropriation to aging"--

A renowned American essayist and screenwriter explores the complicated life and its dramatically changing backdrop of one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century

"A microhistory in the form of a biography of Jane Welborn Spurgin, an outspoken supporter of the Revolution whose husband was a Tory who bore arms for the king during the American war. Her story illustrates the rifts and conflicts but also the opportunities the Revolutionary War created for Americans, male and female, as they fought for and thought through independence"--

The war amid the stars is over and Captain Fremont McMannus is moving on to a staff job. His entire Microgravity Strike Team is going to be disbanded, struck from the rolls of the Terran Marine Corps. No more daring raids on Charee orbital stations or assaulting Grausian battleships. Never again to risk the combat spacer's fate worse than getting spitted on a Legionaries' vibrosword, drifting through the void while your air ran out and silent violence danced around you. Then again, a staff job and a transfer over to Fleet HQ in peacetime might also be also worse than death. His rescue comes in the form of note from an old commanding officer, Colonel Thomas Meagher. who has started his own mercenary company, operating in the Peace Treaty Demilitarized Zone. Dozens of worlds left outside the borders of the remnant political units of the Old Empire, with gold and enemies to spare. Reaching out to the men and women he led in combat a just a few short months ago and who will soon be out on the unemployment line, Free puts the 76th MIST out for hire. Another entry into the best selling Fallen Empire series created by J.F. Holmes; Michael Morton brings his decades of experience as an Air Force officer to a thrilling tale of future combat in the silent depths of space.

More relevant now than ever, as sucking up becomes the master trope of the Trump era, this choice romp through the spectacular world of bowing and scraping will entertain and enlighten.