2025 is the 35th anniversary of multi-Academy Award-winning movie DANCES WITH WOLVES, a true American epic directed by and starring Kevin Costner. Read the breathtaking original novel that inspired it!The last occupant of Fort Sedgewick, Lieutenant John Dunbar watches over the American frontier. A thousand miles back east, his comrades are locked in battle with the Confederates, but out here he is alone.His desolate posting will br...

Maize is the world’s most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant?Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specia...

A sweet barista. Three revenge-bent hitmen. One chance encounter that changes everything.Rhett, Elliot, and Oliver only have one goal: taking down the man who ruined their lives ten years ago. There's little else they focus on except their Friday morning trip to a new coffee shop.There, they meet Wren, a barista questioning whether she should move on from her toxic boyfriend or not. She's kind, sassy, and is the queen of matching energies.Quickly, t...

A pregnant omega trapped in a desperate situation, an unattached alpha with a lot to prove, and an unexpected fall into love that could save them both.Kerry Monkburn is contracted to a violent alpha in prison for brutal crimes. Now pregnant with the alpha’s child, he lives high in the mountains, far above the city that once lured him in with promises of a better life. Enduring bitterness and fear, Kerry flirts with putting an end to his life of darkness, but fate intervenes.J...

-Etchings Press Novella Prize Winner-Independent Press Award for Audiobook & Literary Fiction Distinguished Favorite-Publishers Weekly BookLife Editor’s Pick-Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel Finalist-Feathered Quill Book Award for Debut Author Finalist-Featured on Deep South Magazine's Reading ListPINEVILLE TRACE, a multi-award-winning novella-in-flash from the University of Indianapolis’ Etchings Press, is an “introspective, ...

Grounded in meticulous research and written with an uncanny understanding of the military and of American Indian culture, Blake offers soulful profiles of the participants, both Indian and cavalry. Indian Yell is filled with accounts of harrowing sacrifice and tragic misdeeds of real people. Blake tells of their lives and loves, their bravery, and their shortcomings in a way that lends a new perspective on America's greatest insurgency. Some of the stories are well documented in the annals...

This issue, we have a locked-room mystery novel, a far-future science-fantasy sword-and-sorcery novel, and 8 shorts featuring everything from dogs to cats to buried skeletons to time travel—and more! Truly, something for everyone.As always, special thanks to our Acquiring Editors, Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman, for picking a pair of terrific original tales. And our editorial board—Tom Easton, Ryan Hines, Vicki Erwin, Paula Messina, and Richard Prosch—who patiently read submissio...

“So many superstar Western authors. So many stunning stories. This one’s a keeper.” —DAVID MORRELL, New York Times Bestselling Author of First Blood and Last ReveilleJustice is never clean. Out here, it’s personal.From the dust-choked trails of the frontier to the shadowed backroads of the modern West, Hard Country portrays the raw, unflinching heart of Western crime, as...

In a world where heats are sold for profit, Adrien—an untouched omega—is out of options. Young and broke, he agrees to sell his first heat and breeding to pay for school, hoping for a kind alpha… and bracing for the worst.Enter Heath: older, powerful, and hiding secrets. He purchases Adrien’s heat for reasons that have nothing to do with instinct—but when their chemistry ignites, even Heath can’t stay detached. What was meant to be a transaction becomes something far more: a bond n...

I might be a killing machine. I just don't know it, yet.Siroc: My mountain domain operates as smoothly as the sleek machines that mine for ore in the caves, but when a human female is found in the snow, every alarm bell rings—literally. It's Jane, a volunteer of the human-Mitran breeding program, who had disappeared six months earlier, but not willingly. It's clear she was abducted and surgically "enhanced" with implants to improve her senses and s...

LiseWhen I'm assigned to report on the alien bride program, I'm thrilled to get a break from the crowded city. No noisy apartment building. No synthesized food. But Mitra is nothing like I thought it would be. It's beautiful, yes, but it's also a rugged land on the border of enemy territory. It all changes when the warlord rescues me from being trampled by a ugris. Adrik is big and gruff and everything I never wanted in a man, but he's all I can think about.

Learning to code controllers, PLCs & HMIs?★ Hacks To Crush PLC Programs From Beginning. Start Designing, Building, Simulating and Testing Programs in IEC Languange (This book guides only on LD (Ladder Diagram)★This book will get you crushing PLC-HMI programming environment as well as familiarize you with (LD) ladder logic programming.You'll gain a deeper understanding of the LD programming and the editing interface, the practical methods used to build a PLC program, a...