When fourteen year-old Jackson's life is uprooted, he finds his new hometown, idyllic Atavus Falls, under attack. The locals choose to call the threat a rabid bear or mountain lion, but as the killer closes in on Jackson and his family, it comes to light that their 'monster' is actually the product of a sociological experiment gone wrong, an experiment whereupon an unhinged psychologist raised a feral child, a child completely deprived of all human contact, in order to prove that language ...

Issue 16 has a variety of tales. It's really quite interesting.

The cover story from this issue is set in the Mughal subplot of 1632 to celebrate the upcoming August release of 1637: Pilgrim's Passage.When the Bell Went Silent - Griffin Barber and Chuck ThompsonA Break In the Clouds - George McClellan GrantRumors on the Rialto - Jack CarrollShut Up and Train More - Owain AlexanderWho Killed Snow White, Part 1 - Pascal DurandThrough the Eyes of a Canine - Cray Dimensional"Bell and Rope" By Chuck Thompson...

"Alice's Place" By Bethanne Kim - A fascinating exploration of the changes Grantville creates in the new time line. In the original up-time world the historical Alice Blower was a celebrated midwife who was persecuted for performing her life saving work. The author has taken this outspoken personage and brought her to brilliant life in Grantville where her expertise is highly valued and she is given the opportunity to do much more good than she ever dreamed of."Have Rosary, Will Tr...

Theirs was a prolonged run of excellence like none other in sports history. From 1991 through 2005, the Atlanta Braves won fourteen consecutive division championships, a streak no team in professional sports has ever come close to approaching. Beginning with the unexpected worst-to-first miracle of 1991, the Braves commenced an era of sustained dominance that Major League Baseball never saw coming. From the wondrous run to the ’91 pennant, to Francisco Cabrera’s two-run single in the ’92 N...

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, n...

Embark on a whimsical adventure into the enchanting world of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, now available as an enthralling audiobook. In this beloved classic, listeners will join young Alice as she tumbles down the rabbit hole and discovers a fantastical realm filled with curious creatures, nonsensical riddles, and surreal landscapes.As the story unfolds, listeners will be captivated by Alice's encounters with the enigmatic Cheshire Cat, the tyrannical Queen of Hearts, an...

Embark on a whimsical journey through the fantastical world of "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll, now available as a delightful audiobook experience. Follow Alice as she steps through the looking glass into a world where nothing is quite as it seems, encountering quirky characters and absurd situations at every turn.In this beloved sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Carroll's vivid imagination and playful language come to life in enchanting detail. From the cu...

The political climate is laden with discord but in this political thriller, the subject intensifies when the United States President falls into the fierce grip of an unprecedented illness. Revolving around a President's battle with Alzheimers, his talks with a drunkard and rash Russian president leaning towards war, and a corrupt U.S. Vice President eager to take charge, the plotline in this fictional screenplay follows President Jefferson Payne's White House staff as they scramble to hold...

The Greatest Writers of All Time: Series 2 gathers a remarkably capacious canon, placing ancient epic beside nineteenth-century realism, Gothic speculation, children's fantasy, detective fiction, naturalism, and modernist psychological prose. Its range reveals literature's enduring concern with heroism, social obligation, desire, invention, violence, and moral uncertainty. Monumental journeys, domestic conflicts, uncanny experiments, and investigations of crime stand out as distinct yet mu...

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them.

This Special Edition of The Hunger Games includes the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of The Hunger Games; an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne Collins and YA legend Walter Dean Myers on writing about war. The Special Edition answers many questions fans have had over the years, and gives great insight into the creation of this era-defining work....