A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II.The thrilling story of their courage and defiance, brought to life in the Oscar-nominated film Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, is beautifully told in this special 80th anniversary edition of ...

A collection of thought. Dreams, anger, love, empathy, and kids stuff.

For the first time in their lives, nineteen year-old Nur De Dernberg and her younger sister Deirdre are leaving Seychelles, Africa. They've come to Boston for a year, but not to party with the college kids – they're here to learn English. Nur, trapped by her inability to speak the language and her sister's inability to speak in anything other than clipped wisecracks, finds herself in a strange country with nobody to talk to; she is dreadfully, existentially alone.Until, that is, sh...

AND NOW, a few paragraphs to describe this collection, which features fifteen short stories and two novellas. These are stories of many different genres, covering a whole range of tones and time periods. There's a little girl learning to deal with a new member of the household, and there's a guy who's having a very hard time killing his coworker. There are stories set at the height of the Persian Empire, in the trenches of World War I, and on a far-off planet called SYL-33. There's slapsti...

JAILBREAK! - Get this: Samuzzo D'Amato just busted out of Sing Sing. You know Sing Sing, right? That big famous prison? Real maximum security type deal. Anyway, forget about Sing Sing already, on accounta D'Amato's outta there.Only don't forget about it so fast. See, D'Amato's lawyer cooked up a way to bust him out legally. Whole bunch of loopholes, I guess, since you better believe D'Amato did all those crimes they said he did. Plus some others. Point is, the wheels of ain't-so-ju...

Christian faith isn't blind obedience to a set of rules and regulations; it is entering into a relationship with a God who pursues us-not to punish, but to love. As the leader of Central Christian Church in the self-proclaimed "Sin City, U.S.A.," Jud Wilhite has seen it all, and he knows that no matter how far someone has strayed from God, God always remains in passionate pursuit. Using the biblical prophet Hosea's marriage, commanded by God, to an unfaithful prostitute as a metap...

There is a building in the middle of Manhattan. Well, there are lots of buildings in the middle of Manhattan. But there's this one in particular.It's sixty-two stories tall. One of the biggest on its block. Yet nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out. Which makes sense; all of the doors and windows are sealed shut.No one seems to know what the building is, or who owns it. In every sense save the physical, the building doesn't exist. No one seems bothered by this. Unt...

As COVID-19 sprawled across the world, our youth had to adjust to life without the support of their peers, teachers, clubs, and communities. The Unapologetic Voice House created a Young Adult imprint called YA Stories! to give children between the ages of 11 - 17 an outlet to express themselves through..After the Nova is the first anthology published by YA Stories!.In this anthology, you will find stories of perseverance and strength. Our female-driven narratives explore them...

Far in the future, war is fought entirely through simulations. No land is ever taken, no lives are ever lost. Like a game no one wins or loses. To be honest, it's basically just peace with games. It's pretty boring. Sorry for starting this off saying the galaxy was at war.But you see, not too long ago the galaxy was at proper war. DORAGHA, that period was called. Terrible weapons were constructed to fight this war. Atrocities were commonplace. It all became too costly. In lives los...

In the era of hair metal, all the good times are happening down on the Sunset Strip. Which is why that's the first place Delmer goes, after moving across the country to chase his dreams of rock stardom.Too bad about that killer stalking around the Strip. The one who takes a particular interest in the hard-partying metalheads. Sure, there's a detective named Isley on the case, but she's coming off of a few things too. The sorts of things she used to buy down there on Sunset. Which d...

The concept of platforms emerges in an increasing number of industries and affects customers' changing expectations, industries themselves, and new technologies' availability. Today, most platforms act as a technical foundation and distribution channel for complementary software products. Organizations can join platforms and use them to develop and distribute software products. They become complementors on the platforms. Platforms influence the motivations as well as the organization and a...

The law was clear enough: children born into slavery after July 4th, 1799 would be free by young adulthood. Those born before, however, were doomed to a life of servitude. Of being owned.Shed a tear for Aggy, then, the owned woman whose long labor produces a twin on either side of that deadline; Ambrose, the firstborn, delivered late on July 3rd, and his sister Patience, birthed bright and early on the 4th. Though mere minutes separate their respective arrivals, Patience and Ambros...