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Captain Jason Ayers and his crew deal with aliens, politicians, colonists, and pirates. Their adventures include action stories, mysteries, and dramas. These short stories have appeared in Tales Of The Talisman, Golden Visions, and The Fifth Di…, among others.This collection contains all the “Frigate Victory” science fiction short stories. The stories are in chronological order. Also included is the concluding short novel Bear at the Door...

Oria is the youngest daughter of the famed magus Hilia of Bacaria. A rough end to a relationship and a message from one of her mother’s friends sends Oria to the great city of Nuvus.Someone is selling scrolls with false tales written on them, including ones about Hilia. Is this a scheme to get coins? An effort to undermine Luthgenicca? Oria is tasked to investigate. Will trying to solve the mystery take Oria’s life in a startling new direction?

Climate adaptation is often framed as a challenge of the future. In Who Gets to Adapt? Environmental Elites, Blue-Collar Communities, and the Climate Divide, Robert W. Collin demonstrates that its outcomes are rooted in history.This book offers a rigorous historical analysis of how protection, risk, and inequality have been structured over time in the United States. Drawing on environmental law, land-use planning, and public policy, Collin traces how decades of decisions-r...

The Rise of Deathwatch traces the evolution of Gothic and uncanny literature from its eighteenth-century origins to fin-de-siècle and early modern transformations. Its range extends from castle romance, terror fiction, and philosophical nightmare to detective mystery, imperial adventure, psychological realism, and proto-science fiction. Haunted inheritances, forbidden knowledge, doubles, revenants, vampires, spectral women, and monstrous experiments form a dark continuum in which fear beco...

Oria and her partner Culca are given an important assignment. Ships from one of Luthgenicca’s allies in Nuvia are being robbed when they sail into the port of another ally.The Novium Empire is supporting pirates attacking ships from Luthgenicca and their allies. Oria and Culca need to find out if the robberies are being committed by those pirates or other criminals before the situation sets allies against each other. Will the two young women be able to solve the mystery on their ow...

Oria and her partner Culca are recalled to Luthgenicca on news that a pirate ship has been captured. Everyone presumes that the Novium Empire is supporting pirates attacking ships from Luthgenicca and their allies.The two young women question a pirate and the leader of the pirate ship. They hope their questions will guide them to a plan to reduce, if not end, the pirate menace. Could Oria’s past as a child fond of pranks also help them achieve their goal?

Though she’s the daughter of a blacksmith, Cintha grows up learning to read and think. It’s those skills that allow her to trick a wizard into hiring her as a boy servant. It’s those skills that help her learn magic.She also learns that her master is a wicked man. In dealing with him as a young woman she reveals her talents. That brings her to the attention of the King. As she’s not been taught under the law, the King tells her she can’t be a lawful witch. He does think she can be ...

Take me back to the days when mentoring was a well-respected craft and a highly sought after profession by young people. First-time author Robert Collins delivers a passionate, spell-binding account of his life as an athletics coach and mentor spanning more than two decades of his life. His memoir is chock-full of delightful and compelling stories and experiences both on and off the playing field. Collins' paints vivid pictures of fond memories experienced as well as painful and insightful...

The Christmas Mystery Wagon – Premium Collection gathers Christmas-tide crime, ghostly suspense, domestic intrigue, and ironic comedy into a capacious survey of popular nineteenth- and early twentieth-century storytelling. Its range extends from detective deduction and locked-room puzzles to supernatural visitations, moral fables, sensation fiction, and sharply observed seasonal satire. Amid hearthside rituals and winter landscapes, disappearances, inheritances, secrets, and apparitions re...

This collection contains seven short fantasy stories. They range from a second chance at romance to a magic inventor trying to save lives. All of these stories have been previously published.

**Who Gets to Adapt?The Environmental Elite and the Climate Divide**Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is a sorting mechanism. Centuries of rigid social institutions have prevented environmental elite decisionmakers and organizations from incorporating blue collar communities in the rapidly evolving growth of climate adaptation. It is not that these groups don't want to, but the social structures do not allow for the recognition of need fo...

The 'Christmas Mystery Special' anthology stitches together a rich tapestry of narrative intrigue and seasonal enigma, fashioned by a constellation of seminal literary figures. This collection spans a diverse array of styles, from the detective tales of fog-laden Victorian London streets to the eerie whispers of ghostly visitations on Christmas Eve. The anthology's essence captures the unique juxtaposition of warmth and mystery that the holiday season provides. Notably, the volume includes...