In the not-so-distant (nor unimaginable) future, the election of President Aaron Hart, billionaire businessman, brings great change to the U.S.And with the loss of his job at 62, life really changes for Billy Greenwich. One of the new mandatory Social Security retirement communities, The Bridges, is his destination, where he is to live out his "golden years." But, at The Bridges, life is not watercolor classes and soft food. Billy's determination to accept his new life as it is meet...

CRO. This message, carved into a tree, was the only clue to the fate of the colonists on Roanoke Island. For centuries, stories have circulated, theories were explored. But to this day, no one is really sure what happened to those first English settlers in the Americas. These stories may offer a clue: A road trip through dystopian United States brings adventure and danger, and perhaps answers about the mysterious disappearance of the settlers. Gods of different worlds converge but their pe...

Hannalore seemed simple enough to read until she had to explain that she was usually called plain Hannah. She was plain and “skinny.” She knew that most of the girls in her class wore “bras” or at least training “bras” because they wore tight sweaters to emphasize the outlines. However, Hannah seemed condemned to wear “undershirts” under her sweaters, and the top of the shirts always poked up around the top of whatever she wore!

A key experiment in biomedical research is monitoring the expression of different proteins in order to detect changes that occur in biological systems under different experimental conditions. The method that is most widely used is the Western blot analysis. While Western blot is a workhorse in laboratories studying protein expression and has several advantages, it also has a number of significant limitations. In particular, the method is semi-quantitative with limited dynamic range. Wester...

Tommy Turtle, his friends and family live in the pond in a small town’s park. His normal life is disrupted when he discovers his flatulence (tooting) gives him unusual powers to include flight.