NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BLACK TIDE RISING SERIESFrom his corner office on the forty-fourth floor of the Bank of the Americas tower on Wall Street, Tom Smith, global managing director for security, could see the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park—and a ravening zombie horde.Officially, Smith was paid to preserve the lives and fortunes of employees, billionaires, and other clients. And with an implacable virus that turned the infected into ravenous zombies tea...

A NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BESTSELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. Sequel to The Valley of Shadows.Tom Smith used to be somebody. Now he's just another refugee, fleeing the smoking ruins of civilization.Well, maybe not just another refugee*.*Late of the Bank of the Americas where he used to be the global managing director for Security, Tom and his fellow survivors watched New York City burn. His plan to the save New York long enough...

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other "Lost Soldiers" have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic.Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission...

Religion is a funny thing. Especially when you accidentally create your own.Eccentric young writer Zeggara "Egg" East has done just that, much to the chagrin of her devout mother. Egg's new religion is called "Penguinism" and it's proving far more popular than anyone—even the immortal Ageless—could've imagined. And the thing about deities is, they don't appreciate a rival dogma.Now everyone's choosing sides in the coming conflict, including a tea-slurping tyrant, a guy with...

Taken from their planet and their century,they are…the Lost Soldiers.Diagnosed with MS, Major Rodger Murphy was stateside-bound on a Blackhawk from Mogadishu when it was hit by a surface-to-air missile. Somehow, however, he didn't die, nor did the others in the helicopter with him on that fateful day in the 1990's. Instead, they were captured by an almost-alien race and put into cold storage.Recovered over a hundred years later, Murphy and his compatriots w...

***Named a Finalist for the 2021 Wishing Shelf Awards***There's no monster under your bed, but there are several in this book. The first short story collection from Gerald Barkley Rocks author Kyle A. Massa, Monsters at Dusk offers answers to several important questions, such as:Do vampires use Snapchat?What happens when a demonic cat declares war on God and Satan?Is someone drinking your memories? If so, are they...

Riker Montgomery, a famous actor and werewolf, finds yet another uninvited woman asleep in his hotel bed. He is prepared to send this one on her way, but soon realizes that she is his mate.Bethany Black, a writer, has never met a man like Riker before. When she learns who he is, she is embarrassed and ashamed and runs away, unaware Riker is searching for her.Troubles and dangerous foes are out to destroy the Montgomery pack and try to keep the two apart. Will they be reunit...

How many Were's could manage to find their mate and lose her all at the same time? Yancey Montgomery's mate has been right under his nose for at least a decade. When he makes her his, he also chases her off. What will it take to convince the delicate little werewolf that he is a worthy mate?Never had Sue been so glad to be back in America, and now she was moving into Old Moon, the town where her best friend lived. What could be better than that--there was no drama at Tracey's place...

Over the centuries, many had tried to kill the Count. All had failed. Until now . . .Eight vampires—all the spawn of Dracula—gather at their master's estate to solve the mystery of his murder. But as a new day dawns, a voice cries out and another creature of the night is slain. Trapped, the sun burning bright outside, the apex predators realize they have met their match—a diabolical killer who plans on picking them off one by one.As the day wears on and their numbers dwindl...

The term "fundamentalism" has its roots in specific forms of American Protestantism that arose around the turn of the twentieth century in reaction to liberalizing and modernizing trends within the church. In this book, Mark Massa argues that an analogously reactive, militant, and sectarian "fundamentalist" movement emerged within American Catholicism in the decades after World War II, for a similarly complex mix of theological and cultural reasons. In Catholic Fundamentalism in Americ...

Live la dolce vita with recipes for Italian treats from amaretti to zabaglione: "Mak[es] these potentially tricky desserts feel completely approachable." — The Kitchn.comNo true Italian meal is complete without a perfectly crafted dessert. From traditional favorites to little-known delights, this book shows how to make eye-popping, mouth-watering, authentic Italian sweets, including:• Amaretti Morbidi Soft Amaretti ...

On July 29, 1968, Pope Paul VI ended years of discussion and study by Catholic theologians and bishops by issuing an encyclical on human sexuality and birth control entitled Humanae Vitae: "On Human Life." That document, which declared that "each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life," lead to widespread dissent and division within the Church, particularly in the United States. The divide that Humanae Vitae opened up is still with us today. Mark Massa...