Within these pages, you will meet unforgettable characters whose lives are inevitably intertwined by a web of secrets, lies, and a burning desire for retribution. Our protagonist--ATF Special Agent Alex Carlson, a reluctant hero haunted by her past--seeks to expose a sinister conspiracy that threatens to plunge her world into chaos. As she embarks on this dangerous mission, she is forced to confront her own inner demons with the same intensity as the external forces ordered against her. Wh...

Was Philip de László a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de László, who painted such luminaries as the Pope, the Austrian emperor, King Edward VII and Prince Louis Battenberg, was subjected to a secret tribunal which interned him for trading with the enemy. At the outbreak of the First World War, de László had pulled strings to ...

Sixteen acclaimed authors—including a National Book Award nominee, a New York Times best-selling novelist, and a beloved actress—join forces for a cross-genre YA anthology of linked short stories about the first days of college.Jilly cannot believe her parents keep showing up at all of her orientation events. (Except, yes, she can totally believe that.) Isaac wants to be known as someone other than the kid who does magic and has an emotional suppo...

Stax, an enlisted 3rd class Naval Yeoman gets conscripted for the first ever exploration of the red planet. His presence on the expedition brought immediate objections from the nine chosen military officers who lead the exploration.The strong resentment only feeds Stax's already rebellious attitude. Along with the nine officers and Stax, the team has ten civilian. A miscalculated Mars Storm wreaks havoc on expeditions spacecraft, the Demios II. At the same time Stax and one of the ...

This time, we have a pair of novels. First up is Ellery Queen’s The Roman Hat Mystery, originally published in 1929. It made quite an impact upon publication and launched the career of an iconic sleuth. While not quite on par with Sherlock Holmes, Ellery is certainly one of the great American fictional detectives, up there with Nero Wolfe, Nick Carter, and Philo Vance (and arguable at the head of the crowd). Our second novel is the first volume of Lin Carter’s epic Gondwane saga, ...

In this memoir of a Southern childhood, football is a family's salvation—and its destruction.The King of Halloween & Miss Firecracker Queen tells the story of a football life from a daughter's perspective. Chronicling a rise through the competitive ranks—from high school to college to professional coaching, and ultimately a Super Bowl championship—it also reveals the struggle to deal with the decline and death of the patriarch, Lamar Leachman, from chronic...

Book 3 of the Dream Cane Series. Evil spirits, Merlin's necklace, and a group of motivated men from the past all combine to create a fascinating, fast paced read, full of twists and turns in the relentless fight between good and evil. The Dream Cane is activated once more as Dan travels between realms collecting clues to solve one of the worlds greatest mysteries.

Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak, is a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Frederick Richardson. It was originally serialized in the early 20th-century American children's magazine St. Nicholas from November 1904 to October 1905, and was published in book form later in 1905 by The Century Company. The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to the Land of Oz, and Baum himself commented th...