In the heart of a revitalized Prague, the "Best Year of Your Life" is for sale.But for Caroline, a high-end hair stylist to the neo-feudal elite, the price of beauty has never been more literal.While styling the hair of the city's new Prince Regent, Caroline overhears a chilling secret: the city's prosperity is fueled by L'Avenir, a company that grants clients a year of peak health and success, only to harvest their remaining life force whe...

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and witness the most audacious act of all!By day, he's Pico Emerson, the endearing, pie-in-the-face, Compo the Clown, bringing joy and laughter to adoring crowds. But when the greasepaint comes off and the lights dim, a different kind of performance begins. Arthur is a phantom, a whisper in the shadows, a world-class jewel thief with a flair for the dramatic.His next target? The legendary

One witness. One secret. One lie that could topple a government.Peter and Thomas lead a life built on careful discretion. Devoted to one another, they have spent years navigating London in the shadows, avoiding the judgmental gaze of a society they don't quite trust. But their quiet world shatters one night during a walk along the river Bance. Out of the darkness, they witness a hooded figure fleeing a scene of carnage, leaving behind a woman—Mandy—clinging to life...

THE MOSTLY HARMLESS AND USELESS GUIDE TO NOTHING VERY USEFULBarnaby was a man of simple pleasures, namely collecting bread-bag tags and being professionally average. His life's greatest crisis was the day he was replaced by a velvet rope. That is, until he accidentally boarded a galactic garbage scow while looking for the Number 42 bus.Now, Barnaby is the only thing standing between the universe and total linguistic collapse. Drafted as a "Neutral Arbiter" i...

The perpetual drizzle of Neo-Seattle has always been Maya Vance's only constant, a fitting shroud for a life lived on the fringes, defined by forgotten code and the ghosts of a past she'd painstakingly buried. But the rain-slicked ruins offer no sanctuary when a dead-man's switch, a final, desperate message from her estranged father, Leo Vance, detonates her carefully constructed reclusion. A data packet, encrypted with a complexity that hums with his genius, hints at a conspiracy reaching...

The Last of the AssetsRetirement was supposed to be about quiet afternoons and manageable cholesterol. But for Davie, Dickie, and Danny, "quiet" is a four-letter word and "manageable" isn't in their vocabulary.Davie is an ex-finance shark who views every social interaction as a high-stakes transaction and refuses to skydive in anything less than a bespoke three-piece suit. Dickie is a former military man who treats a trip t...

Saturnian CopyrightThe galaxy finally discovered Earth. And then they lawyered up.Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's just another bizarre New York prank when a six-foot "nun" and a redheaded mullah walk into his office. But they aren't here for legal advice—they're bumbling extraterrestrials with a catastrophic message: The entire universe is bankrupt, and it's all because of human pop music.Since the fateful day...

In a Kingdom, bound by "Once Upon a Time," destiny isn't a promise—it's a prison.For generations, the Great Archives have dictated the lives of every soul in the realm. The princess must sleep. The mermaid must weep. The girl in the red cloak must always be the prey. But the ink is beginning to fade, and twelve legends are about to do the unthinkable: they are reaching for the pen.From a she who trades her glass slippers for a tailor's needle to a sleeping princess who wake...

Twelve People. Twelve Problems. One Fine Line Between Success and Chaos.In the high-stakes theater of the modern world, the greatest battles aren't fought in war rooms—they're fought in breakrooms, group chats, and awkward dinner parties.Meet Arthur, a coder held hostage by a PowerPoint presentation while a million-dollar deployment hangs in the balance. Follow Chloe, a designer drowning in "phantom feedback" from a billion...

Existence is about to be cancelled, and the bill is overdue.Barnaby Sprocket is the Inter-Dimensional Revenue Service's most meticulous auditor. He lives for precise decimal points and orderly ledgers. But when a flashing crimson error message informs him that Reality itself has a lapsed subscription, Barnaby's tidy world fractures.Universe_Prime_001 is slated for immediate de-manifestation, and the Reality Compliance Department doesn't take kindly to witne...

This book is about a secret CIA program to clone historical geniuses. In the book there are over 100 cloned geniuses, all aged 20 and with their faces changed from the original. In the course of the book, the geniuses are interviewed about their thoughts on the modern world. Some of the views are surprising . . .This book is top secret but sources say some of the geniuses must be imposters since their remains and hence DNA are unknown. Some people say the CIA has brainwashed other ...

This volume should not be required reading, but required study for everyone offering care in America. The biggest complaint about care in the USA is that nobody listens. Tom Balles book lays out, in simple detail, the basic human habits that we lost in our addiction to technology. Care is about individuals caring for other individuals.ROBERT M. DUGGAN, MA, MAc (UK), Dipl Ac, (NCCAOM), author of Common Sense for the Healing Arts and Breaking the Iron Triangle: Reducing Health-Ca...