A single moment can change everything.In 1974 Southern California, eighteen-year-old Braden Schultz is a quiet B-student who plays clarinet in the high school marching band. But when relentless bullying pushes him over the edge, a split-second reaction lands him in the Pomona City Jail facing assault charges. The Life and Times of Braden Schultz is a heartfelt, nostalgic coming-of-age story that perfectly captures the teenage experience of the 1970s. From navigating first love with...

Charles E. Fritch was a writer and editor who began publishing science fiction in the early 1950s, racking up an impressive number of sales to many of the top magazines of the day. This volume assembles ten of his stories. In this volume are:ONCE UPON A MONBEAST...COME INTO MY PARLORBREATHES THERE A MANTHE ODYSSEY OF SAM MEECHAMSKIN GAMEDANGER IN THE VOIDTHE BIG LEAPTHE PACIFISTSESCAPE MECHANISMI LIKE MARTIAN MUSIC...

In the six months since the raid that destroyed the makeshift transmitter, the Lost Soldiers have scratched out a permanent base on the world of R'Bak. But life in an often surprising and very alien binary system has not become any easier. Major Mara "Bruce" Lee's pregnancy becomes a powerful reminder of that: without special indigenous plants, she might lose both her unborn child and her life. And, in the process of securing enough of that rare compound, her friend and crew chief Elroy Fr...

Before the railroads carved through the Iowa prairie, before the abolitionist fires burned brightest across a divided nation, one man stood at the crossroads of American destiny and refused to look away. Josiah Bushnell Grinnell was not merely a witness to the turbulent birth pangs of modern America, he was one of its most passionate architects. Preacher, politician, pioneer, and tireless crusader for human freedom, Grinnell carved his name into the soul of the American Midwest with nothin...

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...

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The Countess of Bellarmine ARTHUR STRINGER: 11. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven 12. The Button Thief 13. The Wire-Tappers ARTHUR TRAIN: 14. Extradition 15. The Baron de Ville 16. The Golden To...

Diasporanomics™ is a practical field guide to rebuilding community wealth across the global African and Indigenous diaspora. It defines Diasporanomics™ as a community-first approach to economics that blends culture, cooperative finance, and modern systems, turning remittances, trust networks, and transnational ties into shared prosperity. In this playbook, diasporan economics is not theory for elites; it is a toolkit for organizers, students, entrepreneurs, educat...

Are you sick and weary of being caught up in a never-ending negative loop that poisons both your relationships and you? Do you wish there was a way out, a way to have better relationships and a more satisfying life? If so, Charles E. Lorusso's book "How to Stop Being Toxic: Embrace Change, Build Bridges, Not Walls" is the resource you've been looking for.Imagine this: developing relationships based on trust and understanding, earning respect from loved ones as they see your develop...

For Brodie's Benefit by Charles E. Van Loan is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: BIG TOM O'CONNOR strolled into Shaughnessy's place about ten minutes after the proprietor finished decorating the west wal...

SOLDIERS LOST IN TIME, 152 LIGHT-YEARS FROM HOME, WITH A DAUNTING TASK FOR SURVIVALNEW NOVEL SET IN THE AWARD-WINNING TERRAN REPUBLIC SERIESTaken from their planet and their century, they are not just the Lost Soldiers: they are Murphy’s Lawless.Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in 1993. Instead, he woke up in 2125, 152 light-years from home. Murphy and a ...

Don't go gently into that Endless Night…Having destroyed the starkiller located at Aneb-4, the alliance of Goltar, Spine Patriots, and the Midnight Sun Free Company have gained a bit of breathing space from the criminal organization known as the Endless Night.But the Endless Night isn't done. They have two more starkillers in their possession, and they are ready to use them against a civilization that no one—especially the Mercenary Guild—is going to miss. ...