In October 2012 Hurricane Sandy struck the state of New Jersey. Through a series of diary entries, one man recounts his ordeal dealing with the storm. Mother Nature is back, this time she's looking for blood.

The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.Stories by Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, J. G. Ballard, Alan Baxter, Justin Coates, Harlan Ellison, Joachim Heijndermans, Joe Lansdale, Rich Larson, A...

In the new millennium, blogging has become one of the easiest forms of self-expression through the written word. There are no rules and anyone who has access to a computer can create a blog. The best part is you can talk about any subject you want on your blog. It's a truly beautiful thing and shows the era we live in today.Unfortunately most people are incredibly boring, one-dimensional, and waste their time writing about nonsense nobody cares about. For those people I have decide...

Silence is said to be golden. When it comes to comedy though, silence can be deadly.Tim Boyle began performing stand-up comedy when he was in high school. It didn't take more than a few seconds after entering a comedy club for the first time before realizing you need a thick skin to survive. Open mics, free bar shows, and New York City comedy clubs, Tim has failed on stage at them all. He's been booed, banned, and had 200 high school kids throw gum at him.Silence: My Worst ...

A direct sequel to Aliens and Alien 3—Weyland-Yutani, the Colonial Marines, and Bishop’s creator all pursue the android for the deadly Xenomorph data contained in his brain. Written by T. R. Napper, author of the acclaimed 36 Streets, whose explosive work explores the artificial intelligence and what it is to be human.Massively damaged in Aliens and Alien 3, the synthetic Bishop asked to be shut down forever. His creator...

Coach Brian Mueller assumed this baseball season would be routine. The kids would pick their noses until they bled, the parents would knock each other's teeth out with their fists, and a sexually transmitted disease or two would be caught from sitting on those ugly wooden benches. Little did he know, the new member of his little league team would be The Devil Himself, Satan. After years spent in Hell, Satan has risen up with one goal in mind, total domination on the baseball field. Satan h...

Faced with a climate crisis, can people commit to action? Faced with evidence that our agriculture and our diets fuel that crisis—producing significant greenhouse gases—can we muster the vision to produce and consume food differently? Transforming food systems to meet a threat has been done before, as revealed in Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today. The book recounts the dramatic story of World War II Britain, its Ministry of Food, and its millions of citizen...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherHumorous tales of travel and misadventure.Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable - and hilarious - travel stories.These 31 globegirdling tales that run the gamu...

A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behaviour and apprehend them. The two are handed over to the police, charged and sent for trial. A month later, a young doctor is shot dead on the streets of Mohill, Co. Leitrim. The two incidents are connected, but how?In the days following the shooting of Dr Paddy Muldoon, the name of a lo...

As a child Ryan DeLena had difficulty controlling his emotional outbursts. This led to placement in therapeutic schools that relied on detrimental methods of behavior modification such as physical restraints.Nothing helped from a team of doctors to heavy medication. Then in 2010, Ryan was voluntarily committed to a mental hospital for further evaluation. His parents Rob and Mary Beth were counseled to place him in a group home. They refused.Two years earlier, after an impul...

Juvenile crime doesn’t just happen—there is always a story behind it.Before Their Crimes: What We’re Misunderstanding about Childhood Trauma, Youth Crime, and the Path to Healing is a ground-breaking audiobook that sheds new light on the relationship of childhood trauma and juvenile crime. Wendy Smith uses the framework of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to explain how the toxic stress of early childhood trauma can make children vulnerable to committi...

Don't miss the new gripping thriller from Eleni Kyriacou, A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO DIE – available to read now!'Tense. Moving. Morally complex. Zina Pavlou is wholly unforgettable.' RACHEL RHYS'Impressive... worthy of Sarah Waters' THE TIMESTHEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME.London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmot...