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Bob addressed the team. "I’m open to suggestions, but here is my action plan. We land on the Island together and see if we can find a hiding spot for the rest of the night. We’ll use our standard sentry protocol in case anyone wants to try sleeping. As soon as we can make out where we’re going, even though it won’t be light enough for filming, we move out to the target area."

The Battle of Petersburg’s intense four-day clash marked a missed Union opportunity, prolonging the Civil War with dramatic consequences. May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. Combined losses for the two armies after the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor exceeded 80,000 killed, wounded, and captured. The result? A stalemate outside Richmond. The carnage notwithstanding, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant set his armies toward their next target: the logistical powerhouse of Petersburg.

Presbyterianism is good for you! This short introduction shows the value of Presbyterianism to your spiritual well-being as a layperson in the church. An extensive Q&A section answers practical questions.

With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, "the City of Destiny," and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington's history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget's Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with a raucous parade of saloonkeepers, politicians, union organizers, schemers, and swindlers.

The Narrows are the most shark infested waters of the Caribbean, a three kilometer wide strait steeped in folklore that exists between the islands of St Kitts and Nevis, upon which ships full of people risk passage every day. In 1970 the Christena ferry disaster claims the lives of over 233 passengers, and a young man named Marcus is part of the daring rescue operation, battling abnormally aggressive sharks and stormy seas to rescue victims.

There’s trouble in Hollywood. Big surprise, Sheepdip, there’s always trouble in Hollywood. But for Yours Truly, Nick Nolte, private dick, actor, entrepreneur, collector of exotic and often dangerous commodities, and People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive (1992), Hollywood is a filthy, decaying, half-empty swimming pool, and I’m gonna dive in head-first. Someone’s kidnapping Hollywood bigwigs? Hell, I wish I’d thought of it first. Clones runnin’ amok from Pismo to Tijuana?

Practical Spirituality is part of the Loving a Sacred Life series. It's a collection of essays written on topics that support simple and direct ways of living in our overly complicated world. The categories of this book revolve around the functioning of the brain, the mind (not to be confused with the brain), relationships, and spiritual principals in everyday reality. Expanding your knowledge and experiences leads to opening the mind into greater awareness.

In the heart of Wyoming, amidst the rugged wilderness of the 1860s, a bounty hunter known to some as Wendigo Joe roams the land. He hunts monsters, both supernatural and human, in a land where the only law is the one enforced with a six-gun and a bowie knife. Joe is no ordinary gunslinger, for he is possessed by a wendigo spirit that gives him extraordinary strength and speed, but also plagues him with an insatiable hunger for human flesh.

Monster Slayer - A troubled Civil War veteran finds himself part of a legend in the making, as the dead rise again to attack the living on the savage frontier. Black Water Rising - A young girl clings to her Bible and her gun, as she fights demon-possessed hogs in a cruel swamp to save her father's soul.

Marian Ffarmer is a world-renowned poet and a legend in the making—but only now, at seventy-five years old, is she beginning to believe in the security of her successes. Unfortunately, a poet's accomplishments don't necessarily translate to capital, and as her adult son struggles to buy his first home, her confidence in her choices begins to fray. Marian's pristine life of mind—for which she's sacrificed nearly all personal relationships—has come at a cost. Then comes a cryptic invitation from the Tech Company. Come to California, the invitation beckons, and write with a machine.

In 1903, the world marches toward modernity. The first World Series of baseball has been held, and everyday technology changes with each sunrise. The natural world is encroached upon, and offered new protection under dramatic steps of bold Theodore Roosevelt. Yet, Chicago Tribune reporter Roger Merrick has been charged with investigating a curious piece of the older world: the grand Fountain Spring House of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Wandering amidst whispers of folklore, threat, and mounting dread, Roger seeks to uncover the truth, while preserving his very livelihood.

There is a grimoire, known by most as the Necronomicon. It is ancient and powerful. Its very name is said to be the sound of howling demons. Upon its yellowed pages are spells and rituals that give terrible knowledge and power to those mad enough to seek it. The book is bound in human skin, inked in blood, and contains the dead names of Those Who Dwell Beyond.

Echoes are the whispers of a forgotten past, slipping from Liam’s grasp like water from cupped hands. Memories bring unbelievable truths leaving Talia with more questions than answers. Conspiracies find themselves woven into the otherwise simple objectives of the Iterum Project.

American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You'll never see your state fair or street festival the same way again. Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working behind the scenes with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals. He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last king of the sideshows.

Blaine Franks is a member of the paranormal research group, the Supernatural Explorers. When the group loses their techie to a cross-country move, newly graduated Flynn Huntington gets the job. Flynn fits in with the guys right off the bat, but when it comes to him and Blaine, it’s more than just getting along. Things heat up between Blaine and Flynn as they explore their first haunted building, an abandoned hospital, together. Their relationship isn’t all that progresses, though, and soon, it seems that an odd bite on Blaine’s neck has become much more.

Hayden Cole is a slinger for the mega-corporation Union Americana, one of the hacker elite who wage info wars in the immersive virtual realm of MassNet. He has been assigned to a task force bound for the Philippines, where he is joined by an assortment of engineers, security operatives, and Laine 2.0, the Union's most deadly cyborg assassin. A new energy source which could yield a world changing new source of clean energy. Each of the primary corporate powers have sent task forces to the island, and economic competition turns violent as the opposing operatives race to find the source.

When his three-year-old daughter is kidnapped, Eric Wilson doesn't have many options, and time is running out. With nowhere else to turn, he reaches out to his ex, influential businessman Brock Vencenza, whose money and contacts might be able to save Josie. Brock never got over Eric's loss, and he's more than willing to help when Eric needs him most. Together with law enforcement and private security, they embark on a twisting investigation to find the little girl - and who wants to hurt her and destroy both men in the process.

High-tech mercenaries find themselves pitted against freerunning revolutionaries as global corporate warfare becomes centered around a struggling island nation and the freedom fighters defending their home. Hayden Cole is now a slinger for the resistance, working side by side with the very freedom fighters and hackers who were once his sworn enemies. The Akiaten have managed, with the guidance of the mysterious shaman Kapre and under the digital protection of the slinger Lunatic 8, to make contact with the magical power that resides on the islands.

Ragnarok is upon us. Ajax returns to an age of relentless war, his mind ravaged by terrible visions and with his rifle at the ready. An axe age. A sword age. A wolf age. The Hive Mind reveals strange new ships and hideous new creatures as the extinction fleet strives to feed its endless hunger. Swarms strike all along the border worlds, seizing as much raw biomass as they can and making their escape before human forces can respond.

The most wanted salvage marine in the universe thought he was done fighting. For Samuel Hyst the nightmare was over, left behind upon dead worlds and within the derelict ships drifting through space, he and his family having fled to the edges of the frontier to begin a new life of peace. In the aftermath of a violent raid by slave traders, the long-suffering marine discovers that a relic of the ancient machine civilization has been left at the doorstep of his pristine forest homestead. He feels the menace radiating from it, and knows that the various powers and factions that rule necrospace will soon come for all of them.