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From Brooklyn To Tokyo Bay: A Sailor’s Story is the story of how Albert R. Pincus and the young men of his generation fought for the United States during World War II. This poignant, yet humorous, tale of young men caught up in one of history’s bloodiest wars follows Albert all the way from his childhood home in Brooklyn to the front lines of military combat and back.

An old man alleged to be the infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper is lying on his deathbed, and is being hunted by a private investigator between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon, the very same area where Cooper jumped from a Boeing 727 with $200,000 in his possession with the aide of four civilian parachutes around Thanksgiving 1971. Only a portion of these items have been recovered with no confirmed trace of this infamous figure. Is this dying old man in fact D.B. Cooper and will have this private investigator realize his life’s dream of catching up to such a fabled criminal?

Gary Mansfield’s grandfather has raised him on a scrapbook entailing every detail of The JFK Assassination and its surrounding conspiracies. Yet one day, he spotted a photo of an old Hollywood actress named Lorraine Hayes and his grandfather’s eccentric behavior adds fuel to the fire. It shall all come to ahead on November 22, 2013, the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. A day where he will find out something his grandfather never wanted him to.

When the old lighthouse flashes in strange patterns, 12-year-olds Alex, Mia, and Ben discover the lights are communicating. Alex notices the sequence, Mia decodes it, and Ben uncovers deeper layers. Curiosity soon becomes a full investigation as they realize coded messages are being sent—and received.

Maxim Jakubowski has edited all the great names in crime fiction, and stories from his anthologies have won the CWA Dagger six times. Now he has collected 19 Dagger Award-winning stories in one volume, making it the first retrospective deep dive into the CWA’s archive of Dagger Award winners. Edgy, twisted, and disturbing, Daggers Drawn is visceral and thrilling collection showcasing the very best modern crime fiction has to offer.

During its heyday, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City was a home and safe haven for Bohemian artists, poets, and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, and Dee Dee Ramone. This oral history of the famed hotel peers behind the iconic facade and delves into the mayhem, madness, and brilliance that stemmed from the hotel in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From the Next Generation to J. J. Abrams is an incisive, no-holds-barred oral history telling the story of post-Original Series Star Trek, told exclusively by the people who were there, in their own words - sharing the inside scoops they've never told before, unveiling the oftentimes shocking true story of the history of Star Trek, and chronicling the trials, tribulations, and tribbles that have remained deeply buried secrets until now.

As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages - of hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted, so-called “cozy” murders in Britain - the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, with his fierce devotion to science and logic, gave way to street smarts on the one hand and social insight on the other, but even though these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required intelligence and clear-sightedness as characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured here.

The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer. It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone - for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.

Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well as the morality of man in “The Angel’s Gift.” Stories such as “The Café Coup” and “We’ll Always Have Paris” dip into speculative historical fiction, asking questions about what would happen if someone could change history for the better. This expansive collection is a key addition for Bova fans and sci-fi lovers alike!