50% John McClane50% Robin Hood100% troubleReeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance “exfiltration specialist” Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology firm to steal their sickle cell anemia cure and broadcast it to the world.In, out, announce. Easy.Except Salton’s life never works that smoothly.And a gig gone wrong only begins the disasters.Thievery, lies, and betrayals propel S...

Not your normal Friday night in the computer room.Not a normal night anywhere.Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM.The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init.So Systemd comes for Terry.Wearing skin-tight leather pants.No, not a normal night i...

The cult classic, now in audio!Not your normal Friday night in the computer room.Not a normal night anywhere.Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM. The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init. So Systemd comes for Terry. Wearing skin-tight leather pants....

Liza Bradley knows the proper mercies for her career. A painless bullet through the head. An instantly broken neck.Don’t want either? Drop your gun and run away.Quickly.Ex-Marine Matt Harrison? Green as lettuce and half as tough.But as Liza’s team strikes their target in earthquake-ravaged Ecuador, Harrison strikes Liza in the only way she doesn’t know how to fight.Bullets and broken bones?Useless against her own heart.A Beaks

One Orcess Against The WorldMha fought in the Spanish-American War and earned all the respect an orcess could dream of. But not even a life of constant struggle prepared her to endure her final days in a rural Michigan barn, so age-decrepit she can’t even pick up a cow. Her husband’s death abandons her to face that end alone.Mha holds one thing beneath even solitude and weakness: dealing with senseless humans.But only humans can save her from sacrif...

"I love these stories"Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author of The FeyELVES WENT INTO THE WEST—TO AMERICA.GENERATIONS LATER, ORCS FOLLOWED.1927 Detroit. Orcs fight Prohibition, avoid police, and labor hard for their children. All while doing their best to navigate the narrow human world. Men drive fancy Dodges and Cadillacs; orcs squeeze into fourth-hand Model Ts. Dwarves dominate th...

Arachnids with ideas above their species?A wandering grimoire masquerading as an old Star Trek novel?The Whine Cellar and the Boom Closet?In Whackadoo Manor, we call that Tuesday.In my straight career, I did terrible things to protect normal people. Now, I do insane things to keep regular folks out of Supernatural Witness Protection. This time it’s a sweet couple too connected to be healthy, staggering on the rim of fubar ...

The year is 2033. Herbie Hunter's life has been turned upside down. After his father died, he and his mother had no choice but to go and live with Herbie's grandmother in Paradise Rift. But Herbie quickly learns that this is no normal town—a UFO worshipping cult known as the Light Seekers have made it their headquarters, and strange happenings have plagued the town since their arrival.On his first night in the rift, Herbie sees mysterious lights floating in the sky followed by a fr...

Being a teenager is hard enough. It's nearly impossible when you also have to time travel between universes to save the world.Lisa has always been content to watch quietly from the sidelines, never really getting involved with others. Being dragged into a resistance against an organization hellbent on universal domination is not how she saw her life going.Along with Kevin and Iain, she once again finds herself time-jumping across the universe in an effort to uncover an intr...

Youth ministry has increasingly lost touch with its origins in the way of Jesus and the social practices intrinsic to Christian discipleship, and has instead substituted layers of "Jesus talk," middle class values, fun and games, and doses of "warm fellow-feeling." Awakening Youth Discipleship articulates the history of this domestication of youth and ministry. Mahan, Warren, and White tell a story of the ways in which our society has colluded to shape a domesticated adolescence. The autho...

In the tradition of classic pulp crime fiction these talented writers are sharing their takes on strange and weird detectives in strange worlds:Paranormal detective, Amanda Dark, seeks answers at the haunted Moonrise Diner from the ghost of her dead uncle.Dean Wesley Smith asks the question, can a ghost and a superhero find true happiness and sex and stop a few killers along the way?When Helmie—a pampered Persian cat worth millions—goes missing, the estate hires not...

The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studies that analyze a full array of genres in children’s literature from picture books to young adult novels. Collectively, this volume’s contributions interrogate how children’s literature is a powerful yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most vulnerable segments of our population.This book is singu...