26 April 198601:18Alina & Lev are two siblings living in Pripyat, one of the Soviet Union's proud nuclear cities. Both are asleep in their beds.Their cousin, Yuri, is a custodian at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where he's fiercely attacking a spill in the hallway with a mop.Alina's best friend, Sofiya, sleeps just a few doors down. Her father is an engineer at the plant, a fact that has always filled her with pride.

May 1962In the middle of San Francisco Bay looms Alcatraz, home to America's most infamous prisoners. Also home to Chip Carter and his dad, who works at the high security prison. Their neighbors are former mobsters, gangsters, and murderers, but Chip finds it to be a pretty boring place to live. After all, the inmates can't hurt him—they're locked up in an impenetrable fortress, surrounded by unforgiving waters.Or are they?Inmate AZ1441, aka the Wat...

The colonists of the planet Montana are accustomed to being ignored. Situated in the buffer zone between two rival human empires, their world is a backwater: remote, provincial, independently minded. Even as a provisional member of the Republic of Aligned Worlds, Montana merits little consideration—until it becomes the flashpoint in an impending interstellar war.When pirate raids threaten to destabilize the region, the RAW deploys its mechanized armored infantry to deal with the si...

When justice is used as a synonym for judgment we miss the point of justice. The prisons of the world are bursting at the seams with offenders who have been judged guilty and are being punished for wrongdoing. Prisons are a failure. In fact, justice is not achieved through imprisonment. Ron and Andy have dedicated their lives to pursuing justice and mercy in response to criminal offenders. In many respects, prisons are the most spiritual places on earth. It is in prison where the great que...

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The year is 2525. Interplanetary territory fighting has created ‘Sanctuary Cities’ on non-neutral planets. Those safe zones are now under attack.Ten new voices contributed to this anthology to show you what their sanctuary would look like. Which will be your favorite?Featured Contributors:Andrew AdamsAndy BetzBrianna WitteE.W. FarnsworthJennifer KimKeith RaymondLiz HartMichael MeilarecMichelle Roppand W....

Charismatic pastor Jerry Mears auditions for the top job at the biggest Baptist church in the nation. But when the church's aging leader clings to his own dynasty - and his coveted 10 a.m. television broadcast - the stage is set for a powerful clash of wit and wills. A divine study of religion as big business.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Robert Pescovitz, W. Morgan Sheppard and Andy Taylor.

A wagon train of pioneers is struggling Westward toward Oregon through the howling winter and a band of Arikara warriors are hot on their trail. Little do the Arikaras suspect that they're about to come face-to-face and gun-to-gun with a ferocious fight they never expected, courtesy of the wily mountain man called Preacher.As Preacher struggles to bring the settlers to safety, he learns the real reason they were attacked and begins to suspect that the secrets they've been keeping e...

Higbee, Colorado, population 147, is about to become a boomtown. The visionary General Wade Garrison is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the renowned Santa Fe Rail. But a rancher named Ike Clinton has his own selfish reasons for making sure these bands of steel go nowhere--and he'll go to any lengths to derail Garrison's plans.Falcon MacCallister owes a war-time debt to the General and answers the call to aid the man in his fight with the Clinton brood.The proud lit...

Smoke Jensen is the most powerful man on the Sugarloaf frontier - and he's all that stands between a greedy group of Eastern slickers and their schemes for a criminal empire in the Rockies. When Smoke heads back to Boston with his wife, it gives his enemies the opening they'd been waiting for: to kill the mountain man and take over the West. But even on the unfamiliar turf of back alleys and teeming docks, Smoke is more than most men can handle...until his wife is kidnapped. Now Smoke is i...

'The Outlaws of the Wild West: 150+ Westerns in One Edition' serves as a sweeping anthology that showcases the rugged landscapes and resilient spirits characterizing American Western literature. This collection spans a vast array of narrative styles, from the sparse, gritty realism of frontier life to romanticized adventures among desolate, lawless expanses. The compilation captures an epoch where the morality was as untamed as the terrain, encapsulating themes of survival, justice, and th...

On Saturday 22nd October 2016, the township of Bogganobbi NSW was completely destroyed in an event that saw the greatest loss of Australian life since WWI... things are getting serious...or are they?