In 1609, a fleet of ships sails from Plymouth carrying the last hope of the struggling Jamestown colony - supplies, settlers, and a new governor, all under the command of Admiral Sir George Somers. Nine days into the crossing, a hurricane finds them. As the flagship Sea Venture is torn apart plank by plank, Somers is forced into a decision no captain wants to make: fight the storm and likely lose everyone, or steer his dying ship straight toward the reefs of an island so feared by...

I worked in the voluntary sector for over 40 years, mostly at senior levels as CEO and during those 40 years I made many errors. The following stories cover a few of those, not all in the same organisation and I have changed names to protect the guilty.I have used some poetic license with some of the stories, but most are very true, I will allow the reader to decide which is which.There are some stories I have left out including, th...

Jimmy never thought he’d be spending the apocalypse farming in Nebraska and worrying about Hunter. But when the plague killed their parents, along with everyone over the age of seventeen, Jimmy suddenly became head of the household. Then the oldest kid in town turned eighteen and the plague chased him down. Now Jimmy has one more thing to worry about--and he’s running out of time. Hunter finds a little girl named Catherine under a cottonwood tree in the middle of ...

Living in the apocalypse is tough. Made even tougher after Plague killed all the adults and Famine decimated the crops. Now there is fire everywhere throughout the Nebraska countryside. War is coming and she rides a foul-tempered horse, setting fires to the farmhouses beyond the outskirts of Independents. Tension mounts and fights break out among friends as the kids prepare for the next horseman of the apocalypse. Everyone is scared, and their fear is what War craves most of a...

Death stalks the kids of Independents as the Beast rises.Plague, famine and war have taken their toll on the kids living in Independents. Now the survivors of the apocalypse await the final horseman.Death is coming and no one is safe. After a reckless decision leaves Hunter at Death’s mercy, Molly must armor herself with faith if she hopes to rescue Hunter and protect Independents from the rising of the Beast.

Grasshoppers have invaded Independents, and the crops are under attack. Hunter seeks out help from the kids in Cozad, but finds them served up like cold cuts at a deli to the emaciated horseman of the apocalypse known as Famine. After Hunter meets the eye-appealing Barbara, who prefers to be called Barbie, he has to constantly remind her that he has a girlfriend. Sometimes he reminds himself. The distraction is only temporary as he risks his life to protect the children from F...

Publishers face a "Copernican change." Until recently, the book was"the sun" of a publishing solar system, and all other opportunitieswere subsidiary rights revolving as planets around it. Now, theintellectual property is the sun, and the book becomes just one of theorbiting opportunities. To be successful in the 21st centuryenvironment, publishers must produce agile content: content that canbe rendered in different forms without great additional expense. XMLprovides both a path to agility...

Ralph and Sarah escaped the first wave of the outbreak — but not unscathed.Sarah is burning with fever, her body fighting an infection that could kill her. If she dies, she turns. And time is running out.Alone in a countryside crawling with the dead, Ralph searches for medicine to keep her alive. But survival isn’t simple. A chance meeting ties his fate to a stranger, dragging him toward a group of survivors where trust is fragile and death waits at every corner.Peo...

Noel Harper got a second chance at life when the government recruited her as an undercover vampire informant. Since the day they brought her back from the good-as-dead, she has wanted to prove herself worthy.When a member of her investigative unit is murdered, Noel is paired up with a vampire hunter named Dante to spy on a suspect in Fairbanks. The problem? They're not the only ones on stakeout. Taking down murderous vampires is one thing. Dealing with the past is another. But this...

The first book in a thrilling, terrifying series about the son of the world's most famous serial killer and the path he takes to separate himself from his father's twisted crimes. From New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga, this book is perfect for fans of Dexter**.**It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field.Except for the body.Jazz is a likable teenager. A c...

An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. When it happens, Alex was hiking in the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP. For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it'...

Raina was just a girl when the plague came. She survived. Her parents didn't. Neither did the world. As civilization fell, she took to the ruins of Los Angeles, eating whatever she could catch.After two years alone, she's found and adopted by a fisherman and his wife. Their makeshift family lives a quiet life—until a man named Karslaw sails in from Catalina Island with an army of conquerors. Driven by visions of empire, he executes Raina's new father as a traitor and takes her moth...