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...

Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembranceand Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just Remembering additionally asks how we might remember pasts marked by genocidal violence in ways that commit ourselves to a deeper understanding and more humane practice of justice.The chapters are thematically organized, focusing on ...

Trapped on a reef with a walking dead man.A need that cannot be sated or survived.Nobody else hears the dead dog’s murderous ghost.Whiskey means silence. So do claws.Mental scars drag the world behind them.SOME SALVATIONS COST TOO MUCH.“The five stories in this collection are a real treat for fans of fantasy and horror. Join writer Michael Warren Lucas as he takes you on a trip through perilous supernatural landscapes and explores the darknes...

SECOND CONTACTAidan Redding’s entire goal for her time in this universe: behave. For once. Discovering seafaring aliens trashes that plan.The aliens raise questions. Her co-workers raise more.The answers explain it all. And ruin everything.On a world where gravity changes every second, Redding finds herself involuntarily allied with a mathematician from Soviet Texas as she races to save not just herself but civilization.Forget aliens...

THE END OF YOUR WORLD?These twelve tales from critically-acclaimed author Michael Warren Lucas remind us that doom is always personal. Genes gone wild, or not wild enough. Cosmic heroes demanding you show them to a bank robbery, or else. Learning after a lifetime that your love is named chocolate, and chasing it no matter the cost. Discovering that your cozy desk job might get you killed, that one of your coworkers is a murderer, or the Faerie Queen wants your pelt...

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 pant...

When the young former Miss South Africa beauty queen, Perusha Naicker, marries US property and oil magnate Charleston Kingsley, she never guessed things would be so complicated. Although her new life at the mansion in Long Island is glamorous compared to her middle class upbringing, things are not as easy as she would like. Amid the many opponents who want to see her fail and booted out of New York are Kingley's son, Devon and an old university flame and extortionist extraordinaire, Sarah ...

The Four Legends is a fast-paced futuristic novel set in 2095 that explores what it means to be part of the human race. Being chosen as a Legend on the Extra-Terrestrial Living Station is a dream come true for every teenager coming of age. The story follows four teenagers on a Quest to retrieve valuable relics from different countries on Earth via space and time travel, as they seek to claim their status as Legends. The teenagers have to face ominous rain forests, mysterious South American...

The year is 2034 and the United States of America has come to a grinding halt. An unknown virus that can kill in a matter of hours is in the air. Leaving home is a death sentence ... or so Jack thinks. As a foreigner stuck on American soil until the end of quarantine, Jack is in the deepest depths of depression — until disaster strikes.In a bid to save his sister from certain death, Jack meets a golden goose that transcends the limitations of the digital sphere, leading him to Bean...

The Quest for Earth continues the adventures of the four teenage heroes in their treacherous mission through space and time in this second book in the Treasure Chasers series. But are they ready to face harsher challenges than ever before?It's not about teams anymore, it's about survival. As the boundaries disintegrate between the pairs, new relationships are built and new revelations are uncovered. But their newfound bond was never part of the plan, and the Praeceptori are watchin...

'It's very easy to kill - so long as no one suspects you.' So says Miss Pinkerton when ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam meets her on a train. Luke doesn't take much notice of this little old lady's story about a serial killer on the loose in her village - until her predictions start to come true, when he feels compelled to check it out. Very soon the race is on to prevent any more murders... Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson, and with a distinguished cast including Patrick Baladi, Lydia Leonard, Mi...

From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of negligible importance. To those of us who care about our quality of life and what is happening to the earth, this is a vastly important issue. In t...