Ethan Rifts hates space, and yet he has joined a space faring crew of a small ship called the Hook Line to escape the troubles on his homeworld. The Hook Line crew needs an extra hand for an easy contract they took, and Ethan figures it will be worth it. They get help, and he gets away and can start over. Everyone wins. The crew heads to the distant planet of Onyx for their job, but upon arrival, they find that something has gone wrong. The space port is missing, and they...

Holden Hosenheim is a Division 4 Agent, working under the Shio Branch. His job is to protect the Great Society of the Aarde Union and the Connected City, Shio, from the Revivalists, a narco-funded rebel group that produces and sells a memory enhancing drugs called N-Light. It's a hard job that he is content with.But when an extraction mission goes wrong and Holden's team is wiped out, he and his contact are stranded in Revivalist territory. They seek aid from a comforter who claims...

When a scientific team is sent to continue work studying the aurora in Antiarctica they find an aabandoned base camp and no remains of the team before them they were sent to join. As the days continue and darkness fills the sky the begin to discover strange and disturbing findings. As the night engulfs the team they begin to understand the fate of the crew that left, with time agains them they must try to escape the evil that learks in the darkness just beyond thier small staion that has n...

Prices have increased 25% in the last five years, the billionaire class is growing, and the United States of America is ruled by oligarchs. Enraged by the misplaced priorities of their elected and appointed representatives, Americans are beginning to push back against policies that serve the ultra-wealthy above working class individuals. Strike 120 concisely summarizes the underlying problems with modern American democracy, the failures resulting from a system of governance catering to the...

History of Byzantine Empire: 5 Essential History Books gathers five major historical treatments of Byzantium into a capacious survey of an empire positioned between Roman inheritance, Greek culture, Christian institutions, and the political worlds of Europe and the Near East. Its range extends from narrative chronicle and military history to constitutional analysis and studies of imperial decline, crusading encounter, and Ottoman expansion. Read together, the selections illuminate enduring...

After narrowly escaping relocation with the assistance of unexpected help, Nesschter Norkit, formerly known as Holden Hosenheim, is in the custody of Revivalist allies. However, with Xajil on his trail and Ara captured, and Shio on the brink of collapse, Nesschter makes the call to go into the fire.He will do whatever it takes to save Ara. Including confronting the consequences of his past actions.(Part 1B)

Fifteen years ago, Bliss Town was a paradise. Now it is Hell, occupied by the Mama Bear Syndicate, and its citizens poisoned by the hallucinogen drug called "Reel Sight."Standing against Mama Bear is Jayson Hopper, a hobo with a time warping piece of wood of unknown origins, Lexia Hartwick, an oddball with questionable income, and Derrick Marlow, a depressed sharpshooter.Jayson and Lexia hate each other's guts, but the group is unified in their mission to save Bliss Town. A...

This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play. Some twenty topics are covered, with an abundance of graphs and images to build a comprehensive picture. Each looks at the developments, and the people who initiated them, together with how one led to the next and their subsequent impact on society. Topics include electric supply, lighting through X-rays, and all those appliances that make our homes so comfortable.Most homes at the end of the...

"The Toxicity of Caffeine: An Experimental Study on Different Species of Animals" by J. B. Rieger and William Salant delves into the effects of caffeine on various animal species. The authors meticulously explore how caffeine impacts physiological and behavioral responses across different organisms, providing a comprehensive analysis of its toxicological effects. Through a series of controlled experiments, the study highlights the varying levels of sensitivity to caffeine, revealing critic...

The early nineteenth century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is an important figure of German idealism, who achieved wide recognition within the continental tradition of philosophy. He has since become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition and his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognised. Hegel’s principal achievement was his development of a distinctive articulation of idealism, in which the dualisms of mind and nature and subjec...

Robin Alia Brook is considered a loser. She works at customer service for one of the largest companies in humanity's interstellar empire, gets stood up on dates, and accidentally kills people. Then when her ex-online boyfriend gives her the winning vacation lottery ticket to the famed habitat, The City of Clouds, she reluctantly accepts it.Upon arrival, she is greeted by the massive, beautiful gas giant Bellona, and all the glamour and prospects of expansion for the famous...

The adventure continues for Jayson Hopper, Lexia Hartwick, and Derrick Marlow in their fight against the Mama Bear Syndicate and her Fixers, Mortimer Walters and Claribel Belle Blair. Tensions flare and chaotic fights between the two groups leave the town in ruins. Neither side is willing to yield.And now there's a new player on the field. The ever watchful Trafford Augustine and his mysterious employer want Jayson's group to apprehend Mama Bear's cooker, Ramsey Prosper. In exchang...