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When Harry’s ex-wife, Sasha, and their daughter accompany her oil-company boyfriend on a working vacation to Africa, the trio goes missing. They get out a call for help that will lead Harry on an air and ground chase across the Horn of Africa to rescue his family before kidnappers can move them to their den on the Indian Ocean.

A poignant look at the consequences of war and capitalism in an economic recession

After hours of trying to find an ending I’ve realized that there is no end to be found. It is something that just happens. Each moment brings us closer to it. Each word is another moment passed. Should I write another word, or not and try to save a moment? In truth it is not a moment that is so...

An analysis of American pop culture through historical lens, various factors are looked it to see how the entertainment industry is able to produced celebrities such as the Kardashians and Miley Cyrus and how they have such large followings. And what it means for North American society.

The American military has ventured out on many missions within the last few decades. Their adventures had a great amount of support at the beginning but now it's weaning. It is a burden on American society. But the MIC was able and still is flourishing under the structures of American society, this is explored. The main focus being how domestic habits cause international ripples.

Cynthia just wants to go home and have dinner after a hard day’s work—accounting for her Earth employer and adjusting quasar links for her secret off-world employer. But others are eyeing the planet, and they have plans of their own. Cynthia may not get dinner after all.

Updated and re-issued, this collection of shorts hits all the high spots-or the low spots, depending on one’s point of view. There’s a visit to a strip club off the 15 in Montana; an encounter with a hitch-hiker on the 10 in New Mexico; romancing a truck-driving sweetheart in a sleeper at a California truck stop; a smile from a reformed addict in North Dakota.

Frank Ross spent the winter on the Baja riding his motorcycle under sunshine and blue skies. Now it’s spring and he’s headed home, but bad luck encountered in a casino parking lot leaves him stuck and waiting for parts in a small, isolated town on the west side of the Salton Sea just 70 miles...

Lily hears an old ghost story about Captain Kidd and his merry band of pirates burying booty on Pirate Cay. She soon becomes convinced that she needs to go treasure hunting with the gang when she is certain she has discovered buried treasure while trick or treating on Halloween.

Retired detective Jim Nash gets caught up in the Christmas spirit when AllieSands, his girlfriend, talks him into doing a stint as a mall Santa on the day before Christmas. All goes well, even without the eggnog, until Santa's old instincts kick in during a bank robbery. Jim and his faithful companion...

Predicting the fallout from a new power source, a lone scientist now lives in solitary companionship with his final creation, watching the world pass by through glass and sorrow. Living day to day in their shelter against the outside horrors, they await the end of the world.

Beim Spielen im Wald entdecken Julia und ihr Bruder Niklas eine Höhle. Eben noch auf Erkundungstour finden sie sich plötzlich im Mittelalter wieder - mitten in einem spannenden Abenteuer! Der Ritter Eckbert von Hohlenstein ist verschwunden. Ist er tatsächlich auf einem Kreuzzug, wie sein merkwürdiger Onkel behauptet? Gelingt es Niklas und Julia, das Geheimnis zu lüften?

Jim Nash has been chasing the ghosts in his life for too long. His business partner has deserted him and he doesn’t know if she’s coming back. His most recent receptionist and her dog, Friday, keeps handing him verbal abuse. The requested HR meeting never happens. And to top it off, he still hasn’t...

A missing teenager draws Jim back to the scene of the crime in Mexico where Kara, his pregnant wife, was killed in an explosion aboard their sloop. He’s needed the intervening two years to get over the life-changing event, but now he’s ready to take another look in an effort to put it all behind...