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Life is hard for Sharkey and the other scrappers in Lawrence. After the Great Oil Crisis the Earth became a hot, wild, dangerous place. Those that could reach the portals left the planet long ago. Those left behind live a desperate and brutal existence, surviving on the bones of a ruined civilization, fighting and killing each other in a world taken back by the earth. But Sharkey has hope.

James Cantrel wants to be braver in his new high school. He wants to pursue a new crush, stand up to new bullies, and create a comic book with his new best friend, Matt. An odd accident derails it all. Aliens in his dreams seem all too real. When he wakes, he finds he's been out, stealing supplies to build an invention he only recognizes from his latest, trance-induced drawings.

The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama, by Louis Joseph Vance, was first published in 1914 and was the first of what eventually became an 8-book series. The main character, Michael Lanyard, also known as The Lone Wolf, is a jewel thief who in later stories reforms and becomes a private detective. In this first book, we learn of his difficult past and his journey that led to this pre-war moment, when he gets entangled with both a Paris crime mob and a woman, confronts his present and future course, and then seeks ways to escape his life of crime.

Nick Carter is a former Recon Marine with a harrowing past. Now he's an elite operative with the PROJECT, a covert counter-terrorism unit answering only to the President. He's no stranger to high-stakes missions. But when Selena Connor enters his life, the stakes get personal. Selena’s wealthy uncle has been brutally murdered by killers looking for an ancient text promising the secret to immortality. Nick is tasked to shield Selena and find the book. It seems simple enough, until they discover they’re up against a ruthless enemy who aims to bring America to her knees.

A photograph forgotten for a hundred years holds the key to finding the legendary lost civilization of Atlantis and an ancient artifact of mysterious power. When a letter with the photograph and a faded map of Egypt shows up in the mail, the Project is launched into a search that takes them from the depths of the Atlantic to the sands of Egypt and places unseen for thousands of years.

Nick, Selena and the team are caught up in a devious plot that takes the world to the brink of nuclear war. Who is funding Moscow's militaristic adventures and why? Can the team find a way to stop a confrontation between Russia and the United States before it starts? The stakes for Nick, Selena, Elizabeth Harker and the world have never been higher. If they fail, civilization will be destroyed.

James Gaffney is on the run from the FBI, a crime organization and the police! Can James and Marisa get through all of them and find their way to a better future, or will they be taken done... finally?

All Mark wanted was to find someone to help with his daughter’s paralysis. What he found was a mysterious military organization protecting a one-time medical facility, a nuclear power plant on the verge of a meltdown, an Asian spy and a fortified town run by women for women. Turned away by the facility and the town, Mark is determined to find help and answers to his growing amount of questions. But sometimes answers can be worse than not knowing.

Evocatively chronicled, Erickson tells what it is like trying to stop the unstoppable. Bad Smoke, Good Smoke gives voice to the particular pains that ranchers must face in our era of climate change and ever more powerful natural disasters.