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Two young men in the gold fields of California spend a last evening together as one of them, very sick, confronts his own imminent death. The tenderness between them may seem idealized, but you understand by listening to this story how premature death from accident and disease haunted the lives of far more westerners than death by violence.

They have her brother! MacGuffin, and Alicia have taken Jack Peterson hostage, giving Murry only 48 hours to surrender to them! She is out of options.... All the pieces are in place. All the conspiracies and deceits are out in the open. Or are they? Murry tries to assemble an army to rescue her brother, but there is no one left. Christopher, Jordan, Dylan, Christian, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Smith are all dead. Michael is still in a coma from which he will likely never recover, Alicia and Jacob have gone over to the dark side and Cliff is a member of the KGB. That leaves Murry and Matthew.

Robin Caruso, the girl who sailed around the world, has defied the odds and returned home alive: just barely. Surviving pirates, angry natives, animal attacks, and the fury of the ocean, she now faces the wrath of the authorities that she evaded and the consequences that her actions had on her family. Striking a deal with the government to testify against the leader of the pirates, she is forced to flee when he escapes and places a bounty on her head.

General Zarkov is dead, but only Muriel Peterson and Officer Laskey know about it. While Laskey is on medical leave, MacGuffin approaches Murry personally, attempting to incorporate her into his plans for world domination by ODESSA. Murry discovers that one of her old friends has allied herself with a conspiracy theorist and has uncovered information about the A.S.E. group’s connection to the CIA. She also discovers information on a system of computers and satellites known as Echelon.

Dead! They were all dead! Murry Peterson is still dealing with the realization that her handler and three of her teammates are dead. However, another handler comes into the picture, shattering her hopes for a return to a normal life; the creepy Mr. Smith who was responsible for staging the “school bus accident” which claimed her friends. Then, the details of General Zarkov, Operation: Failsafe and the missing nuclear bombs emerge; a plot to kill the President and millions of innocent people at the Olympic Games...

After narrowly averting General Zarkov’s plan to kill millions of people and the President of the United States at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Murry Peterson barely has time to recover from the death of another teammate. She is taken by the CIA to a secret training facility, where she finally receives the same training an adult agent receives, including how to kill. Approached by the corrupt section chief, MacGuffin, Murry allows him to believe that she will work with him. Meanwhile, the team is sent to Europe as exchange students to track down Zarkov.

Robin Caruso is a typical teenage girl, who wants to live anything but the typical life. She longs for adventure and attempts to persuade her parents to allow her to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world solo. At first, they refuse, but after their daughter is branded a hero during a dramatic at-sea rescue, they have little choice but to consent. Months later, the preparations are made, but a last minute injunction is filed to prevent the voyage from taking place and Robin must stage a daring escape before she is able to get underway.

A young boy lays dreaming on a grassy hill, escaping the harsh realities of the real world. His family pressures him to grow up and conform, but he resists. One day, he finds a discarded refrigerator box, which he drags home and paints blue. Climbing inside, he goes off on fantastic adventures, picking up a companion along the way. Then, one day, something happens and his make-believe world is shaken. Is drudgery and conformity inevitable, or can a childish imagination survive? Find out as we travel to the far reaches of space and time with a boy and his box.

Muriel Peterson’s grandfather is killed in 1976. Four years later, the guidance counselor at her new junior high school asks if she is a good American and offers to free her from the boredom of being a preteen in her small Pennsylvania town. He asks her to spy on a family of Russian immigrants suspected of stealing secrets for the KGB. She reluctantly accepts and begins to infiltrate the life of that fellow student and his family.

Nuclear weapons, a rogue Russian general and Soviet sleeper agents have made it to the shores of the United States! A vast conspiracy begins to take shape; one that threatens to unravel the very threads of democracy. It's 1982 and the Cold War is heating up. Andropov has become the leader of the USSR, and his anti-American sentiments are affecting the entire world. A passenger jet is shot down and tensions are high. Is the world on the brink of a nuclear war?

Muriel Peterson longed to escape the confines of junior high school while living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1980. When her guidance counselor revealed himself to be an agent of the CIA, he recruited her to help him on a mission. A year later, he needs her help again. Reluctant at first, Murry is coaxed back into the spy game, this time as part of a team.

A little bird sits high on a wire, watching the strange pink monkeys below him. Father bird warns him that they are dangerous, but he is curious and decides to ask the other animals about them. He questions a robin, a horse, a cow, a honeybee, an ant, a dog, a deer, a rabbit, and an owl, all of whom warn him of the dangers connected to the fearsome beasts. The owl tells the little bird how they fight in great wars, and participate in animal slavery, poisoning the air and water, and even killing their own kind.

Sherlock Holmes! The very name of the world's greatest detective conjures up images of Victorian London, gaslit streets, hansom cabs, and dense fogs. But there was a time, a dark three-year period, when London had to make do without Sherlock Holmes. From 1891 to 1894, he was presumed dead, having perished during the epic struggle with that infamous Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarty, atop the Reichenbach Falls. But unknown to most, even his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes survived.

Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the 19th century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the public’s perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed.

Some religions state that the very universe was created by words. The nation of America was founded using words. Words established the rights and freedoms this nation enjoys. The first of those rights is freedom of speech, which implies so much more than the right to use words. This anthology contains four stories from four authors. Each story pays tribute to either the ideals held by America’s First Amendment or to the concept that the words people use hold power. These authors took the concept of words and placed it in futuristic, apocalyptic, and fantasy settings.

Want to turn your passion and talent for writing into a legitimate, upper-middle-class livelihood? Meet Rich Gallagher - a self-proclaimed average guy who supported his household for many years as a writer and book author, accumulating over $1,000,000 of sales in each. He's also someone who knows exactly how to turn YOU into a million dollar writer, too. The Million Dollar Writer will teach you how to break the code of getting stable, long-term writing assignments, and publishing contracts.

Collected here are 10 Western short stories by Richard S. Wheeler, the award-winning author who makes storytelling look easy. In "Mugs Birdsong's Crime Academy", celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. "The Last Days of Dominic Prince" is the tragic tale of a cattle baron and his final conflict with the forces of political correctness. "Dead Weight" introduces us to a coffin maker who constructs a work of art.

A fast-paced and varied collection of captivating short stories ranging from action thrillers to poignant tear-jerkers to the downright weird, including: "Jerry Bundler" by W. W. Jacobs, "The Umbrella Mender" by Beatrice Harraden, "Green Ink" by J. S. Fletcher, "Why Herbert Killed His Mother" by Winifred Holtby, "The Red Mark" by Israel Zangwill, "The White Kid Glove" by J. S. Fletcher, "Sophy Mason Comes Back" by E. M. Delafield, plus many more.

Buffalo Bill Cody, Bat Masterson, and other legendary heroic figures of America's Old West get the royal treatment in White Hats, a collection of stories by esteemed Western authors. This anthology is expertly compiled by Robert J. Randisi, who has gathered extraordinary stories of those who wear the white hat from well-known authors like John Jakes, Richard S. Wheeler, James Reasoner, and others.

A gripping collection of weird and fantastical stories of supernatural and unbelievable happenings. "Pomegranate Seed" by Edith Wharton; "The Tiger" by Hugh Walpole; "When I Was Dead" by Vincent O'Sullivan; "The Fire" by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne; "Satan's Circus" by Eleanor Smith; "The Coffin Merchant" by Richard Middleton; and more tall stories....