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Riverboat gambling is a blast, until hot-headed Chance finds out just what he won in his final hand against a Missouri River gambler named Haggarty. Chance's "prize" is a beautiful Chinese slave girl named Ling. The twins want to set Ling free and keep their cash, but at Fort Benton, Ling gives them the slip, robbing them blind. When they hunt her down in Rimfire, Montana, she's with Haggarty, lining up their next mark.

Thirty-five years have passed since the sudden end of the Gilbaglian War. Destota Valentine and his elite 200 are no longer needed in the new Human Empire. Even as his wife Mallory takes the reigns as leader of human space, Destota and his troops are mothballed and begin to suffer damaging effects of the genetic modifications inflicted on them. Desperate for another mission, Destota and seven of the original Nightstalkers strike out to the destroyed ruins of Vandor to investigate a strange anomaly in the gravity fields.

From witches and demons to haunted circuses and deals made with hidden consequences to ghosts and secrets buried in the past, Autumn Nights: 12 Chilling Tales for Midnight brings together the very best of spooky tales to tell under a harvest moon.

In a universe gripped by conflict, Sera Varse has risen as a formidable leader within the Union, commanding her clan amidst chaos. Determined to uncover the secret order that’s attempting to undermine everything the three-Faction system stands for, she embarks on a covert mission to join forces with Touma Kudo on the other side of the Federation wormhole. On the other side of the wormholes, battles rage as factions vie for control of Quantum-rich worlds. With war looming, Sera and Kudo must race against time to stop a rogue Federation general from unleashing chaos across the galaxy.

Three years after Alice Keller is safely hidden away on Tarsus Station, Andre Korsakov is being pressured to weaponize her psychokinetic powers. But at 17, Alice is more concerned with boys and belonging than controlling objects with her mind.

A brutal civil war threatens to tear the Movi Kingdom apart. EarthGov’s presence on the Sleer’s former capital is endangered as refugees seek aid, loyalist navy fleet commanders demand tribute, and rebel commanders roam the stars looking for support or vengeance. The Unified earth Fleet needs information and sends the UES Gauntlet into the fray to seek allies.

Xenophobia and itchy trigger fingers nearly ended the Sol Alliance. War—avoidable yet inevitable—ensued with the Arcoenum, an exotic alien species with overwhelming mental abilities. The Alliance survived thanks to the quick thinking of a brash, young starship officer, Nick Stone.

When Lt. Simon Brooks discovered an alien AI, he made a name for himself as an officer in the Unified Earth Fleet. And while his tech skills are next level, he has a lot to learn about running a combat squadron. After flubbing a training exercise, Brooks is set to choosing worlds for human colonization, and he thinks he has the perfect candidate: Vega. But rumors and intelligence reports make him think there’s something there that the Sleer missed.

You wanted the jolly fat man to bring Yuletide joy, but the season has gifted you with a heart breaker and a life taker—Badass Santa. Grab your eggnog and camouflage candy canes, strap on your bulletproof holiday stockings, and prepare for thrills and kills.

Aboard the scout ship Cyclops, Hornet Squadron pauses on Saturn’s moon to take stock of their condition. Eager to rejoin Ascension, Commander Ray Fairchild risks a dangerous shuttle flight to the ship while Lieutenants Brooks and Rosenski remain on station.

With lessons on patience, finding your talents, staying on task, accepting responsibility, giving children skills for life, understanding rejection and more, What I Tell Myself: The Audiobook Series is sure to provide powerful and long-lasting conversations for parents, teachers, caregivers and children. It is not enough to say we want to break generational curses. We must have the tools to give us better options in teaching our future to do things differently. Welcome to your toolbox.

As Earth began to suffocate under waves of corruption and violence from the unhinged organization calling itself the Phelb, Swedish Army sniper Oskar Hedland found a group of American soldiers fleeing toward Paris, where the ESA was going to launch a new program to escape Earth and live in peace on Mars. Not spoken for in the agreement was the knowledge that he was going to have to tame a new world full of horrible beasts and diseases beyond his wildest dreams.

In the ruins of a West Virginia town, a band of survivors count their losses, after a horrific battle to secure a pure sample of Infection. With humanity facing the possibility of extinction, the Army wants to use the sample to build a doomsday weapon against Infection. One scientist hopes to control Infection; another believes she can cure it. And, outside the fort’s walls, a lone survivor offers a new way to survive what’s coming. Each will choose how far they’ll go to survive, and what they’re willing to lose to save humanity.

Riven kan Ingan may have married his beloved Barbara. He may have become a noble by the margrave’s grace, but the gods aren’t finished with him. Not yet. Though Riven admits married life makes him a lovestruck fool, he refuses to be the cuckold when he returns from battle to find his wife pregnant with a child he couldn’t have sired. In a fury at her supposed infidelity, he dares the gods’ wrath and abandons her, only to become the scapegoat when a blood curse strikes his people.

Jeremy Edwards is a normal kid, playing hockey in a small Colorado town, bound for a dream career with the NHL. When an opportunity arises to visit an elite hockey camp in Minnesota, his absentee parents are overjoyed and send him along without a second thought. But neither Jeremy, nor his parents, know that he's actually been recruited, and brainwashed into an assassin program for the Calabrian mafia.

By his own admission, Riven kan Ingan is a nonbeliever, denying the existence of magic or religion. He may have been raised by the Margrave of Francovia, but as the son of a barbarian sellsword, he’s never allowed to forget his foreign ancestry. Determined to fulfill the prophecy that he’s to become a king, Riven schemes to hurry his destiny along by marrying the margrave’s daughter, Aleza. Unfortunately, the gods of Arcanis, insulted by his denial of their existence, have other plans.

From the creators of the wildly popular and seriously scientific YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE comes entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible answers to the questions you never got to ask in science class.

Chcesz zacząć uczyć się angielskiego i nie wiesz, jak to zrobić? Przygotowaliśmy coś specjalnie dla Ciebie. Z naszym audio kursem możesz uczyć się wszędzie, wykorzystując każdą wolną chwilę. Przez cały czas nauki towarzyszy Ci lektor, który stopniowo wprowadza nowy materiał oraz w przejrzysty sposób wyjaśnia, jak stosować różne zwroty i formy gramatyczne. Aby łatwiej było się uczyć, wszystkie słowa i zdania słyszysz z tłumaczeniami, a w ćwiczeniach konwersacyjnych poznajesz przykładowe odpowiedzi.

Chcesz zacząć uczyć się angielskiego i nie wiesz, jak to zrobić? Przygotowaliśmy coś specjalnie dla Ciebie. Z naszym audio kursem możesz uczyć się wszędzie, wykorzystując każdą wolną chwilę. Przez cały czas nauki towarzyszy Ci lektor, który stopniowo wprowadza nowy materiał oraz w przejrzysty sposób wyjaśnia, jak stosować różne zwroty i formy gramatyczne. Aby łatwiej było się uczyć, wszystkie słowa i zdania słyszysz z tłumaczeniami, a w ćwiczeniach konwersacyjnych poznajesz przykładowe odpowiedzi.

Being Godchosen isn’t easy. The woman he wants doesn’t want him, the man who should be his best friend thinks him laughable, and everyone ridicules his youth, to say nothing of his glyndweller accent. Slaying a dragon and defending the country from invaders changes their minds, and things are going nicely, but then the gods interfere...Tragedy strikes, sending Trygare to a foreign land where his true destiny lies...to become the ancestor of a dynasty that will rule his planet for three thousand years.