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In a future plagued with natural disasters, criminals known as “scavs” raid damaged cities. Their most important rule: don’t help the survivors. Bear, a twenty-nine-year-old engineer, breaks that rule when he takes Salix, a Native American college student, back to his scav team’s flying ship for medical treatment. Captain Baxter allows her to board but will not let her leave. Salix hopes to escape, but Baxter’s growing obsession with her makes that impossible. As the situation grows tense, a tsunami in Portugal prompts a scav raid.

Jess Patton is blunt, but there’s one person who never bats an eye when she speaks her mind. When that same man rescues her from a bad blind date, her rapidly beating heart is impossible to ignore. Suddenly, she's second-guessing everything she knows about him. After everything he’s seen and done, Lincoln North knows he doesn’t deserve a woman like Jess. Not only is she gorgeous, but she doesn’t play games, and being around her is as easy as breathing.

With every known planet, colony or settlement empty, ruined or completely destroyed, a desperate crew of humans onboard the starship Odyssey, hear rumours of a mythical phenomenon called The Horizon. This magical place on the edge of known space is believed to transport those who traverse it back in time to the moment they were at their happiest. With only death, heartache and baron wastelands surrounding them, the crew of the Odyssey head towards the Horizon. However to reach this phenomenon, they must cross The Expanse - a 30-day trip through entirely empty space.

Jay Delp, a veteran Marine, returns to his hometown of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to step into his new role as police chief while caring for his ailing father. On the eve of his first day on the job, two fishermen discover the body of a woman in Biloxi Bay. As city officials push for a quick resolution, Jay finds himself uncovering the dark secrets hiding beneath the surface of his once-familiar town.

Growing up in rural Oregon, Brandon Wolf grappled with the devastating loss of his supportive mother and with the embedded racism and homophobia of a community that made him feel like an unwelcome stranger. After the lack of connection and role models led him down a spiral of risky behavior, Wolf escaped to survive. In Orlando, he found what he’d been searching for: belonging—in a community that was a safe space with people he’d come to call his chosen family.

The moment Kate stepped into Noah Beaumont's office, she never expected to feel the sparks that she did. As she was hired to be his personal assistant, the two were expected to keep a strictly professional relationship - no matter how attracted they were to each other. But when a work trip to the tropical paradise of Malaysia strands them on a deserted island, they are faced with a forbidden love that threatens to break their resolve.

They thought they were safer on the ground... they were wrong. Immediately picking up after the events of 2023's Horizon, and it's 2024 prequel 'Ransome', a battle of revenge, revelations, and survival comes into play between Roman Knight, Drusilla and Harry Ransome; a man who should have been dead over 150 years ago. But with everyone so worried about the ravenous creatures above them in the darkness of space, they fail to realise that something far deadlier lurks beneath the ice. Something which has kept Harry Ransome alive all this time. Something sentient.

Who doesn’t love dad jokes? …Don’t answer that. Well, dads do, trust me. And it’s their solemn duty to have family-friendly jokes (well, most of the time maybe) on hand at all times! So if your dad has been an embarrassment lately because he’s got no joke game, I’m here to fix that. Or maybe to make it worse, depending on how you look at it.

Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good daughter" who realizes that there's only one way to help her brother and her family. Other stories center on the daily drama of the Curl-E-Que beauty shop, or capture the slapstick side of passion.

While you work hard building your startup, one of the biggest challenges you’ll face will be around your product’s ability to solve a big enough problem and its success in the market. Agile Analytics for Startups will help you navigate the complexity of early-stage business analytics, performance measurement, and the metrics that matter to your company.

The Hyper Web ensnarls the Empyramis on its 10-year interstellar journey. Psozela and Mrik use there priboards and weave between the webs to secure explosives that releases them. The Duludas have battered their defenses close to the point of submittal when they again use their priboards to execute a silent attack to disable the Duludas ship. A challenge to their mutual way of life is averted as Psozela, Mrik, and their friends battle to maintain their millium old social order.

The mage Frank "Half Dead" Johnson is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (a.k.a. the Devil) himself.

Ein teuflischer Plan brachte Asmödäus, Dämon des Lasters, wieder unter die Lebenden. Sein Dasein verheißt Unheil und Verderben auf Erden...

Entsetzliche Morde schockieren ganz London. Eine kalte, leblose Materie hält die Stadt in Atem. Die Polizei nimmt die Spur im "The London Flungeon" auf und schickt ihren besten Mann...

A new comedy series that delivers a next generation twist on stand-up. An entertaining hour where reality meets stand-up comedy via performances and profiles of the next generation of great African American comics. We Got Next takes you into the talent scout lab of Bob Sumner (founder/producer/lead talent scout of Def Comedy Jam series with Russell Simmons on HBO) as he sets out to answer the question, “Who’s next?”

On Harlem’s 145th Street, things happen that don’t happen anywhere else in the world. Get to know Big Joe, who’s throwing his own funeral while he’s here to enjoy it, and everyone’s invited. Meet Kitty and Mack, teens with a love story more real than anything they’ve ever known. Follow Monkeyman, the quietest kid on the block and the last person you’d expect the Tigros gang to target. And don’t miss the block party of the year - the whole neighborhood will be there. From danger and despair to hilarity and joy, literary legend Walter Dean Myers captures every mood.

Eternal Horizons Series: The Awakening follows the epic journey of a group of guardians chosen by the Eternal One to protect the universe from the encroaching darkness unleashed by Serath, a fallen being once among the Eternal One’s most powerful soldiers. The story begins with the Eternal One casting Serath and his followers into the Void, a realm of endless darkness, after they rebel against the light. However, the Void’s malevolent energy begins to seep into the universe, corrupting it, and the Eternal One realizes that the guardians must be created to counter this growing threat.

Connor Rourke is one of the little people, supernaturally speaking: a psionic in a world of mages. He's happy being the top—okay, just about the only—supernatural locksmith in the Boston area. He doesn't aspire to adventure or heroism, but he's about to get pulled in whether he likes it or not (spoiler: he doesn't).

Aidan is a man haunted by his past. Despite his position as a Chosen, he can't escape the darkness that lurks in his heart. With the other Chosen by his side, Aidan must face his demons and confront the sins he has committed.

Sophie Farrier—a bright and imaginative teen girl—was born with rotten luck. Misfortune has placed her in Seaside, a dull and dreary village filled with dull and dreary people. It is a place where creativity is frowned upon, outsiders are shunned, and no one dares to stand out. Those who actually muster up the courage to leave are never heard from again.