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So, you like to take on a character and interact with other gamers? Action-Adventure Games will help readers up their skills, explore further, and load up on more loot. They'll also love learning about game designers and innovators and how they made a lifestyle into a life.
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
Set in Shanghai and Seattle, “Calculated” is a gritty, modern day blend of the Count of Monte Cristo and Mission Impossible.
She has many names-Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She's a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her.
In seventeen-year-old Jo River's complicated world of numbers, there's no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by the...
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When the political battlefield spreads to Antarctica, can the team survive the deep freeze?Those who work there call Antarctica "The Ice." A secret Russian cargo jet crashes into a crevasse near an Australian Station. The Aussies call in the top air-crash investigators on the planet.The best of them all, Miranda Chase, must face the Russians, Chinese, and use her own autistic abilities to keep her team alive. As the battle spreads across The Ice,...
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Josh and Jenny's school is suddenly overrun with substitute teachers. But these aren't the usual substitutes. These substitutes all look alike, ask a lot of questions, and record everything the students say. Luckily, Josh and Jenny still have their teacher. Until one afternoon they return from lunch to find their teacher missing, and a substitute in his place. What happened to Mr. Ott? Josh and Jenny decide to find out for themselves what is going...
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You would think that a real Creator would be honored and revered; not hunted as an outlaw or duped into thinking they were were just story writers. Popular author Kala discovers that it's not easy being a Creator, trying to save her created world from her own king, deceit, magic, and also trying to manage her heart and the heart of Glade, messenger from a desperate land who literally worships the ground she walks on. Riss, another Creator as anxious...
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AN ABDUCTED PROFESSOR... THE HOLY SHROUD OF TURN... A DIG OF INCREDIBLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AT THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA AND THE COMPETING ENEMIES WILLING TO KILL FOR IT... IT'S ALL UP TO CHASE BAKER TO UNCOVER THE SHROUD KEY AND PREVENT THE POWER OF THE JESUS REMAINS FROM GETTING IN THE WRONG HANDS! Chase Baker is a true Renaissance Man. He's also a man, who knows how to find trouble. A part-time resident of Florence, Italy, his resume reads like...
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In the vast, rugged reaches of frontier America in the post-civil war era is Gabe Tanner. He is a young scout and Indian fighter. Along with his trusted companion Big Smoke, a large gray buffalo horse, he is fresh out of the army and looking for adventure.
Gabe finds himself employed by a wagon train full of Mormons headed en-route from Omaha Nebraska to the Utah Territories. His job is to scout the way and blaze a safe route for the wagon company...
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Miranda Chase-the heroine you didn't expect. Fighting the battles no one else could win. The US Army's brand-new S-97 Raider reconnaissance helicopter goes down during final acceptance testing - hard. Cause: a failure, or the latest in a series of cyberattacks by Turkey. Miranda Chase, an autistic air-crash genius, and her team of NTSB investigators tackle the challenge. They must find the flaw, save the Vice President, and stop the US being forced...
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Up2U Adventures-where the ending is Up2U! Ana thinks that her new school is very strange. Middlehurst Elementary School has a lot of rules. And everyone follows them. Or else. When Ana and her new friend Bryce discover a secret passage, they know that something suspicious is going on. Will they discover the school is a secret training ground, an illegal experiment, or something else? The ending is Up2U, so which ending will you choose? Calico Chapter...
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"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."
Those most famous words from the 1892 poem by Rudyard Kipling have reverberated through cinema sound speakers for nearly eighty years since the RKO release of George Steven's Gunga Din starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine, and Sam Jaffe.
The realization of the movie was as much of an epic quest as the heroic journeys of the story's characters. Author William Chemerka's...
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It's April 1943 and a secret mission involving a patrol group from the 5th SAS Regiment and the Royal Marines is taking place inside Germany's mountains. To support the ground mission a massive bombing campaign is also occurring at the same time as the Special Operations Executive tries to determine what the Nazi's are building underground in a secret facility.
After recovering information that could reveal what the SS have been developing, Corporal...
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An American expatriate takes a chance wandering the streets of a foreign town. He's looking for a contact for a local Resistance group who needs help. These are men who go to the war most days and stay home with their families on other days. These are men who are called on when other men simply will not do.
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From the opening: Of the three wingback chairs in my library, only one is upholstered in human skin. There's a reason for that.
Charles Claymore Task has been labeled a psychopath by hypocrites who see themselves as "normal." And a group of wealthy investors want to know what makes him tick.
They ask him to detail for a film crew what makes people like him tick. At least that's the initial plan.
On film, Charlie describes the abandonment, disillusionment,...
15) A Little Time
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In this novella, what would happen if a mafia boss sent one of his best, most loyal men to escort his future wife from Phoenix to Atlanta via Cadillac? A man she specifically requested?
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Aliens and alien invasions take many forms. To the hard-working residents of a newly constructed ant hill, when a massive creature places a size 10 shoe atop their home, the invasion is blatant and destructive. Their children, the zygotes still wrapped in a protective shell, are crushed beneath the surface. They weep. They mourn. They cart off their dead. And they rebuild. There are also other kinds of intra-planetary alien invasions. Every day, every...
17) Jobs Like That
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You've experienced the military and had a gut full. You tried being a cop for awhile, but it just wasn't the same. Finally you opted to drop out, work a mindless, physical job on the docks for awhile. Then there's an incident, and it reminds you who and what you are. Maybe you're only suited for "jobs like that." Maybe the waitress in the local bar is too.
19) No Kind'a Time
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A Border Patrol captain is ordered by his superiors to stand down regarding gun shipments across the border. But when he receives a hot tip from a Mexican contact regarding a gun-runner, he can't just not do his job.
On paid leave, he sets up an ambush with a few friends -including an Arizona Ranger and an off-duty deputy sheriff -on a hill overlooking a border road. They expect to thwart the gun-running operation. But it's all a ruse.
The gun-runner...
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The year is 1844. Slavery has been legally abolished by virtually every country involved in the African slave trade. But the demand for slave labor by colonialists in the West Indies, the Americas and the Caribbean are pushing the now illegal trade to new heights. Together with 365 other African captives, a mysterious African Ashanti Princess is taken on board the Portuguese slaver, Andorinha. She joins the extraordinary African Koromantyn warrior...
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