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In the summer of 1882, long-suffering American prospector Robert Sproule, rows his way up Kootenay Lake to a promontory known as Big Ledge. Almost at once, he finds himself encamped on an extremely rich lode of high-grade lead, likely laced with silver. At last, Sproule's fortunes seem ready to change. Riches seem just around the corner. But another adventurer is on Kootenay Lake at the same time: the Englishman, Baillie-Grohman. His plans are even more grandiose than Sproule's.

Quite by accident she thinks, Henrietta Draper (Hattie) finds herself standing on the surface of a distant planet orbiting the star HD10307 in the constellation Andromeda. Bad enough . . . but it seems the planet's inhabitants expect her, somehow, to "save the universe."

Famous for its irregular time sequence and twist ending, this is Bierce's most anthologized story.

A solar eruption bakes the Earth in lethal radiation for ten days. In the American southwest the only survivors are a group of spelunking scientists, and an astronomer’s entourage who had the foresight to hide in the abandoned mines of Bisbee, Arizona.In need of food, supplies and water, the two groups undertake a perilous trek across the rugged beauty of the unpeopled Sonoran desert.

Approximately 730,000 first-ever strokes occur in the United States each year. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and in most Western countries. However, approximately 80-90% of patients survive their stroke, often with substantial motor dysfunction that compromises the ability to perform valued activities. Stroke is the most frequent cause of permanent disability in adults worldwide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s pseudo- autobiographical first novel. It describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned “lost generation” of post World War1 America. Published in 1920, when he was just 23, the novel was an overnight success and propelled Fitzgerald to instant stardom as spokesman of the Jazz Age.

It is 1613, and William Shakespeare is trying to extinguish a fire at the Globe Theatre. Just as a fiery beam is about to fall on him, he is transported across time and space to Nelson, British Columbia. William quickly accesses his new reality. Slowly, he begins to master 20th-century mannerisms, new speech patterns, and new ways to make a living. He decides his best hope is to become a screenwriter, but first he must deal with his nemesis (and one-time friend), Ben Jonson, who has no taste for the modern world and is convinced he knows a way to return to 17th-century London.