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Lucas Kelsey, a Kansas City attorney whose comfortable but relatively mundane legal practice centers around adoption cases, finds his world turned upside down when he discovers the body of a murdered four-year-old girl in his office. Never in his wildest dreams could he imagine how the case would come to involve him and then pull him into a vortex where past meets present.

The story of America's longest war is complicated and difficult to convey, unless you were there. Dennis Woods was there. By following his stories in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can sense the enormity of his combat experiences. Originally written for his daughter, Black Flag Journals is taken from the author's nine battle book journals. It covers his time from the fall of the Twin Towers through his last combat tour.

With so many sides to the legalization of marijuana, how do you know who’s right? Based on what is happening in Alaska right now, The Cannabis Stampede is an on-the-ground, narrative nonfiction look at the legalization of marijuana told from 30 perspectives. These perspectives include the housewife, aging hippy, police chief, doctor, school teacher, historian, Evangelical, Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, THC refugee, and half-way house owner along with the people who will be making the money: Pot delivery man, grower, importer, and edible product inventor.

Three Army enlisted men, led by an anti-war second lieutenant, were ordered on a suicide mission in Vietcong infested territory. In order to save their lives, the lieutenant sought a truce with an enemy village. Ignoring Army regulations, the four misfits worked to establish trust by helping the village obtain and plant coffee. Months later, a surprise attack by a North Vietnam Army Division against a nearby American Regiment upset the fragile peace.

India, The Netherlands, the Philippines - What is it with the Hoosier state that inspires authors from all over the world to dredge up their darkest visions to make readers tremble and shudder? Could it be the ghost towns that dot the landscape? Or do we fear the living ghosts that walk its cities, large and small, that breed and fester on dashed hope and creeping dread? Or do their dark writings mirror the thoughts we thought we had buried deep beneath layers of civility, exposing them for what they are, reflections of the darkness all around us.

She didn't expect to run the family business. But Gramps is in the hospital, and her father is in prison. She promised Gramps that she wouldn't let his life's work perish with him. Doesn't that make her a Mafia Boss? Bill Hart is just a beat cop on the night shift in the toughest part of the city. He sees a solitary figure on the docks in the wee hours of the morning. This can't be good. Whoever it is must be a lookout and, in some way, involved in something criminal.

Harper is a modern-day detective story set in a large city in the Northeast region of the United States. Who would hit a mafia boss? Evidence leads to involvement of the rival mafia family, but there is no motive. John Hart comes from a family of cops. The young homicide detective is part of a team assigned to the case. How did the hit man get into the secured building? How did he know the mafia boss would be at his restaurant that night? Who ordered the hit and arranged the logistics? Gradually a story falls into place, but the case is not strong enough to charge anyone.

Elton Burlock's done his time. On the outside, he takes the only job he can find as the custodian of a local cemetery, but there are three black angels that won't let him rest. The first is a little girl who roams the night and two women, one a vision of beauty in white and the other a nightmare in black. When the killing starts, who can rock the restless dead back to sleep? There are no lullabies for the dead, and if he's going to live, Elton will have to give the little girl what she wants. Maybe then he can find peace for them both - in the grave or out.

Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of "biosecurity," the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons. Christian Enemark focuses on six dreaded diseases that governments and international organizations give high priority for research, regulation, surveillance, and rapid response: pandemic influenza, drug-resistant tuberculosis, smallpox, Ebola, plague, and anthrax. The book is organized around four ethical dilemmas that arise when fear causes these diseases to be framed in terms of national or international security: protect or proliferate, secure or stifle, remedy or overkill, and attention or neglect.

Sam O'Donnell's just another addict on the road to ruin. He knows it's time to make a fresh start - to save his marriage. Yet when Sam and his wife move to an estate by the sea to begin anew, they find something has taken the estate for its own...and it hungers. When weighed in the balance a man can only face his demons and pray he is not found wanting. But Sam is not alone. He never was.

John March runs a struggling bookshop with just one regular customer - Mr. Hill. His life is defined by routine until the day he discovers he is sole beneficiary of a will worth £5 million thanks to the eccentric Mr. Hill's untimely death. But Mr. Hill also leaves behind something else - a lock of hair, a finger bone and a tooth in a jar of water. It's certainly not the worst day of John's life...until the rain comes and the dying starts.

A very short piece of fantasy world-building, following a few men and their curious line of work revolving around a quiet, dusty shop in a quirky, distant city.

The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here, baseball opens a passageway to life after death, obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness, conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice, and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant horrors inflicted on them.

New Saucerian presents one of the rarest of all Gray Barker titles, Selected for Abduction. Here Barker covers the best UFO sightings from 1981, including gripping "abductions" and "MIB attacks". In traversing this artifact, one senses Barker was perhaps the first serious UFO publisher to give credence to "alien abduction". Following his death soon after the publication of this book, several high-profile abductees and hypnosis-based researchers filled the vacuum.

Aspiring comedian Lee Parrish thought the worst thing to happen to him was his recent divorce. Until, that is, he discovers Earth has secretly been invaded by a race of technologically challenged aliens who are hell-bent on taking over the entire planet one person at a time.

On May 2, 1964, Klansman James Ford Seale picked up two black hitchhikers and drowned the young men in the Mississippi River. Seale spent more than 40 years a free man, before finally facing trial in 2007. But there could have been two defendants in the resulting case: James Ford Seale for kidnapping and murder, and the State of Mississippi for complicity - knowingly aiding, abetting, and creating men like Seale.