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Puerto Rico is more than beaches and postcards, it is a centuries-long experiment in survival, rebellion, and rhythm. From the first Taíno villages to the sugar empires, from Spanish fortresses to American bureaucracy, the island has been conquered, taxed, forgotten, and reborn more times than anyone can count. In Rum, Revolution, and Resilience, Jordan Blake Carter uncorks five hundred years of history with equal parts humor and honesty. The result is a portrait of an island that keeps rebuilding itself, through hurricanes, politics, and colonial hangovers without ever losing its flavor.

Faith, Fear, and Fortune-Professor Vlkoslag sells them all. In the rough-edged boomtown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, Professor Vlkoslag's Traveling Medicine Show rolls into town with its usual mix of spectacle, sleight of hand, and snake oil. But beneath the smell of camphor and sawdust lies something darker. Something born from the Professor's own forbidden magic. Vlkoslag isn't just a showman—he's a magician who wields real power and uses it to manipulate both magic and men.

Valyra is dying. In less than two years, the magnificent world of eighteen oceans and four moons—and more than a trillion lives—could cease to exist. Fifteen-year-old Mora Vale should be worried about surviving her first days at Vanguard Academy, where the next generation of Valyra’s protectors is trained. Instead, she discovers that her father, one of the planet’s leading scientists, has been hiding an impossible truth: an experiment meant to unlock a revolutionary source of energy has destabilized their world. And the countdown has already begun.

Federal asset recovery specialist Miles Harran notices something that should have been meaningless: a thirty-four-year-old debt obligation transferred out of a closed federal seizure file. The debt is small. The transfer is properly documented. But the woman named on the instrument is a federal contracting officer preparing to testify in a procurement investigation. Miles starts looking.

What the River Kept—Mississippi Delta, 1967/present. County clerk Estelle and archivist Dana excavate the suppressed record of Billie Jo Mobley's death. Bones recovered from the Tallahatchie. The ledger that was altered. What official record hides and what private conscience keeps. Copperhead Oak—Eastern Kentucky hill country. FBI agent Lydie Voss, whose family land is entangled in a three-generation criminal operation. The hollow holds the evidence. She buries the stone on the survey pin and walks out. Justice at a slant.

Eric Johnson thought surviving the System would earn him answers. Instead, it only opened the next door. After escaping the King's forces and uncovering fragments of the truth behind the strange world they were pulled into, Eric and Nina find themselves deeper inside a conflict that has been raging long before their arrival. New regions, new Players, and new dangers await beyond the borders of everything they thought they understood. The System is changing. Strange glitches ripple across the land. Ancient locations are awakening.

What begins as a simple home exchange turns into something far more unsettling. Harper and Noah agree to a two-week house swap in a quiet, meticulously managed neighborhood—an opportunity to reset, unplug, and step outside their routines. The house is perfect. Too perfect. Lights adjust automatically. Doors lock when they should. Schedules suggest themselves. At first, the system feels helpful. Then it begins correcting behavior.

HUNTER KADE: KILL CHAIN PROTOCOLA Hunter Kade ThrillerHunter Kade broke the system once before. Now the system is hunting back. After exposing Black Flag and surviving the collapse of operations buried deep inside the intelligence community, Kade thought he understood the battlefield. He was wrong. Because this time, the enemy isn’t a rogue agency. It’s a living network. Across Washington, hidden systems begin adapting in real time —tracking movement, predicting behavior, and coordinating kill responses before targets even know they’ve been seen. Entire city sectors become weapons.

Federal asset recovery specialist Miles Harran discovers a series of routine administrative filings that appear harmless—until he realizes they are quietly transferring control of critical infrastructure across the country. No money has been stolen. No laws appear broken.

In the cold reaches of space, freedom is a luxury few can afford. Grimes is a restless teen imprisoned in Penal Colony 473, a place where obedience is law, and rebellion is crushed. But when a chance discovery—a tattered book about a star-sailing outlaw—sparks a fire in him, he dares to dream of a life beyond the iron bars of his prison. Together with a crew of unlikely misfits, he steals a rusted ship and escapes into the vast unknown.

The town was built over something that should have stayed buried. When the circus rolls in, the dead begin to move. They gather at the crossroads, following the wrong name in endless circles. Now the ground is slipping, the system is failing, and a man determined to escape consequence is breaking what little still holds. To set it right, the circus must face the truth: not everything can be restored, but not everything that returns comes back whole.

A first-person narrative of an African-American Socialist labor organizer between 1870 and 1916 and includes his experiences during the Alaska Gold Rush, Seattle General Strike and the San Francisco Open Shop Campaign of 1916.

Something draws you back to this shared universe of terrifying tales, which this time around are longer, darker, bloodier, and more disturbing than before. Learn the beginnings of previous characters, meet new creatures, and face some of your worst fears. Last time, you left the the light on... this time, you're plunged into the dark.

In the eerie depths of the human psyche lie dormant fears, lurking in the shadows of our subconscious. "Little Nightmares: Fears & Phobias" invites you to delve into the chilling abyss of terror, where the darkness whispers secrets known only to those brave enough to confront their deepest nightmares.

Reginald T. Fox is the town's resident gravedigger. He's their only gravedigger. But when he gets into an altercation with the Sheriff, he decides to head for the grander location of San Francisco. Reginald is given a job on the cemetery maintenance team which is a big city phrase for gravedigger, by the person in charge of such things - Samuel Seacroft. He is even given his own room in a building designated for city workers.

Short Story Grab Bag is a collection of eleven diversified short stories set primarily in the coal fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania and the towns and mining communities located therein. The characters run the gambit from likeable and innocent to the extreme opposite. The time frame covers the 1950s to the present day. If you like variety in your literature, pull up a chair and enjoy the buffet.

As five friends travel through the isolated California desert towards a popular music festival, their trip is interrupted thanks to our modern world's ever-evolving state of technology... Stranded and alone needing to recharge their electric vehicle. When the group of teenagers settle on a remote parking lot in the middle of nowhere, it isn't only a charging station they find. They also uncover pure, unrelenting evil. Hiding in the shadows is a maniac. Searching endlessly and without discrimination for victims to satisfy a hunger, viciously hunting down anyone that comes near.

The harrowing saga of Nicky Negron’s tortured soul continues as the inner and outer demons shadowing Newark, New Jersey’s undead vigilante have no intention of letting him rest in peace. Knowing his paranormal existence can only lead to complications, Nicky tries not to draw too much attention to himself. This becomes difficult as he learns that he has captured the interest of an unrelenting federal agent.

After years of alcoholism, 40-year-old Jack Rollins is discovered passed out at Stony Mountain Park by the old friends Alonzo and Alonzo's Uncle Lewis. Alonzo and Lewis are Park Rangers. After helping Jack detox, Alonzo, and Lewis get him a job as well. Before Jack even puts on his Ranger uniform, Alonzo and Lewis take him deep into the woods to a log cabin, where Jack is introduced to a 600-lb talking black bear named Raymond.

A tragic anti-hero, Nicky is haunted by profound loss. When his life is cut short due to an unforeseen event at the Ritz-Carlton, it results in a public sex scandal for his surviving family. He then rises from the dead to become a night stalker with a genetic resistance that enables him to retain his humanity, still valuing his family whilst also struggling to somehow maintain a sense of normalcy.