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In 2079, a time travel experiment sends physicist Carmela Akronfleck further back in time than she'd intended. Though she's still in her small northern California town, the year is 1936 and she must learn to live without the technology she's come to rely on. Her neurological implants should be dormant, but she receives a cryptic message, periodically accompanied by an audio transmission from the future. It's the voice of her former psychotherapist, an android named Kass, stating his innocence in a series of murders.

Thirteen years ago, Sarah Richardson's life was shattered after the tragic death of her mother. The shocking event left a grief-stricken teenaged Sarah with partial amnesia. Some things are easier to forget. But now a familiar voice from her childhood sends Sarah, a talented mid-20s ad exec, back to her past. A past that she had thought was long buried.

In an unfortunate case of mistaken identity, pampered show dog Talisman is switched with a cowdog and has to work on a ranch for the day. By the time her harrowing adventure is over, she is in desperate need of a massage, a session with her Reiki Master, a consultation with the pet psychic, a full grooming, and a pedicure. However, along the way she learns powerful lessons - including the discovery that she's so much more than just another pretty face.

Talisman the Australian Shepherd is a feisty, young show dog with psychic gifts. Tali's extended family includes her neurotic sisters, the hilarious spirit of Mae West, a hyper, freestyle-dancing Border Collie, and her heart person Valentino DeMitri - who has just found his own heart person. In this humorous novella, Tali must deal with star-crossed love and a terrifying ghost haunting the prestigious dog show she is attending. Can her innate ghostbusting abilities save the day?

Why did two veteran FBI agents die in a bizarre car fire while investigating a serial murder case in Massachusetts? According to the official report, the agents died in a murder-suicide. Quinn Westerly doesn't believe her father was capable of such a horrendous act. Quinn launches her own investigation. Drawn into the dangerous realm of the supernatural, she must rely on Evan Cordell, a disgraced psychiatrist. Cordell is a paranormalist who possesses abilities that allow him to interact with the creatures from our worst nightmares.

Real murderers need a Heart of Stone: Meet Maggie and Mike Hartstone—parents of twin boys, entrepreneurs, and now empty-nesters. Mike is retired—not by choice—from his position as chief of police in the picturesque resort town of Hamilton. And now his wife, Maggie, and her shop the Cozy Crystal, are their only source of income. When a mysterious killing interrupts Hamilton's famous Springfield Park Rockshow, the townsfolk, the Cozy Crystal, and their lives are rocked to the core.

Cole Dillon drowns in Deer Lake shortly before his 13th birthday. Elijah Thunderbird, a Native American shaman, travels between the worlds to bring Cole back from death. Unfortunately, Cole isn't supposed to survive, and with the natural order disrupted, dark spirits follow them home.

Cate is a runner. She prefers to help her fiancé run his New York senate race, but she finds herself running instead to fix what’s broken between her grandparents before he finds out - her grandmother has moved out of the family home, and her grandfather is accused of a pre-WWII relationship with a woman in Germany. Dietrich is a German journalist with a spotless reputation. He prefers facts, but he finds himself lost in a world of fiction instead to prove his novelist grandmother couldn’t possibly have been the lover of a US runner in Berlin’s 1936 Olympics.

The rise of a totalitarian regime thrusts two courageous women into the heart of an underground resistance movement. In a chillingly plausible scenario, the United States falls under the iron grip of a brutal new government. Investigative reporter Erin Tavano and her gutsy teenage daughter, Izzy, suddenly find themselves entangled in a dangerous struggle against authoritarian rule. Joining forces with an underground network of resistance cells, they embark on an extraordinary journey that highlights the remarkable heroism of ordinary people in the face of oppression.

It is the 24th century, and Earth has outlawed all religion following a devastating war fueled by zealotry on all sides. Rogue starship captain Maggie Sullivan defies authorities and embarks upon a dangerous mission in search of a rumored incarnation of Christ on a far-off planet. Her band of unlikely rebels includes a Nobel Prize-winning professor of anti-religious studies, his entourage, and a feisty, genetically-enhanced parrot who thinks she's the iconic singer Janis Joplin.

The trick of accepting redemption is finding something in yourself to redeem. A scary Halloween-themed ghost tale from Michael Lynes in The Trick.

An original children's fairytale. Grandmother has a secret. Will Zoe find out what it is before her Blueberry Birthday? A fairy tale ghost story.

What changed the direction of Dara's life journey? She chose to believe and travel with the power of love, God's love - a love that at first was not always easy to understand, trust, or accept. As her story reveals, it was Divinely life-transforming when she welcomed this unconditional love into her heart. Dara's life lessons are about choices and how great trials can be great teachers; how the biggest hurts can be the biggest gifts. It is one's choice how to learn the lesson.

Fabricio and Madison were high school sweethearts. They experienced every turmoil that life could throw at them. Just like many first chances, their love happened too soon, fizzled out, and fell apart in the midst of their competing needs. Will their love survive? Yes, maybe, only if they can find the strength to take a chance, a second chance on love.

Against their wishes, cousins Jacie "Punkin" Masters, and Hannah "Boo" Roberts, are thrown together for the summer at their grandparents' Ghost Dancer Ranch. What starts as a very boring summer turns dangerous, when they find themselves in the middle of an insidious plot to steal the ranch, and turn it into a casino. By clinging to their faith, and with the help of a guardian angel, and Jack Wilson, a young Native American man who hopes to lead his people back to prosperity and power through the resurrection of the Ghost Dancer Religion.

In 1957, jobs are scarce in rural Ashland, Alabama. Bobby Higgins is facing life decisions; his family’s farm struggles, and threat of the draft hangs over the 18-year-old male as the Cold War rumbles in the distance. Bobby heads off to boot camp, vowing to provide for his family from his pay. Between shore and sea duty, Bobby leaves broken hearts in every port.

Baby Boomers are shocked that the future keeps showing up faster and faster! Time doesn’t just fly by; it seems rocket propelled. Just the day before yesterday, we were young, and today we are incomprehensibly called “seniors” moving quickly into the fourth quarter of our lives. It is incredible and amazing to us. What you will find in these sections is an engaging and informative look about the fourth quarter of life. It is a glimpse of what is coming up around the corner, filled with insights, humor, reality, truth, wisdom, and the occasional profundity.

Stephanie: One of God’s Wonder Kids is the story of a young girl suddenly afflicted by that most pernicious and arbitrary ailment: cancer. It is the story of her family, who hold on to her, hold on to each other, and hold on to God throughout the most painful ordeal that any parent has faced. It is the story of her friends and community who love and support her as she struggles to understand what is happening to her and why.