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Twenty-one year old Tom Jewett has embarked on a new career. His new job as a cub journalist with the Traber Herald sends him and his wife, Sally, to Traber, Colorado, the birthplace of Tom's great grandfather. Almost immediately after settling into their new Victorian fixer-upper, Tom's dreams begin. But, are these dreams of an old room decorated with antiques and dimly lit with kerosene lamps -- simply dreams? Maybe, just maybe, the room does exist.

Europe is at war, and when Christa is persuaded by the glamorous and mysterious Lady Prince to blow up the Nazi lab where she works, she is forced to flee to Britain. However, Christa is pursued by the jealous and vindictive Doctor Weiss, who remains determined to eliminate anyone who may challenge her mantle as the best scientist. Can Lady Prince save her from her fate so they can have their happily ever after?

Captain Jack Aimes is an ordinary man, living an ordinary life of a charter service pilot in 1937 Belgium. He makes a living transporting packages and passengers from one country to another, enjoying the hand to mouth existence he has chosen to live. His life quickly becomes one of intrigue when he meets a beautiful woman named Bluma, a waitress at the local café. A life, once mundane fast becomes one of car chases, mysterious strangers with guns, mysticism and the acquisition, loss and pursuit of an important book called “The Prose Edda”.

This is the most famous of the short stories on which H.P. Lovecraft collaborated with fellow Providence writer Clifford Eddy. "The Loved Dead" probably had a bigger impact on Weird Tales magazine than any other story the pulp ever published. Dark, loathsome, and compelling, this first-person tale of necrophilic obsession and night-stalking serial murder sparked widespread outrage and resulted in sales of the magazine being temporarily banned in the state of Indiana as well as several other, smaller local jurisdictions.

Yfrey is lost, alone in a world where her kind is persecuted. She has one hope: to find the Roghnaithe, one who is destined to help save her world from destruction by a tyrannical ruler.

1936, Shreveport, Louisiana: Pretty young New Yorker Miriam Levenson finds herself here employed in the only job she can get - interviewing the elderly for the Roosevelt Administration’s Federal Writers Project. Among the people she meets are an aging Civil War hero, a French muralist and his common-law wife, and a 95-year-old Irish immigrant named Bridget Fenerty, a woman who has known tragedy and refused to buckle under it. Winter turns to spring, and Miriam finds there are people in this town who have secrets. And as she is followed by a mysterious man in a black Cadillac, Miriam finds that she, too, has a secret.

In this third and final installment of the Life Begins at Forty-Eight series of short stories, Linda finds herself caring for her mother while trying to plan her own wedding.

In the second book in this series of sci-fi short stories, Crew finds himself on his first mission. Placed in a new situation, he experiences new things and learning things about himself and his family that he never knew. This is the second in the Crew Chronicles series.

Louisiana, 1965, and an unlikely, inevitable couple. Sammy Teague and Betsy Duplechain have grown up right next door to each other but in different worlds, with expectations and circumstances that have always kept them separate. Now, as a powerful September hurricane bears down on the Louisiana coast, those worlds will come face to face. The choices they make will send them on an odyssey north and into the fall of 1965, as the brutal and envious sheriff Percy Parris pursues them.

When Hugh Latimer is shot in the head during combat, he is not expected to survive. But he returns home a hero and is awarded the VC. As time moves on, though, it becomes clear that whilst he may have recovered physically, he has been dramatically changed psychologically by the war....

A colleague of John's brings fresh danger to the team as they discover a lineage even older than Emma's.

It's not easy being different, but when you have good friends and a supportive family even the scariest criminals can be taken down. Join Crew, in the first of a series of short-story length Sci Fi adventures from the author of The Book of Abisan.

Linda returns in this, second installment of the Life Begins at Forty-Eight series. This time she is faced with making preparations for her mother to come out of hospital and introducing Tim to her family. Together, they also take on flat-packed furniture. Patience is a Virtue is a short story by C H Clepitt, jam packed with humor. It is also moving and heart-warming. By the time the story is finished you will feel you really know the characters, and will want to know what happens next.

In reading through the prophetical books, you must have been struck at their singular variety. On looking a little more closely, you have at once perceived that every prophet has a manner and style peculiarly his own. Although God speaks through them all, yet they lose not their individuality or originality of character.

Stu Morgan had a dream he shared with his best friend and former business partner, Ed Jones. Now retired from their Sasquatch expedition business, they would have all the time they needed to find Marcus Marshall's lost Glory Hole Mine, a gold mine lost since Marcus himself disappeared in 1877. Stu had a good idea where the mine might be, and, after many trips to Horse Tooth Mountain, he and Ed finally found the adit leading into what they hoped would be the Glory Hole. As it turned out, it was exactly that, and so much more.

Jehoshaphat: Worldliness looks at the life of this Old Testament king of Judah and encourages us to examine ourselves in the light of his mistakes. When a Christian enters into connection with the world, he lays himself open to be "persuaded" by the world - to enter upon an unchristian course of action.

On the east face of the Canyon del Río Hondo, there is an ancient cave known to the Mescal Indians as Moon Cave. It is a sacred place to the Mescal, used for the Ceremony of the Ancients, a ceremony performed every five years, rewarding the five most honored braves for their bravery and honesty. The ceremony must take place in Moon Cave because that is where the great medicine man, Owan-atan, created the magic.

In Bearing the Standard: A Rallying Cry to Uphold the Scriptures, Kevin reveals how we have collectively lost sight of God’s Standard - how we are thoroughly oblivious to the influences that lead us to misplace and compromise God’s perfect Word: the Scriptures. Bearing the Standard is a practical, prophetic, and foundational word to all of Messiah’s disciples, calling us to boldly raise the banner of Scripture as the only sufficient and supreme standard for our lives.

The Metal Legion is committed to saving all, but when a battle makes them traitors and enemies, they'll have to bet everything they have to win the freedom of all humanity.

The Metal Legion faces its most difficult mission to date when they're thrust into a multi-species battle for power and have to combat enemies from the air, ice, and space.