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This is the true story behind the making of a television legend. There have been many books written about Star Trek, but never with the unprecedented access, insight and candor of authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. Having covered the franchise for over three decades, they’ve assembled...

In the fall of 2025, Clay-Chalkville High School in Alabama chased a championship in the space between memory and change. Friday nights arrived with familiar rituals and quiet pressure. Helmets were buckled. Lights came on. A stadium that held decades of voices stood on borrowed time, even as a new season demanded full attention. Wins accumulated, but so did moments that never appeared on a scoreboard – conversations in parking lots, superstitions repeated without explanation, lessons passed down rather than announced.

As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages - of hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted, so-called “cozy” murders in Britain - the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, with his fierce devotion to science and logic, gave way to street smarts on the one hand and social insight on the other, but even though these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required intelligence and clear-sightedness as characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured here.

The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer. It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone - for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.

Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well as the morality of man in “The Angel’s Gift.” Stories such as “The Café Coup” and “We’ll Always Have Paris” dip into speculative historical fiction, asking questions about what would happen if someone could change history for the better. This expansive collection is a key addition for Bova fans and sci-fi lovers alike!

From his tiny room at Hampton Court, the royal chronicler records the comings and goings of the King of England, his six Queens—and his six mothers-in-law. Introducing us to these redoubtable ladies, he relates the surprising part they played in the destiny of Henry VIII and his unfortunate wives. We meet Catherine of Aragon's duenna, Dona Elvira; Lady Boleyn, whose gentleman admirer threatens danger for her daughter Anne; and Lady Margaret, whose attempt to overturn hundreds of years of tradition leads to a dramatic confrontation.

Three famous spy cases rocked America between 1948 and 1954: Alger Hiss; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Each program combines dramatic re-enactments based on archival material, new evidence, the latest assessments by American historians and scientists, and the commentaries of relatives and friends of the accused.

Maxim Jakubowski has edited all the great names in crime fiction, and stories from his anthologies have won the CWA Dagger six times. Now he has collected 19 Dagger Award-winning stories in one volume, making it the first retrospective deep dive into the CWA’s archive of Dagger Award winners. Edgy, twisted, and disturbing, Daggers Drawn is visceral and thrilling collection showcasing the very best modern crime fiction has to offer.

An old man alleged to be the infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper is lying on his deathbed, and is being hunted by a private investigator between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon, the very same area where Cooper jumped from a Boeing 727 with $200,000 in his possession with the aide of four civilian parachutes around Thanksgiving 1971. Only a portion of these items have been recovered with no confirmed trace of this infamous figure. Is this dying old man in fact D.B. Cooper and will have this private investigator realize his life’s dream of catching up to such a fabled criminal?

The truth always comes out. Whether you want I know it or not. New enemies surface while old ones become your family. Finding out what you were never meant to become, is something that took me by surprise. To top everything else off, I didn’t see what was happening in my own home. If it wasn’t for Skye being my soul mate, my life would have been destroyed by a father who was supposed to love me. Instead, he used me for an end game -- one I plan on stopping if I can manage to get these new powers under control in time to stop him.

From Brooklyn To Tokyo Bay: A Sailor’s Story is the story of how Albert R. Pincus and the young men of his generation fought for the United States during World War II. This poignant, yet humorous, tale of young men caught up in one of history’s bloodiest wars follows Albert all the way from his childhood home in Brooklyn to the front lines of military combat and back.

Gary Mansfield’s grandfather has raised him on a scrapbook entailing every detail of The JFK Assassination and its surrounding conspiracies. Yet one day, he spotted a photo of an old Hollywood actress named Lorraine Hayes and his grandfather’s eccentric behavior adds fuel to the fire. It shall all come to ahead on November 22, 2013, the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. A day where he will find out something his grandfather never wanted him to.

During its heyday, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City was a home and safe haven for Bohemian artists, poets, and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, and Dee Dee Ramone. This oral history of the famed hotel peers behind the iconic facade and delves into the mayhem, madness, and brilliance that stemmed from the hotel in the 1980s and 1990s.

When the old lighthouse flashes in strange patterns, 12-year-olds Alex, Mia, and Ben discover the lights are communicating. Alex notices the sequence, Mia decodes it, and Ben uncovers deeper layers. Curiosity soon becomes a full investigation as they realize coded messages are being sent—and received.