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The Eighth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
25 Modern and Classic Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
"The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack" presents another stellar lineup of classic science fiction, new and old. Here are 25 stories (plus a bonus interview with best-selling author George R.R. Martin) by some of the field's greatest authors. Included are:
THE TRUE DARKNESS, by Pamela...
Ghost in the Cogs
Steam-Powered Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Ghosts. Gaslight. Gears.
Welcome to a wondrous age of steam where pirates, rust, and syphilis aren’t all you need to worry about. Ghosts abound!
In this hissing and clanking steampunk anthology, there are moments that science just can’t explain. All the mechanical geniuses scratch...
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
'Space Science Fiction' was launched in may of 1952. During it's impressive run it published many of Science Fiction's top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred-plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. Included here are:...
by Mike Jansen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 21, 2013
De Vuurtulpen speelt zich af in een alternatieve wereld waarin Holland de invallen van de Fransen onder Napoleon wist te weerstaan en de VOC oppermachtig bleef, ten koste van de opkomst van Brittannië als wereldmacht.Flash forward naar een tijd die je het heden zou kunnen noemen, een ongemakkelijke...
by Mike Exinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
This is a collection of short stories and articles that I have written over the years about poker, gambling, and the like. Gambling is such a fascinating subject - it encompasses all that life has to offer - opportunity, risk, fate, luck, pathos, and alcohol. Some of these stories have never been...
by Mike Exinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
Walk into any casino, and there is one section where the action is fast and furious. Players are whooping it up, and it sounds like one big party. You approach the area, and, squeezing through the crowd, you discover a long green felted table with a myriad of complex, confusing symbols. You hear voices,...
Fighting Words
In-Depth Interviews with the Biggest Names in Mixed Martial Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Mike Straka, host of HDNet's Fighting Words, sits down with the men who have shaped one of the fastest-growing sports on the planet in his new book. Through some of the most comprehensive and entertaining interviews ever recorded with MMA's biggest names, Straka paints a full picture of this incredibly...
Swing Under the Nazis
Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
For a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock ' n' roll is today. In a personal search for the story of that time, Mike Zwerin spent two years traveling across Europe talking with individuals who performed and enjoyed jazz in Hitler's...
Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em
The Mysterious Loss of the WWII Submarine USS Gudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Now in paperback, revised and updated, the stirring and authoritative account of one of World War II's most highly decorated submarines
Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em is the first book to recount the tragic and mysterious loss of the World War II submarine USS Gudgeon. In April 1944, the highly...
The Age of Persuasion
How Marketing Ate Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Stop to consider the culture of the 21st century: Each morning, you might hear a half-dozen ads on the radio before your feet touch the floor. Staggering out of bed, you’ll pass brand logos on your clothing and in your bathroom. By the end of the day, hundreds - perhaps thousands - of marketing...
Captain
My Life and Career
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The incredible story of the life and phenomenal career of one of the greatest players ever to wear a Maple Leafs uniform, told through stories and never-before-seen photographs.
Darryl Sittler may well be best remembered for two of the most remarkable performances in the history of the National...
Bucket of Sunshine
Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A Bucket of Sunshine, a term used for the use of a nuclear bomb, is a firsthand insight into life in the mid-1960s on a Royal Air Force Canberra nuclear-armed squadron in West Germany on the frontline in the Cold War. Mike Brooke describes not only the technical aspect of the aircraft and its nuclear...
Greater Gotham
A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national...
Trial by Fire
One Man's Battle to End Corporate Greed and Save Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
A Clarence Darrow Award–winning trial lawyer recounts his long career fighting big business bullies— “His corporate smackdowns are the stuff of legend” (Mark Geragos, CNN legal correspondent).
Bullied as a Jewish kid in the hardscrabble neighborhoods of Chicago, Mike Burg learned to...