Before their paths crossed... Before a fragile thread connected their futures... Before they found themselves humanity's last hope... The Nighthawks stood alone. Armed with visions from the future, Eleanor Valentine is about to change the fate of eleven would-be heroes in a last ditch effort to save mankind.Morning Sun is a collection of short stories revealing the origins of the Children of Nostradamus. From an angel able to read minds, to man seeking vengeance for a sister he abandoned, to a soldier fighting a war she knows is wrong, each story reveals world desperate for heroes.

"Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an American obsession, people who had to create their own dreams, invent their own stories, and find escape from hopeless lives in hard liquor or the cold comfort of a promised Hereafter."—from the foreword by John SaylesJim Tully was an American writer who enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success in the 1920s and '30s. A former circus laborer, hobo, and professional boxer, his rags-to-riches career may qualify him as the greatest long shot in American literature.Following the death of his mother, Tully was sent from his home in St. Marys, Ohio, to an orphanage in Cincinnati. After his time at the orphanage, the young Tully spent six years as a vagabond, riding the rails and working for a small circus. He left the road and settled in Kent, Ohio, in 1907, working odd jobs while focusing on his new interest—writing. After getting a few...

When Max, Kyle, and Emma are sent to live with their reclusive grandfather, they think he's crazy, especially when he tells them about his time machine. But after Emma is kidnapped at the exact time that her grandfather predicted, Max and Kyle are forced to believe his eccentric stories—even the one about the Chronal Engine in the basement.Now, to save Emma, Max, Kyle, and their new friend Petra must pile into a VW Bug, and use the Chronal Engine to take the road trip of a lifetime—right back to the Cretaceous period. With dangers all around, the teens find themselves dodging car-crushing herbivores in addition to the terrifying T. rex. In this ancient environment, can three contemporary teens hunt down a kidnapper, forage for food, and survive long enough to return home?

Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief! Hoots mon! The Sleepover Club is off to spooky Scotland for scares and dares, to stay with Kenny's crazy Great Uncle Bob. When weird things start happening, the girls reckon there are vampires about. They've got the garlic, they've got the stakes, and they've been practising their Buffy-style high kicks. It's time to go on patrol!

San Francisco private investigator Jake Diamond is known for his stained neckties and stash of sour-mash whiskey; but Jake is more likely to be toting a worn paperback Classic novel than a handgun. More over-easy than hard-boiled, Diamond can be beaten up and knocked around without taking it too personally; but when his friends and loved ones are threatened, it's a different story.When a Chicago thug known as Ralph Battle bursts into the office of Diamond Investigation waving a 44 magnum at Diamond and his trusty assistant, Jake has the distinct feeling that missing his lunch of fried calamari may not be the worst of his problems.Jake accompanies Battle to Chicago at the mandatory request of Max Lansdale, a mob-connected attorney, who asks Jake to search for a pair of ghosts and will not take no for an answer. Pushed to the edge, Jake is ready to put his rusty .38 to use to get Lansdale off his back. Running between San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles, Diamond...

Whoa! New nurse Rebecca O'Reilly had Dr. John Saville's thoughts straying into uncharted territory. This female wildcat had obviously been wounded by romance-she protected her frayed heart with a sharp tongue. John suspected her saucy defiance also guarded a secret innocence-and a wanton longing to know true womanhood. John could take no chances with Rebecca's emotions-an invitation to sensual fulfillment required an iron-clad commitment. Would the handsome M.D. resist the ultimate temptation and preserve his bachelorhood-or fold under the weight of his desire and claim Rebecca as his woman now...and forever?

A hopeless Gone With the Wind addict, novelist Amy has just been offered a genuine Southern Belle Wedding. Or so it seems, until the romance of the past unravels in the face of present day disasters--including a crumbling mansion, a panicked magazine staff, and an elusive fiancé. Not to mention an unlikely Southern gentleman, who makes Amy wonder whether her heart is truly gone with the wedding.

Rob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why "The King of Space" had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever — even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power… Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American Astronautical Society, about an idea whose time has come: a shimmering bridge between Earth and space that mankind will climb to the stars! Sound like fantasy? The concept has been in the literature of physics for over three decades, but only a writer with the scientific background of a Sheffield or a Clarke could bring the idea to life.