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  The Lost City of Harlequin...

  Patricia Punch Barrett

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  In a world where history and progress often collide, The Reawakening follows a series of forgotten communities on the brink of decline—until an unexpected force breathes new life into them. As ancient legacies intertwine with modern innovation, residents uncover the hidden roles their towns have played across epochs, from secret revolutionary outposts to scientific hubs lost to time. With each revelation, they find themselves at the heart of a grand restoration, where past, present, and future are seamlessly woven together. 
  But revitalization comes with its own struggles—long-buried conflicts resurface, generations clash over the meaning of preservation, and an unseen adversary seeks to suppress the truth. As tensions rise, the people must decide: Will they embrace their newfound purpose and reclaim their significance, or will history erase them once more? The Reawakening is a powerful narrative of resilience, community, and the enduring spirit that shapes civilizations.

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  The Shadow and the Flash - A...

  Jack London

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  The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London - Can the moving out of line of even the smallest atom of the Inscrutable pattern of the Universe, bring down the whole great edifice in instantaneous, crashing holocaust? 
  John Griffith Chaney, famously known as Jack London, was born in 1876. He was among the first American writers to achieve international fame and financial success through his work. At the age of 21, in 1897, London embarked on a journey to the Klondike during the Gold Rush, an experience that inspired some of his earliest and most successful stories. 
  In 1899, Jack London was living in poverty, desperately submitting stories in the hope of earning one cent per word, the standard rate for fiction he had read about. When he finally sold a 4,000-word story, he was dismayed to receive only $5.00 for it. Reflecting on this moment, London later wrote, “I was finished—finished as only a very young, very sick, and very hungry young man could be … I would never write again.” 
  However, that same day, he received a letter from the publisher of The Black Cat, responding to his submission of A Thousand Deaths. The publisher requested permission to cut the story in half and offered $40 if London agreed. London recalled, “It was the equivalent to twenty dollars per thousand, or double the minimum rate. And that is just precisely how and why I stayed by the writing game. Literally, and literarily, I was saved by The Black Cat short story.”

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  It's Called Murder Brenda Look...

  Dakota Cassidy

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  I'm Nina Statleon, a vampire (with a little bit of witch thrown in for good measure—a sucky, magic-less one). My best friends, Marty, a werewolf, and and Wanda, a halfsie, have talked me into opening a detective agency for paranormals. 
   
   
   
  That said, my partners in this new adventure don't care about all my protests. That's how we end up with our first client, Brenda Bronkowski, an older vampire the human police are hunting down for murder . . . 
   
   
   
  Brenda fell for one of the oldest tricks in this new age of technology's book—a romance scam. You guessed it, Brenda was catfished. Brenda swears she's never even met him, let alone murdered him, and she's come to us for help finding the person responsible for his murder. 
   
   
   
  Not only is the suspect list low, there's a glitch, and it's a big one. 
   
   
   
  The clan. 
   
   
   
  It's bad enough the human police like her for Owen's murder, but if the clan finds out we've got her holed up in the murder basement, it won't only be curtains for Brenda, our little private investigating gig could be over before it's really begun. 
   
   
   
  That means we need to solve this pronto, so we can get the clan off our backs, but more importantly, so Brenda doesn't end up expunged . . .

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  Ubik

  Philip K. Dick

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  Named one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending, classic novel about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle. 
    
  “From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you’ll never be sure you’ve woken up from.”—Lev Grossman, Time 
    
  Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter’s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all. 
    
  “More brilliant than similar experiments conducted by Pynchon or DeLillo.”—Roberto Bolaño

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  The Robots Strike - They Learned...

  Harry Harrison

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  The Robots Strike by Harry Harrison - They’d long known that they were more than mere machines. They could reason, remember, and teach. And also plan! 
  Author Harry Harrison is best known for his character The Stainless Steel Rat. But he also wrote a plethora of lesser known short stories beginning in the 1950s.

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  A Pangolin Slept on Buddha’s Lap...

  Madeleine Dale

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  "Writing Wild. Riveting fiction with a focus on conservation." Emmy Trivete, Milepost
   
  
   
  When the deadliest threats to wildlife aren’t found in the wild…
   
  From the endless plains of the Serengeti to the shadowy underbelly of Kathmandu, readers plunge into a world where science collides with the evils of human nature when a mission to save endangered pangolins lands a wildlife conservationist in a hornet’s nest of corruption.
   
  Wolf Vandengetz had a dream job: studying majestic lion prides in Africa. Then, a promotion catapults him into a treacherous realm where he discovers that nature’s greatest predators aren’t found in the wild – they lurk in boardrooms, bedrooms, and back alleys.
   
  Armed with a scientist’s knowledge but unprepared for the cutthroat politics of NGOs, or the ruthless methods of animal traffickers, Wolf is fighting for more than just the pangolins’ survival. On an adventure beset with unpredictable twists, he solves complex ecosystem mysteries and unravels a web of corruption that stretches from local poachers to global policy-makers. When the stakes skyrocket, it’s no longer just about saving a species – it’s about exposing the human greed that jeopardizes the delicate balance of nature.
   
  The pangolin’s plight unfolds as a heart-pounding journey. Will Wolf clear his name and chart a new path for wildlife conservation, or will he, like the pangolin, become another casualty in the war against nature?

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