Five Weeks in a Balloon is not only the first installment in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, but also the first of Verne's works to earn him widespread popularity as a writer of science fiction and adventure novels. Following his invention of an ingenious new air balloon capable of long-distance flight, Dr. Samuel Fergusson embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with his trusted servant, Joe, and loyal friend, Dick Kennedy....

Many proclaimed the glory of Fauxbook as the titan of the new generation. With a click came the certainty of friendship, love, and support. A post could deliver the illusion of power to the impotent. Fauxbook was a household name that came with so much control it was impossible to fail...or so everyone thought. It all started with the bomb that killed its founder. Malicious? That's what many thought. And the case? Solved, wrapped up with the killer...

My story isn't the beginning or the middle. It is the end of the end. It was over before it could ever really begin. A tale of nothing and everything. The world stopped in a heartbeat. We were given a mere forty-eight hours. If that. It seemed cruel. Suddenly next-day delivery meant nothing, but getting ourselves to our family the next day meant everything. Those who weren't within driving distance of their family didn't have a hope in hell of returning...

Behind every light switch is a coal miner. Inside every car engine is a roustabout and mud logger. Our smartphones charge on coal, our vehicles drink gas and oil given up by our prehistoric ancestors and pumped from the ground by people we never meet. Meanwhile, there are Dani and Cap Pellegrin, Mr. John, Robert Brooks, Allen and Mora and Jacob. They are just as human in their feelings, just as American, yet somehow hidden, forgotten if we ever knew...

Once a celebrated Naval officer, John Rowland has fallen from grace. After slipping into alcoholism, Roland is dismissed from the Navy and shamed. Having lost everything, Rowland now works as a deckhand on the Titan, operating deck machinery and keeping watch. However, Rowland is just as shocked and horrified as the civilian passengers when the mighty ocean liner collides with an iceberg, beginning the ship's slow sink to ruin. As the Titan sinks,...

Based on a true story The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision between the American Red Cross, the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the most famous boxing matches in...

Stories include:1:11 Epistaxis-Actual vampires don't need fangs in order to feed.2:22 Starlight, Starbright-An astronaut defies orders not to return to Earth, but he does anyway…with dire consequences.3:33 Rescue-Two detectives go in search of thirteen missing children and the person responsible for their disappearances.4:44 Forecast-A bizarre weather phenomenon envelopes a city.5:55 Firewood-He was warned about going into the...

You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened.Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up. But The Lighted City isn' t without danger.Years later, Paul is struggling...

What if the two people you trusted the most gave you two conflicting realities of life? What if you had based your entire life on an ideology, only to realize it was not true? How do you cope with the uncertainties of existence? What do you do with a life that no longer seems familiar?Amogh Dharamadhikari seeks to find answers to these questions while standing on the balcony ledge of a 30-story building. Either he will get his answers today or...

In a new America where civilization as we know it has ended, every hour counts. Everything is ticking along perfectly in the sanctuary community of Osto until a band of raiders arrives intent on violence. Vasha has led her people through the worst the world has to offer for years, but this new threat could destroy her hope for the future. She's forced to strike a bargain with the leader of the raiders as tensions rise among the survivors and refugees...