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Seventeen year olds Griffin and Hope are a menace to society. They're more dangerous than Benedict Arnold, Al Capone and Charles Manson combined. Why? Because they play a weird game with funny dice called Dungeons & Dragons. But it's 1985 and religious leaders and psychology professionals have declared Dungeons & Dragons dangerous. It isn't just a game of geeky imagination, it's a cult of Satanism and witchcraft! All Griffin and Hope really want to do is take a road trip to Wisconsin and meet their hero Gary Gygax, inventor of the game they love, but the entire world seems to be against them. Griff and Hope use the skills they learned playing years of Dungeons & Dragons not just to reach Wisconsin, but to help other outcasts targeted by the "moral majority" along the way: including headbangers, gay clubbers, punk rockers, and even a real Satanist.…

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It is 1942 and America has barely begun its fight in World War 2. Bobby Campbell, an ex-fighter pilot, is imprisoned and awaiting trial for leaking sensitive war secrets. But he is given one last chance to redeem himself: escape from prison, defect to the Soviet Union, and convince his ex-fiance, currently fighting in Russia, to spy for the United States.Meanwhile, Karen Hamilton, the woman who broke Bobby's heart so she could fight beside her Russian lover, experiences the tragedy and triumph of war during one of history's bloodiest battles: Stalingrad.…

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Duck, an escaped Russian mine dog and his pack of stray house pets rob a boxcar full of sausages on the Leningrad front of World War II.…

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(Chapter 1 only)In the winter of 1941-1942, Leningrad is under siege, and Karen Hamilton, a seventeen-year-old American musician, finds herself trapped and struggling to survive. Throughout the city, people are dying of starvation and frostbite, and Karen knows that if she doesn't escape immediately, she will share their fate. If she has any hope of leaving Russia and reuniting with her fiancé, Bobby, in New York, she must do the impossible: cross enemy lines and then stow away.On her harrowing journey, Karen encounters Petr, a young conscripted Russian soldier. She isn't sure she can trust him-he is equally wary of her. But as the two join forces in order to stay alive, an unexpected romance takes root.Now, as Karen gets closer to the reality of escape, she has a choice to make: Will she return to a safe life in America with Bobby, or remain in war-torn Russia with Petr?This is a sample chapter of the book that will be available October 18 from Lake Union Publishing.…

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Carlin Hanson's life has been ruined by nightmares. Every time she falls asleep a man tortures and torments her in her dreams. The circumstances change, but the man is always the same, she has come to know him better than any man she's met in real life, and fear him more than death. After years of therapy Carlin is finally getting her nightmares under control. She's finally learning to sleep again, and slowly getting her life together. Then she meets her sister's new fiance, and she immediately recognizes him. He's the man she's been dreaming about for more than ten years. He's the man from her nightmares. Cover by Legendary_Kris…

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Two thieves enact a dangerous scheme to rob a pair of knights.…

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Wandering the post World War III world, an M1 Abrams crew stops in a peaceful farming village long enough to help the locals fight off a vicious criminal gang.…

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One-thousand years in the future the world has been divided into two warring states. The West, ruled by Vampire Lord Justin Bieber, and the East, ruled by the ruthless pack of One Direction Werewolves. Countless millions of fans died in the battles of these bands. But now the final battle is about to begin...…