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A literary father –daughter novel about memory, forgiveness, and the search for belonging. He wrote detectives who lived in shadows. She grew up searching for a signal in the static. When Jeff Griffin and Zoe MacKenzie meet, silence gives way to memory, music, and the chance to belong. Jeff Griffin built his name writing acclaimed crime novels set in postwar New Orleans —but spent decades hiding from his own past. Zoe MacKenzie grew up without him, raised on stories instead of a father. For more than 18 years, Zoe MacKenzie only knew half her story.

Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?

Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love.

She left the harbor behind — only to find her heart anchored there all along. When ambitious architect Clara Morgan returns to Ashford Harbor, she’s determined to prove herself by restoring the town’s crumbling waterfront pier. The last thing she expects? To clash with rugged contractor Ethan Cole — her first love, the boy she left behind, and the man who’s never forgiven her for breaking his heart.

When a stranger with a high-tech implant is found in the remote Finnish wilderness, neurosurgeon Bill and his computer scientist friend Steve see an opportunity. But they don't know what powers they're up against. They soon must ask themselves what moral boundaries they're willing to cross in order to succeed. Ten years later, the world has changed. Airships roam the skies, strange plants grow in the forests, and entire swaths of land are deserted.

This book restores to view a forgotten but essential arm of the Union war effort. On September 17, 1862, while the bloodiest single day in American history raged at Antietam, a network of young officers with flags and telescopes linked staff headquarters, high-ground observation posts, and forward stations close to the fighting, furnishing Major General George B. McClellan with near real-time intelligence on Confederate movements. Their constant signaling disproves the enduring "spectator general" myth and reveals how signal communications informed command decisions.

'The Signal' is the story of two peasants who work as track walkers on the railway, Semyon Ivanov and Vasily Stepanych. Semyon is grateful for his job and the hut and the vegetable patch which goes with it, but Vasily is discontented with his lot and constantly complains, including to his employers. This grumbling irritates the railway officials and eventually the situation escalates, driving Vasily to take terrible revenge on the state railway.

Well known for his short stories, critically acclaimed author Ron Carlson has been featured in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories. Carlson has also won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize. Here he captivates audiences with a compelling novel no listener will soon forget.

Commander David Bryce returned from his mission, successful, with a derelict alien ship that wasn’t as empty as predicted. With the assistance of an old ally, David is hell-bent on stopping the invasion before it begins. There’s just one problem; the Signal is hidden somewhere on Earth. Atlas Donovan is the only man capable of helping them, and it’s unclear whether he can trust the ORB employees. One thing is clear: Aliens have been to Earth, and from the looks of it, not just a single race. There were two.

A signal drops. A mirror lies. A name won’t stay erased. In these unsettling stories from Sarah Faith, the ordinary rules of communication, identity, and memory begin to fail—quietly at first, then all at once. A family discovers that losing connection doesn’t mean they’re alone. A gift becomes impossible to refuse—and worse to keep. A routine bound to time and weather begins to feel less like safety… and more like a trap. A place forgotten by everyone else refuses to forget those who enter it.

Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of all sorts of communication, from color television to the clear transmission of photographs from the vicinity of Jupiter. Even more revolutionary progress is expected in the future.  

Years after the Replication Wars ended, clone soldier Unit 734 receives a distress signal from a fellow clone long believed dead. Following the transmission into the dangerous Maw Nebula, he discovers a hidden conspiracy tied to Forge, a secret organization that has spent years rebuilding lost military technology and preparing for another war. Reunited with Unit 819, 734 uncovers Project Genesis—an enormous clone-production carrier capable of creating entire armies in secret.

What if the safest place… is the one you can’t leave? On a rain-soaked highway in northern Ontario, Erin makes a simple decision; she turns off the road and stops at a lonely service station. At first, nothing seems wrong. The lights are on. The shelves are stocked. The door is unlocked. But no one is there. One by one, others arrive; stranded travelers drawn in by the storm, by the road, by something they can’t quite name. Then the messages begin. Stay inside. No signal. No source. No explanation. When two people step outside and don’t come back, the rules begin to take shape.

A small bushfire, but nasty enough for ice cooks to abandon their lab. Fatal, too. But when the bodies in the burnt-out Mercedes prove to be a pair of Sydney hitmen, D.I. Hal Challis’s inquiries into a local ice epidemic take a darker turn. Meanwhile, Ellen Destry, head of the new sex crimes...

Most project failures don’t start with bad plans - they start with poor listening. In today’s fast-moving project environments, miscommunication is the silent risk that derails timelines, damages relationships, and undermines results. Yet, one skill has the power to change everything: active listening.

It is 1860. A female reporter is drawn into a railroad signal man’s haunted, frenzied hallucinations. Are the terrors he experiences a form of insanity or a frightening shade of reality? Are his blood-curdling nightmares simply coincidence–or omens of horror to come? This full-cast dramatization recreates Charles Dickens’s Victorian industrial world of steam trains, ephemeral music, sunsets over desolate landscapes, and figures glimpsed just beyond the embankments. Descend into the darker side of the supernatural in THE SIGNAL-MAN.

1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, is having an affair with a railway officer, John Bedloe. Much to her distress, she trips over her lover's dead body on the railway tracks. Determined to win votes for the upcoming election of mayor, Mr Feltham calls for Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Lemming to solve the hideous crime, which takes longer than anticipated.

The broadcast isn’t over. It’s just beginning.Juno Voss has spent years chasing dead frequencies—cassette tapes filled with static, half-buried transmissions, and voices that don’t belong to her. But when one recording speaks in her own voice—words she has never said—she’s pulled back into a conspiracy that was never meant to resurface.

"The Signal Man" is a magnificent, tightly focused ghost story. Dickens' charm pervades this mysterious and ominous tale. Various grim events occur but feel somewhat calm - not bloody or appalling, but enthralling and other worldly. Dickens invests the signal-man with education beyond his station. This adds to the credibility of the story as well as impressing the narrator. A must-listen for Dickens fans. An American voice at the request of our listeners.

The towers have fallen. The signals have gone silent. But something still listens. Soren's is gone—lost within the final resonance war that fractured the Echo Tiers and silenced the Archive. The world is quieter now, broken but not at peace. In the ruins of forgotten frequencies, Julian and Nell wanders through cities of dust, guided by a single transmission that shouldn’t exist: Soren’s voice. Elsewhere, Elsie clings to memory’s last ember, her mind unraveling as staticborne entities emerge—twisted echoes of erased lives, driven by a signal that negates.