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"Wir müssen uns paaren", sagte ich fest."Wie?", fragte er und warf einen wilden Blick auf die Eisengitter zwischen uns und dann auf mich. Willkommen in der Halbtot-Akademie. So wird meine neue Schule genannt, weil nur die Hälfte der Schüler und Schülerinnen überlebt... Regel Nr. 1: Halte deinen Kopf unten und lege dich nicht mit den vier wunderschönen Halbgöttern an, die die Schule beherrschen. Regel Nr. 2: Falls die Halbgötter versuchen, dich zu töten, leg dich hin und stirb. Zu dumm, dass ich mich nie besonders gut an Regeln gehalten habe.

Fall Back is about the story of my life through the eyes of my 10-year-old self. I was facing things I felt was so major at the time. I remember some of it so clearly until this day. My goal is to share my story with the ones around children of a similar age. I have much more poetry that I will continue publishing to share with the public. This will help our youth to know they are not alone.

Unresolved Arguments contains profiles of additional character types and strategies to resolve arguments. This reference guide is must for Mediators, Lawyers and Paralegals.

CJ Hawk is a former Alexandria, Virginia police officer who joins the FBI. Five years into his new career he is "Removed From the Rolls of the FBI" for his role in a bank robbery take down that went tragically wrong. Technically, Hawk didn't do anything wrong, but as the Washington Field Office SWAT team leader, he's responsible.

After suffering the worst crash of his entire life and escaping death a dozen times over, Max Slater is finally making some headway on this whole staying alive thing. He’s found a place to live, resources to survive, power to keep from freezing, and a pair of fantastically beautiful women to help him stay alive. And keep warm during the brutally cold nights. But so far, they’ve just been scraping by. They need more: real guns, lots of bullets, a ship, and a real plan to escape this dead, frozen wasteland

Little Crow is not one to rise early. He loves to sleep, and often awakens only when the sun is ready to go to bed. One day, however, he rouses at the first ray of light, flying out to find worms for his mother! Readers will certainly be enchanted by this beautiful and heart-warming story...

In this book, we see that an ant’s viewpoint of the world is lot more restricted than that of our own. However, if we humans restrict our view of the world without seeing the bigger picture, imagine what we would be missing!...

Robot Might loves to help others but always end up creating more trouble. Do you know why?...

Little squirrel is up in the sky. To save him, Police Bear summons animals of the sea, sky and land in an adventurous rescue operation. © 2012 by X Kwang. Published in paper format in Singapore by Pan Asia Publishing, recorded by Storyside 2021...

Max Slater is a man on a mission. A life of salvaging tech and fighting horrors in deep space has given him nerves of steel, but now he finds himself coming up against the toughest job of his life. On a frozen, not-quite-dead planet, a desperate salvage operation has gone wrong. Max has been hired to investigate. What's left of civilization badly needs that salvage. But when his own rescue operation goes just as wrong, he finds himself fighting for his life.

Nico has always believed in his dreams. Especially the dream he has of becoming a writer; it's the reason why he started taking a creative writing class his senior year of high school. But then Nico has a dream about his own funeral. A dream that feels too real to ignore. In it, Rosario is beckoning to him. Rosario was Nico's neighbor, his best friend's girlfriend, and his inspiration. She was also the girl that Nico was in love with. And Rosario died last year. Nico becomes obsessed with figuring out what Rosario was trying to say to him, and how she died.

When Mace wakes up from a brutal wreck, he's met with broken glass, twisted metal, and savage monsters. Remembering nothing except his name, he suddenly finds himself in a tense struggle for survival. But he's not alone. Surprises hide in the wastelands, like fox girls with big, fluffy tails and attuned ears. Her name is Faye Nightshade. She's resourceful, intelligent, fast, gorgeous...and she has a curious eye for Mace Frost. Soon, night begins to fall across the dusty red deserts, and things lurk in the shadows. With Faye's help, maybe they can survive together.

The peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet, Tuyet ekes out a living at a small storefront with her aunt Coi, her cousin Ha, and her two-year-old daughter, Anh. She can hardly remember her luxurious life in the city of Saigon, which she left just two years ago.

China, 1934: A naive orphan and shy gunsmith, Ping, has fallen in love with Yong, who is a sophisticated veteran, skilled sharpshooter, and true believer in Mao and the Marxist ideology. Winning Yong’s affections will take an ideological battle—something Ping does not at first understand. As the Red Army begins its yearlong tactical retreat, the Long March, Yong turns to Ping for comfort and companionship. Yong becomes pregnant, and soon their son is born. The Army can’t retreat with a crying infant, so they leave the child with a village woman and promise to return once the war is won.

After securing parts for The Drifter, Royce discovers two survivors aboard a nearby ship. Once he's geared up, he boards the derelict vessel and meets two beautiful women. One of them is Jena, Claire's hot friend. The other is Nadia, a tough, attractive woman. Together, they must escape the horror that is hidden inside darkness and deep space. All while developing intense feelings for each other.

After scouring several spacecraft, saving Jena, Nadia, and Claire from certain death and starvation, Royce continues his scavenging mission into the depths of space. There are derelict ghost ships, endless chasms of dark corridors, and the threat of hungry zombies. Fortunately for Royce, he has assistance. Not long after exploring another vessel, Nadia confesses her desire to join Royce's relationship with Claire...and Jena is beginning to consider becoming part of the group, too.

After saving Claire, it becomes Royce's mission to restore power and other functions to his ship. During this time, he contends with various infected and hungry shamblers trying to take a bite out of him... and that Claire might have a surprise in store for him. All while prepping to meet Jena, Claire's attractive best friend.

Royce was the average man aboard an average vessel, sleeping soundly in the Drifter. Until he was rudely awakened. Now, as he searches for survivors, it's up to Royce to uncover what exactly happened to the ship. Along the way, he meets a woman named Claire, but she's trapped in one of the few remaining escape pods.

One dark evening, James picks up a mysterious woman's voice over his radio. Her only request is to be rescued from a wandering group of crazed survivors. In exchange, she promises top secret information and her skills as a scientist. It doesn't end there. People are starting to change into something more dangerous than just starving humans. That and the weather system has been corrupted by nuclear war. With time running out, it's up to James, Beth, Claire, and now Myra to discover the true force behind the apocalypse.

Alberto's life isn't easy: He's an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister's abusive boyfriend-but he'd always accepted his place in the world. Until he starts hearing the voice of a man called Captain America, a voice that wants him to achieve more, no matter the cost.