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  “Harlan was not just a great fantasist and/or science fiction writer; he was a great writer, period. When he was at the top of his form, from the late 60s through the 70s and well into the 80s, there was no finer short-story writer in all of English literature.”  —George R. R. Martin

  “Joe Kenda’s All Is Not Forgiven is a wonderful, authentic read, told as through a casual conversation with a friend. It is an energizing and entertaining trip into Sin City’s seedy underbelly viewed through both sides of the law. Pick this one up.” —David Swinson, critically acclaimed author of the Frank Marr trilogy

  “Extraordinarily enjoyable, The Great Unmaking is the grand finale of Nelson’s epic adventure. It’s also hands down the most ingenious take on the apocalypse narrative that I have ever read. This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller.” —Moisés Naím, author and contributing editor to The Atlantic

  “Barry Lyga’s broken heroes blow me away.” —Lisa McMann, New York Times bestselling author of the Unwanteds Series

  “Rollicking pace, supercharged action, deadly intrigue, and a race to save humanity…Dark Harvest delivers everything you want from a powerhouse thriller!” —Scott Mariani, bestselling author of the Ben Hope series

  “All the promise of The Last Sword Maker is realized in Five Tribes—an intelligent, nail-biting, immensely satisfying technothriller.” —John Altman, author of The Korean Woman

  “A debut full of atmosphere and awe. Wade gives emotional depth to his dust-covered characters, and creates an image of the American West that is harsh and unforgiving, but—like All Things Left Wild—not without hope.” —Sarah Bird, author of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

  “The danger is unique, and the treachery vast, in this rapid-paced adventure that delivers in equal doses of amazing, yet possible. An intriguing tale that will leave you thinking.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Malta Exchange

  “You should buy this book immediately, because this is a book that knows perfectly that you are seething inside.” —Algis Budrys, winner of the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement in Speculative Fiction

  “Entering the crime-fiction scene with the veritable, visceral voice of a veteran homicide detective, Joe Kenda delivers an addictive debut novel. All Is Not Forgiven is the perfect spine-chiller for a steamy summer night.” —Wendy Corsi Staub, New York Times bestselling author of Windfall

  “So clearly and forcefully presented that readers will find it hard to put the book down. Nelson has outdone himself.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

  “A novel full of sudden twists and sharp turns, written with the boldness and confidence of a seasoned novelist who is not afraid to display real vulnerability. Truly ambitious and surprising.” —Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers and Tracy Flick Can’t Win

  “Jordan tells an addictively unputdownable tale that moves at a relentless pace. Fans of Brooks’s World War Z and Sansbury Smith’s Hell Divers series will love this tale that taps into our primal fears and hopes. Buckle up, because Dark Harvest is a rocket-sled ride of a thriller.” —Andrews & Wilson, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestselling authors of Sons of Valor

  “A perfect storm of technology and unchecked power threaten civilization in this intricately plotted and fast-paced cautionary tale. A captivating warning we all must heed.” —James L’Etoile, bestselling author of At What Cost and Bury the Past

  “Night, Victorian poet Algernon Swinburne warned, is but the shadow of light, and life just the shadow of death. That, in one breath, is the finely drawn dilemma James Wade turns over and over like a precious, light-refracting, darkness-harboring gemstone that is All Things Left Wild…This is artful fiction drawn with a deft, patient hand. The writing style is an ideal mashup of Larry McMurtry’s burnish and Cormac McCarthy’s grit…Wade’s writerly skill is topnotch and white hot in the visual, visceral quality of his description that breathes the landscape to life as a major character in the story…All Things left Wild is a magnificent, beautifully drawn montage of contemplation, lightning-fast action, uncertainty and inevitability, pain, enormous loss, empty gain, an extraordinary adventure lived, and certainly, in retrospect, one not to be missed.” —Lone Star Literary Life

  “An amazing read. The Last Sword Maker has everything: a riveting story, fascinating characters, cutting-edge technology, and, of course, romance. Great!” —Moisés Naím, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Power

  “In his stories of fantasy and horror, he strikes closest to all those things that horrify and amuse us (sometimes both at the same time) in our present lives…Most of all, we sense outrage and anger—as with the best Ellison stories, we sense personal involvement, and have a feeling that Ellison is not so much telling the tale as he is jabbing it viciously out of its hiding place. It is the feeling that we are walking over a lot of jagged glass in thin shoes, or running across a minefield in the company of a lunatic.” —Stephen King

  “A fascinating, page-turning read. Kenda takes us into the world of a sadistic serial killer turned hired assassin, and the law enforcement officers and agents who pursue him. Told by someone who knows this world inside and out, All Is Not Forgiven offers an absorbing glimpse into the mentality of cops and the tortured minds of the killers they hunt. Add this book to your must-read list.” —Barbara Nickless, Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author

  “In The Great Unmaking, Nelson crafts an adrenaline-charged, white-knuckle thriller that is sure to leave you breathless. Fans of Crichton, Rollins, and Crouch will love this superb and final installment of the Course of Empire series.” —Andrews & Wilson, Wall Street Journal bestselling authors of the Tier One series

  “Barry Lyga is a master storyteller capable of blending the unique with the universal…A mighty feat from a stellar writer.” —Lamar Giles, author of The Getaway

  “A suspenseful, gripping read that transported me into the freezing mountains and had me guessing to the end.” —Nicholas Sansbury Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Divers

  “In Five Tribes, Brian Nelson has crafted a rock-solid political thriller melded to a science fiction epic. Often in ‘science fiction,’ there’s a higher emphasis on the latter word than the former, but Nelson laces his fiction with believable, well-thought-out science. The former Fulbright Scholar delivers with realpolitik and high-stakes action in a knockout of a novel.” —Dana Haynes, author of St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking and Sirocco

  “Transfixing…The author takes a classic western setup and refreshes it with sharp writing, strong characterizations, a vivid evocation of place, and a body count to rival The Wild Bunch. Fans of All the Pretty Horses will want to saddle up for this literary ride.” —Publishers Weekly

  “The Last Sword Maker is a techno-thriller that will make you nostalgic for the days when we only had to worry about nuclear annihilation; an all-too-plausible examination of how emerging technologies could be weaponized to horrible ends. I don’t recommend reading this one right before bedtime—unless you are prepared to stay up very, very late to finish it.” —Lisa Brackmann, New York Times bestselling author of Rock Paper Tiger and Go-Between

  “Categories are too small—even the catch-all category of science fiction—to describe Harlan Ellison. Lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, moralist, one-line comedian, purveyor of pure horror and of black comedy; he is all these and more.” —Washington Post

  “All Is Not Forgiven hums with brutal authenticity—Kenda the author and Kenda the character both deliver big procedural thrills that will keep readers guessing. I don’t remember a debut novel this assured—Kenda is the real deal.” —Tod Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author

  “I came to The Great Unmaking as a fresh reader. Three hundred fifty pulse-pounding pages later, I closed the book, thoroughly convinced of Nelson’s mastery of a fever-pitch plot…Nelson’s series explores the lines between pastoral idealism and the inevitable gluttony and decay of human civilization…High-paced, plot-driven, and brimming with action…A thinking-person’s military techno-thriller…What’s not to love?” —Strand Magazine

  “An out-of-control hearse with one busted headlight, blood on the grille, a madman at the wheel, and laughter pouring out of the open windows…Climb in, buckle up, and go for a ride.” —Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of Horns and Heart-Shaped Box, on I Hunt Killers

  “A dynamic read full of apocalyptic action!…Cinematic and well-written.” —Book Junkie Reviews

  “Brian Nelson’s Five Tribes is a tense, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. Written with the authenticity of Tom Clancy and the cutting-edge suspense of Vince Flynn, here is a must-read adventure that deserves to be read by all, especially those in the halls of power.” —James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Odyssey

  “James Wade’s debut novel, All Things Left Wild, is set in the still–Wild West of 1910, and it’s a chase novel/spiritual journey for all involved…Wade writes skillfully about the brutality and bloody history of the West, and of the United States. Every person his travelers meet has a story and a philosophy of life…This is anything but escapist fare, and some of the players might remind you of current leaders.” —Liz French, Library Journal

  “The next big thing in warfare is small—so small you can’t see it at all. The Last Sword Maker imagines a superpower competition at the collision point of nanocomputing, programmable viruses and weaponized biohacking. At stake, control over the life and death of virtually every person on the planet, at a level granular enough to make a nuclear weapon look laughably crude in comparison. Set in the not-too-distant future, the result is a head-spinning sci-fi-infused military thriller, with China and the United States putting everything they have into developing the perfect weapon, no matter the cost.” —Francisco Toro, columnist, Washington Post

  “A furiously prolific and cantankerous writer [who] looked at storytelling as a ‘holy chore,’ which he pursued zealously for more than sixty years. His output includes more than 1,700 short stories and articles, at least 100 books, and dozens of screenplays and television scripts…ranked with eminent science fiction writers like Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov.” —New York Times

  “All Is Not Forgiven is vicious fun. In his debut novel, real-life homicide detective Joe Kenda unreels a taut, swift story of murder, money, lust, international intrigue, and a sublime bit of revenge.” —Jeffrey Fleishman, author of Good Night, Forever

  “This is a novel about ideas, love, grief, and what hold the tricky narratives of history have on the violence of the present.” —Walter Mosley on The Hive

  “This is a great thriller that will keep you reading along, a page-turner you won’t want to put down. The character of Becker is badass and hopefully will have more adventures in future books.” —Red Carpet Crash

  “This is the kind of novel readers can spend weeks discussing—the philosophical and moral nature of it as well as its fatalistic sense of justice…For a long time to come, All Things Left Wild will linger in the memory of all who read it—the tragedy, the hope, and the irony of it all.” —New York Journal of Books

  “Brian Nelson has written a compelling thriller. Set in the near future, the story finds China and the US immersed in a race to weaponize nanotechnology that recalls the intensity of the Manhattan Project and, later, the near panic in the West when Sputnik revealed the Soviets were ahead of the US in the space race. Nelson’s riveting narrative captures the drama of great power competition and the price the military men and scientists are forced to pay to contend with a determined and unscrupulous enemy. This is a terrific debut.” —Patrick Duddy, Duke University, former US Ambassador to Venezuela

  “Harlan Ellison was, after all, one of the most interesting humans on Earth. He was one of the greatest and most influential science fiction writers alive. He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, lectured to college kids, visited with death row inmates, and once mailed a dead gopher to a publisher. Ellison brought a literary sensibility to sci-fi at a time when the entire establishment was allergic to any notion of art. To say he was one-of-a-kind would be trite, and he would likely hate that. What he was, was a legend.” —NPR

  “Joe Kenda’s debut novel is an impressive hard-boiled police procedural written by a man that knows a thing or two about criminal investigations. From the seedy brothels of Copenhagen, to the rugged mountains of Colorado, All Is Not Forgiven is a fast-moving and fascinating crime novel that vividly illustrates the monsters in our midst—and the detectives tasked with bringing them to justice.” —Jon Bassoff, author of Beneath Cruel Waters 

  “Extremely well written…Lyga’s legions of fans will welcome his offbeat latest, which will also appeal to readers of Scott Westerfeld’s Afterworlds (2014) and teachers looking for fresh writing-workshop material.” —Booklist

  “This book is about courage, mistakes, and inner morals. It has adventure and passion. This being set back at the beginning of the twentieth century made it very interesting and exciting to read.” —Manhattan Book Review

  “Nelson makes his fiction debut with a gripping, frighteningly plausible techno-thriller, the first in his Course of Empire series…Nelson’s intriguing scientific predictions and distinctive near-future setting make this sure to please speculative fiction readers as well as thriller fans.” —Publishers Weekly

  “There’s a real power to the way he uses the language and how he draws pictures in your mind.” —Ron Moore

  “Gripping from the start, true-crime TV star Joe Kenda’s debut novel is an entertaining and quick-paced fictionalized version of a case Kenda handled as a rookie detective in the 1970s. Narrated skillfully by Bradford Hastings, Tim Campbell, and Kenda himself, the audiobook benefits from their ability to produce a variety of voices for the fascinating cast of characters.” —AudioFile

  “An intense and lyrical journey through the borderzone of the American Southwest in a time before walls, infused with the real feeling of the land, and of the violence its conquest engenders.” —Christopher Brown, Campbell and World Fantasy Award–nominated author of Tropic of Kansas and Rule of Capture

  “A terrifying vision of future warfare in the vein of Tom Clancy’s and Michael Crichton’s novels…The Last Sword Maker is a powerhouse near-future thriller with explosive action and exciting science.” —Foreword Reviews

  “You see Ellison’s unswerving social conscience throughout his fiction and critical essays…forcefully and eloquently—and at some length—lamenting the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment and railing against the scourge of misogynistic ‘knife-kill’ films.” —RogerEbert.com

  “James Wade has delivered a McCarthy-esque odyssey with an Elmore Leonard ear for dialogue. All Things Left Wild moves like a coyote across this cracked-earth landscape—relentlessly paced and ambitiously hungry.” —David Joy, author of When These Mountains Burn

  “The words—there is an attention to the words. There is an attention to the sound of the words. You’re reading them in your head, and they sing.” —Neil Gaiman

  “A breathtaking debut! In All Things Left Wild, James Wade paints an exquisite portrait of the American West in all its splendor, violence, and mythic power. Messianic outlaws, deadly orphans, and soul-broken poets ride across a landscape both treacherous and beautiful, finding unthinkable viciousness and unfiltered compassion. With a voice reminiscent of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, Wade has managed to craft a novel that is both a lyrical pilgrimage and a thrilling, page-turning adventure.” —Owen Egerton, PEN Southwest Book Award–winning author of Hollow

  “The spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural  warehouse for a mind.” —New York Review of Books

  “As a southerner, the very first sentence wove such a familiar and comforting tapestry, and it never let up. Wade presents rich, flawed, human characters who I feel I know personally even though I’m neither of their time or place. As someone who loves a terrific Western, this book sure did scratch my itch. I hope this book finds its way to Taylor Sheridan because that’s a collaboration I need Hollywood to hop on.” —Corey Ryan Forrester, comedian and author of The Liberal Redneck Manifesto

  “Feisty, furious, yet extraordinarily kind and generous; Harlan Ellison was one of a kind.” —Leonard Maltin

  “James Wade, as tall a whiskey-stained wrangler of words as has ever two-stepped across the dance floors of Austin, has set his debut novel in that post–Civil War domain of cowboys and cactus and corrupt caballeros, and, by Cormac, it’s some mighty powerful stuff…Wade handles all this old-fangled southwestern blood and thunder with a deft, sure hand…He takes a McCarthyan conjunction and uses it to build a cumulative power and that power fuels his sentences and the sentences penetrate your soul and it is good. This is some kind of literary lightning, this first novel of James Wade’s. And now we wait for it to strike again.” —Austin Chronicle

  “Harlan Ellison—terrific prose, razor-sharp intellect, pulp gut punches and invention when needed, terse poetics…An original.” —Guillermo del Toro

  “Written with elegant prose that might remind a reader of Cormac McCarthy, Wade’s novel announces the coming of an astonishing young talent, a fictioneer for the Western genre’s best future.” —True West magazine

  “An original and valuable writer…A twentieth-century Lewis Carroll.” —Los Angeles Times

  “A fast-paced, thrilling trip through the West you won’t want to put down.” —PopSugar

  “Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, stand aside. Harlan Ellison is now a better short-story writer than you will ever be again during the rest of your lives.” —Ray Bradbury

  “Powerful and atmospheric, lyrical and fast-paced, All Things Left Wild is a coming-of-age for one man, a midlife odyssey for the other, and an illustration of the violence and corruption prevalent in our fast-expanding country. It artfully sketches the magnificence of the American West as mirrored in the human soul.” —Book Junkie Reviews

  “The incredible Harlan Ellison writes as if an inner fuse is about to blow before he can get all the words on his pages.” —Anne McCaffrey

  “He doesn’t write like anybody else. What emerges is a surprising, eclectic, almost protean series of visions, often disturbing, always strongly felt.” —Michael Crichton

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  • Dangerous Visions

  • Edited by Harlan Ellison

    Stories by Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, and various authors

    Foreword by Isaac Asimov

    Read by various narrators

  • Release Date: 3/26/24

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback

  WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALT

  Dubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike. 

  A landmark short story collection that put the more character-based New Wave science fiction on the map, Dangerous Visions won several prestigious awards and was nominated for many others. This now-classic anthology includes thirty-three stories by thirty-two award-winning authors, over half of whom have won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards. Contributing authors include: Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Brian W. Aldiss, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Theodore Sturgeon, J.G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany, and Ellison himself.

  As relevant now as it was when first published, Dangerous Visions is a phenomenal collection that deserves a place on every bookshelf.

  • Dangerous Visions

  • Edited by Harlan Ellison

    Stories by Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, and various authors

    Foreword by Isaac Asimov

    Read by various narrators

  • Release Date: 3/26/24

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback

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  • All Is Not Forgiven

  • By Joe Kenda

    Read by Bradford Hastings, Tim Campbell, and Joe Kenda

  • Release Date: 7/25/23

  • Formats: Hardcover, Signed Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Paperback

  When murder is your business, solving the case is personal …

  The Homicide Hunter’s riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth …

  All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by television star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit series Homicide Hunter and Homicide Hunter: American Detective air on Investigation Discovery, the #1 true-crime channel available in more than 80 million homes. 

  In this first novel, the rookie Det. Kenda investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have an air-tight alibi.

  Mentored by his veteran partner Det. Lee Wilson, a former Nashville singer turned skilled investigator, Kenda’s case quickly attracts attention from the FBI, CIA, and Interpol, for its similarity to a string of killings involving wealthy married women. All the murders appear to have been committed by a hired professional whose trademark is the use of an unusual form of lethal ammunition that leaves no trace.

  Detectives Kenda and Wilson travel across the country, following leads to Las Vegas and a mob “made man” pit boss who moonlights as a matchmaker for hit men. In this first extraordinary case, the detectives join a full law-enforcement blitz to track down a twisted killer who has made murder his business.

  • All Is Not Forgiven

  • By Joe Kenda

    Read by Bradford Hastings, Tim Campbell, and Joe Kenda

  • Release Date: 7/25/23

  • Formats: Hardcover, Signed Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Trade Paperback

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  • The Great Unmaking

  • By Brian Nelson

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 3/21/23

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback

  A propulsive, mind-expanding thriller—and the world-shaking conclusion to the Course of Empire trilogy—about bold scientific dreams turning into nightmares … or perhaps new beginnings …

  After usurping control of the world’s most powerful military technology, General Chip Walden knows the endgame is near and tasks scientist Eric Hill with one final assignment. Helped by the love of his life, Jane Hunter, Hill is haunted by premonitions of a coming catastrophe as the technology he created takes on a life of its own.

  As Hill attempts to avert disaster, FBI Special Agent Bud Brown seeks revenge for the murder of his fellow agents by eco-terrorist Riona Finley. But what no one realizes is that forces are at work that have already decided humanity’s fate. With the clock ticking toward an irrevocable apocalypse, it’s no longer a question of if the world can be saved, but who will be the chosen few that survive.

  The Great Unmaking is the grand conclusion to Brian Nelson’s magisterial trilogy that James Rollins has called “a must-read adventure.”

  • The Great Unmaking

  • By Brian Nelson

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 3/21/23

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback

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  • Edited

  • By Barry Lyga

    Read by James Fouhey, Bradford Hastings, Keith Szarabaijka, Morgan Baden, and Barry Lyga

  • Release Date: 11/15/22

  • Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Signed Hardcover, Trade Paperback

  In the spirit of Stranger Than Fiction, New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga takes the reader on a wild and surreal ride through the heart of his own creation—perfect for fans of A. S. King, Andrew Smith, and Jeff Zentner.

  What starts as a love story between two teens—whose crumbling relationship coincides with a crumbling reality—ends up as a journey toward their creator, Barry Lyga, in a love story about creation itself.

  This is a love story.

  Mike loves Philomel. Always.

  Philomel loves Mike. Sometimes.

  After doing something stupid that drives away the love of his life, Mike begins to notice that the world itself seems to be suffering the aftereffects of his bad decision. Reality as he knows it has … changed. And before he can fully understand the ramifications, he’s on an odyssey unlike any other, trying to figure out how to repair the universe and return his lost Philomel to his side. It’s not time travel. It’s not dimension-hopping. It’s something deeper and more fundamental, as simple and as complex as ink on paper. And much to Mike’s surprise, this isn’t even the whole story. It’s possible that the missing pieces of Mike’s life may end up being the most important part of his world—and beyond, the solution to fixing not only his love life, but the entire universe.

  • Edited

  • By Barry Lyga

    Read by James Fouhey, Bradford Hastings, Keith Szarabaijka, Morgan Baden, and Barry Lyga

  • Release Date: 11/15/22

  • Formats: Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover, Signed Hardcover, Trade Paperback

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  • Dark Harvest

  • By Will Jordan

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 8/16/22

  • Formats: Large Print Hardcover, Hardcover, Signed Hardcover, Trade Paperback

  For fans of World War Z, a chilling mystery, an ancient threat, and a race against time to save humanity—inspired by the true events of the Dyatlov Pass incident

  Russia, 1959. Nine members of a Soviet mountaineering team on an ambitious expedition into the Ural Mountains are found dead, victims of massive and bizarre injuries. The Dyatlov Pass incident, as this grisly event came to be known, remains unexplained to this day.
  
  Iraq, 2019. Ex-soldier-turned-mercenary Cameron Becker is escorting a Russian businessman named Luka Belikov through Baghdad. It seems like a routine job, until Belikov is abducted on Becker’s watch. After forming an uneasy alliance with WHO medic Lori Dalton, Becker sets out to uncover the truth behind the attack, and quickly realizes he’s caught in the middle of something far bigger and more dangerous. As bio-terrorists prepare to unleash a virus that causes humans to descend into ravenous madness, the pair are thrust into a desperate race against time to prevent a global plague that could wipe out human civilization.  
  
  Who is behind the attack? What do they want? And how can humanity hope to survive? Becker and Dalton’s answers may just lie deep within the icy wastes of the Ural Mountains …

  • Dark Harvest

  • By Will Jordan

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 8/16/22

  • Formats: Large Print Hardcover, Hardcover, Signed Hardcover, Trade Paperback

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  • Five Tribes

  • By Brian Nelson

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 3/23/21

  • Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover

  Countdown to Doomsday

  The year is 2026. The US military has a new weapon in its arsenal: an intelligent life-form so versatile that it can not only create a new generation of weapons but can become a weapon itself—entering a host’s body to manipulate (or kill) them. Admiral James Curtiss is tasked with deploying the new weapons, first in Cuba, then Venezuela, then China. But the news of the military’s breakthrough has gotten out and there are menacing forces trying to steal it.

  What’s more, a single man has somehow harnessed the new power and has become something more than human—godlike and seemingly indestructible. He is known only as the Inventor, and he has a warning for humanity: abandon the new technology or the human race will face extinction. It’s a countdown to doomsday. But humanity’s final fate may be decided in the most unlikely of places: among the primitive tribes of the Kalahari Desert where a top secret military mission has just taken an unexpected turn.

  • Five Tribes

  • By Brian Nelson

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 10/01/20

  • Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover

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  • All Things Left Wild

  • By James Wade

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 6/16/20

  • Formats: Large Print Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Hardcover

  A powerful and lyrical debut: a botched robbery sets two men on conflicting journeys across the untamed landscape of the American West.

  After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the American Southwest at the turn of the twentieth century. Caleb’s moral compass and inner courage will be tested as they travel the harsh terrain and encounter those who have carved out a life there, for good or ill.

  Wealthy and bookish Randall Dawson, out of place in this rugged and violent country, is begrudgingly chasing after the Bentley brothers. With little sense of how to survive, much less how to take his revenge, Randall meets Charlotte, a woman experienced in the deadly ways of life in the West. Together they navigate the murky values of vigilante justice.

  Powerful and atmospheric, lyrical and fast-paced, All Things Left Wild is a coming-of-age for one man, a midlife odyssey for the other, and an illustration of the violence and corruption prevalent in our fast-expanding country. It artfully sketches the magnificence of the American West as mirrored in the human soul.

  • All Things Left Wild

  • By James Wade

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 6/16/20

  • Formats: Large Print Hardcover, Trade Paperback, Hardcover

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  • The Last Sword Maker

  • By Brian Nelson

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 10/16/18

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback

  A taut, fast-paced thriller about the coming high-tech arms race between the United States and China

  In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease … a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes.

  The Chinese government says the rumors aren’t true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet.

  At the Pentagon, Admiral James Curtiss is called to an emergency meeting. Satellite images prove that a massive genocide is underway, and an American spy has made a startling discovery. This is no disease. It’s a weapons test. Chinese scientists have developed a way to kill based on a person’s genetic traits. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. The success of their new weapon proves that the Chinese are nearing “Replication”—a revolutionary breakthrough that will tip the global balance of power and change the way wars are waged.

  Now the US must scramble to catch up before it is too late. Admiral Curtiss gathers the nation’s top scientists, including a promising young graduate student named Eric Hill who just might hold the missing piece to the replication puzzle. Soon Hill and his colleague Jane Hunter are caught up in a deadly game of sabotage as the two nations strive to be the first to reach the coveted goal. But in their headlong race, they create something unexpected … something the world has never seen and something more powerful than they had ever imagined.

  The Last Sword Maker is an exciting globe-trotting thriller with unforgettable characters that depicts a haunting vision of the future of warfare.

  • The Last Sword Maker

  • By Brian Nelson

    Read by Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 7/16/18

  • Formats: Hardcover, Trade Paperback

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