After an assassination mission goes terribly wrong, Rave, the most wanted assassin, finds himself hunted by armed law officials out for his blood. In a desperate attempt to escape, he loses his prized possession, a data pad containing his dark, deepest secrets. And to make things worse, the bounty on his head has quadrupled, an enticing sum powerful warriors want to get their hands on. Now the most wanted criminals in multiple galaxies, he is running out of friends and places to hide. Will Rave escape and get away like he has done for centuries or will justice finally catch up to him?

Eighteen-year-old Elaina lives her life in a wheelchairparalyzed from the waist down after a car accident when she was four. Her daily routine seems pretty typical of a teenager until she is bitten on the neck by her homecoming datesending her spiraling into darkness. As she slowly wakes up, Elaina finds herself surrounded by a pack of unruly and annoying werewolves, but she temporarily casts her fears aside when she makes an even more amazing discoveryshe has the ability to move her legs again! Unfortunately her joy is short-lived when she tells the werewolves she wants to go home to her family and realizes they will do anything to stop her. But when she meets Fury, a handsome rogue, he makes her consider how easy life could be if she just agrees to the pack laws and takes him as a partner. So begins Elainas complicated journey to the truth. With the help of her friends and her new pack, she soon discovers that all choices are not easyand some are virtually deadly.

There exists a world much like our own. One parallel to the Spirit World. People much like ourselves fight everyday to keep both worlds from plummeting into darkness. They are called Defenders. The Spirit World is divided into many smaller worlds, each which follows its own path and are vastly different from one another. When these worlds start straying from their predetermined path, what chaos could unfold? It is a Defender's job to stop it. Ryoku Dragontalen, one such boy, is thrown into an adventure to save both worlds. What began as one small task, to save his friend, quickly escalates into something much more. Where the laws are simply not laws anymore, he journeys alongside gods and many significant people, all seemingly with intricate involvement in his foggy past, to find much more than what they initially set out for. Follow Ryoku and his newfound friends on a journey through the Spirit World, packed with mystery, action, romance, adventure, and the sense of something untold as the very gods step forward.

"Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of L.A.'s alternative comedy scene, Oswalt's memoir chronicles his journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way"--

In the near future, Africa collapses into an enormous failed state, leaving the continent lawless and severely depopulated. For most, the breakdown brings horror, but for others—the outcast, the desperate, the criminals, and the insane—it allows unparalleled opportunity: a new frontier of danger and unlimited possibility. In America, ex-Navy SEAL Slade Crawford, emotionally crippled after twenty years of frontline combat, the dissolution of his marriage, and the accidental death of his son, is falsely accused of terrorism. Slade flees to Africa to build a new life and escape his past when he is captured by an enigmatic American colonel, Gary Kraven, and blackmailed into tracking down a blood cult that is rampaging across the sub-Sahara. Struggling to stay alive and to free himself from Kraven’s grasp, Slade pursues the cult across the lawless African frontier. He soon learns that nothing is as it seems and that he is standing at the epicenter of a global struggle that will determine the course of history. Slade must decide whether to fight for his life—or his honor.