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Featured Sci-fi: Not Alone Trilogies Boxset by Craig A. Falconer

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Featured Sci-fi: Not Alone Trilogies Boxset by Craig A. Falconer

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Grab all three books in the globally acclaimed NOT ALONE Contact Trilogy for one incredible price, in this great value 2100-page sci-fi box set! (SERIES SALE: The follow-up trilogies are also hugely discounted today)

***200k+ sold, 70 MILLION pages read, 10,000+ 5-star ratings on Amazon and Audible***

When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies — a top-level alien cover-up — he leaks the files without a second thought.

The incredible truth revealed by Dan’s leak immediately captures the public’s imagination, but Dan’s relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places.

For his whole life, Dan McCarthy has searched for a reason to believe. Now that he finally has one, he might soon wish he didn’t…

This box set contains all three novels in The Contact Trilogy:
1) Not Alone
2) Not Alone: Second Contact
3) Not Alone: The Final Call

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Featured Fantasy: Killing Time – A Time Travel Witch Romance (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 3)

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Featured Fantasy: Killing Time - A Time Travel Witch Romance (The Witches of Mingus Mountain Book 3)

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When time itself becomes your enemy, who can you trust?

Stranded in 1947, witches Devynn Rowe and Seth McAllister find themselves caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. With Seth’s cousin Ruby kidnapped by a dangerous Wilcox primus who believes he can break an ancient family curse, they’re in a race against time itself.

Devynn’s time-traveling abilities are growing more unstable by the day, threatening to trap them in the past forever. Meanwhile, Seth must put aside generations of distrust to work with the very family his clan has always viewed as their mortal enemies. As the couple delves deeper into the Wilcox family’s dark secrets, they uncover a plot far more sinister than they could have ever imagined.

When Devynn falls into the hands of a man willing to sacrifice everything — and everyone — to achieve his goals, Seth must choose between his family’s ancient prejudices and saving the woman he loves. With the dark of the moon approaching and a deadly ritual looming, their only hope lies in the very magic that has kept their families apart for generations.

Featured Sci-fi: The Lost Warship Books 1 – 3 by Daniel Gibbs

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Featured Sci-fi: The Lost Warship Books 1 - 3 by Daniel Gibbs

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Over 1000+ pages of Military Science Fiction action!

There is a time to weep and a time to mourn.

For the CSV Lion of Judah, that time has not yet come.

The war with the League of Sol ended in victory for the Terran Coalition. Major General David Cohen and his crew conclude their three-month goodwill cruise with one final FTL jump. But instead of returning home in a blaze of glory, the wormhole collapses and hurls them more than four million lightyears into the unknown.

Stranding them in a distant galaxy.

With dwindling supplies but buoyed by hope of a miracle, David follows the evidence to a nearby inhabited planet. After a disastrous first contact with the less advanced alien civilization, rival factions threaten the tenuous peace—and reignite a centuries-old genocidal conflict.

Now David and the war-weary Lion must take up arms once again to head off a catastrophic event in hopes of unlocking an ancient technology’s secrets.

Before the chance to return home is lost forever.

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Featured Fantasy: Dream Walker (Bailey Spades Series Book 1) by Dima Zales and Anna Zaires

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Featured Fantasy: Dream Walker (Bailey Spades Series Book 1) by Dima Zales and Anna Zaires

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Think your dreams are private? Think again.

As a dreamwalker, I can ease your nightmares, inspire creation, or steal memories, all for the small price of a buttload of cash. I need the money to save my mom’s life, and the clock is ticking.

Then a gorgeous illusionist comes into the picture—though those mouthwatering looks may just be his powers in action. He sends me on a job with a major paycheck, but the pucking vampires show up and ruin everything.

As usual, they suck.

Now I’m knee-deep in a murder case where the victims and the perps could all kill me with a snap of their fingers. Throw in a creepy castle, a stinky moat, and a legendary monster, and we’ve got ourselves a party. Especially when the bodies begin to pile up.

My name is Bailey Spade, and if I don’t solve this case, I’m dead.

Book Review: The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Legitimacy in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri

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If you’re like me and find that understanding chaotic times is reassuring—even when you can’t change the situation—I highly recommend The Revolt of the Public. Written in 2014, before Trump’s first electoral win, it didn’t predict that win exactly … but in a way, it did.

Martin Gurri, a former CIA analyst of the old-school variety—the kind who read newspapers and books to make predictions—offers a fascinating perspective on the rise of social media. He explores how it has given the public unprecedented access to “the meat grinder”—the dirty, messy reality of politics. The public hasn’t liked what they’ve seen, and through Obama and Trump in the U.S., as well as Brexit in the U.K., they’ve attempted to reform their governments—though without a clear vision of what government should be.

Gurri traces these upheavals (and more!) back to their roots and, in the end, presents a vision of the future that is hopeful rather than fearful—one that adapts to social media rather than trying to put the genie back in the bottle. Oh, and the book has negative reviews from both the right and the left … which, in my humble centrist opinion, is always a plus.

The blurb: How insurgencies—enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere—have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world.

In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world.

Originally published in 2014, The Revolt of the Public is now available in an updated edition, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit. The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.