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Join the adventure through dystopian worlds, to outer planets and into a speculative future. Welcome to the Future Days Anthology. Seventeen authors imagine a future with thrilling tales, starships, unlikely heroes, and exotic aliens, all of which combine to make Future Days a must-listen sci-fi fantasy short story collection.

The media and politicians have been sounding the alarm for years, and with every fresh tragedy involving a young perpetrator comes another flurry of articles about the dangers of violent media. The problem is this: Their fear isn't supported by the evidence. In fact, unlike the video game-trained murder machines depicted in the press, school shooters are actually less likely to be interested in violent games than their peers. In reality, most well-adjusted children and teenagers play violent video games, all without ever exhibiting violent behavior in real life.

Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered “what if?”. What if Sherman had fought for the South in the US Civil War? What if Germany had fought to the end in World War I? What if World War III had actually happened? Wonder no more, for these questions, along with many others, are answered in this audiobook.

In Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory Is Burning Down the House, Carol Swain and Christopher Schorr expose the true nature of Critical Race Theory, and they offer concrete solutions for taking back the country's stolen institutions. They describe CRT in theory and practice, accounting for its origins and weaponization within American schools and workplaces; explain how this ideology threatens traditional American values and legal doctrines, including civil rights; and equip everyday Americans with strategies to help them resist and defeat CRT's pernicious influence.

Burdizzo Book's Matty-Bob and Em invited some of their favourite indie authors to write stories inspired by their most beloved songs. The result is The Burdizzo Mix-Tape Vol.1, their most diverse anthology yet. These are tunes that resonate from the beach to the mountains, from rain dogs to spirits in the sky, from Old Ones to cold ones. Be it multi-dimensional romance across space and time, Cold War sexual paranoia, campfire cowboys, gypsy caravans, or demented disco balls, there is a song for everyone within these stories.

Most people labor under the assumption that diabetes is caused solely by poor eating and exercise habits, but in many cases, this is not true. This book explores many facets about diabetes so that you don't have to try to sort through what to believe on your own. Safe and Proven Cure for Diabetes begins by debunking common myths surrounding diabetes in an effort to demystify the disease and give listeners a good starting point of knowledge to learn more about the condition.

After a brief fling with Samantha, Joel has an affair with her sister Veronica. Joel feels guilty about it, but he can't help himself when he's around either one of them. The sisters are always butting heads with each other and competing, so he wants to put an end to it with both of them. Veronica is unwilling to let her boy-toy go and Samantha has no idea that there is anything going on between the two of them, and Joel is caught in the middle as both compete for his affections.

She is all set to spend the weekend with her boyfriend at his father's house. But suddenly, her boyfriend is called away for business. While left alone with her boyfriend's father, she finds him leering at her. Little does she know that he will help her realize her secret dreams.

Reggie and Kim are chosen for parts in a college play that involves a love scene. To pull it off they have to transmit to the audience a certain sense of intimacy. As the two of them begin to spend more time together, Amber, a college freshman and Kim's understudy in the play, begins to become jealous. Her eyes are on Kim and she feels as if Reggie is taking the girl away from her. Amber tries to win Kim's affections, but these actions grab the attention of Reggie as well. How long can Amber hold off against Reggie's advances while keeping him away from the girl she desires?

Katie had everything planned out in her head. She's going to convince her friends to set the two of them up on a dare to his dorm. Once they were alone, her plan is to seduce John into being with her. This was the plan and yet, as the door to his dorm room slammed shut, Katie quickly found that John was the one controlling her.

Michelle has been feeling lonely. So when her best friend Rachael invites her to her house for Spring Break, she jumps at the chance. What she wasn't expecting though, was finding love in the form of her best friend's father.

When one lord owes a heavy debt to another and cannot pay, what is he to do? He sells one of his virginal slaves as "entertainment". This is the situation Cymbeline finds herself in as she is delivered to Lord Kasimir's manor and is told she is expected to do whatever her new master desires.

He's in Las Vegas on business and decides to hit the tables and ends up winning big. So, he decides to hire a little entertainment for the evening. He's in for a shock when the entertainment turns out to be someone he knows.

Sarah and Roger's sex life has fallen into a rut. So, when Roger suggests they take a trip to the Grand Canyon to reawaken their relationship, Sarah jumps at the idea. They make wild, passionate love out on a trail one day. But little does she know, Roger has more than a little sex on his mind for this trip.

Kelly, on summer break after her first year of college, takes on a job as a deckhand on Bryan and Janet's yacht. They are taking a break from their busy lives for a couple months and patch up their strained relationship. Crewing for the couple of lovebirds as they sail the Caribbean seems like an easy gig, but when problems develop between the couple, and Janet decides that Kelly might save their vacation, it all gets tricky and erotic.

Maternal love takes a sinister turn, when a young man discovers that his mother is not quite what she seems. An ancient legend looms over a local street, as the neighborhood children search for their missing friends. And a woman awakens to the ultimate nightmare, after her bad taste in men leads to a horrifying predicament.…

Lily has been babysitting for the Trents for years. In all those years, she never discovered the special relationship they had. Mr. Trent is a dom and his wife is his sub. But Lily quickly gets tangled up in their little games when an accident makes Mr. Trent believe he needs to "punish" her. It's not much of a punishment if she enjoys it, is it?

His wife died years ago, leaving him to raise his daughter alone. Now she's in college, and he goes to visit her at school. What is he to do when he falls head over heels for her nubile roommate? What is she going to do when she finds out she likes his attention?

Carmen is very excited to be babysitting for her college professor. She is infatuated with him and thinks she might be in love with him. But when the time comes to seduce him, she isn't sure she can go through with it. However, she soon discovers that her professor has very similar feelings to her own, and he acts on them very strongly. She discovers he isn't quite who she thought he was, but she might not even care as long as he loves her back.

In this podcast, we talk with school administrators, educators, clinicians, and parents to open a dialogue that will help the growing number of students struggling with mental illness.