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Making the world safe for another turn of the sun is harder the second time around when vampires and zombies are involved. Carl Silverman, Grover Plover, and Genevieve Gray return, this time making a new life for themselves in Baltimore, Maryland. They continue their zombie-killing lifestyle, while Carl tries to go back to school and attempts to lead a normal life. But things aren't well on the personal side. Amanda ends her relationship with Carl, and he starts dating Miranda, a vamp from the other side of the segregated city. Vamps are not considered full-fledged citizens, and fears over them are stoked by an ignorant human populace. Worse, a new drug is killing humans and vamps, and Amanda dies in an ambush. Carl grieves, and he vows to find her killer. His quest leads him to battle people on both sides of the city. It also leads him to question which world he belongs in. Justice, though, must be served, and he does his best to serve it, even at the possible cost of his life.

What happens to defenders of a city when they're no longer needed? Some fade away. Others turn to a different line of work. And still others... turn evil. Zander Nelson, formerly known as Phantom and a member of a superhero group called the Backup Crew, loses his job and his apartment-due to a bomb-in one afternoon. He finds refuge with his ex-girlfriend and teammate, Millie Lennet, formerly known as Mule, but her apartment is also torched, and they realize that someone has a vendetta against them. Searching for clues nets them nothing. Their former leader, Andrew Shorter-AKA Blaster-is missing, and their former teammate, Glen Fooks-AKA Substance Abuse-is dead, courtesy of another bombing. Zander's notion of justice is sorely tested, and once he puts the clues together, he realizes that things aren't so black-and-white anymore. He also realizes that if the real culprit isn't caught, he and Millie might not live another day.

Make the world safe for another turn of the sun.Carl Silverman, and Amanda Worthington, both seventeen, dating, in love and loving their school life, have their world turned upside down when a virus--known as the Odoru (dancing) virus--spreads throughout their city of Routeville, Illinois, turning ninety percent of the population into zombies.Only ten percent are immune, Carl and Amanda among them. Their parents became victims, and the young teens escape with the help of an older couple, Grover Plover and Genevieve Gray. They journey west and arrive in Placerville, California, where they set up camp as zombie slayers. Soon, their ranks swell as they meet Norm Barnett, another teen, and the Rodriguez triplets. Training begins, and the team of teens proves to be zombie killers supreme. While they have to contend with the usual results of the loss of modern technology--no internet, radio, or water power--they make do. They also have to contend with an incompetent city manager named Griffin who refuses to help.Things get bad when the Rodriguez trio dies in a battle. Worse, a more intelligent zombie--King Zombie--emerges, leading the undead in disciplined attacks. Carl is consumed by vengeance, and he vows to find this king and end his unlife--before the undead overrun the populace.

When your life is on the line, it’s not how much you know or how well-trained you are. It’s how much you want to live. In the near future, Norman Perseus (Perse) Grant, eighteen, the son of an engineer on a transporter project, is given the chance to beam from Tacoma, Washington, to Reno, Nevada. Perse is slated to go with three celebrities—Carmella Martinez, Jack Miller, and Ronny McFarlane. They have skills in sports. Perse doesn’t. Things go wrong when their carrier signal intertwines with that of a carrier signal from another planet. The four travelers end up on a distant world, Nario Seven. Ronny is killed by a soldier, and Perse, Carmella, and Jack are captured by a warlord, Quaggon. Quaggon gives them a choice—retrieve an energy source that his people desperately need—or die. It isn’t much of a choice, so the three set out for a fortress city, guided by a soldier named Matsuge. Succeed or die. There is no other way.

When you’re born, you give up one percent of your life. When you die, you give up the last one percent. Make the other ninety-eight percent count. Fenton Mardwich, amateur artist, steps through a wormhole and lands on Kaseto, a medieval world that’s been conquered by a vicious, brutal race. He’s immediately put into service not as a soldier, but as a scribe, a war correspondent, someone who will record the action done by the Dranians, his new captors, and their leader, King Hallefwatt. Aiding Fenton are Litro, Sekisa, and Angyalla, a winged woman with a mission of her own. Through fight and flight training, mock battles and real ones, the four bond and plan their escape. Once they do, though, it becomes a battle of survival. Fenton’s life has to count for something. And if it means fighting the enemy and perhaps dying, then that will be his mission—and his destiny.

Most of us take good health for granted. Paul Rosen, seventeen and severely ill from a heart condition, has never had that chance. A meeting with an alien changes his life forever, and Paul learns that life on the edge can be a good thing—if he survives. Paul Rosen, seventeen, has led a short and unfulfilling life. Stricken with severe cardiomyopathy, his time is limited, and he knows it. Still, he does what he can in the time he’s got. The course of his life changes when a little man named Cawthorne shoots him in the chest. In the hospital, Paul learns that a phantom bullet is circling his heart. Modern surgery can’t help, and what’s worse, Paul becomes a target of insect-like aliens, led by a thing called Sagras. The CIA then steps in, wanting the secrets of the aliens. Danger, thrills, and mayhem ensue, and finally, Paul, aware that his time is short, decides to go after Sagras and settle the matter once and for all—even if it costs Paul his life.

Everyone has a place in the world. Now, for Number Eight, a teen with no past, no identity, and little chance of a future, it's time for him to find his. Number Eight, a teen trained to be a warrior, escapes from a shadowy place known only as the Facility. He has no memory of his past and only wishes to discover who he is and where he is going. Enhanced with exceptional strength, speed, and aural ability, he stumbles upon a small circus sideshow act that calls itself the Oddities. And oddities they are. Small-Tall can change his height. Feet can hurl knives with unerring accuracy with only his toes, Lips uses the power of wind, and Grace can generate the heat of a small sun. Yet, they hide their true powers for fear that the government will deem them a threat. Number Eight adopts the name Nick Andimer as a cover. Afraid that the members of the Facility will come after him, he needs a place to hide, and the Oddities accept him as their resident strongman. They travel from place to place, living an itinerant lifestyle, all the while pursued by those who don't have their best interests at heart. Soon, the members of the Facility catch up with them, and Nick must fight for his future as well as for the only friends he's ever had.

Vicar-Vic-Farbstein, seventeen, resident of Eugene, Oregon, an average high school student in every way, happens upon an alien who has come to Earth in search of warriors to defend her world. With a long, unpronounceable name, he calls her Iris, with her blessing.Iris has abilities-flight and strength-and soon, the NSA discovers what she can do. Led by Agent Randolph Haynes, he urges her to keep a low profile and blend in.Blending in, though, isn't something Iris can so readily do, as the destroyer of her world, Kherter, a fearsome giant of a man, sends his forces to Earth to destroy her as well as enslave mankind. Iris manages-barely-to beat them back the first time, and in doing so, reveals herself to the world.Vic accepts her as a friend, and so do many others at first. The press dubs her Iris Incredible, and she's hailed as a savior, a mantle she is unwilling to assume. Her only goal is to find someone who can help her in her own cause.When Kherter and his forces return to ravage downtown Eugene and subsequently threaten the world, human nature takes over. Trust turns to mistrust and fear, and Iris becomes a pariah, as does Vic. Soon, social order breaks down as the worst of human nature comes to the fore.In spite of the public's antipathy, Vic and Iris take on Kherter's forces in one, final, all-out assault. Iris knows what she has to do, as does Vic, and they engage in a battle that will determine the future of mankind.

For Edward T. Scupper, life has been one long, lonely road. Born in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, for reasons unknown, he stops aging at eighteen. At first, it's exciting to live through the various decades while others succumb to time, but after a number of years, he finds that immortality is boring.Science proves to be the answer, or so he thinks. Edward-Ed-journeys from one city to another in the US in order to find an answer to his predicament. He doesn't wish for death. He only wishes to have a normal lifespan, like everyone else. After numerous searches, he winds up in Portland, Oregon, where he meets Doctor Farhan, a molecular biologist and geneticist who is working on using gene therapy to improve or cure various ailments, including blindness in his daughter, Diana.Ed tells Farhan of his desire to achieve mortality. Farhan promises to help him in return for the scientific knowledge, and a bargain of sorts is achieved. Initially, Ed and Diana don't get along. However, over time, they find themselves drawn to each other, as each of them seeks a cure for their problem, and only Doctor Farhan can provide it.Before long, though, the young couple finds themselves under attack, Doctor Farhan is killed, and the two teens are pursued by hitmen sent by Fester Norton, an elderly tycoon who wants what Ed has got-the secret of immortality-and will stop at nothing to get it!