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All is not well in the Heartland of America. As the first week of the zombie apocalypse staggers to a close, tensions are reaching a boiling point. Hundreds of thousands of heavily armed troops have taken up residence in the small rural towns of Kansas, much to the chagrin of the local populace. Sensing that a larger fight is on the horizon, a small team of soldiers prepare for a daunting journey.

Zombies aren’t the only threat to the citizens of El Paso. As the Texas Zombie Virus rampages throughout the city, a small army of Mexican cartel members storm the border in an attempt to claim the city for themselves. Two homicide detectives are thrust to the forefront of the conflict when their captain partners them up with an unlikely, and untrustworthy, ally.

Just outside of Bismarck, a desperate group of ranchers hatch a plan to seal off the horde of zombies within with city limits. With an unexpected snowstorm helping to slow down the rampaging undead, they race against the clock to secure their community from being overrun. Dead America: The First Week focuses on the national response to the Texas zombie outbreak. There will be several mini-series within The First Week focused on several regions of the nation and how they are dealing with the crisis.

Surrounded by a horde of zombies, Terrell must get creative to save himself and the other survivors. At the Charlotte fortress, Frank and his team’s much deserved break is cut short by a new, unexpected threat. Dead America: The First Week is a seven book series that focuses on the national response to the Texas zombie outbreak.

Terrell leads his team on a daring rescue mission through a city devolving into chaos. Meanwhile, Frank prepares a backup plan as he awaits the arrival of helicopters to transport the VIPs to safety. Dead America: The First Week focuses on the national response to the Texas zombie outbreak. There will be several mini-series within The First Week focused on several regions of the nation and how they are dealing with the crisis.

Hands Around, also known as La Ronde or Reigen, is possibly Schnitzler's most provocative and controversial work. In a series of 10 conversations occurring before or after a sexual encounter, between 10 pairs of characters from all walks of life, Hands Around offers a playful scrutiny of the sexual morals and class ideology of the era.

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a beloved and prolific Canadian author, best known for her Anne of Green Gables series. She was also the author of over 500 short stories, poems, and essays. This delightful collection includes 20 of her earliest short stories, ranging from tales of fated romance to school friendships to Christmas miracles, all touching on the narrative themes of class, family, belonging, and romance that characterize her work.

So close, yet so far away. Still reeling from Elijah’s brutal retaliation, Sparks and the other survivors continue their ill-fated journey west. As the reach the town of Junction, the group finds that their troubles are far from over.

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here, he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightful humorous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts, including "The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa", "The Exorcism That Failed", and more.

In the wake of the violent confrontation with Elijah and his militia, plans are made to evacuate to the west. As most of the group ventures out in search of supplies for the journey, Sparks sets out on her own to ensure that their biggest human threat has indeed been eliminated.

Officer Sparks and her team barely survived their first encounters with the undead. As they travel upriver toward the relative safety of the sparsely populated West, new threats emerge as do new allies. Day Zero has ended, but the battle for survival is just beginning.

This play forms part of a tetralogy which focuses on one of Wedekind's obsessive themes: the destructive interplay between primal sexual urges and social convention. Each play revolves around a powerful young female character, who has the power to control and captivate men, but who in turn is destroyed by the exercise of that power. In Castle Wetterstein, that role is represented by Effie, the young daughter of a bourgeois widow, who is being courted by the man who killed her late husband in a duel.

The always delightful and entertaining classic Anne of Green Gables is performed by actors from The Online Stage! Anne Shirley is an 11-year-old orphan adopted by a middle-aged brother and sister, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. They had wanted to adopt a boy to help with their farm on Prince Edward Island in the fictional town of Avonlea. Matthew persuades Marilla to give Anne a chance. Anne is a handful, and they fall in love with her.

The Life and Death of King John was probably written in the 1590s but not published until the First Folio in 1623. Of Shakespeare's 11 history plays, King John is the one which deals with the story of a monarch most removed from Shakespeare's time. The historical remoteness of this ruler, and also the fact that he had no genealogical links with the Tudor dynasty, enabled Shakespeare to present him in a warts and allà fashion.

When Drake is told that his beloved wife does not have long to live, he clutches at straws for anything that will prolong her life. A mysterious stranger offers him a cure for his wife's illness that appears to be remarkably effective - but, like many miracles, it comes at a cost.

What happens when the princess that never sleeps meets the princess who's cursed to sleep? The Princess and the Pea fights the need for rest as she embarks upon the rescue of Sleeping Beauty. Once awake, the two challenge the real world to find their happily ever after.

A rich widow finds that the man she wishes to marry is already engaged. He has just suddenly become a peer and cannot, he thinks, break his promise.

Xero is an expert smuggler. As the ruler of the Tucson Exiles, she hustles supplies for the government and then pumps the desert full of illegal designer drugs on the sly. Catastrophe looms when Yuma goes kaboom, and Trina's cure is destroyed along with it. All that remains is a complicated web spun from Xero's biggest demons: money, germs, and drugs. As she struggles to dig up some Ketacillin, one thought stays with her: Who do you have to kill to get some soap and a hot shower?

When Amadora wins a trip to a Mexican resort, she contacts Madame Eve's 1Night Stand service to live out a one-time fantasy - a night with two hot men. Undercover DEA agents Jason and Angus have been playing it fast and loose with each other. The sex is good, but Jason blames himself for his wife's death during a stakeout and refuses to weigh his heart down with any more guilt. Angus hasn't told Jason how much he cares about him for fear of being pushed away.

Loreley Jones, daughter of the governor of the British Colony of Antigua, is orphaned when a hurricane sinks the ship taking her and her family from London to the Caribbean. After washing up on the shores of the Pirate's Republic of Nassau, she is sold into slavery and her virginity is auctioned off. The highest bidder is the notoriously sadistic Gideon Graves, captain of the pirate ship Jezebel, who holds Loreley against her will.