Thalia of Orrin. Upholder of the Queen's Peace. Friend of the Downtrodden. The Breaker of Pirates. Two generations before the End of the Demon Wars, before there was Thalia the Legend, there was a young justice with a wicked sense of humor, a zest for life, and a duty to her people. These are her cases. Dealing with an estate distribution of a local lord turns into a full-blown riot in Nastine. Thalia and a wet-behind-the-ears Light priest must discover what's really causing the locals' madness before someone winds up dead.

Thalia of Orrin. Upholder of the Queen's Peace. Friend of the Downtrodden. The Breaker of Pirates. Two generations before the End of the Demon Wars, before there was Thalia the Legend, there was a young justice with a wicked sense of humor, a zest for life, and a duty to her people. These are her cases. Long before Thalia becomes a justice, gossip and pranks among her novice class leads to tragedy.

Earth’s resources are depleted, and it’s up to Solar System Services, Inc. to find new supplies, especially water. But not every human faction wants to share. A newly activated AI decides to take matters into her own circuits when her best friend is murdered over water rights on one of Saturn’s moons. Will logic or emotion win?

THIS IS THE END! A necromancer awakes from his coma. A vampire owes a god of death a favor, and the deity demands his payment. A very dead ancient Egyptian prince finds himself back in the land of the living in another man’s body. And a single mother still blames her sister-in-law for the death of her husband. Sam Ridgeway doesn’t know these four people are her personal Horsemen. The Harbingers of Armageddon. And they are more interested in their own agendas. Because if they can’t control Sam, they will have to kill her. And if Sam dies, so does the world.

After the destruction of the demon army in Tandor, Anthea could use the relative simplicity of her position as chief justice of Orrin. However, one of the city’s street children is found dead a few weeks after Anthea’s return. Her squire Nathan is adamant his friend’s death is murder. And High Mother Bianca, who is responsible for feeding, clothing, and sheltering the orphans, doesn’t seem to care about the death of one of her wards. Does Bianca know more than she’s telling? Or is something worse than a demon stalking the streets of Orrin? Magic and mayhem have never been this despicable. Or this tragic.

Demons have invaded the capital of Jing and killed the emperor and his sons. That leaves Ambassador Quan Po as the only surviving blood member of the imperial family. Knowing he has more enemies than just the demons, the last heir asks Chief Justice Anthea and High Brother Luc to accompany him home. Can Anthea and Luc keep Quan alive long enough to take the throne of Jing? Or will they become sacrificial pawns in the political games between their nations? Magic and mayhem have never been this bureaucratic. Or this malignant.

On September 11, 2001, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, became a center of national attention when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a former strip mine in sleepy Somerset County, killing all forty passengers and crew aboard. This is the story of the memorialization that followed, from immediate, unofficial personal memorials to the ten-year effort to plan and build a permanent national monument to honor those who died. It is also the story of the unlikely community that developed through those efforts. As the country struggled to process the events of September 11, temporary memorials—from wreaths of flowers to personalized T-shirts and flags—appeared along the chain-link fences that lined the perimeter of the crash site. They served as evidence of the residents’ need to pay tribute to the tragedy and of the demand for an official monument. Weaving oral accounts from Shanksville residents and family members of those who died with contemporaneous news reports and records, J. William Thompson traces the creation of the monument and explores the larger narrative of memorialization in America. He recounts the crash and its sobering immediate impact on area residents and the nation, discusses the history of and controversies surrounding efforts to permanently commemorate the event, and relates how locals and grief-stricken family members ultimately bonded with movers and shakers at the federal level to build the Flight 93 National Memorial. A heartfelt examination of memory, place, and the effects of tragedy on small-town America, this fact-driven account of how the Flight 93 National Memorial came to be is a captivating look at the many ways we strive as communities to forever remember the events that change us.

Explores the work of a playful, emphatically countercultural collective whose satirical poetry and prose, pop music, cinema, and conceptual performance in post-Soviet Russia has influenced other protest artists, such as Pussy Riot.