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Kimberly Louise Campbell is trying her best to figure out where she fits in. Coming from a family famous for making a fortune in their estates grounds, Kimberly feels as if she should have more to offer. From questionable life choices to an epiphany that seems to set her off onto a better path, Kim continues to struggle to gain her fathers approval and maintain her sanity at the same time.

What is a Wub? Perhaps a play on words by Philip K. Dick in this 1952 science fiction short story that first appeared in Planet Stories. As Philip K. Dick describes it, a Wub is an extremely ugly piglike creature, inhabiting the planet Mars, that may be good to eat. Most of the crew of the space ship are repulsed, however, when it speaks. But not the Captain, leading to a very interesting turn of events.

The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. No living creature can now exist there and all humans, on both sides, have fled to the hives built miles below the surface where they constantly work to produce the war materials necessary to carry on the battle. For eight years now, the actual fighting between these super powers has been conducted by robots known as Ledeys.

If, after a great struggle, the East were to prevail over the world, what sort of civilization would be imposed by the victors? Would it be an oriental version of the societies we know - or might the great old culture be superimposed upon what was left of Western technology? The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future where global civilization is governed by a hierarchical, religious society centered around belief in karmic-based reincarnation metaphorically viewed as moving forward or backward on a turning wheel.

The basics of the functional approach to leadership to musings on the meaning of life. Get quick thoughts about leadership that you can apply today.

Christmas break is only a few weeks away. But before Max can relax and enjoy his winter holiday, he has to face a danger beyond any others that he has come across at Filmore Middle School. It is something he fears more than the school bully, Bart Johnson. Something more embarrassing than having to wear stinky gym clothes from the Lost and Found. The Winter School Dance! Girls are supposed to ask the boys this time to the dance. Will anyone ask Max? He doesn’t even know if he wants to go. Will he be expected to actually dance at the event?

"The Defenders" is a 1953 science fiction short story by American author Philip K. Dick and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel The Penultimate Truth. It is one of several of his short stories to be expanded into a novel. The short story was first published in the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Travelers from another solar system are drawn to a planet because of a nuclear blast on the planet. The only survivor of the blast appears to be an intelligent gun protecting a treasure. Philip K. Dick leaves us asking the question could this planet be ours?

Ludwig hat sich verliebt! Und das ausgerechnet in dem Sommer, in dem er an einem Klavierwettbewerb teilnehmen soll. Eigentlich müsste er ständig üben und sich auf die Beethoven-Sonaten konzentrieren. Aber Ludwig denkt nur noch an eines: Wie sagt er Katarina, dem Mädchen mit dem knallroten Badeanzug und dem goldenen Herzen, auf die schönste Weise: Ich will mit dir zusammen sein? Mit Musik von Thalia Darkow. Ein Benefiz-Hörbuch von Bücherpiraten audio.

In the third installment of the MacInnes Saga, Elise finds herself caught between two men, the one she loves and the one who desires her. Even if she chooses Calum, the Stone of Destiny only approves those descended from past kings. Elise must marry someone approved by the stone. Who will it be? Can she resist the temptation of a wild-hearted Pictish chief? Or will she remain faithful to her darling Calum?

This short story revolves around a cat who may or may not have seen a bat in the middle of the night, as narrated by a man who probably thought he dreamed it all.

If you had the power to raise the dead for helping and protecting others, would you use it? Even if that power comes from a macabre and twisted source? John, Andrew, and Kate planned for a relaxing catch-up during a weekend stay in the countryside. However, by chance, they discover a horrifying secret that allows them to raise the dead! If most people knew about this recently discovered ability, they would think it repulsive. But as their power grows, so does the sinister and unwanted attention of others.

At what point does coincidence turn into something else? Annika and Brody, two strangers online in a cancer support message group, are about to find out. When so many things line up, when the very stars seem to align in the sky, it can’t be anything else but synchronicity.

As curator of the Twentieth Century Exhibit, George Miller felt that to do a good job, he had to live his work. Then, one day, somebody got into his exhibit, and he went to investigate.

Danny McIntyre gets an urgent call that his best friend Philip is in critical condition after a boat crashes off the shores of Aberdeen. When the doctor bears grim news that there’s a good chance that he might never walk again, even after a vital surgery. Danny, Susan, David, and Heather are forced to reconcile that with what little holiday time they have left. Heather tries to distract them with day trips to places like Loch Ness and Perth’s galleries in order to cope with the emotional trauma. While David uses logic and medical research to control his dark thoughts.

Laurie, a city girl, marries and moves with her husband to Vermont and has an encounter with an apple tree, the only living tree in a dying orchard. The tree is determined to survive - somehow.

Was it a brave new world, or was it the long way home for these men?

Tony and the Beetles takes place far in the future when Earth's enormous colonial empire is well established but the question is, how long can it last? Ten-year-old Tony grows up fast when history catches up with the human race. A sobering look at human history - and our probable future.

For almost seventy years, people the world over have fallen in love with Frank Capra’s classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life. But few of those fans know that Capra’s film was based on a short story by Philip Van Doren Stern, which came to Stern in a dream one night. Unable at first to find a publisher for his evocative tale about a man named George Pratt who ponders suicide until he receives an opportunity to see what the world would be like without him.

The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to propagate themselves and were slowly strangling Terran planets. How did they do that? What was their secret? The answer was baffling and the best human minds could only conclude that their ships and mines were somehow alive. So, the next desperate step was to ask "If they are using organic ships, why can't we do the same?"