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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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) is best known for her major role in the development of Theosophy, a syncretic religious philosophy the principles of which underlie the New Age philosophy of today. The original version of Nightmare Tales consisted of the last five stories in this recording and was published in 1892, shortly after the author's death. An expanded edition incorporating four earlier stories was published in 1907.

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.

It’s day zero and the Texas zombie virus is quickly spreading throughout the nation. In a desperate race against the clock, two special forces teams are given an impossible mission. Turn the football stadium in Charlotte into a fortress, and rescue some of the brightest minds in the world to help with the coming war. Dead America: The First Week focuses on the national response to the Texas zombie outbreak. There will be multiple mini-series within The First Week focused on several regions of the nation and how they are dealing with the crisis.

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.

Several girls, all bearing the name "Jenny Rogers", are being killed in the city of New York. In the middle of it, there are two suspects: a famous painter and a visiting stranger, who also happen to bear, in their turn, identical names. Behind it all, the dying wishes of a man and a nefarious plot to lay claim to a matter of millions.

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.

Bernard Shaw based his "religious pantomime" Androcles and the Lion on the ancient fable of the runaway slave who pulls a painful thorn from a lion's paw, thereby making a lifelong friend. This tale of a puny Greek tailor triumphing over the Roman emperor is, as always with Shaw, a commentary on the politics of his time, with the emperor standing in for the British government and, indeed, all repressive regimes.

Lovers' Vows is Elizabeth Inchbald's controversial adaptation of the German play Das Kind der Liebe (The Love Child) by August von Kotzebue. Though it met with great success both on stage and in print, some were concerned discussion of premarital sex and the leveling of social rank. Today, it is best known as the play that the Mansfield Theatricals rehearse in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling's delightful collection of imaginative tales about natural history has captivated children and adults alike since its publication in 1902. Here stories are presented in dramatic format by members of The Online Stage. Stories include:"How the Whale Got His Throat", "How the Camel Got His Hump", "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin", "How the Leopard Got His Spots", "The Elephant's Child", "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo", and more.

The story from which this collection takes its title describes the adventures of an imaginative boy who discovers an omnibus that enables him to travel to the past in the company of famous historical personages. When at his invitation, an incredulous adult accompanies him on a journey, the astonishing new vistas unfolding alarm the security-conscious older man, who wishes himself back in his comfortable suburban home.

Lucy Honeychurch is a young English girl abroad in Italy for the first time and is ready to experience all the beauty, art, and romance it has to offer. She is hampered by the oppressive attentions of her chaperone, her prim cousin Charlotte, as well as the presence of a substantial British expatriate and tourist community in Florence.

This collection contains Oscar Wilde's four best-known comedies: The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; and A Woman of No Importance. All of them satirize upper-class English society of the 1890s, dramatizing scandalous secrets, political and marital intrigue, and dandyish bad behavior with Wilde's trademark wit and wisdom.