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Two Novellas of Everyday Fear on the Open Road Authors: Richard Matheson, Stephen King, and Joe Hill Combing Richard Matheson’s novella, “Duel” with Stephen King and Joe Hill’s “Throttle” this engaging audio book is fast paced, full speed ahead, high stakes, and tension filled retribution on the dusty, open desert roads. Filled with lonely detours, crazed truckers, and victims reliant on skill and speed they do not have, the novellas play off of each other and build an atmosphere that is just as tantalizing as it is deadly. Richard Matheson, most well-known for his novel I Am Legend created the [...]

Jodi Picoult's Overly Literary Attempt at Identity Issues By: Jodi Picoult Delia Hopkins has an annoyingly idyllic life: a loving fiancé, a male best friend who is ready to wait in the wings forever, a doting father, and an adorable little girl. The few dark shades of her past are removing themselves from her. She mourns a mother whom she never had, a mother removed by circumstance in the form of a deadly car crash. She worries that her fiancé will return to his alcoholism, an event that will lead her to separate herself, and her impressionable young child away [...]

Dreams of a slave empire... Author:  Erik Calonius Scoundrels, rogues and villains. American history is awash with the stories of such dubious individuals, but they may have reached the apex of their influence on the course of human events in the 1850s. Known as the “fire-eaters”, this group of oratorically gifted pro-slavery politicos dreamed of a single independent nation – encompassing the southern United States, Mexico and Cuba – wholly devoted to slavery and all its economic benefits. No act was too treasonous and no hubris was too extreme in their efforts toward this goal. In 1857, in their unrelenting [...]