http://www.Fictionwise.com Fictionwise.com: Best-Selling Titles From Clocktower Books and Far Sector SFFH (magazine) http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook8664.htm What really happened during that early twilight zone of human existence after the last Ice Age? We live in the period called the Holocene, which began 11,000 years ago, and of which we know relatively little except for the past 5,000 years since writing was invented. But there are mysterious megaliths around the world, and other evidence that all is not what we may think. Will we ever find out the whole story? http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook8359.htm Be a tourist in ancient Rome during the time of Diocletian. Savor the smells, the sights, the thrills of the ancient world capital as no standard history text can offer. First of two unforgettable parts crammed with detailed info and interesting explanations. Part 1 brings you from a rural villa to the outskirts of Rome. 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Among the Nazi empire's deadly stingers was an arsenal of atomic bomb material and the jet fighters to deliver the bombs--packed in the holds of a giant submarine and headed for Tokyo, where the bombs and planes would be assembled for a series of numbing strikes on major U.S. cities. It sounds like the plot from a 1930s comic book, or perhaps a modern Retro movie in the spirit of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, but the voyage of Hitler's last submarine really happened. In this article you will learn some of the astounding circumstances surrounding not only this desperate ploy by the Germans, but how the atomic bomb materials vanished from historical accountability on a U.S. Navy dock in New Hampshire. The canisters of refined yellowcake uranium may have ended up being flown in diplomatic containers to the Soviet Union aboard U.S. aircraft on the Alaska-Siberia Air Bridge from Malmstrom Air Base, South Dakota--or the missing materials may just as well have ended up in the bomb that devastated Hiroshima, but we'll probably never know for sure. Meanwhile, here is a fascinating account of this epic adventure, with excerpts from Ann Cymba's global adventure Nob Hill, dramatizing the final voyage of U-234 exactly as the true events unfolded. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook67002.htm On Thanksgiving Day 1892, a beautiful young woman appeared mysteriously at the most exclusive resort in Southern California--the new Hotel del Coronado. There was something dark and ominous about her from the very beginning. She rented a room, and waited for an even more mysterious man who never did show up. In five days, she turned from a vibrant and healthy beauty into a trembling soul who could barely walk. Then, on the night of a thundering sea storm, she shot herself dead on the back steps of the hotel. Nobody knew who she was, or why she had come. Her case was instantly a national sensation, tinged with hints of unsavory plots and conspiracies in high circles. <<< >>> For weeks, her body lay on display in a San Diego mortuary, a morbid Victorian spectacle for thousands to view. Bit by bit, the press reported new, stunning, contradictory details that have not been resolved even today. This book proposes a dramatic new theory that examines the 'Beautiful Stranger' in a national and global context. Her identity changed almost daily as puzzled police across the nation searched for her brother, her doctor, her husband, her lover ... to no avail. Was the flawed coroner's inquest just botched, or a cover-up? Her story rubs elbows with kings, queens, tycoons, presidents, and Congressmen--always had a dark and disturbing tinge. Her ghost haunts the hotel even today. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook30184.htm Ortman is the lone survivor on a vast ship lost in the eternal void of space. He spends his days amid the bays and holds and control rooms of a colony vessel adrift and nearly dead. The only voice he ever hears, besides his own, is that of the ship itself, warning him, watching him, protecting him. He lives a dual existence, comforted in the virtual reality world of a tuberculosis sanitarium where he cares for the few remaining living passengers. Ortman doesn't know why he is the ship's only survivor--or is he? One day he finds footprints following his tracks through the ship's dusty halways and into the generator rooms. Not only that, but the corridors have lately begun sprouting a profusion of vines, plants, and fruit-bearing bushes. 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And there is much more: living caves; armed and marauding aftermen; a curious smudge in space, beside the moon, that encapsulates the secret of what happened to mankind. Starting alone and with nothing except his fierce will to survive, Alex courageously explores, battles, and conquers. He ultimately confronts the enigma of who he is and why the ancient humans shipwrecked him beyond time and space. Is there a woman-Friday to relieve what would otherwise be a nightmare existence for Alex Kirk? Read this novel and learn the answer. Hint: "strawberry ice cream."