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After fending off the Shadow Men from destroying the entire world in their last outing, David Wong and his friend John are trying to live out their days in relative peace and comfort in the disappointingly strange town of [Undisclosed]. However, Jason Pargin had other plans for the now practically cult-classic duo, suiting them up for a new round of adventures in This Book is Full of Spiders .

When Richard Phillips began writing the original Rho Agenda trilogy, it felt like he was writing in a style made to cater to young adults more than anyone. However, it feels as if his progression through the story pushed him more and more towards the boundaries of adult storytelling... as if the author was still searching for the approach he liked best. Feeling he could make a good expansion of his universe, he set out to write The Rho Agenda Inception series, with the first book being Once Dead .

For as long as men and women have existed we have been killing each other in innumerable ways, and even though modern life has drastically reduced our chances of dying a violent death, the thought of it still stirs something deep within us. If there is one type of killer we've come to fear in today's society more than others, it is perhaps the deranged serial killer. He or she can camouflage as a normal member of society, can never be reasoned with, and can never stop doing what they are driven to.

Since the moment we were born the quest to find our place in this world has been thrust upon us, and for many it is one that haunts them from beginning to end, never really finding the crevice they fit in perfectly. Nevertheless, we keep on living through life in hope of answers, understanding and meaning, many coming to the conclusion that we ought to carve our own places in this world, rather than search for them. In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World , Haruki Murakami presents us with two parallel stories centred on that idea in their own ways.

Personal site Glen Craney is an American author, novelist, journalist and lawyer with degrees from Hanover College, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has taken to writing novels with more of a historical penchant, such as The Virgin of the Wind Rose and The Fire and the Light. Good day to all our fantastic readers! We've recently had the opportunity to conduct an E-mail interview with Glen Craney author of The Spider and the Stone as well as The Yanks are Starving , both of them received with exceptional critical acclaim. And so, taking our change, we picked his brain a bit in regards to his relation with literature, and here are his (very detailed) answers, hopefully you'll enjoy and learn from them as much as we did! Q: As is known in the biographical elements made public, in addition to being an author you are also a journalist and a lawyer. When and how did you decide to turn...

The Frontlines series has certainly giving us more than a few epic moments and encounters between the humans and their alien invaders, and Marko Kloos returns in force once again to expand on his universe and continue the story of humanity's struggle to maintain its own existence.