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This program features multicast narration. Ken Jaworowski’s Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former...

After his wife is murdered in Chicago, by-the-book agent Blake Jordan focuses on the one thing he’s always been good at: his job. But Blake is so consumed by grief, he doesn’t notice that someone is watching him from the shadows. When Senator Keller asks Blake to handle security the night he’s set to receive his party’s nomination for president, he accepts the assignment. But he didn’t expect the senator to disappear under his watch.

After he’s given a warning by a dying man that Russian terrorists are coming after him, black ops agent Blake Jordan pushes everyone he cares about away to keep them safe. But Russia has a long memory. When a cyberattack is unleashed against hospitals and government agencies, Blake teams up with his lost love to investigate. But he never expects her to be used as leverage for the release of a terrorist who Blake thinks is dead.

After he’s fired from the Department of Domestic Counterterrorism, former agent Blake Jordan heads to DC for President-elect Keller’s inauguration. But there are men in power who won’t let that happen.

After his wife’s murderer is captured, Blake Jordan heads to Chicago to propose to the woman he loves. But while millions of Americans are distracted with New Year’s Eve celebrations, Russian terrorists are making other plans. When they force a hacker to crash a train in DC, Blake learns that a prisoner warned authorities about the attack. But he discovers the prisoner is his wife’s killer, and she claims another strike is imminent.

There are none at the university who can teach Torian what it means for him to be a valsahir. When the headmaster suggests he convince the Viper to teach him, Torian must first prove he’s worthy. As secrets begin to unravel, the distinction between friend and foe blurs. The Viper, once thought an adversary, becomes an enigma, compelling Torian to grapple with a dangerous dilemma. Is the Viper genuinely the sinister force they have all feared?

Kyle Griffin and his Infinity team made sure of that. After the assault on Aeron’s palace, the galaxy suddenly seems turned upside down. The Splinter revolution is no longer an afterthought. Poised to make their first true push toward overthrowing the established order, Commander Griffin takes the reigns of an eager and burgeoning army, leading them into a new age in the galaxy, one where the Dominion doesn’t appear invincible.

When adventurer Maxwell Barnes and his team uncover clues about a lost gold mine in Mexico's Sonoran desert, they think they've struck fortune's motherlode. But after a treacherous tumble down a rocky hillside, they discover something far more valuable buried beneath: something with unimaginable power.

For Sergeant Pete “Hardball” Talbot, recently returned from being wounded on Tarawa seven months earlier, Saipan is just another battle as the United States leaps island to island toward an invasion of the Japanese homeland. But the Japanese have learned, all too well, how to defend their islands, with carefully constructed and concealed bunkers and machine gun nests. Talbot and the dozen men of Second Squad have no idea they are running headlong into thirty-five thousand Japanese soldiers who have sworn to fight to the last man.

He isn’t the only one. Everyone has amnesia. None of them remember who they were before their arrival. Considering the danger they now face, not being able to remember their past might be for the best. This world is a mysterious winter planet, and surrounding them is a place they call the Moat, where something deadly lurks. No one knows for sure what it is, but anyone who goes exploring goes missing.

Jim Lord always knew he wanted to be a cop. But getting stuck working as a school resource officer after a tour in Iraq isn’t what he pictured for his life. Still, he manages to find a sense of purpose, as well as love, at Portage High … until a moment of cowardice strips it all away. Undone emotionally and professionally, Jim spirals into a drunken depression, before a friend pulls him back from the brink. Determined to usher in a new chapter, Jim embarks on a journey of self-discovery that leads him south.

Sergeant Ryan’s forced optimism hasn’t been contagious, at least not since their aircraft crashed under mysterious circumstances. They had to scrap their mission of finding the missing explorers who were supposed to greenlight colonization on the alien planet. Even before being hunted, they were down a soldier, so he understands his compatriots’ frustration.

Agent Farrell and his team have Joshua backed into a corner. At the NSMZ base, a Maelstrom permie rig and a team of scientists await Joshua’s arrival. Silently observing from the sidelines is Peter Yee of the Siuping Clan, a powerful crime boss to whom Joshua owes a favor.

Destined to be an apprentice of Elazar the Magician, Magnus’s future is destroyed when his best friend Tyrus betrays him. Magnus can only watch as everyone he loves is destroyed by the terrible power of Tyrus’s magic Kagi mushroom. Magnus barely escapes with his life, spending the next two decades running from his horrible past.

A quick-witted thief aspires for fame and fortune...if he can survive the schemes of the ruling class. After foiling an assassination attempt, Jerrell conducts a masterful piece of sleuthing to identify and capture the culprit. His actions earn him an office at the vaunted Marquithe Bureau of Trading, where he can promote his services to Farrowen's aristocracy. Wealth and fame await him. His first client offers a vast sum for the retrieval of an item of power. Unfortunately, the item is already the prize of a mighty and influential wizard.

Who am I? What am I? These questions have plagued Joshua since childhood. Mysterious amplified senses and boosted reflexes have helped him survive and thrive in a brutal, lawless megacity, and he leads the notorious Epitaph gang with keen street instincts. When Joshua’s unexplained abilities draw the attention of a covert government entity, he finds himself on the run. Only his skills, street smarts, and a rogue hacker named Shelby keep him one step ahead of his relentless hunters. They know what he is. They know who he is, and they will tear apart a megacity to bring him in.

The story of Angela Hanson, a girl from the grim NYC public housing projects, a beautiful, complex woman whose sweetly innocent ruthlessness powers her rise into the billionaire class by her early thirties. She rocketed to the top of advertising with the help of legendary adman Jack Price, her mentor-turned-lover and the married man who dumped her. Returning as the executive charged with firing Jack and hundreds of others, she destroys his career in order to make him a pawn in her high-stakes game with a flighty heiress and her billionaire septuagenarian father.

In a time beyond the Parting, the team known as 50-Out have passed their initiation and are taking their show on the road. Dedicated to solving the problems of their failed nation through corporate team-building activities and good ol’ fashioned training-the-trainer exercises. The introduction of 50-Out to the political gamesmanship of the Paramilitary Institute or (PI), ends in backstabbing, treachery, and Byte being set up for trying to overthrow the system.

From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor, from high school to the combat zone, from boot camp to the end of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan, here are more of the stories that we can’t afford not to hear, from a vanishing generation speaking to America today. World War II brought out the worst in humanity, but it also brought out the best; in these narratives you will draw your own lessons. Here are the stories that a special generation of Americans told us for the future when we took the time to be still, to listen, and to draw strength.

The barriers have fallen. The war has begun. There is revolution on the streets and an invasion building in the north. Drynn’s new powers might be the key to crowning a new king and stabilizing the realm, but at what cost? Is embracing the darkness the only way to bring back the light?