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Vampire Queen Natasha is holding a competition for a new consort, since previous one recently left due to "irreconcilable differences" (which were all her fault, not that she'd ever admit it). She has narrowed the field to the very best of the bloodsuckers, so it's down to the final round -- but wait! We have a late entry! A certain Southern singin' sorcerer has infiltrated the Realm of the Undead! But is Speilvis's sweet silk magic a match for the ultimates of the undead?

Exploring a set of ruins, Penny and Ace are pulled into a dimensional anomaly. Waking up alone and in an unknown place, Penny is beside herself -- literally. As she contemplates her situation, she starts encountering alternate versions of herself, each from a different past. Abruptly, she is at war with herself, as a "Bad Penny" version of her pits her own group of allied Pennys against the "real" one!

The mysterious Hurt-Bot that tried to kill Gina and Brit' with mechanisms of the Death Trap Architect is still out for blood... so he gets himself a vampire. Springing (ex-)Queen Natasha from the "Superior Dungeon" magic penitentiary, he brings her to a realm where she can recharge on life energy and then do his bidding. But Natasha's got the need to feed, and she taps straight in the realm's lifestream, becoming ultra-powered! Gina's mystery mech foe may have bitten off more than he can chew!

Banished from the U.S. for his rogue appetite and tweeting, the Tremendous Trump finds himself stranded in a land so foreign to him, it might as well be an alien world (or even Puerto Rico). But his novelty there exposes him to far more trending than he got back home, making him stronger than ever. Refusing to take a knee to forces rigged against him, he heads back to D.C. to make the White House orange again!

Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of over thirty thousand people. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life—not only prospectors but also newspapermen, bankers, prostitutes, priests, and lawmen. Gold Diggers follows six stampeders—Bill Haskell, a farm boy who hungered for striking gold; Father Judge, a Jesuit priest who aimed to save souls and lives; Belinda Mulrooney, a twenty–four–year–old who became the richest businesswoman in town; Flora Shaw, a journalist who transformed the town's governance; Sam Steele, the officer who finally established order in the lawless town; and most famously Jack London, who left without gold, but with the stories that would make him a legend. Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories, Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling tale of the gold madness that swept through a continent and changed a landscape and its people forever.

This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this uniquely American art form—and discover films they'll love. This comprehensive guide covers movie musicals from their introduction with the 1927 film The Jazz Singer through 2015 releases. In all, it describes 125 movies, opening up the world of this popular form of entertainment to preteens, teens, and adults alike. An introduction explains the advent of movie musicals; then, in keeping with the book's historical approach, films are presented by decade and year with overviews of advances during particular periods. In this way, the reader not only learns about individual films but can see the big picture of how movie musicals developed and changed over time. For each film covered, the guide offers basic facts—studio, director, songwriters, actors, etc.—as well as a brief plot synopsis. Each entry also offers an explanation of why the movie is noteworthy, how popular it was or wasn't, and the influence the film might have had on later musicals. Sidebars offering brief biographies of important artists appear throughout the book.