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Bin ich eine schlechte Mutter? Frida ist überfordert: Ihr Baby Harriet schreit und schreit und alles, wonach sich die alleinerziehende Mutter sehnt, ist eine halbe Stunde Ruhe und etwas Zeit für sich. Als sie das kleine Mädchen für eine Stunde unbeaufsichtigt zu Hause lässt, ruft ein Nachbar die Polizei. Was dann folgt, ist der Albtraum einer jeden Mutter: Frida verliert das Sorgerecht und wird in eine Besserungsanstalt gesteckt. Im "Institut für gute Mütter" soll sie mithilfe einer KI-Puppe lernen, was es heißt, eine gute Mutter zu sein.

It has been five years since the Revelation, and Earth is now a member of the Intergalactic Confederation of Planets. Peace has broken out. Climate change has been reversed. Life expectancy has increased. Poverty has just about been wiped out. The Institute is up and running at the Embassy. Students from around the world have transferred, researchers from major universities are doing sabbaticals, and Confederation technology is being adapted for human use.

To Jake Bayard’s amazement, he meets a Homo habilis: a five-foot, hundred-pound hairy hominid that was supposed to have gone extinct 1.65 million years ago. Philip is no moronic precursor to man, but a member of the elite extraterrestrial Institute, needing help to leave Earth. The problem is that Philip is a liar, a sneak, and a diabolical genius using the Traveler for his own ends. Out in the stars, Bayard discovers a conspiracy backed by ancient military tech and run by the little hominids bent on conquering everything, including Earth.

Recently, in reality, archeologists found evidence of writing 9,000 years ago. If there was an Atlantis 10-12,000 years ago, it would be highly likely that it would have links to writing that came after it. Similar to a "Mad Max" scenario, when Atlantis fell, the population would end up mostly illiterate, losing most of the written language with it. But certain symbols and letters would persist, leading to the simple bills of laden 9,000 years ago.

Virgil's pick from the warehouse sends the Institute of Antiquities group to Egypt. He picked what look like giant pool tiles and a small figurine. However, the liaison in Egypt is Rick's estranged father, Field General Nels Lundgren, and the person sent on behalf of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities is Dr. Carruthers, the original group member who walked away.

Two picks from the warehouse arrive at the Institute: an ancient medallion mostly encased in granite and a map with an "X" near edge of the North American continental plate. The Institute members who stay to research the medallion need the help of a specialist and find themselves contending with a persnickety metallurgist. To get to the answer about the medallion, they break the rules, and what they discover is amazing, yet so scientically simple. Linda and Virgil have family issues.

Sophia "Soap" Lazarcheck is a girl genius with a knack for making robots - and for making robots explode. After her talents earn her admission into a secretive university institute, she is swiftly drawn into a conspiracy more than a century in the making. Meanwhile, and without her knowledge, her cousin Dean wages a two-fisted war of vengeance against a villainous genius and his unwashed minions. The cousins are up against murderous thugs, experimental weaponry, lizard monsters, and a nefarious doomsday device.

The Feral Women’s Institute is a secret underground organization of older women loosely descended from witches. You'll find them everywhere, but due to their special talents for hiding in plain view and speaking without being heard, you may not notice them. Rose is their lingerie designer. Her life's work is to find the elusive comfortable bra for the older woman. The trouble begins with a genetically engineered parasite. This one only eats Lycra. With her work in ruins, Rose has no option but to find the source of the problem and put a stop to it. Will Rose find the culprit?

In an "archeological emergency", the government hijacks a group of scientists who discover advanced ancient civilizations. After making astounding finds, they then have to find a way to get out of the government's clutches.

The Institute group is woken in the middle of the night to explore an island with an omega-shaped building that has risen out of the Atlantic. It’s the same building the first IA group went to see in 1872 that resulted in their permanent government detention. The current group insists on a letter protecting them from a similar outcome, but only one of the National Security Commission chiefs is available. The letter they get is not binding. They land, and what they find upends everything they thought they knew.

Just as the Colonel gets his new bio-med lab, Cynthia, Mandy, and Rick fall ill. The Colonel then learns that the SEALs they dove with in the Atlantic are also sick. However, one of the SEALs got ill in public, and when he dies, the CDC tries to take over the Institute, and a conflict ensues between Admiral Cutworth and the chief CDC medical investigator who is a bit of an ass. And in the end, it's not an illness!

After she catches the eye of William Verner at a dance on the colony world of Prosperia, 19-year-old Priscilla Auden's assigned guardian oversees her courtship with him. Though Priscilla is clearly taken with her rich, handsome suitor, when she is caught pleasuring herself after her first kiss her behavior must be addressed.

The Colonel makes the first pick from the secret warehouse, “something from the Southwest”. In response, a large, strange wire contraption wrapped in an old “Indian blanket” arrives. Because of his Native American/Latino heritage, the Colonel is interested in identifying the old blanket. Virgil and Mandy test the wire contraption to an unexpected conclusion. Irina and Cynthia investigate the 18,000 year old book from the Marsala expedition and reveal some of its secrets. Cynthia’s drunk mother meddles into her work life, intent on Cynthia returning to Brandeis and more prestige.

The Institute team gets it's first item from the secret warehouse, another crystal ball, and the team discovers the secret of the crystal balls.

Though Araminta Lourcy grew up looking down her nose at the colony planet of Draco and its people, when Earth falls into turmoil the beautiful, spoiled 18-year-old is left with nowhere else to go. But before she is allowed to join this new society, her arrogance must be dealt with....Upon her arrival, Araminta is given to five powerful, dominant men to be trained and cured of her hubris. She will be stripped bare, punished sternly for the slightest disobedience, and made to surrender her virgin body to be used more thoroughly than she could have ever imagined.

Upon reaching the age of 18, Jane was taken from her school and sent to a specialized facility where young women are prepared for marriage. She knows that her future husband will demand her complete submission, but she cannot help blushing crimson at the thought of belonging so completely to a man she has not yet met, let alone being shared by three men each seeking to prove himself the most adept at mastering her.

Determined to make her own match, Lily attempts to hack the computer's database, but when her actions are discovered, she is given a harsh sentence: a punishment marriage. A man will still be chosen for her, but only after a thorough, intimate examination to properly evaluate her long-hidden need to be dominated. To make matters worse for Lily, once the match is made, her new husband will have full authority to take her in hand and chastise her in any way he sees fit.

When she grows tired of the hypocrisy of her society, 20-year-old Eliana Wildwood decides to flaunt the law and do as she pleases. Unfortunately for her, the government of Earth in 3072 doesn't take kindly to such rebelliousness, and soon enough Eliana finds herself sent off to a prison colony. Doctor Sam Fitzgerald has been looking for just the right subject for his study of rehabilitation techniques for female offenders, and Eliana fits the bill perfectly.

The year is 2055. Earth's natural resources have been ravaged and the planet is slowly dying. MERIC, the mining company owned by Samuel Jensen that employs new recruit engineer Kyron, is now mining a newly discovered planet known as Terra Iota when an explosion rocks their operations and brings them to a screeching halt. A strangely powerful blue crystal they will come to know as Xytrinium is cause of the explosion and Kyron is sent to Terra Iota to investigate.