Jammed (A Charlie Cooper Mystery, Volume 1)
At age twenty-nine, Charlie Cooper's life is not exactly a hit. Working as a precinct secretary at the Boston Police answering phones, making appointments and writing up crime reports means she might not be on the fast track to her ultimate dream job. And her living situation? She is the proud inhabitant of the most minuscule "master suite" she can afford to pay, where she can brush her teeth, get her clothes out of the dresser drawer, and turn on the hallway light without getting out of bed. But when her boss sends her to work undercover, she's ready to take the bull by the horns and prove she is more than just a fast typist. Sure, she has to bite the bullet by returning to her hometown and living with her wacky family, but this is only the cover for her real assignment: finding clues involving a real big drug case.
Reset: A psychological thriller exploring what you’d sacrifice in the pursuit of love
Jane was twenty years old when the accident happened. When she wakes from her coma, she is twenty-eight. Now, she needs to play catch up. It doesn't help that her dreams are plagued with a mysterious teen journeying towards a distant light, a palace of golden tears, and the promise of transcendent love. Jane doesn't have time to get distracted... But when the mysterious teen shows up in real life, Jane is determined to know why.
The Angel and The Warrior (THE LOST CLAN Book 1)
A hunted woman, a forbidden love... and time ticking down on an ancient curse. THE LOST CLAN, BOOK 1. Eighteen years ago, Swift Hawk was sent to the earthly realm to try to break an enchantment that curses his clan to a half-life in the mists. As his allotted time runs short, a vision gives him a glimpse of his last chance to free his people: A delicate young woman with translucent white skin and star-like hair. He never thought his sacred vision would possess the tongue of a shrew. Angelia Honeywell and her brother Julian fled Mississippi amid a hail of rotten tomatoes and flying bullets. She only fired back in self-defense, but now they are on the run as their father pleads their case to the governor. With Julian trying to pass himself off as a wagon train scout, Angel knows they need help. When the handsome, black-eyed Swift Hawk agrees to save their skins, she can't help but be drawn to his compelling gaze. But as they come together in a blaze of desire, the dark shadows of the curse descend, threatening to divide them forever.
Rogue (Book 1 of The Rogue Series)
A rogue planet is coming. It will destroy Earth and every living thing on it. Extinction is almost inevitable. Twenty-six billion lives will be lost. Just nine million will survive -- on the Bertram Ramsay, a vast space station destined to leave Earth's orbit in a matter of months. Jaxon Leith is one of the chosen. Plucked from the Bleeds -- London's towering slums -- he enters Compression, the final, brutal phase of training before life in space. But salvation has enemies. The Acolytes of Gaia have infiltrated the evacuation, determined to see humanity erased. And as launch day nears, Jaxon finds himself caught in a silent war that could doom the mission before it ever leaves Earth.
Child of Science: A Military Science Fiction Novel
Raiden Thorn had been free for four weeks. Four weeks with a borrowed name, a manufactured identity, and memories that only went back six years: to a research facility where they tried to erase what they'd created. It hadn't been enough time to disappear. But when a mining station executive labeled him indigent, Raiden was conscripted into the Navy and assigned to the patrol ship Narwhal -- just as tensions with the Scylding reached a breaking point. Then strange things started happening. Sensors malfunctioned. Something in the data hinted at new technology. Raiden saw the pattern first. Whatever they tried to erase was still there: designed for moments like this.
Killers of Men
"Should I die, and find my seat reserved at the devil's table, I'll know it was a place set aside for me back in that spring. That spring when I lost my family, my innocence, and my virginity, in something approximating that order. When I come to realize that men need not be good to serve a good cause." Spring, late 1800s. The town of Tooms Ridge, in the unincorporated territories. The Ettinger gang robs the First National Bank, leaving behind a wake of death and destruction. The town commissions a posse to bring the outlaws to justice. Or to bring justice to them. The hunters include...
The Quiet Ones Die First
In Pinewood, the children don't speak. And the last teacher who asked why never left. When Leah Mercer accepts a teaching position in the remote mountain town of Pinewood, she's looking for a place to disappear. After losing everything -- her career, her reputation, her home -- for daring to report abuse at her Boston school, a six-month contract in a town too small for GPS seems like the fresh start she desperately needs. But from the moment Leah steps into her classroom, she knows something is wrong. Nine students. Nine desks. And not a single voice. The children of Pinewood don't speak. Not to her. Not to each other. Not even by accident. They communicate through gestures, through glances, through a secret language of the body that Leah can see but cannot read. When a pencil drops, the room freezes. When a child coughs, fear flickers across every face. The principal calls it composure. The townspeople call it tradition. Leah calls it what it is: terror.
Shadows of Amethyst Mountain
Monty Hendrickson is making plans to bring his bride, Mary Charlotte Stuart, from her plantation home in Georgia to his ranch home in the West. But Arizona Territory, early 1880s is a time when silver and copper mining, cattle ranching, and renegade Apaches vie for the land. Will lawlessness, kidnapping, murder, and mystery surrounding the C Bar B Ranch thwart Monty's plans? Or will trials, separations, and hardships lead them to let God's providential hand shape their lives and mold them into the people He wants them to be?
Fallout (Benson First Responders Book 7)
BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES. A second chance. Destiny Reed went to Africa hoping to make a difference, but when a dangerous group kidnapped her and another woman, her life took a dark turn. Recovery has her working as the executive assistant at Vanguard under the watchful eye of the team who rescued her. She might be willing to help the company that saved her, but if she lets go, the people she has at arms' length will discover her dark secret.
The Puppet of the Omnigods: The Thaumaturge, Book 1
The planet Terram is submerged in an endless informational storm that leaves encoded patterns all over the earth. Light, sound, and information reflect in a special way, driving the planet's creatures through predefined thoughts and emotions, affecting their choices and evolution. Only one kind of creature is immune to the storms - the thaumaturge. Distant relatives of wizards, thaumaturges feel, think, and weave information that adds a unique pattern to the environment, corroding the existing Informational Order bit by bit. Aneralt is the only thaumaturge student at the school of Kakhard-Toon. He has dedicated most of his life to studying the informational storms. His research leads him to a terrifying realization: this isn't just a natural phenomenon -- there's a hidden conspiracy threatening the entire human race.
Pieces of Blue
Life comes in shades of blue... Self-imposed loner, Maggie North, has worked for bestselling author Trilby Winterroad her entire adult life, starting as simply his assistant and ending up as his ghost writer. Through ups and downs--including a divorce from an abusive husband--he has been the one person on whom she could always rely. So when Trilby dies suddenly, Maggie finds herself adrift, not sure what she'll do or where she belongs in the world any longer. And the confusion continues when she discovers he's not only left her his beloved dachshund, Chloe, but a house she knew nothing about, on a lake she's never heard of.
PEACE AND CONFLICT: A War story about the America's soldiers and Marine and the French Foreign Legion (The Soldier's Wars Book 2)
This is the second action-packed book in Martin Archer's acclaimed "The Soldiers and Marines" saga describing what happens to a young combat soldier when he decides to become a professional soldier and stay on active duty. Chris Roberts leaves behind the intense Korean War combat between the United Nations' forces and the North Koreans and Chinese and is permanently assigned to Europe - until he finds himself serving with the French Foreign Legion's fabled Second Parachute Regiment as it goes down at Dien Bien Phu and then in charge of a small detachment tasked with filling NATO's gaps and exploiting Russia's weaknesses in the on-coming war with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
Fallen Soul (War of Destiny Book 4)
Feared. Hunted. Shunned. Lane Marlow has been on the run for decades. Condemned for feeding off his own kind, he escaped Valentino, King of the Vampires. As rumors circulate about how such a young vampire escaped, Valentino orders him killed on sight. Lane manages to elude or kill all those who came after him before disappearing. But now, Lane longs for the home he had been forced to abandon. As he starts to make his way back to Ireland, he is discovered in Rome. Realizing that his quarry is still very much alive, Valentino sends two of his Council members to lead the hunt. As Lane battles those sent after him, he stumbles across a group of vampires who are different than any he's ever dealt with. They don't attack him. They don't run from him. And they live with humans. But are they unexpected allies, or just another obstacle to getting home?
The Stone Family Lighthouse (South Port Beach Romances Book 3)
A man who's been left at the altar. A woman who doesn't need any help! Will they give each other a second chance? Marshall Stone didn't become the kind of helicopter pilot that extracts Delta Force and Navy SEALs by being a wimp. No. He has grit and he demands that same grit in everyone around him. Too bad that getting left at the altar and grounded from flying makes him question himself. But, he's fine. More than fine. Coming back to South Port to help with the Family Inn is easy work until he runs into Kat Dixon. The girl who had once been his best friend, until she'd dashed his heart to pieces ten years ago.
Five Minute Middle Grade Mysteries Volume 1 (Solve It Yourself Mysteries)
Are you as smart as the Mystery Kids? Join Joe, Amy, Sarah, and Will as they encounter 12 unusual cases while on holiday in 1950's UK. With each mystery less than 900 words, see if you can read and solve it in under five minutes. If not, have a look at the accompanying hint. Once you think you know the answer, flip to the back of the book to see if you're right. Who stole the priceless jewels? Did Leopold Walker really discover a lost city? Who painted the cat? Where is Barney Buckle flying to? Which man is the secret agent? Who started the fire? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in this interactive middle grade puzzle book that is perfect for fans of Encyclopedia Brown or those looking to test their detective skills. Includes The Mystery of the Christmas Thief, a bonus short story.
Mateguas Island: A Novel of Terror and Suspense
What could be more idyllic than to live on an island off the coast of Maine? That's what Bill Andersen thought when he moved his family to Mateguas. But Mateguas is more than just pristine beaches nestled between rocky shores. No, Mateguas is really something quite different...
For the Love of Demons and Katanas
When twenty-four people vanish, paranormal PI Jenna takes the case. The deeper she digs, the darker the truth becomes. To solve it, she must rely on the one person she can’t trust—a dangerously seductive lust demon whose power could destroy her. Constantine meets Jessica Jones in this witty urban fantasy where demons stalk the streets and a decades-old mystery threatens everything.
Something in the Walls (Terrifying Tales)
A mind-bending horror that will keep you awake at night. David Howell came to Hollywood in pursuit of a dream. He never expected to wake up in a nightmare. When an earthquake rips through his aging apartment building, David thinks the worst is over once the shaking stops. But the damage runs deeper than cracked plaster and shattered nerves. Something beneath the building has been disturbed. Something that should have stayed buried. At first, it's easy to ignore -- unexplained vibrations in the walls, faint sounds in the vents, the creeping feeling of being watched. Then a tenant vanishes. Then another. And the building itself begins to feel less like shelter and more like a trap.
Beyond the Algorithm: Human Wisdom for Leading in the Responsible AI Era
"Not an AI technology book. A human one. Beyond the Algorithm helps people navigate AI with wisdom."
Life is not Complicated, You Are (College Edition)
Life is not Complicated, You Are (College Edition) Has inspired future leaders in classrooms across America. "Carlos Wallace talks about different aspects of life, his book is very big on motivation. He talks about how he went through different tragic things in his life. He talks about financial ruin, and how you have to take one step at a time and pick yourself up from your troubles. Just like in the book when it talks about motivation. Just because we don't always meet the certain goals we had planned for ourselves doesn't mean we weren't successful. We just created a new goal, sometimes more realistic."