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Set in the mid-1980's in Cuba. Labor Secretary for the State of Pennsylvania, Stephen Masters, while on a flight to Miami,FL to deliver an address at a conference is alerted the plane has been hijacked and is now headed to Cuba. Another passenger on the flight is Cuban diplomat Joyce Hurtado. It becomes evident early in the hijacking process that both Masters and Hurtado will be prize objects for the revolutionary group to use for achieving their ambitious objectives. Masters to trade for a revolutionary leader imprisoned in the US for gun smuggling to Cuban revolutionary groups-Hutrado for...

In this groundbreaking book, T.J. Waters has turned his experience collecting and analyzing competitive intelligence for the CIA into effective strategies for businesses wanting to stay on the leading edge of their industries. The book describes a practical process from planning (identifying competitive threats and determining the resources needed to counter them) through implementation (creating an organizational strategy) to execution (collecting key information and turning it into bottom-line results).

Dakota is wealthy, famous and adored hunter. She is also lonely, driven and tortured by memories of the people she wasn’t able to save. Hunting as a profession slowly evolved from the concept of private investigators as the needs of the citizenry outstripped the capacity of public law enforcement's ability to solve crimes. Over the last ten years tremendous increases in crimes related to the manufacture and sell of designer drugs brought every major law enforcement agency to its knees. The devastating effects of theses potent illicit drugs on the general population outweighed almost every...

A missing quantum laptop with a world changing secret. A ruthless agent desperate to win... A hero who won’t lose! The world is desperately driven by the skyrocketing demand for Rare Earth Metals. The location of the world’s largest deposit sits inside an encrypted, quantum laptop. Only a tiny key can correctly unlock the coordinates to the vast lode. Russian, Chinese and Americans are desperate to find the tiny key and reveal the location. But time is running out. Attack after murderous attack reveal another leak in the American CIA and result in a horrific battle where it all began. ...

Conceived during a fog-drenched car ride with nothing beyond the windshield but a horizon-less void, Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed Tales from Beyond the Pale, audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

Rory Quinn is a New York police officer who enjoys chasing women, drinking hard, and beating the crap out of bad guys. He's used to waking up with hangovers that leave most people curled around a toilet. But that all changes after one drunken night of revelry. Instead of a bathroom floor, he wakes up to find he's been dead for 500 years. And if that ain’t enough, the earth he knew is long gone. Zombies, cataclysmically evil robots, and techno-demons seem to be the least of his problems, as they all pale compared to his crazy immortal ex-wife!

THE ANOMALY: AWAKENING What if the past didn’t disappear… What if it was waiting to be found? Beneath the ruins of a fallen world, something impossible has survived. And it just woke up. A DISCOVERY THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING Lucan Thorne is a retrieval specialist—one of the few trusted to enter the dead sectors of a collapsed civilization and recover what history left behind. He has seen abandoned cities, failed technology, and the quiet aftermath of humanity’s greatest mistakes. But he has never seen anything like this. Hidden inside a sealed archive lost for decades, Lucan finds a ...

Social media companies change our behavior through feeds. With every scandal and whistleblower testimony, it was proven once more that they put profit over human well-being. After two years of research and experiments, former Microsoft engineer J.T. Rowan developed 7 recommendations to reduce screen time by 75% and become a digital minimalist. This book explains the 7 recommendations in a simple way to help you save time, money, and your health. * * * “There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: Illegal drugs and software” ~ Edward Tufte “Because we don’t ...

In the city of New Lyons, Detective Jason Campbell is investigating a vicious crime: a female body found mutilated and left in the streets. Once the victim is identified as a Synth, the crime is designated no more than the destruction of property, and Campbell is pulled from the case. But when a mysterious stranger approaches Campbell and asks him to continue his investigation in secret, Campbell is dragged into a dark world of unimaginable corruption. One that leaves him questioning the true nature of humanity. And what he discovers is only the beginning....

Review from Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize: "The originality of All Bets Are Off comes in the way Sahin presents his ideas — directly and succinctly. There are no long explanations or analyses of the academic literature. The prose is clear, to-the-point, and easy to scan, as if the author did in fact write this book while keeping his time management hacks in mind for both himself and the reader. It’s a quick and easy read that presents the reader with a lot of very good, if oft-repeated in the lay literature, ideas to improve their lives." * * * You will die by 2054 if you are at the...

Under the Blackmoon, elf fire rises to meet a growing shadow but no one expects what is coming. Fadis, Ranger of the North, had thought he had seen it all when he was with the Stormborn... then one sudden explosion later and thousands of fanged thralls of a lost Vampire-God erupted from the grounds all across his homeland. Rallying fellow rangers, elves, and dwarves to his side— the living fight for their lives. But worse whispers come from the dark places of the world: a veil descends across Taria isolating it from the rest of the lands as an ancient Rusis temple comes alive... when two ...

Ox a douze ans quand son père quitte le foyer familial en lui disant qu'il ne vaut rien et que les gens ne le comprendront jamais. Il en a seize lorsqu'il rencontre Joe Bennett dont la famille vient d'emménager dans la maison du bout de la route. Joe, qui parle, parle, parle. Qui parle comme il ne l'avait plus fait depuis presque deux ans. La vie d'Ox change alors du jour au lendemain, car les Bennett accueillent à bras ouvert cet adolescent solitaire au sein de leur famille. De leur clan. De leur meute.

Welcome to FhCon. An event unlike any other, hosted by ancient and secret masters of fandom. They're insanely happy you're here. Nineteen popular, best-selling, and award-winning authors bring you stories of a convention experience only the Old Gods will make you forget.

Hart Kang is the widely adored son of a politician who finds himself desperate to know what goes on inside the walls of the Teorrain and if the government treats the Crossed people equal to Pravis, like himself, as they claim. Violetta Akan, is destined to live out her days in a town behind one of 15 circular walls that separates her and others like her from civilization. Hart meets Violetta when he secretly discovers a tunnel into the Teorrain, and both of their lives get exponentially more dangerous when they find themselves falling for one another.

HEGEMON IN THE MAKING is the first part of the account of the hegemons that shaped the Western World, a thousand-year story per se about ancient Rome and the nature of its world. This involves the empires it fought against, the lands and people it conquered, the “Barbarian” invasions it defeated and failed to stop, and the influence it exerted in Europe, Africa, and East Asia (The Middle East), making it the target of other powerful forces determined to bring it down while cherishing its civilization, the positive attributes that constitute the bedrock of Western civilization today ...

Three adventurous teenagers stumble upon an ancient secret in their small town of Hollow Grove. When they inadvertently awaken a ghoul bound by a dark curse, they must unravel the mystery behind its origins and find a way to stop it before it claims them as its next victims.

Question your typical perception. See beyond the normal you know. Step into divergent realms. Let this anthology of new and original short stories show you the fantastic and futuristic through a new lens. A struggling father discovers why his autistic daughter becomes consumed with a virtual reality simulator in the wake of her mother’s death.

Get ready for an electrifying new chapter in the LA Witch series with LA Witch: Head Witch - book five of the series! Meet Holly Ivy McNee, a powerful witch with a formidable challenge ahead of her. As part of The Order's mission to destroy all witches, Holly is facing her toughest battle yet. The stakes are higher than ever before, and Holly isn't sure if she's going to make it out alive. To make matters worse, The Order has sent a spy, and she's not like any other spy they've encountered before. The spy is a six-year-old girl who looks familiar to Holly. Holly must confront this ...

What has been missing from the daring tales of fairy tale heroes is quite simply some heft. In Burly Tales, Lambda Literary Award-winning editor Steve Berman has gathered a dozen stories of whimsy and romance that feature gay men with plenty of curves and fur. Run away with us to enchanted woods, where the cubs and bears are not going to eat you (not without informed, enthusiastic consent), where no one will judge if you take up residence in a house with seven bearded men and only one bed.

She's falling for the groom . . . After losing her job and getting evicted from her home, the last thing florist Anna Nolan needs is to ruin her new gig. But it's hard for her to work for the powerful and sexy Gabriel Radcliffe. Namely, because Anna's arranging the flowers for his wedding to...