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Sara Durell is missing. Sara was the best friend of Carol, Jack Cody’s late wife. Cody now shares a deep platonic bond with Sara, whose compassion and counsel have contributed to his emotional recovery in the wake of that traumatic loss. Jack owes Sara...and Sara has gone missing on a deep-cover mission in Afghanistan. When a SEAL team rescue operation goes terribly wrong, Sara and Cody have no one but themselves to rely on as they forge their way across a harsh desert frontier in a desperate trek for survival against the elements and a relentless Taliban hit team on their trail.

Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfortunately, they have no incentive to solve the problem because near-misses increase their profits. Meredith Angwin describes how closed meetings, arcane auction rules, and five-minute planning horizons will topple the reliability of our electric grid. Shorting the Grid shines light on the vulnerabilities of our grid, and includes suggestions for making the grid more dependable.

Mean Pumpkin is a short story about a selfish bully pumpkin who undergoes a transformation at Halloween.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Radically Apostolic: The Reality, the Journey, and the Reward of the Call of God! and experience a Christian's journey.

What happened was this: My family made me marry a monster. I ran from my wedding... Into the arms of another man. I thought he was my savior. But I was wrong. He was just the beginning of the real nightmare.

Camp David ranks with the White House and Air Force One as the most secure military site in America. Located in the rugged hills of Maryland 60 miles northwest of Washington, Camp David is the private country retreat for the president, his staff, and family, and also the perfect setting for affairs classified as too sensitive for public consumption. When the Israeli prime minister visits Camp David for a summit meeting with POTUS, the stakes are high enough for a highly trained team of terrorist assassins to perform the impossible: penetrate Camp David’s security.

Cody’s mission: locate and extract a defecting physicist, Dr. Kwan, creator of the ghastly mega-weapon, Dragonfire. But the mission goes south almost immediately when a US Navy reconnaissance plane disappears over the South China Sea after observing Chinese nuclear submarine activity. Also missing: the dive team sent to investigate. Then there’s the coup d’état being staged in Beijing by renegade Chinese military officers intent on launching a nuclear holocaust and establishing a New World Order. With no one to trust, Jack Cody races against a threat spawned beneath the sea.

Five days before Christmas, in wintry Chicago, Harry T. Lang loses everything. First, his job, then his wife. Suddenly adrift, Harry takes a job delivering a new, plushily appointed Scenicruiser bus to its new owner, celebrated televangelist Parnassus McGlory. Five days later, arriving in Las Vegas, Harry T. Lang is famous the world over.

Brad Hunter has spent over thirty years writing about some of America's most horrific crimes. In this new book, he enters the mind of John Wayne Gacy, the real-life 'Killer Clown', often said to be the inspiration for Stephen King's evil Pennywise in It. Drawing on his many years' experience investigating and interviewing perpetrators of terrible crimes, Hunter seeks to understand what drove Gacy to unleash a reign of terror in suburban Chicago.

My intention is to show you your importance in the world and the metaphysical universe around you. I wrote this book to introduce you to the metaphysical G-d, who has a relationship with you and those around you; whether you are aware of this or not, you come into contact with him daily. He is omnipresent metaphysically; he is in and outside of his creation. The important thing about this is your importance in the grand scheme of this mysterious creator, and what a metaphysical G-d has to do with you and the creation around you. You are a very big piece of a huge puzzle.

This audiobook is prepared with an exquisite touch that would positively improve the lives of the many people battling cancer worldwide. Your moment of survival begins the moment you embrace the reality that you are living with cancer. This would make it easy for you to accept your health condition and restructure your activities and needs to suit your health conditions. However, you can rest assured that this audiobook would help you through your healing process.

This book takes its title from the 1980 comedy film The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which an empty Coca-Cola bottle is dropped from a plane onto a community of African bushmen. The bottle is thought to be a gift from the gods, but after it incites bitter fighting among the villagers, the tribal leader decides to return it to the gods, embarking upon a journey to the end of the world. Through my own metaphorical Coke bottle, I visualize the dawn of a daunting new empire.

1943 tobt in Tscherkassy eine Kesselschlacht. Unter den Soldaten der deutschen Wehrmacht befindet sich Feldwebel Martin Hajek. Was er bis zum Kriegsende in Russland erlebt, die Gefechte am Bug und der schier aussichtslose Kampf mit dem unerbittlichen, grausamen Winter, wird in diesem aufwühlenden und zugleich packenden Roman erzählt. Tod und Verwundung sind ständig präsent, doch die Hoffnung auf eine Rückkehr nach Hause und die Menschlichkeit in einer unmenschlichen Zeit lassen die Soldaten durchhalten.

London is ablaze, and the only ones who can stop it are the members of Team Reaper! Three bombs have gone off in London, the work of Libyan terrorists. Or is it? MI5 brought in the team, now stationed in Hereford, to help investigate the bombings after the SAS were sidelined for an incident overseas. However, all is not what it seems as they soon discover, and Team Reaper is once again engaged in a life-and-death struggle from Libya to their adopted country’s shores.

A leader recognizes a person’s potential - a great leader helps develop that potential to its fullest. Stifled explores the techniques of successful leaders and managers in detail, offering ideas and solutions to all the challenges facing today’s organizations.

Rafe Carlson’s first day home after many trips has him discovering some of his neighbor’s geriatric horses on his land. He takes the two he’s found and heads for his neighbor's side. When he gets to the fence that should be separating the two properties, he finds it’s been torn down, deliberately. Terri West is shocked at the rugged beauty of Maggie Ann’s neighbor. Terri and Rafe set off to find the other horses, and even though they are total opposites, they just seem to click. Is that enough to build a relationship on?

Inspector Cameron Rande is head of Homicide in Toronto's Police Service, but he doesn't want to be chained to a desk. He assigns himself to head the investigation into the murder of a high-profile developer in one of Toronto's modern skyscrapers with a bullet from an ancient rifle. Rande and his team are soon plunged into a double murder probe as a contractor is beaten to death with a musical instrument out of the 1950s. Both deaths are tied to The Revelle, a downtown, iconic theatre, which had been slated for demolition by the dead men.

When I graduated from medical school, a third of heart attack victims died at home or in the hospital. Heart rhythm disorders were killing or crippling hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. Severe heart failure was a death sentence. Preventive cardiology was practically unknown: the significance of high cholesterol was being debated, 50 percent of adults were smoking cigarettes, and high blood pressure was usually undetected and often poorly controlled. All of this changed for the better - much better - during the 47 years I practiced medicine and cardiology.

In an ancient alternate history, four distinct regions of South America have merged to form one technologically advanced nation called The Land. Twenty-one-year-old Commander Jaway Barbour leads his young crew on military missions against the final remaining holdouts against the empire - the exploited tribes of the Wild Territory. When a bomb explodes, damaging their ship, it sends the crew on unexpected adventures.

Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s captivating account of life as a common sailor on board a merchant ship in the early 1830s. Dana captures the cruel conditions on board the ship, the injustices of merchant seamen at the hands of brutally unforgiving captains, and the treacherous icy weather at Cape Horn. An iconic maritime memoir said to have influenced Herman Melville, Two Years Before the Mast remains one of America’s greatest and most vivid seafaring tales.