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A riveting new post-apocalyptic EMP box set that keeps you guessing until the end! EMP masterminds Alexandria Clarke, author of Black Out, and James Hunt, author of Static and Surviving the Collapse, come together in this super box set for the first time! In Blackout, after an EMP bomb detonates over the United States, frying the entire electrical grid, Georgie Fitz decides to take refuge at her estranged father’s cabin in the Rocky Mountains with her boyfriend and his family.

They called me an amplifier. And they had bred me, raised me, and trained me to be a killer with preternatural precision. I was capable of taking, holding, and transferring power that wasn’t my own with a simple touch. Skin-to-skin contact. Along with four others of my generation, I could infiltrate any magical organization, extracting whoever or whatever I’d been ordered to extricate. Then I could destroy all evidence of our passing presence. They had made me. They directed me. Controlled me. Then they tried to kill me.

Today’s major technology companies - Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, and others - wield more power than national governments. In this comprehensive, engaging, and prescriptive audiobook, Alexis Wichowski considers their growing and unavoidable influence in our lives, showing in eye-opening detail how these net states are conquering countries, disrupting reality, and jeopardizing our future - and what we can do to regulate and reform the industry before it does irreparable harm to the way we think, how we act, and how we’re governed.

A veteran activist's guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change. For decades, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. For anyone who wants to become more active in resistance or is just feeling overwhelmed or hopeless, Shut It Down offers strategies and actions you can take right now to promote justice and incite change in your own community.

Criminal attorney Liam Price can't believe his luck. He scored a deal for a suite aboard the Starlit Dream to the exotic world of Aquaria. He surprises his wife, Aria, with the trip for her 40th birthday, and the Price family gets ready for the trip of a lifetime. Soon after the voyage starts, they learn that they’ve somehow jumped to the wrong star system. Liam consults the ship’s computer to determine their location, but he can't access the navigational data. The captain claims that there’s nothing to worry about. Then the ship plunges into darkness....

Destined to be together...destined to be apart. I want her. I desire Elizabeth Langdon unlike anything I've ever experienced before, and there is nothing I can do about it. I came to Terra (Earth) on a short-term mission, and then I must fulfill my duty to wed my betrothed to keep the peace on my home planet. Except, I feel nothing for my betrothed and I feel everything for Elizabeth. And I can never tell her.

After facing the same health scare that took her mother, adult film star Vera Eastman sets out on a road trip to finish her mom’s bucket list. First stop, the hometown she escaped the moment she graduated. Her defiant arrival puts her face-to-face with her first love - her first everything - Jack Reeves. Jack’s still the guy who can steal her heart with a smile, but he hasn’t forgiven her for leaving, and avoiding him proves difficult.

A rookie private investigator must put her fledgling business at risk to stop a rogue scientist from unleashing the ultimate biological weapon - a deadly swarm of bionic bugs. When Lara Kingsley starts up her private investigation business to install surveillance systems for wealthy clients, she never imagines having to solve any grisly murders.

Running an auto shop is hard; running an auto shop as a woman is harder; running an auto shop with your ex - who is about to become your stepfather - and his hot brother is just insane. (And then there's the rooster.) Edie Becker is living her childhood dream of running her grandfather’s auto shop. She just didn’t count on having to share ownership of the company with two other people, specifically, her ex-fiancé and his gorgeous older brother, Luke.

Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles; enhance nutrient density in food, rebuild topsoil, and condition urban and agricultural lands to withstand flooding and drought; to cleanse water by carbon filtration and tropic cascades within the world’s rivers, oceans, and wetlands.

Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation.

When bartender Bay Bridges saves a woman from being roofied, she accidentally kills the man responsible. When the dead man is reanimated, Bay gets pulled into a chilling adventure of mystery and murder, but if she digs too deep, she might risk revealing her most treasured secret: she’s a witch.

The Third Planetary War has begun in the Pavo galaxy, and Ophelia Holmes has joined the rebel force Veritas to defeat the International Armament. Ophelia fights with and against her own family to save the galaxy from a devastating fate. Old foes become friends, family members become fiends, and Ophelia learns that war isn’t always black and white.

Addiction recovery doesn’t happen all at once - it’s something that must be worked for every day. Written by two mindfulness and addiction experts, The Gift of Recovery offers quick, in-the-moment tips and tricks to help listeners cope with daily stress and stay firmly on the path to wellness. With this gentle, easy-to-use guide, listeners will learn how to navigate relationships, take time for self-care, and build a mindful, sustainable, and joyful recovery.

When Ophelia Holmes is captured by her one-time best friend Vega Major, the pair returns to the International Armament together. For the first time in seven years, Ophelia must face her family and the consequences of her criminal actions. Trapped on the planet Harmonia, Ophelia uncovers the details of a decades old conspiracy theory.

Ophelia Holmes is content to pillage and plunder with the crew of the Impossible, a notorious pirate spaceship known for its ruthless captain, but when the captain raids Ophelia’s home planet and captures a hostage for intel, Ophelia finds herself in deep space trouble. The hostage is a girl she knew from school, and Ophelia must choose between her loyalty to the captain and her childhood friendship. Meanwhile, a war brews beyond the Impossible.

Bold leaders in existing organizations see well beyond the current business, see the potential available to them, and both appreciate and relish the transformational challenge to win. They will invent the future from the position they start with today. Do you know who the bold leaders are in your organization?

Cassie Turner is a great photographer. While communing with nature is her first love, communing with men is another matter. Evan Donnelly is new to the police force in this area. His previous job had been fulfilling, but things and people change. It was time for him to make new memories. When Evan meets Cassie in an official capacity, he realizes she's a famous photographer. Both might be loners, but after a few dates, they can't deny their attraction.

Hope Sullivan has been with the same man since her freshman year of college. She knows her marriage has its cracks, but she doesn't realize how much resentment she has buried or chosen to blame on herself. That is until a family tragedy forces her to reevaluate her long-held beliefs. When her husband isn't there for her, Hope's first love steps in and offers her a way out. Adrian appears to be everything her husband isn't. But her lover is not who he pretends to be.