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She survived the shooting. Then she vanished. Three weeks after being shot in her own home, Skye Aberra is struggling to feel safe again. Rico promises to protect the woman he loves-and to find the man who hurt her. But his search draws him into secrets he has to keep from Skye. When Skye disappears, Rico must turn to Gaston Bastile, the rival whose lies once cost him years of his life. Their uneasy alliance leads them beyond Miami and across open water, following a trail Skye is risking everything to leave behind. As Skye fights to survive, Rico faces a choice: give in to revenge or hold on to the future they hoped to build together. Rico's Revenge is book two in the Bleu Series, a passionate romantic suspense story of betrayal, resilience, and love under pressure. Begin Skye and Rico's story with True Bleu.

This book is the testimony of healing and restoration of Joan Schreiner, a woman of unwavering faith. Through each chapter, you will discover how God's love and mercy can transform a life, taking it by the hand and leading it to salvation. Joan has tried to capture her life experience in this book so that her readers can draw closer to God. Although her life was not easy, she understood that there is always a way out. And as she herself narrates in her book, resilience is an important characteristic. I invite you to be part of her powerful testimony and to be filled with the love that flows in each chapter.

After Midnight is a deeply personal narrative that explores a pivotal and often overlooked chapter of Southern history through the lens of memory, place, and lived experience. Centered on the complex history and cultural significance of the Parchman Natchez M, this book blends firsthand reflection with historical context to illuminate how a powerful institution shaped individuals, families, and communities across generations. Written in a vivid, narrative style, it moves beyond dates and headlines to reveal the human cost of silence, the weight of inherited stories, and the struggle to confront truths that were long left in the shadows. Readers interested in American history, cultural studies, and memoir will find a compelling account that is both informative and emotionally resonant. After Midnight invites thoughtful reflection on the South’s past and the enduring work of remembering what history tried to leave behind.

This book is a radiant blend of memoir, spiritual reflection, and practical wisdom that explores what it truly means to uncover one’s potential through faith, perseverance, humility, and inner transformation. Following a journey from humble and often overlooked beginnings into spaces of higher learning, healing, leadership, and service, it reflects on how struggle, memory, discipline, and grace shape both identity and calling. Rather than presenting success as something seized through ambition, status, or self-promotion, the book offers a deeper vision of becoming—one rooted in courage, surrender, character, and faithful effort over time. Written for readers drawn to memoirs of resilience, this book offers inspiration and guidance and speaks to anyone seeking to live more awake, and bring their full humanity to the world around them. Ultimately, it is an invitation to let one’s inner light emerge not for personal acclaim, but as a source of hope, healing, and encouragement for others.

It is never too late to start over... especially with the help of a few friends. While Joules is returning home to pick up the pieces of her life and bravely begin again, Edna—the beloved matriarch of the family—is finally ready to look back. For the first time, the secrets of Edna's five marriages and her own captivating backstory come to light, weaving a powerful thread of love, resilience, and second chances between the past and the present. Though both women have played significant roles throughout the Carrington Series, this next chapter brings their journeys full circle. Whether you’ve been following the family from the start or are dropping into their world for the very first time, prepare yourself for a self-contained, standalone romance packed with emotional depth, found-family charm, and a deeply satisfying, no-cliffhanger ending.

SWAT — Servant With A Testimony is a powerful, transparent, and inspirational journey through the life of Dr. Forte’ Carter—a woman who discovered that some of life’s greatest battles can become the very testimonies God uses to transform others. SWAT is more than an autobiography. It is a testimony of faith, resilience, perseverance, purpose, and spiritual transformation. Through deeply personal experiences, Dr. Carter opens the pages of her life and shares the victories, disappointments, relationships, struggles, lessons, and defining moments that helped shape the woman she is today. The book takes readers behind the public ministry and title of Dr. Forte’ Carter and into the personal experiences that tested her faith and challenged her to keep moving forward. Her story demonstrates that being called does not mean being exempt from trials. Sometimes the greatest preparation for purpose comes through the very experiences we would rather forget. SWAT encourages readers to look at their own lives differently. The wounds, disappointments, setbacks, and battles they have survived may not have been the end of their story—they may be evidence of what they have overcome and preparation for the testimony they are destined to share. With honesty, strength, vulnerability, and faith, Dr. Carter reminds readers that their testimony has value. What tried to break you can become what builds you. What you survived can become the message that helps someone else survive. SWAT — Servant With A Testimony is for anyone who has ever been tested, knocked down, misunderstood, disappointed, or forced to start again. It is an invitation to recognize the power within your story and understand that your testimony can become someone else's source of hope. You survived the battle. Now tell the testimony.

Everyone said the same thing: work hard, grow your business, and one day sell it through a broker. They were wrong. Eight or nine out of every ten businesses that go to market never sell. And the owners who do sell typically lose 30 to 50 percent of the price in fees and taxes. A five million dollar business, sold the traditional way, leaves its owner with around three million. Twenty-five years of work, nearly half of it gone. Not to bad luck. To a game with rules nobody ever taught you. In late 2020, Marc Adams was diagnosed with stage four cancer and given six months to live. He survived, and a question from his ten-year-old son during recovery, what happens to the families of owners whose businesses never sell, became his mission: to change the way companies are bought, valued and sold all over the world. In The AI-Powered Exit, Marc hands you the complete map. How to use AI, practically and inexpensively, to grow your profit, cut your costs and make your business run without you. Why AI alone will never double your value in six months, and the multiple game that will. How aligned capital lets you build a group around your business with no equity given up, no debt, no personal guarantees and no broker fees. And how owners who plan early legally keep up to 90 percent of the price instead of barely 60. Whether your exit is next year or a decade away, the price you sell for is being decided right now. This book shows you the dream, and the map to get there. Someday is a decision. Make a better one.

A personal story of resilience, hope and new beginnings. Witness how my life challenges were transformed into opportunities and how I was raised above the ashes And soared higher than ever before. Join me on this journey and be inspired to embrace change and overcome adversity.

Dennis Gilfeather a young Scottish pugilist who practices the noble art of boxing.... "There seemed to be a huge gaping hole inside of me. I wanted some answers but didn’t know where to look. I felt like there was a huge worldwide conspiracy afoot to keep me in a state of utter confusion, making me so numb that I had no choice but to give up and let the experts get on with it. What a wonderful thing democracy is. You can say what you want as long as you do as you’re told. It all seemed so superficial, so inadequate. Where would it all lead? Lying in some hospital bed in thirty years’ time, dying of some ‘disease of civilization’; up to my neck in debt, alcoholism, depression, loneliness and insanity. There had to be more to life than this.I am talking about liberation here. Freedom from the bondage of self. Freedom from our blinkered, prejudiced, opinionated thoughts. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got. The more stoned I got, the more abstract yet somehow meaningful it all became. We were one and the same. I was he. He was me. That bald little Chinese monk on TV was beckoning me to follow the path, the way of the warrior, the way of the Grasshopper. The monk was right; change was the natural way of the universe. Things were not always as they appeared to be". A young Scottish boxer breaks away from the shackles of his environment, only to find himself mixed up with heroin smuggling in Asia. A story of violence, prison, fear and desperation, which leads to inner reflection and finally redemption.

Library of Democracy makes a clear, timely case for one of the most trusted civic institutions in public life. Quentin B. Yarrow shows how libraries do far more than lend books: they expand access to information, support civic learning, preserve shared memory, and provide a welcoming space for debate and participation. In a society shaped by privatized media, unequal access, and algorithm-driven information, the library stands out as a place where knowledge remains open, privacy is respected, and public reasoning can still take root. Written for students, educators, librarians, civic leaders, and general readers, this formal and accessible book explains why democracy depends on shared institutions that lower barriers to learning and participation. It also offers a persuasive framework for defending libraries as essential to the common good. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of how public libraries strengthen informed citizenship and why protecting them is inseparable from protecting self-government itself.

Common Ground Democracy explains why cooperation across party lines is essential to the health of democratic institutions, public trust, and self-government. In clear, formal prose, Quentin P. Yarrow shows how democracy weakens when partisan identity overwhelms civic identity, when opponents are treated as enemies, and when gridlock and retaliation replace ordinary bargaining. The book argues that common ground is not a slogan or a call to abandon convictions, but a practical method for preserving disagreement without destroying legitimacy. Readers will see how predictable rules, reciprocity, and institutional trust help democratic systems absorb conflict and remain durable under pressure. Drawing on the relationship between interpersonal trust, institutional trust, and civic life, this book offers a compelling case for nonpartisan cooperation as a foundation for democratic renewal. It is an essential read for anyone concerned with civics, public policy, and the long-term survival of democratic institutions.

Civic Foundations makes a clear, timely case for public education as one of democracy’s most important institutions. Quentin P. Yarrow shows how public schools do more than teach reading, writing, and math: they create a common civic space where children from different backgrounds learn to live with difference, practice respectful disagreement, and develop the habits that make self-government possible. Drawing on the civic promise of universal education, the book explains why equal access to strong schools supports equal standing, shared opportunity, and public trust. It also explores what is at stake when schools are weakened or neglected, arguing that the health of democracy depends on informed citizens and institutions that serve the common good. Written in an accessible, informal style, this book is for teachers, school leaders, policymakers, and engaged readers who want a sharper understanding of why public schools matter far beyond the classroom.

Ants are among the most successful animals on Earth, and their societies offer a powerful window into how cooperation evolves. In The Ant Collective, Nora F. Mercer shows how tiny colonies shape soil, seeds, predation, and nutrient cycling while revealing the deep biological roots of social life. Drawing on the scale of ant diversity and the logic of colony living, this book explains why ants are such a compelling model for studying cooperation in nature. Readers will follow the transition from solitary insects to organized social systems, exploring how relatedness, environmental pressures, and the first family groups helped set the stage for colony life. Mercer also examines the ant body and brain, showing how sensory systems, pheromones, task specialization, and reproductive castes support complex collective behavior. Written for curious general readers and science enthusiasts, this book connects ant evolution to broader questions about individuality, cooperation, and the ancient origins of social behavior across the tree of life.

Slugs are easy to overlook, but their bodies tell a remarkable story. In Slug Signals, Nora F. Mercer reveals how these soft, slimy animals move, breathe, sense the world, and survive in habitats that can seem hostile to delicate life. Readers learn what slug mucus is made of, why slime is essential to motion and moisture control, and how it can serve as armor, warning, and signal. The book also clarifies what makes a slug a slug, how slugs differ from snails, and why the line between them is more evolutionary than obvious. Written for curious general readers and science-minded nature lovers, this accessible exploration turns an ordinary garden encounter into a window on deep ancestry. By following the biology and behavior of slugs, the book shows how humble land-dwellers illuminate the ancient origins of life on land and the adaptations that made survival possible. Slug Signals offers a vivid, surprising appreciation of an animal most people think they already know.

Buried Lineages reveals how moles became one of evolution’s most striking examples of life underground. Written for general readers and science-minded nature enthusiasts, this book uses the mole’s hidden world to explain how mammals adapt to extreme environments, how similar pressures can shape unrelated animals in similar ways, and what subterranean life can tell us about deep mammal history. From powerful digging limbs and reinforced skulls to reduced eyes and specialized bodies, moles show the trade-offs that come with living below the surface. Along the way, readers will meet true moles, shrew moles, and desmans, and see how their diversity helps illuminate evolutionary branching and constraint. Clear, engaging, and grounded in biology, Buried Lineages offers a fresh perspective on adaptation, ancestry, and the ancient forces that shaped mammals long before humans appeared. It is an inviting guide to one of nature’s most overlooked success stories and a compelling reminder that the ground beneath our feet holds clues to our own origins.

The Woodpecker Signal reveals how one of nature’s most familiar birds became a master of life on trees. With clear scientific insight and vivid detail, Nora F. Mercer explores why woodpeckers drum, drill, forage, and excavate, showing that each behavior is more than a simple peck. It is communication, problem-solving, and survival shaped by anatomy and ecology. Readers will discover how skull structure, beaks, and the extraordinary tongue and hyoid system work together to manage impact and unlock hidden food sources. Along the way, the book uses woodpeckers as a window into a larger evolutionary story, connecting local adaptation to deep inherited design. Accessible to curious general readers yet rich in scientific perspective, this book offers a fresh understanding of bird biology and a broader appreciation for how evolution shapes living bodies through deep time.

Worms in Motion shows why some of the simplest animals on Earth are among the most revealing. In clear, accessible language, Nora F. Mercer explains how worm-like bodies help scientists investigate the deep history of animal life, from the earliest movements to the origins of body plans, symmetry, and support structures. Rather than treating worms as biological footnotes, this book places them at the center of evolutionary science, where their movement, anatomy, and diversity illuminate how complex life emerged. Readers will learn why the term “worm” is a useful but imperfect label, how different worm-like animals fit into the animal family tree, and what crawling, burrowing, and body organization can tell us about ancient ancestry. Written for curious general readers, biology enthusiasts, and students, this is an engaging introduction to evolution that makes big scientific questions feel vivid, concrete, and alive.

How to Cure a Cranky Kid is a warm, practical guide for parents, caregivers, and early childhood educators who want a better understanding of children from infancy through age five. Written in an informal, reassuring voice, this book helps adults make sense of behavior that can feel confusing, exhausting, or downright cranky. Instead of offering rigid rules or one-size-fits-all fixes, Dr. Lora-Ellen McKinney focuses on the why behind young children’s actions and shows how to create the kind of environment that supports learning, play, trust, and cooperation. Readers will explore early brain development, developmental stages, age-appropriate expectations, and the factors that can help or hinder healthy growth. The result is a grounded, compassionate resource that aims to reduce stress for adults while helping children thrive. Whether you are raising a toddler, teaching preschoolers, or caring for a young child at home or in the classroom, this book offers clear insight and encouraging strategies for building stronger relationships and guiding children toward basic rules and positive behavior.

Love Island Lessons uses the hit reality series as a sharp cultural case study to examine how Gen Z dates, desires, and builds connection in a world shaped by screens, comparison, and constant visibility. Brielle Z. Dalton shows how reality TV turns private behavior into public evidence, revealing the pressures that influence attraction, communication, and emotional maturity. Drawing on the format of Love Island, the book explores why modern dating can feel both hyperconnected and deeply isolating, and why abundance, performance, and the fear of being judged often complicate romance. Written in a clear, journalistic voice, this book is for readers who want more than commentary: it offers a way to understand the social forces behind today’s relationship habits and the practical lessons they suggest. Whether you are interested in dating culture, media criticism, or the psychology of young adulthood, Love Island Lessons helps explain what contemporary romance rewards, what it distorts, and what it still requires from people trying to connect honestly.

100 Questions That Shape Faith offers a clear, thoughtful guide to Christianity through one hundred essential questions about belief, Scripture, God, Jesus, doctrine, history, morality, and modern life. Written for curious seekers, new believers, and longtime Christians alike, this book invites readers to move beyond surface-level answers and engage the faith with honesty and confidence. Rather than treating questions as threats, it shows how sincere inquiry can deepen understanding, strengthen conviction, and renew spiritual growth. With an expository style and plain-language explanations, Felix Upton addresses the core claims of Christianity in a way that is accessible without being simplistic. Readers will find insight into what Christians believe, why those beliefs matter, and how they speak to real-life doubts and decisions. Whether you are exploring Christianity for the first time or looking to reaffirm what you already know, this book provides a steady, illuminating path toward clearer faith and more meaningful reflection.

The Harmonic Geometry of Existence presents the culmination of forty years of independent research into the deep structure of reality. Ian Hills introduces a unified geometric framework showing that a single harmonic operator underlies phenomena across every scale, from atomic structure to biological organisation, from consciousness to the rise and collapse of civilizations. At the centre of this synthesis is Temporal Relativity, the claim that time is not a universal constant but a local rate shaped by geometry itself. Curvature, rotation, boundary, and pacing form the four fundamental terms that generate coherent systems, drive transitions between modes, and reveal why stability and collapse follow predictable harmonic patterns. This unified edition reconstructs eight previously separate works into one continuous field narrative, written in clear operator language accessible to general readers while supported by extensive technical annexes. It moves recursively from time to matter, from biology to mind, from cosmology to culture, offering falsifiable predictions, mathematical foundations, and correspondences with established physics. Along the way it explores DNA as a harmonic masterpiece, ancient temples as toroidal engines, redshift as temporal modulation, and humanity’s potential emergence into a second resonance. For scientists, philosophers, and readers who sense a deeper architecture beneath the world, this book provides a coherent map that makes invisible patterns intelligible. The geometry was always there; this work reveals it in its complete form.

Beauty Hired the Beast. The year is 1986. The crime is kidnapping. The storytelling is three points of view; the Beauty, the Beast, and the Kidnapper. The Beauty: Her name is Juliette Wilde. She is a young supermodel who is fading from the spotlight, only to be brought back into it by the actions of the Beast. Everything changes when she hires him. The Beast: His name is Mitch Corvin. He is a reformed criminal who is given a second chance by the Beauty. Equally indebted to and fascinated by her, he will stop at nothing to keep Juliette safe. Everything changes when she saves his life. The Kidnapper: He has been planning this crime all along. Everything changes when Beauty and the Beast become inseperable. However, nothing can prepare any of them for the dangerous and explosive journey that awaits them in the twisting and turning trail that is the Run Way.

This second book in the 1 Law 4 All series dives into the heart of political corruption with a remarkably diverse band of characters. Vegas dances from adventure to adventure beginning with the mysterious disappearance of Mark's twin sister, Janelle. From American Samoa, Kitiona calls on her 1 Law 4 All Foundation pals to investigate. The fledgling 1 Law 4 All Foundation parleys the missing person's report into a web of political deceit. Soon they are confronted with overtones from the American and Asian mobs and a Fast and Furious, Mexican cartel. With Las Vegas as ground zero, the Foundation tries to solve the mysteries surrounding Janelle. The threats of murder and the realities of gun battles stimulate the adventurous overflow. How will the Jimmy and the Foundation pioneers avoid tragedy? Or will they? 1 Law 4 All - Vegas mingles drama and intrigue with realistic people-like characters. Jimmy and the Foundation members team with LVPD detective Rick Rizzo to track Janelle's missing person's clues through the American Southwest, China and on to Washington, DC. A senior Senator plays the political system becoming rich along the way. His above the law attitude combines with a lifestyle of drugs and sex. One night he makes a decision he's made many times before. But this cover up attempt leads to scheming, mayhem and murder.

Bill Ciancio details many of his mountain top experiences during his five decades coaching. He hopes that the details of these experiences help motivate the reader to unlock the fantastic coach hiding inside you. Bill could have titled this book becoming your own coach, or developing your own coaching philosophy. But he felt the choice of Coaching Basketball: Unboxed Wisdom covered and goes beyond what both titles indicate. Wisdom denotes in-depth experiences over time. But his experiences are too numerous to capture in one book. And knowing that coaches like reading things as much as they like driving to the dentist on a crowded, backed-up freeway, he relates only the essentials of coaching. His intentions are to give the reader a few mountain top experiences churned with years of reflection and evaluation. Therefore, the word wisdom is part of the title.

A child of the 1980s relives a dysfunctional and hilarious childhood in the most difficult speech of his life. It's FORREST GUMP meets THE WONDER YEARS - but mostly true. Hysterically funny at times, heart-wrenching and heart-warming at other times, highly entertaining all the time. The story follows James Murphy, who lives an extraordinarily unique life learning ordinary life lessons to which everyone can relate through his many misadventures. James' misadventures feature everything from swindling friends out of valuable baseball cards to run-ins with bullies and kids in Connecticut "gangs", from awkward romantic heartbreak to family party fiascos, from sophisticated pranks that build up to a court appearance and community service to a death defying "rafting" incident. This is a fictionalized and dramatized adaptation of the author's autobiography turned into a full-motion picture screenplay turned into a novella. It's the unbelievable stories that are actually true. James isn't lying about the magic beanstalk growing on his back porch. Or the monkey in their tree—in New England. He did chase a UFO with his mother and stopped her from killing his dad. Let's just say this book is a collection of true stories made more entertaining and wrapped in a white lie. A Mostly Magnificent Memoir reminds us all that we are social creatures—how our seemingly insignificant interactions with others can significantly impact their lives. It reminds us how precious life is and how grateful we should be for the people in our lives. It reminds us that it is okay to laugh at our own misadventures because life is too short not to.

Unravel the Secrets of Your Mind: A Journey into Cognitive Biases Step into the intriguing world of cognitive biases with this comprehensive guide that promises to transform the way you perceive yourself and others. Packed with fascinating insights, this book unveils the subtle but powerful ways our minds shape our understanding of reality. In The Biased Brain, you will delve deep into the heart of human cognition and discover hundreds of cognitive biases that influence our decisions. Written by an expert in the field, this book is a powerful tool that will enable you to navigate your life with enhanced understanding and control. Nearly 500 pages packed with well-researched, engaging content that will draw you into the labyrinth of the human mind. You will explore concepts that will make you question your assumptions and provoke you to think critically about your thought processes. This book doesn't just offer theoretical knowledge; it also provides practical solutions to identify and overcome your biases. It doesn't matter whether you're a student of psychology, a curious observer of human behavior, or someone who's simply looking to better understand their own mind—this book has something for everyone. In fact, it might just be the most insightful book you will read this year. Are you ready to challenge your perceptions and unveil the biases hiding in plain sight? This book is your map to understanding the complex landscape of human cognition. So, why wait? Start your journey now and transform the way you see yourself and the world. Grab your copy of The Biased Brain today and embark on an enlightening journey into the human mind.

With the help of a freakishly wise janitor, a newly-hired membership director struggles to keep a fitness center afloat while being given ridiculous tasks from an ethically-questionable owner. Take an opinionated and all-around diverse group of fitness trainers, add a sketchy owner, a genius janitor, and throw in an endearing but largely incompetent general manager, and you have the perfect recipe for riotous, chaotic hilarity. You have Squat! Set in a large fitness center in the Boston suburbs, the sitcom follows Scott Carter, a former big-shot marketing executive who takes a job at Squat Spot Fitness out of desperation. Carter quickly discovers that the place is run by an ethically-questionable owner willing to exploit staff and clients alike, and a general manager who’s in way over his head. With the help of a bright fitness director and a freakishly wise janitor, Carter manages to keep the gym open... for at least a bit longer. Squat! features an interesting cast of characters who embody many of the social and political issues of the day. Rather than address these issues directly, they remain lightly veiled within seemingly petty arguments and conflicts. Each episode offers viewers the anticipation and fun of discovering the parallel “real world” political and social issues highlighted. Without taking sides, Squat! invites viewers to laugh at the absurdity of humanity while deepening understanding of those with differing beliefs. The series presents an additional running theme of owner Jack Pemberton’s dubious assignment to Scott Carter. Carter struggles to satisfy his boss without compromising his values. Squat! offers humor—of the smart, subtle, and laugh-out-loud varieties—along with lovable, fallible characters, and even an insight or two about creativity, understanding, and ethics. The first season comprises ten fully-scripted episodes, rewritten as a comedic novel. Season One innocuously and hilariously provides a nod to such topics as COVID / mask-wearing, claims of election fraud, QAnon conspiracy theories, pronouns, “Karens,” defunding the police, multi-level marketing scams, cults, and even truth itself. If Seinfeld had a threesome with Dodgeball and The Office, and miraculously conceived a lovechild, Squat! would be it.