All they wanted was a vacation to the Grand Canyon. Instead, they found themselves on a collision course with a terrible, timeless darkness.Welcome to Adrienne, home to history's worst serial killers and mass murderers. Nestled in an isolated meadow high in the Sierra Nevada, Adrienne is sort of like a cosmic lint trap. It collects the universe's negative energy—all of our blackest human impulses—before purging that darkness back into the world in a yearly lottery. From Hitler to B...

On an otherwise ordinary spring day in sunny Jacksonville, Florida, an unhinged gunman shreds the fabric of a nation in yet another outburst of senseless gun violence.His victims are primarily children—innocents walking home from school in those final fleeting days before the promise of spring break and time spent with family and friends.When the families of the loved and the lost unite in a push for meaningful reform in the national gun laws, the National Rifle Association...

Corruption, greed, and runaway technology have come to a breaking point in the not-too-distant future... When a seemingly random murder in the area known as "Techslum" turns out to be much more than it appears, investigating FBI agent Vera Morales becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that could very well change the course of human evolution.

From Lost Friends to Changed Worlds to Goodbye EarthThe Unbound Collection is the first three editions of the Unbound Anthology Series published by Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications.26 Amazing Authors26 Amazing StoriesOne CollectionWith themes of Lost Friends, Changed Worlds, and Goodbye Earth, eveyone will find at least one favorate story. Enlightening, dark, fantasitical,***Warning***The Unbo...

Vivian Bowles has never been the same since losing her daughter to a hit-and-run accident. Her marriage died, her business crumbled, and she tumbled into a deep well of sorrow and despair.She sustained herself by channeling her grief into a singular mission: finding and punishing the person responsible for her daughter's death.Her quest for answers has taken her from Cape Coral to Denver, where she plans to teach Sheldon and Terri James a hard lesson in personal loss.

Corruption, greed, and runaway technology have come to a breaking point in the not-too-distant future...From Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer Daniel Powell (Ugly Americans, Life & Beth) and newcomer Erin Foley-Chan, along with fan-favorite artist Dennis Calero (Spider-Man Noir, Assassin's Creed, X-Factor), comes a sci-fi noir series like no other ...A seemingly random murder in the area known as the Techslum turns out to be much more than it appears, as the corpse is d...

Transparent Teaching of Adolescents is a combination of philosophy, method, and application of research-based strategies that follow the progression of the school year. A global, collaborative effort, the dialogue between this teacher and her former students presents both the wholeness of teaching and a model of how to build rapport, engage high school students in their experience, and enrich their learning at the secondary level of education.

Transparent Teaching of Adolescents is a philosophy, method, and timely application of strategies that span the school year. A collaborative effort from all over the globe, the dialogue between this teacher and her former students presents both the wholeness of teaching and a model of how to build rapport, engage high school students in their experience, and enrich learning at the secondary level of education.

What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a familiar question we’re all asked as kids. While seemingly harmless, the question has unintended consequences. It can make you feel like you need to choose one job, one passion, one thing to be about. Guess what? You don’t.Having a lot of different interests, projects and curiosities doesn’t make you a "jack-of-all-trades, master of none." Your endless curiosity doesn’t mean you are broken or flaky. What you are is a multipotentia...

What would you like to change in your life? Be more focused at work? Communicate more effectively? Find work-life balance? Make smarter decisions? Be more patient with your team or family? Have greater self-confidence? Less stress? Just . . . be happier?Often, the biggest obstacle to change lies in our most deeply ingrained habits: those automatic thought processes that operate outside our consciousness, and yet have a profound impact on our behav...

Cut through the "mush" to sustain and improve the quality of your partnerships at work.Gervase R. Bushe named one of HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinkers 2016What happened to that win-win partnership with your boss, colleage, or direct report that suddenly dissolved into mistrust and suspision? Despite your best intentions, how did hidden agendas, unresolved conflicts, and miscommunication get in the way?With new researc...

The performance review. It is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. We all hate it. And yet nobody does anything about it.Until now...Straight-talking Sam Culbert, management guru and UCLA professor, minces no words as he puts managers on notice that -- with the performance review as their weapon of choice -- they have built a corporate culture based on intimidation and fear. Teaming up with Wall Street Journal Senior Edi...