It's a quick trip to Paris, right? A little cloak and dagger work, but anybody can do that when nobody's after you. All you have to do is get to a meeting. No problem, unless someone IS after you.Colonel Paul Cameron takes the trip, thinking he'll be home in a week after a quick meeting with his old friend Fahd al-Auda, a General in the Royal Saudi Air Force. But what he soon learns is that Fahd knows something is going on in Saudi Arabia something that he fears may turn into the m...

The first Ruslan Shanidza novelHe can throw away his future or he can betray his principles and the people he loves.That is the stark choice faced by Ruslan Shanidza, an athlete from the southern fringes of the Soviet Union. He dreams of Olympic glory but despises the ruling Communists and longs for independence from Russia. Something has to give, especially after a fight with the son of a leading Party member brings him to the attention of the sec...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYJanet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch**When Pulitzer Prize*–*winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a t...

In the fractured realm of Valandria, where floating islands defy gravity and shimmering Aether currents hold the world together, a desperate quest unfolds. The ancient Aether Heart—source of the realm’s balance and stability—has been stolen, plunging the Shattered World into chaos. Without it, Valandria faces inevitable collapse into the abyss. Kaelin, a young Aether Guardian burdened by his lineage and bound by honor, is thrust into a perilous journey to recover the Heart. Joining him are...

The year is 2030. After catastrophic years of political turmoil and global warfare, the world stands on the brink of collapse. America is fractured, its cities reduced to ashes, and its citizens desperate for hope. Deep beneath the Quinn Canyon Range, a resilient few have built a secret sanctuary: the AGI facility, humanity's last hope for survival and renewal.Colonel Cooper Brooks, a decorated SEAL, and Marine Sergeant Major Jax lead a small, dedicated team—including Peyton, the b...

He killed another driver. But it was an accident."This story delivers everything I look for in a book: superior storytelling, crisp writing, and pulsating drama. It excites the mind and entertains the heart."Book Commentary ReviewThe Omega Course is a compelling coming-of-age story that seamlessly blends two powerful themes. At its heart is 17-year-old Ross Collins' desperate search for redemption after he causes an accident in which another...

Jay has been living in Sophia’s ear for three months. He’d been created by her, an AI experiment she developed in her free time. Now, after several iterations of the AI, Jay can track the functioning of her body, feed Sophia what to say in any conversation, and run complex calculations in a few seconds. All was well.But one night, after a new procedure to increase the production of red blood cells following Sophia’s aplastic anemia diagnosis, Jay takes over. Sophia’s mind and body a...

To most New Zealanders, the word 'Hauhau' conjures up a picture of bloodthirsty fanaticism. This book, the definitive study of the Pai Marire or 'Hauhau' Māori movement in the 1860s, presents a different view. Pai Marire is shown as being a search for ways of meeting European settlement and domination, and of using European skills and literacy, on Māori terms and without compromising Māori identity. Sources include the Ua Rongopai notebook, which contains a record of the words of Te Ua Hau...

They say you are born with it. That to be good at sales you have to have the gift of the gab. Sales guru Paul Clark believes that sales are a natural part of our everyday life. We use our sales skills in everything we do. Whether we are trying to persuade a wife, a boyfriend or a best friend to go out for a beer at the weekend. Or negotiate our way out of a parking ticket. We all do it, all the time. So how do you sell and get paid for the pleasure? Enter the Building Sales Warriors Concep...

See Shakespeare's plays as a member of an Elizabethan audience would have done! Six plays are examined in an original and engaging way, re-entering the culture and mind set of Shakespeare's time.If you are already familiar with the plays you will gain fascinating insights. If you have only slight knowledge you will certainly be drawn in to read more.The plays are:Titus AndronicusRichard the ThirdThe Merchant of VeniceMeasure for MeasureOth...

Paul Cameron and the Phoenix Group race against the clock to frustrate an evil plan that will rock the American homeland.

Can one man stop a war?In the vacuum left by the break-up of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed national rivalries are poised to wreak havoc.A leading Communist contacts Olympic hero Ruslan Shanidza. He begs him to return to his newly-independent homeland and use his popularity among different ethnic groups to halt the slide to civil war.So begins a fraught peace mission that takes Ruslan deep into the conflict zone. But how far can he trust his Comm...