In St. Petersburg, Russia, the lives of American journalist Jack Land, Russian mobster Vladimir Szlotov, and Siberian girl Galina Yosheva come together in a deadly series of intersecting events.When American journalist Jack Land sees the frozen corpses of the homeless being carelessly pulled from a manhole cover by a city worker, he decides to investigate, hoping for a story that may lead to his dream job as a foreign correspondent for a major U.S. newspaper. But Jack’s All-America...

By writing letters to one another, three men learned how to share ever-deeper feelings. They stretched one another to find more honest ways into intimate conversations with their parents, sons and daughters, wives, and friends. Through their letters they developed an accountability, challenging each other to acknowledge "stuck" places and move past them. Their letters are filled with humor, dreams, stories of wounds from their upbringing, and poignant heart-warming stories. Readers of this...

The Parkland school shooting was the most avoidable mass murder in American history. And the policies that made it inevitable have spread to your school."After my sister Meadow was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the media obsessed for months about the type of rifle the killer used. It was all clickbait and politics, not answers or justice. That wasn't good enough for us. My dad is a real tough guy, but Meadow had him wrapped around her little fin...

Hootenville, Pennsylvania, looks like any conventional company town, but beneath its placid surface throbs a network of violence, blackmail, and murder. It takes a sharp ex–Army spy to coolly fit the puzzle together, exposing the game of terror, intrigue, and cunning known as industrial espionage.Paul Dexter was once an Army counterintelligence spy in Munich, but he gave it up to offer his wife and family a more stable home life. Now he's punching in at a middle-American plastics c...

‘The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory’ offers a unique and progressive survey of screen theory and how it can be applied to a range of moving-image texts and sociocultural contexts. Focusing on the ‘handbook’ angle, the book includes only original essays from two primary sources: established authors in the field and new scholars on the cutting edge of helping screen theory evolve for the twenty-first-century vistas of new media, social shifts and geopolitical change. The main purpose of th...

‘The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory’ offers a unique and progressive survey of screen theory and how it can be applied to a range of moving-image texts and sociocultural contexts. Focusing on the ‘handbook’ angle, the book includes only original essays from two primary sources: established authors in the field and new scholars on the cutting edge of helping screen theory evolve for the twenty-first-century vistas of new media, social shifts and geopolitical change. The main purpose of th...

Rem ‘Viper’ James knew his secrets wouldn’t stay buried forever. He just never expected to be arrested in front of 20,000 screaming rodeo fans. Dragged into an interrogation room, Rem is given an ultimatum: testify against his old motorcycle club or face another stint in a cell.There’s only one answer when going back inside means leaving in a body bag.Whitney Nicholson was left humiliated after her boyfriend’s secret life was exposed. Afte...

Many things go bump in the night, and I am one of them.I made a deal with a god, with death itself, to save someone I love.I thought I had the upper hand, but I was wrong. From the moment he saw me, this god was determined to make me his… but his life is filled with death and is no place for the living. Trying to survive his world might just turn me into one of the lost souls that surround him.But I have my own secrets, my own past.What happ...

There are many things that go bump in the night, and I am one of them.As a wolf, my hate towards Hunters was born from fire and blood.I know all too well the brush of death others only speak of in hushed whispers. It marked me and every day since I have fought to prove myself. To be the strongest, the best wolf in the Red Mountain Pack.To live up to my family name.Until one night, one trap, one chance encounter changes all that.Throw...

I was hidden—until he found me.For years, I have been living in secret, in a safe haven called Eridian for wolves and others alike inside The Deadlands. Hiding from the Highers' laws and the eyes of the Elites, the Highers' weapon, I make sure we survive the best we can while we live our simple lives.When we collected a female in need to bring her back to Eridian, it was supposed to go as planned, like any other time.And it did until a letter change...

I'm the heir of Zahariss.My secret is no more, and the people know an heir walks amongst them, but so does another.With broken vows and being hunted, I find myself in the most unlikely place of allies that will help me to right the wrong.As we make plans to spill the Highers' blood across the land, he finds me. Darius, heir of Cazier.After thinking we had some sort of connection, a truce, my enemy betrayed me.He says he won't let me ...

In the lands of Deyadrum, where every Fae possesses power, Princess Emma is the only one forced without. Confined in the walls of her palace by her father, she's desperate for a taste of freedom.That is, until she discovers the truth: everything she thought she knew was a lie, for something evil plagues her lands—promising death and darkness.A betrothal that tests her. A mysterious vigilante who teases her. A Dark Prince who doesn't trust her. And a phantom that invades her...