For 45 years the United States and the Soviet Union never fired a shot at each other and still fought every day. The battle was fought in a Brooklyn photography studio, in a Los Alamos lab, in a tunnel under Berlin, and on a bridge where a Soviet illegal was traded for an American pilot.This book follows 15 true operations that decided more than any missile. A hollow nickel found by a 13 year old boy in 1953 that led to Rudolf Abel. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at Sing Sing on June 1...

You are standing in the cereal aisle at 9 pm, turning a box over in your hands while the person you love waits to eat. The label is a wall of small print, and somewhere in that wall is the word that could send you to the emergency room tonight. Food allergies send families to the ER every 6 minutes in the United States, and studies show even experienced parents miss milk and soy on labels 30% of the time because casein and lecithin look harmless. This book is not a medical textbook and it ...

Build a business that is clear enough to understand, bold enough to notice, and valuable enough to remember.Many businesses are not overlooked because they lack value. They are overlooked because that value is not always clear, visible, or consistently experienced.The R.A.W. Approach: The Framework to Elevate Your Business from Overlooked to Unforgettable gives entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants, creatives, nonprofit leaders,...

Some journeys begin with a destination. Others begin simply with the need to leave.In The Long Way Home: Poetry of Love, Loss, and Return, John David Smith traces the quiet distances between restlessness and belonging, freedom and responsibility, departure and return.Across five poetic movements, these poems follow a wanderer who believes distance will loosen what binds him, only to discover that some things travel with us: love, memory, absence, r...

If you have spent any time with a modern coding agent, you know the strange feeling that comes with watching one work. You type a description of a feature, and the agent reads your repository, plans an approach, edits files, runs the tests, and reports back like a careful colleague. Then something changes. You notice the agent makes decisions you would not make, follows conventions that are not yours, and forgets constraints you explained 2 weeks ago. You also notice the whole setup belong...

Black Woman's Fire: A Poetic Voice to Resilience, Liberation, and Legacy is not merely a collection of poems-it is a witness.A witness to the sacred strength Black women have carried across generations.A witness to the quiet battles fought behind closed doors and the loud victories history often forgets to name.A witness to the fire that refuses to be extinguished.Through layered, soul-stirring verse, this collection journeys through identit...

Unspoken: 12 Devotions for What We Carry in Silence is a gentle yet deeply honest devotional for anyone who has ever whispered, "Is it just me?" Written with pastoral care and spiritual depth, this book creates sacred space for the quiet burdens that often go unnamed-grief without funeral, fatigue without rest, loneliness in a crowded room, and questions too fragile to speak aloud.Each of the twelve devotions explores one unspoken burden through a Scriptur...

Colonel Bill Jackson has been a Galactic Marine for twenty-one years. His family lineage in the Marines stretches back to the old United States Marines of the nineteenth century. One of his relatives fought in a battle in a place called Iwo Jima. His father is an active duty three-star general working in the Galactic Marines Special Operations Center located in the Southeastern Sector of North America on Earth. Bills youth had been that of a military child moving from duty station to duty ...

'Whistleblower' is a near future Scifi / Horror detective story.Earth is suddenly blighted by kids that kill, but they’re just a symptom of something much more sinister. Jake Redwood is a lowly cop whose job it is to catch them. When he meets a beautiful stranger, who tells him why they’re really here, it’s the start of a very bad week for Jake.He discovers that a race of humanlike aliens, intent on exploiting the Earth’s resources, are planning to wipe out the human specie...

Voidworking: Practical Sorcery From Primordial Nothingness - Dave SmithVoidworking is a system of practical sorcery that draws upon the primordial state of being as a source of power and inspiration for performing acts of Will. This work examines various conceptions of the Void, from ancient religion to modern pop culture to gain a better understanding of how this realm of limitless potential can be embraced rather than feared.Magical techniques, i...

The early days of Airbnb hosting, when anyone could throw a mattress on the floor and start collecting checks, are long gone. The hosts who treat this as a real business are pulling away from the pack. There are plenty of guides that tell you how to start an Airbnb, but there is no book that takes you from one property to ten, from a side hustle to a portfolio, from a host who does everything themselves to a CEO who runs a system. This book fills that gap with practical, battle-tested guid...

In 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant appointed one of his regimental chaplains, John Eaton of Ohio, as general superintendent of contrabands for the Department of the Tennessee. As the American Civil War raged, the former chaplain’s approach to humanitarian aid and education for the newly freed people marked one of the first attempts to consider how an entire population of formerly enslaved people would be assimilated into and become citizens of the postwar Union. General superintendent Eaton...