How much can a Dom ask of his submissive? And how much of himself?For Derek and Tyler, Dominance and submission have been part of their love right from the first hello. But now Derek wants his submissive to go as deep as he is physically and emotionally able to. During two days and two nights, there are no safety words and very few limits. This is their chance to demonstrate their love for one another through the most extreme scenes they’ve ever played.There is, ho...

An incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America.Promise to Pay follows America's first paper money—the "bills of credit" of British North America—from its seventeenth-century origins as a means of war finance to its pivotal role in catalyzing the American Revolution. Katie A. Moore combs through treasury records, account books, and the bills themselves to tell a new story of money's origins tha...

The Plastic Problem: How to Reduce Your Use and Protect the Planet tackles one of the most urgent environmental challenges of our time—plastic pollution. With millions of tons of plastic waste entering our oceans, harming wildlife, and contaminating ecosystems, the need for individual and collective action has never been greater. This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the plastic crisis and offers practical solutions for reducing your plastic footprint.From rethi...

Complete in one volume, both books in the Subject Seven series!SUBJECT SEVENIn a hidden lab, a dangerous experiment has gone awry, unleashing a force beyond imagination.Impossibly strong, brutally violent, and smarter than his captors: SUBJECT SEVEN HAS ESCAPEDYears ago, a private corporation developed the ultimate military weapon: deadly sleeper assassins housed within the bodies of teenagers. Now, Subject Seven, the dangerous alter ego liv...

A memoir written from the dual perspective of an abused child and a woman who achieves a life-altering epiphany in her adulthood, the book details an upbringing marked by severe emotional manipulation, physical abuse, and profound neglect—including the deliberate withholding of food and basic hygiene items. Go behind closed doors to see the hidden abuse of a narcissist mother inflicted upon her daughter and the long-term effects that would hinder the child's growth into adulthood.

Gunslingers. Lawmen. Snake-oil Salesmen. Cowboys. Mad Scientists. And a few monsters. The Old West has never been wilder! THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNCANNY presents sixteen original and never-before-published adventures by some of today' s most visionary writers who have spun wildly offbeat tales of gunmen, lawmen, magic, and weird science. Saddle up with Josh Malerman, Scott Sigler, Keith DeCandido, Cullen Bunn, R.S. Belcher, Greg Cox, Jeffrey Mariotte, Laura Anne Gilman, Aaron Rosenberg...

It was an age of adventure. An age of sorcery. An age of unrelenting horror. Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from forgotten and forbidden temples SWORDS IN THE SHADOWS features twenty-one stories with a bloody stake driven into the heart of both the horror and fantasy camps. Herein, you will find fantasy worlds, brave warriors, fabulous creatures, wondrous...

A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of othersWhen we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures lauded for their behaviors, attributes, and personal decisions, and leadership books often reinforce that view. However, this approach ignores a leader's mission to empower others. Applying decades of behavioral science research, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman offer a passionate corrective to this view, casting toda...

This is a story of one junior officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and how he came of age during a two-year tour of duty, one at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and one in Vietnam. Most Vietnam books, and there are many, are about the policy debacles made by the military and the U.S. government or about the nitty gritty of combat. This one is different. It describes the personal journey of a young lieutenant and his unit, and how the military impacted their lives before the all-voluntary Arm...

Randy the Rooster is the second book in the Billy the Balloon series aimed at telling the story behind the scenes of Billy the Balloon. The reader of Billy the Balloon will have been amazed at how quickly the connection was made between Fred the Farmer and Sally and her parents despite the fact that many miles separate the two families. The wind was a powerful force that moved a helium-filled balloon from an urban setting to a rural farm. But to Fred, the unusual...

An action-packed prequel to the new IllFonic video game PREDATOR: HUNTING GROUNDS – revealing deeply buried secrets in the battle between the ultimate hunters and their human prey.This official prequel novel leads into the new PlayStation®4 video game from IllFonic. PREDATOR: STALKING SHADOWS is the bridge between Predator 2 and the current day continuity. U.S. Marine Scott Devlin takes on a new assignment that begins with the clean-up of a Los An...

An original novel by JAMES A. MOORE, this official prequel sets the stage for the blockbuster film THE PREDATOR.For centuries Earth has been visited by warlike creatures that stalk mankind's finest warriors. Their goals unknown, these deadly hunters kill their prey and depart as invisibly as they arrived, leaving no trace other than a trail of bodies. When Roger Elliott faced such a creature during the Vietnam War, he didn't expect to survive. Nor did he expect that, decades later, he woul...