My name is Lux Weston, and I'm a matter of national security... apparently.All I did was meet a beautiful girl in a bookstore and then rescue her. Once… twice… and maybe a third time—from a creeper.The problem? The creeper turned out to be Secret Service, and the girl… well, she's Radley Andrews—the President's only daughter.It has disaster written all over it. I should stay away.She's a student, I'm a Major League Baseball player. She's try...

It began with The Beatles’ ‘Helter Skelter’. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. This is the evolution of heavy music, and Electric Wizards is your sonic gazetteer.The voyage is as varied as it is illuminating: from the lysergic blunt trauma of Blue Cheer to the locked grooves of Funkadelic, the aural frightmares of Faust to the tectonic ...

JD MOORE AWARD WINNING AUTHORYou're a young, aspiring pilot eager to put your skills to the test until an incident on your first flight nearly claims the lives of you and your closest friends. You quickly appreciate that life is precious and resolve to make a difference by flying humanitarian missions. You rapidly learn, however, that not everyone on these expeditions shares your sense of charity. Someone is exploiting the missions for unethical purposes. You investigate these unsc...

Originally published in 1989, this study provides an informed and critical analysis of local partnerships between the private and public sectors in response to the unemployment problems. Until this book was published, there had been little objective analysis of the workings of the local partnership model with big business. This book assesses the contribution of local enterprise agencies, and how they related to other dimensions of policy responses to unemployment. An important element of t...

Blake learns of his father’s death at the battle at Shiloh. He has to do something about it and decides to go to the war and kill the soldier who killed his father. But it’s not as simple as he thinks. Entering the war during the Kentucky Campaign of 1862 with the 2nd Tennessee under Brigadier General Patrick Cleburne, he later finds himself with the 31st Indiana under Brigadeer General Charles Cruft when he falls at Perryville. Friendship with an enemy soldier has unexpected consequences....

The official nonfiction companion to HISTORY’s dramatic series Texas Rising (created by the same team that made the ratings record-breaker Hatfields & McCoys): a thrilling new narrative history of the Texas Revolution and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers who patrolled the violent western frontierMarch 1836: The Republic of Texas, just weeks old, is already near collapse. William Barret Travis and his brave defenders of the Alamo in San Anto...

In a war in which more than a quarter million boys age seventeen and under fought in the opposing armies, Journey Into Darkness, a researched blend of fact and fiction, is about a young boy in the Civil War. Written especially for students, enjoyed by adults as well, it takes the student reader into the events of the war through the experience of a peer.Originally published in four books at the request of a young readeron behalf of others who don’t like thick books....

Elainne is a woman who finds herself betrayed by life itself. Having spent her whole life up until now being a housewife and a mother of two exceptional boys, one day her marriage falls apart. Feeling betrayed, confused, and above all else determined to do the best for her children that she can, she does the only thing that a woman in her place can; she survives.Starting a new life in a small town, she starts working as a therapist in a place where people know each other by name. B...

Would you like to know the secrets of how successful people think?Being successful is a skill that some people seem to have a natural abundance of. Everything they touch turns out well and they seem to want for nothing when it comes to the finer things in life.But many of these people have worked hard to get what they have. Success may have eluded them at times and they would likely have faced failure as well. But what they possessed was a knowledge of certain principles that helped them a...

Northampton State Hospital, established in 1856, was built with the optimistic spirit of humanitarian reform. For many years, it was run by Dr. Pliny Earle, a champion of treatment that combined individualized care with manual labor, religious worship, recreation, and amusement. This vision was overwhelmed as the hospital was called upon to care for ever-larger numbers of people with varying needs. By the mid-20th century, the hospital was an isolated small �city,� with hundreds of employe...

Magical Bubbles have existed on earth in a hidden civilization that secretly coexists alongside humanity. Young cancer survivor Benjay encounters a young girl Bubble and they strike up a friendship.A boy and his family, magical creatures with special abilities, and environmental crooks.What if your new best friend was a Bubble – one that talked and flew? How would you get anyone, especially your parents, to believe you?Seven-year-old Benjay Marshall...

The Unbound Anthologies are a collection of short themed stories perfect for your reading pleasure. Every year we open a call to authors around the world challenging them to create never before created works of fiction, pick the best ones, and bundle them together for you.This edition, our authors received the challenge of “Changed Worlds” in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genre. And now we are pleased to present to you:Micheal Healy’s “Hail Bruce”Dainel Powel’s “Re...