Detective Ben Easter is a hard-boiled police officer in a dystopic future underground city. Ben sees the world collapsing around him and is doing his best to clean up a small piece of the world, but he struggles to deal with the changing world mentally, morally, and physically. Detective Peter Willow is an aggressive and friendly officer partnered with Ben. Peter feels at home in the dark and intimidating caves and is the opposite of Ben. Peter’s tactics and personality clash with Ben and ...

Inflection Points-Risk Readiness & Failure Fearless! Asks and answers the question “are their common denominators in career decision making between and among senior citizens, veterans entering the commercial sector, and aspiring South America female executives”?The book traces the journey of three people of diverse ages, backgrounds, and life experiences and focuses on how they consider their career options, how they address the restraints that exist and are material to decision mak...

For decades, aliens have been secretly visiting Earth. Among these aliens, Earth has become a popular tourist destination. Their visits have not gone unnoticed; the CIA has been working to steal alien technology since the seventies. John Heyman is a CIA agent tasked with studying the aliens, and he tries to take their technology. His brother, Will, has a normal job at a golf course. X16b4p is an alien who wants to have an adventure on the primitive planet of Earth. When a flying saucer app...

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, i...

Official hero of the great rebellion, Owen Deathstalker fought impossible odds to throw down the Empress Lionstone XIV and destroy the corrupt Empire. That should have been enough to be feted, honored, and finally retired. Unfortunately, the new Parliament has some different ideas. There's no rest for a Deathstalker.As newly appointed Imperial bounty hunter, Owen tracks down the most dangerous war criminals. His current target: Valentine Wolfe, depraved right hand of the Empress an...

You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra-an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school-shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership ...

Now, a Calgary Herald #1 bestseller.Toward the end of the twenty first century, humanity establishes space colonies throughout the Solar System. A settlement on Titan, a city on Mars and thriving asteroid-belt mining facilities.Then, Earth experiences a global catastrophic collapse. No chance to resupply!Can the space colonies survive?-Ten stories-Eight Honorable Mentions in Writers of the Future contest-Six originals-Four previously pub...

Mix hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks with dozens of artists, and what do you get? Beautiful LEGO, a compendium of LEGO artwork that showcases a stunning array of pieces ranging from incredibly lifelike replicas of everyday objects and famous monuments to imaginative renderings of spaceships, mansions, and mythical creatures.You’ll also meet the minds behind the art. Interviews with the artists take you inside the creative process that turns simple, plastic bricks into ...

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John Jensen Greenberg is no ordinary child. Frozen in a block of ice for thousands of years, he was found as an infant in a state of suspended animation and brought back to life by two scientists. But John has no idea of his true origin.At the age of thirteen, John decides that he wants to find a way to reach the stars, but realizes that he needs something more powerful than the rocket principle. When he is only seventeen years old, he discovers a way to achieve his goal.Hi...