It is Black History Month 1995 and Legacy Laban, the director of the Black Informant Program (BIP) is reviewing options for dealing with the two million black men scheduled to attend the Million Man March. Eighteen years later, Bernard C. Noah, owner of a small black newspaper in Chicago and history professor at Malcolm X College, is discussing "African American Conflict" research papers with his students. After class Noah rushes to the hospital. Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Mark Ivan i...

Set in 2035, "Nexus Ascendant" explores humanity's quantum technological leap, sparked by a pivotal experiment at CERN. Zeke Destin faces an ethical quandary over a wormhole experiment, igniting discussions on science's moral boundaries. Alongside a Navy SEAL named Angus MacGee and ONE, an advanced AI, Zeke navigates human-AI partnerships while tackling themes of friendship and responsibility. Catering to sci-fi and quantum physics enthusiasts, the novel prompts reflection on AI's role in ...

**NOW THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES 'CROSS' ON PRIME VIDEO______________________________________'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.'** LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series______________________________A killer with a twisted sense of justice has Washington DC under siege. Only Alex Cross can bri...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests.“As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be.”—The New York Times Book ReviewOn the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles—the new American headquarters of t...

Marcus Eames is the world's most dangerous spy. Cold, calculating, and utterly ruthless, he is feared by nations the world over. Everyone who has tried to catch him has died…painfully. But now that his small homeland of Nauru has revoked his citizenship, he is a spy without a country — and his skills are up for sale to the highest bidder.When a terrorist cell wants to destroy the power grid of the United States, Marcus is more than willing to help, and sets in motion a plan that pl...

At the end of the millennium, thousands of homeless people roamed the streets of Manhattan. A small group of them went underground. Invisible to society, they managed to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city.Acclaimed war photographer and cultural anthropologist Teun Voeten gained unprecedented access to this netherworld. For five months in 1994 and 1995 he lived, slept and worked in the tunnel. With him, we meet Vietnam veterans, macrobiotic hippies, crack addicts, Cu...

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of the Cold Cases and with his ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim’s spirits to the hereafter. Russ is given a case by his girlfriend Mary, who transfers from Missing Persons to work with Russ. Together they go out to find a missing boy who’s mother was murdered by his abductor. Wes is on the job tracking down leads but even he runs into problems. Too many leads that all end up blo...

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of Cold Cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim’s spirits to the hereafter. Their Captain came to them with a problem, it seems that the old Michigan Central Train Station has ghosts haunting the workers who are trying to clean out the station for renovation. They find seven ghosts who all have cases of murder forcing them to haunt the statio...

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of Cold Cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim’s spirits to the hereafter.A ten year old cold case of a bride and her groom dying in a motel room drives the Ghost Squad to finding the truth. They come up on twists and turns that would make a ghost’s head spin. Will they catch the killer and send the couple to the hereafter?Murd...

What happens to a town when a man with a gun refuses to stop another man with a gun from killing people, just because it was against the law to bring the gun on school property?Sheldon Knapp was caught in a photograph calling 9-11 with a gun in his hand, while a vicious gunman enters the school behind him. Initially regarded as a hero, the accolades turn into contempt, as people begin saying that he could have, and should have, done more.Sheldon Knapp's defense: He is a law...

Follow Hillary Clinton’s inspiring life of service in this Step 3 Biography Reader! After volunteering as a young child, she became a leader in school and college, championed women’s and children’s causes as a young lawyer and wife of a politician, and finally became a politician herself. She has been our First Lady, a U.S. senator, the secretary of state, and the first woman candidate nominated for President of the United States by the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton has achieved so man...

"There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer. . . . When I saw for the first time (but not the last) a mother sobbing and clutching her son when visiting hours were up, only to be physically pried off and escorted out by guards, I knew nothing about that made me safer. This is the heart of this country's prison system. And the prison system has become the heart of America."—Walidah Imarisha, from the introduction.This is no roma...