Gradually going blind in his twenties, Rich Ruffalo refused to face reality. And then, one rainy evening, unable to make sense of the road before him, he suddenly felt his car thud against a little girl.Jolted into reality, Ruffalo refused to be knocked down and, instead, put his all into achieving. As a teacher, he excelled, winning Princeton University’s Distinguished Secondary School Teacher of the Year Award and then Disney’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.Then h...

Bodyguard Matilda Karsen agrees to take an unusual assignment rescuing an heiress from a cult and uncovers a mass murder that will launch an international manhunt with her as the target. Zachary Goldeagle, producer, adventurer and Hopi shaman offers to help an old friend. They become embroiled in a deadly international intrigue, pitted against wealthy and powerful adversaries who want them both dead or worse. In a race around the globe, they have one chance to keep an ancient secret from t...

More than Jerry Bird's memoir, the book is a biography of the sport during a radical period of evolution. "This book is such an important part of skydiving history," writes Dan Brodsky-Chenfield, world champion skydiver, author and motivational speaker.

As you travel down the road to happiness and success, don't let the inevitable potholes keep you from your destination. Simply use the seven P's that Positively Enhance Performance to pave them over and continue on your way.So suggests author Rich Ruffalo, who, in traveling that road himself, encountered roadblocks so overwhelming that he considered ending the journey altogether. Instead of giving up, however, he applied the power of the seven P's to get back on track and move forw...

The third volume in the Science Fiction MEGAPACK® series collection 26 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including a complete novel by H. Beam Piper! Included in this volume are:"The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity," by Fritz Leiber"Time Bum," by C.M. Kornbluth"The Human Equations," by Dave Creek"The Gun," by Philip K. Dick"Not Stupid Enough," by George H. Scithers"Jackpot," by E.C. Tubb"The Killing Streets," by ...

More than a year ago John Savage and Alyssa Moore nearly lost their lives after discovering the Temple of Eden. Now, two more temples have been discovered: The Temple of God, which holds the answers to mankind's inevitable fate, and a third temple that houses Earth's future once mankind has been eliminated. As John and Alyssa find themselves in a life and death struggle against hidden dangers within these ancient sanctuaries, they become the keys that would either serve as mankind's salvat...

In ASSASSIN'S CODE, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series, Joe Ledger and the DMS go on a relentless chase to stop an ancient order of killers from plunging the entire world into Holy War.When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran, the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe ...

WORLD-ALTERINGSCIENCE FICTIONTales of wonder and adventure, set on distant planets or in the future of our ownStories that go beyond the limits of Space and TimeDavid G. Hartwell has brought together only the best of this year's new SF from established pros and audacious newcomers, selecting only those that share the universal quality of great science fiction.Our familiar world will look a little less familiar after you read one....

From bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix (Abhorsen Trilogy) comes "Fire Above, Fire Below" a Tor.com Original short story.Don't miss Nix's fantastic tale concerning the crisis caused by the dying of a dragon living below a major city, and the pact made many years earlier to deal with such a predicament.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

New York Times bestselling author of The Reckoning takes readers on an intense and imaginative tour de force in this follow up horror novel to The Descent that plunges in the depths of Earth to a Hell that is real, geological, and savagely inhabited right below our very feet.A decade has passed since doomed explorers unveiled a nightmare of tunnels and rivers honeycombing the earth’s depths. After millennia of suffering t...

-a Delta Force romance story-Delta Force operator Chris Cooper once again stands in the nightmare that is Helmand Province, Afghanistan. His mission: to remove the Taliban leadership, again.Born in the Soviet-Afghan War, trained by the Mujahideen, and the Americans after them, Azadah believes her heart and hope are spent past return.They must fight together if they hope to find Her Silent Heart and the Open Sky.

Nola O’Grady is sick and tired of psychic squid-images following her everywhere, waving their tentacles and generally making nuisances of themselves. She and her partner, Ari Nathan, have a dangerous job on their hands, hunting down two criminals who have escaped into another level of the multiverse, the San Francisco of Terra Six.Terrorists have turned parts of that city into a deathtrap—religious fanatics, yes, but from what religion? Nola suspects that the Peacock Angel Chaos cu...