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North Korea will be the biggest challenge to your presidency, warned the outgoing commander-in-chief, but to imprisoned journalist Geon Jae-sun, surviving each day in the prison camp proves the greatest challenge of his life. Protecting beautiful young prisoner Ji-su has grown increasingly difficult, too, for this slight man, otherwise powerless but for his prowess at deceiving their captors.Navy SEAL Andrew Gunnar Jackson is tasked by the pre...

In Daedalus, Navy SEAL Derek "Tiger" Baily, irreverent member of the SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC), makes a harrowing first base jump in the experimental Gryphon-7 hardshell wingsuit from the edge of Space. He test-flies the armor-plated Gryphon-10 in Daedalus LEO, catapulting into space by Slingshotand dropping from a record-obliterating 160 klicks. Testing the enhanced Gryphon-10 MK 4 in Daedalus Squad, Baily's 6-man team believes it...

Prepare to think as you explore these wildly disparate literary short stories by author, composer, and producer Stephen Geez. Avoiding any single genre, this collection showcases Geez's storytelling from southern gothic to contemporary drama to coming-of-age, humor, sci-fi, and fantasy-all finessed to say something about who we are and what we seek. Some of these have been passed around enough to need a shot of penicillin, others so virgin the...

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His head frozen at death, engineer and entrepreneur Braxton Thorpe awakens to existence inside an electronic matrix. Discovering the global Link System, he taps into databases and expands to become a Tensor Matrixwith access to virtually all human knowledge. He works with Daphne O'Bryan and other researchers, then is joined by an extraordinary non-human partner as he generalizes his existence from Banach Space into a Banach Manifold. Using com...

His head frozen at death, engineer and entrepreneur Braxton Thorpe awakens to existence inside an electronic matrix. Discovering the global Link System, he taps into databases and expands to become a Tensor Matrixwith access to virtually all human knowledge. He works with Daphne O'Bryan and other researchers, then is joined by an extraordinary non-human partner as he generalizes his existence from Banach Space into a Banach Manifold. Using com...

In the beginning, all animals were born wild and free. Ollie, however, was born in a cage and has spent his entire life in a zoo. Everything he knew, he learned from his mother and through the bars of his confinement. His life was totally dependent upon humans. He always had plenty to eat and it was fun watching the humans who visited daily, especially the little ones. Life was comfortable and Ollie grew up soft.But as fate would have it, that...

In the beginning, all animals were born wild and free. Ollie, however, was born in a cage and has spent his entire life in a zoo. Everything he knew, he learned from his mother and through the bars of his confinement. His life was totally dependent upon humans. He always had plenty to eat and it was fun watching the humans who visited daily, especially the little ones. Life was comfortable and Ollie grew up soft.But as fate would have it, that...

Saturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Mac McDowell faces his greatest challenge yet, leading the team into a critical Cold War mission. With a security clearance above Top Secret, Mac and his off-the-books deep-water espionage group must gather Russian intel to avert world war. Join nuclear-submariner Mac as he extreme-dives to a thousand feet, battles giant squids, and proves what brave men can achieve under real pressure, the kind tha...

What drives a man to spend 26 years performing night after night? To persevere through a stifling tour bus, bad food, strange women, flared tempers, a plane nearly blown from the sky? Just how did that troubled military brat with a dream claw his way from dirt-floor dive-bar shows to the world's biggest stages? Aviator, author, and Country Music Hall of Fame drummer Mark Herndon lived that dream with one of the most popular and celebrated band...

Flying home from his beloved island home of O'ahu to Seattle, Max is confused and conflicted about where he's headed and why. Talking about his feelings seems like an uncomfortable prospect, so he intends to just make it through the minimal two-week stay, then retreat to his comfort zone. As it turns out, two weeks is more than enough to change your life forever.Sarah works hard to coordinate her older brother's first-time visit, and she is el...

Flying home from his beloved island home of O'ahu to Seattle, Max is confused and conflicted about where he's headed and why. Talking about his feelings seems like an uncomfortable prospect, so he intends to just make it through the minimal two-week stay, then retreat to his comfort zone. As it turns out, two weeks is more than enough to change your life forever.Sarah works hard to coordinate her older brother's first-time visit, and she is el...

Managing pain with opioids is a science-except politics, money, and overzealous law enforcement are denying American patients the relief they so desperately need. Demonizing the best pain reliever we have leads to needless suffering, even suicides, and it drives the rise in deadly street drugs. Helen Borel gathers and presents the evidence, the intimidation, the raids of clinics, the chilling effect on those very professionals we trust to care...

Managing pain with opioids is a science-except politics, money, and overzealous law enforcement are denying American patients the relief they so desperately need. Demonizing the best pain reliever we have leads to needless suffering, even suicides, and it drives the rise in deadly street drugs. Helen Borel gathers and presents the evidence, the intimidation, the raids of clinics, the chilling effect on those very professionals we trust to care...

D.J. and her dad moved far from the small town and only home she ever knew. Now she's starting middle school in the city with kids she's never met. She tries to make friends, but they all appear to be slaves to screen time. D.J. just likes to garden, nurturing plants, watching them grow and thrive. It seems she'll never find a way to fit in, but then she awakens in a gorgeous garden where she meets Persephone, Goddess of Spring. She must be dr...

Freshman year is just starting, and already Mylee fears her family is falling apart. She's not interested in dating or any of the high-school drama it brings, but that's just what she gets when Sam, the most popular guy at school, invites her to the Homecoming dance. Mylee needs advice, so she summons Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty, her secret confidant.Tyson is worried about Mylee, his best friend and teammate. Already sad about her fa...

A U.S. senator-likely next president-has been seized by pirates and held for $100 million ransom. Derek "Tiger" Baily and his SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC-3) get the call: a rescue operation with soldiers zooming in from the sky, the 6-man squad's first real combat operation. Hurtling around the world in the new Gryphon-10 MK 4 hardshell wingsuit, Tiger and his team must literally improvise on the fly with everything to lose. Go into b...

A U.S. senator-likely next president-has been seized by pirates and held for $100 million ransom. Derek "Tiger" Baily and his SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC-3) get the call: a rescue operation with soldiers zooming in from the sky, the 6-man squad's first real combat operation. Hurtling around the world in the new Gryphon-10 MK 4 hardshell wingsuit, Tiger and his team must literally improvise on the fly with everything to lose. Go into b...

Derek "Tiger" Baily and his SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC) drop from Low Earth Orbit to test the enhanced Gryphon-10 MK 4 hardshell wingsuit for combat applications. Every contingency has been planned. The 6-man squad believes it is fully prepared for hurtling around the world and staging critical re-entry, but challenged to innovate life-or-death solutions with only seconds to spare, Baily's team might not survive intact. Fly with Tige...