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On an adrenaline-pumping journey, Master Sergeant Mike Mann and his elite team of soldiers paradrop into unknown territory over the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Something feels different about this mission, and as they secure a defensible campsite, they unleash the power of the extraordinary X-ray Laser Image Transporter (XLIMTR). This groundbreaking device can scan, deconstruct, and reconstruct objects with unparalleled precision. Their missi...

THE STAR DRESSING ROOM: Portrait of An Actor is Alan Shayne's affectionate, often uproarious new memoir that takes us back to Broadway's golden age. Fans of beloved theatre memoirs in the vein of Moss Hart's Act One and Helene Hanff's Underfoot in Show Business are sure to relate to Alan, the perennially broke young actor as he's repeatedly upstaged in acting class by an incredibly arrogant aspiring young performer named Marlon Brando. With gr...

Minutes before her scheduled performance at the party for her third album, sixteen-year-old pop sensation Dani Truehart regains consciousness amid the smoking wreckage of a car accident, the crumbled body of a cyclist splayed on the ground. Moments after the accident, Dani's manager, Jenner Redman, reaches the scene and his impulsive decision sets in motion a chain of events that will have catastrophic consequences for everyone in the starlet'...

YA FictionFresh off the debut of her EP, sixteen-year-old Dani Truehart is flying high on a string of number one hits. After locking down her first full-length album in record time and furiously preparing for her world tour, Dani is torn between leaving her loved ones behind and embracing her burgeoning stardom.Dani's fame and fortune explode as her tour moves across the globe. Elated when two of Hollywood's hottest young actors, Kayla Spencer...

This fast-paced romantic drama veers from the modeling world of NYC to the misty hinterlands of Switzerland and India. Teenage Cornelia Woodstock supports both herself and her mother as a successful but unfulfilled model. After a painful betrayal, she flees NYC and reconnects with her father. They travel together to India where Hadji, her childhood love, presides over their shared cult. After the tragic double loss of her father and unborn chi...

The Dark Side of Paradise blends together Richard Kerr's professional experiences from his over-thirty-year career as a high-ranking official in the CIA with his idyllic life as a Florida retiree living in beautiful Vero Beach. Using his involvement in a local writing group as a common thread weaved through the stories, the author shares tales that explore the inner workings of the mind and examine good vs. evil. How do we decide between right...

I have received countless e-mails and phone calls from patients, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and business leaders nearly every day since COVID-19 entered the United States. The list of questions has been broad, and it has been difficult to point people to a single source for information. Steven Feldman and Veronica Emmerich have created a great resource that answers many of these questions at a level that is easy to read and still ...

Families are a cumulative thing. The structure is the same for all. Like a marble. Round, slick, fragile, and a long way to fall wherever one stands. Beneath the curve of glass is a force that keeps one bound to the surface. From birth, the swirling colors hold our gaze, own all the peculiarities of our love and commitment and the sands of angst and happiness with all other members. Some families are complex, their swirls built mightily agains...

In the first book in THE RISE AND FALL OF DANI TRUEHART series, RISING STAR, fifteen-year-old Dani Truehart is living a life that is not quite her own. Driven by her mother's desire for fame and fortune, she has spent her childhood dutifully training for a career as a pop star. On the brink of discovery, doubts begin to creep into Dani's mind as she questions her own desire for fame, and she wonders whether she can trust the motivations of the...

The POWER CURRENCY concepts go beyond traditional self-help guides by first encouraging you to identify what you actually want, beyond the material things that we are programmed to crave. After that, you need to understand the value of your own personal power - your mental, emotional, and spiritual portfolio - which needs to be managed properly to grow. Then, your accumulated "power" can be spent on the important things in life. However, you h...

THE RAIN MAY PASS is a coming-of-age memoir from Alan Shayne-actor, casting director, producer, and former President of Warner Bros Television. Set in New England in the 1940s, a teenage boy falls in love with a man twice his age and soon learns more about himself than he ever imagined possible."Alan Shayne shares his life in such great visual style, with self-awareness, warmth, deep humor, and pain...a great read! Don't miss it." Linda Lavin,...

In Unclassified: My Life Before, During, and After the CIA, Richard James Kerr, a former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, recounts how he joined the Agency fresh out of college as a GS7 analyst/clerk. During his more than 30 years, Kerr rose through the ranks quickly, serving in all four directories-Intelligence, Operations, Administration, and Science/Technology (reaching Director level in both Intelligence and Administrati...

There's no denying that Helen Thomas was a larger-than-life personality, but more importantly, she was a trailblazer for women in journalism. Professionally, she reported on more presidential administrations than anyone in history, and she rightfully earned her place-front row, center-as the Dean of the White House Press Corps. However, later in her life, Helen made some regrettable comments that subsequently ended her illustrious career and t...

It all started on Christmas Day 1993. Lisa and Lonnie were sitting on their mom's rickety yard swing, when Lisa's curiosity took over. She asked Lonnie questions about his life on the street, about being homeless. To her surprise, he answered honestly, humorously, and thoughtfully.That conversation continued throughout the next four years as Lisa wrote questions on postcards addressed to herself, then mailed them in packets to Lonnie at the fl...

It's no secret that the world of publishing can be difficult to understand. It's an industry where things change almost as much as they stay the same. Confusing, right? Technology has paved the way for many new publishing options, but how do you know which is best for you? What's the first step? Where do you start? Do you need an agent? What about the publishing contract?In BE AN AUTHOR: A GUIDE TO THE BASICS AND THE BEWARES OF GETTING PUBLISH...

Absolute Cornelia follows Cornelia's bewildering and unusual childhood journey. Catapulted from her mother's island shack to her wealthy father's life with a "religious group, " Cornelia struggles to find her footing. Her father's rigid moral standards feel safer than her mother's emotional unreliability, but beneath the deceptively calm exterior of the group lurks power-hungry adults, sexual harassment, and mental manipulation.Will Cornelia's...