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The Career-Minded Student
The Career-Minded Student provides undergraduates with a complete toolkit for excelling in classes, researching their strengths/interests, finding a suitable major and preparing to compete for jobs right after graduating from college.
Unlike many similar books which are quite long-winded or focus specifically on either study skills or career guidance, The Career-Minded Student is a straightforward, memorable and comprehensive guide on how to put yourself ahead of the competition.
The book will guide you through every college year and give you the tools to successfully compete for good jobs in your field after graduation. This guide fits well with students attending any school, whether it's a two-year institution or another type of college or university.
Timeless
The Consortium has been shattered. Mankind has nearly been eradicated, and Caelum is close to civil war.
With the galaxy in disorder, the Insurgents are out of allies and time. Despite the assistance of the ancient collective known as the Twelve Timeless, they are failing.
Even worse, Nathan is drifting ever deeper into a darkness he never experienced before. He is losing a little piece of himself with every death of someone close to him.
Can he become the man he needs to be to save the universe... and himself?
Can You Hula like Hilo Hattie?
The novice sleuths accept their first official detecting assignment: uncovering the “secret" of an elderly millionaire’s pretty young wife.
If they succeed, their newly founded business, The Triple Threat Investigation Agency, will prove a viable venture. The problem? The wife is found murdered along the sapphire shores of Oahu.And there’s a secret all right, one of many, but the deceased woman is not the only one keeping them.
As Jill, Rey and Linda try to fit the puzzle pieces together, they stumble across several more bodies. But who is the killer?
The Wind Rose
In this third and final adventure of the Moon Singer trilogy, the prophecy of the Moon Singer is realized. But it all revolves around the answer to one question: Can music actually create and destroy life?
If David Nickerson, whose deafness still eludes treatment, cannot hear it, will he be able to tap into music's power to save the planet from catastrophe? Only if he is able to reunite the three sacred artifacts: the Singer crystal, the Rose Crystal pendant, and the Wind Rose compass. Their Triune energy is critical if David is to re-harmonize the destructive discordant music created by a vengeful music master bent on manipulating weather systems to bring about climate disasters.
The Empty Hands
In the year 2054, the ruling fundamentalist Christian Church does not encourage its great artists; it mindwipes them.
August, talented son of an alcoholic father, wants desperately to gain love and recognition through his art, but his paintings of Michelangelo-style nudes are strictly forbidden by the repressive church.
When Minister Simon Di Luca threatens to have him mindwiped, he tries to stop painting, but finds that art is his life and soul. Balancing between his contempt for the church, love for painting and relationship with a revolutionary woman, August is soon faced with choices that will decide his fate. Will protecting his ideals be more important than his life?
Hunter Hunted
A world of darkness surrounds Jean and Princess Linka.
The Nordic royalty - albino Eternals of myth - transport their guests deep beneath the Arctic ice, to the legendary city of Hvit.
They are offered sanctuary, but all is not right. Jean's mind is darker than ever, and the world will feel his fury. Renewing old acquaintances, he must solve the mystery of who manipulates him, and the reason behind his parents’ deaths.
Aided by Merryweather and the mysterious Princess Aurora, Jean seeks retribution. Trapped between wolves of land and sea, he now fights for more than just himself: he fights for love.
The Girl Who Could Change Fate
Lacey is your average teenager. She goes to school, tries to maintain a 'D' in chemistry and spends Friday nights creeping on her crush on Facebook. She is ordinary except for one thing: she can change the future.
After Lacey is introduced to the Fate Changing Regime, her life turns upside down. A fanatical group opposing the FCR will stop at nothing to eliminate them. At the same time, Lacey finds herself trying - and failing - to ignore her feelings for the enigmatic Christian Angel.
When Lacey is tasked to uncover a traitor in the FCR, she must use her gift to survive… and resist the dark allure in her heart that comes with Changing Fate.
The Grass Widow
Forty-year-old Callie Jamison thinks she has a good life as a rancher's wife, until her husband divorces her for a younger woman who can give him the children Callie never did.
Clayton Swift is an aging cowboy who knows it’s time for him to hang up his spurs, but he doesn’t want to do it alone.
After a chance meeting the The Flat Iron Cafe, their paths intertwine. But as secrets from Clayton's past surface and Callie faces difficult life choices, their future looks uncertain.
Despite their differences, can the two forge a future together?
The Insanity Machine
The Insanity Machine is an introspective look at life with paranoid schizophrenia. This book takes a clinical and observational look at the challenges presented by the condition.
Kenna discusses the definition of paranoid schizophrenia, treatments, living with the disorder, and many other topics surrounding schizophrenia. The Insanity Machine is a nonfiction story about our journey with schizophrenia, which is also well researched and suitable for therapists or family practitioners as a reference book.
The book includes the latest treatments and research, as well as personal vignettes and suggestions which a client or caregiver will find extremely helpful. The book focuses on hope and positive outcomes.
The Last Hero
In crime-ridden Crystal City, superhumans are being manufactured. After Bryan Whittaker survives a personal tragedy, he decides to help save the city from the forces that killed his family. After signing up for the Hero Program, Bryan becomes Soulfire.
Years later, the products of the program are targeted by an assassin. Soulfire finds himself being accused; he's the only one strong enough to overpower the others. But is there someone else in the game?
With the corrupt Hero Factory shaken to its foundations and the future of the city hanging in the balance, Soulfire must find the real killer and bring him to justice.
One must find out why one is born, and Bryan Whittaker was born to be The Last Hero.
Best Action & Adventure - 2016 IAN Book of the Year Awards
The Legacy of the Marshall Cousins
1712 – Marseille, France. A greedy crook plots a heist of priceless paintings and portraits. Meanwhile, an ambitious knight changes his orders involving sacred relics.
But when the goods go missing, their plans shatter. Facing unpleasant consequences, the crook and the knight both blame their losses on the mysterious Marshall cousins.
1718 - Paris, France. Beautiful and headstrong, Charlotte never hesitates to engage in a sword fight, or a dance at a ball. But when she must choose between two young men, her lust for adventure leads her to seek the notorious Marshall cousins instead.
Her womanizing brother Henri and his arrogant friend Antoine reluctantly follow her into intrigue and danger.
The Siege of New Terra
Jules Rammis - telepath, astrobiologist, reluctant adventurer - is up to his ears in trouble again.
Big Mack, a brutal Terran leader of a pack of mercenaries, is bent on exterminating the gentle natives of planet New Terra, so Terran colonists can take over the land. Jules will need all of his Tel powers and wits to stop the mercenaries.
It's no easy task, but our hero is nothing if not resourceful, and his trusty team is with him all the way.
The Siege of New Terra is a standalone novel, and can be enjoyed even if you haven't read other books in the series.
The Melting Dead
Everything they grab burns.
Everyone they touch dies.
Everything they kill comes back from the dead.
A secluded Mississippi River island is the perfect vacation getaway - until the space rocks land. A family is killed by searing radiation. The same cosmic force returns Dad, sis, and the two boys from the grave.
But they're deteriorating quickly; melting away. And they want your flesh.
Oh, look. Here come the tourists.
A B-movie between book covers, The Melting Dead is a roller-coaster ride that will burst your heart with fear and make your sides ache with laughter.
Praise from critics and readers:
★★★★★"One of the best zombie stories I have read." - Peter Schwotzer, Famous Monsters of Filmland
The Patriot Joe Morton
This small Texas town will never be the same again.
When the good people of Cranston learn a hometown boy has been killed in Iraq, they begin preparing a memorial for their fallen hero.
But nobody thinks to ask the boy’s father, Joe Morton, if such a service is wanted - or welcome. Crippled by grief, Joe goes along with the plans of the townsfolk until he can bear no more. On the Fourth of July, he tells them just how he feels.
Joe's act of independence has unexpected consequences. The residents - and Joe himself - are completely unprepared for what happens next: change and the outside world come to Cranston.
First runner-up, 2010 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal
Praise from readers:
★★★★★ - "A story about dreams, regrets, and second chances. Excellent."
The Easterling
In a dream, Watch Guard Melia hears her mother screaming.
When she sets out to find her, the elf Prince Aeron joins to guide her across his homeland. They are heading for Tor Iolan: the abandoned fortress where Disciples of the Shadow Lord tortured and maimed innocents for the sake of their master.
Within its cruel walls, Melia hopes to find truth about her past, while pondering a future with a prince who has yet to learn that falling for a mortal may cost him more than a broken heart.
This is a tale of darkness, romance and loss, where Melia and Aeron face the reality that sometimes love may not be enough, and sacrifice may be the only course left to them.
The Rise of the Silver Hatchet Gang
Every city in the United Kingdom has had their gangs. This is the story of the rise and fall of the Silver Hatchet Gang: a mythical group of hoodlums, thieves, and murderers, involved in crime, prostitution, protection rackets, threats, gambling and death.
They started off in London: a small group of youthful ruffians hell-bent on creating disorder, crime, and fear, predating gangs such as the Krays and the Richardsons by half a century. The book charts their rise from London, through the UK and to Hull, where they remained until a crackdown was launched, and the gang either ceased or went underground.
The Tragic Tale of William Papper
During the cold winter of 1881 the Rising Sun, a fishing smack, sailed from Hull. The vessel was captained by Osmond Otto Brand, and on board was a fourteen year old fisherlad named William Papper. When the vessel returned in January 1882, poor William Papper's parents waited on the dockside for their son, but the apprentice never returned. According to all on board, William was lost at sea.
Eventually cracks began to show, crew members began to talk, and the whole terrifying truth was revealed. William Papper was murdered at sea by Osmond Otto Brand.
Now, for the first time in print, the entire story of William Papper, Osmond Otto Brand, and the Rising Sun can be told.
The Caughey-Street Murder
For over 20 years, Kingston upon Hull was free from murder. There had been other crimes, but nothing as sinister as murder.
And then, on a dark evening in January 1871, the history of the town was to change when the body of a young girl was discovered with an axe in her head.
This book explores the murder, how it was investigated, and the people and places involved in the Caughey Street Murder.
The Rising Fire
Civilization will fall.
The Union are marching. They’re hungry, desperate, and winter is coming. On the other side of the wall, the rich and privileged hold all the power, but that is about to change.
Charlie Smith is tired of fighting, and of being hunted. After his family’s murder, he seeks meaning for his life. When he hears about the Union, he realizes that this is his chance. It’s time to make a stand for what’s right.
As the institute closes in and civil war is about to erupt, sacrifices have to be made. But not everyone is going to make it out alive.
The Sandman Cometh
In a cold future, Simeon Allis struggles with an existence he doesn't understand. Every decision is made for him, and his loved ones no longer have a place in the world. The State provides everything, and the Sandmen ensure conformity.
Hideous inventions, the Sandmen ensure citizens' obedience in the clinical world in which Simeon lives his lonely, controlled life.
But he is different than the others... for he has memories.
One terrible night, lost in the deserted streets of the crumbling city, he stumbles upon the hideout of those sworn to overthrow the ruling elite.
