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Kate, Storm, and the rest of the Special Forces detachment head to Nashville to bolster the city's final defense, but when they arrive they find that things haven't gone according to plan. They are in a desperate race against the ravages of radiation, the new mutations that seem hellbent on killing them all, and even some of the people in their own group.

Have you ever been in love? Truly, madly, deeply? Only to lose it? Your tether suddenly snapped. How broken can you become? And how can you ever hope to piece yourself back together? This is a love story.

The epic battle for AI supremacy in the universe between the Geo-Mind and Gia continues. Beneath the isolation zone, 300 alien troops have been dispatched, and if that’s not discouraging enough, the 23rd Silarian Fleet has initiated terra displacement operations outside the energy dome. It’s looking more and more desperate in the small town of Castle Rock.

The Shirán travel home from war, and stand poised to cross the northern Source to report to the Mothergod. But Fel'annár, Tensari, and Lainon won't forget who they left behind. With their sights set on a new mission, they will return south in a treacherous bid to free their companions.

Is a witch throwing curses your way? Something scary scratching at your window in the night? Then, I've got just the charm for you. Mostly, though, I find things. Lost treasures, missing loved ones...if you need something found, I'm your guy. So, when a grieving father hired me to track down a family heirloom stolen by a sticky-fingered hobgoblin, I was happy to help.

Remote and hybrid workplaces are here to stay, and they pose formidable obstacles that complicate managing projects and launching new products. Against this backdrop arrives Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace. In his inimitable style, Simon adeptly fuses critical research and concepts from a slew of diverse and seemingly unrelated fields, including Agile software development, human resources, supply-chain management, organizational behavior, cognitive psychology, and labor economics. Brimming with case studies, insights, and practical advice, the book is a tour de force.

Over the past five years, organizations adopted Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams in droves. Think of COVID-19 as pouring gasoline on the fire. The pandemic didn't start a trend, as much as it accelerated an existing one. Unfortunately, far too many of us mistakenly view these applications as Email 2.0. As a result, we are missing out on extraordinary opportunities to create more collaborative work environments, increase organizational transparency, reduce manual work, make our work lives less stressful, simplify core business processes, and much more.

Elite assassin Reed Montgomery has set his sights on his greatest enemy—the sadistic criminal mastermind, Aiden Phillips. Surrounded by a team of vigilantes as ruthless and determined as himself, Reed only needs to know where to strike. An orchestrated encounter with a shadowy informant gives Reed the information he needs: The secrets to bringing Aiden down lie in rural Colombia, where the heart of Aiden's operation beats in secret.

Ty Draker has never been one to back down from a fight, but going undercover in a brutal, no-holds-barred fighting tournament—his best lead in the hunt for a home-grown terrorist planning another attack—is something he hadn’t expected. Assuming a new identity, he must adapt quickly to survive. Meanwhile, the fallout from the deadly encounter in Ventura, California, still haunts him, and the shadowy forces tailing him are as relentless as ever, with answers slipping further out of reach.

Terror Hordesman came. With flowers. Red roses. He came, he marked me, and he moved into my house. This is bad. Very bad. Because, I'm funding the Betaren project he's trying to destroy. If he finds out, I fear, he'll end me.

Trapped in a distant galaxy run by magic instead of technology? Check. Kidnapped by space pirates and alien slave traders? Check. Nearly eaten by wild dragons in gladiatorial combat? Check. Locked in an interstellar war spanning galaxies? Check. Charlie had faced it all, and yet somehow he and his friends had managed to come out on top. But now, at the peak of his powers, something new was coming over the horizon, and it was a threat the likes of which he’d never imagined. Facing a desperate struggle against all odds, Charlie found himself forced to dig deeper than ever before.

Joule and Cage Mazur feel like prisoners in their home. With something new stalking the streets at night, their family’s only protection is bolting the door and embracing the darkness. And even though they manage to trap and kill one of the monsters, their locks won’t hold forever….

Charlie thought building a spaceship had been tough, so being king should be a piece of cake. Unfortunately, it was like a cake made of cement. Hard to swallow, and just might kill him. It was good being king, or so Charlie had believed. After an abrupt crash arrival, people had finally stopped trying to kill him - for the most part, anyway - and his new subjects respected him. Or feared him. It was sort of hard to tell, what, with the ginormous dragon who had eaten the previous king standing right behind him.

Fel'annár is now a Shirán warrior and must fly south for his final training as a war dragon, under the auspices of General Ortalan. Travelling with old friends he can't remember, he must learn the ways of war against the revenant demigod Arzen. But the road to his new life proves more grueling than he could ever have anticipated.

He found the power he was looking for, proved to everyone how strong he was, and discovered the secret that had been lying under everyone's noses. He was a talent who was promised a place in the Academy. But what should one do when in the face of betrayal? What should one do when they betray their own? What to do when those for whom you have worked yourself to death ask you to give up everything? What should one do when wealth and power are stronger than their talent?

Sports fandom isn’t what it used to be. Owners and executives increasingly count on the blind loyalty of their fans and too often act against the team’s best interest. Sports fans are left deliberating not only mismanagement but also political, health, and ethical issues. In Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports Industrial Complex at Its Own Game, sportswriter and lifelong sports fan Craig Calcaterra outlines endemic problems with what he calls the sports-industrial complex.

Aurum has a mission. Transported across the world to the great country of Merica, he must do everything in his power to get back to Uropa. Not to mention his side task: kill a land god, currently one of the most powerful creatures on the changed Earth. Can he make it back before the deadline of six months set by the gods, or will the constant challenges of being a White Knight who can't leave well enough alone cause him to be late?

Could a magic wielding astronaut fight off an alien invasion with just his vampire assassin and space dragon friends? Amazingly, Charlie thought they might actually pull it off... that is if Lady Luck decided to play nice for a change. Unfortunately, knowing his fortunes, the odds of that were slim to none. The aliens were coming, that much was certain. What they could do to stop them, however, remained up in the air. Having joined forces with the mighty AIs overseeing the planet and its defenses, at least their toys had been upgraded accordingly.

Thomas Berte is catapulted into the legal battle of a lifetime when the US Attorney General offers him the position of Deputy Attorney General. Though a testament to his meteoric rise in the legal field, this career jump seems too good to be true. Accepting the role, Tom is charged with a daunting task: bring down Cosimo "Nino" Benedetto, the enigmatic leader of an international crime syndicate. But as he digs deeper, Tom uncovers a disturbing connection between his former law firm and the very underworld empire he's determined to dismantle.

Like poop on your shoe, bad luck had a knack for sticking Charlie wherever he went. And it sure did stink. Wormholes to a distant galaxy? Done it. Alien slavery? Yup. Forced gladiatorial combat? That too. Space pirate and eventual rebel leader? Check. Rising to the pinnacle of power as Dragon King? Uh-huh. Charlie, it seemed, had seen and survived it all, and at long last it looked like he’d finally earned himself a little peace and quiet. That is until a whole new threat reared its ugly head.