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In the year 2234, scientists have successfully achieved forward time travel. The Research Institute at Turtle Lake, North Dakota, has spent over 30 years working on the project. Lane Mason would be the first human to enter the capsule. And Lane knew when he volunteered for the project that he would never be able to return. When he exits the capsule in 3853 to find a brutal world where the human race has been enslaved by huge corporations, Lane regrets leaving the capsule.

The brothers Jehovah and Hades have always been at the top of their game as a high-IQ computer hacker from M.I.T. and an unkillable assassin. When they're contacted by Rick to free a people oppressed by a dictator, both jump at the chance. Once they reach the Philippines, however, they realize that their limited resources and constant attacks sent from an unknown source severely limit their abilities. To make matters worse, the mayor has his own personal army that seems to anticipate their actions.

Jay Porter, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire, is investigating an accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center. At the county courthouse, Jay meets Nicki, a young college intern, who tips him off to a possible scandal - first-time juvenile offenders being shipped to private institutions for political kickbacks.

Starting in 1978 and ending in 2000, I worked in the music industry as a technician. My journey started in the bars and rock clubs on Long Island, New York, and eventually took me to arenas and stadiums around the world working for KISS, Alice Cooper, Stone Temple Pilots, and many other groups. This is my story. From club gigs after school as a teenager, to concerts on every continent on the planet.

"My name is Steve Lewis. I know this because it's one of the few things I remember. I have a wife, a son, and I run a successful business. I know this because that's what they tell me. I remember things that aren't true. I forget things that are. I see things and people that aren't real. You see, I have brain damage...and that's the only rational explanation for things like this."

Jekyll and Hyde brought into the modern world...The federal government asks for help from the brothers when they fail to bring in a Hyde monster after several attempts. Jehovah is too sick for field work so he remains behind to remotely provide tech support. Can Hades bring down the elusive Black Hawk on his own?

Dawyn Darklance, former Shadow Watch Guard commander and time bender, having recently returned from a journey to save the kingdom of Tar Ebon, sets out in accordance with an ancient prophecy, for the portents of doom foretold by the Founders have come about. Now, as three young college students mysteriously transported from Earth will soon discover, Tar Ebon is an enchanting yet dangerous world, filled with slavers, magic, and creatures beyond their imagination.

Near the end of the 21st century, corporations have replaced state and federal governments following a bitter civil war, making way for a rewritten Constitution and a new America. The planet is plagued by a runaway greenhouse effect and the once exotic diseases that come with it, exposing a dramatic rift between the untreated poor and the few who can afford a highly sophisticated regimen of nano-injections.

Thirteen-year-old twin brothers Jayce and Val are about to jump the multi-verses on a dangerous dare, but true danger is closer to home than they realize. The Jupiter Prime colony has been orbiting the stormy gas giant for nineteen years and all anyone wants is to get back to Earth. Sent to preserve the best and brightest of the population, a grievous error in the Prime's navigation coordinates sent the colony to an alternate dimension with no way to return to the Earth they call home.

The murders of a prominent Las Vegas couple sends shockwaves through the community. With no active leads, the LVPD Homicide Unit is growing desperate. Brought in as a consultant, Detective Jon Stanton discovers that there's more to this case than anyone is revealing to him. The trail is leading him down a dark path, one that many in the Las Vegas PD don't want him to uncover. Hindered at every turn by a police department unwilling to help him, Stanton is left alone to make a chilling discovery: The killer may be one of their own.

Jared fought bravely against the forces of Corruption in a battle that cost him everything. Victorious but shattered, he must now pick up the pieces of his life and find a way to move forward. But when he and Averella discover that prisoners are still trapped inside the prison Zagerah, they must act quickly to save them from the Hunters’ wrath.

Ravenscar got in the car, and before pulling away, he opened the envelope. His last assignment. Three pictures fell out and Ravenscar froze. Little had he known that when he told de Laisser someone was still calling his name, de Laisser would know where the call came from. He looked back down at the pictures. Three people, three betrayals.

Zach and Chelsea grew up in idyllic suburbia. Then one day, their father vanished without explanation, ripping their world apart. A year later, a dangerous man shows up looking for him, a man who claims to hunt monsters and things that go bump in the night.

More than a year has passed since shaman John Running Deer and his equally gifted granddaughter, Evelyn Sherman, battled Brigindo and Teutates’ other three siblings in Cherokee, North Carolina. At the time, John and Evelyn prayed this would be it for dealing with violent ancient entities that supersede the normal realm of ghosts and other mischievous spirits. They naively equated the Hobbs family’s return to peaceful lives in Colorado as the end of their own misadventures with the supernatural. They couldn’t have been more wrong. 

A prisoner by her own choice, Averella enters the prison known as Zagerah. There, the oppressive government throw innocent men and boys to either be killed by the dangerous environment or be brutally murdered by the Hunters—magically enhanced assassins with only one objective: to kill the prisoners. The government never takes women, so Averella disguised herself as a man to save her sickly brother. As a Hunter, Jared has only ever known the life of a killer.

FBI Inspector Nathaniel Croft and his team of agents get tapped personally by the FBI Director, Ann Greenburg, to solve a brutal murder at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia. The FBI team is pressured to arrest the murderer before the Commandant of the Marine Corps Senate Confirmation Committee hearing begins in 30 days.

When Luc, his brother, and a desk jockey for the agency, sent him on this assignment, they’d both known it would be dangerous. Neither of them had anticipated that he might not come back. As hard a man as he was, he was close to losing it right now. He didn’t intend to let his prey escape. Unfortunately, he was in a tight spot—a prison cell at El Mina, off the coast of Ghana.

He was wise enough to know that what he felt for Sarah was not love. Unlike many who quickly jump into love and just as rapidly fall out of it, he was a man who knew that love could only be born of something else. Perhaps that was why what he felt for Sarah bothered him. It felt like that something else. That something else, and Sarah's proximity to him, was keeping him awake.

With over thirty years’ experience as a senior executive, Dr. Ronald S. Glickman shares practical techniques to execute effective change initiatives, develop high-potential talent, and motivate teams to deliver breakthrough results on a global scale. A timely and important book for leaders at any stage in their career journey, Lead for a Change explains why the goal of change management is not happiness, but meeting and exceeding clear expectations.