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The year is 2008, and the green rush is taking root in Humboldt County, California. Born and raised in this "Emerald Triangle" famous for its natural beauty and perfect cannabis-growing conditions, Ty Kearns wants no part of it. He has seen too many friends and acquaintances lose or derail their lives for the green dream, always feeling the itch for more cash and more power. But as a college student with tuition to pay—and few options in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression—Ty is willing to try almost anything.

The only thing I hate more than Christmas is Tucker James—the guy who wrote a song about me after I turned him down in high school. He became famous. I became infamous. With Tucker back in town to play at the annual winter festival, this Christmas is shaping up to be one of the worst. Everyone in Halften loves the country music star who put our town on the map.

In today’s rapidly changing workplace, HR must evolve beyond its traditional (and outdated) compliance-driven role into a dynamic force for building thriving, human-centered cultures. If you’re an HR professional or organizational leader interested in revolutionary change, The HR Renaissance is your essential road map to get there.

After halting the enemy advance across Europe, the war continues to rage in Paris. International armies have converged on the French city to make a stand. When Taylor investigates a mysterious sighting in their northern perimeter, he sees that enemy forces are encircling the city. The humans are quickly running out of ways to flee from the death trap.

Cold Spring is a sleepy little town that had known its share of heartache. A school shooting, a murdered cop were just a few things that marred the nature of this little community. Nestled between foot hills of granite and a chain of lakes this picturesque little town will come to know evil of a magnitude unseen since the earliest days of man. Jerry just bought his first truck, an important feat for a Midwestern farm kid caught between his first year of college and the distractions of young love.

A distress transmission from Mars research colony warns of an advanced and unknown enemy approaching the heavily populated lunar colony. An elite marine unit commanded by Major Mitch Taylor is dispatched to protect the beleaguered civilians. However, the attack is merely a prelude to a massive invasion of Earth.

Three years after his wife's death, Marcus reluctantly returns to the shark-tank world of dating. The evening has exceeded all expectations: interesting conversation with an attractive woman, excellent food, and first-rate wine. Life is good again. What Marcus doesn't know is that his nanny has just abducted his 11-year-old daughter...to Russia.

If you want a man that has a real interest in you and that will be there for you through thick and thin, this is the publication for you. It helps you to see behind the scenes and to learn what a man is actually thinking, even though he may not be saying it. You will find that it is your constant companion as you are looking for the man of your dreams to be with you for the rest of your life.

Devin Bryant is a young accident attorney whose star is on the rise. His success has afforded him a beautiful house, a fancy car, a gorgeous wife, and a fast track to partnership. After closing another high profile case, Devin goes out one Saturday night to celebrate with friends and his wife, Bethany. But, Devin has a secret. Jez Anders is a local harlot who specializes in seducing those with wealth and power. Devin's rapid success has caught her attention, and now her temptress's gaze is set firmly on him. And Jez has secrets of her own.

It is day one in the Wasteland for Zed - the first day in a nightmarish existence he could never have imagined. In every direction he faces hostile and feral survivors. Savage gangs rule the ruined cities and shantytowns, and their brutal leaders rule like feudal lords. Zed has almost nothing left in the world, yet everyone wants what little remains. He must fight for survival but also try to find answers, to seek an explanation for the catastrophic world he inhabits.

By day, Yosyph appears nothing more than a mute tavern-hand. By nigh,t he plans a revolution and slips through shadow, rescuing those marked for death by the xenophobic queen. When he learns that thousands of his people will be sent as slaves to the mines, he must choose — fight the royal army with an ill-prepared rebellion or journey to the land of his ancestors through the deadly King's Trial. If he succeeds, he'll win his kin's loyalty and their help.

Dr. Thomas Smyrna has never been afraid of the law. A stubborn Christian, he’s been racking up felonies since high school and organizing a black market for illegal Bibles. But when the government busts his operation—and his father-in-law takes the fall—Smyrna knows he must lie low and protect what family he has left. That is, until the government rounds up all the “unassimilated” and forces them into concentration camps. Desperate to free his wife and children, Smyrna agrees to one last mission—one designed to end the United’s cruelty forever.

A high school student named Steve is pulled across the veil separating the worlds of Earth and Mithal in the hope he is the legendary Third Power. His coming foretold by prophecy, he is believed to possess a unique magic that can heal the supernatural sickness ravaging the land and combat the Second Power, a sorcerer who channels the might of Hell itself.

The third installment of an epic new science fiction trilogy that tells of humanity's desperate struggle to survive against an overwhelming alien invasion. Reinforcements from across the world have brought the battle in Germany to a bitter standstill. Faced by increased pressure from the humans, the Krycenaean invaders call in troops from the Moon to mount a new offensive. On Earth, Major Taylor learns that Captain Friday may still be alive, but held a prisoner.

On the other side of the Atlantic, a charitable foundation in New York City, established by Alexander Dragan, a mysterious Ukrainian philanthropist. A man who harbors a bitter longing for vengeance. Dragan wants revenge for his family, murdered by two Russians during the uprising in Crimea. The killers have gone unpunished, and now he wants them dead. He recruits troubled former SEAL John Raider, bedeviled by legal troubles, to work for him.

When his plane touches down in Portland, all Brian Palmer is expecting to do is wink, flash a smile, and close another deal. That all changes when he sees Cassie sitting outside the airport, scared, hurt, and alone. He approaches her with nothing but good intentions.... That chance encounter triggers a series of events, which will repeatedly test Brian's character, values, and morals.

The Inca Empire, which flourished in modern day Peru and along the west coast of South America, was the largest Native American empire in pre-Columbian America until Pizarro and the Spanish conquistadors conquered them in the 16th century. What ultimately sealed their doom was the rumor that huge amounts of gold were available in regions south of the Andes Mountains.

Russia - An almost lawless country ruled by the FSB, dread successor to the KGB, criminal gangs and Pamyat, fanatical Russian nationalists. Organizations who will commit any crime, murder any civilian, even commit genocide, to further their cause. When a package of sensitive information is stolen in a well-organized robbery in Manhattan, it is soon tracked to the despotic hellhole that no sane person would want to navigate.

The cataclysm broke the world, tectonic plates shifting for several millennia’s before forming the new continents. Humanity and all life reduced to the barest minimum, dying the slow agonizing deaths of starvation or exposure in this barren yet violent world. They took refuge in cave or crevasse with the hope that another day may yet be seen. The age of sentience faced annihilation and barely survived to wait once again evolutions process. Not as it had once been, for everything and everyone had split many times since the world was whole.

The age of plenty is dead. Wars and rumors of wars - from economic collapse to cult driven genocide. Flesh eating cannibals were blamed but no one really knew the truth, no one really wanted to know the truth. Where there was once life and hope there is now only suffrage, where the remnants; struggle onward, attempting to squeeze something of worth from a dying world. Every decade brings a new war, new battles and conflicts from newly formed factions - ideologies that were previously unknown.