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I'm no one's savior. I work with the Cerberus MC for the thrills, not for the glory. Saving people who've been trafficked is just a side benefit, coming in second to the adrenaline rush of eradicating some of the evil in the world. Mia Vazquez didn't seem to get the memo. When I pulled her out of Hell, she wouldn't let go. She literally wrapped her arms around my neck and refused to release me. 

Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders - he's interested in their scheming advisors, the dark figures who wield power in the shadows. And, as Barshad shows in No One Man Should Have All That Power, the natural habitat of these manipulators is not only political backrooms. It's anywhere power dynamics exist - from Hollywood to drug cartels, from recording studios to the NFL.

Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar's original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta, and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: They are sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.

Insomnia? Mind racing at night? Worries keeping you up? Tune in for a bedtime story that lets you forget your problems and progressively gets more boring until you fall to sleep. So get in bed, press play, close your eyes, and drift off into dreamland.

Sometimes life provides you with a much needed wake up call - a realization that you’re cruising down the wrong path. Having experienced obstacles and major challenges, author Shannon Jamail learned many of life’s lessons in the school of hard knocks. Through toil and toughness, she became a badass businesswoman, rocking it out in the corporate world but caught in a constant cycle of ego, judgment, comparison, stress, anxiety, and internal conflict. After clambering into success, Shannon realized that her life was full of material wealth but empty of truth and real purpose.

This fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative tells the inside story of how the Bush administration used bad intelligence to sell and then justify the Iraq war. Veteran reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn take the reader behind the scenes at the White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress, where controversial decisions and turf battles were fought in the highest circles of the Bush administration.

"Scooter" is also available in the collection Easy Money & Other Stories. Is the situation depicted in this grotesque tale of absurd cruelty funny or merely disturbing? Must a protagonist in a work of fiction be likable? Is it sometimes more interesting to read about characters behaving horribly? "I expected to find Scooter sprawled on the floor completely disabled, but when I turned, he was running at me on his hands like some monstrous crab. The stiletto, drenched in blood from his shattered nose, was clenched in his mouth." A strange tale some readers have enjoyed and found darkly ...

Can you continue traveling as you get older or if you are disabled? On Two Legs and Three Wheels answers that with an emphatic, "Yes!" Multiple sclerosis disabled the legs of the author's wife twenty years ago, making her rely on a mobility scooter, and now both the author and his wife are in their seventies. But none of that stopped them from traveling. On two legs and three wheels, they have traveled to twenty countries and twenty states. Perseverance, ingenuity, and flexibility have enabled them to overcome virtually all obstacles. These characteristics are on full display in the two ...

Get the NFL stories others can’t. Scoop City, hosted by The Athletic’s Senior NFL Insider Dianna Russini, insider James Palmer, and ex-quarterback Chase Daniel, brings unmatched access and expert analysis. From behind-the-scenes scoops to deep dives on the biggest NFL stories, this is the intel every fan needs. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you dream of Alaska? How would you get there? A plane? A car? What about a scooter? Stuck in the rut of daily routine and feeling that there must be something else to life, Jason Forster and his brother, Mike, sense the call of the open road and set out to travel 4,000 miles through some of the most spectacular and rugged landscapes on Earth, a journey from the suburbs of Detroit to the wilds of Alaska. Their rides? A couple of tiny, wobbly, overpacked motor scooters—inexpensive and unreliable machines from China, each boasting a 49cc engine and a top speed of 30 mph (on a good day). ...

It was the heady days of the late 1970’s and marijuana smuggling from Colombia to South Florida was at its pinnacle. The War on Drugs was in its infancy and Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale was the prime entry point for the smugglers. Through the early to mid 1970’s, there had been an evolution of smuggling organizations from Donald Steinberg to Black Tuna to the Whittington Brothers to “Big Ed” Hindelang to Joe Pegg. Known affectionately as Pegleg, Joe Pegg had grown his empire into a 50 boat armada with hundreds of employees. The Broward County authorities had heard rumors on the...

Whoosh! Every day, the red blur goes whizzing by. Jackson needs to catch that scooter, even if he has to chase it all over town.

Roddy returns to his childhood family home on the Isle of Wight to attempt to restart his life after a disasterous breakup and hopefully also create a new business. His main priority though is to help his daughter Polly financially so that she can get through her finals at uni. However things aren’t as they first appear on the island. The love, romance and happiness that he seeks are interfered with when he encounters lies, deceit, drug smuggling and threats. Still emotionally scarred, somehow, someway, Roddy has to cope with all of this while attempting to hold it all together. Full of ...

Bad things can sometimes happen to children, and that is why it is very important for them to listen and "understand" the reasons for parents' instructions. This is a children's book to assist children in learning the "why". Children relate very well to small animals, and hopefully this story will help in keeping them safe and innocent, and how enticement of any sort could mean trouble from the unfortunate evil that lurks in the real world.

The #1 New York Times Bestseller As Taylor releases her 11th album, THE TORTURED POET’S DEPARTMENT, catch up on the full story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world A small-town girl with...

Experienced sales professional and entrepreneur Nathan Jamail has developed a playbook of techniques and best practices, which have allowed thousands of sales professionals to find success in their selling. From prospecting for new clients to establishing likability, trust, and influence with clients, The Sales Professional's Playbook focuses on how to help sales professionals take their sales from poor or mediocre to surpassing limitless expectations. Nothing in this book is theory - it is based on personal experiences learned throughout Nathan Jamail's extensive sales career.

A short story narrated by 13-year-old author Caden McCoy about a set of twins that want to go to a mega ramp scooter competition. When something happens along the way, will their dream come true?

Winning is not a some of the time activity it is an all of the time activity. Success in sales takes talent, skills, discipline, practice, and most importantly honesty with a genuine concern for the client. Experienced sales professional and entrepreneur, Nathan Jamail has developed a playbook of techniques and best practices, which have allowed hundreds of sales teams to find success. The Sales Leaders Playbook focuses on how to build and lead a winning team.

In California, the Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand and holding up the railway. Turning to Alan Pinkerton's Chicago detective agency, the railroad robber barons hire the perfect agent to penetrate the settlers' organization, a man who had learned a spy's trade in the Civil War. Tall, debonair, and pleasure-loving Ash Tallman can fight when he has to.

Perhaps the most recognizable face in Pop music today, Justin Bieber has already had an illustrious career before the age of 20. Bieber has sold out stadiums, released one of the highest-grossing documentaries ever, sold millions of dollars worth of his own line of fragrance, and has won over a hundred music-related awards and been nominated for 2 Grammy Awards. But before all of this, he was just a regular kid growing up in a small town in Canada. For the first time ever Justin Bieber's life pre-fame has been placed into a narrative in this novella "Justin Bieber: Before THE FAME," the ...