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Individuals, teams, and organizations must become more resilient in today’s complex world, and each one will experience failure at some point. Successful individuals, teams, and organizations bounce back. Winning After Losing: Building Resilient Teams offers a collection of lessons on leadership and resilience of winning teams. I am writing this book as a retired US Army three-star general and as the former chief operating officer of a public biotechnology company.

Daisy is missing, and Bob desperately wants her back. But is he willing to search all of No Where for her? Perhaps alone? Violet offers her help and off the pair goes, searching the fish camps dotting the northern Michigan coastline with Lake Superior. Following a tip, they retrace their path southward, where Bob makes his final stand. Getting himself shot again, he depends on Violet's help one last time. But it's during his recuperation that Bob discovers what he was truly searching for: the truth - about everything.

The journey of a man, father, and sailor, Anchored in Resilience: Overcoming Adversity through Mental Health Awareness is the true story of adventures, lessons, and growth as seen through the eyes of a boy looking for love, a young man looking for answers, and an adult yearning to inspire. Author and Navy veteran Amaury Ponciano shares vulnerable truths, revelations, and experiences from over twenty years of Naval service. Anchored in Resilience is a memoir of healing—because healing starts with understanding our wounds.

In 2016, salesman by day, dreamer by night, Donnie Tuttle stepped into an adventure reserved for the wealthy-world travel with his family of 10. This book outlines the lessons he learned and shows you how to create your own strategy for your amazing traveling sales adventure.

After overcoming several obstacles and finishing second in my class at the academy, my undercover story continues in Kansas, where I face some of the most dangerous criminals and situations of my career. Creative undercover tactics, a task force, and continuous wiretaps help take down some of the most deadly and largest drug cartels in the US and Mexico. Frustrations with the bureaucracy and family issues lead to the end of my undercover work and a new career contracting overseas in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Liberia, as well as rising to the rank of chief of police in SC.

Ten-year-old Lucas’s life is a simple but happy one. All that changes when the Hunters finally track down his whereabouts. Forced to bear witness to horrific scenes that forever shatter his innocence, he discovers the shocking secret behind his less than ordinary existence. What follows is a fight for survival that will define the nature of a boy bound to an incredible destiny whose origins have been lost to the tides of time.

The Order of the Three Spears. Founded at the turn of the ninth century by the Lotus-Born Second Buddha and inspired by the most powerful immortal warrior who ever lived, this secret Buddhist society has kept the existence of immortals hidden from ordinary humans and maintained peace between the races for twelve hundred years.

Bob Reiniger plots and waits, waits and plots. The one thought dominating his days is the revenge of Dizzy's death. And while he's at it, protecting his "family" is a priority. Clyde Barster made the apocalypse worse when he burned Lettie's house to the ground and killed Bob's best friend. Now Bob must exact his revenge. However, several will try and stop him: a man with a strange device that threatens Libby, a stranger named Carmen, and even his own kin.

Boxford High pranksters cause a chemistry lab to go wrong and students are forced to face something far worse than S.A.T.’s and cafeteria lunches - an infection that turns students into zombies scouring the halls for survivors. A group of unlikely companions; an artistic goth, star-athlete jock, disgruntled loner, would-be marine, sassy cheerleader, and angry Asian, must fend off the living dead. As they fight through locker rooms and dance their way across the theater, they will find surviving zombies is more complicated than puberty.

In a galaxy on the edge of cosmic oblivion, one girl must embrace a power she never summoned and fulfill a destiny she never chose. An action-packed, coming-of-age fiction series about a girl who must navigate her way through a purpose she never knew existed. Book One in The Hesaurun Ring Series kickstarts the epic scifi thriller that'll have listeners clutching their seats in suspense and excitement.

Listeners get an up-close and confiding look at the true, inspiring tale of an accomplished author and business leader's once-reckless life turned fulfilling when a spiritual awakening brought him closer to God. When Perry was young, his life was made up of near-death experiences and reckless choices. Even he admits some of these close calls happened in his more mature years-leading him to a place he hadn't thought to go before.

1695. Spanish Netherlands. The war between King Louis XIV and the League of Augsberg reaches a pivotal moment at the Siege of Namur. When the besieged French army starts to mount an increasingly fierce resistance, Bastian immortal Conrad Greene and his company of elite intelligence operatives are sent to Liège to track down the traitor supplying the enemy with stocks of a new, powerful gunpowder.

When hunted half-breed immortal Lucas Soul hears tales of legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto during his travels in the Far East, he sails to Japan to meet the great man and convince him to take him on as an apprentice.

A Narc’s Tale is a four-book series that is a first-hand account of stories, written like a memoir or personal diary, which gives you an inside glimpse of what it is like working six years deep undercover in the dangerous drug world as a city cop (Vol. 1), county vice and narcotics investigator (Vol. 2 and 3), and special agent with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (Vol. 4). Most undercover books only show this from one perspective, but you will get three here - city, county and federal - and realize the differences among them.

A case of mistaken identity marked O’Brien out for death the minute he rode into Nebraska. A feud had erupted between the local farmers and a scheming loan agent who figured to sell them out. Both sides pegged O’Brien as a vicious gunman named Wes Dexter, who had been hired to settle the matter with violence. That made him a hero to some.... and a target for others.

China Deception, A Novel, is part one of a series providing a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of COVID-19, as well as the relationships leading up to and shortly thereafter between China, North Korea, Russia, and the United States. All countries, with their leaders, will be intentionally intertwined by a series of coordinated events leading to the release of one of the deadliest viruses the world has ever seen. With the release of COVID 19, the battle of world supremacy has begun.

Volume 3 jumps right into the action with a murder-for-hire and a multi-kilo cocaine deal, which stems from the largest undercover operation in my county’s history. Working with informants continues as tricks of the trade, props, shooting techniques, and the mental effects of working undercover are shared in great detail. Harassment, threats, and hits on my life further depict the dangerous work of an undercover narc. One creative undercover tactic literally goes up in smoke. Working with female undercovers and remaining physically fit is shown to be crucial to my success.

A Narc's Tale: Volume 2 begins as the author transitions from working undercover with the city to the county narcotics unit, but then tragedy strikes with the drug-related murder of his former partner. Dating, marrying, and having family with an undercover narc is far from normal. Cover must be maintained at all times, and this leads to lots of secrecy and social isolation.

As a twin in a large Massachusetts family with a heart of gold, Eric wanted to emulate his hero when he grew up - his Police Officer father, Sgt. Edmond Caron, a former Marine. Throughout his 25-year decorated career as a Special Agent and Diplomat for the US Government, Caron discovered the powerful, life-saving effects of listening to one's heart, mind, and God-given instincts. The author came to think of this principle as being "Switched On". Join this Special Agent as he takes you on a ride-along and reveals the key to becoming switched on for life.

Forced to sacrifice herself by disappearing into Earth's distant past to preserve humanity's future and escape a galactic menace even she cannot resist, Valerie begins a new life 7,000 years in the past. She feels safe in this realm until confronted by an alien resource seeker drone determined to reveal the secret of Earth's riches to those that would covet them. The vile thing is quickly destroyed by the awesome power of the five rings, but not soon enough...