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Dr. Larry Komer and Joan Chandler Komer offer new hope to those with brain injuries. Millions of people of all ages experience concussions. Many others have a more serious event known as a traumatic brain injury. Battlefield injuries often include concussions or a TBI. These brain injuries can lead to a complex condition known as PTSD that can alter a person’s life, family, and community. PTSD is a serious condition that is often difficult to treat.

In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from the ongoing collaboration that began at these meetings and provides a revelatory, unified, and coherent voice for fixing our troubled and damaged financial markets.

Concord, with its vaunted indestructible warships and dimension-bending weapons, has been knocked back on its heels. A stunning loss in the Battle of Namino has left its best and brightest leaders scattered, trapped, or thought lost. The Rasu press their advantage, laying siege to Namino and cutting it off from the rest of civilization. For Miriam Solovy, a coup attempt by Anaden rebels and a flaring conflict with the militaristic Savrakaths are the least of her concerns.

Humanity is saved. But its troubles are just beginning. To achieve their extraordinary triumph over the invading Metigen armada, humanity put aside its myriad of political and social conflicts and united against a common foe intent on annihilating civilization. In victory, unparalleled peace and prosperity are theirs for the taking - if they can keep hold of them.

The world is in the grasp of the God of Chaos, his only mantra: Do as Thou Wilt. In the slums of Tuilar, Dirge is an apprentice to the Brotherhood of Assassins who worship the god of Death. His only friend Jacob, a jovial young man, feels at home in the world as it is, but Dirge craves structure. When Chaos orchestrates the Cleansing, a mass slaughter of children, people stand up against him. Amid the revolt, the prophet of the forgotten God of Order appears. Drawn to the ways of Order, Dirge finds himself at odds with those who raised him.

This novel collects all three books of the Crawl Trilogy. Trapped underground, the seven survivors of a bomb blast find themselves fleeing from a faceless enemy down large, dark tunnels carved through the damp earth, their only source of light from their cell phones. As their numbers begin to dwindle, they begin to realize that maybe nobody is coming to save them. And maybe they aren't where they think they are. Crawl is a sci-fi horror novel. Enjoy. :)

The Asterion Dominion is at peace with its neighbors and itself. Its citizens enjoy great freedoms and all the luxuries their biosynthetic minds can imagine, design, and create. But beneath the idyllic veneer, something is going wrong. People are going wrong, driven to commit inexplicable crimes without motive or purpose. And once imprisoned for those crimes, they simply vanish.

Dark State Rising – A Shane Potter Mission A Shane Potter Geopolitical Thriller Book 2 of The Shane Potter Chronicles By: S.G. Potter America is under siege—but the greatest threat isn't foreign. It's hidden deep within. Former Special Forces operative Shane Potter thought he’d left the battlefield behind. But when a wave of coordinated attacks, media manipulation, and economic sabotage begin to fracture the United States from within, Shane is thrust back into a mission unlike any he’s faced before. This war isn’t fought with bullets alone—it’s a silent coup waged through ...

Book One in The Raven Witch Saga – A YA Paranormal Coming-of-Age Adventure What if everything you thought you knew about your life was a lie? When 15-year-old Lilly Taylor is forced to move to the wilds of British Columbia after her parents mysteriously vanish, she’s thrown into a world of secrets, magic, and long-lost family ties. What starts as a painful upheaval soon becomes the greatest adventure of her life—as she discovers she’s not entirely human, and her destiny is darker and more powerful than she ever imagined. Haunted forests, hidden powers, and one seriously evil witch ...

What began as a chance discovery of an anomalous signal is now a multiverse war between humanity and its genetic ancestors over who controls the levers of life and death. Over who decides what life is and whether it will be allowed to exist. For the ruling Anaden Directorate, victory means immortality. For humanity, defeat means extinction.

The team decide to go on holiday and choose the place in the usual way. The dart lands on the map and it is an island but things are never that easy. Stevey buys a boat to take everyone out there but soon after they disembark to go to the island the boat is taken by pirates. The team find that they have to rescue their fathers so that they can then rescue their mothers. Meanwhile José Colebora has escaped from prison in Colombia and he wants revenge!

Killers and saviors. Deceivers and protectors. Destroyers and creators. Could the Metigens truly be all these things? The search for answers leads Alex and Caleb to the most shocking revelation of all - the true face of the enemy. It is a time of accelerating technological change and shifting allegiances as the old rules fall away and the old balance of power is upended. A new world rises - one of unshackled AIs, indestructible starships, ethereal quantum spaces and potent new weapons - and the race is on to determine who will control its future.

Her secret mission. A country divided. His impossible love. Henrietta Wright is a Free Colored woman who teaches reading and writing to anyone who enters her classroom. At least she was, until a drunken night with friends catapults her down a path of intrigue, coded messages, and intelligence operations. All in service of the Union Army. She can’t tell anyone what she’s doing, including the handsome Irishman she knows she shouldn’t want, but can’t seem to resist.

When Daniel Turner was made redundant, he took a job as a park ranger in Canada, leaving behind England and his wife. What he did not know, until he got out there, was that the park held many disturbing secrets. He discovered that his predecessor had been murdered, and that when the thaw arrived after the previous winter; several missing young girls had been found naked and frozen to death. When a similar cycle of events started again, shortly after his arrival, Danny decided it was time to track down the person who was responsible for these perverted crimes, but finds himself locked up in ...

When a terrorist leader decided to commit global genocide by unleashing a killer virus. He found gullible supporters to travel to every corner of the world and make sure as many people there perished. They did not know that their serum was just a placebo, they were meant to die as well and only the leaders prodigy was going to inherit the Earth. His mistake was that one of his men survived through natural immunity and when the man returned the plague he carried killed his friends. When they found that the serum was just a placebo, the man had a new goal, to shake his leader's hand. In ...

When the team returned from Deetmar, everything seemed too tame and Celia suggested a holiday. They used the dart in the globe method to find out where to go and ended up at what was considered a played out mine in Australia. The miner was there and drunk when they crept in to get to the spot the dart landed in their estimation. They met his son Alfie and as his son did not see many people when he was out of school they became friends. When Simon found a diamond with his diamond detector things changed at the mine dramatically. When they had completed their mission they went on holiday and ...

“Everything we have done from the start of this endeavor has been risky. Is the goal not worth any risk?” In the aftermath of Namino’s liberation, everyone seeks a moment of peace to catch their breath and regroup. But the Rasu will not be waylaid for long, and peace soon becomes a race against time before the next onslaught. Alex and Caleb search distant stars and the ruins of a dead civilization for a secret weapon that may hold the key to defeating an enemy who cannot be killed by conventional means.

A prolific and influential writer of his day, George Robert Stowe Mead was heavily involved in Hermetic and Gnostic scholarship of the time. Mead states that Theosophic faith is the precursor to Gnosis, and such is his approach to an introduction on the subject. He writes of the death of conventional knowledge and the birth of Theosophy and discusses his personal realizations and self-awakenings that led to his involvement with the Theosophical Society.

In the Haunts of Goblin Men is a standalone installment in A Horde of Dead Poets collection featuring seven authors and their stories inspired by famous literary poems. If you find yourself steering toward a dark, mysterious, isolated location, or family curses haunt you and unreliable narrators keep you in suspense, you won’t want to miss a single volume in this gripping collection.

Lilla is on her next mission as a Sybil, when she must travel to the Pada world following the trail of a ruthless murderer. Navigating deadly politics turns increasingly difficult when the Teryn emperor goes missing. Now the Teryn empire is heading towards civil war, and Lilla must uncover who is behind the conspiracy before it's too late. Unfortunately, her success depends on the Proud Pada.