**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads . . . Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again." —David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced LieShe visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there . . . until she was gone.College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight ...

A brilliant and gut-wrenching novel about a father and son from a "generous and lyric storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle).Known for his tragicomic voice and unforgettable characters, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son, Cully, collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Florida. Aided by his terminally ill girlfriend and the colorful inhabitants of a local motel—including a doomsday prepper, an ex...

It's been four years since Steve and Sarah Miller discovered the magical portal to the kingdom of Lentari and took on the role of guardians to the crown prince, Mikal. The now-teenaged prince is adapting well to life in modern-day America, but their peaceful existence is rocked to the core when they are attacked by creatures not of this world, during a vacation trip. And when a second attack happens, they know they must return to Lentari and find out how someone from there has crossed into...

On April 29, 2012, a private world of deceit and neglect came crashing down when Guy Mitchell, a thirty-eight-year-old man with developmental disabilities, died confused and alone, thrashing in a dark underground tank on the rural property where he lived.When police arrived, they found a far larger crime scene: a house of horror where Guy had been living with two other vulnerable individuals under the care of a young woman with serious psychological issues. The home had no running ...

They said ten-year-old street urchin Inga was perfect for their purpose, taken from the squalor of Port City to the asteroid enclave, Hawksgaard, where she underwent the training and augmentation that transformed her. Maturing to full lethality even as war erupts among the Myriad Worlds, Inga is assigned to protect Family scion, Captain Saef Sinclair-Maru as he leads the fight against humanity's merciless enemy.The vessel: IMS HightowerThe mission: Rescue a trapped...

They framed his sergeant. Sherman's not buying it.When Sergeant Raylan Gournsey is arrested for murder in Equatorial Guinea, it looks open and shut: Naked. Drugged. A body beside him. The local police waste no time calling it solved.But Captain Frank Sherman doesn’t believe in coincidences.The deeper Sherman digs, the clearer the setup becomes—and the more dangerous the players. Mercenaries, foreign agents, and power-hungry politicians are all feedi...

They stole the drone tech and burned the refugee camp. He plans to return the favor.West Africa is already a tinderbox when Captain Frank Sherman touches down. A refugee camp lies in ruins. Experimental U.S. drone tech is missing. And someone's doing everything they can to make sure Sherman's team never comes home.But Sherman doesn't rattle.From jihadist hideouts in Mali to the blood-slick back rooms of Accra, he hunts the truth behind a co...

A letter from the past. A dead man in the dirt. And Sherman heading straight into hell.When a cryptic message surfaces about his father's past, Frank Sherman heads to a remote coastal town. What he finds is a place rotting from the inside—run by a smuggler family, protected by silence, and haunted by an old betrayal that's ready to explode.The locals want Sherman gone. That only makes him dig in deeper.When a body is discovered, the cover-up moves f...

The lack of focus on specialists and the absence of a specialist architecture present real business challenges.Many organizations articulate how important specialists are to the organization. Yet very few organizations have supporting architecture and structured development programs for specialists — at least not beyond a title structure and purely technical training.Organizations need an enduring specialist architecture that enables the entire organization...

They abandoned a soldier. Now Sherman's bringing the consequences.Captain Frank Sherman has spent the last year trying to outrun the war he left behind. But when a call comes in about a friend who never made it home, he doesn’t hesitate to do what no one else will.The trail leads from Kabul's collapse to a dark pipeline of human trafficking, where profit hides behind politics and no one’s hands are clean. Sherman's only lead? A cold trail through the Rocky ...

Equal parts mystery and epic novel inspired by historical events, Foreign Seed plunges listeners into the search for a man who seems to vanish out of thin air.China, June 1918. When the explorer Frank Meyer suddenly disappears from a ferry on the Yangtze River, American Vice-Consul Samuel Sokobin is tasked with finding the missing man. By the time Sokobin receives the case, four days have passed since Meyer was last seen on the vast river. With no...

A dead friend. A dirty town. And one man who won't back down.Captain Frank Sherman rolls into a dusty Northern California town to visit his oldest friend—only to find him dead and the sheriff's story full of holes.The deeper he digs, the more bodies pile up. Crooked cops. A corrupt sheriff. A town so rotten it's begging to be burned down. And Sherman? He's just the man to light the match.What starts as a simple visit becomes a full-blown reckoning, ...