Tim Connor has just lost his father, a Vietnam veteran, to an untimely death. While coping with grief, he and his girlfriend, Allie, are pulled into a deadly conspiracy that threatens the nation.A domestic terrorist group, led by the ruthless Vance Galvin, plots to assassinate the U.S. president and everyone in the line of succession during the State of the Union Address. Their goal: to install their own "Designated Survivor" and remake America into a white, Christian nation.

REVIEWS OF THE SEX TRAFFICKERS KIRKUS REVIEWS “A dynamic cast ignites this absorbing police procedural.” BLUE INK REVIEW “The Sex Traffickers is a compelling read with a particularly satisfying ending.” FOREWORD REVIEWS “In this tension-filled story, there are surprises and revelations involved throughout.” Morgan Kelly is a young female detective hiding dark secrets. She fits right in with the current cultural climate, having always been a representative of the #MeToo movement even before...

Steven Carters father, Don, is dying in New York, and theyve barely spoken in two years. He rushes home at his mothers behest and is informed of a memoir written by his father. Although Steven has thought his father was a bit crazy sometimes, his mother, Diane, tells him a different storyone that takes place in Peru, in 1985, when Don discovers a golden cylinder following a mountain-shattering earthquake.The cylinder is approximately twelve inches long and six inches in diameterso ...

After being exiled to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1964 at the age of six, Alex Bell has managed to put his parents tragic death behind him and lead a somewhat normal life. In 1991, Alex is working as a high school history teacher and wrestling coach in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is astonished when hes chosen to go to Russia as an exchange teacher.Alex seizes the opportunity and travels to Moscow, hoping to make his peace with the past. Things take a strange turn, howeve...

Discover how Neil deGrasse Tyson became one of the world’s most successful and well-known scientists in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series.When he was nine years old, Neil deGrasse Tyson went on a trip that would change his life. While visiting the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, he discovered the world of astronomy and felt like the universe was calling to him. He answered that call by divin...

From artificial intelligence (AI) to quantum computing, every new technology is surrounded by 'hype' – but what exactly is hype, and how does it work? This is the first book to take hype seriously, showing how it is made, managed, and mobilised across today's innovation landscapes. Far from being just empty talk, hype has become a structured practice and even a business in its own right. The authors uncover the machinery that drives markets, guides innovation, and shapes whole promissory e...

Discover how Neil deGrasse Tyson became one of the world’s most successful and well-known scientists in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series.When he was nine years old, Neil deGrasse Tyson went on a trip that would change his life. While visiting the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, he discovered the world of astronomy and felt like the universe was calling to him. He answered that call by divin...

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems). Thus, Think...

Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization and design; performativity in and around mark...

Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary writers, both established and up-and-coming. The wide range of material from authors such as David Baker, Don Bogen, Michelle Burke, Richard Hague, Donald Ray Pollock, and others, offers the reader a window into daily life in the region. The people, the landscape, the struggles, and the deepest undercurrents of what it means to be ...