What really happens when you take on a system — without a lawyer?Fired by text message.No warning. No explanation. No way back.At 46, Ryan Lee watched his career end in a single moment. No severance. No support. No legal representation.Most people don't fight the system.They don't know how.Or they can't afford to.He had neither option.What followed was a six-year battle across three co...

What really happens when you take on a system -- without a lawyer?Fired by text message.No warning. No explanation. No way back.At 46, Ryan Lee watched his career end in a single moment. No severance. No support. No legal representation.Most people don’t fight the system.They don’t know how.Or they can’t afford to.He had neither option.What followed was a six-year battle across three c...

An ex-army pilot on his next adventure. A dog trainer establishing her mark. Can they rely on each other when a rescue mission turns deadly?Bjørn Rebel has achieved his lifelong dreams: a helicopter of his own and a business showing-off his beloved Alaska.When the local search and rescue team asks for air support, he jumps at the chance to volunteer. Not only will his experience flying evac missions for an elite division of the army give se...

In a post-industrial world of energy scarcity, one man finds himself marooned on his island home. Once a major global hub for trade and finance, the island city now lies in decay, its remaining inhabitants cut off from the world and struggling for existence. Faced with dwindling prospects and with nothing to lose, he leaves for another land, in search of a new beginning.The Exodus is a short story that follows a man's journey across a landscape vastly different from today. Along th...

In a post-industrial world of energy scarcity, one man finds himself marooned on his island home. Once a major global hub for trade and finance, the island city now lies in decay, its remaining inhabitants cut off from the world and struggling for existence. Faced with dwindling prospects and with nothing to lose, he leaves for another land, in search of a new beginning.The Exodus is a short story that follows a man's journey across a landscape vastly different from today. Along th...

Ryan Lee is a hot mess.In another lifetime, Ryan had it all. He was a child star in one of the biggest sitcoms on the planet. Now he’s an adult, unemployed, and a poster child for bad decisions. Okay, so he hasn’t robbed a convenience store yet, but only because he’s always either too high or too hungover. When the opportunity to film a reunion show comes up, Ryan jumps at the chance. He needs the money, but more than that, it might be what he needs to drag his career—and himself—o...

**Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut NovelHow can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful—and funny—debut novel of generational change, a mother’s secret, and an activist’s coming-of-age**Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of...

Ryan Lee is a hot mess.In another lifetime, Ryan had it all. He was a child star in one of the biggest sitcoms on the planet. Now he's an adult, unemployed, and a poster child for bad decisions. Okay, so he hasn't robbed a convenience store yet, but only because he's always either too high or too hungover. When the opportunity to film a reunion show comes up, Ryan jumps at the chance. He needs the money, but more than that, it might be what he needs to drag his career—and himself—o...

Keep your peace of mind by learning proven safety methods to help you prepare your home, evaluate damage, and recover after a flood.In a world where extreme weather events are increasingly unpredictable, being ready for natural disasters is a necessity for every homeowner. The Flood Prevention Handbook is a comprehensive guide that covers each phase of flood safety, so that you can know exactly how to prepare yourself for every stage of the storm. Using step-by-step instructions and expert...

The queer recluse, the shambling farmer, the clannish hill folk—white rural populations have long disturbed the American imagination, alternately revered as moral, healthy, and hardworking, and feared as antisocial or socially uncouth. In Peculiar Places, Ryan Lee Cartwright examines the deep archive of these contrary formations, mapping racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural twentieth-century United States.Sensationalized ...

New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan's Montgomery Ink Legacy continues with a workplace romance that starts with a fling and ends with something more.It was only supposed to be one job.I know the rules. Get in. Get out. Protect the girl, then move on.Only it never works out the way it should.Now, Jennifer and I work with each other, and there's no going back to normal.Then, it turned int...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon gives her beloved fans what they want for Christmas: a new Mitford novel.**When Father Tim’s wife, Cynthia, asks what he wants for Christmas, he pens the answer in a love letter that bares his most private feelings. Then the letter goes missing and circulates among his astonished neighbors. So much for private.Can a letter change a life? Ask Helene, the piano teacher ...