Featuring every relevant team record, statistic, and award winner from the St. Louis Cardinals' incredible past, this book includes a comprehensive collection of Redbirds all-time leaders in every conceivable category, from hits to strikeouts. From Dizzy Dean's 30 wins or Lou Brock's 938 career stolen bases to Bob Gibson's single-season ERA of 1.12 or Mark McGwire's 70 home runs in a season, this reference captures the legends and lore of the Cardinals. More than a collection of statistics...

The find of a lifetime might cost this college professor his life.When Richard Calhoun finds a fossilized human molar during a dig in the Canadian Rockies, he's sure he's made the discovery of his career.Until the lab reveals that the tooth is 23,500 years old.The news throws Calhoun's professional colleagues into an uproar. His colleagues insist that humans didn't arrive in the Americas before 12,500 years ago, when the last glaciers melte...

Anton Fabretti is being hunted. His dreams are haunted by visions of friends being torn apart by an entity that attacks without mercy. His only hope are the powers granted to him five years ago, powers that will give him a fighting chance against an evil unlike the galaxy has ever seen before. Can he stop his own death or will the galaxy be plunged into darkness?

The thrilling adventure of four people who survive an airplane crash in the desolate reaches of western China.Three of the survivors (a German couple and a Mongolian Uighur student) have been expelled from China because of anti-government activities. The fourth (an American forced to leave his NGO work in Russia when that country invaded Ukraine) was on the doomed flight by happenstance. With no recourse to await 'rescue' by Chinese authorities, they head west for 2,300 miles in ho...

Jake and his mate Erika are folding space-time when something breaks their muse, and they are cast into a cemetery in northeast Colorado. In an instant, Jake finds himself lying in the dark. Erika's dead body is next to him. He is staring into her lifeless eyes, unable to move. He is stunned and shattered. An unknown killer is lurking just beyond his field of view. When the authorities arrive, Jake becomes the prime suspect in Erika's murder. He is set adrift, broken by grief and thrust in...

Prepare for the future from the inside out.How keen is your self-knowledge? Who influences your understanding of others? When was the last time you really concentrated on your purpose, your resilience, your perspective? And what in the world is polvo?In Control, Influence, Accept(**FN), author Dan Moore guides you on an antic journey of self-reflection with a very serious goal: to help you cultivate your inner-self who will be ready for wh...

Dan Moore joined the Marines to serve in Vietnam and contribute to the anticipated American victory over communism. After completing officer training and artillery school, he deployed as a forward observer with an infantry company. His letters home described day-to-day events and revealed a growing skepticism about the war. During the Battle of Hue City, Moore lost his assistant forward observer, soon followed by another close friend. Fighting to maintain equilibrium, he suppressed his cri...

Irish sea captain Johnny O'Scanlon hates the idea of closing the family shipping business, but there's no other way to raise the money he needs to pay the medical bills for his grandfather, who raised him after his parents died under mysterious circumstances. To secure his grandfather's future and his own, Johnny has to sell the last, beloved ship of his fleet, the Marigold, for scrap—but what his future holds without the sea, Johnny can't imagine.When his grandfather's fo...

Nixie Drake is a seventeen year-old interplanetary smuggler whose world crashes down around her. She loses her ship and her crew in the aftermath of a foolhardy decision. She questions the loyalty of her friends and is shattered by their betrayal. Little does she know that she is in the cross-hairs of an old enemy. With her life crumbling and her confidence broken, Nixie discovers the secret of her beginnings and must decide whether she will be a victim, bound to her past or a leader who t...

Learn what you need to succeed as a developer beyond the code. The lessons in this book will supercharge your career by sharing lessons and mistakes from real developers.Wouldn’t it be nice to learn from others’ career mistakes? “Soft” skills are crucial to success, but are haphazardly picked up on the job or, worse, never learned. Understanding these competencies and how to improve them will make you a more effective team member and a more attractive hire.This book will te...

Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by an asteroid impact. A woman wakes up on a pod ship orbiting a mysterious planet with golden rings. She's been asleep for five hundred years and doesn't remember who she is. She wakes up in Jameson Stryker's hibernation chamber, so they call her Jamie. Half of her companions have died. She is surrounded by strangers and haunted by her dreams. When they land, Jamie and the other colonists find themselves on the shore of an alien sea and surrounded by ...

Hunter Logan must fight a battle to save his daughter and the world. When his team creates dangerous nanomachines to fight pollution, a saboteur's bomb destroys their lunar laboratory and unleashes the killer particles. Logan finds himself caught between the sociopathic leader of Meridian Corporation who wants the deadly nanomachines and a radical environmental group that wants to stop his work at all costs. Hunter is crushed by guilt. He and his family are driven across the solar system t...