A man and his young son embark on a summer motorcycle road trip across America’s Northwest, seeking to reconnect and explore the open country.But this is no ordinary vacation. As the miles unspool, the journey transforms into a profound philosophical inquiry, a rolling Chautauqua that seeks to answer one of life’s most essential questions: What is best?On a vintage motorcycle, the narrator grapples not only with the mechanics of his machine but with the ver...

Buy a planet and disappear...That's all Cole wanted.He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.But life happens when you're busy making plans.When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose.Will Cole protect those w...

Why do human beings behave as they do?'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?Every act of human behaviour has multiple layers of causation, spiralling back seconds, minutes, hours,...

An unknown task force. The Coalition shattered. Haven destroyed?The Haven Protectorate continues to chip away at the Coalition's holdings through guile and subterfuge...and supplying resistance movements. Cole doesn't want an all-out war. Beta Magellan isn't ready.But when a group of unknown ships attacks the far side of the Coalition, Cole must shift priorities.Who are the newcomers? Will Cole lead the Haven Protectorate to victory?Get your copy to ...

Claim an inheritance.It's a simple goal, right?Nothing is simple when Cole returns to Centauri, the seat of Coleson Interstellar Engineering.  Challenges at every turn, with no idea who he can trust.  And then...the Solar Republic gets involved.Will Cole find the people working against him in time?  Will they succeed in ending the Coleson line once and for all?Read Now to find out!

"Robert M. Sapolsky is one of the best science writers of our time."—Oliver SacksThe author of New York Times Bestseller Determined offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print.Now in a third edition, the renowned primatologist Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras...

Nothing is ever easy...Tensions rise as the Coalition pursues its war of conquest. Who will be their next target?The Provisional Parliament in the old Commonwealth sinks deeper into fascism as people flee their worlds in droves. Those fleeing head straight for Beta Magellan.Only time will tell when Cole must face the next major choice: get involved in the war or let it pass him and Beta Magellan by.Which will he choos...

Cole & Srexx -- The Complete SeriesFrom It Ain't Over... (Book 1):Buy a planet and disappear...That's all Cole wanted.He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.But life happens when you're busy making plans.When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose....

Author Robert M. Kerns returns to Space Opera Science Fiction with The Shepherd, a novel of Shepherd Security Services.Stolen livestock. A determined heir. A fateful choice.Alex spends his days learning to manage the family sheep ranch. He wants nothing more than to take over when his parents retire, because his family has owned and worked it since the Westward Expansion.But all is not well in Southwestern Wyoming.Five neighboring r...

Disaster struck. Someone caused it. And now they want Alex Hawke to clean it up.After a forced vacation, Alex returns to his ship expecting progress on the refit—not a call from the Ninhar Confederation’s Ministry of Defense. A planetary climate system has failed on Lynxeen, a volatile colony world that relies on strict environmental controls. The people need relief. Fast.As an Accredited Auxiliary, Shepherd Security Services is tapped to lead the largest c...

Some missions start with a firefight. Others begin with a message that changes everything.When a private protection team finds themselves cornered and outnumbered, their last call for help gets picked up by Alex Hawke and his team. The message is bleak—cut off from support, no chance of evacuation.Guardian and her crew have a new mission: prevent a desperate rescue from becoming a tragedy… or worse. And this is one fight Shepherd Security Services won’t bac...

Six years gone. One way home. And nothing waiting as he left it.Alex Hawke never stopped hoping. Not through rescue missions, relay beacons, or years navigating the edges of civilization. Now, the explorer ship Magellan has done the impossible: it found Sol—the lost birthplace of Humanity.But Earth isn’t what they expected. And neither is the welcome.Moments after arrival, a failing U.S. space mission turns into a desperate rescue—and the f...