When Jesse McDermitt retires from the Marine Corps at age 37, he has no idea what he will do for the rest of his life. He only knows he doesn't want to spend the coming winter anywhere cold. His greatest skill is killing people from up to a mile away and he knows there aren't many job opportunities in the civilian world for that.Jesse also knows his way around boats and has an old friend living free and easy in the Florida Keys. Being an experienced diver and angler, he immediately...

Thomas Wainwright grows up knowing exactly where the world ends: the Kingdom Hall door, the borders of field service territory, his father's silence - which is where most things end.Raised inside the Jehovah's Witnesses in the Ozarks of the 1970s, Thomas learns early that language belongs to the Organization - that words exist to shape behavior, silence dissent, and keep the faithful compliant. When a summer romance becomes a congregation scandal, Thomas is brought before a judicia...

One of the best ways to learn about personality is to start with one central concept and explore its relationships with many other concepts and processes that are applicable to the study of personality. Originally published in 1979, Extraversion and Introversion: An Interactional Perspective does precisely that, using the vehicle of extraversion–introversion to explore the psychology of personality. The result is exposure to such diverse topics as clinical disorders, reasons for s...

Where Jerry Snyder goes, trouble follows. Someone tried to kill him and his bride on their honeymoon in the Virgin Islands. And moving there permanently is proving to be anything but tranquil.First, he’s working for the secretive Armstrong Organization—a group dedicated to hunting terrorists, drug smugglers, and the nastiest criminals since Blackbeard.Second, his partner is DJ Martin, a one-legged Airborne vet who has the temperament of a croc with a toothache. DJ has never...

She loved him in silence for years. He only saw her the night he let her fall.Commander Rhystan Calderon-Vale is a man forged for war. Cold, formidable, born into old money and older power, he has spent his entire life among soldiers, strategy, and blood.Wren Ashby has spent hers learning how to disappear.Quiet, kind, and invisible even at her own family's table, Wren was never the daughter anyone paused for. Not her parents. Not her sprawling, ambitious family. And...

What can be done to stop madness from sweeping the world when political indecision is the norm? When the nation's leaders lack the backbone to stand up to them, what can stop an enemy that knows no rules? Charity.Charity Styles is a former Olympian and U.S. Army helicopter pilot. Captured and tortured by terrorists in Afghanistan after the opening blows of the War on Terror, Charity has a score to settle. Now working for the Department of Homeland Security, she is offered the oppor...

The first book of spiritual teachings in several years from international best-selling author and beloved spiritual teacher Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. This book pulls from audio lectures of Wayne's from the 1990s and 2000s, restructuring them in a cohesive way to offer a fresh take on his teachings.One of Dr. Wayne Dyer's favorite quotes was "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." So in this book, which collects some of Wayne's most cla...

They had been speaking beneath the ocean for eleven years.No one heard them until the storm tore the listening cable open.At 3:16 in the morning, a dead Navy receiver comes to life in the communications room of Harrow Bay, Alaska.Ruth Calder is alone when the voice emerges from the static.It belongs to her nine-year-old son, Owen.The same son who drowned eleven years ago.By sunrise, Ruth isn't the only one hea...

Three years of marriage to Dimitri Kallas have taught her exactly how small a person can learn to make herself. She knows which floorboards creak before he does. She knows how to read the set of his jaw the way sailors read a coming storm. And she knows, down to the euro, exactly how much money she needs before she can finally get her younger brother — and his wheelchair, and his medication, and the life Dimitri has spent years threatening to take from both of them onto a ...

Book Three: The Waking DarkNot every darkness is the enemy. Some of it just needs tending.Lyra is twenty-one when the Aethon's dreaming reserve proves more fragile than realized — restoring it means holding the convergence six unbroken days, longer than any Binding-holder in history. It's also six days that finally name what's grown between her and Cael. But the replenishment reveals something else: a shift on the far side of the consuming current, vast and unprecedented. W...

Halloween is almost here, and Chase, Ava, and Madalyn can't wait to create their costumes. Each one has a special idea, but no one knows exactly how the costumes will turn out.But Josh isn't so sure.As everyone searches for the perfect costume, Josh begins to wonder where he belongs. Will this Halloween become just another memory... or one he'll never forget? A heartwarming story about family, faith, growing up, and discovering that life's greatest memories are made together.Part o...

Where the Warm Room IsOn the frozen steps of a locked church in a northern town nobody remembers, sixteen-year-old Charlie Mercer meets a man who offers him what everyone else has taken back: a warm room, a name that isn't his, a place at a fire. Cyrus Walcott runs a kingdom in the shell of an abandoned glassworks, a circle of the town's lost held together by drink and drugs and the low patient voice of a man who has been the same kind of hunter for twenty years.Ch...