Brad Carter, renowned for transforming cult cinema into expansive literary experiences, brings his signature style to the novelization of Andy Sidaris's 1985 action-comedy, Malibu Express. Known for his work on novelizations of Cruel Jaws, Virus: Hell of the Living Dead and Rats: Night of Terror, Carter approaches Malibu Express with the same fervor, expanding its universe while preserving its campy charm.The narrative follows Cody Abilene, a pri...

Taryn Foster thought life on Molokai would be simple: fly cargo runs by day, unwind on the beach by night. But working alongside federal agent Donna Hamilton means trouble is never far, especially when a routine delivery drops them into the middle of a violent conspiracy involving diamond smugglers, cartel assassins, and a genetically altered killer snake.As the bodies start piling up, Donna and Taryn join forces with a rogue's gallery of allies: Edy St. James, a sharp-witted bar o...

Something sinister has come to the coastal town of Hampton Bay. Something horrifying and colossal that refuses to stop killing until the white sand beaches are blood red. Now, a renegade shark expert and a down on his luck lawman are all that stand between a genetically engineered killing machine and thousands of blissfully unaware tourists. It's a race against time, bureaucratic red tape, and the mafia to stop a homicidal shark from turning a holiday weekend into a nightmare of carnage.

Deep within the African jungle nation of Daroka, Marsh Industries' biochemical research facility is developing a classified serum known as the HOPE Project. But in the lab's Antares Module, where human test subjects are kept in locked cells, something has gone horrifically wrong. The dead are alive. Aggressive. Hungry for flesh. And the infection is spreading. Now a team of heavily armed American mercenaries, a French female journalist, and a group of unsuspecting missionaries have all ent...

Nobody knows exactly how many generations have passed since the catastrophic Event, leaving most of North America a wasteland roamed by the deformed, the doomed and the damned. But far beneath the poisoned terrain, an inhuman species of subterranean colonists has a plan to repopulate the planet. Their oily black fur glistens in the darkness. Their telepathic communication argues the details. Their long thick tails and razor-sharp incisors twitch with anticipation. And for a roughneck salva...

You will face the darkness someday, we all do“What he saw inside the coffin was not his uncle’s sleeping form laid atop white silk padding. Instead, what he saw was darkness more profound than any he’d ever before seen.”When Andy Gresham’s son Dylan is abducted from his bed on Halloween night, he realizes that history has caught up with him. Memories he’d buried long ago begin to surface, and he is forced to share with his wife the story of Halloween night in 1991.H...

In The Fraud, another thrilling entry in Brad Parks's award-winning series, investigative reporter Carter Ross must chose who gets to live: him or his unborn child.A rash of carjackings terrorizing Newark become newsworthy when one such theft ends in the murder of a wealthy banking executive. The affable, wisecracking Ross is assigned the story, but he's weary of only writing about victims of crime who happen to be rich and white. To balance his reporting,...

Moral injury has developed in earnest since 2009 within psychology and military studies, especially through work with veterans of the U.S. military’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A major part of this work is the attempt to identify means of healing, recovery, and repair for those morally injured by their experiences in combat (or similar situations). What this volume does is to provide insight into the identification of moral injury, the development of the notion, attempts to work with th...

An organizational approach to more effective school leadership, online and off“Leadership, especially in a school setting, is too important to be merely intuitive. In this generous book, Steve and Reshan outline a new way of thinking for a new kind of leader. Recommended.”Seth Godin, author of What to Do When it’s Your Turn (and it’s Always Your Turn)"If you're a school leader, Blending Leadership is the book you need to guide your...

A rogue reporter investigates a grisly multiple murder in Newark, NJ, in this Shamus and Nero Award–winning mystery series debut.Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner. Immediately dispatched to the scene, Carter learns that the four victims—an exotic dancer, a drug dealer, a ...

Welcome to Barlow Arkansas, where normal is anything but.An explosion has nearly destroyed the church revival tent in Barlow, Arkansas. Sheriff Tate Wilson, goes right to work rounding up the usual suspect: Earl "Catfish" Butler. Now, Catfish must convince both the sheriff and his "born again" girlfriend Luanne of his innocence. But the sheriff is not so easily swayed, and Catfish can't help wondering what exactly he did during his last blackout drunk.

A deadly house fire leads a cynical Newark reporter to a disturbing mystery in this sequel to the Shamus and Nero Award–winning Faces of the Gone."Enjoyable. . . . Once again, Parks, a former Washington Post reporter, deftly brings the personalities and dynamics of a modern-day city newsroom to life." — Publishers WeeklyCarter Ross, investigative reporter for the Newark Eagle-Examiner, is reporting on the latest tragedy to...