The "conservationist president," Teddy Roosevelt, joins the other heroes in this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series.Teddy Roosevelt grew up with a great love of nature and a strong belief that we are all responsible for one another. When he became the governor of New York and eventually the 26th president of the United States, he devoted himself to protecting both people in need and the great outdoors. One of our earliest environmenta...

Three years after her mother' s death, 16-year-old Zara is still settling into life in Carolina Beach, N.C., where she knows almost no one. Working as the lone projectionist at the Palace Theatre— a rundown movie house that shows only vintage ' 50s sci-fi and horror flicks— Zara spends her nights in a dusty booth, fueled by coffee, pushups, and the occasional existential crisis (with popcorn). Then she meets Zachary, whose " Z" name feels like fate. His clothes don' t match, his stories do...

The gripping first book in the Pike Logan series, from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor.They call it the Taskforce. Commissioned at the highest level of the U.S. government. Protected from the prying eyes of Congress and the media. Designed to operate outside the bounds of U.S. law. Trained to exist on the ragged edge of human capability.Pike Logan was the most successful operator on the Taskforce, his...

What is a conscious moment, exactly-and what is it made of?Ring Bank Theory (RBT) proposes a precise and startling answer: each moment of experience is a brief geometric event staged over a rolling window of roughly the last and next half-second. At a thin "access manifold," content is minted where converging structures are forced into agreement; a family of content-bearing "paint schemas"-the real world, the imaginal volume, the body's peripersonal space, a library of stored shape...

Examines how poor and working-class communities in Guadalajara organized through faith, education, and culture to claim dignity, justice, and the right to the city.Strength in Unity: Christian Base Communities and the Urban Popular Movement in Guadalajara, 1965–1994 presents the grassroots history of Guadalajara’s urban popular movement, centering the voices and struggles of poor and working-class communities, especially women, who organized for d...

Retired Special Forces officer Brad Taylor's thrilling new short story features Israeli operatives, Aaron and Shoshana, as the two wed at Jerusalem's Western Wall amid a backdrop of turmoil and a new plot to attack the city's holiest site.Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are used to traveling all over the world for counterterrorist missions, but this time they're in the Old City of Jerusalem under happier circumstances. Their friends Aaron and Sho...

New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers an action-packed short story that sets Pike Logan’s partner Jennifer Cahill against a fellow Taskforce operator in a mission that will put their authority, careers, and innocent lives on the line.Fresh off of a brutal mission with the Taskforce—a top secret counter-terrorist unit that operates outside the bounds of U.S. law—Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are still dealing with its aftereffects. With hi...

The whispers started at night.Then the dead began calling her name.In Blackthorn Hollow, Emily Carter uncovers a terrifying secret buried beneath decades of lies, missing girls, and restless spirits.What is hiding beneath the abandoned church?Why won't the dead stay silent?And who will be next?Some secrets should stay buried. Some graves refuse to rest.Read Claimed By The Dead

In this exhilarating Taskforce short story, Pike Logan’s personal mission to get Jennifer Cahill into the Taskforce becomes tied to an archaeological dig in Roswell, New Mexico, where exposing a conspiracy leads to something much more treacherous than alien cover-ups.After finding the ruins of a Mayan temple—and saving the world from a terrorist attack—Pike Logan has been given the chance to rejoin the Taskforce, a top secret counterterrorist organization that oper...

People say that if Charlie Pratt had a penny for every blunder, he'd fill his pockets and then misplace his trousers.When Charlie tries to learn more about Dalia Addair, the peculiar girl who lives in the haunted manor on the edge of town, he accidentally slots himself into her magical trial—a trial that she has spent her whole life preparing for; he gets a day.But something's wrong; the trial is unleashing monsters that haven't been seen for centuries, and ...

Propulsive, compelling, and told with unparalleled realism, The Callsign brings readers new insight into the origins of Pike Logan and the Taskforce as they execute the first Omega operation in a relentless and action-packed short story.Commissioned at the highest level of the U.S. government, and designed to operate outside the bounds of U.S. law, a new counter-terrorist unit known as the Taskforce has just been formed, but not fully tested. Until now.

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