When Denver breaks under climate collapse, 61-year-old Claire Cutler loses it all—and joins a gran caravan to stop surviving and start living.The crash doesn't come all at once, across the whole country. For Claire Cutler and her bad-influence friend Lisa, it starts the day Colorado goes bankrupt. They're both laid off from their state jobs.The New Dust Bowl has emptied the plains. Climate refugees flood into Denver. There's no housing, no food, no work—and...

Every ruin tells a storyAcross the vast expanse of space and time lie the remnants of civilizations that reached for the stars—and vanished.Silent cities carved into asteroids. Derelict megastructures drifting between galaxies. Temples buried beneath the red sands of dead worlds.This book contains 13 bold tales of humanity’s encounters with these cosmic ruins. Think Indiana Jones meets Arthur C. Clarke.Follow determined xenoarchaeologists as...

She cannot die. But this moon is killing her people.Sass Collier took years to buy a spaceship, a dream born in humiliation and defeat.Four decades ago, Sass arrived on the unpromising moon Mahina with refugees from Earth, the home planet now falling out of living memory. As a marshal, she mediates disputes between the elites of the capital and destitute settlers wresting a living from the moondust.Then an 'air drop' kills hundreds, maybe thousands....

The Storms Before the CalmResourceful programmer Dee Baker is getting worried about climate change. Food prices are skyrocketing, the drought out west deepening, and the storms won't quit. When her intrusive Fortune 100 media employer forbids her to attend the escalating riots, Dee defies them to visit a rally, and see for herself what they're trying to hide.Civilly Disobedient is a short prequel to the Calm Act series.

When the ocean changes, everything is at risk.Fish vanish. Storms grow violent. Air grows thin. Coastal communities are drowning under pressure.Ten years after the tsunami, Long Island's leader proposes a bold solution: a floating city. Cam believes it could save both his fisheries and his people. But first he needs someone who can win hearts and minds.He turns to Dee Baker. Adventurer. Sailor. Reluctant believer.To see if this concept can w...

Without warning, Hilo Hawaii is destroyed by a tsunami from the Big One in California.Chopper pilot Reyna sees the tsunami unfolding firsthand, and gets those evacuation sirens sounding.Navy officer Tim Kimura coordinates disaster response, earning promotion to Resource Coordinator for all of Hawai'i. He's suddenly responsible for rationing for 1.5 million people, under martial law in a crashed economy. It's an impossible job.But while in Hilo, Tim ...

No garden space? Wrong season?Grow fresh vegetables indoors, year-round. And brighten your life.The salad vegetables we eat fresh can grow indoors - lettuce, kale and Asian greens, herbs, cucumbers, beans, peppers, and even tomatoes. The lights they crave off-season can brighten your mood, too.Starting from what these crops need to succeed, Indoor Salad explores techniques to meet those needs - from the humble CFL lightbulb, to container gardening, ...

The Calm Act is born in the dust of Kansas.Fort Leavenworth Kansas is home to the elite US Army Command School. Major Emmett MacLaren and his roommates look forward to a placid year pursuing master's degrees in advanced military planning.But all is not well in Kansas. A Dust Bowl is brewing to rival the worst hard times of the twentieth century Depression. Rivers and aquifers are running dry. Race riots and refugees fill the news.And Command School ...

An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.Now...

An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.Now...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She can't die. But this moon is killing her people.Sass Collier took years to buy a spaceship, a dream born in humiliation and defeat.Four decades ago, Sass arrived on the unpromising moon Mahina with refugees from Earth, the home planet now falling out of living memory. As a marshal, she mediates disputes between the elites of the capital and destitute settlers wresting a living from the moondust.Then an ‘air drop’ kills h...

Five months there. Five months back.And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space.Denali is one hell of a trip.But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony.Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured.But Denali holds another prize beyond th...