Books

My ex downgraded to my conniving ex–best friend. His older brother upgraded to me… and promised to end anyone who tries me next. Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes for my former best friend to gut me under the chandeliers of New York’s most elite. It takes Julian Volkov five more to make her regret ever trying. Silver hair. Gunmetal stare. The monster the Volkov empire keeps hidden. And my ex's older brother. “Pick your words carefully. They might be...

A beach pup meets big Texas farm life.Tug loves his laid back island days on Naples Island, in Long Beach, California, but his heart is always with his brother, Tank. When Tug finally gets the chance to visit Tank in Dallas, he discovers that Texas feels like a whole new planet, in the best way.Tank lives on Liberty Ridge Farm, where mornings start early and every day is full of important work, and even more fun. As Tug tags along,...

On the floating island of Volturnus, sixteen-year-old Effie Strait aches for a freedom she may never claim. In a world ruled by the enigmatic Celestials, only the Gifted can ascend to the skies as True Pilots, forging bonds with the mighty Leviathans. Effie’s older sister, Vanna, is the pride of Volturnus—a fearless dragoon and newly minted lieutenant—yet it is Effie who burns with ambition, even as her own Gift remains stubbornly absent. When Effie’s closest friend, Kai, suddenly manifests his...

Nothing strains the bonds of an alliance quite like peace and prosperity.The Defensive Compact was a fine idea at its inception—a supranational governing body created by treaty between 237 interplanetary civilizations. And all it took to bring the squabbling, self-interested, xenophobic parties to terms was a shared existential threat.That threat arrived in the form of the Dorylus Encephalon, a collective organism driven by its biological imperative to incorporate or eradicate every extrinsic genetic line it encounters. Thanks to the alliance,...

When weight loss is the goal, health becomes optional.When health is the goal, weight loss becomes inevitable.For decades, we’ve been taught to approach health through the lens of dieting. Count calories. Follow the rules. Chase a number on the scale. If it works, we celebrate. If it doesn’t, we blame ourselves and start over. But what if the problem was never your willpower?In The Art of Undieting, Monica Woolridge challenges the one-size fits-all thinking that has kept so many women...

Most of us have crap. Unresolved stuff from our past doesn't stay buried. It shows up in your leadership, your relationships, your reactions — and no matter how successful you become, if you don't deal with what's under the surface, it will eventually deal with you.Deal With Your Crap is the complete roadmap for facing what's underneath — and actually changing it. No psychobabble. No sugar-coating. Just a step-by-step framework for surfacing the deeper patterns running your internal operating system...

The pain of church hurt is different.It is not just an offense. It is a wound that can shake your trust, damage your faith and distort your view of God. Church Hurt Healed was written for the believer who is tired of carrying the weight in silence and is ready to heal, rebuild, and move forward.Lois White defines church hurt plainly: when a visitor, member, volunteer, employee, or leader is wounded by someone in the church through disrespect, verbal attacks,...

A thirty-nine-day war between the United States and Iran ends the way modern wars end now: not in surrender, but in a memorandum. The guns go silent. The money is promised. The world exhales.Buried within the language of the peace are nineteen words that quietly abandon the people who believed the bombing meant deliverance.In Washington, a small policy institute that has spent its life describing the world decides, for the first time, to act on it, and learns that the...

A space colonization story about seeking independence and home rule in the face of corporate greed. Tribal women bind together in a war zone where they are discounted as not important enough to save or keep safe. On Dolvia in the galaxy's Westend, women of diverse tribes fight alongside warriors to bring down greedy offworld mining corporations, and local despots, to gain liberty and home rule. Lt. Mike Shaw demands Dr. Greensboro’s doctoring skills at the hospital, forcing the closure...

This 25th anniversary edition, updated by the author, reveals the miraculous communication systems present in nature. Learn how plants and insects communicate through emissions in the infrared frequency range and why poisonous pesticides do not solve the real problems facing agriculture. In this breakthrough book Phil Callahan uncovers why certain insects are attracted only to certain plants, the role of pheromones' work in nature, and how plants under stress literally signal insects to come devour them. Long out of print...