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The reality is that the world is moving at a rapid pace with change as its constant. By now you may have figured out your purpose, but want to improve your skills in developing a fulfilling, enjoyable and healthy life. Through your effort and a few simple tips, this manual can help you set your mind toward making the most of your journey, increasing your influence and leadership potential as you go. No matter the walk of life you're from, you can learn how to build an abundant and satisfying life by focusing on four key fundamentals: Explore, connect, invest, enjoy.

For Alex Drummond trouble doesn't come knocking, it kicks down the door and raids the refrigerator. War is brewing between moonshiners and a murderous drug kingpin. Cremated human remains are appearing everywhere. And now Alex’s family is in the middle of it all. To make matters worse, his son’s powers rival his own...as does his stubborn nature. Choices will be made. Laws will be broken. And morality will be questioned. Will Alex’s family survive the bloodshed? The future of Alex’s hometown is at stake...but sacrifices must be made.

Stacked Deck is a supernatural expedition into the darkest recesses of memory for unlikely friends. Told through the eyes of three veterans — Will Cameron, the introspective English professor and past squad leader; Algernon Carrington III, an unlikely private who questions his elite station in life; and Tran Van Quan, a Buddhist Vietnamese soldier and US transplant — the men stumble into a chance meeting that leads down a rabbit hole.

Jack "Tinlegs" Taylor is a former elite Navy SEAL platoon leader; the best of the best. Recovering from the wounds that ended his career, he returns home to Boston to find a city under siege. A violent Arab businessman is forcing people out of their homes so he can profit from their redevelopment. Payoffs to a local cop mean there is no one to stop the war he has declared on many of the city’s residents.

The debut novel about the world's most hated music festival. Seth is a jaded ex Juggalo who left the Faygo and face paint behind for a miserable middle-class existence. But when his marriage and his career fall apart, his best friend, Spike, offers him a free ticket to one last Gathering of the Juggalos where Seth is once again face-to-face with the magic of the infamous Dark Carnival.

Everyone goes through difficult changes in life. Sam Wong is no exception. It’s hard for an adopted Caucasian kid to grow up in Chinatown, trying to fit in. He’s about to discover he is more connected to China than he ever thought possible, and learn about the jiangshi, zombie-like Chinese vampires also known as "hopping vampires". The name literally translates to "stiff corpse".

The Cold Winter is a timely story that addresses the effects of a grid-down cyber attack on the residents of a small village in Ohio. The added twist of a raging snow storm that pounds the region mercilessly creates "the cold winter". The Vesper family lives in a small village near Columbus and has prepared some, but not enough. Survival is their challenge, but they refuse to climb out of the aftermath by stepping on those in need.

Detective Tomas O’Malley is called to the site of a murdered teenager. As the case unfolds, O'Malley learns that this teenager was the school bully, dealing in everything from taunting sports players to date rape and assault. However, to protect its star football player, the school buries the facts, causing the murderer to expand his target list to school officials.

When Michael Carpenter had been invited to examine the most perfectly preserved bog mummy from ancient Germany, it was the opportunity of a lifetime. Then everything came crashing down when the corpse is apparently stolen, carpenter's mentor killed, and he himself left with a traumatic brain injury. The man returned to his loving fiance, Faye, is damaged with severe amnesia. But worse, some wraith like stalker has followed them back to America, and with it comes gruesome death. Only Michael knows what this specter is, but he's not telling.

Jonah has witnessed the unthinkable. The world has changed, and the new threats aren’t just ethereal. It’s no longer just about having the right spiritual powers, the right armaments, or the right allies. Just like before, when Jonah thought he had the 11th Percent figured out, just when he thought he had all the answers, he learned once again that he had no idea. Now, Jonah Rowe faces his most challenging trial yet. His faith will be tested and his beliefs challenged. And in the end, he'll find himself asking the question: Is it the world that is different or just him?

Shell Ferguson visits his incarcerated grandson Cal with tragic news: His daughter, wife, and grandmother have perished in a fire. Cal must rely on his grandfather to uncover the suspicious circumstances of the blaze, as clues unfold to establish his innocence. Compelling revelations link the fire and Cal’s innocence with domestic terrorism.

Jonah knows that Inimicus is in the game. His unseen enemy is prowling through the shadows, making moves that no one can predict or prevent. And he's armed with a weapon more dangerous than any ethereal blade or staff: Anonymity. Jonah thought he had ventured into uncharted waters before, but the past is nothing compared to this. Loyalties will be tested, and people will lose sight of what’s truly important. The line between friend and enemy will blur. And the question in everyone’s mind will make the difference between victory and downfall. Who can you trust?

Jonah Rowe thought he had the 11th Percent figured out. Spirits were real, and he had access to ethereal powers. He got that. But he hadn’t expected this: this was one threat too many. One revelation too many. As ethereal monsters prepare to ravage Rome, Jonah is the only thing in the way of the ancient city being bathed in lifeblood. His survival depends on him confronting the one thing he never thought he’d have to. His past.

Jonah Rowe's doing great. His accounting days are behind him, and he has more allies than he can count among his fellow Eleventh Percenters. But when a mysterious woman invades Jonah’s dreams and warns him of a danger of chronological nature, a game of cat-and-mouse ensues. Who is this woman, and why does she believe that they are in danger? And will Jonah be able to find the answers while protecting all of them - before they run out of time?

One minute, Ty’s lounging around, playing his favorite MMOPRPG, Umbra Online. The next, he’s being sucked through an interdimensional portal into the very game itself. Oh, and someone’s trying to chop his head off! Trapped in the game, Ty struggles being a PC with a very NPC-ish body and none of the skills or gear his level 50 character had. He’s got to start all over, and the people who summoned him aren’t making it easy, frustrated they got a scrawny 14-year-old kid instead of the monster-killing badass they expected.

Have you ever experienced the terror of being stuck in space, completely alone? Have you ever been kidnapped? Have you ever thought about the possibility that something is in your house, moving things around, and you don't know what it is? Do you have a gnawing fear that your life isn't amounting to anything, and you're running out of time to make it mean something? Do you worry that you might be falsely accused of something terrible and have your entire life disappear before your very eyes?

Drew and Matt narrowly escaped from the military through a portal that led to the alien invader's home world. However, before they could react, they were both imprisoned by the world’s inhabitants. Now, they are forced to fight for their cruel overlords' entertainment. Will they become strong enough to escape their situation and return home?

In the year 2004, a 9.2 earthquake hit in Indonesia creating catastrophic catastrophes around the world. The earth's surface is in peril and the only ones who can save it are the mysterious beings Inside mount Shasta. The earth's axis has shifted 3.19° out of rotation and must be corrected or humanity will die.

Almost three years after a deadly biological event killed millions, Alice carves out a life with an isolated community of survivors on a fortified island in New York. But just as quickly as the Haze spread, so has news of her rare blood type placing a target on her back.

The revengeful Prometheus trapped the Guardians, with a gravity net, in a mountain on Darius. His plot is to kill them all so he can bring in the Thirteenth Order himself and declare himself the new king. Midas had a split second to send Rosie to get the humans, Lane and Rachael, along with others, in hopes they will come to save them.