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In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. 

When Israel “DT” Del Toro, Jr.'s Humvee rolled over a roadside IED in Afghanistan, he had one thought as he lost consciousness: I have to keep the promise I made to my dad. DT was orphaned at the age of fourteen, and on the night before his father died, he repeated the promise his dad required: “Take care of your brothers and sisters.” Throughout his childhood and into adulthood, DT indeed looked after his younger brother and sisters, even to his own detriment and sacrifice.

For generations, nobles have gathered at a scenic estate once per year to compete. What transpires there is spoken of only in rumors, save for the prizes. Potent, powerful, and precious; the winners are said to receive a gift from magic itself. Reeling after their loss to Kalzidar, the adventurers from Maplebark can only press forward, following advice imparted by the gods. Their divine directions will lead them on a series of twisting paths, branching between old friends and new challenges, before ultimately pointing at a particular estate on a specific evening.

Growing up in a low-income suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, Glenn Stearns attributes optimism, hope, hard work, and unforgettable mentors as the indelible influences that helped him break free from hardship, overcome numerous challenges, and dare to live his wildest dreams. Stearns believes that it does not matter where you grew up, how little money you have, or even how many mistakes you have made—everyone has the potential to turn their life around and make their dreams come true. That’s the core belief and incredible life of Glenn Stearns and what InteGRITy is all about.

Ever notice that all watch ads show 10:10 as the time? Or that all fast-food restaurants use red or yellow in their logos? Or that certain stores are always having a sale? You may not be aware of these details, yet they’ve been influencing you all along. Every time you purchase, swipe, or click, marketers are able to more accurately predict your behavior. These days, brands know more about you than you know about yourself. Blindsight is here to change that. 

They say there's a fine line between love and hate. There is. I fell in love with a monster. He used me. He destroyed me. He made a fool out of me. I didn't know it at the start. You never do. You think you have found the man of your dreams. You think nothing could break you apart. How wrong you are.

Down on his luck after a string of lost cases and a recent divorce, personal injury lawyer Matt Taylor hopes his next trial will be an easy win. But when he meets a devastatingly injured young man desperate for help, Matt finds himself embroiled in an impossible lawsuit against Salvatore Conte, a powerful lawyer with sinister connections. Despite all warnings, Matt courageously pulls out all the stops to uncover the truth and right a horrific legal wrong.

Less a how-to manual than a tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Won't Be Easy captures the experience of teaching in all its messy glory. Though directed at prospective and newer teachers, It Won't Be Easy is mercifully short on jargon and long on practical wisdom, accessible to anyone - teacher, student, parent, pundit - who is interested in a behind-the-curtain look at teaching and willing to understand that, while there are no simple answers, there is power in learning to ask the right questions. 

Everything is a computer. Ovens are computers that make things hot; refrigerators are computers that keep things cold. These computers - from home thermostats to chemical plants - are all online. All computers can be hacked. And Internet-connected computers are the most vulnerable. Forget data theft: Cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, your pacemaker, and the nation’s power grid. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, renowned expert and best-selling author Bruce Schneier examines the hidden risks of this new reality.

A fugitive tech billionaire. A rogue spy. The chase is on in the first three books in the international best-selling technothriller series. 

As a former assassin in the Hunter program, Asher is one of a small group of Gen One Breed vampires who survived the horrors of a madman's laboratory and the cruelty of the training that made him one of the most lethal beings in existence. Now, 20 years after his escape from those hellish origins, Asher is a loner whose heart is as cold as his skills are merciless. But when he thwarts a killing under way in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas, Asher meets a beautiful woman who draws him into a deadly game against powerful enemies 

Cain Killion knows himself to be a damaged man, his only saving grace the extrasensory connection to blood that he uses to catch murderers. His latest case takes a macabre turn when he discovers a familiar and haunting symbol linking the crime to his own horrific past - and only one woman could know what it means. Mercy Ledger is brave, resilient, beautiful - and in terrible danger. The moment he sees Mercy, Cain knows he's the one who can save her.

Award-winning investigative journalist and clean-food activist Mike Adams, the “Health Ranger”, is founder and editor of Natural News, one of the top health news websites in the world, reaching millions of readers each month. Now in Food Forensics, Adams meticulously tests groceries, fast foods, dietary supplements, spices, and protein powders for heavy metals and toxic elements that could be jeopardizing your health.

Lars Kolind turned Oticon, a hearing aid company, into one of the most revolutionary businesses of our time by rethinking the concept of management. In this book, he rethinks business in the digital age together with Jacob Bøtter, a digital native thinker and strategist. Unboss is the good-bye to 20th century hierarchies, KPIs, job descriptions, titles, bonus schemes, marketing tools, and sales strategies. Unboss is a new mindset that turns conventional understanding of management and work on its head and transforms limited companies into unlimited movements.   

The classic case of alien abduction rereleased with a new afterword for a new generation. 

We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves.

Madden chronicles the year he devoted to mastering all of the basic CrossFit exercises like double unders, muscle ups and kipping pullups, and immersing himself in the Paleo diet that strips weight from its followers but leaves them fantasizing about loaves of bread. Throughout, he explores the culture of the sport, visiting gyms (boxes) around the country, becoming a CrossFit coach, and confronting some basic questions about himself, his past, and athletic limitations - and why something so difficult and punishing can be at once beautiful, funny, and rewarding.

Chasing Shadows brings together the final three gripping books— Chasing Lies, Chasing Fear, and Chasing Lost—of the Chase Malone Thrillers. Brace yourself for a roller-coaster ride through a world of action, adventure, espionage, and conspiracy as these technothrillers take you to extremes.

With the smoke of Sunny Valley Ranch still thick in the air behind them, Adam Hall has an impossible mission: ensure that his daughter Crystal and the rest of the survivors find a safe refuge. But no matter how far they run, Adam knows that death will haunt their every step. Rumors swirl of a captured Specter starship and of smugglers using it to ferry people to safety on another world, code-named Sanctum. To get to the ship, they will have to traverse twelve hundred miles of desolate wasteland teeming with every imaginable threat.

When Dr. Kellan Webb is offered the opportunity to trade in his job at a fancy city hospital and take over the small practice in his hometown, he's overjoyed. Working one-on-one with patients and raising his son close to his family will more than make up for the pay cut. And Kellan always has a plan for the future. Sure, his brothers might tease him for being so serious all the time, but Kellan knows there's nothing funny about shouldering his responsibilities like a man. Then, a beautiful young pregnant woman arrives at his house in the middle of the night.