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When Peter Flom was five years old, his parents were told that he had "minimal brain dysfunction" and "would never go to college". Peter skipped one year of high school, did college in three years, and got his BA at 20. In Screwed Up Somehow but Not Stupid, Peter describes what it's like to live with a learning disability, but also some abilities.

While tracking a potential terrorist cell, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force sends a field team to investigate. Traveling deep into the Catskill Mountains, the Albany field office discovers something far more terrifying than a terrorist training camp. With more questions than answers, the JTTF team gathers their evidence and prepares to leave the forest when all Hell breaks loose. What started as a routine investigation quickly turns into a fight for survival against a foe that knows every inch of the terrain they are fighting on.

The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin.

Hatcher and his band of survivors want more than to simply survive. They abandon their industrial shelter and set out to begin rebuilding their lives in an attempt to salvage their humanity. The Marauders have been broken, but Simon refuses to surrender. Gathering a handful of his enforcers, he sets about getting his revenge...and he doesn’t care who gets hurt in the turmoil. The Ragers are starving...and evolving. They don’t care who wins the war between the Survivors and the Marauders, they just want to pick their teeth with the bones of the losers.

Influenza swept the planet. In months, two billion were dead. In the decimated United States, President Andrew Thomas signed an Executive Order to spray the national food and water supply with a flu vaccine. It spread and mutated up the food chain. The infected craved the flesh of the living and the undead walked the earth. Overnight, Emily Gray's privileged world was ripped away.

The world has descended into a nightmarish hell. Death and destruction reign at every turn. Everywhere Austin Merryman has led his tight-knit group of survivors has gone from bad to worse as enemies pursue them for the intelligence he possesses. Yet, his group remains steadfastly together even as the infighting continues. It’s only when the cryptologist traveling with them finally breaks through the last coded barrier, exposing the full extent of the data on the mysterious USB drive, that their luck finally seems to be turning.

Parenting can be overwhelming when your child is struggling with an anxiety disorder or OCD—but it doesn’t have to be. Anxiety Coach is a step-by-step guide full of useful strategies, techniques, and action plans designed to address all the most common forms of anxiety, including social anxiety, separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, specific phobias, panic attacks, and OCD. It teaches parents what anxiety is and how to recognize when it becomes a problem, explains why children need to face their fears to overcome them, and introduces listeners to exposure therapy and its application.

The dust has settled, and the squads train new team members while licking their wounds. No peace can be had, and tensions remain high with the threat of the Titans looming over their heads. Phoenix and his wolves retreat to a forest sanctuary only to be called back to deal with a new threat. A threat that could possibly put all of humanity at risk. Rufus Thorn, now the vampire chancellor, hatches his own plan to free the Sicarii and erase all of the human hunters without firing a single shot. Just another day at the office for these covert operators.

When an egotistical billionaire’s plan to solve climate change goes horribly wrong, it unleashes a catastrophe with devastating consequences. Widowed boat tour operator, Kelly Walker, is determined to escape from Florida with her family, before the flood waters rise and life as she knows it disappears. But when disaster strikes her son, Jackson, is missing. She’ll do anything to find him. But as brutal winds and power failures accompany the floodwaters, she fears she may already be too late.

When Peter Flom was five years old, his parents were told that he had "minimal brain dysfunction" and would never go to college. Peter skipped twelfth grade, did college in three years, and got his BA at twenty. He now has a Ph.D. He also has a new diagnosis: Twice Exceptional (2E). He has nonverbal learning disabilities but is also gifted. In Twice as Weird: A Memoir about Twice Exceptionality, he tells what it was like to grow up with a diagnosis that didn't exist yet, and to discover what he was.

Brendan P. Keegan is here to guide you on your way. In The FUD Facto, Keegan sets the record straight: Fearless Leaders aren’t born—they are made—and we all have the capability to become the Fearless Leaders we aspire to be. Drawing on lessons learned along his own Fearless Leadership journey and the lessons learned by emerging, stuck, challenged, and get-better leaders across all industries, experiences, and ages, Keegan urges us to face our fears, believe in ourselves, and inspire others through our own commitment to show up as a Fearless Leader every day.

After losing her brother to the violent conflict between the FBI and the Genoskwa, fearless reporter Patricia Murphy enlists a Special Agent, the only known survivor, to help her confirm the dark events that took him from her. Accompanied by a Police Beat reporter, a Native American hunter-tracker, and an ex British SFF field expert, she dives head first into the Catskills searching for answers and a verifiable way to break the horrific story that left the bones of a hundred men and women lying in the woods.

After losing a 12-man Joint Terrorism Task Force and a full tactical SWAT unit to an unknown feral creature roaming the Catskills, the FBI wants revenge. Cop killers must pay the price, and this time the price is blood. Converging on the area with five dozen highly trained tactical operators, a full support team, and a combat helicopter, the Bureau brings war to the mountain. While utilizing drones, thermal optics, high powered weaponry and millions of dollars’ worth of the best training Uncle Sam can provide, the battle still proves devastatingly one sided.

In 2083, the governments of Earth decided to surrender to a new religious vision of the future. But the human race was not united; thousands fled Earth and the oppressive regime of the new Legion of the Phelb. Those humans are long gone, escaped from the Phelb Legion's reach, and out of harm's way for the foreseeable future. But the Phelb have not forgotten those who escaped, and have declared a crusade against them. The story of the Phelb has been untold until now. Follow Lancer Gerald Skydual as he uncovers the secrets of his own people, and the horrors within.

Hatcher and his people welcome newfound survivors into their fold as an infected threat rears its ugly head. Even with their increase in numbers, can they overcome a force of Biblical proportions? CDC researchers flee for their lives as their own government threatens to weaponize the virus. In a nearly dead world, can they escape from a force that still has modern surveillance capabilities? Jedidiah and his Holy Army position themselves to enact God’s wrath and cleanse the Earth of mankind.

Hatcher gives up his search of Yellowstone and sets his sights for home. Just as things are starting to look up for the survivors, tragedy strikes and old friends pay dearly for their complacency. Broussard and Chaplain set up shop in Fort Collins with the rest of the CDC personnel. Simon and his new group of survivors try to carve out a life in the mountains. As he continues to turn from who he was, those around him insist on poking the bear, doing their best to force him back to who he once was. Is he willing to pay the ultimate price to maintain his humanity?

After discovering a new location to call home, Hatcher returns to Yellowstone. Ghosts of his past call to him in his dreams, and he has to know their fate. With their lives hanging in the balance, Broussard and Chaplain work to find a fix to their cure. With the aid of the CDC’s remnants, they fight to save what is left of the US government.

Hatcher and his community of survivors attempt to recover from a devastating and well-coordinated attack from the Zulus. With their home burned and their infrastructure failing, they branch out looking for a new place that they can defend. A place that they can call home. The CDC researchers discover that their cure was not what they thought. As the first to be exposed begin to change into something else, they worry that they’ve doomed what is left of humanity to a fate worse than death.

Hatcher and his colony of survivors continue to hack out their place in an uncertain world. They cling to hope, as new lives are created and old ones struggle to rebuild the world that once was. Government researchers have released a cure in a last-ditch effort to save those infected with the rage virus. Humanity’s future lies with a genetically modified bacteria being spread across the globe.

A voice from the past calls Bobby Bridger to warn him before the old team is brought back together to face the threat. After members were singled out for assassination, Bravo Team is pointed in the right direction and takes the fight to them. Columbian cartels, Mexican Federales, militia members,and even the CIA collide in the jungles of Mexico with Bravo Team stuck in the middle. They all should have brought more guns....