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In the depths of space, where alliances are fragile and the past looms large, Lt. Commander Victor Gonzalez is thrust into the captaincy of the USS Franklin, a legendary ship shrouded in mystery. Tasked with an audacious mission to uncover the fate of the long-lost Xindi Avians, Victor and his eclectic crew are on the front lines of cosmic discovery.

Their adventure begins at the awe-inspiring star base of Yorktown, a marvel of engineering and diplomacy. The Franklin, armed with cutting-edge technology and a courageous crew, including the steadfast Executive Officer Derreck Jones, Chief Engineer Lt. Selva, and the brilliant Dr. Richard Daystrom, Victor begins his journey. He soon learns that not everything is as it seems. The Xindi government has concealed a dark history, and their plea for help is steeped in deception.

As secrets unfold and loyalties are tested, Victor, and his crew, must find a way to bridge divided factions. With the specter of conflict brewing and time running out, Victor employs a daring strategy that challenges everything he knows about diplomacy and leadership. Can he unite the Xindi and prevent a catastrophe that could ripple through the galaxy? Or will the ghosts of the past drag them all back into chaos?

Star Trek: The Franklin Project takes readers on a thrilling adventure filled with heart-pounding action, complex characters, and the universal quest for understanding. Join Victor and his crew as they blaze a trail across the stars-where every decision could alter the fate of civilizations and the future of the Federation. Are you ready to embark on this unforgettable journey?

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Based on the Journals of Joanna Evangelou

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This coming of-age story follows two nineteen-year olds, Jo and Lou. After sheltered upbringings, the two set out alone for the time on an adventure abroad to Athens in 1959. What unfolds is a journey filled with innocent fun, laughter, and the delight of discovering the world beyond home.

Although fictionalised, the story is rooted in Jo's original journals from the time. It stands in poignant contrast to the experiences of their mothers, who, at the same age, travelled from Akanthou, Cyprus to pre-war London to build new lives from nothing. Yet across generations, the women share the same strong bonds of friendship, spirited natures, and resilient characters.

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The Silent Tears is a raw and faith-filled memoir of survival against impossible odds. When Wanda Lucas was diagnosed with Stage 4 Inflammatory Breast Cancer and given six months to live, her world collapsed overnight. What followed were not only a brutal battle of surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, and life-threatening complications, but also homelessness, isolation, and the painful unraveling of relationships she once trusted. As her body fought to endure aggressive treatment, her spirit wrestled with fear, abandonment, and the silent tears no one saw.

Yet in the darkest moments, unexpected grace appeared. Strangers became angels. A caregiver became family. A phone call from another state saved her life. Through unwavering faith and the simple decision to survive one more day at a time, Wanda defied the statistics and outlived her prognosis. Honest, deeply human, and powerfully inspiring, The Silent Tears is a testimony of resilience, purpose, and the truth that cancer does not get the final chapter.

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Welcome to the New Economy by Eric Bartels explores why the industrial business logic of the 20th century is no longer sufficient in this age of accelerating change, shifting human motivations,purpose, and AI. Based on more than twenty years of scientific research into leaders and organizations, this book reveals why and how a small group of companies radically outperforms their industries with new mindsets, skills, and business architectures. Drawing on over 600 in-depth interviews and research inside more than 100 organizations, this book reveals why and how this happens in this 21st century and how your business can achieve the same. Clear and accessible this non-fiction book is essential reading for professionals, entrepreneurs, policymakers and students seeking to understand the modern economy.

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The rock that killed the world brought death to billions, but it also brought an alien virus that turned some survivors into something else.

Jebediah Wayne was a farm boy from the Pacific Northwest, living a quiet life until the sky fell. The meteor didn't just shatter the world; it unleashed a mutant virus that turned humanity into a dying breed. Those who survived were hunted by the Revenant-paramilitary soldiers belonging to the Sovereign Accord, a shadowy organization that had been waiting for the collapse of the planet to seize absolute power.

Jeb's family is missing and now the Accord is hunting Jeb for a family secret he doesn't even fully understand yet. They thought he was just a farm kid left alone in the woods to become an easy capture. But Jeb has been infected by the virus and the super-human powers growing in him are making him more predator than prey day by day.

And he isn't alone.

Among the ruins of his homeland, deep in a mountain cave, Jeb discovers garments of protection and a creature of myth: a fire-breathing, human-eating dragon. To the rest of the world, the beast is a ferocious, murderous weapon. To Jeb it becomes his fiercely loyal companion and protector, adding to Jeb's own perseverance in his mission to find his family.

This is hero's journey, a cli-fi thriller, a gritty, high-stakes survival odyssey that contains no vulgar language or sexual content, yet features intense action with fantasy violence and combat.

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Heavy music didn't emerge from a single cause. It emerged from the collapse of optimism, the weight of industrial reality, and the confrontational energy of communities that had nothing to lose and everything to prove.

When Heavy Became Mass traces thirty years of sonic evolution-from Black Sabbath's foundational dread in 1970 to the fragmented underground of 2000. Nine chapters examine how heaviness scaled commercially, fractured under punk's rupture, accelerated through thrash and hardcore, centralized briefly around hair metal's commercial peak, and ultimately splintered into a permanently multipolar landscape that no single band, label, or movement could ever again control.

This is not a survey of albums. It is an argument about structure-about how economic conditions, geographic isolation, technological acceleration, and audience identity shaped the music from the ground up. Each chapter builds on the last, tracing the cumulative pressure that produced every major mutation in the form.

Heavy music has never been just sound. It has been infrastructure. Identity. The form a generation built to carry what nothing else could hold. The mutation continues. The next envelope is already in the mail.

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If Only... is a raw and deeply personal memoir about loving someone in silence - across caste lines, across impossible distances, and against all logic. It is the story of a young woman who gave her heart completely to a man who could never fully choose her, and the quiet devastation of carrying that love alone.

Written with unflinching honesty, If Only... explores the spaces between wanting and knowing better - the late nights, the small gestures that felt like everything, the moments that divided life into before and after. It is about longing, about caste and cultural expectation, about the courage it takes to love deeply in a world that does not always make room for it.

For every girl who has ever loved someone from the corners of rooms, in silence, without ever being chosen - this story is for you.

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The hardest stories to tell are often the ones about forgiveness.

Forgiveness is often spoken about as if it were simple-a choice, a virtue, a single moment of grace. But anyone who has lived through mental health, addiction, trauma, abuse, or deep loss knows the truth: it is rarely simple.

When We Forgive is a collection of fifteen stories tracing the path between hurt and healing.

These stories reflect on what it means to forgive others, to forgive ourselves, and, in some cases, to face the weight of having caused harm-and the longing to be forgiven.

Written for those who feel forgiveness may be out of reach, this collection offers lived experiences not as answers, but as a reminder that even in the most difficult circumstances, change is possible.
All proceeds from this book support the Life to Paper Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals impacted by mental health and addiction experience the therapeutic power of storytelling.

Contributors:

Melanie Goldman

Dr. I. Michael Kaufmann

Lydia Knorr

Adam Kunder

Jacques V. Leroux

Dr. Erin Mantis

Sandra McQuade

Meg Nocero

Maya Noor

Susan Raphael

Kit Robison

Tabitha Rose

C.V. Shaw

Dr. Vera Tarman

Norm Trainor

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It was not easy to grow up in Pennsylvania coal country in 1918. Many teenagers quit school before graduating so they could help support their families. Their dreams of a better future were dim. There just weren't many opportunities if you didn't have a diploma, especially if English was not your first language. When the unexpected chance came to live and be educated in an orphanage, the opportunity was too great to pass up. Although Tillie and Wasyl felt guilty about leaving their widowed mother and their siblings and even though they were not actually orphans, they were poor, they were children of Ukrainian immigrants, and their father was dead. According to the church, they qualified for the orphanage.

Their big sister, Ann, determined ot become a nurse, will allow nothing to stop her from moving to New York. Mama is losing the income of three of her children all at once, but she realizes that this is something each child must do, just as she had to take a leap of faith to cross an ocean at eighteen years old and come to America.

Everyone agrees to stay in touch and come home for the holidays, but those dreams are shattered when the Spanish flu sweeps the nation and quarantine keeps them apart. Money is tighter than ever, but life in coal country has never been easy. This is just one more challenging thing they must do, so they make the best of their situation. Creativity is born when you don't have any other option, and sometimes God leads in unexpected ways.

Follow the steps of these teenagers as they navigate through illness, isolation, and loss to overcome obstacles and forge ahead toward a future bright with possibility. In this richly historical novel, Tillie, Wasyl, and Ann learn how to discover and create their own destiny -- and that faith and family ties stretch far beyond blood. THE ORPHAN YEARS: While We Are Absent One from the Other is historical fiction, but it is built on countless stories of real people who came of age in the shadow of the Pennsylvania coal mines.

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In the winner-takes-all high stakes game of international espionage, success quickly makes for a target. Based on their covert operations, Tiger Swanson and Cal McHenry are now being hunted.

But before attention can address safety at home, duty once again positions them against a perilous threat overseas.

When the Central Intelligence Agency's uncertainty about the capabilities of Iran's nuclear program becomes untenable, the agency tasks Swanson and her quick reaction force to gather intel directly from the source-a nuclear engineer working deep in the heart of central Iran, a country with no formal diplomatic relations with the United States for over 45 years.

When the far-from-routine mission inevitably veers off course, Tiger, Cal, and the team must adapt and improvise in real-time to escape, not just with the intel, but also with their lives.

Throughout a storyline ripped from today's news headlines, Tiger and her "boys" battle their adversaries across Iran, desperately attempting to stay one step ahead and reach the border before a burgeoning international incident explodes out of control.

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From one man to another, I see you, I understand you, I acknowledge your shortcomings and achievements. This book should be relatable to the everyday man regardless of where you are in your life or the path you took to get there. We all experience heartbreak, pain, hurt, regret, and overall confusion. Nevertheless, we have these motions that we tuck away and hide due to the title of Being a Man-not being able to fully voice our thoughts, pain, or ideas due to what society might say.

While reading this book, I hope it is relatable in some sense and that the reader is able to take away the energy and tools needed to look within and move forward. Together, we will examine the attributes that contribute to who we've become, focusing on the why without bypassing it. As we pause to reflect on the events and individuals we experience along the way, may we find closure and move beyond the spaces where we are no longer welcome.

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Et si perdre la vue, cetait aussi apprendre a mieux voir ?
Dans ce texte aussi limpide quemouvant, Brigitte Joseph-Jeanneney raconte les bouleversements dune malvoyance progressive. Sans pathos mais avec finesse, humour et lucidite, elle explore le quotidien transforme, les pertes silencieuses, les mots comme soutien.
Un temoignage litteraire poignant, ou la fragilite devient puissance devocation.
Un regard interieur, plus aigu que jamais.

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Built on ambition, fueled by sacrifice. This is the raw truth about chasing success when it starts costing everything.

Long hours, quiet pressure, and the weight no one talks about. The dream pulls you forward while life pulls you apart.

This isn't about winning. It's about surviving the edge... without losing yourself in the process.

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"No one talks about what happens when you fall in love with the boy next door -- not when you're the boy living beside the boy next door."

Jared has a story to tell and hopes to make a difference.

He and Luke grew up in a small Midwestern town where tradition is unquestioned, and deviation is dangerous. Their bond began over video games and a tree fort, but as childhood faded, they realized what they shared was deeper and must be kept hidden. An abandoned, rusted train car at the edge of a junkyard becomes their refuge.

When the outside world breaches their sanctuary, their lives are forever changed. Faith becomes a weapon, causing fear, isolation, and unanswered questions, forcing them to build lives apart.

After a life-altering homecoming years earlier, urgent news about Luke draws Jared back to the town and the people he once fled, where he must confront buried truths and long-held fears and decide whether first love can endure or whether some love was destined to live only in memory.

Raw, intimate, and unflinching, The View from a Rusty Train Car is an epic coming-of-age novel about first love, survival, and the journey toward self-acceptance. It has been honored with awards from Foreword Reviews, the National Indie Excellence Awards, and the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Think you know the whole story? This Special Edition features an exclusive, never-before-released final chapter.

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Design systems have become essential infrastructure for digital products, yet many teams struggle with token proliferation and maintenance complexity. Mise en Mode presents a paradigm shift: instead of creating endless token variations, build with intent-based tokens and apply complete "modes" to express different needs. Author Donnie D'Amato, a design systems architect with 25 years of experience, introduces a methodology where ~33 carefully named intent tokens replace hundreds of semantic tokens. Intents are named by purpose (action, surface, text), priority (primary, secondary, auxiliary), and property (backgroundColor, textColor)-creating a predictable, scalable system.The book progresses through three sections: Concept establishes the theoretical foundation of intents and modes; Develop provides practical implementation guidance including file management, delivery infrastructure, and authoring tools; Future explores inclusive design, personalization, and Large Expression Models-AI systems that generate design expressions algorithmically. With code examples in CSS Custom Properties, YAML configuration, and JavaScript infrastructure, this is both a strategic guide and an implementation manual. Whether starting a new design system or reconsidering an existing one, Mise en Mode offers a path to sustainable design architecture.

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Donnie D'Amato, Luis Ouriach, Joseph Staples

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Turn meetings into momentum-and strategy into results. Is your leadership team truly performing at its peak? When meetings drag, decisions stall, and strategy drifts from reality, progress suffers. Leading with Obeya (LWO) is a proven management method that makes strategy visible, aligns teams, and accelerates execution.

Originating at Toyota as a visual nerve center for product development, Obeya has been transformed by Tim Wiegel-leading Obeya author, speaker, trainer, and founder of the LWO method-into a complete, practical approach any organization can adopt. In this significantly updated Second Edition, Wiegel distills years of global experience into a definitive, howto guide.

With LWO, you will:
Achieve seamless alignment and sustained focus across teamsTransform status meetings into fast, problemsolving sessionsMake better, faster decisions from shared facts and visual flowDrive strategy execution with clear ownership and cadenceReplace firefighting with continuous improvement built into the work

Inside you'll find the core tasks of effective leadership made concrete; fieldtested tips; critical pitfalls to avoid; and stepbystep starts for programs, portfolios, and leadership teams.

Includes access to templates, tools, digital Obeya guidance, elearning, training, and a global community at leadingwithobeya.com.

Stop managing chaos and start leading with purpose. Leading with Obeya provides the framework to unlock your team's collective potential and deliver exceptional results-consistently.

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Bound in human skin from a man damned to Hell, the Grimoire is an ancient magical book containing powerful spells, incantations, and hexes. Its origin is unknown to most, but it is believed to predate the Egyptian Empire. Some claim it is neither of this world nor of the living.

Delve into the mystical and dark themes of witchcraft,

magic, and the quest for a powerful book known as the Grimoire. The plot unfolds during a Winter Solstice festival, where various characters, including witches and warlocks, struggle to control or protect the Grimoire, which has resurfaced after decades of being lost.

One thing is certain: the Grimoire is coveted by witches and warlocks who seek to harness its power for good or evil purposes. Those who know understand that many books have been bound in a similar way. Still, the Grimoire remains the first and only one infused with dark magic from the underworld, where it was written and eventually unleashed upon the world with one intention: to destroy humanity.

As the Winter Solstice festival approaches, tensions escalate, culminating in a moment when the fate of the Grimoire and the characters intertwine. The narrative culminates in unforeseen consequences that will shape their destinies, exploring the true nature of power and responsibility.

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In the unforgiving deserts of the American Southwest, survival is never guaranteed-and the truth can be as dangerous as the lies that bury it.

Black Market Bones, the first installment in Roberto Picado's The Bombastic Adventures in the Arizona Desert, is a dark, gripping thriller where desperation, greed, and fractured loyalties collide beneath a relentless desert sun.

Marikler is a mother on the edge of losing everything. Desperate to reclaim her son from a web of manipulation and deceit spun by her husband, she is forced into a world far more dangerous than she ever imagined. Every step forward pulls her deeper into a landscape where trust is scarce and the cost of failure is devastating.

Ron Yawkey never intended to become part of something sinister. But when opportunity drags him into a shadowy operation hidden in the vast emptiness of the desert, he finds himself entangled in a scheme that stretches far beyond his control. As the stakes rise, Ron must navigate a brutal underworld where survival depends on choices that cannot be undone.

James Carter, an embezzler running from his own past, is thrust into the volatile crosscurrents of border militias and criminal networks. What begins as escape quickly becomes entrapment, as Carter realizes the desert has a way of exposing every weakness-and exacting its own form of justice.

As these three lives converge, their stories intertwine in a haunting and suspense-filled narrative where morality blurs and survival demands sacrifice. Set against a backdrop of stark beauty and hidden violence, Black Market Bones delivers a relentless exploration of human resilience and the consequences of the choices we make when pushed to the edge.

With cinematic scope and atmospheric intensity, Roberto Picado crafts a world that is as immersive as it is unforgiving. Fans of gritty, character-driven thrillers will find themselves drawn into a story where the desert is not just a setting, but a force-shaping destinies, testing limits, and revealing the darkest corners of the human spirit.

This is a place where nothing is simple, no one is safe, and survival always comes at a cost.

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The desert does not forget.

In Desert Ghosts, the haunting second installment of Roberto Picado's The Bombastic Adventures in the Arizona Desert, the past refuses to stay buried-and the cost of survival rises with every step forward.

Marikler is running out of time. Driven by a mother's relentless need to reclaim her son, she is forced deeper into a world shaped by deception, violence, and impossible choices. The desert stretches endlessly before her, indifferent to her struggle, unforgiving in its silence. Every lead comes at a price, and every decision pulls her closer to a truth that may destroy what she is fighting to save.

Ron Yawkey is a man burdened by failure. What began as a descent into a dangerous underworld has left him marked-physically and emotionally. Now, as the consequences of his past close in, Ron must navigate a shifting landscape of alliances where loyalty is fleeting and trust can turn deadly without warning. Redemption is no longer a distant hope; it is a necessity he may not survive to achieve.

As their paths converge once more, Marikler and Ron are drawn into an escalating conflict that stretches across the desert's hidden corridors-where criminal networks, quiet betrayals, and unseen forces collide. What lies ahead is not just a fight for survival, but a reckoning with the choices that brought them here.

In Desert Ghosts, Roberto Picado expands the stark, immersive world first introduced in Black Market Bones, delivering a darker, more emotionally charged narrative that explores the weight of consequence and the fragile nature of redemption. The desert itself becomes a silent witness-its vast emptiness holding secrets, its beauty masking a relentless danger that spares no one.

With cinematic intensity and deeply atmospheric prose, Picado crafts a story that is as haunting as it is unflinching. Readers drawn to morally complex characters, high-stakes tension, and narratives that linger long after the final page will find themselves pulled into a world where survival is uncertain and the past is never truly gone.

Because in the desert, nothing disappears.

It only waits.