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Motivation. Encouragement. Resolution. And hiking in the great outdoors!T. Duren Jones gets out into the wilderness as often as possible-camping, fishing, hiking, desert trail trekking and "bagging" peaks-and does he have stories to tell! He''s hiked hundreds of trails, completed the nearly 500 miles of the Colorado Trail, and has summited all 54 of Colorado''s 14,000-ft. peaks. He loves the outdoors-and check-off lists. He''s kinda crazy that way.He''ll often drag friends and family on his wilderness quests...and most of them have survived his escapades. Tales from the Trails-part adventure journal, part travelogue, part motivational encouragement, part stand-up comedy-includes 26 mostly-true outdoor stories from trails and climbs around the American West.This book is for anyone who loves spending time in the outdoors, who wish they could be outdoors more, or who simply enjoy reading about other nuts who spend time outdoors.

It is one of the most fundamental questions facing America today: How justifiably, or irresponsibly, do the volatile and unbiased American media-press, television and radio-attempt to interfere with, and control, the political process and the foreign policy of the nation? In a hotly fought Presidential primary, the news media fractures along ideological lines, supporting and distorting the candidates'' records, manipulating the news rather than covering it. Capable of Honor, the third novel in the grand, bestselling Advise and Consent saga, is a compelling blockbuster that shines a harsh and revealing spotlight on how the media shapes the news, guides public opinion, creates policy-and tries to shape history itself.

Jazz rock flourished from 1968 to 1974, offering a distinctively cool and innovative hybrid sound that captivated a generation-and beyond. Superstar bands like Blood, Sweat and Tears and Chicago have earned their place in popular consciousness, but the movement included many other powerful, innovative groups such as Tower of Power and Malo.Author Mike Baron explores the history of this music fusion, its rise and fall in popularity. He offers highlights-and his own unique insights from a front-row seat in jazz rock-into what made the era so special.A Brief History of Jazz Rock is a sax-meets-Strat bible that dares to inspire a Renaissance-to cultivate a new generation of musicians who might mix brass with bass, and help return forgotten bands like If and Dreams to their place on the main stage.

AIR FORCE TWO WAS MISSING!When last contacted, Air Force Two, with the Vice-President of the United States aboard, was flying high over the Philippine jungle.On board was not only the Vice-President, but the "football" that gave him the power to initiate nuclear war. For in Washington, D.C., the U.S. President lay dying.At the newly reconstituted Clark Air Base, the orders went out: Air Force Two, aloft or downed, had to be found. The Vice-President, alive or dead, had to be brought back.The hunt was on. The race against time and the ultimate terror had begun . . . in an action-packed military thriller of supersonic suspense and explosive excitement-

On the peanut-shaped planetoid of Ut, a 150-million-year-old computer named Mamacita rules with dictatorial control. Her every whim is a steadfast rule, and no command is stronger than the ban of Sudanna, the wind that sweeps across Ut spreading the liberating sounds of music.Hiley OIV is one of Ut's most conscientious inhabitants, a man so afraid of losing his head (utpeople have very precarious necks) that a Bad Thought almost never enters his mind. But now his teenage daughter has fallen in love with Prussirian BBD-Ut's most notorious outlaw-a man who has broken Mamacita's cardinal rule: he makes music.

The sequel to the Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller Advise and Consent.From Allen Drury, the 20th Century grand master of political fiction, a novel of the United Nations and the racial friction that could spark a worldwide powderkeg. International tensions rise as ambassadors and politicians scheme, using the independence of a small African nation as the focal point for hidden agendas. A cascade of events begun in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations could lead to the weakening of the United States, the loss of the Panama Canal, and a possible civil war. Allen Drury paints a vivid and laser-accurate portrait of Washington and international politics, from top secret conferences, to elite cocktail parties, club luncheon rooms, and the private offices of the key players in government.A novel as relevant today as when it was first published.

After an exhilarating field trip to the local Challenger Center, JJ Wren and her friends are hand picked by the mysterious Commander Zota to become Star Challengers-sent into the future on special adventures to a moonbase, a space station, and the asteroids. Their mission is to learn high-tech skills . . . and save the human race from an imminent alien invasion!

New York Times bestselling author Brian Herbert and his wife, Jan, have combined their talents to create an epic ecological fantasy novel.In 2024, Earth is consumed by a great War of Ocean Liberation. A military force of sea creatures attacks naval installations, shuts down shipping lanes and fishing operations, and destroys offshore oil-drilling rigs. Huge blue whales, sharks, dolphins, and even monstrous creatures thought to be extinct-all strike with ferocity and surprising strength.The marine armada is led by hybrid, transformed humans who call themselves Sea Warriors, ocean-rights zealots who can swim to the deepest regions of the sea and live off the bounty of the waters. Their commander, Kimo Pohaku, announces his startling intention: the complete liberation of the seas from human control.Finally, the ocean is fighting back, but it might be too late. . . .An Ecological Thriller

June Scobee Rodgers PresentsStar Challengers Book 3: Asteroid CrisisIt's just supposed to be an educational field trip to the Challenger Learning Center, but JJ Wren and her friends find themselves transported into the future, to a time when the human race is besieged by deadly alien invaders. The evil Kylarn have shifted the orbits of three asteroids, sending them on a collision course with Earth!Using skills learned from the mysterious Commander Zota, JJ and her fellow Star Challengers embark on a mission to deflect the deadly asteroids before it's too late. But the alien invaders aren't the only enemy: the Star Challengers have to worry about human traitors, too. . . .

June Scobee Rodgers PresentsStar Challengers Book 2: Space Station CrisisThe Star Challengers, a group of talented young people bound together by a common interest in the space program, return to the Challenger Center for their next mission. Mysterious Commander Zota once again sends them into the future, and this time they will work aboard the International Space Station Complex. They will live without gravity, orbiting high above the Earth-and defend humanity against a ruthless alien invasion!

June Scobee Rodgers PresentsStar Challengers Book 1: Moonbase CrisisAfter an exhilarating space simulation field trip to the local Challenger Center, four talented students are hand picked by the mysterious Commander Zota for a special adventure-to travel to the future and a real moonbase in trouble, where these new "Star Challengers" will learn skills to save the human race!

When world leaders burst into flame like a string of firecrackers, the President calls on a renegade former agent with a history of mental problems. Otto "Aardvark" White possesses a unique quality. He's lucky. What Otto discovers in the mountains of Colorado will blow your mind and change the way you look at the world. "Mike Baron's Whack Job is pretty freaking brilliant." -James Owen "Mike Baron writes like the bastard offspring of James Crumley and Rex Miller, in prose so hardboiled you'll break a tooth."-Jeff Marriote "Mike Baron brings his limitless imagination to prose with a fast-moving tale that feels like an action movie captured in type."-Paul Levitz

A gripping novel about the deterioration of the criminal justice system and the mysterious, powerful body at its core-the Supreme Court of the United States.Earle Holgren-murderer, terrorist, lost soul-is the center of a vortex that sweeps up a fascinating cast of characters in their ambitions, politics, honor, and scandal. From the eight Justices of the Supreme Court, to the Attorney General of South Carolina who sees a compelling, controversial trial as an opportunity for demagoguery that might pave his path to the White House, to the idealistic defense lawyer who seeks to save a man she knows to be a psycopathic killer, to a driven Washington journalist in love with one of the Justices whose marriage is crumbling, and other Justices with their own agendas, vendettas, and secrets, Decision is a sweeping tale that begins at a nuclear power plant in South Carolina, works its way through the courts of that state, and finally to the halls of the Supreme Court.From Allen Drury, the master of spellbinding political fiction, author of Advise and Consent

The epic story of a Senator's rise and fall. Mark Coffin of California was barely thirty years old when he won a startling upset victory in his race for a seat in the U.S. Senate. A bright, handsome, energetic idealist with a passion for decency in government, he thought his honesty and dedication would see him through anything.But Washington, DC, was all too eager to teach him the hard lessons of gamesmanship and compromise. Neither Mark Coffin nor his wife were prepared for what Washington had in store for them: the bizarre sex scandal that would threaten to destroy not only Mark Coffin's career and his personal life, but all of the political reforms he was fighting so desperately to achieve.Mark Coffin, U.S.S. is a magnificent novel of Washington politics-an insider's view of power at the top, shown through the eyes of vivid, fascinating, and humanly likable characters.From Allen Drury, the master of spellbinding political fiction, author of Advise and Consent

A previously unpublished thriller by the author of DuneMurder. Mystery. Mexico. American journalist Hal Garson finds himself in a deadly game of authors when he travels to Mexico on the hunt for a killer story.With only a desperate letter to follow, he ignores the warnings of death and danger that he will find and travels to Ciudad Brockman, where monsters lurk behind friendly faces and swim hungrily below the lake searching for blood.Garson unearths a lethal game infused with conspiracy, murder, and spies, and winds up in a crossfire with a dangerous crime lord. Along the way, he finds people who may not want to be found...including a mysterious and beautiful woman.One question lies heavy on Garson''s mind... Who can be trusted?This heart-stopping thriller by Dune author Frank Herbert offers something for everyone, if you dare to travel with Garson.

Five short novels by five masters of military science fiction. It's a war out there. In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on distant battlefields. Never before published stories about monsters, deadly combat tech, treachery, and honor: LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA-by William C. Dietz. The insectoid Ramanthians have occupied Earth, and the Confederacy of Sentient Beings needs assistance from the xenophobic Hudathans in order to survive. But some Hudathan relics have been stolen, and the Hudathans won't join the Confederacy unless Legion Captain Deacon Smith can get them back. And that's going to be difficult because the thieves are ex-legionnaires-and they have a platoon of heavily armed cyborgs! A Legion of the Damned® story.PRISONER OF WAR-by Kevin J. Anderson. Set in the world of Harlan Ellison's classic Outer Limits episode "Soldier, " this is a tale about a set of warriors in a never-ending future war, men bred for nothing but the battleground-and how they cope with the horrors of...peace.REARDON'S LAW-by Brad R. Torgersen. When expensive, classified shipments of military hardware go missing, Conflux Armed Forces policewoman Kalliope Reardon is called in to work the case. She gets way more than she bargained for, as the trail takes her far outside the boundaries of the civilized galaxy, and into the heart of occupied enemy territory.DAGGER TEAM SEVEN-by R. M. Meluch. The evidence is clear and damning-A. C. Cade was a fraud. Cade's son makes himself into the man he used to believe his father was-a pilot of an elite Dagger Team, defending Earth against a desperate alien invader which has no use for humankind and absolutely nothing to lose.COFFEE BLACK SEA-by Aaron Allston. The saga of the Dollgangers from "Big Plush" (Five by Five Vol. 1) continues. Bow, BeeBee, Lina, and new 'gangers escalate the risks of their quest for survival... by turning their eyes to the stars.

Timeweb Chronicles.In Timeweb, Brian Herbert creates a universe of wondrous possibilities that is populated by sentient spaceships, shapeshifters, intriguing robots, and miniature aliens with mysterious powers. Humanity has become a mercantile society that has spread throughout the galaxy, ruled by wealthy merchant princes who live in decadent splendor-entirely unaware of another realm just beneath the fabric of the universe.When galactic ecologist Noah Watanabe discovers the cause of a strange, cosmic disintegration, he embarks on an epic journey to restore the ancient balance to the crumbling galaxy. Noah must work with warring, alien races to unlock the secrets to a vast celestial puzzle.The Web and the Stars-The web is unraveling, threatening to plunge the universe into oblivion.Galactic ecologist Noah Watanabe is struggling to hold the cosmic filigree together, while the evil shapeshifter race of Mutatis threatens to use a doomsday weapon against humanity. Noah has his own paranormal ability to journey into the depths of the universe, but he has made enemies of his own, including a third powerful force determined to destroy humans and Mutatis alike.Webdancers-The conclusion to Brian Herbert's epic Timeweb trilogy. As the human race and the sinister shape-shifting Mutatis continue their epic war, the connecting filigree of Timeweb strands that hold the universe together, begins to unravel. Sentient podships travel the strands of the web, but the cosmos itself is disintegrating.Galactic ecologist Noah Watanabe, possessed of special powers, is the one person who has a chance of saving all races. He is immortal, and faced with the crisis to the universe, he is also evolving, changing both mentally and physically ... but into what? Noah is swept on a tidal wave of destiny and knows there is no turning back.

Five short novels by five masters of military science fiction.It's a war out there.In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on distant battlefields. Never before published stories about monsters, deadly combat tech, treachery, and honor:Big Plush by Aaron Allston (a novella from the Action Figures series)-The Dollgangers, artificial people made in mankind's image, take up arms in a desperate bid to win their freedom.Comrades in Arms by Kevin J. Anderson-A damaged cyborg soldier and an enemy alien fighter turn their backs on the war and try to escape. But the human and alien governments can't tolerate the two deserters working together, so they join forces to hunt them down.Shores of the Infinite by Loren L. Coleman (a novella from the ICAS File series)-Separated from command & control, Combat Assault Suit troopers force a beachhead to liberate a new planet from the cyborg threat.The Black Ship by B.V. Larson (a mech novella from the Imperium Series)-A human settlement on the deadliest planet ever colonized clings to life ... but today new invaders are coming down from the stars.Out There by Michael A. Stackpole-The Qian have discovered humanity and welcomed them into their star-spanning empire. The benefits they offer humanity are many, and they don't want much in return: just the best human pilots available to take apart a most diabolical enemy.

The Tribulation Church presents a scholarly examination of the Church in the end times. In his insightful exploration of this controversial theological issue, Louis Moesta, M. Div., draws upon original Greek and Hebrew texts to make a convincing case for the posttribulation rapture position. A must-read for any Biblical scholar or layperson interested in the tribulation, the rapture, or the Christian church in the end times. This insightful and controversial book should be on the shelves of every library, Christian bookstore, and seminary bookstore.