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Five days after the EMP, America is collapsing. Blayne Mitchener helped stop a president who was using AI brain implants to control the population. Now federal forces are hunting him through the Virginia mountains. In Tulsa, his brother Jake is trying to convince his ex-wife to flee before the city implodes. She doesn’t trust him. She doesn’t know the truth. And she doesn’t want to run. But the silence after the blackout isn’t peace. It’s the sound of a nation tearing itself apart.

La autodisciplina es la sustancia de cada día. Es el resultado del esfuerzo continuo e inconsciente. Hacer pequeños cambios en la rutina diaria puede enfrentarte a un sendero de grandes cambios. Los siguientes libros hablan de algunos pequeños cambios que pueden influenciar tu vida habitual: en términos generales, la autodisciplina viene con grandes premios.

When an EMP attack wipes out the nation’s power grid and communications, college freshman Maddie Langston is forced to run for her life. Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie is in a race against time. According to her father, she doesn’t have long before the city descends into chaos. She must leave the airport before it is too late. The perilous journey out of the city becomes even more complicated when Maddie takes responsibility for an orphaned ten-year-old girl. Together, as chaos fills the streets, they must fight to survive in a Turbulent new world.

When a secret government cabal attacks the president’s AI system designed to control Americans through brain-embedded implants, they think they’re stopping a dictatorship and saving humanity. Instead, they ignite something far worse. The strike fails. The implantation program surges forward. And the man behind it now possesses direct influence over human thought itself. With time running out, the cabal faces an impossible choice.

A catastrophic EMP attack. A world plunged into darkness. Suddenly, everything stops. No power. No transportation. No communications. When the lights go out and panic grips her town, Serenity Jones is forced to run for her life. But she can’t outrun her past and can’t make it out of her crumbling hometown on her own. Serenity must forge unlikely alliances, but with peril at every turn and betrayal just a whisper away, she doesn’t know who to trust. Narrowly escaping death, she realizes she can’t hide forever, so she comes up with a bold plan--fight back.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than 1 million copies in print! The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book. “Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s...

Stuff I Got from Dad is a nonfiction work that recounts real-life stories from the author's experiences and relationship with his dad (earthly father) that provided a valuable life lesson. The life lessons began in the author's early childhood, and though many of them were unintentional, the impact on the storyteller was profound. These lessons are then contrasted with deeper, more meaningful lessons that were discovered by the author from his experiences and relationship with God (Heavenly Father).

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir New York Times bestseller The thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an “urgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI undercover agent” (Joseph D...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline. “A lot of fascinating insights . . . an eye-opener worth reading.”—Parents Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s...

Sam Wallace had prepared for the end of the world as we know it. But when an EMP attack strikes as he's two hundred miles away from home, his survival skills face the ultimate test. Back home, Sam's wife, Lauren, the mayor of their small town, faces her own daunting challenges as she struggles to keep their son alive, care for her elderly parents, and keep their town from descending into chaos. When Unicoi falls into the hands of traitors, desperate residents take refuge at Camp Wallace.

Premio Espasa 2017 Ningún otro país como España posee una historia tan rica en sus imágenes ni tan abundante en conceptos, mitos y leyendas. Es la historia más exótica de Occidente y también la más extensa y extrema en su envergadura, tanto cronológica como geográfica, y con mayores...

With his farewells to Ethan, Brooke, and the rest of Camp Joy behind him, Jarrod Hearst pushes south toward the Mexican border, determined to find his daughter before the world closes in for good. With Dallas McCrea, Mad Dog, and a handful of battle-hardened survivors at his side, he navigates gang-held highways, war-weary military outposts, and seas of desperate refugees.

Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and - most heart-wrenching - her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs what’s left and heads for the small mountain town of Pine Lake, where she takes a position as caregiver to an eccentric old woman. A rumored clairvoyant, Lucy is strange but welcoming and immediately intuits Jess as a “loose end” in need of closure. But Jess isn’t the only guest in Lucy’s large Victorian home.

The word-of-mouth BookTok hit about a supervisor at a top-secret government facility running experiments on human beings. He’s always been able to tell himself it’s for the greater good—until the day his work follows him home. “Inventive, scary, wholly entertaining, and deeply...

Deep into the coldest, Midwest winter on record, an electromagnetic pulse has taken out the nation’s power grid, plunging St. Louis into frigid darkness. Can ordinary people survive the apocalypse? Pre-med student Raine Caldwell is about to find out. The government isn’t coming to rescue her. If Raine and her group are going to make it, they must save themselves. After finding themselves in a community terrorized by ruthless and dangerous people, Raine and the others in her group must pull together to find justice, when one of their own is taken.

Parenting isn’t easy. Showing up is. Your greatest impact begins right where you are. Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood. “There is parenting magic in this book.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D...

This is the After the End collection, Volumes 1 through 4. FIRST by Ali Hazelwood A general plans to use a nobleman's bride to teach him a lesson. After meeting her, he decides to keep her for himself. Content notes/warnings: ableism, blood, death of secondary characters, dubious consent...

Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth, extreme elitism, mass mobilization, and the promotion of violence and military virtues. He also suggests that the early Russian communists borrowed many techniques from fascism, and that though we are fairly well-inoculated against fascism itself, the values it represents could still emerge in new forms.

Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother’s decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. She holds on to the hope that she’ll be reunited with her missing brother and does what she can at the town library. It’s her home away from home, but it’s also a sanctuary for others who, like her brother, could use a second chance.

The only thing worse than being a demon is being a Valari. As an undergraduate at Los Angeles’s Alameda University, Kara Valari can sometimes succeed at forgetting she’s both. Lost between the pages of the classics and tucked into the shadows of lecture halls, she can dodge the paparazzi’s lenses as well as her family’s publicized dramas - not to mention their private expectations. She has one more year to feed her true passions. Then she’ll be expected to fulfill a much darker destiny.