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In The Silicon Addiction retired 82nd Airborne paratrooper and CIA officer JR Seeger delivers another thrilling espionage adventure. This time Special Forces Operator Sue O'Connell's mission is to detect and neutralize a threat in cyber space. From a source meeting in Dubai to a high-speed chase along New York Route 16 and a gun fight in Tadzhikistan, Seeger demonstrates a sophisticated command of military special operations and spying tradecraft. O'Connell's introspective discussion about 9/11 with her comrade in arms "Flash," demonstrates Seeger's skill in entwining character development with a riveting plot, best read in one sitting. -DAN HOFFMAN, retired member of the CIA Senior Intelligence Service and Fox News Media ContributorSOF intelligence assets are dying. Operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan have been compromised. Sue O'Connell and her teammates have to find the leak and find it fast.The hunt for the cyber hackers takes the SOF contingent to Turkey, the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. Back at home, Sue's brother in the BBI finds himself stuck on a similar problem, as adversaries in the US are using cyber operations to steal Pentagon secrets. Even Sue's mother, retired CIA case officer Barbara O'Connell, faces the a cyber challenge. And every time they defeat one cyber threat, another is uncovered.In The Silicon Addiction, the complex world of cyber operations is in full display. Hunting terrorists on the battlefield is one thing, hunting cyber villains who can be in any place, at any time, is another.

How far will a teenager go to save her parents?To the ends of the earth.Elizabeth Bankroft is a thoroughly modern teenager in the Edwardian age. She spends part of the year with her parents in British India and part of the year with her grandparents in England. When her parents decide to send her to a college, Elizabeth resents the idea of what she calls a "finishing school" in India.At the Viceroy's College in the foothills of the Himalayas, "finishing" will take on a whole new meaning. The college is, in fact, the British India school for spies. There, Elizabeth will learn the family business of espionage, martial arts and Tibetan mystic arts. But even before completing her training, she will be called upon to use her exceptional skills to save herself and her family. In the end, it is Elizabeth's training from the School for the Great Game that will win the day. Includes suggestions for further reading and recommendations for book clubs and educators.J.R. SEEGER is a western New York native who served as a U.S. Army paratrooper and CIA case officer for a total of 27 years of federal service. In October 2001, Mr. Seeger led a CIA paramilitary team into Afghanistan. He is the author of the acclaimed MIKE4 espionage series."J.R. Seeger transports the reader into the era of the Raj with a rollicking tale that reeks of authenticity, drawn from a fizzing imagination that springs from both scholarship and real-world experience. No stranger to the modern-day battlefields of Afghanistan that remain unchanged in many respects from days of yore, he conjures up the sounds and smells of the Near East as he expertly crafts a plot that twists through the shadow and shade cast by the British Crown." -TOBY HARNDEN, war correspondent and author of Dead Men Risen"Seeger takes his readers on a voyage of discovery across the dangerous, clandestine world he knows so well." -MILT BEARDEN, author of The Black Tulip and co-author of The Main Enemy

Chris Simpson tells the story of growing up in a gritty industrial upstate New York town in the 1960s, hanging out with a bunch of friends whose favorite pastimes are playing high school football, chasing girls, dreaming up nicknames, inventing imaginary organizations, and trying to get served in bars.Their football team, the Ganaway Rivermen, has historically won more than its fair share of games against archrival Bell Island. The Bell Island - Ganaway game, the BI-G game, is famous throughout the region. But that winning streak has come to an end....Frank Helwig is the team's legendary coach. He's won more games than any coach in the league, maybe in the state. For all those years, Helwig has relied on the single wing offense, which by the '60s has been abandoned by all but a few schools. Is it time for a change? The team's losing streak against Bell Island has the town talking. People are saying that Helwig needs to modernize the Ganaway game, but that talk seems to be falling on deaf ears.Chris and his teammates come up through the ranks: freshman ball, then the JV team, and finally varsity. Over those years, their families confront a series of issues: alcoholism, gambling, loan sharking, mob connections, a nasty injury at a chemical plant, and the possible loss of a family business. But always, football and friendship form the glue that holds the boys together. And in their senior year, it's up to them to save the reputation of the Ganaway Rivermen and their own sense of pride.

When hidden powers awaken, two unsuspecting teens are drawn into a world of danger and magic.Whitney and Edward are ordinary teenagers, but their lives are about to take an extraordinary turn. Little do the teens know, they possess incredible powers that are entwined with the fate of a distant world called Yagdi.When a vengeful Ancient's quest for power threatens Yagdi and the life of its young dragon prince, dormant gifts awaken in the two young chosen ones. Plagued with haunting images of a distant world in peril, the teens are confused and frightened. The arrival of mysterious visitors brings hope, something Whitney and Edward desperately need. Embracing their newfound talents, the teens navigate a world of magic and peril as they risk everything to save the future king.Fearing the clever teens could block her path to power, the formidable Ancient concocts a devious plan to eliminate her young adversaries. Whitney and Edward face grave danger, but a fierce defender has vowed to protect them.Will they risk everything to defend Yagdi from a devious enemy? Embarking on this dangerous journey will shape their destinies forever, and Whitney and Edward will discover the true power of friendship. Fans of "The Last Dragon Chronicles, "The Chronicles of Narnia," and "A Wrinkle in Time" will love "The Polar Bear and the Dragon." This is Book 1 in a coming-of-age fantasy adventure series for ages 10 and up. Click "Read Sample" to begin Chapter 1 today.

It takes perseverance, passion, and the support of many to create a life-changing mentoring program that matches successful, seasoned entrepreneurs with eager-but-green business owners willing to share what keeps them up at night. But that's exactly what Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr., did a quarter century ago after selling his business to Warren Buffett. He launched, and then led, the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program (HEMP) in Kansas City. Today, hundreds of Kansas City businesses have benefited from his wisdom and HEMP's overall mission of fostering bold, spirited entrepreneurism. Not surprisingly, HEMP has also emerged as a national model for business mentoring. In Put Your Worst Foot Forward, Helzberg openly shares the challenges, successes, and failures that accompanied HEMP's growth. It's a dramatic story of ups and downs. It also provides lessons to other business communities in how they, too, can foster the magic of mentoring in their cities and towns.

Train robberies, stage-coach holdups, posses, breakouts and shoot-em-ups step out of the darker pages of Michigan's past and spring to life in Tom Carr's MI Bad: Robbers, Cutthroats and Thieves in Michigan's Past and Present.The Great Lakes State has seen more than its share of sensational crimes in the last couple of centuries. MI Bad shines a searchlight on several of the most jaw-dropping capers and rogues, including:• A couple of 1880s prostitution procurers who roll drunken lumberjacks for their wages in a whorehouse and bury bodies in shallow graves. The two die drunk and destitute in a freezing shack.• Baby Face Nelson gets his big-time career start - with an actual baby - in a bank holdup in Depression-era Grand Haven.• A 1970s, cinema-esque escape from Jackson State Prison that falls apart quickly once outside the razor wire.• Train robbing brothers who get away with fortunes all over the Midwest, until one of them puts a bullet in the head of a well-liked Grand Rapids cop.• A 1960s cop and a 2010s fifth-grade teacher break bad.• Huge posses of armed Michiganders rush out to help - and sometimes hinder - a bank stickup. • A 19th Century U.P. boomtown finally has enough of a brothel owner beating the women he holds captive.• Plus many more blood-and-money tales of Wolverine-state intrigue, suspense or just plain awfulness. MI Bad is author Tom Carr's follow-up to his successful, Michigan historical true crime debut, Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders, 1700s-Present, also published by Mission Point Press/Chandler Lake Books.

In this old folktale, a poor Michigan fisherman catches a magic fish. When he tells his wife that he released the fish without asking for a reward, she makes it clear that what the fisherman's wife wants, the fisherman's wife gets.

Jack Kerkhoff was born to the news. His parents both worked at the Grand Rapids Herald, and Jack got an early start at the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Bigger papers followed: the Detroit News, New York Journal-American, and the New York Post. But Kerkhoff's professional success was overshadowed by personal tragedy. His wife died suddenly in 1940 and then his 25-year-old daughter eight years later. Severe depression and two suicide attempts followed. Kerkhoff had done some growing up in the Traverse City area - his parents owned a home on Old Mission Peninsula - and he was well aware of the form and function of the State Hospital.How many times I had scampered up that driveway with my gang, fearful yet curious. How many times we had wandered outside the bleak, tower-topped buildings that had iron bars at the windows, and shouted at the men and women behind the bars and giggled over the obscenities they tossed back at us.So, on a wintery November day, Kerkhoff checked himself into the asylum, hoping that the treatment provided there would lift the veil of sadness.How Thin the Veil is a 45-day account of Kerkhoff's treatment, his conversations with the nurses and doctors (some of them with their real names), his interactions with the inmates, and his trips to downtown Traverse City watering holes. There's also romance in the form of Suzy, a pretty, lisping waif whose "bad spells" had kept her hospitalized for eight years.First published in 1952, How Thin the Veil shines a "hard-boiled" light on the mid-century conditions of patients of mental illness. Booze and cigarettes abound. Insulin-shock therapy was in vogue, as was what the patients called "eloctros." However, the overall treatment is ultimately sympathetic and humane. Kerkhoff recovered and returned to work.Ray Minervini, who restored and developed Building 50 of the old Traverse City State Hospital, provides an insider introduction to this classic memoir of mental illness.

Daring to Dance Again: Pearls of Wisdom for a Soul-Filled Life is a compilation of personal stories - sad and joyful, painful and funny. They are also universal stories that speak to our common humanity. The stories embrace our fallibilities and our weaknesses. They show us at our lowest moments. They also shine a light, showing the way. The author hopes these stories, in some small way, will help others embrace God and His heavenly and earth angels who are there to lift us up.Life is full of journeys that we did not choose to make. Some journeys - divorce, cancer, death - choose us. They test our faith. Yet it is faith, along with the love of others that save us.Each chapter of Daring to Dance Again will elicit different emotions, and each chapter concludes with "A Pearl of Wisdom," a bit of inspiration the author has gleaned from her life. Together these stories will resonate with readers who have dealt with divorce, grief, and loss, a serious illness, or any other challenge in life. And it will leave them with a renewed faith in God and a sense of hope.

Explore the back roads and hidden vistas of South Dakota's national and state parks. For many, South Dakota means the location of Mount Rushmore, and not much else. Photographer Deeda Cordin's Spellbound in South Dakota spectacularly demonstrates the extensive beauty the state offers to nature and wildlife lovers, hikers, cyclists. From Badlands National Park to Wind Cave National Park, Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary to Custer State Park, Deeda Cordin's photos provide endless possibilities for visual storytellers.Deeda Cardin grew up on Deep Creek Ranch, a working cattle ranch near Glenwood, New Mexico. Following years of exhibiting and selling her paintings and photographs in fine art venues, Deeda opened Deep Creek Art in 1995 in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale. In 2019 Deeda and her husband moved to Custer, South Dakota, where Deep Creek Art reopened at 26 South 6th Street. Custer, home to Custer State Park and close by Wind Cave National Park, is the ideal location for Deeda to pursue her love of painting and photography. During the past thirty years, Deeda's photographs and paintings have been awarded recognition to include: Princeton Fine Art Faire, Hinsdale Fine Art Faire, Graue Mill and Museum Photography Exhibition, Dixon Fine Art Exhibition and the Dahl Mountain Photo Exhibition.

¡La persistencia da frutos!Cohete, el springer spaniel inglés, trabaja en su "lista de deberes" diariamente. Por sus cualidades heredadas, él es rápido, fuerte y bravo, y tiene la actitud de "nunca rendirse". Cohete cree en sí mismo y tiene una confianza extrema en sus habilidades.Pero hay una tarea que verdaderamente le encanta, la cual no puede hacer a la perfección. Él siempre intenta llegar a dominarla sin éxito.¡Parece que Cohete tan solo no puede atrapar una ardilla!Puedes lograrlo, Cohete está narrado desde la perspectiva del perro y sirve como catalizador para un razonamiento profundo y un debate sobre la perseverancia, el fijarse metas, la ética de trabajo y el acoso escolar.

Sharon Emery struggled with the losses and limits she faced but couldn't change - no matter how hard she tried. And she did try. First with her incurable severe stutter, then with the death of her daughter, Jessica, and the too-early deaths of her own younger siblings. Meanwhile, her "broken" voice meant her long career in communications was regularly a battle.Emery wrote this memoir to help guide her children on their own life journeys, stressing the amazing resilience of humans beings. Exhibit A: herself.In the foreword, Steve Gleason - former NFL player with the New Orleans Saints, now living with ALS, and a friend of Emery's son, Ben Schneider, front man for the band Lord Huron - provides a compelling introduction to what we can gain from what we lose.Emery was a daughter, sister and mother - and lost all those roles. She was a journalist, public relations consultant, and teacher - and never able to speak fluently. Her memoir recounts Emery's challenges and achievements, tracing her efforts to give them meaning and find where they fit in her life. It's a process she considers vital to surviving what happens to you - telling the story. This is a reaffirming example of how it can be done.

Surviving your life - making your way through the good and bad - nudges you to make a record of it, to leave signposts for those who come after, especially your children. That was Sharon Emery''s plan in writing It''s Hard Being You, A Primer on Being Happy Anyway.She had survived perhaps the most heartrending loss of all, the death of a child. But she also faced the less wrenching challenge of having a disability that was incurable, though not deadly (stuttering). Life is hard, but, so what?This memoir became Emery''s so what. She has recounted her challenges and achievements and given them meaning, and found where they fit in her life. It''s a process she considers vital to surviving what happens to you - telling the story.As the title suggests, Emery writes with both hard-eyed realism and compassionate humor. Readers can listen in on what Emery wants her children to know about the losses and the limits that keep happening despite our desperate attempts to avoid them.Her memoir resides in the everyday struggle to live as best we can, providing insights on how all who struggle - which is to say all of us - can survive well.