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Any Means Necessary (a Luke Stone Thriller—Book #1) (affiliate link)
Luke Stone, former special-forces commando and head of an elite, secret FBI department, is summoned when jihadists steal nuclear waste from a New York City hospital. Their target is shocking, and Luke has 48 hours to stop them. But the conspiracy may run deeper than even Luke can predict….
As Luke Stone peels back layer after layer, he soon realizes he is up against a vast conspiracy, and that the target is even more high value than he could have imagined—leading all the way to the President of the United States.
A cat and mouse chase follows, pitting the world’s most savvy government agents versus its most sophisticated terrorists.
With Luke framed for the crime, his team threatened and his own family in danger, the stakes could not be higher. But as a former special forces commando, Luke has been in tough positions before, and he will not give up until he finds a way to stop them—using any means necessary.
Grandfather Anonymous (Old Code Book 1) (affiliate link)
Elderly, unarmed, and extremely dangerous.
Ajay Andersen was the best hacker the NSA had ever hired. He sank corporations, toppled governments, and broke cryptography. All of it. Retirement hasn’t slowed him down one bit, thank you very much.
His granddaughters are threatened, and he’s going to need to step it up a notch. Biotech corporations and criminal enterprises hold the keys to survival, but ubiquitous surveillance threatens to reveal Ajay’s every move. Ajay would do anything to protect his family, but the more he digs, the more he dredges up the shadows of his own dangerous past.
He only needs to know one thing:
What makes his granddaughters so darn dangerous?
The Lost Redeemer (Aeonica Book 1) (affiliate link)
A librarian’s apprentice uncovers forbidden magic in a secret martial academy.
Aeons once ruled the world. Now, their empire lies in ruin, and the survivors hide on the fringes of society.
Nahlia is a librarian’s apprentice who’s obsessed with Aeon lore, scavenging for hints of their legendary power.
But others are searching too, including the Templars who seek to hunt down the Aeon survivors. When the Templars attack her family, Nahlia is forced to infiltrate a secret academy and rise beyond everything she’s ever known.
The Lost Redeemer is the first book in the Aeonica series, which began as a webnovel with over three million reads between Wattpad and Royal Road. It’s a progression fantasy that takes place in a world with advancing technology, including firearms, trains, and airships. Follow Nahlia Cole, along with several other characters as they discover the lost art of Ethermancy and advance their abilities.
Death Walks a Dog (Penelope Standing Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Now that she’s in her fifties, Penelope Standing has life pretty well figured out. Her pet sitting business keeps her busy, her neighbors are conspiring to get her boyfriend, Jake, to propose, and she has just enough free time to make the corrupt mayor’s life miserable.
Then she arrives to walk Brutus, the lovable but ill-behaved mastiff — and finds his owner, Jezza, dead.
While the police work to uncover Jezza’s past, Penelope launches an investigation of her own, talking to her clients as she takes care of their pets. Even Brutus, “temporarily” staying with Penelope and Jake, provides clues.
More than one person had a motive for murder. But only one of them is coming after Penelope…
Until Morning Comes, Volumes 1-5 (affiliate link)
Secret Service Agent Carlie Simmons began her day surrounded by trusted colleagues in an inter-agency shooting competition in Tucson. It ended with a staggering body count as the world around her unraveled from a deadly virus. With her mission to extract the President’s daughter from the University of Arizona gone awry, she must choose between her sworn duties and her moral obligations to others as the city is overtaken by roving packs of flesh-eating mutants.
If she and her small group are to survive the night and find a way out of the ravaged city, she will have to summon all of her training, mental prowess, and tactical abilities.
NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority (The NYPD Red Series) (affiliate link)
Join the NYPD Red team in their most explosive case ever. The series from James Patterson and Marshall Karp has always been a must-read. But Karp’s latest, NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority, tops them all, making it a must-read-now!
Lower Manhattan: A sniper’s bullet ends the life of a high-profile New Yorker. Five miles uptown, a second prominent victim has his throat slashed.
And that’s only the beginning. A network of professional assassins is on the loose in New York City. Trained by the US military, they’re on their own now, with a new unit called Kappa Omega Delta. Killers On Demand.
NYPD Red detectives Kylie MacDonald and Zach Jordan are called in to hunt them down, but these mercenaries are as gifted in the art of escape as they are in snuffing out lives.
It’s the biggest professional challenge the Red team has ever faced, and before it’s over, both Kylie’s and Zach’s personal lives will change. Forever.
That Day You Left (affiliate link)
Would you protect your husband’s killer?
It’s been 18 months since that day when Saffron’s husband, Joel, was murdered. Everyone in her life believes she is coping well. And no one suspects the mother-of-two knows who killed Joel.
But now her daughter has confessed a life-altering secret, and Joel’s killer seems to be stalking Saffron’s every move.
Saffron is faced with a stark choice – risk her family’s safety by going to the police or keep quiet and protect her husband’s murderer?
Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use (affiliate link)
Alpha Physics! Book 1: Wagga: A LITrpg Apocalypse, changed earth progression fantasy (affiliate link)
In the apocalypse, the first weapon he’ll have to upgrade is himself.
The end of the world as we know it couldn’t come at a worse time for Adrian.
One minute, he’s an operations manager who’s overseeing a construction job in the wilderness. The next, an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself, from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain. The earth’s surviving inhabitants, its environment, and the very laws of physics have all undergone fundamental transformations.
Many of those changes aren’t pretty. Plenty of them are deadly.
Luckily for Earth, this has happened to other species before, and everyone receives an interface that survivors of similar events have used to navigate through an alien landscape.
Adrian’s going to need every advantage he can get. He’s stranded in the middle of nowhere, there are days, maybe weeks of travel between him and his family, and in a world full of monsters and mayhem, survival means beating the learning curve…
The Soul of A New Machine (affiliate link)
The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century.
Wild Rescues: A Paramedic’s Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton (affiliate link)
In 2014, Kevin Grange left his job as a paramedic in Los Angeles to work in a response area with 2.2 million acres: Yellowstone National Park. Seeking a break from city life and urban EMS, he wanted to experience pure nature, fulfill his dream of working for the National Park Service, and take a crash-course in wilderness medicine. Grange’s epic journey took him to Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Teton National Parks where, among other calls, he battled to save the lives of a heart attack victim at Old Faithful, a hiker who’d fractured his skull below Yosemite Falls, and a snowmobiler who launched into a deep gorge in the shadow of the jagged Tetons.
Grange was initially overwhelmed—and out of his element—providing patient care in an extreme environment with limited resources and a two-hour drive to the nearest hospital. But he came to enjoy the challenges and steep learning curve of wilderness medicine
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