"For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...

Bound by blood, sealed in secrets. Twilight Crossing Scientist Jamie McCullough carries a secret that could secure peace between humans and vampires. But before she has a chance to reveal it, she's accused of bringing a vampire-killing virus to the conclave where negotiations are taking place. Half-blood Rider Timon is willing to pay the ultimate price to save her, but can he win her trust? Bewitching the Dragon Dev Gideon's loyalty to...

* Star CrossedA NoveletteThe Necromantor, the King of Doom meets his match with a grey alien diplomat's sister Mookaite Ga her brother tries to break them up not because of racism but because he's a jinx because all women he loves die according to the drunk Masked Chicken. They have Romeo and Juliet relationship. It all goes wrong when the press turns up and the secret lovers are caught revealing the existence of aliens and their relationship. Will...

Build enhanced visual experiences and design and deploy modern, easy-to-maintain, client applications across a variety of platforms. This book will show you how these applications can take advantage of the latest user interface components, 3D technology, and cloud services to create immersive visualizations and allow high-value data manipulation. This volume is a professional reference for building Java applications for desktop, mobile, and embedded...

The year 1592 in Dai Viet, a devotee to the secret No Name Society began an assignment to receive that would take him to China. Troung Van Ba began the perilous trek to receive the Jade Cross from a Chinese Master Cutter. Along the way, there were sub-hamlets where he would receive an update on the safety issues along his route. At one sub-hamlet, he was assigned a sixteen-year-old female guide, Tran Thi Mot. Both taking an immediate dislike for each...

An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, and an ALA Recommended Book for Reluctant Young Readers Nancy and Katie are best friends with one big thing in common-they both cut themselves: "Not by accident, we do it purposely-and regularly-because physical pain is comforting, and because now it has become a habit."   Crosses was the first novel for young adults to deal with an increasingly widespread disorder.

It's the dawn of a new era for humanity: an encounter of the fourth kind has been made with an advanced alien species known as the Eo'Tarx, and the two civilizations embark on a path toward mutual understanding. For this classified mission, CIA linguist Danko Orton is recruited to analyze their interspecies communication alongside an Eo'Tarx counterpart by the name of No'mi. Under the pressure of governmental cross-examination, their mission to...

A deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Dave Robicheaux's life he had tried to forget.