Nolan Walker and the Superiors Squad

Nolan Walker and the Superiors Squad
Author: Paul Carro
Publisher: Tether Falls Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0692196161

Sometimes even heroes die. In a world where only teens gain superpowers, The Superiors Squad assembles to keep the peace. But the world is upended when their inspirational leader, Nolan Walker, falls in battle against a robotic foe. Leaders keep the death secret from the public and the rest of the team. Without Nolan’s strength and guidance, the world faces the threat of falling into chaos, with teen battling teen for power. Desperate scientists leap to another dimension to retrieve that world’s Nolan Walker. The only problem? He is a geek. All this Nolan wants to do is play video games, ride his skateboard, and spend time with his neighborhood crush, Alden. Nolan denies their plea to join them, intent on spending time with his mother, who battles cancer. The scientists offer her a cure if Nolan joins them. Nolan agrees and soon finds himself in another world wearing the outfit of that world’s greatest superhero. Except he has no powers. Can a much different Nolan fill the inspirational shoes of his predecessor? Can he stay alive long enough to find that world’s Alden? And can he live in a world that does not know what a skateboard is? Join Nolan Walker on an epic superhero adventure filled with punches to the guts and the heart.

Niceville

Niceville
Author: Carsten Stroud
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307958582

Something is wrong in Niceville. . . A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the course of just thirty-six hours. Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, investigates. Soon he and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old Niceville family, find themselves struggling to make sense not only of the disappearance and the robbery but also of a shadow world, where time has a different rhythm and where justice is elusive. . . .Something is wrong in Niceville, where evil lives far longer than men do. Compulsively readable, and populated with characters who leap off the page, Niceville will draw you in, excite you, amaze you, horrify you, and, when it finally lets you go, make you sorry you have to leave. Read the first thirty-five pages. Find out why Harlan Coben calls Carsten Stroud the master of “the nerve-jangling thrill ride.” Now with an excerpt from Carsten Stroud’s next book, The Homecoming.

The House

The House
Author: Paul Carro
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-03-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735070124

The day began when Sheriff Frank Watkins found two bodies and three heads. Then things got strange.After a childhood trauma, Paranormal TV host Charlie "Thunder" Raines spent a lifetime seeking answers to the unexplained. While filming in a haunted hotel he spots a woman no one on his crew can see. The sighting will lead Charlie on a perilous journey toward the truth. But at what cost?Yoga instructor Suzy Pottle thought she left her past behind after moving cross country and changing her identity. When a mysterious door creaks open in her studio, Suzy steps through only to learn the past can never truly die.An ancient house appears from thin air in a previously empty field. Before the day is over more doors will open, trapping residents in a place that should not exist.The event brings together nine strangers with nine secrets so dark they plan to take them to their graves. One house willing to accommodate them all.Welcome to The House-where secrets go to die. Enter if you dare!

Working Together

Working Together
Author: Pat Dudgeon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2014
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780977597536

This resource is written for health professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing social and emotional wellbeing issues and mental health conditions. It provides information on the issues influencing mental health, good mental health practice, and strategies for working with specific groups. Over half of the authors in this second edition are Indigenous people themselves, reflecting the growing number ?of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experts who are writing and adding to the body of knowledge around mental health and associated areas.

U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy

U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy
Author: Carl C. Hodge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2006-12-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1851097953

This work is a unique single source for information on the foreign policy—wars, treaties, initiatives, and doctrines—of all 43 presidents of the United States. From George Washington's isolationism to the Monroe Doctrine of hemispheric right to domination to Teddy Roosevelt's imperialism through George W. Bush's global war against terror, U.S. foreign policy has charted a varied course. As the area where the president has the most freedom of action, foreign policy can, and often does, change precipitously, according to the incumbent's view of the world. No other branch of government rivals the president's role in America's rise from liberal republic to global superpower. This work brings together the scholarship of leading historians and political scientists to present in-depth examination of the foreign policy of each president of the United States. This thorough presentation covers all aspects of international relations; although the work is not primarily interpretive, it does not shy from pointing out both notable successes and failures. The book's 43 essays present quick access to the whole of the history of American foreign policy.

Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival

Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 030937202X

Cardiac arrest can strike a seemingly healthy individual of any age, race, ethnicity, or gender at any time in any location, often without warning. Cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in the United States, following cancer and heart disease. Four out of five cardiac arrests occur in the home, and more than 90 percent of individuals with cardiac arrest die before reaching the hospital. First and foremost, cardiac arrest treatment is a community issue - local resources and personnel must provide appropriate, high-quality care to save the life of a community member. Time between onset of arrest and provision of care is fundamental, and shortening this time is one of the best ways to reduce the risk of death and disability from cardiac arrest. Specific actions can be implemented now to decrease this time, and recent advances in science could lead to new discoveries in the causes of, and treatments for, cardiac arrest. However, specific barriers must first be addressed. Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival examines the complete system of response to cardiac arrest in the United States and identifies opportunities within existing and new treatments, strategies, and research that promise to improve the survival and recovery of patients. The recommendations of Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival provide high-priority actions to advance the field as a whole. This report will help citizens, government agencies, and private industry to improve health outcomes from sudden cardiac arrest across the United States.

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Author: Paul Elie
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2004-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780374529215

Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor.

The Summer of Beer and Whiskey

The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
Author: Edward Achorn
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1610392612

Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important -- and funniest -- figures in the game's history. Von der Ahe picked up the team for one reason -- to sell more beer. Then he helped gather a group of ragtag professional clubs together to create a maverick new league that would fight the haughty National League, reinventing big-league baseball to attract Americans of all classes. Sneered at as "The Beer and Whiskey Circuit" because it was backed by brewers, distillers, and saloon owners, their American Association brought Americans back to enjoying baseball by offering Sunday games, beer at the ballpark, and a dirt-cheap ticket price of 25 cents. The womanizing, egocentric, wildly generous Von der Ahe and his fellow owners filled their teams' rosters with drunks and renegades, and drew huge crowds of rowdy spectators who screamed at umpires and cheered like mad as the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns fought to the bitter end for the 1883 pennant. In The Summer of Beer and Whiskey, Edward Achorn re-creates this wondrous and hilarious world of cunning, competition, and boozing, set amidst a rapidly transforming America. It is a classic American story of people with big dreams, no shortage of chutzpah, and love for a brilliant game that they refused to let die.