In a Surrogate World 2044 is a story based in the year 2044 and is predicated on the idea that marriage & live-in romantic relationships are largely a thing of the past, due to the fact that (among other reasons), people simply aren't getting along anymore living in close quarters with each other for years on end.And because of this reality, we are now faced with a divorce rate that just hit the 80% mark!As well in 2044, romantic relationships, dating,...

Suzanne Mahoney was a mother who lost her mothering privileges, due to a lone gunman, who on the afternoon of December 14th 2034, walked into her 12 year old daughter's ballet class, took out his AR-19 assault rifle from underneath his jacket and began indiscriminately firing at every person who on this day, was unfortunate enough to have been locked inside of that 600 square foot young girls ballet class. But, unlike all of the other grieving "Mass...

A lot of people think, "How can I enhance my financial intelligence?" There are many different ways to improve your financial intelligence. Nonetheless, I think there is one underlying principle that will provide the foundation for all financial growth. This underlying principle is the belief that from within the individual comes the source of all lasting financial riches. Some people are graduating with their diploma and still can't distinguish...

NLP doesn't help you set goals; an individual's aim to build is one. NLP allows a person to reprogram their reactions to their environment, giving them the opportunity to alter their problem-solving strategies. That, in effect, gives a person an opportunity to achieve goals that were out of reach in the past. The secret to NLP's efficacy is that it's been built by researching successful people. NLP has developed strategies based on real-world situations...

Aspiring to share his passion for life through writing and public speaking, Michael reveals intimate details of his lifelong journey through the pages of his tell-some book, "Happy Endings and a New Beginning." Michael was born in Southern California and grew up with a lot of family around him. At eight years of age, his family moved to Northern California to a small town a couple of hours from the Oregon border. He lived there with his mother, brother...

New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Michael Ian Black delivers a frank and funny memoir about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his forties. Whether it's family history, religion, aging, or his parents, Michael Ian Black always has something to say in the dry, irreverent voice that has captured a fan base of millions. When a medical diagnosis forces him to realize he's not getting any younger, he reexamines his life as...

Things couldn't be worse for Sergeant Frank Leal. He's assigned a homicide at a seedy motel that suddenly develops into a "heater." Leal's regular partner‚ Olivia Hart‚ is reassigned to the SWAT team. He's also saddled with a college intern tweeting his every move‚ and Hart's replacement is a rubber-gun-squad candidate who has conversations with a hand-puppet named Oscar. Hart's secretly assigned to an internal affairs investigation to determine...

The case wasn't just cold -- it was ice-cold. But the murder of Miriam Walker had a pretty high profile in the middle of a tough re-election campaign, so the Cook County sheriff assembled a task force to get results...

For fans of Lee Child, Elmore Leonard, and James Patrick Hunt. Years ago, police detective Kevin McClain was captured and tortured when he was an airborne ranger in Somalia. Now, years later, the mutilation murder of a homeless man brings back a flood of unpleasant memories. At the same time, FBI agent Felicia Knight is busy tracking down a terrorist cell purportedly set to strike in our nation's capital on the eve of the presidential election. What...

When a bored girl meets a potato who finds children tedius, she tries to prove him wrong by demonstrating all of the things they can do, from turning cartwheels to using their imaginations.