Böcker av Gary Reed

At a time when political and cultural wars threaten to rip the country apart, Wyoming remains a bastion of conservatism and Republicanism. But backed by a secretive cabal of liberal billionaires, The Project, Inc. is building a new city in Wyoming. It plans to populate it largely with homeless and near homeless people. And, liberals. Young, smart, and attractive Sabrina Adams may be the best community organizer her age in the country. But funding for her current position is drying up, and a stalker with an AR-15 is threatening to kill her. The Project makes Sabrina a tantalizing offer to be the community organizer for the new city's challenging residents. But the position is in far off Wyoming, where local leaders resent this "invasion" of homeless people and liberals. They threaten to crush the new city. If Sabrina accepts the offer, she will need to rally the new city's residents to defend themselves from the political backlash. It would be a high-profile, high-stakes job-exactly the sort of exposure that might prompt her stalker to follow her to Wyoming and finally fulfill his promise to kill her.

While political and cultural wars threaten to tear the country apart, Wyoming remains a bastion of conservatism and Republicanism. But now, a secretative organization--The Project--is building a new metropolis in Wyoming. Its backers plan to populate the upstart city with homeless and nearly homeless people. And liberals!Young, smart, and attractive, Sabrina Adams may be the best community organizer her age in the country. But community organizing is a low-paying profession, and she's struggling financially. On top of that, funding for her current position is drying up, and a stalker is threatening to kill her.The Project offers Sabrina a job as a community organizer for the new city's challenging residents. But the position is in far off Wyoming, where local leaders fierecly resent this "invasion" and threaten to crush it.If Sabrina accepts the offer, she will need to rally the new city's residents to defend against the political backlash. It would be a high-profile, high-stakes job-exactly the sort of exposure that might prompt her stalker to follow her to Wyoming and fulfill his promise to kill her.

Amy Berg always suspected she was different, but after being forced into a secret government agency, she became one of the SAVANTS.Amy Berg. Young, rebellious - a typical teen misfit. But in her genetic makeup, she has a secret - a special ability capable of being unleashed when exposed to the exotic drug, Tarit-Doca. She's brought to the Center for Intuitive Studies where she'll join others with the "magic" genes. Kids that have been legally taken, kidnapped, or bought. They can all manifest their unique powers if shown how, and the government has a plan to do just that. Amy feels she doesn't belong with these others... these "freaks". But she's wrong. She's one of them. One of The Savants.

At the dawn of the 20th century, Jack London was considered one of the first literary writing pioneers in the rapidly growing world of magazine fiction. Having written numerous novels, short stories, poems and essays, he became a well-known celebrity and world-wide house hold name. Even today, Jack London's popular written works find a large reader audience and his stories have been adapted into feature films and television programs. Here are presented FIVE of his stories, adapted with illustrated art from award winning comic artists Ron McCain (DC's Batman, and Adventures of Superman, MARVEL's Wolverine), Guy Davis (Dark Horse's Hellboy and DC's Swamp Thing), Vince Locke (Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Judge Dredd, Deadworld), and Charles Yates (High Caliber, Frankenstein). Collected are Jack London's: A Piece of Steak, Chinago, The Death of Ligoun, Told in the Drooling Ward, and Koolau the Leper.

Guns, Polls, and Democracy has a simple thesis: Supermajorities of Americans should usually be able to get the laws they want. But when the problem is gun violence, that isn''t the case. Our gun violence problem is staggering: Firearm fatalities claim almost 40,000 lives in the United States each year. Active shooters garner the most attention, but firearm suicides take the largest toll. Domestic violence brings the problem home. There are also "road rage" and "retail rage'' shootings. And cop killings. And on and on. Americans recoil from the violence. Although deeply divided on the rhetoric of guns and gun violence, polls consistently show that most Americans actually agree on a broad range of specific policy proposals.This well-researched book carefully explains each of those proposals-including universal background checks, "red flag" laws, closing the "boyfriend" loophole, and a dozen more. But Guns, Polls and Democracy is more than an introduction to the gun policy debate. It collects polling data to assess which proposals Americans support and which they don''t. It also breaks out which proposals Republicans, Trump voters, and gun owners support and which they oppose. Powerful members of Congress and our state legislatures, funded by gun manufacturers, armed with gun lobby talking points, and buoyed by Second Amendment absolutists, stand in the way of enacting the very modest measures most Americans want. Can such a stark division between what most Americans want and what Congress is willing (or able) to deliver be healthy for representative democracy in this country?

Rafiq A. Medawar, M.D., is a rakishly handsome young surgeon. When the police find the body of his wife, Ann, in a park overlooking the Ohio River, they also discover a video on her cell phone.  It shows him going into a sleazy inn with an attractive young nurse.The prosecutor sees in the video evidence that Rafiq was having an affair. He concludes Ann confronted Rafiq, and he killed her.Ann was taking a documentary-making class. Her classmates believe the video was part of the class project.Ann''s best friend has her own, darker theory.Can Devin Garner, a brilliant young attorney from the wrong side of town, discover why the video led to Ann''s murder and win an acquittal for an innocent man?

Rafiq A. Medawar, M.D., is a rakishly handsome young surgeon. When the police find the body of his wife, Ann, in a park overlooking the Ohio River, they also discover a video on her cell phone.  It shows him going into a sleazy inn with an attractive young nurse.The prosecutor sees in the video evidence that Rafiq was having an affair. He concludes Ann confronted Rafiq, and he killed her.Ann was taking a documentary-making class. Her classmates believe the video was part of the class project.Ann’s best friend has her own, darker theory.Can Devin Garner, a brilliant young attorney from the wrong side of town, discover why the video led to Ann’s murder and win an acquittal for an innocent man?

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Jack O'Brien is looking for a story that will establish his credibility as a reporter. He learns that someone has framed an unassuming black man for a crime that never happened. But when Jack attempts to learn why, he threatens to upset the plans of a powerful politician and a mobster. If he pursues the story, things could get ugly.

The Empire of Man has fallen and a new Dark Age is upon the stars. With planets cut off and reduced to subsistence and ignorance, humanity has nearly forgotten its past greatness. But one battle computer has survived the Collapse. He is Center. And Center is determined to find and aid leaders who can return a star-faring republic to the galaxy.