Hard Mind

For some hockey players, retirement marks the moment when it’s all over. But Jordin Tootoo is not most hockey players. Having inspired millions when he first broke into the league, Tootoo continued to influence people throughout his career—not only through his very public triumph over alcoholism, but also his natural charisma. And now, years after hanging up his skates, he is more committed to doing things the right way and speaking about it to others, whether it’s corporate executives or Indigenous youth.

An engineer is dead. His friend has been charged with his murder. How many lives would the conspiracy take before it is unveiled to its roots? Blake Turley grew up in a series of foster homes and joined the police force in Page, Arizona to give back to the community. The community of native Navajo people around and the city of vendors and employees of power plants was bewildered by the murder of a young engineer. The evidence pointed towards his colleague and his sole friend in the city. Blake was not convinced about all the evidence, though. The accused claimed of a deeper conspiracy that ...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A pulse-pounding blend of hard-hitting action, high-tech espionage, and gripping detective noir. If Jack Reacher and Black Mirror had a love child, it would be this book.” A missing journalist. A deadly conspiracy. A detective who just became the target. Detective Jake Holloway thought he had seen everything—until he’s assigned to investigate the disappearance of a journalist with a story so dangerous, someone will kill to keep it buried. The deeper Jake digs, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Helix Industries, a powerful tech conglomerate with deep government ...

Somewhere in a different reality lie Hope, Faith and Charity. The collection of stories in this volume explore these virtues. For what is a virtue in one world is a crime in another. When Pandora’s box was opened and Hope was released, was this not just another evil let loose on the world? From stories that ask us to examine our own beliefs, to stories of people who have lost their ability to believe, this collection is the latest in the Future Sins and Virtues Series

Mike Villiers was a ten-year-old boy when his father, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Villiers, died with eleven others on a flight from Bangkok that crashed and burned near Saigon in November 1970. A tragic accident they said. Thirty years on Mike comes to believe that it was murder. And he’s looking to find the killers.Thirty years is a long time they tell him. It’s a cold case. The perpetrators will be dead. They tell him to forget about it, and most people would. But Mike’s not a bit like that. He going to Bangkok, the City of Angels and place of his birth with retribution in mind and ...

In this electrifying second installment of the "Neuday Nanocyte Series," Dr. Allison Perez faces her gravest challenge yet. Trapped in the clutches of the enigmatic and terrifying Oscar, her nightmare transcends the bounds of her scientific world. Oscar, a figure shrouded in mystery and menace, demands from Alli what she cannot give – information that lies beyond her reach. His relentless pursuit pushes her to the brink, as she endures the harrowing tortures of confinement. Amidst this turmoil, there's a glimmer of hope – Argyle. The man who has earned Dr. Perez's unwavering trust is on...

Years in the future, the U.S. is a splintered country. The city-state of Philadelphia is ripe for revolution. Mark McGovern, the son of a rich politician, lives in a world of expensive parties and frivolous biological mods, a sharp contrast to the poor underworld of his best friend, Darin Kinsley. When the two accidentally release a sophisticated virus called a "slicer" into the net, Mark must try to stem the tide of casualties before the charged political situation explodes. But the slicer is more than a virus. To destroy it, Mark must first sort truth from lies, not only for himself, but for the mind of the child who holds his fate.

In 1945, five planes and 14 crew members vanished into the Bermuda Triangle, sparking the mystery of Flight 21—an event that echoes across time, twisting realities and shaping lives well into the 21st century. For Jim Knight, the enigma of Flight 21 has haunted him since childhood. In his thirties, he’s trapped in a multiverse where his grip on reality fades and his family may be lost forever.

Stop holding onto unhealthy thoughts and start living your best life! Does your mind feel cluttered with sh!tty thoughts and cr@ppy ideas that make you unhappy, anxious, or stressed? Do you wish you could just let them go and move on with your life? If so, you’re not alone. Many people struggle with letting go of the unhealthy thoughts that hold them back from living their best lives. But what if there was a simple and effective way to let go of those thoughts and replace them with positive and empowering ones? What if you could learn 65 proven ways to free your mind and live happily ever...

In an experiment that goes horribly wrong, in which a woman’s memories were to be duplicated, recorded and stored in a computer, she finds herself conscious and self-aware within the machine, not knowing whether she’s the duplicate and conscious or her consciousness was ripped from her body and begins an evolution discovering firsthand how efficient the universe is.

Learn from some of the greatest thinkers in history. Study their patterns and stand on the shoulders of giants.

Now unleashed, the “Baron” is resurrecting history’s notorious serial killers, giving them a second life in the bodies of hacked and reprogrammed Personal Assistant Androids, then turning them loose to terrorize the city. While detectives Jake and Maddie of the police department’s Artificial Crimes Unit scramble to stop the carnage with the Baron’s arrest, the cyberpunk head of the Counter IT Section, Q, struggles to de-encrypt his mad scheme to infect world data centers with a virus that represents a collective cyber unconsciousness of evil.

Racist Senator Graham's naive white daughter attends a party at the infamous all-black Zeta Beta frat with her bestie Becky. What she doesn't know is there is a new strain of weed known as 'Pumpkin Spice' for it's extreme mind altering effects on white girls. Watch her slowly succumb to the evil machinations of the Black New World Order (BNWO)!

A serial killer taking the lives of young men is roaming the busy streets of Cape Town. Are the murders just the evildoing of a religious lunatic or is a much more convoluted motive at stake? While DI Brite gets closer to the truth, ghosts from his past keep appearing. Solving the case is turning into an obsession weaving its way through his analytical mind. But is he up to the task or far too occupied with his connection to Isar Efra?

Set in the urban area of Tokyo in the near future, the story revolves around Touka Kimizuki and her twin brother, Yuuto. Both of them are just like a typical 16-year old high schooler. But they're actually recruited by Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) to become secret agents due to their ability to kill skilled assassins while they were still in the middle school.

The year is 2080 and the world is crowded. To feed the nearly 17 billion, the earth has been divided into agriculture or city. There is no in between, no margin for error in this high-tech world. Farms are ultra-efficient enterprises using the latest engineered crops, enormous plants manipulated to grow in any season and produce fantastic yields. Cities are dense and overcrowded, stuffed with men and women working endless hours to pay for their needs.

In this mind-bending twist of events, Benjamin Brinkley, a New York Times best-selling author, experiences a most horrifying duel with death after purchasing a typewriter at a local bookstore. Benjamin quickly realizes the machine was typing the chapters of his novel on its own. Not only was the malicious gadget typing by itself, the events from the manuscript came to life, threatening and snuffing out the lives of friends and foes alike.

Praise for Alice Crowley's writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "Alice Crowley is one of our best living authors!" ~ G. Taylor In this 3,500-Word erotic sci-fi climactic thriller, a woman working at an office is yanked into the depths of her desires by a detective. With multiple high-octane, full-throttle scenes of depravity and delicious desires, this mystery paranormal action story is sure to hit all the right buttons with utmost precision!

Reader reviews for Alice Crowley's HOT writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~Multiple Fans In this scorching, searing, lusting 3,000-Word story, a young babysitter finds out her body is capable of doing things she never would have imagined in her wildest fantasies. One night Irene is babysitting for a family when her nether regions begin to actually talk to her. She thinks she is going crazy, but when the married father who teaches at university comes home, Irene finds out her second set of lips can be heard by other people and not just ...

So many people are benefitting from mindfulness practice and including it in their work professionally. Yet, how can we be mindful if we don't understand the nature of mind? Come on a journey to feel in your bones the shape of that world view - where time is round - and the techniques of mindfulness practice are part of a much deeper, richer, ancient, elegant, and noble way to dream our world and our place in it. We can be "had" by our thoughts and by our emotions. Here we answer: how to have a thought, how to have an emotion, and how to cope with hard things.