Jay Aaseng

"A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours? Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has...

"On screen, they're in love. Off screen, they can't stand each other. Two co-stars with a complex history reunite to film the final season of a beloved paranormal drama in this tension-filled will they won't they romance from the author of How to Fake It in Hollywood. Lilah Hunter and Shane McCarthy are madly in love--well, their characters are in love on the hit paranormal TV show Intangible. It's been years since Lilah and Shane have actually enjoyed...

"When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that 'the science is settled.' In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation. Core questions—about the way the climate is responding to our influence, and what the impacts will be—remain largely unanswered. The climate is changing, but the why and how aren’t...

"A smart rumination on what it means to get lost." --Outside

Have you ever wished the world would just stop for a minute? What if it could? As a teenager, Steve Schwartz lived in 24/7 survival mode, going hungry whenever he couldn't find enough work to pay for a school lunch. At the age of eighteen, he nursed his dying mother through the final stages of terminal cancer. His mother's death launched him on a journey to the far reaches of the world, where he discovered a passion for the ancient, calming rituals...

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Rick Culleton's answer never changed: not poor. Messed Up Like You is the wild but true story of a troubled man hustling his way to a better life. Honest, harrowing, and hilarious, Rick's memoir weaves flight lessons with his journey from pizza waiter to serial entrepreneur, pilot, and athlete. It's flight school for everyone who dreams of soaring. Rick Culleton was 15 when he was first arrested. Unathletic...

Many Christian leaders today promote rigid doctrine that says, "Never doubt. Never question." This insistence has been disastrous for the Christian faith because the first step in any faith formation is to wonder, to splutter out honest "God questions" that many of us harbor but rarely have been given permission to explore. I Wonder welcomes honest, unsettling questions, many of which have come young people and confirmation students, that are too...

Andrew Gazdecki knows startups. He founded Bizness Apps as a broke, twenty-something entrepreneur and sold it to a private equity firm before the age of thirty-after going head-to-head with Apple over a blanket App Store policy that threatened to ruin him. He's been a growth consultant for several more multimillion-dollar startups. His companies have been featured in TechCrunch more than a dozen times. Now, he shares his remarkable story in...

Burl is the story of one man's unlikely rise from the coal mines of Appalachia to the pinnacle of journalism. After being diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease as a child, Burl Osborne pioneered home dialysis treatment and became the 130th person to undergo a live kidney transplant in 1966-then an unproven, high-risk operation. While managing his challenging illness, Burl distinguished himself early as a writer and reporter with The Associated...

Eight years after a serial killer was presumed dead, a rookie cop tackles his possible comeback in this crime thriller by the author of D for Dead. In 1989 the Alphabet Killer, Professor Rodney Boone, murdered eight students. The victims, "A" to "H," were each found with their surname initial carved into their neck. Victim nine narrowly escaped, and the murderer was left to burn to death. Eight years later, rookie police officer, Rebecca Angell,...