When Jamie Sheridan experiences grief and loss, he will stop at nothing to speak to his beloved again, slipping into madness as he storms the very barriers between realities in order to heal his pain. "Jamie's Machine" is a dark, gritty novel of poverty, despair, bullying and shattered hopes. This novel contains explicit language and adult themes.

Don’t miss the #1 New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about! From the wild and wonderful imagination of the author of Dragons Love Tacos comes this hilarious, irresistible debut collection of six totally different stories with the same exact name. In these six stories, set in six distinct worlds, you’ll meet a boy and his robot nanny traveling the globe in search of the world’s tastiest treat, a child mechanical prodigy who invents the freshest dessert ever, and an evil ice cream truck driver who strikes fear in the heart of every kid in town. You’ll be transported to a beachside boardwalk with an ice cream stand run by a penguin, a hilltop realm ruled by a king with a sweet tooth, and a giant alien space lab with a lone human subject who longs for a taste of home. Each story features black-and-white interior illustrations from a different artist, including Daniel Salmieri, Charles Santoso, Liniers, Emily Hughes, Nicole Miles, and Seaerra Miller, making this book unlike any you've ever seen. So grab a cup or a cone, and watch out for brain freeze! You'll definitely want to save room for this treat.

A public policy leader addresses how artificial intelligence is transforming the future of labor—and what we can do to protect the role of workers. As computer technology advances with dizzying speed, human workers face an ever-increasing threat of obsolescence. In Human Work In the Age of Smart Machines, Jamie Merisotis argues that we can—and must—rise to this challenge by preparing to work alongside smart machines doing that which only humans can: thinking critically, reasoning ethically, interacting interpersonally, and serving others with empathy. The president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, Merisotis offers a roadmap for the large-scale, radical changes we must make in order to find abundant and meaningful work for ourselves in the 21st century. His vision centers on developing our unique capabilities as humans through learning opportunities that deliver fair results and offer a broad range of credentials. By challenging long-held assumptions and expanding our concept of work, Merisotis argues that we can harness the population’s potential, encourage a deeper sense of community, and erase a centuries-long system of inequality.

This is a story of real people, who lived many of the adventures told within, over the period 1937 to 1969. It is a story of human dedication, tremendous perseverance, and heroic achievement. You will read about a news broadcast team, Frank and Laura Marshall, in the early days of radio. You will go with them as they travel around the globe seeking to document the turbulent days of World War II, the atomic age cold war, and the conflicts that followed. Their joys and heartaches will be yours to experience as they deal with the greatest technological project of history and the spy that gave it all away. One of Laura's younger brothers, Jamie, becomes a key factor in the development of aircraft engines for the Navy. His talents are enormous and lead him into dangerous situations that are unique, but were all too real. His involvement with the Navy's Special Operations, leads him behind enemy lines more than once. His missions are simple, ferret out the secrets of the German engine technology and the scientists responsible for their successes. Jamie represents many unsung heroes of our nation. His experiences will fascinate you. Jamie's wife, Betty, was the emerging business woman during this tumultuous period in our history. She and Jamie built a successful motorcycle business in response to the war needs of America's allies. Her journey was made with frustration and difficulty as her tenacity and her capability overcame the obstacles which a male-oriented society had created. Her rise to success was in response to America's needs of the time. You will live the life of a fighter pilot on both sides of the world as you meet and travel the adventures of Charles, Laura's youngest brother who joined the Navy on his seventeenth birthday and on the eve of catastrophe. Through Charles's eyes you will learn the history of naval aviation from the beginnings of World War II and through the development of the jet age. You will fly with him in crisp, exciting major air battles of The Battle of Britain, WWII and the conflicts that followed, Korea and Vietnam. His maturity, both as a pilot and as a human, will be both your joy and sorrow. That he put all on the line for his nation is so typical of our nation's ideals. The disappointment he feels at the change in direction of our nation after the Korean conflict will be yours as well.

Pidge and Jamie grew up in the peaceful last days of the Victorian Age. Each thought their ordered lives would follow a predictable future. But with the onset of World War I their lives were drastically changed. Intensely patriotic, both were determined to join the war effort. Pidge went first, to the war zone of north-eastern France. Living eight miles behind the firing line, through a bitter winter, she experienced conditions of heartbreak and destruction she never could have imagined. Interwoven with her relief work is the story of her involvement in the capture of two German spies. Shortly after Pidge's return, Jamie was sent to the same war-torn north-eastern part of France, where some of the heaviest fighting was taking place. He too, was overwhelmed by the total destruction the Germans had left behind. Home again Jamie and Pidge picked up their lives together and put into practice much of what the war had taught them, principally the value of devoting one's life to the public service of others.

This volume contains all six books in the Partners in Crime series. Dead & Buried Detectives Kennedy and Donovan were partners for years. Then one of them died. And yet, they're still partners. Kennedy has to solve Donovan's death while his partner's ghost helps him. Sort of. How do you explain where you got the tips? How do you avoid showing them that you're speaking to thin air and no, you haven't lost your mind? Kennedy has to hide how he's figuring it all out so he can keep his badge and solve the murder - before he ends up dead and buried too. Dead Wrong A teenage boy is murdered and it's up to Jamie and Jack to solve the case. Well, okay - Jamie, Jack, and the ghost of Michael Donovan. Jack left her last job under peculiar circumstances and now she's doing her best to hold on to her new job without it all blowing up in her face. What are the odds that the only person that could possibly understand her situation would end up being her new partner? How do the two of them explain where some of their information comes from, when the person giving it to them is the murder victim? They'd better be right when they finally find the answers because it's fatal to be dead wrong. Dead to Rights Someone had killed Melly Warren. Melly herself had let them know when Mike brought her to meet Jack & Jamie. She knew that her killer had most likely been her husband. Seemed like a simple case, right? Domestic violence, arrest the husband, case closed. Not so much. When Jack and Jamie think they’ve got the case in the bag, everything gets upended with a twist even Mike didn’t see coming. Just when you think you’ve got the killer dead to rights, you find out there’s a whole lot more going on and the list of dead - and killers - gets a whole lot longer. Dead Reckoning They'd been warned. Jack and Jamie knew that being a voice for the dead, finding justice for those who died too soon, was risky. People were asking questions that they couldn't answer - not truthfully. Then the wrong people started asking questions and everything Jack and Jamie had worked so hard to set up was about to come tumbling down. Enemies and allies can change sides, leaving a person feeling lost at sea. Then again, when one is navigating uncharted territory, there's always a chance for a dead reckoning. Dead Ringer Jack and Jamie are called to a hundred-year-old murder scene where they find two skeletons, and one ghost-Patrick Kennedy. Talk about a cold case! But this one hits a little close to home. Patrick was Jamie's great-great-grandfather's twin, and some say they're dead ringers for each other. When a second case lands in their lap, with another ghost seeking justice, the complications add up. A murdered young woman needs answers that Jack, Jamie, Mike, and the rest of the team are determined to find. Families, chosen and blood, can bring out the best - and the worst - in people. A ring stolen from a dead woman's hand, a family curse, corruption of power, and mounting injustice bind two opposing forces across a century. Now, the team has to find answers, for themselves and for the dead, before the killer strikes again. Dead Heat When the team is called to a scene outside the high school with multiple deaths, they knew it was going to be bad. Truck versus protest never came out in favor of the protestors. When the driver is the cousin of your Lieutenant's wife, you hustle to the scene. Then he tells you a 'shadow man' made him do it, and things get -very- interesting. A dark entity is stirring up trouble in Harbor, and it's going to take everything the team's got to take this one down and keep the supernatural from becoming public. The race against time is a dead heat between the team and the entity - and there's no guarantee the team will win.

Detectives Kennedy and Donovan were partners for years. Then one of them died. And yet, they're still partners. Kennedy has to solve Donovan's death while his partner's ghost helps him. Sort of. How do you explain where you got the tips? How do you avoid showing them that you're speaking to thin air and no, you haven't lost your mind? Kennedy has to hide how he's figuring it all out so he can keep his badge and solve the murder - before he ends up dead and buried too.