Michael Vey 2: Rise of the Elgen

The sequel to the #1 NYT bestseller, Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25

Author: Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author 

First Edition: August 14, 2012 

Category: Young Adult Fiction

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“We underestimated you, Mr. Vey. But it won’t happen again. Trust me, there are worse things in this world than cell 25.”

Michael, Taylor, Ostin and the rest of the Electroclan have escaped from the Elgen Academy in Pasadena and are headed back to Idaho to plan their next move.  But what’s waiting for them there will change everything. 

After using their wits and powers to narrowly escape an Elgen trap, a mysterious voice leads the Electroclan to the jungles of Peru in search of Michael’s mother.  Once there, they discover that Dr. Hatch and the Elgen are far more powerful than anyone realizes; entire countries have begun to fall under their control.  Only the Electroclan and an anonymous “voice” now stand in the way of the Elgen’s plan for global domination.

But is the voice that Michael is following really an ally, or is it just another Elgen trap?

With no one to trust, Michael’s mother still missing, and new, even more powerful, Elgen technology standing in their way, the Electroclan faces its greatest challenge yet.  

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“Evans has created a character that will entertain both adults and children. – John M. Wills,New York Journal of Books 

“A fantastic read.”– Chicago Examiner.com

“MICHAEL VEY is worth all the buzz…this novel is going to be huge.” – Times El Paso

“One of the best works of fiction I have read in some time…Richard Paul Evans hits it out of the park with this effort.” – Dick Rolfe, Dove Foundation

“An electrifying and exhilarating read full of mystery, humor and horror!” – Fresh Fiction 

“I loved this book.” –Book Twirps.com

“5 of 5 stars. A page-turner from the first page.”  – Mama-graphy

“Michael Vey is electrifyingly awesome.” – Teenreads.com

“[This] is one of those books that you’d better give yourself time to read because once you begin, you won’t stop!” – Newton Book News

The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor

"[M]agnificent...outstanding....compelling."
-Mark Levin, nationally syndicated talk show host and #1 NYT bestelling author

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Author: Paul Kengor, P.h.D. national bestselling author 

First Edition: July 17, 2012 

Category: Adult Non Fiction

“I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people. . . . As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.” —FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, 1947 

In his memoir, Barack Obama omits the full name of his mentor, simply calling him “Frank.” Now, the truth is out: Never has a figure as deeply troubling and controversial as Frank Marshall Davis had such an impact on the development of an American president.

Although other radical influences on Obama, from Jeremiah Wright to Bill Ayers, have been scrutinized, the public knows little about Davis, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, cited by the Associated Press as an “important influence” on Obama, one whom he “looked to” not merely for “advice on living” but as a “father” figure.

While the Left has willingly dismissed Davis (with good reason), here are the indisputable, eye-opening facts: Frank Marshall Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro–Red China communist. His Communist Party USA card number, revealed in FBI files, was CP #47544. He was a prototype of the loyal Soviet patriot, so radical that the FBI placed him on the federal government’s Security Index. In the early 1950s, Davis opposed U.S. attempts to slow Stalin and Mao. He favored Red Army takeovers of Central and Eastern Europe, and communist control in Korea and Vietnam. Dutifully serving the cause, he edited and wrote for communist newspapers in both Chicago and Honolulu, courting contributors who were Soviet agents. In the 1970s, amid this dangerous political theater, Frank Marshall Davis came into Barack Obama’s life.

Aided by access to explosive declassified FBI files, Soviet archives, and Davis’s original newspaper columns, Paul Kengor explores how Obama sought out Davis and how Davis found in Obama an impressionable young man, one susceptible to Davis’s worldview that opposed American policy and traditional values while praising communist regimes. Kengor sees remnants of this worldview in Obama’s early life and even, ultimately, his presidency.

Kengor charts with definitive accuracy the progression of Davis’s communist ideas from Chicago to Hawaii. He explores how certain elements of the Obama administration’s agenda reflect Davis’s columns advocating wealth redistribution, government stimulus for “public works projects,” taxpayer-funding of universal health care, and nationalizing General Motors. Davis’s writings excoriated the “tentacles of big business,” blasted Wall Street and “greedy” millionaires, lambasted GOP tax cuts that “spare the rich,” attacked “excess profits” and oil companies, and perceived the Catholic Church as an obstacle to his vision for the state—all the while echoing Davis’s often repeated mantra for transformational and fundamental “change.”

And yet, The Communist is not unsympathetic to Davis, revealing him as something of a victim, an African- American who suffered devastating racial persecution in the Jim Crow era, steering this justly angered young man on a misguided political track. That Davis supported violent and heartless communist regimes over his own country is impossible to defend. That he was a source of inspiration to President Barack Obama is impossible to ignore.

Is Obama working to fulfill the dreams of Frank Marshall Davis? That question has been impossible to answer, since Davis’s writings and relationship with Obama have either been deliberately obscured or dismissed as irrelevant. With Paul Kengor’s The Communist, Americans can finally weigh the evidence and decide for themselves.

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Wrath & Righteousness

Author:  Chris Stewart 

First Edition: Episode One released May, 2012. Entire series released in ten episodes from May 2012 through May 2013.

Category: Adult Fiction

10 Episodes. 12 Months. Countless Hours of Lost Sleep.

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More than a simple techno-thriller, Wrath & Righteousness examines the eternal battle between Light and Darkness while also asking one of the fundamental questions of our existence: what is mankind’s relationship to the spiritual world?

Packed with thrilling action and underscored by a story of war, love and spirituality, Wrath & Righteousness has been described by #1 bestselling author and talk show host Glenn Beck as “the Left Behind series for a new generation.”

RELEASE SCHEDULE:

Episode 1: May 8, 2012
Episode 2: June 19, 2012
Episode 3: July 31, 2012
Episode 4: September 11, 2012
Episode 5: October 23, 2012
Episode 6: December 4, 2012
Episode 7: January 15, 2013
Episode 8: February 26, 2013
Episode 9: April 9, 2013
Episode 10: May 21, 2013 

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Chris Stewart is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Miracle of Freedom. He is also a world-record-setting Air Force pilot (fastest nonstop flight around the world) and president and CEO of The Shipley Group, a nationally recognized consulting and training company.