New Release Books by Chris Kennedy

In the New York Times-bestselling Out of the Dark, Earth defeated the alien invasion. We're recovering and rebuilding. Now we've got to make sure they don't come back in David Weber's Into the Light....

Lieutenant Commander Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs and the crew of the Vella Gulf went back in time to find the technology they needed to beat their Enemy in the present, but it doesn't exist. They only have one option.Fight the Enemy in the past and destroy them there.Unfortunately, the Enemy has overwhelming numbers, and-while the Enemy doesn't have the technology the Terrans have-quantity has a quality all its own. And then there is the Enemy's 25-mile-wide command ship. If the Enemy should finish it, they will have an overwhelming force with which to sweep the Terrans from the galaxy.The Terrans must build-must establish the Warrior Cartel Admiral Sheppard has been placed in charge of-if they are to defend the people of the past and destroy the Enemy for all times. The Emperor hasn't funded the Cartel, though, and Sheppard will have to figure out how to do it on his own.Although the Terrans are initially able to hold back the Enemy forces, when the Enemy steals a jumping missile, all bets are off. The ability to run to the Jinn Universe is the only advantage the Terrans have. If the Enemy unlocks the secrets of the Jinn Universe, there will be nowhere else for the Terrans to hide, and no way that they can win the Progenitors' War.

Learn the core ideas and skills needed to begin programming in any language on any platform. Author Chris Kennedy uses JavaScript to explore the syntax and semantics of a programming language, and shows you how to write and execute your first program and understand what's going on under the hood. Along the way, you'll explore other programming languages, including C, Java, and Python, and learn the reasons to choose one language over another. Each lesson builds on the preceding one, so even if you've never written a line of code, you'll gain enough hands-on experience to be comfortable approaching any language. You can download the source code to follow along with all the examples. - Write source code on Windows, Mac, Linux, or Unix systems. - Make sense of programming jargon and buzzwords. - Understand compiled and interpreted languages. - Compare how code is written in different languages. - Work with numbers, strings, booleans, and other types of data. - Get input from the user. - Explore conditions, loops, variables, and expressions. - Control the structure and the flow of a program. - Use assignment, arithmetic, comparison, and logical operators. - Create and call functions. - Organize your code into independent modules. - Work with arrays and collections. - Adopt a programming style. - Read from and write to files. - Avoid common syntax and logic errors. - Debug your programs. - Use classes, objects, properties, and methods. - Link to libraries of ready-to-run code. - Explore memory management, algorithms, multithreading, and other advanced topics. Contents 1. Programming Basics 2. Writing Your First Program 3. Variables & Data Types 4. Conditional Code 5. Functions 6. More About Strings 7. Arrays 8. Programming Style & Pseudocode 9. Input & Output 10. Errors & Debugging 11. Objects 12. Advanced Topics 13. Next Steps

This entirely practical guide teaches you how to write ad copy that conveys your brand and converts clicks into sales, traffic, and sign-ups, while avoiding flashy, artistic ads that have zero selling power. Copywriter Chris Kennedy explains the rules for writing ads, describes ways to hit your advertising goals consistently, and shows how to craft ad copy for websites and social media. Because different audiences are receptive to different kinds of ads, Chris shows how to change your message and tone based on your target audience and customer persona. He also walks you through some common dos and don'ts and explains how internet advertising differs from traditional marketing. - Understand your audience. - Convert clicks to sales. - Hit your advertising goals. - Grab the reader's attention. - Research SEO keywords. - Keep content relevant. - Funnel readers to a final call-to-action instruction. - Improve the chances of acquiring new customers in your ads. - Avoid clickbait and dying trends. - Recognize the importance of choosing grammar and syntax carefully. - Master business-to-business etiquette. - Use search operators to conduct marketing research efficiently. Contents 1. Web Ads 2. Web Headlines 3. Choosing the Perfect Word or Phrase 4. Marketing to Businesses 5. Advanced Google Searches

Using proper grammar and punctuation improves the clarity of your writing and increases readers' confidence in your ideas. Appropriate for virtually any age range, this entertaining guide makes learning English grammar and usage simple and fun. You'll find simple explanations, plenty of examples, and helpful exercises. Rather than asking you to memorize scores of grammar rules, writer and editor Chris Kennedy shows you how to apply basic principles to avoid making the most common mistakes. - The parts of speech. - Sentences, clauses, and phrases. - Sentence diagrams. - Periods, commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, and other punctuation. - Possessive case. - Passive and active voice. - Parallelism and verbals. - Figures and written-out numbers. - Troublesome adjectives and adverbs. - Commonly confused words. - Giving the reader a good first impression. - Becoming a confident writer. Contents 1. An Overview of Grammar 2. The Parts of Speech 3. Punctuation 4. Common Problems 5. Exercises & Solutions

Brothers look out for brothers. Usually?With the Merc Guild opening up contracts again, it's Zuul eat Zuul to get one as there are far more companies looking for work than there are contracts to be had. So when Taylor Van Zant gets an inside line on a 30-million-credit contract for Swamp Eagle Security, he races to Karma to throw his hat in the ring.Unfortunately, Taylor arrives to find that the other North Florida mercenary company-the River Hawk Defense Group -is also bidding, and Taylor is forced to watch as they steal the contract out from under the Eagles. Which might have been a good thing, Taylor finds out later, as the River Hawks return beaten and bloodied from it.But only half of the River Hawks returned?the other half disappeared. And if there's one thing Taylor stands for, it's solidarity with his mercenary brothers, even when they may not have done him a good turn to start with. So, with only a fraction of his company available, Taylor decides to go find out what happened to the missing people. It's what brothers do.But what he finds will make him rue that decision and draw him firmly into the Guild Wars.

The slaughter is on! Across the galaxy, Human mercenaries are being ambushed, and an ever-increasing number of companies aren¿t returning from their contracts. Someone even appears to be plotting the demise of the premier Four Horsemen companies, and disaster for the other three companies has only been averted by the narrowest of margins.Sansar Enkh, the president of The Golden Horde, knows her company is likely to be next, but has no idea who is behind the attacks, or when they will strike her beloved Horde. Acting on a prophesy from her dying mother, she knows her only chance is to take the company off-world to draw out the phantom enemy.The Horde is being scouted and an attack is imminent. As the Revelations Cycle draws to a close, will Sansar be able to figure out who is behind the attacks in time to save Earth¿s mercenary companies from the horrific fate waiting from them? The fourth horseman is in play, and time is running out to save the Earth and everyone on it!

One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter... From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises up in armed defiance against oppression, tyranny, religion, the government—you name it. No matter the cause, or how small the chance, it’s the courage to fight against overwhelming odds that grabs our hearts and has us pumping our fists in the air. Win or lose, it’s the righteous struggle we cherish, and those who take up arms for a cause must walk The Razor’s Edge between liberator and extremist. With stories by Blake Jessop, William C. Dietz, D.B. Jackson, Gerald Brandt, Sharon P. Goza, Walter H. Hunt, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Kay Kenyon, Steve Perry, Seanan McGuire, Christopher Allenby, Chris Kennedy, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Alex Gideon, Brian Hugenbruch, and Y.M. Pang.

Nigel Shirazi was first in line for the chairmanship of Asbaran Solutions, one of the prominent "Four Horsemen" mercenary companies. First in line?until his drinking and temper caused him to fail out of college and get disinherited by the family.Now he leads the life of a playboy, enjoying a stipend from the family to stay out of the way. But someone is out to get his family, and Nigel is all that stands between the hidden enemy and the destruction of Asbaran Solutions and the Shirazi family.Nigel will have to learn to control himself if he's going to take the reins of the company, figure out who's behind the vendetta against Asbaran, and work out a way to stop them. But they've taken his sister hostage, and that makes him a very, very angry man!

The war with China was over and Lieutenant Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs just wanted his life to get back to normal. The hero of the war, he had a small ream of paperwork to fill out, a deployment with his Navy F-18 squadron to prepare for, and a new girlfriend to spend some quality time with. Life was good.Until the aliens showed up.They had a ship and needed to get to their home planet, but didn't have a crew. They had seen Calvin's unit in action, though, and knew it was the right one for the job. There was just one small problem--a second race of aliens was coming, which would end all life on Earth. Calvin's platoon might want to do something about that, too.Having won a terrestrial war with 30 troops, winning an interstellar war with nothing but a 3,000-year-old cruiser should be easy, right?"e;Janissaries"e; initiates "e;The Theogony,"e; a trilogy that will take Lieutenant Hobbs and his Special Forces platoon to the stars. It will also show them that there's much more to Earth's history than is written in the history books!

Falsely accused of a crime, John Gatsby follows the real perpetrator through a mirror in an effort to clear his name. A stranger in a strange land, John arrives to find himself in a world at war, and he is immediately drawn into a quest that will save the world...or extinguish everything good in it forever. Unable to find the mirror that brought him to the new world, John has no option but to risk his life and join the forces of good in their conflict. John can only hope for a brighter future; there's no looking back.

On May 1st, 2067, the world fell.One thing Zebadiah Pratt-or Zee to his friends-won't abide, though, is slavery, even in a Fallen World. So when friends of his find a shipment of gene-modified slaves-and children at that-he knows something must be done.There's only one problem-the slaves came from an island owned by the infamous Dr. Laroue, a noted geneticist and the creator of many of the imprints the Obsidian Corporation used to create its super-soldiers.He's going to need help.But Zee has friends, including gene-modified youngsters that he'd previously set free, a brother who was a super assassin, and he knows other people he can call in favors from, like former Corporate hostage rescue negotiator Joshua Collins. Although Collins is currently without his imprint, he has been modified with the body of an Agent and still has some of their abilities. Collins is also good friends with Luc Boudreaux, a former Corporate officer who has a number of Agents working for him. If he can talk Boudreaux into "loaning" some of his Agents to help with the mission to Laroue's infamous island, they may just have a chance.But Laroue has countless gene-modified creatures and Agents of his own-including a new and improved one-and he won't go quietly into the good night. Can Zee's collection of do-gooders make a difference in this Fallen World, or will the world fall even farther into darkness?

The Drakuls have found the Solar System. A merciless race, there is nothing left once the Drakuls have conquered a civilization except the bones of its dead. When the first Drakul exploratory ship emerged from the stargate, Earth's days became numbered. Although LCDR Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs and the crew of the TSS Vella Gulf came back with a battleship from their last mission, it won't be enough to defend the Solar System from the Drakul menace. The Mrowry and the Terran artificial intelligences have run the numbers...and Terra has come up wanting. The crew of the Vella Gulf knows what a Drakul invasion means: the end of civilization as we know it. Can they find a way to stop the devastating onslaught of the Drakul fleet? Even their new allies, the Mrowry, think Earth's salvation is unlikely. The Earth has more enemies than it can count and no prospect of aid. In the face of extinction, Terra Stands Alone!

A mysterious race from an alternate universe has allied itself with the Jotunn, and the alliance is set on destroying the Aesir and bringing about Ragnarok. With an ability to jump between universes and unstoppable time-based weapons, the Efreet seem invincible. The Vella Gulf is the only ship to survive its first meeting with the Efreet...but only through a fluke of luck. Worse, Lieutenant Commander Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs has just found out the Efreeti home world is the same planet in their universe as Terra is in ours. If true, the Efreet could cross into our universe at any moment and annihilate the Earth without any warning. Terra lies defenseless! Calvin and the crew of the Vella Gulf have a surprise for the Efreet, though; they have returned to Terra with the ability to cross between the universes like their enemy. Armed with personal transporters and jump modules for their ships, they're now able to take the fight to the Efreet. But will they be in time to prevent Terra's annihilation? As the Efreet continue their inexorable onslaught on all fronts, Calvin only knows one thing. The answers to all of their questions lie beyond the shroud of the universe.

Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen extraordinary stories. One bestselling universe. It’s the Twenty-Second Century. The galaxy has opened up to humanity as a hyperactive beehive of stargates and new technologies, and we suddenly find ourselves in a vast playground of different races, environments, and cultures. There’s just one catch: we are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain. Enter the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Enter a galaxy not only of mercenaries, but also of Peacemakers, bounty hunters, and even a strung out junkie in the way of a hired assassin. Edited by bestselling authors and universe creators Mark Wandrey and Chris Kennedy, “A Fistful of Credits” includes all-new stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors—and some you may not have heard of…yet. The fourteen authors take on various aspects of the universe, giving you additional insight into a galaxy that isn’t at war…but definitely isn’t at peace. There’s only one thing for sure—anything’s possible for a fistful of credits! Inside you’ll find: Foreword by Dr. Charles E. Gannon "The Last Alpha" by Mark Wandrey "Breach of Contract" by Terry Mixon "Paint the Sky" by Jason Cordova "Surf and Turf" by Jon R. Osborne "Stand on It" by Kevin Ikenberry "Lost and Found" by Jon Del Arroz "Gilded Cage" by Kacey Ezell "Legends" by Christopher Woods "With the Eagles" by Doug Dandridge "Dead or Alive" by Paul Corcoran "Hide and Seek" by Christopher Nuttall "Information Overload" by Charity Ayres "Enough" by Chris Kennedy "CASPer's Ghost" by Brad R. Torgersen

(The updated edition of this book for the Nexus 7, Nexus 9, and Android 5 Lollipop is also available.) Perfect for new and experienced users, this no-fluff guide to the Google Nexus 7 tablet is packed with tips and details on apps, services, settings, and documents. You'll also find step-by-step instructions for dictating, networking, sharing, troubleshooting, going online, and using Google Now. New apps and features covered include Camera, Clock, Google Keep, Android Device Manager, Play Games, Quick Settings, Lock-screen widgets, multiple users, restricted profiles, HDMI screen mirroring, external displays, Miracast, wireless charging, app verification, gesture typing, printing, cellular (LTE/HSPA+) connections, privacy options, Hangouts, the notification light, the remodeled Google Play store, and the updated versions of Chrome, Gmail, and Maps. - Covers all Nexus 7 models and Android 4.4 (KitKat).- Covers all Google Play edition (pure Android) tablets, including the LG G Pad 8.3.- Master the Home screen, Lock screen, and multitouch gestures.- Secure your data from thieves, snoops, and rogue apps.- Locate a lost or stolen Nexus remotely.- Work with onscreen or wireless keyboards.- Get instant search results for documents, pictures, music, mail, apps, contacts, and more.- Summon Google Now to get personalized information when you need it.- Ask Google Search to find nearby businesses, set alarms, search the web, and more.- Dictate anywhere that you can type.- Connect to wireless networks with a few taps.- Set up cellular, Bluetooth, and VPN connections.- Mirror your tablet's screen to your TV.- Back up your data to the cloud.- Transfer files to and from your Windows PC or Apple Mac computer.- Sync your documents, mail, contacts, appointments, reminders, notes, and messages wirelessly across your computers and mobile devices.- See all your notifications in one place.- Browse the web with Chrome.- Watch and subscribe to videos on the YouTube app.- Send, receive, and manage your email with Gmail or Email.- Chat with family and friends on Hangouts.- Post to Twitter or Facebook right from the app you're using.- Manage your day-to-day life with Calendar, People, Google Keep, and Clock.- Find your way with Maps.- Download apps, games, and updates from the Google Play store.- Connect to Google's online multiplayer social gaming network.- Play music, movies, TV shows, and other media downloaded from the Google Play store.- Capture, edit, and share photos and videos with Camera and Gallery.- Care for your Nexus and troubleshoot problems.- Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers.- Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents1. Getting Started with Your Nexus 72. Touring Your Nexus3. Securing Your Nexus4. Typing & Editing5. Wireless & Network Connections6. Managing Your Accounts & Data7. Connecting to Computers8. Getting Notifications9. Google Now10. Google Search11. Browsing the Web with Chrome12. Watching YouTube Videos13. Email, Messaging & Keeping in Touch14. Organizing Your Life15. Shopping for Apps, Games & Media16. Maps & Navigation17. Shooting, Viewing & Managing Photos18. Nexus Care & Troubleshooting

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union's most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union's citizenry.Being a Peacemaker isn't easy. They're charged with setting the terms and doing anything which needs to be done-even if it personally costs them everything. They must learn to honor the threat to all life, and, in the end, they must stand or fall, based on their own convictions. Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Edited by Mia R. Kleve and bestselling author Kevin Ikenberry, "Set the Terms" includes fourteen all-new Peacemaker-themed stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors-and some you may not have heard of?yet. From pigs flying to cats landing on their feet, "Set the Terms" shows Peacemakers at work from the origin of the guild to present day. Journey with a Lumar Peacemaker as he tries to complete his first mission and watch as a Phidae Peacemaker tries to complete his final one. They will have to use their wits as well as their weapons if they hope to remain standing at the end of the day.Are you ready to set the terms? If so, then step inside!With stories by:Mark WandreyChris KennedyWilliam Alan WebbQuincy J. AllenKevin SteversonMarisa WolfJon R. OsborneTerry MixonCasey MooresJamie IbsonKevin Ikenberry & Peter J. Aldin Matt NovotnyMarie WhittakerMark Stallings