great powers

"Ezekiel Blast has a superpower, or a micropower, if you will. He can find lost things. The problem is most people think he steals them. When the police ask for help, though, he may have a chance to redeem himself"--OCLC.

Victor breaks out of prison with the help of a young girl with great abilities to find his college roommate, when he discovers that their thesis about how adrenaline, near-death experiences, and supernatural events can make someone gain extraordinary abilities under the right conditions is being used by his college friend.

On his sixteenth birthday, the Aetherian Rex Himmel learns that he is special--but no one will tell him why. Ordered by Aetheria's leader to join the militaristic Aetherian Cover Force, Rex soon finds himself involved in an investigation of several mysterious, frozen Cthonian bodies that have been discovered in Aetheria. Just as his team finds a reason for the bodies' appearance, Aetheria's power plant is destroyed in a violent attack from below.

Reid examines the unification of Europe and the reasons behind the geopolitical revolution. He analyzes the emerging "Generation E" and the new Euroculture that has resulted from the union.

Two years after London is struck by a devasting terrorist attack, people begin turning into monsters and Jack and Lucy-Anne struggle to cope.

Presents and discusses the results of opinion surveys that questioned ninety-one thousand people in fifty nations about the U.S. and Americans, covering such topics as business practices, democracy, foreign policy, preemptive war, religiosity, patriotism, and American individualism.