Books with author Matt J. Simmons

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.Cipher risks everything to reach the Red Tower. He searches for the person who was once the most important in the world to him. He has left the friends who helped him discover himself. He has left a place where he had control, where his powers were the mind and the wind.Now Cipher must learn new powers to survive. He must channel his passions to thrive. And he must rise to the top of another tower before he can enter the Scouring again, where deeper secrets await.

★★★★★ "Incredible, mind-blowing, enthralling."★★★★★ "I finished the book in one breath!" Five towers. Five colors. One way out. Cipher wakes up in the Blue Tower with no memories of his former life. He discovers that he is not alone. Dozens of boys and girls must compete in a battle called the Scouring against four other towers--Red, Green, Yellow, and Black--each with its own rules and powers.In his first Scouring, Cipher captures Emma, a girl from Yellow, whose memories from Victorian England move Cipher to uncover his own past. He must learn who he was before he can figure out why he's here...and how to get out.

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.Cipher wakes up in the Blue Tower with no memories of his former life. He discovers that he is not alone. Dozens of boys and girls must compete in a battle called the Scouring against four other towers--Red, Green, Yellow, and Black--each with its own rules and powers. In his first Scouring, Cipher captures Emma, a girl from Yellow, whose memories from Victorian England move Cipher to uncover his own past. He must learn who he was before he can figure out why he's here...and how to get out.

From his presence earth and sky fled away.They stood before the throne, and books were opened. It stopped making sense months ago. Now he seeks the baby, but Elijah has Naomi. People keep saying the world's going to end. Elijah is starting to think they're right. He's also starting to think they're wrong about how. This is 2066, and the ending will be known.

In 1978, a young killer whale “Keiko” was collected off the east coast of Iceland and spent the next 18 years in human care. At Reino Aventura Park in Mexico, his home was not conducive to good health, and over time his condition deteriorated. In 1993, Keiko became the star of Free Willy, a Warner Bros. blockbuster movie, that enchanted the public and led children and adults to believe that a whale, long-held in the care of man, could successfully make its way in the wild.Animal rights organizations lobbied for a real-life release program for Keiko, similar to his fictitious counterpart, and millions of dollars were raised to return the orca back to his home waters.Author Mark Simmons was leader of the team of animal behaviorists brought to Iceland as part of the release project. But the program was doomed to failure from the start; plagued by hidden agendas and an organization unable to recognize that Keiko needed to learn to be wild before any chance at survival could exist.

"The Da Vinci Code meets Hunger Games meets Left Behind...An imagining epic." Hugh Hewitt, New York Times BestsellerElijah Goldsmith has nightmares he needs to ignore. Why would a rich kid from Manhattan dream three straight nights about a dragon and the destruction of St. Peter's Basilica? He's never even been to Rome. It's bad timing, too. He's graduating soon and applying to be a spy in the International Security Agency. That's where he meets Naomi. She's the kind of girl who makes boys like Elijah want to share their secrets. Were they brought together to learn what his secrets mean? There's more to their sparks than they think. This is 2066, the year the world ends.

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.The Green Tower captures Cipher, ties him in vines, and hurls him into the wild. New dangers lurk in the forest, where the strong prey on the weak. Hunger looms. Tribes battle over every scrap to survive.Cipher will need everything he has gained in the Blue and Red Towers, and more. He must forge new alliances and face hard truths to stand against his most powerful enemy yet.

The dragon stood before the woman,so that he might devour her child.Elijah still has his doubts. As crazy as things have become, he figures there has to be a reasonable explanation. Except about the dragon. And maybe about Don. And definitely about the baby...He's either going to find some answers or run away. He doesn't want to leave Naomi. But even the inseparable will be pulled apart in these times.This is 2066, and the world is ending.

Five towers. Five colors. One way out.Darkness lurks beneath the Yellow Tower's golden fields. The leaders are missing. A boy-king rules like a tyrant. And Cipher has been banished to work the land as the lowest of servants.But Cipher's memories remain, as do his scars. The stories from his past, and of those around him, weave together and reveal a path forward. Cipher must face his fears before he can rise again to confront the colorless threat against the Five Towers.

Five towers. Five colors. One way out. Darkness lurks beneath the Yellow Tower's golden fields. The leaders are missing. A boy-king rules like a tyrant. And Cipher has been banished to work the land as the lowest of servants. But Cipher's memories remain, as do his scars. The stories from his past, and of those around him, weave together and reveal a path forward. Cipher must face his fears before he can rise again to confront the colorless threat against the Five Towers.

Five towers. Five colors. One way out. Cipher risks everything to reach the Red Tower. He searches for the person who was once the most important in the world to him. He has left the friends who helped him discover himself. He has left a place where he had control, where his powers were the mind and the wind. Now Cipher must learn new powers to survive. He must channel his passions to thrive. And he must rise to the top of another tower before he can enter the Scouring again, where deeper secrets await.

In 1978, a young killer whale “Keiko” was collected off the east coast of Iceland and spent the next 18 years in human care. At Reino Aventura Park in Mexico, his home was not conducive to good health, and over time his condition deteriorated. In 1993, Keiko became the star of Free Willy, a Warner Bros. blockbuster movie, that enchanted the public and led children and adults to believe that a whale, long-held in the care of man, could successfully make its way in the wild.Animal rights organizations lobbied for a real-life release program for Keiko, similar to his fictitious counterpart, and millions of dollars were raised to return the orca back to his home waters.Author Mark Simmons was leader of the team of animal behaviorists brought to Iceland as part of the release project. But the program was doomed to failure from the start; plagued by hidden agendas and an organization unable to recognize that Keiko needed to learn to be wild before any chance at survival could exist.