Books with author Michael Jan Friedman

Tim Cruz was the average kid. He loved the things lots of kids love. Then, one day at a baseball game, everything began to change.He got sick. Real sick. The kind of sick people don’t recover from.So Tim did the reasonable thing. He went into a cocoon and waited for the end. But just when he thought he was toast, game over, yesterday’s news . . . it turned out he wasn’t. His sickness went away. Just like that.Now he’s in re-entry mode, trying to do all the things he used to do. Trying to get back into the world. But it’s not easy, especially when the world’s got a few surprises for him.Tim finds himself changing—turning into something he never would have imagined possible. Something stupid and horrifying and, frankly, kind of disgusting.Which would be crappy enough even if he knew why it was happening. But he doesn’t have a clue. And the only person who might have one has disappeared.So all Tim can do is tell himself, over and over, as the stakes skyrocket and his life gets crazier and crazier: Don’t freak out.

Anthony Borelli knew a lot more about Renaissance Italy than did most kids his age.He knew that it wasn’t one country but rather a whole bunch of city-states. He knew that people spoke a version of Italian back then that was different from the Italian he had learned in school. And he knew about the Gregorian calendar, Pope Gregory XIII’s attempt to wrestle holidays like Easter back to the seasons in which they belonged.But Anthony never expected to find himself in Renaissance Italy . . . or to be fighting the kinds of bizarre, bloody monsters he had only read about in the mythologies of the ancients…or to be the linchpin in a grand, desperate scheme to save the world of Man from the beginning to the end of time.How, he wonders, is he supposed to overcome the amassed forces of evil when he can’t even overcome the town bully?Lost Days isn’t just about a calendar. It’s about demons. It’s about blood and death. It’s about magic, and courage, and crazy schemes . . . and in the end, the power of love.

Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity's fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the present, but throughout time. Humanity will never have existed at all. The only chance to save mankind lies with Captain Picard. An old enemy has granted him the power to revisit his life as it was seven years before, and to experience his life twenty-five years in the future. With the help of friendships that span time and space, Picard struggles to defeat the plans of the Q Continuum. But even as he fights to save the human race from total extinction, he has been set up to be the unwitting agent of mankind's destruction. In an effort to save humanity, Picard must sacrifice himself and all those he commands and if their sacrifice fails all mankind is doomed.