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An army lieutenant concentrates on rationing out his company's supply of coffee, meticulously dividing the brown squares before him, when a shot rings out. The enlisted men, startled by the noise, suddenly see blood saturating their lieutenant's sleeve.

Imagine for a moment you're Marcus Cooper. A slick stranger meets you in a bar. You're drunk. You talk a lot. Without realizing it he's learning about you. Your desire for money and women. By night's end he makes you a million-dollar proposition to cause a drunk-driving accident. Sounds crazy to you? Maybe, maybe not. You're out of work. Bills are piling up. You owe your bookie six grand. But mostly you're twenty years removed from being the high-school football star you once were, doubting how much longer life is worth living.

In conversational, professional storyteller's cadence, Mike Anderson communicates a wealth of vivid, down-home imagery--perfect for kids! Stories include genuine imitation Davy Crockett hats, 25-cent movies, Schwinn Sting Ray bicycles, October moons, and crawdad fishing next to a graveyard.

The Lovin' Touch stories are the gentle ravings of a man who was suddenly shocked to find himself in love. Some of you may have heard some of these stories years ago. If so, you may be pleased to know that Dick is still shocked, still raving, and still in love with the same woman. Lovin' Touch is about that woman.

From the author and narrator of the Audie Award-nominated, Throw Out Fifty Things, comes another inspirational and thought-provoking column on life, love and happiness. Gail Blanke is the life coach for Real Simple magazine and writes a monthly column. She is the author of two additional books, In My Wildest Dreams and Between Trapezes.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science-fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.

"Bedtime Stories is a "pillow talk" starter for when you have company at bedtime, and a "dream starter" when you're alone.

They're told by one of America's most familiar voices, Dick Summer. Some of them are fictionalized versions of listeners' calls to Dick's late night program on NBC radio, and some of them are from Dick's personal life.

From the author and narrator of the Audie Award-nominated Throw Out Fifty Things comes inspirational and thought-provoking essays on life, love, and happiness, including six "Monday Morning Motivators" - perfect for starting out your week on the right foot - and some of Gail's finst columns, such as, "Dare to Be Different," "Find Your Song," "Follow Your Instincts," "Remembering a Lost Loved One," "The Power of Praise," and "What Are You waiting For?"

This in-depth and exciting interview with expert speaker and in-demand presenter David Portney reveals practical tools, tips, and techniques to conquer your stage fright or fear of public speaking forever. Don't let stage fright hold you back one more day, now you can overcome America's number-one fear: public speaking.

Here's the chance to join the slow-food trend toward making your own pies and biscuits. In this audio program, Ann Tudor, calling on some 50 years of making-from-scratch experience, shares everything she knows about pie crust, homemade lard, biscuits, pinwheels, and strawberry shortcake. And just in case you feel that she thinks she knows it all, the last track on this program is a humiliating but hilarious account of one of her spectacular failures.

Remember your first crush? The call that didn't come? The makeovers after the breakups? In this relationship memoir, Ilene Beckerman look back on a lifetime of trying to find true love. Through it all, she holds on to the possibility that there might be someone out there who is just right for her. And, as it turns out, there is.

They are known as Team Midnight, an elite force trained to disappear behind enemy lines, to wreak havoc where an enemy least expects it. Their job is simple, hide in the shadows, kill without hesitation, and complete the mission at all costs. They are America's secret warriors.

From author and narrator, Debra May Lavezzari: "The Puffs are created from the gift of the universe to me putting them down on paper. They are characters acting out a play, performing for me as I write. The Puffs live in a village called the Sky Puff Village and you can only see them during the day. I have created many stories on these characters, their village, and other villages that interact with them. Watch throughout the day and may see a Puff or two performing for you."

Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme substance lysozyme in 1923, and the anitbiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. This audiobook is from a 1950 talk he gave on the development of antibiotics.

An eclectic collection of many of the spookiest classic tales of horror, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The New Catacomb"; Edgar Allan Poe's "Masque of the Red Death", "Hop-Frog", and "The Cask of Amontillado"; W. W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw"; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and Algernon Backwood's "The Willows".

"The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Published in 1903, "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" is notable for being the first Sherlock Holmes story to reference fingerprint analysis.

First published in 1910, The Horse of the Invisible tells the tale of Carnacki, a ghost detective investigating the haunting of a country house that threatens the wedding of the Hisgins Family's daughter and her fiance. The source of the apparition must be found before the soon-to-be-wed woman is driven mad, or even to her death. Carnacki does not suspect supernatural forces are at work in this case, but even a ghostbuster can be wrong.

In this high-speed and lusty tale, Jesse, an auto mechanic of great renown, wins big at Powerball. Now, with tens of millions at his disposal, he decides to close up shop and retire...well, mostly. He will still work on cars, but only those belonging to beautiful young ladies who simply cannot afford his very over-inflated rates. Having just used some of his winnings on the Lamborghini of his dreams, he takes his non-paying customers on the rides of their lives...in more ways than one.

"The Adventure of the Resident Patient", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" 18th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

Rescue offers riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, remote Arctic wilderness. The result is a collection of first-rate prose read by masterful narrators that makes for compulsive listening.