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I believe that there are no bad talents, only bad approaches. Whereas most books are full of vague advice on positive mind-sets and lofty goals, The Talent Hacker’s Guide details concrete strategies to build your skills for any pursuit. Whether athletic or academic, artistic or linguistic, we will cover a range of tools that ordinary people with busy lives can apply for their interests. Together, we will build a comprehensive talent-hacking strategy by first understanding your perceptions of talent itself.

The signs of life are all around us. Everywhere we look. How much do the stars tell you about who you are, and about your future? For a group of strangers - the 12 Signs of the Zodiac in particular - the omens and predictions can only mean one thing: Their lives will never be the same again. The lonely heart, the teacher, the family, the man on the run from the mob, the would-be star, the psychopath, and others. All will soon discover that their signs have more meaning than they thought, and that destiny can be a dangerous thing indeed!

The sleepy English locality of Middletown is about to get even sleepier, as a strange malady starts to affect the population. It spreads quickly, causing the authorities to quarantine this small city and seek out the only person who might be able to help: Doctor Andrew Strauss. However, Strauss has a secret - one that has linked him to this place all his life; one that has linked him to a particular person there, though he doesn’t yet know who.

It should have been the perfect evening. But for blue collar delivery man Nick Skinner, the romantic time he spent with the love of his life, Dawn, has just turned into his worst nightmare. Waking suddenly, he’s attacked by something feral in his room...and it’s not alone. The clock is frozen at just gone midnight and only certain things work, only some lights, only some vehicles. The city has become a hunting ground for...the loons: humanoid creatures with claws and completely white eyes. White like the moon above that seems to be influencing them.

Alejo Chaves rose to the top riding the blood of others. He took out his rivals and unified the three largest cartels in Mexico, with himself in charge. It was called, El Conglomerado. The Conglomerate. However, the sheer size of his organization was bound to draw the attention of the Worldwide Drug Initiative, and before long Team Reaper had caught their fish. But after two bloody rescue attempts, the CIA decided to take out his top lieutenant with a drone strike, creating massive collateral damage.

Sgt. Windflower is back, and as usual, he’s loving life on the East Coast. He may be a long way from his home in Northern Alberta, but he has been adopted by the locals as almost one of their own. He has a good life, good work with the RCMP, and a good woman that he has grown closer to in his years on the southeast coast of Newfoundland.

The theft of nuclear weapons in Pakistan, a terrorist attack in India, the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, and the Russian FSB. All become entwined in a twisted plot that will come to a head in England on one of the nation’s most famous days. But Team Reaper isn’t known for shying away from a fight. Especially one that could devastate a nation, with international implications, by the biggest terrorist attack the world has ever seen. The price of failure is the death of thousands.

In Face of Death, FBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent - she views the world through a lens of numbers. The numbers torment her, make her unable to relate to people, and give her a failed romantic life - yet they also allow her to see patterns that no other FBI agent can see. Zoe keeps her condition a secret, ashamed, in fear her colleagues may find out.

John Kane might be on a mission, but he’s experiencing a crisis of confidence this time around...A jailed cartel leader buried a fortune - and it’s a kill or be killed race to find it! John Kane and Team Reaper have put the destruction of the French-Italian Corridor on the top of their priority list. If Crisfulli thinks he can simply dig up the money and control the flow of drugs through Europe, he has another thing coming.

Maybe it was a moment of insanity. Maybe it was revenge. Or maybe the Metis Indian, Shambeau, finally had enough of the white man's hatred. Whatever it was, Sheriff Ben Stillman now has a murder case on his hands - and, as the law dictates, he must hunt down and hang the outlaw. But nobody knows the land better than Shambeau. He could be anywhere. Then again...nobody can track a bloodthirsty killer like Sheriff Ben Stillman. And there's no hiding from his swift brand of justice.

A scrap of cloth fluttering in the wind leads Hilo police chief detective Koa Kāne to the tortured remains of an unfortunate soul, left to burn in the path of an advancing lava flow. For Koa, it’s the second gruesome homicide of the day, and he soon discovers the murders are linked. These grisly crimes on Hawaii’s Big Island could rewrite history or cost chief detective Koa his career. The dead, a reclusive couple living off the grid, turn out to be mysterious fugitives.

It’s their most brutal assignment yet. After a mission in Somalia sees them rescued by an Australian SAS team, Reaper and his people return to the U.S. where a raid on a warehouse sets into motion a chain of events which will lead them on a violent search for one of their own. The team hits Europe with the force of a runaway train, gathering intel which leads them to Pripyat in the Ukraine and an auction like they’ve never encountered before. Then to Italy and a conspiracy which, if carried out, will rock the religious world to its core.

Nevada-Tan is a genre-bending new play that introduces us to Nick, a young man who struggles to escape loneliness and isolation in the years following the tragic Columbine shooting of 1999. Nick’s quest leads to a decade-long fixation with Nevada-Tan, a Japanese schoolgirl who committed a horrific crime in Sasebo in 2004. Mixing horror and dark humor, Nevada-Tan is a shocking exploration of secrets, tragedy and obsession, thrilling listeners with its surprising twists and turns.

The guns blaze, the bodies stack, and the kill-count skyrockets. When a ruthless Colombian cartel kidnaps the 10-year-old son of a DEA agent for leverage, Team Reaper unleashes a blood-and-bullets blitz that uncovers an unholy alliance dirtier than the devil’s own heart. Hunted by both a rogue black ops assassin and a cartel cutthroat, Team Reaper take the fight from sin-soaked city streets to the jungle hell-zones of Colombia.

Filled to the brim with action, adventure, plot twists, and gunfight justice - Dockie is not a man to be crossed. This audiobook is filled with the dead, the dying, and those who don’t get in his way - because those who do cross Dockie end up dead. Real dead. This exciting Western tale is told by Chris, the nephew of a tough old pioneer named Dockie Barnett, owner of the C-Bar Ranch. Chris was a city slicker attorney when he first came to visit his Uncle Dockie and Aunt Marsha, but he became one of the C-Bar Ranch family and a real cowboy.

Team Reaper has captured Jorge Sanchez, the leader of the Chologos drug cartel. His daughter, Blanca, begins plotting to get her father out of US custody by taking hostages and planting a bomb at a school in New Jersey. Kane and his crew, having spent three months chasing Jorge Sanchez around the world, race to keep their reputation intact by stopping Blanca and destroying what’s left of the Chologos cartel.

The Body on the T is the second book in the Windflower mystery series and it follows up on the highly acclaimed premiere, The Walker on the Cape. The story begins when a body washes up on a beach near Grand Bank, Newfoundland. There is no identification on the body and few clues to identify who the person was or where they came from. The case becomes the responsibility of Sgt. Winston Windflower of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his trusted side-kick, Corporal Eddie Tizzard. But this is just the beginning.

Margaret Hartson thought she had it all. The perfect marriage, the perfect husband, and the funds to never want for anything ever again. What she got, however, was a cheating husband, a disappointing marriage, and a line of creditors taking everything. With her husband dead and a scandal following her, she goes back home to lick her wounds.

Tracy Goldstein entiende muy bien lo que implica estar enamorada: ilusiones rotas, perder sus ahorros, y ver la empresa que construyó con arduo trabajo en manos de otro. ¿Cometer el mismo error? No, gracias. Estaba advertida sobre los hombres. No obstante, el día en que empieza a trabajar para el frío y distante CEO de S.W. Group, Tracy sabe que está en graves problemas. A medida que avanzan los días, la tensión entre ambos se cuece a fuego lento, y a ella le resulta cada vez más difícil no cruzar la delgada fina entre la cordura y el riesgo.

La rutina de Andrea, una escritora de thrillers traumatizada por un horrible suceso del pasado y un matrimonio que está a punto de romperse, se ve interrumpida por la inesperada llegada de su cuñado. Víctor es un tipo silencioso y extraño al que apenas conocen. Su manía de fisgonear a través de la ventana de la cocina la vida de sus vecinos, llevará a Andrea a descubrir que una madrugada estival cualquiera, en la calle de la urbanización en la que vive y donde nunca pasa nada, su vecina María se sube en el coche de su cuñado.