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Ecclesiastes reminds us of the transitory nature of life and ponders its meaning. Many familiar phrases and passages are found in it -- the most well known perhaps "To everything there is a season..." In fact, many book titles are taken from Ecclesiastes: John Grisham's "A Time to Kill", Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", Henry James' "The Golden Bowl", Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth", and James Agee's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".

It's the summer of 1994, and Gus Bondoc is going under. One of the best civil-defense lawyers in San Francisco, he's survived by sheer cunning and strict control. But when everything goes wrong at once - when a jury hits his biggest client with a $12 million penalty just after an entry-level employee helps a foreign government wrest $16 million from the most dangerous man he's ever worked for and then sets out to seduce him - Bondoc falls back on his worst instincts and the wrong people.

Beautiful eighteen-year-old Barry Brennan couldn't forget. A year ago, Ned Kramer, her fiancé, had died in a hunting accident. Her grief threatened to overwhelm her - until the night her car careened off an icy country road and struck a handsome stranger. Naked and helpless, he seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Stripped of speech and memory, his recovery would begin only when Barry roused him from his coma, took him home to her family, and urged him to recall his name. She would be bound to him by a love deeper, more compelling, than any she had ever known.

The themes of shared experience, the relationship of human beings to one another throughout time, and the ultimate power of place are explored in this poem by one of the most revered American poets, Walt Whitman. Its setting of NYC is dear to narrator Diane Havens, a native New Yorker, a Brooklynite.

Audio Books by Mike Vendetti brings you Diane Havens' interpretation and reading of "The Song of Soloman". Definately the most sensuous book of the Bible, the "Song" celebrates the joy and intimacy of romantic love between a man and a woman.

What's Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education. For learners facing a complex, unpredictable, and dangerous future, it asks and answers the question: What knowledge is absolutely essential for every learner? In simple, jargon-free language, the book explains why the "core curriculum" in near-universal use in America's classrooms was poor when it was adopted in 1893 and why it grows more dysfunctional with each passing year.

It has been the public's perception that Madoff investors were all extremely wealthy and all belonged to exclusive clubs. This perception has been reinforced by the media and the powers that be. The truth is, with very few exceptions, such as Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Picower and Stanley Chais, most were average, small time investors. This is their story.

With a cast of characters to rival War and Peace, Nathan runs the gamut from delicious lampoon to brutal assault, as he mercilessly sketches many of the characters he has encountered in white-shoe business law and civil litigation. The central character, a towering sociopath who personifies the late-millennial Gold Rush mentality that took hold at one of the City's oldest and best-established firms, leading to its downfall, is presented in a relentlessly scathing portrait.

Diane Havens, full-time voice actor, part-time poet, playwright, and educator's talent as a story teller comes to the fore as she reads from the King James Version of The Book of Ruth and The Book of Esther. An enjoyable and educational hour awaits the listener as Diane reads these two books from the Old Testament.

Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and stepdad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family's money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast. Nothing seems to work around the place, which doesn't seem too weird to Denise. The unexplained noises are a little more out of the ordinary, but again, nothing too unusual. But when floors collapse, deadly objects rain down, and she hears creepy voices, it's clear to Denise that something more sinister lurks hidden here.

Ali Davidson is ready for a serious relationship; only the conventional methods aren’t much help in finding the right man for her. Could being a contestant on the May I Have This Dance television show help her find love on the dance floor? Her friend and producer, Holly Melton, believes it will be the perfect way to find a connection.

Trevor Vaughn loves his job, his women, and his bachelor lifestyle. Sadly, for him, all of that might change when Davina Daniels walks into his office pushing a stroller. The problem is that Trevor doesn’t have any idea who Davina is. After she explains that he is the baby’s father, he finds himself clueless as to what to do next. After begging for her help, Davina and Trevor begin to form a friendship that will bring them together in time for their friend’s wedding and a single night of steamy romance.

Dania Ramirez, the first female pitcher in the MLB, comes home to Miami to play for the Marlins. She was brought up in Little Havana loving the game her father played in the DR. Her arm is better than most men her age, and it makes her a top prospect in the league. When the Dodgers need to do a salary dump, Dania is sent to Miami in a high-stakes trade.

Donna is the first female trainer for the Miami Dolphins. She has worked her way up the organization because of her love of the game and the team. The team has been great for her over the years. Lucas has been the best QB wherever he goes. It started in High School where he met and fell in love with Donna. She was his everything. Except they had different career goals.

Nina Frost, a graceful figure skater at the pinnacle of her career, faces an unexpected spiral: a failed drug test that jeopardizes her lifetime of dedication and dreams. As she grapples with the harsh glare of public scrutiny and shadows of doubt, Nina’s plight is more than just clearing her name—it’s a fight to preserve her very identity. Dmitri Volkov, a renowned Russian hockey player, skates a fine line between the adoration of fans and the weight of personal expectations.

Alzheimer's patient Marjory Farmington Shire escapes her memory care facility and embarks on an adventure to reunite with her wife and children for the holidays. The only problem? She believes it's 1975.

Clara Colby—widowed mother of a fourteen-year-old daughter—inherits her grandmother’s farmhouse, fifty acres, and the Burton Grayson Memorial Animal Shelter. Uprooting herself from Chicago to rural Wisconsin wasn’t easy—but how hard could it be to run an animal shelter? Harder than she imagined. When Clara finds the shelter’s most devoted volunteer murdered inside a dog kennel, police arrest her father for the crime. Now Clara and her identical twin sister must uncover the real killer before an innocent man is sentenced to life in prison—and their family is torn apart.

As hard as Maggie Valor works to build her career as a serious journalist, she’s stuck as a romance advice columnist, and she’ll do just about anything to change that. When Maggie runs into Greg and then gets taken hostage, her mind is torn between the story and the man who broke her heart.

In 1972, deep in the Appalachian wilderness, a bus carrying Catholic schoolgirls and their nun chaperone, Sister Lucy, is lost and stranded in the foreboding woods of West Virginia. The travelers are cut off from civilization, isolated in hostile terrain. The forest harbors dark secrets, and they are not alone. A clan of cannibalistic mountain men, grotesquely disfigured by generations of inbreeding, lurk in the shadows. Driven to the brink of extinction by their own sterility, they hunt for outsiders to sustain their bloodline, focusing on the busload of women they believe can save them.