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When 60-something musician pals Roy and George attend the funeral of an old bandmate, they realise that since they stopped performing, they've got stuck in a rut. Retirement's all well and good, but they seem to spend most of their time in front of the TV, or propping up the bar at the Hen & Pewter. Believing that jazz players should keep swinging while they've still got rhythm, the duo decide it's time to recreate the good old days, and start a new band. 

My mom is clawing her way out of a massive amount of medical debt. So, in addition to being an active-duty Marine, I'm also working security for my friend's matchmaking company to help her out as much as I can. Then one night, a gorgeous and mysterious woman needs my help evading a group of well-dressed men who are after her. I don't question it, I just get her out of there. Then I find out she's the princess of a small country, and she wants to leave her royal duties behind. She doesn't want to go back. I don't want to give her up. Now what?

Lira is an innocent little girl, struggling to survive in a cruel, heartless world. As her father dies, she is left to fend for herself. Each day is a desperate and exhausting search for food, scouring through the Abyss, the only home she knows. Acute awareness does not always protect her from the very real risk of cannibalization or worse-- being abducted.

Alec Reid’s ghosts of the 21st century seldom lurk in old houses or waft across chilly moors. His dark tales may breathe alongside the supernatural, but they take place in broad daylight, in our daily lives. Their themes include dead warriors resurrected via Bluetooth, Rumpelstiltskin in the suburbs, an algorithmic fear of ghosts, and the shattered dreams of immortality. The world they describe is the one you inhabit, but you would live in terror were you to recognize it for what it is.

Protector, confessor, teacher, philosopher, martial artist, and retired Air Marshall, Ed Byers shares his observations regarding life, people, and the unfolding of humanity.

The time to truly educate has come. Outdated schooling practices and methods inherited from a past era must be replaced by new ones that place the individual at the center of all learning. This audiobook addresses how true education has the power to redirect the course of humanity - one person at a time - and begins by differentiating education from other terms that are used synonymously. Pierre Demers presents a vision of what can be our path to making this world a better place.

Monkey Business expounds highly effective and simplistic principles of entrepreneurial success in the form of an enchanting and inspirational fable about a little monkey named Blu. Despite being one of the poorest monkeys in his town, Blu was determined to build a successful banana business. Blu represents every aspiring entrepreneur and small business owner who may be poor in resources but rich in determination, passion, and drive to succeed against all odds.

Embittered by past failures and broken dreams, American fighter pilot David Duane believes in but one cause - his own. Europe is at war, and he’ll fight it for a price, selling his deadly flying skills to the highest bidder. Duane has come to the icy white wastes of Scandinavia to wage a private war in the skies. But he’s about to take off on a flight and undertake an unforgettable journey - On Blazing Wings - to a place beyond the imagination...leading to a revelation that will open his eyes and his heart.

The world can be a scary place to navigate when you’re brain damaged. Even scarier when you aren’t entirely sure what you might have done during a blackout while your alternate personality is running around in your body. My wife calls him "the other one". If you can’t trust your own eyes or the people around you, sometimes, it pays to take a leap of faith. I have, I stopped taking my little pink pill. I wonder what will happen?...

Sealed Fate is a sweeping, emotionally-charged sci-fi epic that explores the collapse of civilization and the fragile hope that lingers in its wake. With poetic prose and cinematic imagery, this novel blends the loneliness of deep space with the intimate grief of lost identity. Fans of character-driven science fiction, cosmic horror, and philosophical storytelling will find themselves immersed in a narrative as vast and unforgiving as the universe itself.

What happens when you're the threat? Sergeant John Kelly discovered during his thirty-year career in law enforcement that the biggest threat to his own survival wasn't the multiple attempts on his life, but came from within. When facing external dangers, risks are mitigated, intelligence is gathered, and a plan is devised to address the threat. But when everyone turns to you for answers, and there's nothing left but pain and despair, sometimes heroes need help!

October Diplomat is a tale of forbidden love wrapped in international intrigue. In the course of 12 days in October, an American intelligence agent falls in love with a Vietnamese spy who helps him untangle a Chinese general’s plot to seize Vietnam's offshore oil and assassinate China’s president.

Chuck Huey is a Vaxx Hunter. He hunts zombies and wipes them out. The world is depending on this guy to keep us safe, which means we should all be worried. And it's a damn big worry, too, because if Chuck fails...well, the zombies will be nom-nom-nomming on all of us.

In the eerie town of Ashwood, shadows hide more than darkness—they hide secrets. Secrets that refuse to stay buried. When a journalist returns home to cover a string of strange, chilling events, they quickly realize something isn’t right. Something personal. Something that won’t let them go. The clues are disturbing. Ritualistic. Each one pulls them deeper into a mystery that seems impossibly tied to their own past. The deeper they dig, the worse it gets. Fear, manipulation, lies—it all leads back decades. And something, or someone, doesn’t want the truth to come out.

Roman Grady is the sole reporter for the local newspaper in a tiny Hudson Valley town–a town so small that every store opening is considered newsworthy. But when Roman's longtime girlfriend Ashley, the mother of his four-year-old son, is found dead, he realises he had no idea what was really going on in her life. And when he starts asking questions, he’s not prepared for the answers.