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Professor Alice Sutton, a self-taught physicist, grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of southern Ohio. While still in her teens, she stunned the scientific world with her discovery of a fifth force of nature, with profound implications for cosmology. She became a full professor at MIT in her early 20s. But, her hillbilly ways and beliefs stayed with her, guiding her through mind-bending adventures in scientific discovery. This hard science fiction novel pulls no punches in describing the physics behind Dr. Alice’s work.

There's a serial killer loose in Jacksonville Beach! Clayton Conway and his coworkers are thrust into the middle of a perplexing case when bodies begin to wash up behind the repo property. Is this the work of a maniac, or someone with a definite plan? From the author of the award-winning crime thriller series, Dirty Deeds, comes a new series set in the same world!

Kidnapped at the age of 16, Maggie survived the fickle temper of notorious outlaw Mad Dog Frank O’Bannen for seven years. Now, he is dead, and she is about to find out that there are worse ways to live and die than as the wife of a wanted man. Frank had prepared her as best he could for what would follow, and when she leaves her prison in the hills, she has the blood of three men on her hands and knows the feel of hot lead. Maggie has Frank’s gun, her keen wits, and new friends to help her, but will they be enough to save her from the brutality of a maniac bent on revenge?

My name is Reggie Keane. I have nothing left to lose. The love of my life has been assassinated by my enemies or my government. They might be one and the same. Friends betrayed me. I betrayed myself. I need to focus and find the killer of Holly. Maybe find myself again in the process.

Across oceans and ages, the same tales have persisted. The lights in the sky. The whirring sounds at night. The ships that cross the darkness and the headaches that come when they pass overhead. But for some, the feelings have intensified. Lately, it all feels...closer. EJ, a humble artist, senses that the long-foreseen arrival is imminent. Denounced as a self-promoter seeking attention and fame, he finds few listeners, but never stops trying to raise the alarm. When dusk falls, the prophecy rains down.

Every night for the past four months, I've dreamed of being chosen for the trip to Calbora. The others have grown comfortable in the safety of the station's bunks, praying their names won't be called. Not me. Every day since we got here, I've looked up and wondered. Not anymore. No one can know the real reason it matters so much, but one way or another...I'm getting on that ship.

Bodie was a bounty hunter, a legalized killer, a man alone. He was a survivor in a tough world where a gunman’s life depended on his ruthlessness and speed on the draw. But Bodie didn’t kid himself about the glory of being a gunslinger. Killing was a trade, and Bodie was for hire to anyone with enough money and desperation.

Cut off from government support, the Project has gone private as the Harker Group, specializing in high order security. Business has been slow, but when a wealthy British explorer wants to hire her services, Director Elizabeth Harker isn't sure she wants the job. Sir Jeffrey Livingston has an ancient map leading to the lost city of Paititi, where a legendary treasure of gold was hidden during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. The ruins of the city are somewhere deep in the unexplored Amazon jungle. Livingston is mounting an expedition to go after the gold.

Another rejection. Another no. Where do you go from here? I can’t tell you how many times I heard that word. It’s painful. When you pour your heart into that golden idea, embrace many sleepless nights, feast on ramen noodles for three months straight because you’re spending a lot of money on your golden idea, only to hear that one-syllable, soul-crushing word. “No, sorry, we just don’t need that.” Or, “That sounds nice and I wish you all the best."

A collection of short stories that has various genres mixed together for an eclectic listening experience. If you like a bit of the supernatural, horror, adventure, slice of life, then you will enjoy this group of stories told as if around a campfire on a cool night.

Billy the Kid - born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney - emerges from this audio in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depths of research, Etulain traces Billy’s short life from his mysterious origins in the East through his wanderings in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.

From Neil Hunter, winner of the Western Fictioneers’ prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award 2020, comes a new gun-swift collection featuring some of his most popular characters!

A man and his dog set out for adventure along the Appalachian Trail. When a chance encounter puts them in the crosshairs of a rogue ranger, they get more adventure than they had planned. In order to escape with one's freedom and the other's life, they must go on Sawyer's Run!

Paul Freedman makes the case for food’s vital importance, stressing its crucial role in the evolution of human identity and human civilizations. Freedman presents a highly enjoyable and illuminating account of food’s unique role in our lives, a way of expressing community and celebration, but also divisive with regard to race, cultural difference, gender, and geography. This wide-ranging book will be a must-listen for food lovers and all those interested in how cultures and identities are formed and maintained.

Yellowstone Wildlife is a natural history of the wildlife species that call Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem their home. Yellowstone Wildlife describes the lives of species in the park, exploring their habitats from the Grand Tetons to Jackson Hole.

Another day, another job. Only, this time, the disgusting father wants to see me do it. As if that isn't enough, trouble with the cast of characters around me is about to get really bad, too. Because, that's the life I lead. Nothing is ever easy. Nothing simple. Just lots of drama.

Leaf Storm is the first book García Márquez wrote. Already we see the colorful historical background that forms the basis for his later work. It covers the history of Macondo from 1903 to 1928, ending the year the author was born. A man dies, and three people reflect on the story of Macondo’s boom and decline as shown in the family fortunes over three generations. As they attend the wake, the members of the family recall the tragedy that involves them all.

A major work on the history of Mexicans in Texas and the relations between Mexicans and Anglos.

After lying dormant for decades, a deadly virus is unleashed, threatening millions of lives and uncovering a shocking conspiracy. Danger lies frozen in the Alaskan wilderness, unnoticed by mankind, waiting to be released. A man’s corpse holds the remnants of a ferociously infectious disease that ravaged the globe at the end of World War I. Once the virus is set free again, a gruesome death awaits millions of unlucky victims. Everyone on Earth is at risk - or so it seems.

In We Could Perceive No Sign of Them: Failed Colonies in North America, 1526-1689, historians David MacDonald and Raine Waters tell the fascinating stories of the many attempts to establish a European foothold in the New World, from the first Spanish colony in 1526 on the coast of Georgia to the final disastrous French endeavors near the arctic.