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While still in his twenties, Dan inherited the schooner Rebel Yell. Soon after, he left the United States to embark on a series of voyages, mostly in pursuit of beautiful women and good times. While he was away from America, new federal taxes were imposed on luxury property, including privately owned yachts. Dan cannot pay these or other new taxes, so he can't return to the States without risking confiscation of his schooner. Instead he must always fly under official radar and earn a living by his wits while staying one step ahead of the IRS and other government agencies.

The judgment of an untested president is all that stands between us and WWIII. As Soviet nuclear missiles move ever closer to Cuba, President John F. Kennedy must chart a course between conflicting counsel and unparalleled emotional stakes to prevent nuclear annihilation. The newly minted US president is put to the ultimate test in this riveting original commission from playwright David Rambo (Empire, CSI).

Is it too much to ask that a managed care facility refund a year's advance payment when your grandfather dies before he can move in? Frank Johnson doesn't think so, which is why the thirty-three-year-old now lives in a nursing home, locked in a chess match feud with management that doesn't occupy nearly enough of his time. When foster kid Elroy is thrust into his life, Frank decides to turn this forced relationship to his advantage—launching a string of absurd decisions, inappropriate behaviors and unexpected glimpses of tenderness that ultimately turn a New Jersey suburb upside down.

A secret organisation is sending out transmission waves to turn the entire world into their own Utopia that is completely perfect. Free of crimes etc. If anyone goes against their ideal world, they are removed entirely. However, a group of strangers still have the memories of how the world used to be. Teaming up, they track down the organisation to stop them and revert the world to how it originally was.

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Literary Fiction and Classics “Wonderful reading.” —Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle, told in the singular voices of the...

The ongoing battle between star quarterback Quentin Barnes and team owner Gredok the Splithead is coming to a head. Endless threats and promises of ultraviolence hang on their every word. With sentients of several groups trying to manipulate or kill him, Quentin must chart a new course if he is to survive and overcome his injury to once again lead his beloved Krakens into battle.

ABC Rap is designed to engage children into learning the alphabet. This audiobook is meant to teach children that learning can be fun! This audiobook was created to keep children's attention and teach them their letters, so they will be prepared to learn how to read. Be prepared to have your children sing, rap, and even dance all while learning their ABCs.

Joe Sunday has been a Los Angeles low-life for years, but his life gets a whole lot lower when he is killed by the rival of his crime boss-only to return as a zombie. His only hope is to find and steal a talisman that he learns can grant immortality. But, unfortunately for Joe, every other undead thug and crime boss in Los Angeles is looking for the same thing.

From an author who has offered over 700 lectures in 20 countries comes a profound yet simple strategy for achieving your goals. By uniting timeless spiritual truths with practical planning, goal-setting, and visualization techniques, you will be able to achieve your potential in the area of your choosing. Mr. McKeever has created an audiobook that will benefit everyone interested in personal growth and spiritual progress.

From an author who has offered more than 700 lectures in 20 countries comes a profound yet simple strategy for self-improvement and achieving your goals. Learn to Meditate provides the listener with an understanding of the essential principles underlying the practice of meditation. The book explores the topics of spiritual teachers, exercise, diet, sleep, guided visualization, and much more. In addition, the book offers precise relaxation, concentration, visualization, and meditation exercises which you can learn and practice on a daily basis.

This audiobook is not a commentary on the Book of James nor a scholarly work by any means. Instead, its intent is to pull lessons out of James that we, as young men can apply to our lives. This audiobook is designed to be highly actionable and will challenge you to consider how you are living your life and what you can do to improve. Not only will it challenge you but it will also give you practical ways you can take the lessons from James and apply them immediately to your life.

In this book we look at what makes a pre-teen, or teen, become so broken they shatter into pieces and fall apart. Society has a knack for pretending they are someone else’s problem because they are too wild to handle. These shattered youth typically have gone through some form of abuse, have had ties to gang affiliations, or both! Maybe you’re one of the rare individuals that still see these young men and women as people and want to help them, but you don’t know how. The objective of this book is to help you with that.

One second I was standing on the shore, wondering if I'll ever learn the truth about my parents, and the next I'm caught in a whirlpool, drowning. Someone - or something - is out to get me. But who? And why? An elite sailing team saved my life, but these irresistible men seem to think I called them here. They say I'm a Siren. Their Siren. Turns out there's a whole lot about me I never knew, and these men are here to help me figure it out. I wanted to become more badass this year.... I'd say growing a tail qualifies.

Maximum meditation is about gaining all that is possible to gain from meditating. There is far more to meditating than closing your eyes and deep breathing for calmness and stress relief. If meditation is not opening up the secrets to your true being, getting you the things that you desire in this world, and taking you to explore new worlds, you're not maximizing meditating. This is the book you need to learn how to meditate for maximum benefit.

The Scopes trial, over the right to teach evolution in public schools, reaffirmed the importance of intellectual freedom as codified in the Bill of Rights. The trial, in a small-town Tennessee courtroom in 1925, set the stage for ongoing national debates over the separation of church and state in a democratic society - debates that continue to this day.

A Scottish meteorologist locks horns with his American counterpart as both men try to convince General Dwight D. Eisenhower that they can accurately predict the atmospheric conditions needed to launch the greatest amphibious assault in the history of mankind - the D-Day invasion.

Armored little people riding armored dinosaurs in a full-contact bloodsport? Welcome to Dinolition, the biggest show in the galaxy. Star rider Poughkeepsie Pete and his T-Rex mount “Old Bess” are fixtures of a league struggling to reach profitability and gain intergalactic recognition, to be thought of as something other than circus-freak sideshows. 

It’s high-stakes, win-or-die football action in the far future, as aliens and humans fill positions based on physiology and leave their blood, sweat and tears on gridirons across the galaxy. Last season, 19-year-old rookie quarterback Quentin Barnes overcame his racism and unified his team. He led the Ionath Krakens to a lower-tier championship, a championship that earns them promotion into the meat grinder known as “Tier One.”

As a teenager, John McMasters won the Medal of Honor as a sniper for the Union Army during the Civil War. Thirty years later, McMasters lives a peaceful life in the Arizona Territory, raising a family and running cattle. These days, he needs eyeglasses to hit a distant target. But that doesn’t stop his wife and four children from buying him a special present for his 50th birthday: a beautiful new Remington shotgun. Turns out, he’s going to need it....

On the rolling Missouri River, a riverboat of fur traders, a US Senator, and Prussian royalty are all heading to the Yellowstone from St. Louis. Preacher's onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Two beautiful women make a play for Preacher. So does a killer. So does a band of river pirates. No sooner does Preacher beat back these threats than the riverboat lands in the middle of a blood-soaked Indian ambush - with a Prussian nobleman and his family taken hostage.