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Islam's Reign of Terror chronicles the war waged against the U.S. and the West, resulting in over 24,000 acts of terror and tens of thousands of deaths in a campaign to force the world to submit unconditionally to Islam and Sharia Law. It also discusses the West's anemic, evasive response to the war declared against it, and how that insipid response only encourages terrorists and states that sponsor terrorism and other Islam-dominated nations to continue to attack the West.

Now that Elliott's retired and Nick has abandoned the private-eye business, Matt has no reason to keep the business going, especially since his recent patent had been licensed to the State of California and surrounding states, making him wealthy enough not to work. But life soon gets boring, and Matt decides to buy a motorhome and take his wife and father on the road trip of a lifetime. But Elliott and Matt hadn't counted on Chris getting kidnapped in Arizona....

US Army Private Jon Bishop is working a remote security checkpoint in Iraq. His life quickly changes when the outpost is attacked by insurgents. Forced to take the protection of a local family, he is unwittingly pulled into dealing with a mystical family who has baggage thousands of years old. Jon finds he is bound to this family and must work behind enemy lines to defeat an enemy that wants to destroy this family and attack the US and its allies.

The Newborn Entrepreneur was designed as a personal tool for advancement and advice to entrepreneurs pursuing the dream of starting their own business. Every entrepreneur needs some advice, from the coffee shop owner to the fortune 500 company or one who has potential to become one.

Rational Scrutiny: Paradoxes and Contradictions in Detective Fiction discusses why Chess Hanrahan and Cyrus Skeen, the author's premier heroes and the chief subjects of this volume, are not only extraordinary men of action, but “intellectuals” of the first rank, as well. As Cline writes in the Preface, detective fiction, as a rule, employs both "intellectuals" and "doers".

This audiobook draws on interviews with senior White House and Cabinet officials conducted under the auspices of the Bush Oral History Project (a cooperative effort of the University of Virginia's Miller Center and the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation) to provide a multidimensional portrait of the first President Bush and his administration.

In Part One, Cyrus Skeen, private detective in 1929 San Francisco, is asked by Charles Gilchrest, chairman of The Daedàlus Society, an exclusive men-only club, to go to the The Daedàlus Grove, a private enclave north of the city, to determine the nature of some trouble he has been warned about in a cryptic note written by an anonymous member. The note alludes to a controversial Senator from Nebraska and a tariff bill in Congress. It may the overture to a prank or it may be a serious threat to the man's life.

Thirteen previously released short stories that have been compiled into this one volume.

In this new case, Skeen confronts a new kind of nemesis that has been gestating in the Middle East for centuries and is now being enabled by oil companies and careless foreign policies: Islam. While investigating three murders whose savagery is unprecedented in the annals of San Francisco crime, he begins to understand that nemesis and the threat it holds.

Twenty-five years ago, a woman in the college David attended disappeared. Two weeks later, her body was discovered in a shallow grave in the woods behind the campus. For weeks, David was the number one suspect, the case is still open. David is terrified, his past is about to catch up with him; the secret he kept buried over the years as he built his ministry is about to be revealed.

This is a story of an Italian family, their trials and tribulations of coming to America, and the struggles they endured building a new life. It is a story of love, laughter, heartache, and passion as the author grew up in North Denver's Little Italy, served in England in WW II, his first love, his wife, and his family. Follow his ancestors and his growth as a young Italian boy in the 1920s, to a soldier in the 40s, and to a husband and father. See how this Old Italian views the world and a generation gone by.

During a Nob Hill society party, Skeen and his painter wife, Dilys, befriend a beautiful sculptress who turns out to be a British spy carrying important information about the extent of that infiltration in American and British governments. In A Crimson Overture, one thing leads to another, and soon Skeen is enmeshed in a conspiracy to silence him and anyone else with knowledge of the scale of espionage and treason in both countries.

There's been a death in the Cooper family and things will never be the same again. Find out how the family members will cope with their loss and what will become of Cooper Investigations. New private eye cases keep cropping up, but where is the priority during their time of grief?

Hanrahan solves what he calls "moral paradoxes" that have precipitated or caused murders. Honors Due takes Hanrahan to Hollywood - or rather to the Astoria production studies in New York. After seeing a movie about Galileo that is touted as a drama, he sees that it is a farce, and that a respected historian's name is credited with the screenplay. Hanrahan cannot believe the man had anything to do with the script, because the historian wrote the defining biography of Galileo.

Matt, Tom, and Elliott (and their wives) are hired by a salvage company to visit the major movie studios and try to buy some of the interior sets from vintage movies. The six of them have a ball going through all that is available and come back with some good finds. However, all is not well back at the salvage company as Matt will soon find out. Meanwhile, Matt makes a bet with his son, Nicky, that he can't retrace one of the original cases that the 1946 Matt handled and do it as efficiently as he did back then.

Chess Hanrahan is the chief of police of Auberley, a university town in Massachusetts. He is a former New York City police detective who resigned after being blamed by a district attorney for the "unnecessary" death of a criminal in a gun fight. Auberley seemed to be a sanctuary from the politics and irrationality of the big city. Hanrahan admits to himself that he accepted the job in Auberley to lick his wounds. It was quiet, sedate, not much of a challenge. But then a philosophy professor is murdered.

Learn how to work less and make more... In business, and in life, we spend a great amount of time doing activities that don't contribute to our goals. Quite often we do this because we have never identified those key elements that create huge results. In reality, it's not the 40 hours we spend working in our business that matters. Many times, as little as 5% of what we do contributes to our overall success. The hard part is identifying those small changes that create big results in our life and our business.

This compilation consists of four Cooper short stories, compiled so that it may be turned into an audio book on ACX. It contains Coopers stories number 147 through 150 - "Swan Song," "Standing Tall," "And Then There Were Two" and "Into The Air." Look for the audio book soon on Audible.com and iTunes.com.

Joana Reed and her boyfriend, Tim Bortimin, use mystical stones to open up portals in the fabric of time and space, opening a gateway to an alternate reality. When savage humanoid visitors invade Lewisburg, West Virginia, Joana and Tim fight their way past overwhelming odds to leave the town but find a dome of energy has them trapped. Their only hope is to return to the woman who gave them the stones in hope she has the power to save the town.

This compilation consists of two Cooper short stories, Matt Cooper, L.A.P.D. and Last Door on the Right.