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Jonah Everitt is a killer, an addict, and a memory thief. After being hired to kill a ranking officer of the Pacific Rim Coalition and download his memories, Everitt finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a terror cell, a rogue military squadron, and a Chinese gangster named Alice Xie. Xie is a profiteer of street drugs, primarily DRMR, a powerful narcotic made from the memories of the dead. With his daughter, Mesa, missing in post-war Los Angeles, Everitt is forced into an uneasy alliance with Alice to find her.

Reclusive chef Heinrich Schauer has invited six guests to a blind 12-course tasting menu. As they eat, each guest is overtaken by carnal appetites, unaware of their host's savage plan - or of the creature lurking below.

Michael Patrick King attends his first Bikram yoga class, and it doesn't go so well.

After succumbing to a deadly virus and incurring the wrath of voters in the 2020 election, the president of the United States makes a deathbed deal with the devil. Imbued with supernatural power, President Tyler Coleridge refuses to surrender office after being defeated by his rival candidate and rings in the New Year with a White House bloodbath.

The American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images of defiant Patriots fighting against British Redcoats for freedom and democracy, while a unified citizenry rallies behind them and the American cause. But the lived experience of the Revolution was a more complex matter, filled with uncertainty, fear, and discord. In The American Revolution Reborn, editors Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman compile essays from a new generation of multidisciplinary scholars that render the American Revolution as a time of intense ambiguity and frightening contingency.

Antoine DeWitt is a man down on his luck. Broke and recently fired, he knows the winning Money Carlo ticket that has landed in his mailbox from a car dealership is nothing more than a scam. The promise of $5,000, though, is too tantalizing to ignore. Jon Dangle is a keeper of secrets, many of which are buried deep beneath his dealership. He works hard to keep them hidden, but occasionally sacrifices are required, sacrifices who are penniless, desperate, and who will not be missed. Sacrifices exactly like DeWitt.

Cara Stone is a broken woman: penniless, homeless, and hopeless. When given the chance to appear on television, she jumps at the opportunity to win a minimum of $5,000 for her family.

"The Book of Danu" is unlike any other audio book you have ever encountered. Combining images into visual art, poetry, prose and sound, Patrick Michael Mooney weaves a tale of profound magical transformation that transcends the known limits of modern consciousness and leads you to the Heaven Realms of your own divine imagination.

By the spring of 1931, a conspiracy is underway in Germany to assassinate President Hindenburg and restore the Kaiser's son to the throne, threatening the peace of Europe. At the behest of her godfather, Winston Churchill, the adventurous journalist Mattie McGary, a rising star in William Randolph Hearst's press empire, and her lover, Bourke Cockran, Jr., a New York law school professor and former army counterintelligence agent, get involved.

A heart-warming coming-of-age tale, Flying with Cuckoos is Michael Patrick Clark's hilarious autobiography; plotting his early life from orphan child in unhappy adopted home to membership of one of the most ill-disciplined and disreputable units in the British armed forces. As the story unfolds we follow his unsteady progress; from one-sided battles with school bullies in suburban England, to even-more one-sided battles with the S.A.S. in some of the world’s most dangerous and exotic places, and from embarrassing skirmishes with teenage Lolitas to carnal catastrophe and more sophisticated...

Inside an abandoned mining station, in the depths of space, a team of scientists are seeking to unravel the secrets of humanity's origin. Using cutting-edge genetic cloning experiments, their discoveries take them down an unimaginable and frightening path as their latest creation proves to be far more than they had bargained for.

Sometimes the workplace can be a real horror show. Yet most people head off to work every day, dreading what the day will bring. Will the office cougher show up today, spewing germs and farting their way around the cubicles? How about that hazmat situation in the office kitchen? Something is starting to go bad, and it may be more than just what’s in the fridge. Unfortunately, you need that paycheck, so you’ve got no choice. You could take a sick day. But you’ve already taken too many, and the boss is watching.

It was an ordinary day in the ordinary life of Henry and Ralph: two brothers whose life existed for mischief and mayhem. Get up, make a mess, and go to school. But today was not an ordinary day. It started with the Mississippi River and something that should not exist. And then it invaded the school: a monster. A monster that adults don’t see and don’t believe in.

The creators of the internet promised us jetpacks: better experiences, more choices, and deeper relationships. Built on a diversity of voices, our online freedom was supposed to spark a democratic transformation. But our platforms don't work for us—we're the inventory and our outrage fuels a tech revolution optimized for profit, not civic life. As one of the top digital strategists for Barack Obama's two presidential campaigns, Michael Slaby saw the beginning of a new kind of national division.

This is a podcast where a couple of friends discuss a movie they just watched. The movies are a mix of personal and "popular" favorites. Occasionally, we may even cover a movie that neither of us has seen (probably something we had no reason to ever watch). We hope to especially focus on movies that, we feel, "fly under the radar." Moviechatwithmikeandpat@gmail.com

A string of strange deaths in 1932 leads Bourke Cockran, Jr., and his lover Mattie McGary to uncover a plot by Nazi scientists to conduct lethal experiments on American twins in order to create a master race. They confront an international conspiracy connecting Wall Street to Washington, DC; from Long Island's fabled Gold Coast to the marble corridors of the Barlow Palace in Munich, headquarters of the fast-rising Nazi Party; and finally to a sinister clinic hidden deep in the Bavarian Forest.

As the world unravels under the weight of an immortal sorcerer’s despair, Tula must confront the man who quite literally stole her heart. Along with a cunning demon bound to her by desperate choices, she journeys through a land scarred by destruction, seeking to be made whole again before darkness consumes everything.A tale of resilience, reckoning, and the cost of hope, A Bird for a Heart explores what it means to hold onto your humanity when the world demands you let it go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dads on Books is a podcast hosted by David Patrick and Mike Walker. The 2 dads discuss books, focusing on those read by their children and sometimes revisiting titles from their own childhoods. The podcast showcases their personal connections to the books and how their perspectives have changed as parents.

Gerald Hammond is the exception to the rule; an honorable spy, whose lofty principles have brought him nothing but loneliness and isolation. With the war in Europe at an end, Hammond returns to Washington only to find his unit disbanded and his wife moved out of the marital home. Ostracized by the Washington elite, publicly humiliated by an unfaithful wife, and scorned by former friends and colleagues, he is forced to take a mundane job with an insurance company. . . But then comes the call. The State Department wants him to rescue a young woman, trapped in Soviet East Germany. Should he ...

This is the English platform for our original German podcast. We, Patrick and Michael, firmly believe that we can only tackle climate change together - with love instead of fear. Our mission: to find practicable, positive solutions with our neighbors and not forget to have fun. Our podcast, launched in 2022 as “Klimaleichen - Vergessene Lösungen der Klimakrise”, has been called “Klimanachbarn - die Revolution beginnt nebenan” since December 2023. We focus on encouraging approaches away from the usual doomsday mood.