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With the help of an Alaska native grandmother suffering from dementia, village Police Chief Nathan Active hunts down the killer who hid a woman’s dismembered body in the ice cellar of an abandoned Inupiat fish camp.

A story of crooked bankers, sexy criminals, financial fraud, lies, deception, and murder. And fishing.

Sometimes life takes a swing at you when you're already down. Maybe you lose a loved one unexpectedly. Or your career takes a turn you neither expected nor wanted. Or you find yourself stuck in the slumps, feeling blue without knowing why.

The merchant aliens of the Ragoon have invaded and colonized the Earth. They have strict rules about contracts and property exchanges. When Jack bets Ashley in a poker game, and Sam wins, it's not a joke to the Ragoon. When the teenagers fail to record the exchange of property, retribution follows. What will happen now that Sam owns the girl of his dreams? And will they be released from the Merced Human Rehabilitation Center?

Rationing: It’s a word and idea that people often loathe and fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to "shouting an obscenity in church". Yet societies in fact ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most getting the most. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has said, the results can be "thoroughly unequal and nasty". In Any Way You Slice It, Stan Cox shows that rationing is not just a quaint practice restricted to World War II memoirs and 1970s gas station lines. Instead, he persuasively argues that rationing is a vital concept for our fragile present.

When Sarah sneaks out of her house to go joyriding in her boyfriend's space yacht, she expects to be back before dawn. But her boyfriend is not as swift as she had thought, and now she's in real trouble. A chance encounter with some space junk, and a rescue by a young space merchant, sends Sarah off to the Hoop. Awaiting her is adventure, danger, romance, and discovering that she capable of doing more than she had ever dreamed.

Combining the acclaimed trilogy of books, Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunder, and Warriors of the Tempest, plus a new short story previously only available in a small press anthology, this is the entire story of Struke and his band of Orcs. Fantasy's bad guys finally their own say in this fast moving, action packed, tongue-in-cheek tale of Orc valor and human treachery.

As World War II nears its end, the last elements of the German Army struggle to survive. Sergeant Peter Dietrick of the Third Platoon knows the war is lost, but he must fulfill his duty to his country despite dwindling supplies and support from Germany. Trapped between advancing American troops and Nazi SS units instructed to arrest or execute retreating troops, Dietrick and his soldiers engage in a hardened battle of survival against the freezing, desolate landscape and the will to live.

The superheroes are here—with murder on their minds. When twenty-foot-tall giants materialized in New York City, it seemed that real superheroes had arrived to help the world. And Harry Sturdley, head of America’s biggest comics publishers, wasn’t slow to sign them up—and design their costumes. But the giants have their own agenda. And their first objective is to eliminate John Cameron, comics illustrator and Sturdley employee, who possesses the unique gift of manipulating the Rift, the gateway through which the giants have travelled. Cameron, with Sturdley and his assistant Peg ...

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It is the mid-1980s in South Africa. The White minority of this Black nation is fighting—politically and physically—to maintain its leadership. Into this unstable environment comes Shaka II, the descendant of a feared 19th-century warrior and Zulu king of the same name. Like his ancestor, this 20th-century militant and charismatic leader has assembled an army of ferocious, loyal fighters that embarks on a bloody campaign to topple white rule.

Bad talks are bad for business. In this one-of-a-kind “Learn & Affirm” audio you will not only learn eight powerful strategies that will give you the ability to speak with poise, power, and pizazz in front of any audience, but by using Stan Munslow’s proven “Learn & Affirm” process, you will learn these strategies faster and more effectively than you ever thought possible.

Don’t expect your typical rugby show as Sean Maloney and Andrew Mehrtens talk though all things on and off the field, featuring some special guest appearances from all around the world.

Rain, Snow, Sleet or Hail? Well, if you live in the village of Pennywhistle, you just might see all of those in the same day! Add in lightning storms, tornadoes and perhaps a skiddle-skaddle skunk, and you have the third installment of the Hobart Hucklebuck fantasy series.

Vietnam Abyss: A Journal of Unmerited Grace is the inspiring true story of Michael J. Snook, a Vietnam veteran, who served in the US Army and after returning home from the war descended into the darkness of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He experiences multiple confinements in a Veterans Administration psychiatric ward. Later after encountering an “angel” and through PTSD counseling sessions and with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Michael fully recovers and becomes a born-again Christian and a certified minister. He comes out of the dark abyss and begins to shine for his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

Amy's parents have a problem. Their daughter is withdrawing from life. The Ragoon have a solution. Sort of. What happens when a fearful young woman is suddenly made the subject of a rehabilitation project run by alien psychologists? And who is that guy she is forced to interact with? Will Amy find happiness?

UFO sighting reports have surged globally. The United States military has even confirmed their existence. Unknown to the general population. The government has been working with extraterrestrials to create and fly an anti-gravitic ship fleet. The extraterrestrials and the government disagree regarding the use of such a fleet. This extraterrestrial has his own ambitions for humans and gathers a crew to help him achieve them.

Qu'est-ce qui est le plus authentique ? Le monde dans lequel on est né, ou le monde que l'on se crée ? Stan Lee, créateur légendaire, conteur hors-pair et figure mythique de la pop-culture nous entraîne dans un nouvel univers, à la recherche de réponses aux questions les plus pertinentes de notre temps ! L'unique question qui demeure est la suivante : le rejoindrez-vous dans cette aventure ? Stan Lee's Alliances : L'Éclair du Génie est l'une des dernières collaborations de Stan Lee et l'un de ses projets les plus novateurs.

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