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It's a documented fact, inflation and recession create incredible pressures on couples. It's true, during our last recession, 43 percent of US couples, and almost a third of couples surveyed, say the recession had caused them to argue more often, primarily about household finances. But the good news is–it just doesn't need to be like that! It’s so easy to stick our heads in the sand and avoid conflict, isn’t it? But we all know these discussions aren’t like fine wines, they are NOT going to age well!

R. D. Hooker, Jr. was a combat soldier and leader in five wars. He then served as a senior Pentagon advisor and as a White House staff member in four different administrations. At the time of his retirement from the military in 2010, he was the most decorated colonel in the US Army. Beginning with his enlistment at eighteen in 1975, this memoir chronicles his experiences in the post-Vietnam Army as a young paratrooper, as a West Point cadet, and as a combatant in the many military conflicts which followed.

'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!' Charles Dickens’ ghostly tale of sour and stingy miser Ebenezer Scrooge has captivated readers, listeners and audiences for over 150 years. This Christmas, Audible Studios brings this story to life in an audio drama featuring an all-star cast.

With no sign of the darkness ending, humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. In a land overrun with horrific, man-eating creatures, the remnants of humanity claw for survival. A man and his dog traverse hell on earth for a chance to see their family again. A courageous scientist faces her own demons along with those of the new world and delves into uncharted territory to decipher the cause.

Officer Alexei loves his job keeping the peace between humans and the world's underground supernatural communities. He likes to tell himself that his long, strange hours leave him no time for a real relationship. When one of his smoking-hot one night stands wants more than a single night of passion, will Alexei allow himself to fall in love? Warning: this story contains hot, gay werewolf passion. READ AN EXCERPT: “You don’t need to know my name because this is the last time we’ll be seeing each other,” Alexei replied as he reached the door of the club and made his way outside. “...

In a crippled airplane thousands of miles from home, Tris must prove she can lead.... Propelled by grief and natural ambition, pilot Tris Miles is not content with her job as a first officer for tiny Clear Sky Airlines. She wants to be a captain - the only way she knows to prove her worth as a pilot and atone for a deadly mistake. To further her career, Tris accepts a prestigious job with Tetrix, Inc. But her dream of becoming pilot-in-command twists into a nightmare.

Most omega werewolves want a mate and pups, but Lee Aung prefers an unconventional party-boy lifestyle. Yet at 42, he’s stopped going into heat, which means he’s expired goods - no longer a fertile, young omega that alpha wolves drool over. So Lee scams free samples of Wet Heat, a synthetic pheromone, by pretending to be a happily mated test subject at Wet Heat headquarters. There, Lee spends two years being interviewed by the reserved alpha scientist, Cain.

When cowboy artist Willie Russell is murdered on the Branding Iron Ranch, Sheriff Charles Matthews faces a mystery that seems built on the bones of the past. Willie Russell leaves behind sketches that illustrate a century-old legend of a brutal outlaw, a beautiful young woman, and the lost Santiago Crucifix, a three-foot-tall cross of solid gold. With only the sketches, the footprints of Johnny Brentwood, and very little else, Charles focuses on the eerie links between past and present events. Were Willie's sketches the story of the past, or a portent of the future?

Everyone at Remnant Academy is super excited about the upcoming field trip to the Living Art Museum, except Mary. Mary is chosen to partner with her longtime rival Taylor, as a museum buddy and she is furious! With the girls always fighting, there is no way Mary can survive an entire day with Taylor. Then something happens to the girls during the field trip that could end up being a total disaster. How will Mary and Taylor get out of their museum trouble?

Jack Frost is disheveled, disorganised and disrespectful. His superiors don't like him. He has a habit of doing things his way - and getting results. But when Denton CID is faced with a spate of major crimes, Frost finds himself under pressure. A young woman becomes the sixth victim of a multiple rapist, a teenage girl goes missing, there's a robbery at the Purple Parrot nightclub, and an old man is injured in a hit-and-run. With all this on his plate, Frost has little time and less patience for paperwork.

Abundance is an aftereffect of mindset with action. Reality is bound by your actions and intentions. What this means is, you make your own reality by populating your existence with the puzzle pieces. Now, life is not simple, and if it was simple we would all be perfect at it. Perfect is just boring, and we are not living this existence to sit around and twiddle our thumbs in perpetual bliss. Our existence is our own, and we can choose to experience whatever we want, whenever we want. This audiobook will help you understand the many facets of building an abundant life.

This dark and spooky bundle contains two tales about men crossing the boundaries between straight and gay, natural and supernatural. In the first, a German aristocrat from an ancient family takes liberties with the pair of werewolf studs that he keeps for reproductive purposes. In the second, a young man pursues a Russian vampire in the hopes that the blood-sucker will drain him in more ways than one.

Ready for the Rapture presents a powerful and inspiring in-depth study of two of the most important and revelatory books of the Bible with respect to end-time events or eschatology in theological terms - first and second Thessalonians. While from a theological perspective this two-part volume is an exegetical treatise of these two vital New Testament books, it is masterfully narrated in a way that makes the Pauline letters' doctrine-rich content readily understandable and intriguing to listeners with as little as an elementary education.

Eight thousand hunters descend on Crawford County, Texas, for the annual pheasant season. To Sheriff Charles Matthews that's 8,000 chances for a gun-related accident. But when the most hated man in the county, banker Rich Hansford, turns up with his face removed by a shotgun blast, it's no accident; it's murder. To Crawford County folk, it's a public service killing, and no one, not even the sheriff's staff, are much interested in seeing anyone arrested.

Crawford County, Texas, hadn't had a deliberate homicide in 80 years, and Sheriff Charles Matthews liked that statistic just fine, particularly since his department wasn't generously endowed with manpower. Folks in Crawford County didn't altogether understand Charles Matthews. It wasn't his law degree - lots of folks had law degrees and were still respectable - and it wasn't the fact he was from Dallas. It wasn't even because he never told anybody why he left Dallas. It was because Charles had no nickname in an area where nicknames were as common as sagebrush.

The last ruling Tsar of Russia, a car bombing in London thirty years ago, and an assault in Queens today—all are linked by a secret with global ramifications. Seymour Hodgkins has been a company man for decades, running the Office of Russian and European Analysis in the Directorate of Intelligence for the CIA. He eats, sleeps, and breathes intelligence on Russia, viewing himself as the final barrier to the resumption of the Cold War. Rebecca Miller is a professor of Russian History focused on achieving tenure. Just a little more sacrifice to the academic gods, and she can finally start ...

Unsolved Serial Killers, Volumes 3 & 4 is here with 20 cases for you to plunge into! If you’re a true crime junkie, you may think you know the world of serial killers inside and out. Prepare to be surprised by what you find within this book. Many of these criminals’ stories have been nearly lost to time, discarded amongst the drama and pace of the modern news cycle.

Flying Officer Angus Mackennelly and the rest of "Maverick" Squadron 696 are engaged in tactics to lure the Luftwaffe into battle. But Angus has grave misgivings about the orders he has been given, which are justified when he loses a brand-new pilot on their first incursion.

Stop Overthinking, Start Overthriving! Are you trapped in the whirlwind of your own thoughts, analyzing every decision and imagining countless scenarios? It's time to harness that mental energy and transform it into your greatest asset. "Calm Your Chaos" is your guide to mastering the art of productive thinking. In this groundbreaking book, you'll discover how to: Turn your overthinking tendencies into powerful problem-solving skills Make decisions with confidence and clarity Channel your analytical mind for creative breakthroughs Cultivate mindfulness to quiet the mental noise Build ...

Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom shows you how to know in 30 seconds whether you should be in or out of the market. The authors show you how great investors avoid mistakes - and win big. With Van Tharp's legendary risk-control techniques, learn how the world's most profitable investors reduce their risk and leave their wealth-generating potential unlimited, and how you can too. You'll learn how to invest wisely - in every type of market, protecting what you earn, and developing sources of regular income to achieve financial independence.