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When Steve Collins, a disillusioned expat journalist, sets off to cover a plane crash in the middle of the Amazon jungle, he has no idea how his life is about to change. Under pressure from his editor, Steve agrees to let Jennifer Strand, a young, US embassy-embedded journalist, tag along. Gorgeous and full of spunk, she accompanies him on an adventure where he discovers a shocking truth about American foreign policy and about blindly following the dictates of the heart.

Roger leaves the house filled with memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him. Kara finds a psychiatrist to help with that, a kind man named Mark Stephenson. Then Roger finds an affordable place in apartment 34 at Sunnycrest Apartments and a girlfriend, Lisa. Life is finally looking up. That is, until Roger realizes the girl across the hall, Alice, has a father very similar to his own.

A serial sniper is loose in New Orleans, and the growing body count threatens to disturb the vital tourist industry. But nothing interferes with the partying on Bourbon Street. Follow the twists and turns of this mystery through the picturesque charm of the French Quarter....

John Caldwell can’t stay away from trouble. It is September in 1904, and he is chosen to travel to London to work with Scotland Yard. He goes undercover and is involved with several encounters with thieves, Irish terrorists and spies. Admiralty secrets are stolen, so he is sent to Special Branch to find them. Once again, he works with Charles Compton in Naval Intelligence to search out who stole them and why.

There is a secret war going on that has claimed hundreds of lives. They were lucky. Left behind with his team wiped out, the Captain of Alpha team has been caught behind enemy lines and is now a prisoner of a war that does not exist. Held in a medicinal prison, he fights ruthless soldiers who will do anything to access the intel in his head. From within the walls of the infamous cell 715, the Captain fights for his life, freedom, and to escape and return to his family a world away.

Just off of Highway 95 in the state of Nevada, there lies the small town of Tonopah. For miles around, it's desolate and in the silence, there lies one lonely motel. Across from the motel is an old cemetery, where miners were buried. It's not the ghosts within the cemetery that will make you run in fear.... For those of you faint of heart and fearful of clowns, this is not a delicate story.

New Orleans attorney Joshua Clark places his law practice on hold to investigate the mysterious death of an old friend. He travels to the North Louisiana town of St. Agnes, determined to unravel a hidden plot buried for years. When he reconnects with his high school sweetheart, they reignite their passionate feelings.

Patrice Cavanaugh, widow of the deceased, is about to find out the answer to that question. In the small town of Peach City, Georgia, mystery looms as Sheriff Nick Dunn of the Carter County Sheriff’s Office embarks on an investigation into the crime, one that will lead him to a multitude of suspects, but who is responsible? The decedent’s wife, a victim of his endless mental and physical abuse?

Would you want the power to live again, to escape death, but at the cost of losing everyone you ever loved? What if the eyes really were the windows to the soul, a gateway to immortality? Quade Harrison discovers he can do just that, cheat death, after he is fatally shot in the year 1886. As he dies, staring into the eyes of a notorious woman who tries to save him, he is consumed by the desire to live again, transfixed on her gorgeous green eyes.

Can one person change the world? Can a book? Crimes Against Posterity is the story of how an orphan’s tragic beginnings lead to a revolutionary movement that sweeps the globe. A must-listen for anyone who believes in the possibility of a better tomorrow.

Author Joel Momberg takes listeners on an unforgettable and engaging ride in his third novel For Those Who Can - following the path through the mid-1970s of a young college prep teacher Alan Handler in an adventure filled with laughs, love, and a lingering sense that something is amiss.

Kragnor is an ancient gargoyle, who was released from his 700-year prison by the spell of an unknowing Kevin Arkis. Now cursed to share one body, Kevin and Kragnor must learn to work together. Kevin enlists the help of fellow high school senior, Megan Petrov, who has secrets and a curse of her own.

It is late in 1903 and Corporal John Caldwell has just returned from his time away resolving a murder that took place in the Alaskan Territory. Just after he arrives back in Dawson City, he witnesses a murder where he becomes a witness. After the trial there is request for a detective and he travels to Calgary in the Alberta District. He assists to resolve several serious cases when he is placed underground to deal with a gambling operator and illegal liquor. When the operator is killed John tracks down the gang to a farm.

The Realm has been torn asunder. With the forces of Chaos having overrun the land, besieging cities and infesting them, Cor'il and his friends know the truth - that history has been a lie, that balance must be restored, and that it will all get worse before it gets better. Magic has returned to the Realm, and not just for the Threadweaver to command. Threadspinners of every variety have emerged, using magic with neither skill nor knowledge, and adding to the chaos. Meanwhile, the Red Swords hunt all magic-users, determined to scour them from existence.

After San Francisco and Shanghai, John Caldwell is back in Dawson City as a detective with the North West Mounted Police. The year is 1903, and he is asked to search for a missing judge. He returns to Eagle in the Alaskan Territory and discovers it was murder. He takes time away to hunt for why the judge was murdered, which takes him to Chicago, New York, Washington, and Virginia to solve a long-standing conspiracy. Along the way he is involved in a train robbery, captured and attacked before he finds out the reason.

Drip Castle takes place in the small Northern Ontario mining town of Tear Falls. Layered underneath this mystery is a compelling depiction of small-town life, where everyone’s livelihoods revolve around the industry of mining and who have no recourse but to go outside the system when confronted with crises and emergencies. In Tear Falls, “what goes around, comes around”, takes on a whole new meaning for Rick Torrison. He wants to take his mother to a hospital in Mexico to cure her MS. To get the money he takes a job at the local Tear Falls airport fueling planes.

Desperate to support his wife and two children, Nudelman tries his hand at countless jobs, palming himself off as a carpenter, ghost writer for a wealthy businessman, and even attempts selling himself to the Chinese. At war with his bizarre neighbors the Szorsky’s, Nudelman contemplates justifiable homicide.

Werewolves are real, but the wolf next door is in a 12-step program. Witches roam the world, looking for companionship on dating apps. Ghosts haunt the dark, but there are worse things going bump in the night. And God does exist, but he’s a rude cubicle dweller whose greatest wish is for his football team to be champions again. Twenty humorous and horrible explorations of the world await listeners willing to ask the hard questions about decomposing zombies, vigilantes with unusual calling cards, and the outcomes of cursing your romantic rivals.

This is a unique, coming-of-age road trip featuring a feisty, often salty, and insensitive senior citizen, who still has some coming-of-age to experience in his twilight years. On one level, this is a story that takes listeners on a wild, raucous journey through the gritty and dangerous streets of New Orleans and into Sammy Levine's complex past as he tries to make amends for shortcomings in his life and a lingering guilt that drives him to make a daring break from his nursing home and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

O.J. Simpson in an alternate reality and blind ninjas ushering in the apocalypse are just two of the beautifully written tales in this seminal work of art, from the mind of a human being the likes of which God and the devil wholeheartedly agree upon. While drenched in comedy, Laughter's Cold Shadow takes on the darkest of subject matter: murder, rape, racism, the nuclear family, ninjas, Nazis, zombies, police brutality, drug cartels, hedonism, psychopathy, and more.