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October Diplomat is a tale of forbidden love wrapped in international intrigue. In the course of 12 days in October, an American intelligence agent falls in love with a Vietnamese spy who helps him untangle a Chinese general’s plot to seize Vietnam's offshore oil and assassinate China’s president.

My mom is clawing her way out of a massive amount of medical debt. So, in addition to being an active-duty Marine, I'm also working security for my friend's matchmaking company to help her out as much as I can. Then one night, a gorgeous and mysterious woman needs my help evading a group of well-dressed men who are after her. I don't question it, I just get her out of there. Then I find out she's the princess of a small country, and she wants to leave her royal duties behind. She doesn't want to go back. I don't want to give her up. Now what?

When 60-something musician pals Roy and George attend the funeral of an old bandmate, they realise that since they stopped performing, they've got stuck in a rut. Retirement's all well and good, but they seem to spend most of their time in front of the TV, or propping up the bar at the Hen & Pewter. Believing that jazz players should keep swinging while they've still got rhythm, the duo decide it's time to recreate the good old days, and start a new band.

The world can be a scary place to navigate when you’re brain damaged. Even scarier when you aren’t entirely sure what you might have done during a blackout while your alternate personality is running around in your body. My wife calls him "the other one". If you can’t trust your own eyes or the people around you, sometimes, it pays to take a leap of faith. I have, I stopped taking my little pink pill. I wonder what will happen?...

Protector, confessor, teacher, philosopher, martial artist, and retired Air Marshall, Ed Byers shares his observations regarding life, people, and the unfolding of humanity.

The time to truly educate has come. Outdated schooling practices and methods inherited from a past era must be replaced by new ones that place the individual at the center of all learning. This audiobook addresses how true education has the power to redirect the course of humanity - one person at a time - and begins by differentiating education from other terms that are used synonymously. Pierre Demers presents a vision of what can be our path to making this world a better place.

Monkey Business expounds highly effective and simplistic principles of entrepreneurial success in the form of an enchanting and inspirational fable about a little monkey named Blu. Despite being one of the poorest monkeys in his town, Blu was determined to build a successful banana business. Blu represents every aspiring entrepreneur and small business owner who may be poor in resources but rich in determination, passion, and drive to succeed against all odds.

An adaptation of the prose & poetry of author Raymond Carver and his wife, Tess Gallagher. The story chronicles the final year of Carver's life, when he was struggling to finish his final book. This two-person play is a coproduction with Chicago's City Lit Theater.

There is a point in everybody's life at which a tough decision will have to be made - a hard call. For inspiration and direction, we can look to the remarkable individuals in John McCain and Mark Salter's book, which dramatically describes the anatomy of a great decision.

In the eerie town of Ashwood, shadows hide more than darkness—they hide secrets. Secrets that refuse to stay buried. When a journalist returns home to cover a string of strange, chilling events, they quickly realize something isn’t right. Something personal. Something that won’t let them go. The clues are disturbing. Ritualistic. Each one pulls them deeper into a mystery that seems impossibly tied to their own past. The deeper they dig, the worse it gets. Fear, manipulation, lies—it all leads back decades. And something, or someone, doesn’t want the truth to come out.

Lira is an innocent little girl, struggling to survive in a cruel, heartless world. As her father dies, she is left to fend for herself. Each day is a desperate and exhausting search for food, scouring through the Abyss, the only home she knows. Acute awareness does not always protect her from the very real risk of cannibalization or worse-- being abducted.

Jim, a PhD molecular biology student, stumbles across a patented barley GMO that appears to have disappeared without any testing. His girlfriend, Maria, working on her master's degree in archaeogenetics, discovers a dramatic and unexplained drop in the birth rate of a small African nation. Finally finding the connection among three companies in Africa and the United States, along with a similar GMO that caused sterility, they must now prove the treachery and stop the genocide before an entire population disappears.

Chuck Huey is a Vaxx Hunter. He hunts zombies and wipes them out. The world is depending on this guy to keep us safe, which means we should all be worried. And it's a damn big worry, too, because if Chuck fails...well, the zombies will be nom-nom-nomming on all of us.