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about growing up in a town that’s slowly fading away.

Homer and his close buddies, who call themselves the Rocket Boys, are high school seniors in 1959. Their rocket building experiments amaze the locals, thanks to top-quality moonshine for fuel, “liberated” materials, and Homer’s self-taught understanding of higher math. But no matter how brilliant their experiments are, they can do little to help preserve Coalwood’s way of life.

Vincent Majestyk saw too much death in the jungles of Southeast Asia. All he wants to do now is farm his melons and forget. But peace can be an elusive commodity, even in the Arizona hinterlands - and especially when the local mob is calling all the shots. And one quiet, proud man's refusal to be strong-armed by a powerful hood is about to start a violent chain reaction that will leave Mr. Majestyk ruined, in shackles, and without a friend in the world -- except for one tough and beautiful woman.

When a sample of smallpox from Russia's cache of bioweapons is smuggled into the United States, Jon Smith and his colleagues must unravel the mystery of the Cassandra Compact and recover or destroy the virus - before the power of Armageddon falls into the hands of a madman.

On the face of it Captain Edward Ashburnham's life was unimpeachable. But behind the mask where passion seethes, the captain's "good" life was rotting away.

Bürgermeister Temeroso ist ein Angsthase. Aber der gestiefelte Kater hilft ihm und macht ihn zu einem tapferen Bürgermeister. Doch damit wird alles nur noch schlimmer! Temeroso erklärt den Kater zum neuen Bürgermeister von San Lorenzo und verlässt die Stadt. Als tapferer Held will Temeroso nun gegen Bösewichte kämpfen. Doch als sich Temeroso mit El Moco, dem Anführer der Banditen, anlegt ist plötzlich ganz San Lorenzo in Gefahr!

Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. No, it's an impossible tiny number. It's what O. Henry might have conjured up if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. You'll find murder and suspense, horror and intrigue, love and betrayal, plus distant worlds and inner demons. All in a measly 55 words!

Auf der Suche nach der entlaufenen Nachbarskatze wagt sich Marie bis in einen alten und verlassenen Teil der Stadt. Marie nimmt ihren Mut zusammen und betritt ein besonders baufälliges Haus. Hat sich die Katze dort versteckt? Doch von dem Tier fehlt jede Spur. Als die junge Frau diesen unheimlichen Ort verlassen will, nimmt sie eine Bewegung wahr – und erschrickt: In einer Ecke kauert ein großer Wolf, der sie mit hungrigen Augen beobachtet. Vor Angst kann sich Marie nicht mehr rühren. Der Wolf reißt sein Maul auf - aber nicht, um das Mädchen zu fressen.

Die Geschichte beginnt in Altenthann in der Oberpfalz mit einem vermeintlich dramatischen Ereignis und führt den Schlösslbauern mit seiner Tochter Barbara nach Amerika. Eindringlich und anschaulich beschreibt Gitta Frank den Abschied aus der Heimat, die Überfahrt, die Pionierleistung der Einwanderer und den glücklichen Weg zurück nach Altenthann. gesprochen von: Sprecherin: Brigitte März, Schlösselbäurin: Claudia Kisslinger, Barbara: Gitta Frank, Schlösselbauer: Max Rix, Pichlmeier: Werner Müller, Sepp: Max Rix, Schaffner: Werner Müller, Verkäufer: Werner Müller.

Nachdem Ivonne van der Burg, wie sich herausstellt, eine Viren und Genforscherin ist, dem Privatermittler Jan Hendrickson endlich die Wahrheit erzählt, wendet sich der Fall. Ivonne van der Burg hat Ihrem Mann Ronald einen Virus getestet. Dieser Virus verhält sich aber nicht wie gedacht. Ronald van der Burg verändert sich dramatisch. Er wird gefährlich. Nur mit Hilfe von Kriminalkommissar Martin Ziehkraut gelingt es, eine Katastrophe zu verhindern.

The Indwelling, book number seven in the best-selling Left Behind series, marks the beginning of the second half of the seven-year Tribulation period. The question of who killed Nicolae at the end of book number six, Assassins, will be answered. Listeners will experience the horrors of God's judgment and the hope of salvation as they follow Rayford, Buck, Chloe, and the rest of the Tribulation Force in heart-stopping action.

The Tribulation Force travels to Israel for the Meeting of Witnesses as further judgments are released upon the world. Satan falls from heaven and opens the bottomless pit, releasing Apollyon and his plague of locusts that torture the unsaved.

At the turn of the century, the short story form gained enormous popularity. Against the frozen Alaskan landscape of "To Build a Fire", a miner struggles to survive the splintering whiteness of sub-zero temperatures. "Isle of Voices" captures the Hawaii of old, where magic transports a young man to an island of powerful spirits. "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" pits a mongoose against a cobra in the steamy beauty of an Indian garden. Recorded Books’ award-winning narrators turn these stories into absorbing productions.

Christopher Lucas, an expatriate American journalist on assignment to investigate religious fanatics in Jerusalem, stumbles upon a plot to bomb the Temple Mount. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a race through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze - as Lucas follows his leads, he uncovers an attempt to seize political advantages that reveals duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem's sacred struggle.

Before Lucas Davenport and the brilliant Prey novels, there was Kidd (artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal) and his sometimes partner/sometimes lover, LuEllen. The army left Kidd with a dislike for bureaucracy and the skills to do something about it, but it didn't prepare him for the day a woman would call and tell him his colleague Jack Morrison is dead.

With some of the most spine-chilling scenes in modern suspense fiction, Bait guarantees the listener a roller coaster ride with a hero not afraid to cross the line. Life for narcotics detective Jack Walsh is one continuous drunken binge - until one blurry night when his car veers into an oncoming car, killing the son of Boston’s premier crime boss. Now Jack must decide if he wants to hide from D’Angelo’s vengeful compatriots or reclaim his life.

Abandon yourself to the spell of six short stories filled with thrills and dark suspense. Here are tales by the masters of mystery and horror - A. Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Oscar Wilde and Ambrose Bierce - taking on a new energy and force through performances by Recorded Books’ critically-acclaimed narrators. Ranging from dungeons to drawing rooms, and peopled with extraordinary ghouls and doomed dowagers, the tales are guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of your neck.

A convicted killer is broken out of maximum security in broad daylight. The price of his freedom? A secret that just may cost him his life.

Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. It's what O. Henry might have conjured up if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. You'll find murder and suspense, horror and intrigue, love and betrayal, plus distant worlds and inner demons. All in a measly 55 words.

Caunitz, a NYPD detective for more than 20 years, is a master of police blotter fiction. In the gritty, hardboiled world of the NYPD, Detective Matt Stuart works a shabby beat where homicides are his daily paper work. Tracking down an elusive killer, he is forced to face critical decisions when the trail leads to dangerous criminals who are not on the street, but in uniform.

The author of the best selling Left Behind series, Jerry B. Jenkins is one of the most widely read and deeply admired novelists of our time. With Hometown Legend he has written an inspirational tale placed firmly in the nation's heartland, where football, family, and faith are everything, and where one town's greatest contest has begun.