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Are you an American concerned by mass shootings? Do you feel confused by misinformation and political agendas? Then this audiobook is for you. Looking over your shoulder and double-checking where the nearest exits are may have become as natural to you as breathing, or looking before you cross the road. Mass shootings have woven their way into the everyday lives of Americans, becoming a regular topic of conversation on news stations and across social media. But is this really a new phenomenon?

The once-bustling community of Madrid, New Mexico, provides the background for this fictional story. Using an interview storytelling technique, George Pintar weaves the history, culture, and economy into an intriguing, easy-to-listen tale.

No one can survive the electrocution of 50,000 volts. No one but Andromeda Somers. Now she's recovering in a place she never knew existed and learning more about herself than ever before. In an effort to protect her children, Andromeda avoids them at all costs. She doesn't trust herself, she doesn't trust Adam, and she definitely doesn't trust Burton Crane. Getting too close puts them in danger, again.

It’s 1904 and a young man sets out to discover what happened to his mother’s brother who, as a ten-year-old boy, was kidnapped by Comanches thirty-four years before. Harry Bonner encounters the rugged canyons and prairies of New Mexico and Texas, where the land, people, and cultures challenge his upbringing as a privileged child of a wealthy Missouri family.

Trying to escape from the Phoenix District got Andie two things, a broken arm and a broken spirit. While Andie feels like she might be losing it, she has a bit of hope to hold onto. Everyone else in her family may have been taken away or gone missing, but she has Lina. So she’s going to do what Burton Crane ordered her to do and genetically alter the Residents brains so they are the cooperative, docile humans he requested.

Jayden and his archeology group find the burial site of a Medicine Woman from the 5th century. Strangely, Jayden also finds a crude leather book in his grandmother's secret room that was written in 426 by a Shaman. His sister, Sofia, decodes the ancient runes, and they learn that a powerful curse cast sixteen hundred years ago destroyed the lives of their ancestors for centuries. If it remains unbroken, the curse will ruin the lives of future generations as well.

Embark on an extraordinary journey through time with Grandpa's Extraordinary Time-Traveling Watch. Join siblings Lily and Ben as they venture alongside their whimsical grandfather through the pages of history, guided by a mysterious pocket watch that holds the key to boundless adventure. From the bustling streets of Ancient Egypt to the high seas with swashbuckling pirates, each chapter of this captivating book immerses listeners in a vividly depicted era, brimming with sights, sounds, and sensations.

Poland, 1943. Samuel is only sixteen when he arrives at the somber metal gates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. He is forced deep inside the camp with the few remaining survivors from his village. They march past the smoking crematoriums, toward their future, toward their fate. Toward Block 19. Even at such a young age, the horrors of war are something Samuel knows all too well. Having lived through the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto, he faced the brutality and cruelty of the Germans, fighting for his survival day by day. But Block 19 would test his bravery and endurance.

My name is Catalina Somers, and it has been twelve months, two weeks, four days, and nine hours since my mother went missing. The Hanford Sovereign want to know where she is. Burton Crane wants to know where she is. Even though we don't know anything, the questioning is relentless.

Plucked from society, the Funding Entities had a plan for Andromeda Somers and Adam Waters. The ones who planned the Reformation were priming them for a greater role. One that Adam will never live to realize. He knew too much and now he’s dead, leaving Andie to raise their baby alone. But not all is lost; the Entities want Andie to uphold the principles of the Phoenix District, so they’ve released Ian to her.

There are two things that Andie Somers will never forget. The betrayal by someone she once trusted, and the Swamp People, a threat that’s always lingering in the shadows of the forests surrounding Phoenix. Now Andie has taken Burton Crane’s seat as a Funding Entity, managing the Phoenix District. But having been blessed with immortality, an immortality she did not want, the single task that consumes Andromeda Somers is finding out how to get the nanocytes out of her body.