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Headlines scream across the nation as a country in near panic pleads for the capture of the killers. With little progress, U.S. President Samuel Schroeder asks Jack McCall, a veteran of the CIA and Defense Intelligence, to head up a special multi-agency task force to find the killers. A frustrated and unhappy FBI designates, as its representative, Rachel Johnstone, an agent with whom Jack has had some personal history.

At long last, the Earth had had enough. Enough pollution. Enough mistreatment and draining of her resources. Finally, the Earth mother rebelled with devastation, disease, fire, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that brought the civilized world to its knees. For untold generations the native people of the continent called North America told stories of the broken circle of the natural world. They warned of the consequences of trespass, misuse, and mistreatment of the mother of us all. They also told stories of the healing of this world.

Classic Cat Stories is an anthology that includes fairy tales and fables from the likes of Rudyard Kipling and Charles Perrault as well as comic tales from Saki and E. F. Benson. Cats, of course, have always had a dark and mysterious side, which is explored to chilling effect by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe in 'The Black Cat'. But above all, we love them, and you’ll find here stories about all kinds of cats that tug at the heartstrings like 'The Man of the House' by Ethel Colburn Mayne and other stories that celebrate their curious ways.

Die Crew der Satchmo soll die Band Magnetissimus Elektro zu einem Live-Transmitter-Event auf den Planeten Tourette bringen. Ein Antriebsschaden zwingt die Reisegruppe jedoch zu einer längeren Zwischenlandung auf dem Quix-Wix-Fix Planeten, wo sich Schlagzeuger Hadschi Husemann ein Bein bricht. Kracks. Um den Gig nicht ganz ausfallen zu lassen, beschließt man einen halbgaren Auftritt im Schuppen von Madras Raumkiosk durchzuziehen, denn der verfügt über einen Münz-Holo-Beamer.

Running a blog may not be an entirely easy task, as it requires dedication and consistency with lots and lots of content. Also, successful blogs need to understand the importance of flexible copy-writing as well as the importance of social media in the growth and promotion of the blog itself. In this audiobook lie the tricks and hacks on how to beat the odds and rise to the top. It also offers tips on what to avoid if you wish to own a successful money-making blog online.

Are you empathetic or codependent? Learn the difference with this guidebook, which offers suggestions to help you say "no" to the payoffs of codependency and break free from its destructive patterns. It is possible to let other people solve their own problems. It is possible to be empathetic to other people’s suffering without giving up yourself. You can give someone else a hand up - if that’s what they want - without letting them pull you down into the mud of their own choices.

When an Atlanta corporate attorney discovers a dark secret, it costs him his life. Jason Garrett has a promising career, prestige, money, and a beautiful wife. He is Schmitt and Lawson's biggest rainmaker and is on the fast-track to partnership.Then he makes a startling discovery.

It is 1972, and Clay Dautry, a successful criminal attorney, has left Los Angeles under a cloud. He is returning to Kentucky's mountainous coal country to unravel a family mystery. For months he's published a classified ad, seeking to learn why his father killed a man in 1929. Even before he arrives people have begun to die.

"Just a very short memoir... of getting the 'finger'. Again. If you're getting on up there in years and you still haven't had it, come along with me for the practice. It's a barrel of fun... Not."

Chris Emmett & friends voice this collection of rhymes and silly songs. From 'Morris the Mole', to 'The Ten Legged Nessie Show' and more, the children will absolutely love these fun and captivating performances.

Come along on a "Holly Jolly" trip to a "Doc in a Box" on Christmas Day. See what you missed by not getting sick on that special day... and rejoice in the gift of having your health and not wasting precious Holiday time in a Doc in a Box waiting room. Is that Rudolph in the waiting room next to yours? No. Just another kid with the flu. Now, get back to waiting.

When Gus LeGarde agrees to play piano for the high school drama club's production of "Spirit Me Away", a '60s-style musical he wrote in college, he doesn't expect to face a barrage of menacing pranks played on his fiancée, Camille, and the drama club. Who's sabotaging the show? And what do they have against Camille? Is it sex-crazed Armand, the Latino teen infatuated with her? Something happened last year that Camille won't talk about, and it has to do with Armand. Gus wants to know what happened, but she's not talking.

After a young woman and a bull are found dead in a dark pasture, Blanco County game warden John Marlin is asked to assist with the investigation. Was it a case of rustling gone wrong? Or maybe a prank turned deadly? Marlin hopes the woman's boyfriend can shed some light on the situation, but he's nowhere to be found. Is he on the run or did the woman's violent brother take matters into his own hands?

Boston, Massachusetts: It's the summer of '69-the parks are flooded with flower children and a hot new band called Led Zeppelin is set to appear at the Boston Tea Party. But for one newlywed couple just beginning their lives together, there will be no peace.In the cradle of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, Gus and Elsbeth LeGarde are music students attending the New England Conservatory of Music, after a wedding kept secret from their families.

When televangelist Peter Boothe decides to build a megachurch on the banks of the Pedernales River, he thinks his biggest problem will be a few unhappy neighbors. However, when backhoe operator Hollis Farley unearths a rare fossil on the construction site - a discovery that could lead to plenty of embarrassing Darwinian publicity - the cover-up begins.

After a high-school football star dies in a late-night motorcycle collision with a wild pig, the boy's wealthy father comes up with a creative scheme to rid Blanco County of the feral pests: He tattoos the ear of one particular pig, then offers a $50,000 reward for anyone who shoots it. Game warden John Marlin is not pleased-chiefly because the bounty is likely to bring a wave of poachers and trespassers to the area. The tension rises even higher when the death of the local boy turns out to be more complicated than it originally appeared.

It's 1978 and acclaimed horror director George A. Romero is gearing up to shoot his zombie cult classic Dawn of the Dead in the Monroeville Mall, just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On Halloween night, a 12-year-old girl dressed as Olivia Newton-John's character from Grease is slashed to death in a brutal, bloody crime. Her mutilated, blood-soaked corpse is found on the back patio of her broken, unhappy steelworker's home on the outskirts of the city. But as imperfect as they both are, the girl's estranged, unfit parents seem incapable of this level of violence....

A chilly spring night in rural South Carolina at the tail end of Reconstruction, the murder of innocents. This is the setting for the initial chapter of the historical thriller, A Strange and Bitter Fruit. Thomas "Tee" Powell, 15, manages to escape as his family is lynched. His father, Zeke, mother Hessie and young sisters Lannie and Effie were hung to teach the blacks of Aiken that voting is not the right of the former slaves, not anymore.

An unidentified wild creature is on the loose in Blanco County, and, over the protests of game warden John Marlin, the locals have convinced themselves they're dealing with a mythical vampirish beast called a chupacabra. It doesn't help Marlin's cause when a dead body turns up with a fang-like wound in its neck.

Just before the American president is scheduled to appear in Sam Moore's hometown of East Goodland, Sam's retirement plans are delayed when his daughter, Beth, goes missing. Newly reunited with the spirit of his younger brother, Billy, who died 50 years ago, Sam is guided by an unusual talisman - a small green marble - that reveals a perplexing link between Beth andher mysterious roommate, Zafina Azziz. Who is the real Zafina? Med student, loving friend, Egyptian royal - or a keeper of deadly secrets?