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It's 1942 and talented young artist Emily Torrance is brutally murdered. Seventy-five years later, Jim Mercer, a reporter for the LA Times, covers a J. Paul Getty Museum showing of Emily's work and is smitten by her self-portrait. Eventually becoming obsessed with the slain artist, Mercer investigates her murder and discovers something the cops of 1942 missed: evidence of Emily's killer, but more - proof of time travel.

After salvaging the Queen’s Jewels from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora Farnese, Buck Reilly’s finally back on top. Once more hailed as a world class archeologist, he’s riding the wave of success…until his past mistakes begin to surface from the depths.

Hundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to calm seas off the Libyan coast. Entire villages in Ghana are abandoned overnight. Contracted by an apocalypse prepper group to investigate a series of seemingly disconnected global tragedies, a young medical investigative reporter, Angelique de l'Enfantine, uncovers a disturbing pattern to the tragedies. Are they harbingers of an impending biblical catastrophe? Or practice runs by a fanatical organization bent on global annihilation?

Did you know that every thought you think and every word you say is an affirmation? It is! All of our self-talk or inner dialogue is a stream of affirmations. We are continually affirming all sorts of things subconsciously with our words and thoughts and this flow of affirmations is creating our life experience in every moment. Our beliefs are learned thought patterns that we have developed since childhood, many of these beliefs work well for us, but others may now be working against us.

To protect the kingdoms, Darin must see out evil. To destroy it, he must fulfill the prophecy. He must seek out evil, or it will rise! The ultimate evil is best stopped before it is released.

Saving earth was only the beginning of Flint's troubles, as his daring moves alerted the Diophants of his power, and he is now being hunted, along with everyone he loves. This time, Flint must do more than save the earth. He must take down the Diophants and free the cosmos. The situation becomes so extreme, that even he doesn't know if he can take the heat.

Do you want to see an unfolding of world history from prehistory to ancient history to humankind future in one audiobook? In Subsurface History of Humanity: Direction of History, Victor Torvich gives a sweeping overview of the global history of humankind for the last 44 thousand years. The audiobook will help the listener make sense of human history, history of Sapiens. Victor Torvich found the objective direction of the history of humankind. It is different from subjective humankind progress. How fast is humankind moving in the found direction?

To protect his life, Prince Darin must face evil. To protect his kingdom, he must resist it! He must resist evil, or it will grow. Prince Darin is the child of prophecy. He's always known that, but now that strange things are happening, can he rise to the expectations? Help will find him in the form of a giant gnome, and unusually talented acrobat, and a girl who everyone seems to want dead. The prophecy has begun to come true, and everything they know hangs in the balance.

Everyone expected great things of Rynn when he became a Time Cop. After all, his father was the head of the department, so he'd been training for years. Yet, he never expected that as a brand new member of the force that he'd be pulled through a space anomaly where he would have to face magic, beasts, and intrigues in worlds that were like nothing he'd ever experienced. Everyone trapped with him turns to him to lead them, and Rynn finds the fate of four worlds resting on him.

There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between children and parents as about the epidemic that every year leaves millions of children, mostly healthy themselves, without family.

The Yugoslavian genocide is hard to explain. So many factors have contributed to the war—and eventually, the genocide in Bosnia—that many UN soldiers didn’t even know what to do about it. A lack of response, though, made the problem worse. A combination of historical aspects, such as the division of religion, the world wars, the Iron Curtain, and the fall of the Soviet Union, were part of what led to a conflict that lasted for years in this sensitive region in Europe.

The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age 24 by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was turned down by every service dog agency in the country because she was "too disabled". Her nurse encouraged her to tone down the suicidal thoughts, find a puppy, and raise her own service dog. Karen did this, and Ben, a German shepherd, dragged her back into life.

Tom Ketchum was born in 1863 on a farm near the fringe of the Texas frontier. At the age of nine, he found himself an orphan and was raised by his older brothers. In his mid-twenties he left home for the life of an itinerant trail driver and ranch hand. He returned to Texas, murdered a man, and fled. Soon afterwards, he and his brother Sam killed two men in New Mexico. A year later, he and two other former cowboys robbed a train in Texas. The career of the Ketchum Gang was under way.

Being Jaxon and Jade's son is cool, but it also comes with challenges. Living up to his parent's names is almost impossible for John, as there are many expectations on him. When CAMO Demons threaten the school, John is left with the responsibility of saving everyone in it, without the help of any of their parents. It becomes time for him to live up to his family's name, or die trying.

Having powers is cool, but not when people with them are being hunted, experimented on, and killed. Jaxon finds that running a university is a great responsibility, as he becomes responsible for saving his friends, and helping the Altereds and Mages from other cities stay alive. To do so, he must put great trust in Rich, the only one with the skills to get the information he needs, but can he really trust Rich when Rich has betrayed them before?

When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States.

Exception to the Rule links ancient wisdom with contemporary science on high performance, teamwork, and engagement. Building an organizational culture based on classical virtues - of trust, compassion, courage, justice, wisdom, temperance and hope - is both strategically smart and a better way to live. Exception to the Rule walks you through the steps of helping everyone in your organization focus on character defined by virtue.

Having powers can be cool, but not when you panic, explode, and accidentally kill people. Jade hid her powers until she exposed herself saving her mutant brother. It had to be done, but it had life-altering ramifications, as she was forced to join CAMO Academy, a school for people like her, people who had been chemically altered during the war that wiped out most of the world; but the school wasn't what it appeared, and Jade found herself having to rely on her troupe and trainer, Jaxon, to stay alive.

Flint and his siblings have known for years that their father was an alien. It's pretty obvious since they have super powers, but they never expected that their dad was a super soldier who was being hunted by the enemy, or that they would have to defend earth to keep it from being destroyed. The Diophants are a terrifying enemy. They show no mercy. They expand their empire by incorporating planets under their control or destroying them. With their ability to manipulate space, they can open wormholes, destroy planets, and even alter gravity.

The Casino in Connecticut is the capital building for those of us in the Great Game who live in New England. My friend Matt is a professional gambler who thought he discovered a game full of high rollers to crash, but it wasn't that simple. Since friends invite their friends along when they do stupid things, I came along for the ride. What we discovered is that there are people betting on what utter strangers will do next.