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Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience’s attention. Her latest story - a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal - is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner’s office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: The victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a chilling last phone call to her sister, Victoria begged her to prove her innocence.

A missing piece of the Aztec calendar becomes the key to ultimate destruction when archeologist Jana Peters discovers it reveals a hidden temple containing astronomical knowledge that can predict celestial movement with lethal precision. Racing against a tech corporation deploying orbital drones to weaponize the ancient calendar, she and CIA Agent Jacob Snow must prevent corporate megalomaniacs from turning the heavens themselves into weapons of mass annihilation.

For nearly three thousand years, Homer’s Odyssey has captivated audiences with its tale of Odysseus’s perilous return journey after the Trojan War. In The Wisdom of the Odyssey, mythologist Phil Cousineau distills the epic into twenty-four chapters that mirror Homer’s original books and connect their lessons to our own lives. Listeners follow Odysseus through his ordeals and changes of heart, as he’s sustained not only by cunning and grit but by love for his wife, Penelope; his son, Telemachus; and his homeland, the island of Ithaka.

Time travel is real—and used for high-end tourism. Every moment of the past is open to visitors, and no matter what they do then, everything now waits for them, thanks to the sure hand of an experienced time travel technician. Come spend a day behind the controls of the time machine, and discover why, this day of all days, it’s time for this technician to make a change. Because sometimes, time travel is more than just an adventure. Sometimes, it’s a moral imperative.

The Twenty Things Adoptive Kids Wish devotional gives adoptive families encouragement as they seek God to work through the emotions unique to their family. Powerful prayer prompts help you navigate through difficult topics such as rejection, the missing faces in their lives, and much more. As you pray together through these tough topics, you will become the greatest prayer warrior for your adopted child and God will knit your hearts together in his love.

They say to keep your enemies close and mine are all around me. At the heart of it are four dangerously gorgeous men. The man who wants to light my darkness and already paid the price for loving me. The man who can handle my power and loves every dark inch of me. The man who has been my closest companion and now threatens to upend our carefully balanced world in pursuit of me. But the fourth man is probably the most terrifying. He wants to take the others away. He wants to tear the spinal column out my empire. Destroy my businesses. Destroy me.

Since its publication in 1993, this groundbreaking book has persuaded countless parents, teachers, and managers that attempts to manipulate people with incentives may seem to work in the short run, but they ultimately fail and even do lasting harm. Drawing from hundreds of studies, Kohn demonstrates that we actually do inferior work when we are enticed with money, grades, or other incentives—and are apt to lose interest in whatever we were bribed to do. Rewards and punishments are two sides of the same coin—and the coin doesn't buy much.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Something is attacking ships in the world's oceans. It is fast, nearly indestructible, and capable of punching holes through iron hulls. The scientific consensus, led by Professor Pierre Aronnax of the Paris Museum of Natural History, is that it must be...

Against a backdrop of enigmatic nights scattered with spoken word poetry in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, Ekuah tries to reconcile her personal journey with the love she struggles with for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician who is both passionate and aloof in his treatment of Ekuah. After 18 months together, he disappears from her life, confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship. She attempts to graduate university whilst retreating into herself, searching for new validations and preoccupations from heartbreak.

At age 55, Meg's life is too filled with loss for her to remember what magic feels like. All she has left is a yard brimming with plants that are wilting in the scorching Iowa summer - and a bone-deep feeling that she's through with living. Meg has something else too: a bottle of mysterious pills, given to her years ago by an empathetic doctor. He promised that they would offer her dying mother a quick, painless end in exactly 20 days. Though her mother never needed them, Meg does. But a strange thing happens after Meg swallows the little green pearls....

A devastating lab explosion during carbon dating of newly discovered Dead Sea Scrolls becomes the catalyst for biblical-scale terror as CIA Agent Jacob Snow uncovers a millennia-old conspiracy. Racing against extremist infiltrators who believe the stolen "Seventh Scroll" holds the key to unleashing an ancient weapon of mass destruction, he and archeologist Jana Peters must prevent fanatics from triggering their own twisted version of the apocalypse.

Twenty days to go-live. One CRM & ERP project. What could possibly go wrong?Liam Lane has spent years implementing business systems and has learned one important lesson:The software is rarely the problem.With go-live approaching, the project is held together by stand-ups, status reports...

Anecdotes of an FBI Agent chronicles the experiences of an FBI agent from 1966-1995. Phil K. Walter investigated bank robberies, extortion, kidnappings, espionage, and major drug cases. The broad range of cases he worked were in St. Louis, MO; Los Angeles, CA; and Glenwood Springs, CO. These are his personal experiences expressed as anecdotes and as a reminder that FBI agents are still “the good guys.”

One question has haunted the claustrophobic town of West Wilmer for the past ten years: why it took Phoebe Deans brother and driver of the car, Grant, 27 minutes to call for help on the fateful night of the accident. Grant Dean lost everything that night: his sister, his future, his standing in...

A forgotten Soviet-era bunker filled with Nazi artifacts becomes the epicenter of international intrigue as CIA Agent Jacob Snow confronts a crisis masquerading as minor warfare. Uncovering plans for electromagnetic destruction that could doom the Americas, he and expert archeologist Jana Peters must outmaneuver terrorists hell-bent a countdown to catastrophe.

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Did you know that these 26 words are responsible for much of America's multibillion-dollar online industry? What we can and cannot write, say, and do online is based on just one law - a law that protects online services from lawsuits based on user content. Jeff Kosseff exposes the workings of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which has lived mostly in the shadows since its enshrinement in 1996.

A luminous new recording of Jules Verne’s modern classic read by Aria Mia Loberti, star of Netflix’s limited series adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See “The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident…Vessels had been met by ‘an enormous thing,’ a long object...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the oath of youth survived time, politics, betrayal, and the bitter knowledge of age? In *Twenty Years After*, Alexandre Dumas returns to the legendary world of the Musketeers with a richer, darker, and more politically charged sequel to *The...

Thomas Greyson lived his life in the margins. A man defined by debts, half-finished plans, and the cold comfort of a flickering neon sign outside his window. He was a gambler who had long since lost the ability to gamble on anything that mattered. Thomas lives a life defined by the mundane until the number 27 begins to assert a terrifying, inescapable influence over his reality. What starts as a simple observation of a digital clock at 10: 27 PM quickly devolves into a systematic dismantling of his existence.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas* (1870) is a classic science-fiction adventure by French author **Jules Verne**. Professor Pierre Aronnax, his devoted servant Conseil, and the hot-tempered Canadian harpooner Ned Land are swept aboard the...