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Averett Turing never intended to be a mob attorney. His reward? The mob killed his wife. The mob kidnapped his daughter. He has to decide - stay captive to the mob or take a chance on help. The best chance of escape lies with retired detective Ransom Walsh.

Following a summer's worth of drug abuse, epic alcohol benders, and promiscuous sexual misadventures. You cope with your impoverished living arrangements while mourning the senility of your beloved grandmother, the destructive idiocy of your only two friends, and most importantly, the devastating loss of your free-spirited lover. There are things to consider, of course, and it's real tough to think sometimes.

Olivier Adair, beautiful on the outside, damaged on the inside. One bad decision followed by another leaves him broke and out of options. When propositioned to sell his body, he enters a parallel world of sex for hire. Oliver embarks on a journey that will force him to confront his demons, answer for the sins of the past, and become a man. These are his intimate thoughts.

Welcome to the world of Oliver Adair. Beautiful on the outside. Damaged on the inside. One bad decision followed by the next leaves him broke and out of options. When propositioned to sell his body, he enters into a parallel world of sex for hire. Oliver embarks on a journey that will force him to confront his demons, answer for the sins of the past, and become a man.

This audiobook will teach you how to identify foods that cause bowel discomfort, provide you with simple and easy food plans designed around the low-FODMAP diet, and show you how you can take control of your health.

This audiobook is a how-to guide and will provide you with all the information you need to be successful in your project sponsorship. It focuses on the three key areas of project sponsorship: stewardship, decisions, and results.

Knowledge is the key. The Leaky Gut - The FODMAP Diet Made Easy: Simple Solutions for IBS and Bowel Disorders is the resource that will teach you how to: identify foods that cause bowel discomfort, provide you with simple and easy food plans designed around the FODMAP Diet, and show you how you can take control of your health. IBS and bowel disorder systems effect more than 10 million adults in the US, and for many it is just an unpleasant aspect of their daily lives.

For the last 15 years you've been fed a diet of methods and processes as the answer to failing projects. Yet, the best projects are the result of the person that leads them and the environment they create. In order to delight stakeholders and transform organizations you need the skills to inspire project teams and create a culture of success.

There are times in life when we are faced with decisions having everlasting effects. Hunter is a high school student, forced to choose which path to take. Hitting his head during an LDS church basketball game, his memory is shaken. The results leave him scrambling to make sense of his relationships with his family, his friends, and the teachings harbored deep inside him. Hunter is left to choose between his best friend and his old life or to embrace his family and the feelings pushing against his past. And then there's Jessie. She won't give the old Hunter the time of day.

Plato imagines a dinner party - a symposium - held in the Athens of the late fifth century BC. He invites seven important historical figures including the philosopher Socrates, the comic playwright Aristophanes, and the notorious military general Alcibiades. As entertainment, each guest gives a speech praising eros (human love or erotic desire). Plato then "collects" these seven speeches into Symposium.

The most unlikely of witnesses pull Ransom out of retirement and back to the streets of Las Vegas. The former homicide detective must uncover who’s leaking tips about the case and the murders - his former partner, his girlfriend, a senator? Who can he trust? The killer serves a higher calling. Those sacrificed for the greater good of the people. Some lives are more disposable than others. Their lack of value to society makes them invisible.

The friends have to get Back in the Game to help a strange woman they meet on the streets of Boston. They embark on a wild quest full of magic, wonder, and rapping hamsters. That's right - rapping hamsters. It's a crazy tale packed with nonstop action and adventure. You'll meet several new zany characters, encounter strange and powerful new monsters, and follow the friends on a fantastic quest to save a woman from a fate worse than death. Will they complete their mission, or will she be doomed to spend the rest of her life cursed and trapped in the game

After a blinding flash, four terrified friends realize that they've been transported into their favorite video game Bloodfeast MMO. They are in their characters' bodies, trapped in a fantastic world filled with magic, mystery, and mayhem. Before long, the friends discover that their Bloodfeast characters are trapped in their bodies back in the real world. They're left with no choice but to embark on a heroic quest in a desperate attempt to get home.

Le retour de l'enfant terrible de la littérature américaine ! Que raconte "White", première expérience de "non-fiction" pour Bret Easton Ellis ? Tout et rien. "Tout dire sur rien et ne rien dire sur tout" pourrait être la formule impossible, à la Warhol, susceptible de condenser ce livre audio, d'en exprimer les contradictions, d'en camoufler les intentions. "White" est aussi ironique que "Moins que zéro", aussi glaçant qu'"American Psycho", aussi menaçant que "Glamorama", aussi labyrinthique que "Lunar Park", aussi implacable que "Suite(s) impériale(s)".

Jonathon Hunter has evoked the wrath of 27th-century pirates. With his sexy twin bodyguards, Jonathon seeks to come to grips with station life in a suddenly hostile universe. Celebrity, gratitude, sudden attacks, and a mysterious prophecy are more than most 18-year-olds can handle. A reluctant hero, Jonathon is on a journey, seemingly out of his time, but always in time. Meet Jon Hunter as he starts a two-year journey to prophecy, with his AI sidekick and mostly female mercenary team.  

The name's Burnside, and I always get the weird cases. I built my detective career taking down the strangest bad guys in Earth Sector. No matter how crazy the case, I always managed to get it off the books. After 20 years of pounding my beat, I was ready to pack it in, and I'd called it a day. Then these killings started, weird to the point of freaked-out PD Chiefs, and only one person who fit the case. So much for retirement. The story I'm going to tell you covers two years of my life, and took me from one end of human space to the other.

"All good heroes are insane." Was that really a joke? Jonathon Hunter hasn't the time to ponder the labels people try to put on him. The war shifts from defensive to offensive. The stakes get higher, as the means to fight the aggressors finally become available. But has he risen too high? Or are the consequences of his own actions interfering with his judgement? As fast as you move, the past is faster and always catches up with you when you least expect it. This is not a game, and being a hero has its own price tag. 

Thorn is back! The guilty will be punished. The war they dismissed as nonsense is now raging. Jen needs Thorn. The military want Thorn. Thorn is older and wiser, and he doesn't care what anyone wants. He has a better hold on his growing power, or so he thinks. The war calls, but there is unfinished business to attend to on the way. Unanswered questions lead in strange directions, and a war for no reason, is only part of the mystery. But through everything, Thorn carries two themes. The guilty will be punished, and there will be peace! Yesterday was just the start. 

All Thorn wanted was to be a Battle Mage. He had the talent, and his whole future was before him. On the day of Choosing, he finds things don't always go as planned. Suddenly Thorn's life is thrown into fast forward, and he finds himself in a world not of his own choosing. In a world of spaceships and blasters, instead of horses and swords, Thorn needs to adapt and survive, make new allies, and rediscover that although nothing is familiar, he's still a Mage, and pirates and slavers beware.

For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that much of it endured to feed an endless fascination with Celtic history and myths, artwork and treasures. A foremost authority on the Celtic peoples and their culture, Peter Berresford Ellis presents an invigoration overview of their world. With his gift for making the scholarly accessible, he discusses the Celts' mysterious origins and early history and investigates their rich and complex society.