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This audiobook is the natural outgrowth of a personal redirection that I, quite frankly, did not see coming. By all accounts and traditional measures, as a highly regarded and successful New York City dermatologist, I'd made it to a cherished destination. I'd achieved personal, professional, and financial success that exceeded anything I ever envisioned, particularly in the context of my mother's awe-inspiring struggles as an immigrant single parent and our humble beginnings. But, oddly, despite the glittery accoutrements, I began to feel something wasn't right.

Who were the Vikings? Did they earn the reputation of remorseless raiders and greedy pirates? Where they more than the mere barbarians and plunderers that history makes them out to be? Find out the truth about the Vikings with History of Vikings: From The History of Rune Stones to Norse Mythology by Michael J. Stewart. Stewart takes you beyond rumor and speculation and into the real world of the Scandinavian seafarers known as the Vikings. You’ll get the true story, not an oversimplified Hollywood myth.

Strange and very real monster sightings abound around the world. Every day, people are not just encountering real monsters; they are having life-altering experiences with strange, paranormal, and supernatural forces via mysterious beings, as well as ghosts and spirits of the dead. Prepare to take a journey into the unexplained in this comprehensive program and hear incredible eyewitness reports that force us to face the fact that the monsters we relegate to fairy tales have indeed been quite real all along.

Desperate to save his children from the trauma of divorce, Hopkins Grinder arranges for a hobbyist seducer to placate his wife. A few weeks later, he discovers pictures of her on a hidden-camera porn site. Double Blind takes on the strange Puritan/pervert dichotomy of America's sexual politics with darkly hilarious - and, at times, unexpectedly poignant - results. From the award-winning author of The Popcorn Girl.

Jenna is trying to rebuild her life after a series of disastrous relationships. Luke is struggling to provide a safe, loving home for his deceased partner's young son, following a devastating tragedy. When Jenna and Luke meet and fall in love, they are certain they can achieve the stability and happiness they both desperately need. And yet, someone is watching. Someone who has been scarred by past events. Someone who will stop at nothing to get revenge....

Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson were abducted by aliens in 1973. The incident made headline news around the world yet like many reported UFO encounters skips into the ether and is forgotten over time. This case, however, now takes the forefront decades later as new eyewitnesses have emerged to tell the story and confirm the horrifying encounter actually happened on that October night in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Hear the true story from the lone survivor, Calvin Parker, and the shocking details that have never before been exposed until now.

In this volume, what you will find in the sections that follow are twenty-one amazing stories of death and wealth set around a wandering cousin far out in the cold edges of our solar system. You will find Vikings, knights, warriors defending home and hearth, of triumph and tragedy, and, yes, even the god himself. You will listen to tales of great courage and great loss. Of sacrifice for a greater good and of justice delivered to the overly greedy. You will even find the aforementioned Walt Disney himself.

Are we living under a New World Order? Look around - it seems that it will only be a matter of time before all of the controls are in place.

A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now beholden to the workings of its imbalances and inequities. The trillions of dollars that make up the flow of international finance - money often steered away from people who deserve it most - have not just undermined the lives of working and middle class Americans.

Throughout history, it has never been more obvious that we are being controlled and manipulated than we are today. The New World Order has been governing humanity for centuries through control of the media and monetary systems of all nations. They are working toward the goal of making every man, woman, and child an "obedient robot", just intelligent enough to handle our daily needs via the very technology and systems they control. A few individuals are pushing for a one-world government and a heightened security state with alien influence.

Karz Bar in Gig Harbor, Washington, is home to the best karaoke singers in the county - and the best hostess, Channy Lebeque, a young transplant from Alaska. But Channy's gracious exterior hides a dark past - a past that might explain her late-night cigar-smoking sessions on the Jerisich Dock. It takes the arrival of Ruby Cohen - a talented singer who pours insults on anyone who gets close - to bring out the truth. On a wild Halloween night, Ruby gets her final comeuppance - a firing squad equipped with raw eggs - and forces Channy to talk about the husband who went to Iraq and never returned.

More people than ever are accepting that there is an Alien presence on Earth. With world governments and their agencies acknowledging the phenomenon and recent military leaks, it's clear that we are being visited by some kind of otherworldly intelligence. The encounters with the unknown can no longer be shrugged off as fantasy or delusion. Explore these most hair-raising UFO incidents and decide for yourself.

Get to know the different religions of the world. Find out what beliefs set people apart from one another. For decades, religion has been the major source of human controversy. Throughout history, it has been a way to distinguish cultural and political beliefs. This has brought us together and torn entire kingdoms apart. The study of religion can greatly impact our understanding of certain places, people, and events throughout the ages.

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly-bear habitat. Despite these problems, the National Park Service has succeeded in reintroducing wolves, allowing wildfires to play their natural role in park forests, and prohibiting a gold mine that would be present in other more typical western landscapes.

Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific - or more exposed - than in his letters. All told, Mailer crafted more than 45,000 pieces of correspondence (approximately 20 million words), many of them deeply personal, keeping a copy of almost every one. Now the best of these are published - most for the first time - in one remarkable volume that spans seven decades and several lifetimes.

Immer auswegloser erscheint der Aufstand der Menschen gegen ihre falschen Götter, die Fhrey: Zu mächtig sind die magischen Waffen des Feindes, zu zerstritten die Clans der Menschen. Da fasst der junge Revolutionsführer Raithe einen verzweifelten Plan: Er schickt drei seiner wichtigsten Verbündeten, unter ihnen die seherisch begabte Suri, auf eine gefährliche Reise. Sie sollen die Hilfe eines Volkes erbitten, das wie kein zweites die Kunst des Waffenschmiedens beherrscht.

Leonardo Cantrell is a painfully shy 16-year-old who cannot look people in the eye. One night while he’s volunteering at a homeless shelter, an old man forces eye contact and gives Leo the power to see Death. His best, and only, friend - J.C. Rivera - thinks this new power is cool until Leo accidentally looks into J.C.’s eyes and “sees” his murder, a murder that will occur in less than two weeks. Stunned and shaken, the two boys sift through clues in Leo’s “vision” in a desperate effort to find the killer and stop him before he can strike.

In this riveting Nick Teffinger thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end, a young lawyer is hired to find out if her client has been marked for murder. Formerly a longstanding trial attorney before taking the big leap and devoting his full time attention to writing, RJ Jagger is the author of over 20 hard-edged mystery and suspense thrillers. In addition to his own books, Jagger also ghostwrites for a well-known, best-selling author. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers as well as Mystery Writers of America.

You can see it everywhere—on the news, in social media, in books or movies, and by how some churchgoers behave. Just because people call themselves Christians does not mean they are anything like Jesus. His followers were first called Christians in Antioch. Why? Because they acted like Christ (the original Greek work meant “Christ-people” or “little-Christs”). At the time, it was something of an insult. If people call themselves Christians, but merely go to church, they will not like what they hear about themselves at Judgment. It is not enough to just know about Jesus. To be his ...

A family - a mother, a father, and their 10-year-old son - have come all the way from Florida to the Appalachian foothills to experience the wonder of a snowy weekend. But when a blizzard suddenly descends, the family finds themselves trapped outside, disoriented in the whiteout and the waist-deep snowdrifts. Panicked, exhausted, and freezing, they cry out for help.