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In between the shootouts, violence, and debauchery, there is the overarching question of "can people actually change?" The listener will see that the answer is not so simple—especially when you live in a place like New Orleans.

When James Dallas Egbert III disappeared from the Michigan State University campus in 1979, he was no ordinary college dropout. Egbert was a computer genius at sixteen, a boy with an I.Q. of 180-plus and an extravagant imagination. He was a fanatic Dungeons & Dragons player before the game was widely known, and he and his friends played a live version in a weird labyrinth of tunnels and rooms beneath the university. These secret passages even ran within the walls of the buildings themselves.

For decades, the soldiers who served in Vietnam were shunned by the American public and ignored by their government. Many were vilified or had their struggles to reintegrate into society magnified by distorted depictions of veterans as dangerous or demented. Even today, Vietnam veterans have not received their due. Until now. These profiles are touching and courageous, and often startling.

No zombie apocalypse, or any apocalypse for that matter, was meant to be easy or safe. This series sets the bar. No one is safe, and the situations are not ideal. Families going through heaven and hell to try and get those they love back together. Some have their prayers payoff, while others realize they must go on to keep the rest of their family whole.

Trying to calm his inner demons and forget the tragic loss of his men, Cal dives headlong into his work, taking the battle to the enemy. Now the president needs his help to uncover a leak in his administration and start the long road to cleaning up Washington, and wrestling power back from corrupt officials who threaten to plunge the American government further into the abyss. Will Cal uncover the truth before it's too late?

A banker, linguist, and demolitions expert who has successfully infiltrated German intelligence, FBI Special Agent Thomas Cochrane is handpicked by Roosevelt for an impossible mission: to find Hitler's spy before he carries out a plan that will remove the president from office at a critical moment in the century's history.

The sac isn't shrinking, but those alive are! New faces are introduced as old friends are trying their best to remain alive! Who will survive, who will perish? Find out in book 5 of Zombies on the Block: Survival Isn't for All. Book 6 continues the chaos, the mayhem, and the hell unleashed. Don't forget that these dead never get satisfied, and their rage knows no end. The lucky will see another day as the living—the less fortunate will roam the Earth full of hunger and rage. A zombie no one expected and no one was ready for.

Amid the rising nightmare, charismatic Sascha Vykosan Old World monster with a New World agendabrings both scourge and velvet glove to rally the fractious Sabbat forces. A great reckoning awaits the complacent Camarillaif only Vykos can preserve the volatile alliance and keep the Sabbat serpent from devouring its own tail.

Crime reporter and amateur cyber-sleuth Tess McClintock returns home to bury her father, but what she finds buried in his attic makes her question everything she thought she knew about the mild-mannered trucker.

How old is too old to dream? Walt Williams always dreamed of being a hero. When retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be, Walt decides it's the perfect time to achieve his dream and give Lady Justice a helping hand. So he decides to become a cop! Follow Walt as he leaves the real-estate world and retirement to solve crime and bring perps to justice. It's a bumpy but often hilarious ride. Walt and Ox, his partner in the Kansas City police department, find very unorthodox ways of bringing criminals to justice.

The zombie apocalypse has brought all roads to a deadly end, leaving only the toughest and most determined survivors to navigate the treacherous post-apocalyptic landscape. In the final book of the wildly popular Zombies on the Block series, listeners are in for an intense ride. Mike and his family, along with their close-knit group of friends, must brave the dangers of the open road as they travel toward the only hope of safety. With each step, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and fight for their survival against the relentless undead.

The time and place, Victorian England on the cusp of a new century where the marvels of science will spur the Industrial Revolution to new heights of cultural wonder. And yet amidst this societal upheaval, the dark elements of humankind continue to worm their way through the streets of London and its surrounding countryside. Murder and mayhem remain and thus the work of Sherlock Holmes continues; his powers of deductive reasoning are the crucial bulwark to stem this tide of villainy.

The block isn't getting any safer. Mike and his parents race to save Emily and Mickenzie as new neighbors are introduced. No one is having an easy start to this sporadically comical yet perpetually nail-biting apocalyptic hell. The zombies are relentless in their pursuit of a hunger they'll never know the end of. No one on the block knows if they will see the end of the worst Monday ever!

A bad day off is better than a good day at work. At least that's what Seth thought until his dream vacation of visiting a civil war battleground came to life. Unfortunately, the dead soldiers that had been lying in peace had a hundred-year hunger to feed. Follow Seth and his family to see if they can escape the dead. Will there be another day, or will everyone perish? The Williams will have to fight to survive, to elude ravished zombies, and aliens who seem to only want one thing...to conquer Earth.

When a massive solar flare strikes the Western Hemisphere, it leave the planet's electronic infrastructure destroyed. Jared, who has spent his entire life behind a computer screen, must navigate his way home through a quickly deteriorating society. Shortly after the solar event, Jared is taken in by a grouchy, bourbon drinking old man named Bart. The two men form a special relationship as Bart mentors Jared in a new and dangerous world. While out searching for food, Jared finds a seven-year old girl and brings her back to Bart's place.

A twisted scientist plots to alter the course of human evolution while another dreams of creating the world's first mechanical thinking machine. A body is found in a secured bank vault and modern day pirates have begun harassing Her Majesty's Royal Navy. Here are five new mysteries that will test the Great Detective's uncanny talents of observation and the courage of his loyal companion.

This edition of Jack Ketchum's Broken on the Wheel of Sex: The Jerzy Livingston Years is the most complete edition of the Stroup stories ever collected together. These stories, written from 1976 to 1981 and appearing in various men's magazines and other outlets, offer Ketchum fans a look into this author's formulative years. This is where Jack Ketchum honed his writing craft that has become so well known with his novels The Girl Next Door, The Crossing, Off Season, and The Lost.

The Piper clan emigrated from Scotland and founded the town of Santo Verde, California. The Gothic Victorian estate built there has housed the family for generations and has also become home to an ancient evil forever linked to the Piper name. Now a widower with two children of his own, Rick has returned home to build a new life. He wants to believe the greenjacks don't exist, that they were a figment of his own childish fears and the vicious torment he suffered at the hands of his brother.

Los Angeles is terrorized by a series of murders. One man can stop the killer: Detective Daniel Kane. But for Kane - devastated by personal tragedy and haunted by a secret that could destroy his family - to do so may cost him everything, even his life....

It is 1968, one of the most tumultuous years of the 20th century. Frank Cooper, a former star investigative reporter now writes obituaries for a popular New York City tabloid. He hears the confession of a dying man named Leonard Rudawski, a former American diplomat, who bitterly questions the fate of Pavel Lukashenko, a would-be Soviet defector in Paris in 1965. Lukashenko promised to expose the espionage secret of a generation if he could get to the West. But the defector, code named “Firebird,” vanished.