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Ty Dawson, now the sheriff of Oregon's Meriwether County, is ready to put a trying year behind him, but he's afforded no such luck. In a country still coming to grips with the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Charles Manson, Ty's neck of the woods isn't safe from the turmoil-especially when a commune of young so-called hippies springs up out of nowhere . . .

For centuries, the Lord-Inquisitors of the Church of the Holy Ark have hunted Mindrippers with a single-mindedness that bordered on obsession. In the age of musket and cannon, the hunt leads them to the ancient city of Dilgan where women are being butchered by an unknown killer. Here, Enk Gueye, the young scion of a noble house, wakes from a nightmare to discover he can read - and control - other people’s minds. He thinks he’s a god, but the Lord-Inquisitors have another name for what he has become: Mindripper.

Tom, a runaway, clashes with a gang of wicked clocks and loses his way and his sense of time. After wandering around and making new friends, Tom finds himself alone in a cemetery for machines. There, amid the junk of the mechanical remains, he discovers a hidden kingdom of monsters and puzzles, which pique his curiosity. As Tom travels from adventure to adventure and from one challenge to another, clues to the meaning of his quest unfold. At last, he meets Seven, a pretty flower-maiden, in a magical garden.

Spotlighting four alternative African American comics, Victor Varnado, Hannibal Buress, Eric André, and Baron Vaughn, who bring to their routines the arrogant street-wise swagger of computer programming, Shakespearean drama, and playing the tuba.

There is someone on the streets of London who will stop at nothing to make a point... As she walks home from work one night, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to bleed to death. Billy Rucker had known her, briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder.

The Business of Criminal Law helps criminal defense lawyers build thriving practices. Joshua Baron interviews criminal defense lawyers and industry experts to learn how to market and run a successful criminal defense practice. Topics include: how to build referral relationships, how co-counsel relationships can help you take big cases, and how to enjoy practicing criminal defense law.

Reluctant psychic Katherine Crystal, dubbed "Crystal Ball Kate", is thrust into the national spotlight when she accurately predicts the death of a movie actor's young son in a private plane crash. Besieged by requests to use her powers to help others, she realizes why her parents had warned her never to let anyone know of her visions. Atlanta police detective Jack Hale harbors a deep-seated distrust of psychics and ignores Katherine's warnings. Jack is forced to partner with Kate, who uses her eerie sensitivity to evil to help him catch a serial killer in Sydney, Australia.

[Contains explicit content] Baron Vaughn (Mystery Science Theater 3000, Grace and Frankie) is a man willing change the way he sees the world. Now, he can say he’s changed into a man who has gone on Eugene Mirman's show, Hold On, to tell a story and answer Eugene's questions about it. He dropped by the studio to spill his guts (among other things) about a revelation he had in the jungle while on "ayahuasca." Trippy!

The psychic detective team of Crystal & Hale, former Atlanta police detective Jack Hale and his bride “Crystal Ball Kate”, is on a two-week transatlantic cruise. They are called in to investigate the threat to a high-profile European Union banking conference aboard ship and to calm the fears of the superstitious crew, who thinks the ship is cursed. Before long, they realize they also need to catch an art thief and find a murderer.

This audiobook will introduce you to day trading, starting with the important question, is it right for you? If it is, this book will tell you how to get started, how to make money, how to avoid losing money, and a lot of the technical information you'll need.

This two-book bundles includes Enneagram and Empath. One of the best tools out there for discovering who you really are is the Enneagram. If you are ready to let the old and confused self go and begin the process of self-discovery then learning about the Enneagram is an absolute must. Empath is for people who are sensitive to, and feel the weight of, emotions and pain. It will help you understand who you are, why you are the way you are, and how to deal with the overwhelming symptoms you feel.

Melody, a young single mother, discovers she's descended from the last Tsar, Nicholas II. She becomes the best hope of a secret global society, Guardians of the Romanov Legacy, dedicated to restoring a Romanov to the throne of a New Russia. A diary and an heirloom necklace inherited from her murdered grandmother hold the key to her identity and to the location of the Tsar's lost shipment of gold.

[Contains explicit content] America may be polarized, but we are united in one key respect: most of us were horrifically awkward teenagers. In this episode of Sounds Like America, comedian and host Michelle Buteau is your chaperone on a comical field trip through puberty, crushes, teen rebellion, and the beginnings of adulthood.

Aurora Dawn Hale, the ravishing daughter and granddaughter of psychics, wants to take a bite out of the boy next door, reformed vampire Lancelot “Lance” Lakeland, who repents his past and desperately desires to be good. Lance has given up immortality to be with the woman he craves. He must convince Aurora Dawn he is worthy of her trust. Will she love him for who he is and leave her fiancé at the altar? Or wake up from her spell in time to recognize the evil presence of the fiend who has terrorized her family for centuries?

In this cozy mystery, American art history major Hadley Evans joins an art detective agency in Florence, Italy, working for Massimo Domingo, once a major player, now the Inspector Clouseau of the art world. Determined to save the flailing agency and prove her worth, Hadley and her sexy carabiniere boyfriend, Luca Ferrari, take on a mysterious client behind her boss's back. While hot on the trail of a missing masterpiece, they discover a hidden cache of stolen Nazi art in a Venetian villa and encounter a dangerous enemy with a link to an evil past.

Government agencies fail to find terrorists threatening the United States with nuclear weapons. To remedy that, the new President forms a highly classified operation with an executive order. The Virtual ExtraSensory Perception Experimental Research project (VESPER) is created and housed in secret facilities under the JFK runways. VESPER leaders learn of South African "mindreachers" born several decades ago.

The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech.

Here’s something you won’t believe: someone is doing TERRIBLE things to Mrs Martin, Cymbeline Igloo’s favourite teacher of all time. Cymbeline has to find the culprit (after he’s learned what ‘culprit’ means). He’s also got to help his friend Veronique, whose grandma is dangerously ill. It seems Nanai has a secret, connected to her arrival in the UK as a Boat Person from Vietnam, a traumatic journey in which she lost her twin sister.

Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder—a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs—where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt.

I wrote La Dolce Vita to fulfill a promise I made to the woman I loved with all my heart for sixty years and continue to love until the end of time. In writing this, I discovered myself. I learned who I am. I learned about selfless devotion. I learned that my life is truly a story. There's a war story, one of the most factual and personal ever told; there's a war- related illness that took a lovely angel to cure.