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A chill inducing and masterful collection of vampire tales, culled from the dark recesses of the nefarious and world renowned Vampires Archives. Coffins, the third volume in the mass market series, contains some of the best of the best of vampire fiction. Including Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, and F. Paul Wilson, it takes its listeners deep inside the crypts of the living dead, in all their supernatural splendor.

In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies - genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral.

This book was written to give anyone, but especially brown and black women and men encouragement to apply and complete nursing school. We all have very important stories to share with the goal of giving you encouragement to live your dream of becoming a nurse. We are here to help and be an inspiration.

What is the coronavirus, and why is everyone talking about it? Narrated by Hugh Bonneville, this approachable and timely audiobook helps answer these questions and many more, providing children aged five to 10 and their parents with clear and accessible explanations about the coronavirus and its effects - both from a health perspective and the impact it has on a family’s day-to-day life.

First there was Buffy the Vampire Slayer; then its spin-off, Angel; then the cult hit Firefly and its follow-up film, Serenity. They all had two things in common: their creator, Joss Whedon...and their surprising psychological depth. Revisit the worlds of Joss Whedon...with trained psychologists at your side. What are the psychological effects of constantly fighting for your life? Why is neuroscience the Whedonverse's most terrifying villain? How can watching Joss' shows help you take on your own psychological issues?

In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation's spiritual needs.

Hundreds of thousands of people cross the southern border of the United States illegally. Most come in search of the American Dream, while others come for more nefarious reasons. For those coming to better their lives, getting by the thin, green line of Border Patrol Agents is only a part of the challenge. The real challenge is to survive. Follow Bob Heath, a South Texas Border Patrol Agent, with only a couple of years of service, and Juan Geronimo, a family man and native of Mexico, who is forced to make the journey north to provide for his family. Their worlds, as different as night and ...

Monroy is living on the streets of Spokane. At 16 he is a runaway from a halfway house for troubled youth and wanted by the authorities. He doesn’t know where his next meal will come from. But those are the least of his worries as his sister was kidnapped by monsters years ago, and he knows she is alive, held in captivity. No one believed him nor his dad about what happened. Now his dad is dead. His mother is gone. And he is consumed by the desire to rescue his sister. Alone on the streets of Spokane, Washington, Fate brings a girl into his life. She too is homeless, being forced to the ...

Alyshia D'Cruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Frank D'Cruz, has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night, after a boozy evening out, she gets in the wrong cab home. Charles Boxer, ex-army, ex-police, has found his niche in private security. His specialty: kidnap and recovery. When D'Cruz hires Boxer to find Alyshia, Boxer knows Frank's crooked business empire has made him plenty of enemies. MI6 officers in India follow Boxer's leads and soon it seems more lives than Alyshia's are at stake, as the trail crosses paths with a terrorist plot on British soil.

What if you put your fate in the wrong hands? What if taking it back was your worst option? A virus devastated the world, and humanity lies in ruin. Army veteran Thomas Ricard lost everything but his life - and his adopted son, Joseph. Two years later, Thomas serves the Second Alliance. They bring stability to the region's survivors. They're far from perfect. But chaos was worse. Thomas wants more for himself. Simply surviving isn't enough. The opportunity comes when a band of human traffickers encroaches on the Second Alliance's territory.

Evolution and creation are in a spiritual battle. Evolution scientists ignore, dismiss, and unequivocally reject creation out of hand - "It is not science or fact as evolution is," they say. However, Nullifying God shows that random Darwinian evolution does not have the direct evidence required to support the claim. Not only that, but it provides contrary evidence that evolution is biologically impossible.

In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Henry James as a boy, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allan Poe, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed in Mathew Brady's studio. But it was during the Civil War that he became the founding father of what is now called photojournalism and his photography became an enduring part of American history.

A female drug trafficker who was arrested by the Border Patrol ends up decapitated, her head placed in one of their vehicles as a threat. Two drivers’ licenses found in her purse belong to people who were killed in a human sacrificial ritual. A fearless new cartel is forming. Violence, retaliation, and murder are promised. Follow Bob Heath as he joins forces with an FBI Task Force to investigate the murders. The detail will quickly turn deadly. Neither the Border Patrol nor the FBI have previously faced such a ruthless opponent. Every year the U.S. Border Patrol apprehends hundreds of ...

James Benton might be the last man on earth. Racing to get to work, he finds random abandoned cars, smoldering pile-ups, and something even stranger. Everywhere he goes there's no grass, no people, not even a bird in the sky. Alone in a barren world, James travels west in search of someone, anyone who might have survived The Quiet.

Here is an unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction short stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Erosion",l by Ian Creasey, a man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying earth. In "As Women Fight", by Sara Genge, a hunter has no time to train for a fight to inhabit his wife's body in a society of body-switchers....

Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues, the genre’s freewheeling speculation and systematic world-building make it a unique lens for understanding, examining, and assessing the truth claims of religions in general and Christianity in particular.

After almost two decades as an Agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, a powerful congresswoman catapults Bob Heath into the FBI, without the support of their management. Older than most of his peers, Heath is determined to prove he's up to the job. He tries to infiltrate an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang but his plan quickly deteriorates and his cover is blown. Not only do the bikers arrange a fitting farewell but set him up for a crime he didn't commit. The hierarchy of the FBI is all too happy to terminate his career. His partner, Jimmie, a charismatic and connected longtime agent and Sherry, a woman...

Glenda Jackson stars in this compelling drama series inspired by Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, highlighting different aspects of contemporary Britain. In 2015, double Oscar winner Glenda Jackson made a triumphant return to acting in Radio 4's Blood, Sex and Money, a radical reimagining of Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle. Now, she reprises her role as matriarch/narrator in this eclectic mix of dramas inspired by Zola's novels, but set in modern Britain.

Border Patrol Agent Bob Heath, along with his new peers Max and Shady, play the cat and mouse game of attempting to intercept the drug and person smuggling along the United States Border in Nogales, Arizona, which can be a deadly game. An agent was recently murdered in a canyon outside of Nogales and many believe his ghost haunts the canyon. When another very young peer is murdered, the agents are devastated. Will he too haunt the canyon where he was brutally murdered? Bullet Bob's new wife, FBI Agent Marie, is part of a team investigating Eastern European Sex Traffickers who are kidnapping...

Amanda, a small town girl from Wyoming, has always loved horses. All she’s ever wanted is a house on a piece of land where she can raise her daughters. And maybe a few horses. She thought her ex-husband shared the same dream, but as the years passed, she found out otherwise. Going through a messy divorce isn't easy, but when her ex sues for custody of her girls, her life begins to spiral out of control. Jebediah was once a Texas cowboy with a family, a small ranch and a few horses. A devastating accident changed his life forever. Now he’s nothing more than a worn out drunk with little ...