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The Van in My Mind presents four short stories featuring desperate people at a crossroads - grappling for meaning, purpose, and second chances. In "Angel in Vegas", a burned-out, numbed-out, mid-career advertising exec named Gus meets a mysteriously congenial soul at a Las Vegas casino. Motivational speaker and guru "Frank the Tank" peddles self-help and business advice to sold-out arenas. Touching on themes of failure and success, The Van in My Mind will remind you the greatest obstacles are often the ones we create.

Author Patricia Dye's new book The Compelling Webbing: Truth of Lies is a collection of engrossing stories, offering the listener thrilling mysteries, murder, and science fiction with a little touch of romance that pulls at the imagination, taking the listener on a long journey, and just when you think you have it figured out, you will realize that it's nothing like what you had expected!

Jazz Survivor tells the story of Louis Bannet, the Dutch Louis Armstrong. Louis Bannet was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau during the was, but his skill as a musician saved his life: he became the "star" of the Auschwitz Orchestra, as well as the personal bandleader for Dr Josef Mengele and the founder of the Gypsy Camp Orchestra.

This eclectic, wide-ranging collection of some of Di Filippo's newest stories - plus one newly excavated gem from nearly thirty years past - illustrates the enormous territory encompassed by modern fantastical fiction in general, and this writer's realm in particular. Whether our heroes are trying to kill God (The Trail of the Creator, the Trial of Creation) or time-travel to a happier era (I'll Follow the Sun), they exhibit all the intelligence, derring-do, resilience, and manic assaults on the multiverse found in the best classic imaginative literature.

Kaus wants nothing more than to be loved while its human counterpart, Raj Patel, believes fervently in freedom. Arkadia, one of four space stations circling Jupiter, was to be a refuge for all who fought the corrupt systems of old Earth, a haven where both humans and Artificial Intelligences could be happy and free.

Nikolai Volkov is a combat veteran of the Chechen war with a passion for finding truth and doing the right thing. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Nikolai embarked on a career of a bodyguard and soon became the best in the prestigious Centurion Personal Protection Agency in Moscow. He excels at protecting his clients and preventing crimes. But this time, his case is personal. His brother calls Nikolai with an urgent plea for help, and Nikolai heads to a small town in Crimea. The town is quiet and picturesque, but dark forces are at work behind the scenes.

Writing the story in this audiobook was a responsibility that I took on my shoulders to, in a classic way, denounce the sexual abuses against girls, kids, and very young teenagers around the world. I needed courage to deal with the vivid but also melancholic facts that I penned down in this audiobook. My famous collaborator, during the creation of this audiobook, was my memory, which didn’t make me dig or stretch it too much in order to remember most of the facts and events that I experienced with my friend Yvalia.

Sienna is a hardworking sheep farmer in the outback of South Australia whose quick action saves a family from a dangerous situation after a tornado tears through the state. The media attention that follows brings her more than just hero status. Sienna meets the love of her life, Marcus, but she also gets swept up in the turmoil surrounding a series of murders by a madman - driven by misguided revenge - that threatens everything that is dear to her. Sienna has to be strong to survive the loss, heartbreak, and physical pain of the ordeal.

Friday morning dawns clear and bright for the Kilburn family triple wedding. The eldest sister, Violet, is marrying Chuck Ahern. The middle sister, Iris, is marrying Mick McAllister. But all the evidence and every finger points to Rose’s fiancé, Jake Hamilton, as the killer. Worst of all, Sheriff Tom Maitland still lurks around Rocking Horse Ranch, hunting the murderer.

When Alliance fleet officer Robert Sheppard is asked for help by his new allies, the Talcon, he can hardly refuse. From their planet-sized spaceship, the Talcon Starcity, the alien race is looking to establish colonies in the Milky Way. Their impressive technology forces most other planets and organizations to play nicely. The Talcon have a problem that they think Sheppard can solve. Animals from Starcity are going missing. It seems like such a simple mystery, but the solution to the puzzle will take Sheppard across space and into the hands of a strange new entity.

This is the story of Makin Riley, a curious boy whose obsession with faeries and monsters leads him to a cemetery that holds the doorway to the world of the dead. After being spotted by one of the reapers that travels between the worlds, the creature takes Makin’s little brother’s spirit, leaving him for dead. Now, Makin and his friends Frankie and Marcus must journey into the darkness of the dead world in order to save his brother’s spirit while there’s still a chance of bringing him back to life.

While the director of the newly formed FSB, Vladimir Putin ensures a young Russian is enrolled in MIT’s PhD program in electrical engineering and computer science. Upon graduation, Alexei Smirnov manages Putin’s top secret operation called The Grey Cardinal Files, a clandestine surveillance of key leaders in the West. Grey Cardinal leads to Russia entrapping a sitting US president, a secretary of State, a seasoned senator, and key leaders in the media. He also controls a key website that leaks classified information.

Mark is a successful affiliate marketer with several businesses boasting millions of dollars in profit. He has created a fulfilling life, which he shares with his beautiful fiancée and a worldwide circle of friends. But his inspiring life of today grew out of a dark and dangerous past. In this gripping tale, van Stratum brings a once-in-a-lifetime listen of his experience growing up with one arm in a small town where he developed a savage temper and a criminal mind-set. After a violent robbery by rival drug dealers, he had a flash of insight that his life must change, or it would quickly end.

When Tom Doherty first laid eyes on the lighthouse, he knew it was damned. An advertisement lured him to the island, offering a job renovating the old lighthouse and ramshackle buildings. What he didn't know was that he was the only applicant. None of the locals wanted the job.... No one dared. Isolated and alone, Tom soon discovers why. Messages from disembodied voices, ghostly visitations, and escalating horrors draw Tom deeper into the island's evil past...a darkness that forces Tom to unbury the truth and bring demons of his own into the light.

When the sisters’ guardian, Cornell Pollard, winds up dead in the library, everyone is a suspect. And when Sheriff Tom Maitland shows up at Rocking Horse Ranch and starts asking questions, the three mail-order couples begin to see each other with new eyes. Could Iris’ new love be a murderer?

Marty Garrett, formerly known as the supervillain Graviton, has spent years in prison for his heinous crimes against humanity. When a new supervillain threatens tyranny, Garrett has one chance to atone for his sins. An epic battle between two forces of nature is about to commence.

Witnessing a double homicide dumps Aaron Clinton into the middle of a gruesome murder investigation. To stop the budding serial killer from striking again, Aaron’s forced to join forces with a reformed cop and a colony of cranky cats.

The last thing Reed Matthews needs in his life is a kitten, but when an orphaned tabby suckers him into becoming her caretaker, he's in for the ride of his life. Add in an angel determined to meddle in his affairs, a devil with an agenda, and a bucketful of bad omens, and he'll count himself fortunate if he survives the clash between heaven, hell, and his ex.

All Shane wanted was to get away from the wreckage of his career for a while. He picked New York City to provide him with a distraction from his early, unwanted retirement from the police force. New York City delivered, distracting him with three corpses and a miniature llama with a spitting problem and attitude.