David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell.David's journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all ...

Vienna: Years Ago includes six short stories focusing on a collection of people in 1945 Vienna, including a Vienna police inspector, an American soldier, a former SS major, an American woman doctor, and various friends, lovers, spouses, and enemies.

Craniosacral therapy and Chi Kung practices to harmonize emotions, release chronic tensions, and optimize the flow of energy• Provides illustrated instructions for movement exercises, breathwork, self-massage, and emotional intelligence meditations to free the flow of energy in the body• Reveals clear parallels between the craniosacral rhythm and the flow of chi• Explains how to release energetic blockages and emotional and physiological knots, activate the energeti...

The first appearance of the Classic Monsters is now available in one trade paperback collection! Debuting in a special cross-over with the Top Cow Universe, the Classic Monsters have their sights set on Ash in the current AOD storyline, but see where it all began in this new TPB! Reprinting the entire Top Cow/Classic Monsters: Monster War 4-issue mini-series by writers Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegowski along with artists Joyce Chin and Vitor Ishimura along with a cover gallery featurin...

Joyce Whiteley Hawkes is a healer. She arrived at this calling, surprisingly enough, via a doctorate in biophysics and a stellar career in cellular biology. Now she uses her intimate knowledge of the intricate workings of the body's hundred trillion cells to inform and inspire her work.

Amanda Hale and Tom Burke star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, adapted by Rachel Joyce.Orphan Jane learns at an early age that self-control is the surest means of retaining self-respect in adversity. It is a lesson that serves her well in the years ahead as she endures the misery of life with her cruel, uncaring aunt, followed by the harsh regime at Lowood Institution, a charity school for poor children.After taki...

Solve a mermaid's problem…Step off the edge of a roof…Dig up a grave at midnight…Take advice from a fortune cookie…Visit the last library…Meet a bridge troll…And more…In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the trace of lighting in the sky, each is unique and interesting.These wildly different flash stories delight, astonish, scare, and inspire. Enjoy 64 delightfully ecle...

Tom Joyce worked in Ohio jails and the Ohio State Penitentiary. During his military service, he took ex-Nazis to Frankfurt, Germany, for de-Nazification proceedings. After military service, he got a PhD from Cornell University. He has taught courses in criminology and sociology to FBI agents, police officers, and college students. For many years, he has been writing, rewriting, and re-rewriting stories about a Vienna police inspector in the 1930s and 1940s. He has three novels and a dozen ...

The Missing Peace, Winner of the 2022 Page Turner Awards for Best Book [Fiction], Best Contemorary Fiction, Best Action & Adventure, and Golden Author Award, as well as Winner of the 2022 Independent Press Awards for Best Thriller and Best New Fiction, blurs all the traditional boundaries between fiction and fact, romance and adventure, intrigue and literature.Israeli scholar, Sonya Aronovsky, enlists a Harvard Jesuit professor to help her translate and lo...

This is the third novel in a series following Vienna Police inspector Karl Marbach. This story takes place in the late summer of 1947. With encouragement from US Army Counterintelligence, Marbach is investigating Die Spinne, an escape route out of Germany and Austria for Nazi war criminals. Marbach and CIC major Millican learn about a new escape route called Odessa, a better-financed and more ambitious escape route, and they set out to obtain information about the location of the Odessa re...

'NBC University Theater’ initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience.Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence course. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents.In its later years it also included short stories and plays and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award.Unlike many oth...

This story is the first of three completed novels in which fictional Vienna Police Inspector Karl Marbach is a central character. It takes place in mid April of 1938, one month after the Anschluss, the Nazi annexation of Austria. In the war that began in 1914, Marbach was awarded the highest medal bestowed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now he works for Vienna Criminal PoliceVienna Kripo. Although born into a poor family, he identifies with the deposed Habsburgs. From that identification,...