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A Star Trek: The Original Series adventure starring Captain James T. Kirk, Spock, and more.While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the USS Enterprise explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows. But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them and disappear.Suddenly, Kirk and his ...

Enemy UnseenTransporting a diplomatic party is nothing new for Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise -- but this particular mission promises trouble from the start.For one thing, the wife of the Federation ambassador on this trip is an old flame of Kirk's -- she's determined to see that they resume their romance where they left off. Of course, when another ambassador presents Kirk with three of his wives, finding time for the first ro...

The Jarada are a mysterious race of insectoid being with an extreme devotion to protocol. When this usually reclusive race offer to open diplomatic relations with the Federation, Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are quickly ordered to Jarada to negotiate the exchange of Ambassadors.When the ship arrives, the Jarada seem uncharacteristically friendly. They invite Picard to send down members of his crew and negotiations proceed both quickly and smoothly. Suddenly, ho...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a world where wrist-worn devices called Death Clocks predict lifespans, chaos erupts when they all simultaneously strike zero. The protagonist, an unnamed narrator, witnesses the mayhem firsthand, recounting the pandemonium and questioning the COG (a seemingly benevolent superintelligence) behind the system. As the story unfolds, the narrator reflects on past events, the Great Panic caused by a few seemingly random deaths that were p...

In The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia, William Mitchell Ramsay offers a historically grounded reading of Revelation's messages to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Combining close biblical exegesis with geography, archaeology, epigraphy, and the social history of Roman Asia Minor, the work illuminates how each letter responds to the character, pressures, and civic life of its city. Its prose is learned yet purposeful, belonging to the late nine...

Book Repair and Restoration is a practical yet historically revealing manual devoted to the preservation of damaged volumes: cleaning, mending torn leaves, tightening joints, repairing bindings, and restoring usefulness without erasing age. Written in a lucid instructional style, it belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of bibliographical handbooks that joined craftsmanship to collecting culture. Its prose is plain, exact, and serviceable, reflecting a period when private librar...

Duet narration with Jack Calihan and Hannah Chiclana!The only thing more dangerous than their bond, is the war it will ignite.Every unmated female must run. The males give chase. Whoever catches you becomes your mate. No exceptions. No escape.Kitara Silverbrook was born with the gift of sight, but cursed without the ability to shift. In a world where a wolf's strength defines their worth, she's endured whispers, isolation, ...

The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The topics covered in this volume include the purpose of the corporation, the board of directors, the role of shareholders, and more contemporary developments like hedge fund activism, the role of sovereign wealth funds, and the development of corporate governance law in what perhaps will become the dominant world economy over the next ce...

A Star Trek: The Original Series adventure starring Captain James T. Kirk, Spock, and more.While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the USS Enterprise explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows. But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them and disappear.Suddenly, Kirk and his ...

Rusty Reynolds, an ex-B-grade western movie star, arrives in Tucson, Arizona, nearly broke and no prospects. Chuck Baxter, a ruthless land developer, hires Rusty at low wages to promote the Bar M Ranch, a remote desert subdivision. While Baxter schemes to relieve eastern retirees of their money, Rusty finds a way to relieve Baxter of some of his ill-gotten profits. When Baxter discovers that Rusty's revenge includes the stealing of his wife the plot turns deadly.When Baxter, in a f...

Take a journey on the Pennsylvania Turnpike - the "superhighway" that went from one generation's tourist destination to the ridicule of another's. The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened to traffic on October 1, 1940. Built using the right-of-way and unfinished tunnels of the never completed South Pennsylvania Railroad, it was a supreme achievement of civil engineering. The new highway immediately captured the public's imagination and proved to be an unqualified success. Motorists flocked from ar...

The United States Army was my home for twenty-seven years, one month and nineteen days. It was my first love in this world, and if I had it to do over again, I'd do it just the same—except for the mistakes, of course.Throughout my years of service, I encountered a diverse cast of characters, from some of the best people in the world to a few of the worst. But with an old sergeant's advice to "do the right thing" as my guide, I persevered through every challenge.Through my e...