This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Man Who Never ExistedDetective Lena Marlow has handled countless missing-person cases, but none like Ethan Vale—a man who vanished without a trace… or a past. No records, no family, no proof he was ever there. It’s as if the city erased him.As Lena investigates, she uncovers a pattern of disappearances, strange symbols, and a hidden force distorting reality itself. Streets flicker, shadows shift, and whispers warn he...

This book is designed to educate the youth on wealth and financial literacy. It is for the younger generation to enhance their understanding of money, how to earn it, keep it, and multiply it. It is full of definitions and activities that will increase their understanding of financial literacy setting them up for a successful path as it relates to money matters in life.

Detective Lena Marlow has seen her share of missing-person cases, but nothing could prepare her for Ethan Vale—a man who seems to have vanished without a trace… and without a past. No records, no family, no social media. The city itself acts as if he never existed. As Lena digs deeper, she uncovers a pattern of disappearances, strange symbols, and hints of a hidden force shaping reality. Shadows twist, streets flicker, and whispers warn her to stop. The more she learns, the more the line b...

Tales of the Dartmoor Pixiesby William Crossing"Pixies (also Piskies and Pigsies as they are sometimes known in Cornwall) are mythical creatures of folklore, considered to be particularly concentrated in the areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name. In regional dialect, these mischievous little folk are sometimes referred to as piskies/piskeys or the little people. They are usually depicted with pointed ears, and often wearing a ...

THE tales related in the following pages, I have gathered from the peasantry of Dartmoor, and they may be accepted as representative of the class of stories told of the elves of superstition--the pixies.Had my design been simply to have presented the reader with a collection of these, I might have filled a greater number of pages, but I have had a different aim in view. What I have endeavoured to do has been to give, by means of these tales, as clear an idea as possible of the pixy...

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full ...

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossin...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM**BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find them. Will makes up his mind to be one of thos...

No one wants to be in the sights of these blood brothers. Rip-roaring Western adventure from the bestselling author of Brotherhood of the Gun.Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher*’*s son saved the warrior’s life, forging a bond no one could ever break. And as years passed, a legend grew of the Cheyenne and the white man who rode together—and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them

A new action-packed historical frontier Western in the popular Nathan Stark series by the bestselling legends William W. and J.A. Johnstone.A legend, his name is mentioned alongside Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok. He casts a stormcloud-sized shadow across the untamed Western frontier. Men on both sides of the law fear his wrath. For Nathan Stark is the army’s avenging angel, waging war against the hostile Indian tribes that threaten the nation—and murdered ...

Johnstone Men on a Treacherous Trail. Riding Shotgun.Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce—and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun . . .THE DEVIL’S CROSSINGWagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender ...

Global trends suggest that the number of people involuntarily displaced will increase exponentially in the coming decades. The authors argue that when the agency, time-tested adaptations, innovative capacities, dignity, and human rights of displaced people are respected as full participants in the rebuilding of their communities, livelihoods and standards of living, resettlement outcomes are more positive. The goal of resettlement must be the sustainable social, economic and human developm...