The Family GhostBy: Max BrownThe troubled Darwin family moves to a small New Hampshire town to start their lives over and leave their past behind. They soon discover their beautiful new home is not as empty as it appears. They find they have a ghostly occupant of a teenage boy named Michael Daniels, whose own past mistakes led to his own troubled end. Through his sage advice, words of wisdom, and understanding on the importance of family, the Darwins slowly begin to recover...

Fourteen years after their (mis)adventures in the US Max and Sally are comfortably ensconced in Geneva and both wondering if their lives of comfort and privilege don’t require they make a contribution. They find token employment with the CIA. This converts to an assignment to uncover the source of counterfeit drugs in Southeast Asia that are killing thousands. Unprepared, and overly zealous, their every effort seems to result in the death of a friend or acquaintance. The trail lead...

Dawn Carmichael found Max Brown busy having sex on her couch one night, this began their fiery relationship. The next time they met, he laughed at her. The time after that, she slammed a door in his face.When her sister invited him to become a roomie in their rented flat, Dawn didn't know what to think. As much as she wanted to hate the man, she just couldn't, his charm persuaded her every time.What was a girl to do when she's attracted to her new roommate? Dawn chose ignoran...

Over the past few decades, there’s been an exponential rise in the number of books and studies on leadership and what we need to do to ensure organizational success in today’s increasingly complex and interconnected global market. And yet, year after year, we continue to see research that shows employee engagement and morale levels plateauing on the low end of the scale. Why is this? Why are we unable to move the needle and create the kind of working conditions that not only allow our empl...

Some people can’t stay out of trouble. Happily married, the parents of two precocious nine-year old girls, and comfortably off, Max and Sally Brown should have it easy. Not yet; that’s where the little girls come in. The twins maneuver their parents into a dangerous treasure hunt through abandoned gold mines. As Max forewarns, “the closer you get to the treasure the more competitors show up, some of whom don’t play by the rules.” The competitors in this case are seven Klansmen who believe ...

The Whumpy Printing Press presents: High Stakes and Bloody BusinessFrom bloodthirsty monsters to misunderstood victims, this anthology brings together thirty vampire stories. The vampires in these stories are sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always hungry.So sink your teeth into this collection to satisfy your (fictional) bloodlust.Included authors: Kailey Alessi, Ennis Rook Bashe, Max Browne, Mill Cohen, Alfie Court, Megan Renee Doyle, Booker G. ...

This compilation features a wonderful selection of travel stories from public radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Hilarity, suspense and high drama are offered up in this new mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic. Take a trip in a time machine with Madame Bovary, join a father and son on a sailing voyage that...

**Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey First Novel Dagger** An Australian bestseller!Geopolitics and espionage collide in this explosive espionage thriller.'Hands down the best debut of the year' Tim Shipman'My favourite debut novel of 2025’ Antonia SeniorTHREE WORDS IN MANDARIN.THAT’S ALL IT TAKES TO END THE WORLD.Planes circle, unable to land. The phone lines are down. The power is out....

Dive into the beguiling world of "560 British Mysteries: Detective Novels, True Crime Stories & Whodunit Mysteries (Illustrated)," a curated anthology that transports readers into the heart of Britain's golden age of mystery writing. This comprehensive collection showcases an impressive array of narrative styles, from intricate whodunits and taut detective stories to recountings of real-life crimes. The anthology spans the breadth of British literary ingenuity and captures the nuanced spir...

Don't we all need nice, steamy and sexy short stories that can be read or listen in bed, right before sleeping to finish our day with a little bit of privacy and fun?Here is the best erotic book, seriously hot and provocative erotic short stories by Max Worton, written in his signature style of high passion and emotion. Step into the pages of several short stories that are sure to whet your appetiteand stir your imagination...

Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most ...

Khin's sister Theda has a strange illness and a euthanasia drug locked in a box under her bed. Her doctor thinks her problem is purely physical, and so does she, but Khin is not so sure. He knows what they both went through growing up in Perth – it wasn't welcoming back then for a Burmese-Australian family. With Theda's condition getting worse, Khin heads off to the United States. He needs to sort things out with his ex-partner. Once there, events take a very odd turn, and he finds himself...