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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The global populations have drastically decreased due to terminal diseases and nuclear warfare. Julie and Jules shadow Alice through America’s decimated Southland, ultimately uniting forces under a cloud of evil intentions. A series of perilous obstacles bind the three closer together in their quest for redemption. Each broken soul they meet along the rocky path adds to the band’s collective resolve. Is Jules truly the person she claims...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Leroy Davis became sheriff in the small mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, to track down his sister’s murderer. Thirty years later, Roy, haunted by Helen’s death, is still digging for clues. The perplexing hit-and-run of a bicyclist opens a can of worms that cannot be closed without more bloodshed.Roy has help from Bill Hill, an ex-detective, who, along with his computer hacker grandson, Alex, researches worldwide homicides. They s...

In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first theatre in the colonies. A rigorous study of pre–French Revolution performance practices in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Powers’s book examines the elaborate system of social casting in these colonies; the environments in which nonwhite artists emerged; and both negat...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When Paul Crutcher’s father dies and his wife, Jennifer, finds a PRIVATE PAPERS envelope in his mother’s belongings, the fledgling author resists all temptations to see what secrets are hidden inside. Eventually, curiosity kills the cat, and he can’t help himself from tearing open his past.Paul’s shocking discovery takes him on an “Origin Journey” to the Deep South. He meets a pair of brothers he never knew existed, who drag him...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Kenya Watson wins the last white elephant gift at his company’s year-end holiday party. The curious present dominates the software engineer’s daily life, compelling the lone wolf down a dangerous road of rich rewards and violent punishments. Kenya, responsible for a horrific incident during his youth, fights inner demons spawned from crushing guilt. Cryptic visions heighten his reality, and prophetic strangers guide him on a mystical qu...

Firing on All Cylinders tries to leave its readers with a newer, fresher, more profound outlook on life by integrating the timeless teachings of the Bible with relevant, modern, everyday living. This book beckons you on a journey, on a quest to scale the heights of both our human and spiritual potential. Life is not molded by circumstance or providence; fact is, man is the builder, and man is responsible for his own environment, be it good or bad. St. Paul classifies man as having a threef...

As an online entrepreneur, I was frustrated by the industry-leading shopping cart platforms...They were either too complicated to setup, too expensive, had terrible customer service, or—worst of all—kept too big a slice of my sales revenue!All of that changed when I discovered ThriveCart.In ThriveCart QuickStart, I share my experiences with the platform I believe will shake up the online shopping cart marketplace... and how that shake-up will be a v...

Video Tools for EntrepreneursBy far, the most effective form of online media...As a species, humans are genetically programmed to rely on subconscious, physical cues to determine who we can trust and who we should avoid. These cues include: eye contact, facial expressions, vocal intonation, and body language. Blog posts and other written content don't convey these cues. Neither do podcasts or other forms of audio. Video is the only medium that offers our pr...

It’s September 2009, one year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and Colin has just lost his job. Luckily, he is soon hired as a project manager in a big international investment bank, but quickly finds himself dealing with office politics, dodgy vendors, hostile project sponsors and the difficult task of managing across global time zones. Will his training and skills in project management help him to get this high-risk project over the line, or will his controversial attempts at turni...

Make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or perhaps storing all your content in a database. David Powers has updated his definitive book to incorporate the latest techniques and changes to PHP, including the arrival of PHP 7. New features include the spaceship and null coalesce operators, generators, using array shorthand syntax for list(), array dereferencing, and array unpacking with...

For over fifty years, Boundary Value Problems and Partial Differential Equations, Seventh Edition has provided advanced students an accessible and practical introduction to deriving, solving, and interpreting explicit solutions involving partial differential equations with boundary and initial conditions. Fully revised and now in its Seventh Edition, this valued text aims to be comprehensive without affecting the accessibility and convenience of the original. The resource's main tool is Fo...

Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one's own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon's pioneering li...