This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You're working harder than ever, yet it never feels like enough. Property descriptions, follow-up emails, social media content, market analyses, client questions you've answered hundreds of times before.The work is endless, and it's stealing your evenings, your weekends, and your peace of mind.You've probably tried chatgpt or experimented with an ai tool or two. But disconnected experiments aren't the sa...

I was a successful businessman who was always looking for a new adventure to invest in to make my legacy greater. I should have known my next adventure was going beyond anything previously encountered. Despite my disturbing dream, I was not aware of what was to ensue.At the onset, this adventure appeared to be quite lucrative. However, as the adventure progresses, in its unfoldment, it led me to some other unsettling paradigms. I found myself in other time zones and even on other p...

Interference & Other Stories of characters who express their feelings in a variety of ideas, thoughts and questions.Hoffman's writing makes us consider and question our own position on each subject covered in the book.The novel explores death, yearning, understanding and curiosity. We read about a police man who is still hurting from his son's death but is trying to move on by marrying his girlfriend. We learn about another man who is a recovered alcoholic and keeps busy by working in his ...

**An acclaimed author reflects on his upbringing in a post–World War II blue-collar family and comes to terms with the racism, sexism, and other toxic values he inherited.Finalist for the 2014 New England Book Award in Non-Fiction**Richard Hoffman sometimes felt as though he had two fathers: the real one who raised him and an imaginary version, one he talked to on the phone, and one he talked to in his head. Although Hoffman was always close to the man, his father remained ...

Justin emerges from California after making his way through the buffer zone where giant insects and spiders roam and enters Reno, Nevada.He finds it a terrifying desert landscape where water is more valuable than gold and the primary tactic of the government, controlled by those known as the casino lords, and most prominently the Hodge family, is to weaponize water's necessity by overcharging it to the citizens which typically forces them to gamble in hopes of making enough money t...

Laura survives the wilderness of Washington and makes it into what was once Boise, Idaho.It's a bizarre city that uses a ticket system that equates to rank. The Ticketers of Wood are the poorest, the working class are iron and steel, and the elites and wealthy are bronze, silver and gold. Each ticket is assigned a district known as a "zone" that befits its rank as far as wealth and prestige go and Laura, as an outsider, is known as Ticketless, which they all view with contempt. Eac...

The Bartletts are a wealthy, rich and distant family who have no interest in Ethan Bartlett whatsoever until the last two male members of his family are murdered and he is forcibly drawn across the country to take their place in the city his ancestors built.Bartlett Bay, Connecticut: a nice but poor fishing town located on the Long Island Sound and of no particular note to those passing by on Interstate 95 or flying over on a commercial airline, but under that veneer, beyond the sm...

One thousand years after the nanite bombs murdered most of the Earth's population, Laura awakens from her cryopod in a museum in what used to be Aberdeen, Washington, in a society of apparent pacifists with, aside from various robots, is some somewhere technologically in twentieth century.Here is the Greenlands, a land of citizens in green and politicians in gold, where violence is illegal, aggressive emotions are immoral, and all acts of violence are carried out through robots, wh...

One thousand years after the nanite bombs murdered most of the Earth's population, Justin awakens from his cryopod in what used to be Pomona, California, in a society completely without men, somewhere technologically in the twentieth century.The women's council of Pomona immediately take control of Justin, desperate for his, or any man's, company as well as anything that he can provide which, as a trained engineer from a time period with far superior technology, is a lot. Either re...

The immortal races are revealed, the world has changed, and after twenty five years of living in secret after a faked death, the immortal magician David Zane returns home to the life he had been forced to leave behind armed only with a United States citizenship, a government issued home and an eagerness to get back to a normal life. His plans are soon complicated, however, when a newspaper reveals his identity and immortal race to the community at large.Suddenly, Zane finds himself...

A true account of a shoot-down, capture, imprisonment and liberation. The author was in Germany's Stalag 17B, force- marched across Austria, and had a horrifying brush with the holocaust. Patton's troops liberated him and returned him to front line duty. He helped capture many enemy troops before war's end.

Outside of SteeleBy Christopher S. AllenOutside the small West Virginia town of Steele, a mutilated body is found sacrificially displayed within a hollow tree trunk. The local police and a detective from the larger town of Phistle begin looking for clues to identify the unknown cadaver and to find out who used him for such a display. What they discover is something far more sinister than they expected.The Awakening of Samantha SteinBy Richard Phillip Hoffman...