University student David Asbury trusts no one and wants nothing more than to be left alone to study alien languages. For three years he has managed just that as an undergraduate at Shel Matkei Academy. But his scholarship, which is his only means of support as an orphan, requires him to become a diplomat in the InterStellar Commonwealth.Now he's on a team of aliens learning how to broker peace treaties and trade deals. Some of them hate him. Some just think he's strange. And one wo...

University student David Asbury trusts no one and wants nothing more than to be left alone to study alien languages. For three years he has managed just that as an undergraduate at Shel Matkei Academy. But his scholarship, which is his only means of support as an orphan, requires him to become a diplomat in the InterStellar Commonwealth.Now he's on a team of aliens learning how to broker peace treaties and trade deals. Some of them hate him. Some just think he's strange. And one wo...

Ruined. Tortured. Broken. What could have been the perfect childhood turned into a hell that the devil himself would shy away from. I was forced to deal with an evil that would make the darkest of souls cringe. Lily Noel was scarred but beautiful. She was perfectly flawed and everything that I needed. Attraction bordered on obsession. Passion bordered on ecstasy. Addiction bordered on insanity. Nothing could get in the way of our love. Nothing.... This book contains dark themes including s...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Inside DriveSim Twelve, first contact begins with a glitch.During a routine test run, physicist Lena Mirek sees something that shouldn’t be possible—a reflection that moves before she does, a pulse that reacts instead of following the simulation, a pattern that feels intentional. At first, she assumes it’s a system malfunction.Then the anomaly appears outside the simulation.Footsteps misalign. Consoles respond ea...

What Do You Want Out of Life?Most people would say something like, "I want to be happy and have a lot money,"it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't mean much. Here is a more interesting question, a question perhaps you've never considered before , Can we be happy with no or very little money?Why are we so obsessed with money? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.Money can only buys a cer...

Love isn't always pretty, but it is always powerful.Man Down is an edgy story of raw human emotion. It pulls the reader into an unsavory world of deceit and betrayal and yet rejoices in the strength of self-sacrifice, loyalty, forgiveness and redemption. All played out against in exciting world of firefighters.Firefighter Dominick Adler is a man on the brink. Haunted by the death of a little girl—a death he blames himself for. He suffers from nightmares, depression, and pan...

A fascinating and insightful document on the theory of rebirth and the principles of spiritual cause and effect. This study tracks the belief in the theory of reincarnation throughout cultures and enlightens the listener to the principles that make this concept sustain throughout thousands of generations.

Shortlisted for The Business Book Awards and the Fingerprint AwardsThe indispensable Sunday Times bestselling guide to succeeding in negotiations where failure is not an option, from one of the world's most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators.Scott Walker has probably one of the most difficult jobs in the world. When pirates have hijacked a ship, when a criminal gang has kidnapped someone, when an en...

Master your emotions, think clearly and make better decisions, even in the toughest of situations.Drawing from his extensive career as a kidnap-for-ransom negotiator, Scott Walker shares practical tools and insights to help you stay calm, act decisively and thrive under pressure.Whether you're facing challenges at home, managing workplace demands or dealing with daily stresses, this book will help you build resilience, resolve conflicts and strengthen relat...

Scott Walker's The Edge of Terror offers a gripping account of courage, death, and survival in the war-torn islands of the Philippines.As Japanese military strategists planned their secret offensive against the United States in 1941, they designed a simultaneous two-pronged attack to wipe out American military might in the Pacific. While American battleships blew up and sank in Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombers approached the Philippines, soon destroying both...

A Concept of Right Now explores the tension between uncertainty and truth. It is a collection that exists where many elements of culture and society converge: the internal and external geographies of shared human experience. Blending narrative and lyrical modes, in a searching yet grounded voice, it is an attempt to reconcile and reveal what it means to be a person of the early 21st century.

Dreams in Ash is a Historical Fiction novel centered on the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 as seen through the eyes of a Chicago firefighter and his family. The novel explores the socioeconomic challenges facing Irish Immigrants in 1871, with a special focus on xenophobia and misogyny before, during, and after the fire.The long- hot summer and fall of 1871 has left Chicago a tinderbox; both literally and figuratively.Like millions of fellow Irishmen, Firefighter Shawn Collins brought his famil...