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There is a need for new ideas on ethical leadership in business today. Success is more about making money than providing the highest value to the client served. Greed is king, lies are rampant, and a "whatever it takes" attitude is pervasive when money is involved. Many corporations have become dependent on people losing: losing their life savings, losing their dignity, and losing their way towards opportunity.

Vultures unearthing a long-buried secret. Dragon blood-ink that demands a heavy price. A nightmarish trip that blurs the lines between heaven and hell. And in the midst of monsters and fiends that creep through the night, sometimes memory is the most haunting ghost of all. These are the kind of tales that await you on the pages of Nevermore. From the Piney Woods of East Texas comes a chilling anthology that will keep you reading into the darkest hour of the night. Nine authors weave together a menagerie of stories spanning genres and styles, but all involving encounters with the eerie, the ...

As the struggles of being a new entrepreneur were quickly mounting, giving him with the feeling of having bit off a lot more than he could chew, Peter reached out to his old friend in the hopes of gaining some much needed insight and mental stimulation. But he had no idea what was about to transpire or the grand discoveries he would receive.

A story that starts in the valley of the Five Lions where the past has malignantly shaped the violent present to produce an uncertain future. The Long Shadow of Panjshir is a spy-based military adventure novel that explores the murky and dangerous world of covert intelligence collection.

FNH Audio present the first in a series of science fiction short story collections. In this collection: On board a starship a ghost of the past fights horrifying monsters. An explorer find a mining crew dead in their beds, but the next day they're up and walking. Humanity is under the thumb of aliens. The Earthers discover a strange fact of ancient history, their ancestors walked on two legs! The Martians are using a white mist to sedate and ambush all the colonists. And more.

It’s London 2022, a year after the fall of Kabul, and a serial killer is on the loose, just as a beautiful Russian spy, codenamed Babushka, arrives in town. All the victims are human intelligence assets for the British security Services and are slaughtered by the knife. The story moves at breakneck speed to the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan and uncovers a spider’s web of murder, treachery, and deceit linked directly to the heart of the Kremlin.

We are a people of stories. We use them to entertain, to teach, and to instruct. Sometimes they warn us of the dangers of wandering too far into the woods, or they can be a detailed story to explain how magnificent landscapes came to be. Story has always been the way we pass time, the way we connect to each other, and most importantly, how we promote our values. Parables, especially, have a dual purpose. Not only do they keep us entertained, but they also make a point. Consider Aesop’s fables—tales of talking animals who learn valuable life lessons.

The beginning was the best part of my life 'til it was not. "Everything about the middle part of my life seemed flawed, with every recovered memory becoming a nightmare, right up until the end...maybe." "I have heard it once said that being in a relationship won't heal you and being single won't kill you but I'm in a relationship of a sort with both men and it has healed me but yet I'm single to a point and it's killing me because I can't choose whom to be with, much less whom to trust. Once I do, what will happen?"

The vampire king should know better than to fall for a married woman…Moira is one of the few people he can trust. A fae healer with a touch that soothes his unbeating heart. The one who wakes a beast deep within him. The woman of his dreams…except vampires don’t dream. It’s taken everything he has to keep his hands to himself. She’s married, and Adrian doesn’t deal in drama. She belongs to someone else even if his heart belongs to her. But Adrian doesn’t know the whole story.

Canada is the second largest country in the world—a land of seemingly endless coastlines, vast prairies, jagged mountains, and deep boreal forests. Despite the vastness of its territory, 90% of Canadians live within 150 miles of the US border leaving room for all manner of strange beings to exist undisturbed. Canadian Monsters and Mysteries will take the listener deep into the mysterious north where mammoths may still roam the frozen tundra while the Manwolf, loup-garou, and Waheela stalk the dense woodland and mysterious valleys.

Dr. Flare Haich offers the only hope for diverting a solar flare that will dwarf the 2012 Mayan Event, which killed her parents and a half-billion others. She must overcome the betrayal of one she trusted and launch Empress III to keep the Sun's fiery message from scorching the Earth as One Imix-the time of new beginnings-arrives.

1% Murders: The Adair Classroom Mysteries Vol. I is a coming-of-age, whodunit mystery for young adults. This is a mystery novel parents can enjoy with their children, a book series that will grow and mature with the audience. 1% Murders tells its story through the eyes of Ulysses Adair, a freshman at Mangrove High, and his widowed father, Logan Adair, who happens to be his US history teacher. They are transplants living in the predominantly 1% city of Somerset, Florida. Both Adairs live normal lives.

The primary character is recovering from the loss of his wife of nearly 25 years. He uses the experience of his past to rescue a stranger and then protects that person from an attempted kidnapping. The scenes of the book are set in present-day rural West Texas with events occurring in Houston and on Galveston Island. The author uses colorful descriptions of the areas, people, and actions to draw in the listener.

Spending spring break in Peru with her grandmother isn't sixteen-year-old Jade's idea of fun. She'd much rather be with her friends at Lake of the Ozarks. Then she meets Felix, a museum director's son. Jade discovers only she and Felix can telepathically access messages left on engraved stones in the age of dinosaurs. Following the ancient stones' guidance, they enter the Labyrinth of Time and - with a shapeshifting dog's help - seek a red crystal called the Firestone.

Proper Burial is the story of Ashley Stonewall, an average 32-year-old woman who doesn't look for trouble, doesn't crave adventure, and never sought out the details of her own past. However, on her 33rd birthday, the dark secret of her bloodline finally seeks her out. In the derelict mansion of her long-dead recluse father, Ashley must follow the clues left by her recently deceased mother to traverse the ancient halls of her childhood home and uncover the mystery behind the strange events and haunting disturbances that plague her on her fateful birthday.

Meet Thaddeus Cutter. He's a two-bit private detective struggling to get by on Kapamentis – a high-tech alien metropolis whose citizens consider humans little more than vermin. There's no sun, it rains all the time, and business is so bad he can't even afford the rent.

This is a copy of a manuscript that was written in 1991 but never published. W. T. made copies and distributed them to several local libraries. Half of the original files were not available, so this book is an OCR of one of the library's copies I was able to locate. When available, the original files and images were used instead of the photocopied images. If the original photographs were not available, I scanned the images from the library's photocopied images which were extremely low quality and then performed some image enhancements to improve them a small amount. My initial instinct was ...

Lies & Revelations is a compelling, fast-moving story about emotional extremes, moral dilemmas, violence, death, and true love. Zeta May, the main character and narrator of this novel, has a complex personality and an extraordinary story to tell. We meet Zeta in her mid-20s, struggling with anorexia and the aftermath of drug abuse. When a new family moves in next door, she develops an obsessive interest in the dynamics of their household, the wife, two young boys, and Ray, the father.

This quirky, futuristic romp into extreme consumer activism pits time-traveling sentient giraffes and lions against each other in a society where corporations have total control. Who says crime doesn't pay?

Love can be so unexpected and can arrive in our life at just the right time. LOVE WALKED IN features eight sweet Christian romance short stories from veteran and new authors. Enjoy stories of characters finding love at last. Stories include: EYES WIDE SHUT by Wanda B. Campbell Focused and determined, Lexi’s world is thrown off its axis by a red wig, a rubber nose, and blue clown shoes. TROUBLE IN CHOW TOWN by Linda Leigh Hargrove Detective Georgie Turner can handle the racial trouble in Chow Town but will it cost her a budding romance with fine Dr. Shawn Fields? LOVE WON'T LET ME WAIT by ...