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On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through a quiet Chicago townhouse like a summer tornado and stabbed, strangled, and killed eight young nurses in a violent sexual rampage. By morning, only one nurse, Corazon Amurao, had miraculously survived, and her scream of terror was heard around the world. As the eight bodies were carried out of the small building, the coroner, who had seen the carnage up close, told a gathering crowd: "It is the crime of the century!"

These stories will transport you to the heart-breaking internecine conflict known as the Horus Heresy. Each one of these audio dramas is a stirring tale of a long, vicious war that rages on into the 41st Millennium. Some of Black Library's best-known names have crafted thrilling, revealing and sometimes surprising audio dramas that shed more light on the galaxy spanning conflicts of the Horus Heresy.

Space Marines can be found fighting hundreds of wars across every sector of the Imperium - they are the will of the emperor made manifest. These audio dramas will bring you into their battles as never before, as bolt shells and chainswords lay waste to any who would stand against them.

The Adeptus Astartes are humanity's champions, superhuman warriors armed with the finest weapons and clad in mighty armour. They defend the Imperium of Mankind from all its myriad foes - the alien, the heretic and the daemon. There are a thousand Chapters of Space Marines across the Imperium, each with its own traditions and ways of waging war, but all have one thing in common - their total dedication to eradicating their enemies in the name of the Emperor. This audio drama anthology contains seven stories of the Space Marines.

As the Imperium of Mankind spreads across the galaxy, bringing all of humanity into its embrace, the advance is spearheaded by the primarchs, superhuman sons of the immortal Emperor. Each of these heroes is a warrior born and a leader bred, but darkness lurks in the hearts of some and threatens to tear apart all that they have worked to build. This audio drama anthology contains three full-cast tales, starring the primarchs Konrad Curze, better known as the sinister Night Haunter, and Perturabo, the Lord of Iron.

For more than 200 years, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind fought to reconquer the galaxy – led by the superhuman primarchs, the Space Marine Legions brought countless worlds back under the rule of ancient Terra. Now Horus, once honoured Warmaster and favoured son of the Emperor, has been corrupted by the whispered promises of Chaos. At his command the Imperium is torn apart by a terrible and bloody civil war, the likes of which the galaxy has never seen. This audio drama anthology contains 10 tales from the best-selling Horus Heresy series.

Spend an afternoon antiquing, and it’s not hard to figure out why picking has become one of America’s fondest pastimes. It’s treasure hunting while connecting with history. But what if those treasures hunt us back? From old books, vinyl records, antique mirrors, vintage figurines, and a Bob’s big boy piggy bank, curses have no limits.

Nobody knew how it began. Nobody knew how it would end. All they knew was that they had to survive another day. ... and another night.

When word finally reaches him that his sister and her family have died a horrid death at the hands of a cattle baron and his craven cowhands, Taggart McBain comes down off the mountain with bear traps, a double barrel coach gun, two LeMats, and a Winchester. He's on the hunt. When the task is done and blood soaks the Nemesis, NV, desert, he receives a shock - his sister is still alive.

Young Bradon McTavish watches the bluecoats brutally hang his father and destroy everything he's known, and he escapes their wrath into the gun smoke and blood of war. Captured and paroled, only if he'll head west of the war, he rides the river into the wilds of the new territory of Montana where savages and grizzlies await. He discovers new friends and old enemies, and a woman formerly forbidden to him.

Harold's a city boy, but when daddy buys the Bar H it's time he gets his soft hands dirty...and all the good ol' boys on the cattle drive Harold joins are going to make damn sure he gets that and lots more. It's grow up, get tough, or get home with your tail twixt your legs!

TouchPoint Press presents Nightmares of Strangers, an anthology of 13 eerie stories that will spark feelings of unease and paranoia with just the right helping of fear to last beyond the night - a devilish deal, the return of the murderous H.H. Holmes, a ghost that isn’t what it seems, and other spine-tingling tales that will make you double-check the locks, look under the bed, and wonder what really made that loud “thump” in the attic.

Molly Mae has embarked on a new journey in the opposite direction of where she'd once been heading, and was unknowingly predestined to go due to the sins of her forefathers. Leaving behind the small town in rural Victoria where she was born, she relocates to Melbourne to start a new life. Having battled substance abuse for a decade and haunted by her own secrets and demons, she is determined to make a fresh start away from the scandal of her father's arrest, gaining him the notorious title of the country's most prolific serial killer.

Aw, the gracious days of the ranchos. Days when pastures were running with beef, lamb and pork; forests and plains with antelope, deer, bear, and elk; and streams crowded with salmon and trout. The adjacent sea and beaches yielded fish and shellfish. Ducks, geese, and sandhill cranes flew in skeins over chaparral where quail and partridge teased fox, coyote and cougar...and the grizzly ruled over all. The California Cocina traces the recipes of early Californians and those who clamored there for her gold. Journals and diaries offer insight into how things were done, food prepared, and ...

Beau Boone, starving, with half a left leg, at the end of his rope, falls off the train in the hell-on-wheels town of Nemesis. But Mr. Pettigrew intervenes. Beau owes him, but does he owe him his very life? Can a one-legged man sit shotgun in one of the toughest saloons on the Transcontinental? He can, if he doesn't have anything to lose.

One-Eyed Jacks, a quintessential western. The only film directed by the iconic actor Marlon Brando. Not a financial or critical success at the time, however now with attention rekindled by a re-master by Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese my belief it's one of the finest westerns ever made is fortified by the most film knowledgeable in the industry. The film is not listed among the top 100 westerns by my peers in Western Writer's of America. I take umbrage with that conclusion, as it's at or near the top of my list.

What do you want out of life? Mediocrity? If so, don't waste your money on this book. There's opportunity in every disaster! And this one is no different. Do you wish you'd have bought into the stock market in2009? Or started a business when much of the competition had given up? So, you want to be successful? I sold millions when others said real estate was finished. I built, with a partner, a publishing company when others were clamoring to get out. The world's highest paid profession is sales...but we all sell everyday. We sell our boss on giving us a raise. We sell our wife or husband on...

Do you want to increase sales, rise to the top of your game, train yourself or you employees in customer relations? The counter person, the telephone person, the delivery person are the keystones of a successful business. The customer is the ultimate boss. Oscar Rudnick, who arrived a teenager from Russia and built a ranching and meat packing empire, was fond of saying, "The customer is not always right, the customer is not always wrong…but the customer is always the customer." I don't know how it could be better said. Unless as by the fella who founded the world’s largest chain of ...

Abigail makes her choice and marries the love of her life, leaving heartbreak behind and consequences that she must face in the future. Basking in the glow of her newfound life, a life so different from her time spent in the orphanage, it is unrecognizable to her as she tries to adjust to situations she has never encountered before.

That Fated Night is a short prequel novella outlining exactly what happened on that night in 1875 when Abigail was abandoned at Emiliani House in Scotland. I wrote it as a heartfelt thank-you to those who have enjoyed everything in this series and still wanted more.