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As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of the production process, with far-reaching consequences.

After receiving praise from watchmakers, engineers, and Golden Age Hollywood celebrities in 1940s Los Angeles, the Charles Allison Collection disappeared. This treasure trove contained thirteen hand-crafted timepieces—including a mystery clock—which had received kudos from Gene Krupa (drummer, The Benny Goodman Orchestra) and Mary Astor (actor, The Maltese Falcon), among other well-known names of the era. After a generation of family stories, Charles’ New York-based grandson, Greg, resolved to find his grandfather’s missing collection.

Three events transpired in 1492 in the Iberian Peninsula, which had tremendous ramifications for years to come. The first was the conquest of Granada, i.e., the last Muslim stronghold, by Castilian and Aragonese forces. The victory ended eight hundred years of Islam-ic rule. The conquest of Granada eventually also led to the conversions of many Muslims to Christianity, the phenomenon of Crypto-Islam, and the eventual expulsion of the descendants of these converts in 1609.

Thirty years after the shocking and unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm, an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church’s immigrant janitor is also slain, execution style. The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church’s time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman, and his improbable partner, Maggie Lindberg, the murdered clergyman’s stylish young assistant, join forces to search for the killers.

This audiobook will restore your faith in life. It might even save your life. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is not “based on a true story”; it is a true story. More precisely, it is a memoir of dozens of Dr. Tom Schneider’s true stories: from devilish schoolboy hijinks to death-defying heroics during his time in the military, and even a heated disagreement with his boss: the US Surgeon General. You’ll start listening to The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man because you want to hear those stories, and you'll love them.

Warm your heart, put a smile on your face, and get ready for a bellyful of laughs with this collection of four original romantic comedies. Featuring laugh-out-loud tales by some of today’s most talented authors, The Scent of a Man will pull you into the world of true love and the antics and misadventures that it takes to find it.

Set in fictional Hamilton, Maine, a widower named Spencer buys a house to fulfill a promise to his deceased wife and child, who he lost tragically years prior. Shortly after moving in, he learns that his house has the ability to heal and restore itself. When he finds a skeleton key that has powers of its own, he uncovers dark secrets about the house’s past and is taken on a journey that forces him to confront the darkness within himself.

The wife of the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister is missing. The circumstantial evidence implicates her husband as a plausible suspect. The sordid details are complicated by the fact that they are on vacation in the South of France when the incident occurs. Following the clues and Weston’s unconventional insight ultimately lead the team to the epicenter of terrorism operations deep inside the borders of Yemen and to the sordid web of one of the most radical and influential terrorist networks.

A faux history of the people and events of the Palm Springs area from 1916-1930.

After years of mourning the death of his beloved father, Lord Donahue finds himself trapped in a state of drunken despair in his family’s castle. He wishes for nothing more than to speak with his father one last time, but when his wish is granted by a witchy medium, he finds himself faced with a terror stronger than any he’s ever known before it. As a demon freshly released from Hell torments him within his own home, Lord Donahue must do everything in his power to survive while still holding on to what sanity still remains with him.

Michael B. Druxman followed his dreams to Hollywood, and although he may not have "reached the stars", his persistence made it possible for the vast majority of those dreams to come true. His new book My Forty-Five Years in Hollywood and How I Escaped Alive, a memoir, is the story of that remarkable adventure.

Returning to his boyhood in Seattle, Michael explores with greater depth his journey to Los Angeles where, without any show business contacts whatsoever, he was able to create a successful career for himself as a publicist, playwright, screenwriter, director, and Hollywood historian. From Rock Hudson and Christopher Lee to George Raft and Frank Sinatra; from playwright Tennessee Williams and legendary producer Roger Corman, the work is filled with amusing stories of his encounters and the lessons he learned from Hollywood's rich and famous.

Fourteen-year-old Tyler Thompson has been in isolation for eight months to complete the last bit of his superhero training. Just as he is about to finish, his grandfather Ben and mentor Master Pat Tanaka urgently summon him to investigate an abnormality within the San Andreas Fault causing devastating earthquakes. After successfully disabling the cause of the earthquakes, Tyler finds that he is being framed for the largest mass murder in American history and must now focus the powers of Metatron to clear his name.

It was the land of the Alaska Gold Rush, where nuggets were said to be the size of goose eggs, where men froze to death in search of the elusive yellow metal, and dancehall girls lured overnight millionaire sourdoughs into marriage. Honky-tonk pianos punctuated the howl of the north wind in towns that were half-tent and half-ramshackle collections of driftwood, whalebone, and packing cases. It was a time of whiskey and gold and long, lonely trails behind a dogsled. It was, in a word, ALASKA.

Memories of an Italian Holocaust refugee as told to his son.

Agustin Blazquez's THE KILLER FLIES OF LUXOR, a novel about an artist's escape from Cuba into a dream-world of art and movies, illustrates Braque's insight that "Art is a wound turned into light."

What does it take to make a domestic terrorist out of your average law-abiding citizen? For Adam Johnston, it didn't happen overnight, but ask yourself how you would react if your father was accused of treason when his only crime was advocating anti-war policy? How would you handle being arrested knowing that you were innocent and that you were only being used by the government as leverage against your own family?

Stories of the vengeful ghosts, psychotic vagrants, zombie dogs, junkies, musicians, traumatized veterans, road-tripping vampires, church socials that go demonically wrong, and shady antiques dealers, all of whom haunt the backroads and small towns of Vermont.

Beyond Reality is an enthralling anthology of genuine lucid dream encounters compiled and curated by Anna Demis, featuring captivating accounts shared by individuals from all over the world, including her personal experiences that add an additional layer of depth and insight to the collection.