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Dr. Rory Milner is just beginning to understand what it takes to survive an ER residency. In his second year, he’s changed programs to gain additional experience. But not only does he need to manage the ins and outs of the ER, Rory also needs to navigate around his brother, a charge nurse, who feels Rory should toe his line, especially when it comes to Garth, one of the ER nurses. As a nurse in the ER, Garth West has pretty much seen it all.

After losing communications during an off-the-books operation, Army Rangers Lieutenant Jason Stafford and Sergeant Miga Raines lead a squadron of soldiers back to mainland America. In their efforts to return to Fort Moore, they discover that a ravenous plague has spread across the globe. As the losses mount, they learn some of the horrific truths about this dreaded airborne virus—including the fact that, for some unknown reason, children are not infected while almost the entire adult population succumbs and craves human flesh.

All About Coffee is a fascinating and in-depth account of the coffee trade written by William H. Ukers, a coffee expert who traveled all over the world for his research. This superb book has long been referred to as 'the bible of the coffee trade' and continues to be regularly referenced.

Santa's Christmas schedule has run into a major problem - all his reindeer, even the heroic Rudolph, are too ill to fly. However, a promising solution to Santa's dilemma is offered from an unlikely source - the eccentric elf Melvin.

The premier Russian dramatist before Chekov, Alexander Ostrovsky was one of the first masters of realistic theatre. A typical example of his approach to drama, A Protégée of the Mistress is almost cinematic in its presentation. The action is represented by a series of vivid snapshots, in which Ostrovsky quickly and subtly illustrates the foibles and weaknesses of each character, and shows how they are forced into a hostile dependence on each other.

Climate change has at last caught up with the North Pole: an extended unseasonable burst of hot weather has brought toy production to a halt. Unscrupulous entrepreneur Milt Landon has taken advantage of the new climatic conditions and is trying to turn the North Pole into a tourist trap. Will Santa be able to return his home to its native state and deliver the toys in time for Christmas?

After many years living abroad with her longtime lover, Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney visits her former marital home, now occupied by her son, Arnold, and his wife, Elizabeth. Also present is her estranged husband, Clive, who lives in a cottage on the estate. Elizabeth has become dissatisfied with the life she leads with her wealthy husband, who is very occupied with his political career, and she encourages the advances of a dashing but impecunious suitor, Teddy Luton.

Although he achieved notable success as a novelist, poet, essayist, and painter, August Strindberg is best known today as one of the first and most significant masters of naturalist theatre. Among his many dramatic works are a number of one-act plays, four of which are presented in this recording. All of the plays feature a persistent theme in Strindberg's works: the inevitable disillusion that results from intense involvement in relationships, whether they be familial, romantic or circumstantial.

Rosmersholm is a play surrounding the deep and intense political and cultural change in Norway in the middle of the 1880s, a period during which the traditional ruling class were forced to relinquish their right to impose their ideals on the rest of society. We follow Johannes Rosmer, a pastor who has resigned from his position; Rebecca West, a woman who sees Rosmer's potential and believes she can help him to realize his dream of creating a world of "happy, noble people"; and Headmaster Kroll, Rosmer's former best friend.

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service, We’re in Business ran for two series between 1959 and 1960. It starred Peter Jones as dodgy small-time businessman Dudley Grosvenor, who’s always looking to make a fast buck with his crooked schemes – usually at the expense of his hapless sidekick, Harry (Harry Worth). Dudley spends his life lurching from one crisis to another, secure in the belief that “it might never happen" – but when it inevitably does, both men end up in a fix…

This is a small collection of three short stories - all dealing with homicidal characters.

Pride has lost his memory and doesn't remember or care why. All he knows is he is the top earner of the club beside the owner. A young gentlemen buys his time through a charity auction and his memory starts to return....

In a modern twist of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and A CHRISTMAS CAROL, firefighter Jeff Roberts revisits the journey of his life in the presence of his death....

A routine house fire in Arlington, Indiana, proves to be anything but when an explosion shatters the lives of the crew of Engine 3. Captain Patrick O'Keefe, Engineer Eddie Bennett, Firefighter Calvin Landry and Probationary trainee Emma Turner find themselves in a battle for survival after a near-fatal explosion.

The teenaged boy states as he gives her a final kiss goodbye and gets on the bus. He fixes a mask over his face. It is the hardest thing he has had to do in his life. He looks back and waves and rushes to a seat close to the road. He knows if he see her, he will not make it to college. He wants to better himself for her to give her a better life.

Everyone needs a pen pal, including teachers. Keith found a pen pal, and has fallen in love with her. What will happen when he finds out who she really is?

After encouraging his savant daughter to build a theoretical time machine, Eduardo Solmar scrambles to complete the project after Elishia mysteriously vanishes. His tampering with time reveals more about his future and the dangers of ripping the fabric of the space-time continuum.

A hybrid of human and the much larger deHera species, Skot bears witness to the genocide of the native deHera people. Never truly accepted by the humans, he finds himself banished to a dystopian planet in the savage throes of its own death. Fighting off vicious monsters and the suicidal pull of isolation, the warrior without a world stumbles upon a way out.