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Bazyli Breznik used to rule the world, but now the centuries old vampire is at the bottom of the food chain. He's broke and drives a yellow cab in NYC. He sleeps in the trunk. He's an alcoholic. His only friends are drunks. He's a murderer and believes he's the most evil creature on earth.

The US Army acquires a new top-secret energy source. News of this discovery leaked into the wrong hands, Iraq’s Tariq'Allah. They offer Captain Eric Miller a bribe to participate in espionage for a kickback. The military intelligence officer refuses. This clandestine encounter leaves one of the foreign emissaries dead.

Bobby grew up on the streets of San Francisco in the 50’s and 60’s. Married at 17 and a small-time Marijuana dealer moves further into crime and addiction. Joined the US Navy at age 28, trying to get away from the street life, loses his family and himself in Skid Row of Los Angeles. “The Nickel” Finds redemption and recovery in a free county-run rehab center. This is a story of unconditional love, addiction, redemption, and forgiveness. And most importantly, God’s gift of desperation he received.

It is 1942. Four badly wounded, medically discharged veterans fight one last battle for their friends and country in the steamy streets of Chinatown, Hawaii! President Roosevelt orders all the money in Hawaii collected, destroyed, and replaced by money with Hawaii written across the back of each bill—funny money that the Japs can't use if they invade the Hawaiian Islands, if Guadalcanal falls. Millions of dollars collected and some of the money is about to be taken by anybody who is somebody.

As told through the eyes of a boy, this story explores the boy's experience with a loss and how he travels through memories with hope to a place of being okay. I Woke Up Without an Ed was written to address death, loss, bereavement, grief, and healing in a sensitive way, with the hope it will help people, and especially children, navigate from a difficult path of loss to a place of healing. A solid addition to libraries, the book can be an aid for families, teachers and educators, counselors, and others.

After winding up loose ends of several ongoing operations, Chief Robbins was sure that there was nothing left for the day and went home to catch some sleep. Being part of the Border Patrol, it was no surprise for Chief Robbins and his teams to get calls at odd hours of the night, and often it would make them jump from their beds. Nevertheless, everyone on the Border Patrol was used to such incidences. Lately, there had been only a few significant incident calls received during the night. However, their bubble was soon to burst.

In Take Control of Your Life, J. Paul Nadeau combines his personal experiences and insights from his many years as a police detective, hostage negotiator, and international peacekeeper to help us overcome the self-sabotaging thoughts and attitudes that prevent us from becoming our best selves and achieving our dreams to the fullest. This book is saving lives and helping many people reclaim the lives they deserve. The stories echo blockbuster movies and are followed by guideposts and lessons that help us negotiate our way out of self-sabotage's devasting grip.

Slug Wiseman, Michael Flowers’ Jackal - intelligent, sometimes humane, ingenious, inhumane, Stone Age-ugly, a mystery, a rare breed, and monstrous - is the most wanted. In Michael Flowers' intriguing, spine-tingling thriller, Slug is arrested, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death by lethal injection. But when Slug reaches out after death, determined to prey on those who have either endorsed or witnessed his execution, and his quest approaches its climactic horror, the nation is once again reduced to tremulous gibbering in what is set in the aftermath of a horrific execution.

Kyle is an ordinary young man working in Japan through a foreign exchange program. Ordinary? Well, nothing about him is ordinary anymore. After a freak accident involving some mysterious ink in the lab, he is imbued with very unusual powers. Originally fearful of its effects, he begins to enjoy his new powers and even craves more.

Cade Myers was enjoying his transition from big city homicide detective to small town sheriff. The pace of his new town is much slower, and the crime rate is almost non-existent. In his first year, the only crime he encountered was littering. Paperwork was his biggest problem, until one night on his way home, he finds a woman with head trauma and drenched, on the side of the road.

We all have thoughts on subjects like life, politics, education, and relationships. But are our thoughts actually our own? How often do we really dissect the roots of what we think and believe? Society is full of people reacting their way through life and wondering why they arrive at the outcomes they do. It's time for a thought revolution!

Fifty years ago, a vicious animal attack sparked by the lunar calendar destroyed a small farming family north of Dallas, Texas. Against the clock, Rob and Mel Florchett must solve the mystery behind the attack in 1970 and put the pieces of their family back together. Along the way they befriend locally renowned psychologist, Dr. Maria Sheltie. Through their combined research and bravery they outwit the CIA and survive the brutality of a Mexican cartel boss. But will family, friendship and pure luck be enough to prevent the world as we know it from an all out animal apocalypse?

Meet Ebenezer Cosmen. He's a computer programmer and a writer - a middle-of-the-road man with conventional needs and a relaxed attitude towards worldly things. He lives alone with a small cohort of trusted comrades. He wrote a fictional novel about a serial killer that was later imitated by an actual killer. Obviously, he became a little less middle-of-the-road after that. This recognition propelled his book sales to heights he never imagined. He enjoyed the success for over a decade until the killer was captured.

The perfect serial killer discovers that not all victims are the same. A rookie cop sent to a dead woman’s apartment. Confession takes on an entirely new dimension for a disillusioned priest. In An Attended Death, there are stories for listeners of every persuasion, including several heartfelt pieces about the fears all human beings face. The introspective mind of Anthony James Mazza reaches into the worlds of good versus evil and explores the subtle shadows that can change our lives, from what we understand, to that which can never be believed.

Discover the unbreakable unity of the Holy Scriptures and be free from the cognitive dissonance that plagues modern believers. Discover the encrypted code that runs all through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, the connection between the Old Testament Law and the New Covenant, the difference between legalism and lawfulness, and the Scriptural way of loving God. Apologia for the Law and the Sabbath is an audacious and in-your-faith way of looking at the Bible that causes the heart to burn with passion.

At an early point in his yacht delivery, career, Capt. Bob Ventura had become painfully aware of the dangers and possible pitfalls of pursuing yacht deliveries in the dangerous waters of the Caribbean during the 70s and 80s. He began moving boats to South America at a time when the Columbian cartels had a commanding and very dangerous presence in parts of the Caribbean, but the thrill of danger and adventure overpowered any misgivings he may have had.

Having been drugged, hypnotized, and conditioned, Paul Remmich believes the Tariq'Allah organization is a force for good in the world. Delighted with his performance when stealing documents from the US, the underground Tariq'Allah once again deploy him on a new mission. The scheme is to abduct another man to increase their profits. Major Eric Miller is the target. He extends his military intelligence role and also accepts a position in the CIC, the counterintelligence corps. A temporary transfer to Cuba is both a training exercise and a hunt for AWOL soldiers.

It's 1943, and Gunny Mac and the boys go to Cleveland when saboteurs destroy Alan Burke's father's ship-building factory on the Cuyahoga River needed to build Liberty ships. Father John is murdered in the confessional at the Shrine of St. Stanislaus, and Mac will burn down Cleveland to find those responsible.

Former hostage negotiator, international peacekeeper and professional interrogator J. Paul Nadeau spent over 31 years as a police officer and specialist, studying human behavior and the art of friendly persuasion. Paul talked hostage-takers into giving up, criminals into confessing, and terrorists into cooperating, and he now offers his persuasion techniques and principles to you in this informative and easy-to-follow guide.

The world is plunged into an all out animal apocalypse, but a single hope is sought to return the order of man and beast back to normal. Mel Florchett joins the CIA team headed by Benjamin Masters as they combat this lunar induced disaster to put man back at the top of the food chain. Meanwhile, Rob Florchett and Dr. Maria Sheltie uncover the sinister plot behind the Chow company’s continued intentional use of the GMO weaponized pet food.