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Hawk goes down under when an Australian bookie is flung head-first from an exclusive tower restaurant by syndicate hitmen. Hawk aims to take on the Godfather himself, and the gun wielding hoods train their sights on him. But who’s behind the bold scheme to muscle in on the Sydney underworld? The gutless Tony Santoni, the ill-suited heir to a gangland empire in the States? Or someone with a flair for the dramatic - like the elusive actress who has made Hawk her captive audience?

The Deadly Crusader finds himself in the thick of an electrifying plot to bring to bring an energy-starved America to its knees. Nuclear plants and oil tankers are sabotaged, refineries are set afire - and he is being blamed!

Hawk sets out to tackle the power-crazed power barons and short-circuit the monstrous scheme - and meets a gorgeous environmentalist with unnaturally “natural” charms.

When Leo Nolan's father dies in 1995, his stepson, Adam, now twenty-one, finally asks the question that he has never asked, the question he could never ask. He asks it simply. "Is my father alive?" Thus begins this new odyssey to Dayton, Ohio, to the past, accompanied by family ghosts and the hard truths of the present. Leo's quest is both simple and complex: the need in the human heart for redemption, resolution and homecoming.

Based on a series of interviews with self-perfection guru Jim Hoenfhmfjn (pronounced "Hinfmfn"), Awaken Your Perfect Self introduces the listener to Jim's philosophies in 15 easy-to-digest life lessons. Learn how to put yourself before others, take instead of give, and stop being a follower and become a leader. Propel your life forward and achieve ultimate success - start perfecting yourself today!

On a streetcar, on Christmas Day, 1950, clutching the chrome rail in front of him, Martin Radey looks at the woman seated beside him, a stranger, and utters his last words: "I can't breathe." Like millions, billions before him, it is his turn to die. But death is not what he expected. The journey has only begun. From 1880 to 1950, time happens to the world around him, not to memory, because memory, he discovers, is beyond time, traveling forward with him, shaping the earth, the sky, the heart.

Getting your employees to do their best work has never been easy. But it is a particular challenge for knowledge workers, who must attend to many different tasks and whose to-do list is often ambiguous, requiring outside-the-box thinking. Lists of dos and don'ts are rarely effective. Instead, your best bet is to align their interests with your own - the heart of motivation - and set them free to use their own drive and creativity on their, and your, behalf.

In a small Kansas town 40 years ago, a reasonably strong case could be put up in favor of leaving school early. Most of us knew our lives would be spent on the farm or in one of the local stores or at the creamery or elevator. The quickest road to practical knowledge was to do. Fortunately, we came of stock that set the school on the same plane as the home and church; the value of education had been bred into us.

A floating coffin draws Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner into a murder investigation in hidden parts of New York Harbor and the old Brooklyn Navy Yard in this second novel in Edgar Award nominee Gabriel Cohen’s acclaimed crime series.

Celaphais tells the story of a man who is the sole survivor of his family and just a nameless face among the other inhabitants of London. Depressed and fed up with life, he begins to favor the alternate reality he discovers while dreaming and even creates a new identity for himself, Kuranes. While "living" as Kuranes, he discovers his dream utopia of Celaphais in the Valley of Ooth-Nargai. Much to his disappointment, Kuranes is continually pulled away from Celaphais and begins to try harder and harder to find it again and live there forever.

It is on this planet, where only the Windmasters can summon the devastating power of rain, gale, thunder, and lightning, that the last surviving remnants of humankind have come, fleeing the destruction of their empire at the hands of the alien Csendook. And it is here the human race will be resurrected...or exterminated. The sorcerers of this barbaric, inhospitable world have vowed to cleanse Innasmorn of the uninvited "abomination".

Best-selling author Daniel Kirk's Library Mouse was praised by Booklist as a "showstopper." In A Museum Adventure, Sam the library mouse and his friend Sarah visit a museum so that Sam can sketch in his explorer's journal. Sarah doesn't understand how explorers can possibly have the time - or the desire - to keep a journal. So Sam shows her how a journal can contain so much more than just writing. As the friends search the museum, they see many new things - and make an unexpected friend.

Barack Obama arrived in Washington in 2008 symbolizing the political change he promised on the campaign trail during his historic presidential victory. But in many ways, Washington changed Obama more than Obama changed Washington. This is the story of how the idealist of the 2008 campaign evolved into a hard-nosed pragmatist, shelving his promise of a new kind of politics to fight increasingly partisan budget battles and run a bare-knuckles re-election campaign.

"You are fond of Bach?" asked a gentle but surprisingly penetrating voice on my right. I knew as much about Bach as I know about nuclear fission. I did, however, know one of the most famous faces in the world, with his renowned shock of untidy white hair and an ever-present pipe between his teeth.

After her son's senseless murder, Linda Zweigle knew she could help one dying man. She had no idea, however, just how many lives would eventually be saved as a result.

The trail went cold for the massive team of trackers - until a dog named Gandalf appeared on the scene.

Despite nearly giving up on his education in his youth, Yang-chin Chi would go on to found South Korea's first private social-welfare center for the poor and become a renowned scholar.

True stories of hope, heart, and happiness presented by the editors of Reader's Digest.

Page, my younger brother by four years, has been brain damaged from birth. He does not speak, cannot hear, and sees poorly through his remaining eye. A wall of autism shuts him away from the outside world, and he spends most of his time lost in his own musings, nodding, laughing, clucking, and crying at a pageant only he can see. But for all the grief it brings, Page's condition is also a remarkable and precious gift.

Prey: A young, homeless man arrested for a gruesome crime; a respected politician bound for higher office; detective Shane Calvin finds himself caught in the middle as two seemingly disparate lives collide, the weight of their secrets threatening to destroy them all.

Brooklyn South homicide detective Jack Leightner is at home enjoying a quiet day off when a stranger appears at his door and completely overturns his understanding of his own past. The following day, what looks like a mundane killing in a Brooklyn deli takes a bizarre turn when a crew of Homeland Security agents suddenly show up wearing anti-radiation gear.