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Based on extensive interviews with conservative opponents of the president, Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles reveal why such a wide range of committed partisans chose to break with their longtime comrades in arms.

Beware of the night, for it shows no mercy. Anxieties run rampant as the last sprinklings of light twinkle out on the inky horizon. The shadows dance their choreography in the damp, dusky air. Night is taking over, and it knows how to keep a dark and deadly secret, for it allows no witnesses. And that screaming you hear nearby? Watch out, because you might be next. The Sinister Supernatural Stories series brings you delicious horror that focuses on elements of the supernatural. Pull up a chair and dig in, but never after dark—everyone knows bad things always happen after dark.

Shanghai. December 1941. Someone has murdered the city’s most powerful Chinese Comprador — just as the world is about to explode into World War II. The city is roiling. The Japanese military, already fighting an undeclared war with China, has steadily increased its armed presence in Shanghai. Only Britain’s International Settlement and France’s French Concession, both precariously-situated treaty enclaves within Shanghai’s city limits, remain free from Japanese occupation. Within this seething cauldron of conflicting interests and desires, where money, greed, organized crime, and ...

In March 2005, Dr. Steven Berk was kidnapped in Amarillo, Texas, by a dangerous and enigmatic criminal who entered his home, armed with a shotgun, through an open garage door. Dr. Berk's experiences and training as a physician, especially his understanding of Sir William Osler's treatise on aequanimitas, enabled him to keep his family safe, establish rapport with his kidnapper, and bring his captor to justice.

The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audiobook experience ideal for people who are fascinated by the beauty, insight and danger that awaits us all in the wild!

The exhilarating, inspiring story of Len Lomell, an Army Ranger who on D-Day almost single-handedly knocked out the big German guns before they could fire on the American invasion force, and whose later exploits spanned the most dramatic battles of World War II. Len Lomell was drafted to the...

This book provides a practical framework for understanding and complying with unclaimed property laws, covering legal foundations, property types, dormancy rules, reporting obligations, and audit exposure. It provides clear operational guidance, with industry-focused examples, governance considerations, and directly applicable risk management strategies. The book helps participants reduce their compliance risk, withstand audits, and implement defensible unclaimed property processes with confidence.

This book provides a clear, practical roadmap for avoiding probate by explaining how asset ownership, beneficiary designations, and legal structures determine whether court involvement is required at death. It walks through ten proven probate-avoidance strategies, highlighting when each method works, where it can fail, and how poor coordination can create unintended legal and financial risk. The book equips learners to evaluate probate-avoidance techniques confidently and integrate them into a coherent, efficient estate planning strategy.

The 7 Habits of Effective Auditors manual discusses the top seven tasks that an auditor should address in order to be as effective as possible. The suggestions cover a broad range of topics, including the need to revise the audit plan at regular intervals, why client relations management is so important, and how new auditors need to approach their work. The manual also describes how an internal auditor can become more effective. It is specifically designed for those auditors who want to improve their job performance.

For the passengers and crew, American Cruise Airlines Flight 839 was supposed to be a routine red-eye. But destiny often changes people’s lives in ways they can’t imagine. When a dinosaur fossil is unearthed in the central Nevada desert, the last thing Andrea Alejandro, a graduate student in paleontology, expected to find was the tail section of an airplane in the same strata of Earth. After Flight 839 crash lands in unfamiliar terrain, Sarah documents the daily routine she and her fellow passengers follow, waiting to be saved.

A SECRET WORTH KILLING FOR . . . . When Socrates Cheng is hired by a Civil War museum to investigate a burglary and recover stolen documents, he comes face-to-face with the most perilous and controversial investigation of his career as he learns that the documents contain an explosive and deadly secret: that revered Confederate General Robert E. Lee was born a black slave who passed for white. Pressed hard by the museum to recover the documents before their incendiary content becomes public, and suspected by homicide cops of having committed murder in the course of his investigation, ...

I’ve spent more time in school hallways than I can count. The clatter of lockers slamming shut, the low hum of whispered conversations, the hurried footsteps of students rushing to beat the bell; all of it has become as familiar to me as the sound of my own name. Some days, school feels like a second home, a place where friendships form in the gaps between lessons and where the smallest moments - a shared laugh, a passed note, a knowing glance across the room - become the ones you remember long after the final bell rings. Thuggish Itch: School is a collection of stories set in the world ...

Mercenary’s Courage, the eighth Wild Geese science fiction novel by Steven M. Silver, sees Kodomir attacked by Raiders – the generic title for thieves, pirates, slavers – using a nuclear weapon. Pretending to be guns for hire, the Wild Geese are sent covertly into the Frontier but discover the Raiders they search for may be partners with a Settled Worlds power bloc and the reality is far grimmer than simple raiding. Something very dark is happening in the Frontier and the Geese find its heart is found on Jeppesen, a place where the morning’s rising sun can bring incredible horror ...

Behind the polished walls of Thwaite Industries lies an empire greater than governments. Former Supreme Court Justice Irene Mercado is recruited into its highest ranks, where medical breakthroughs, hidden fortunes, and shadowy intelligence operations blur the line between corporation and country. But when Irene uncovers the company’s true reach—stretching into parallel worlds and entangled with alien threats—she realizes that power this vast can save lives or destroy them. Under an Autumn Sun is a provocative thriller where law, ethics, and power collide in choices that will shape ...

A cry for help comes from a colony in the Frontier as it is swept by disease. As Kodomir responds by sending a medical team, guarded by its Wild Geese battalion, no one realizes the Black Fire epidemic is an act of terrorism. As they try to help the colony, tragedy strikes Alisti Mahmud al-Kheyntamenti, the Geese’s commanding officer; he and his friend Gwielgi find themselves returning to a world of their shared past, a world of slavery that has made a deal with a devil, a devil who unleashes Black Fire across the stars. To keep him from doing worse, Kheyntamenti, struggling with grief, ...

Bumps and Bruises is a book of principles formulated over 28 years of observation, experience, and counsel, with thousands of individuals coping with disappointments, failed expectations, strained relationships, and broken dreams. From the vantage point of a physician, Dr. Hoer approaches the challenges we face in life much like treating a sickness. We first have to make the correct diagnosis to understand the origin of our discomfort. We then make the best treatment plan, a plan of action to get better, and learn habits and practices to prevent the ill health that plagues us all.

Four years have passed since the events in MANDARIN YELLOW when Socrates' Chinese heritage pulled him into the mysteries of his oriental roots. Socrates now is a wiser and more cynical investigator. In the time that has passed since MANDARIN YELLOW, Socrates' father has died and his mother has returned to her Greek origins, moving into a condominium populated by elderly Greek immigrants, including one woman who is reputed to be the direct descendant of the ancient Oracle at Delphi. And that is where Socrates' problems begin as Socrates, skeptical at first of the old woman's powers, soon ...

All practical Shelby Stewart wants is to build her PR career at the Boston zoo, and maybe find some nice guys to date. But long-buried memories of a childhood incident keep interrupting her plans, affecting her health one way after another. And when will she actually date someone her friends think is good enough for her? Ambitious Astrid Ericcson thinks she wrote the book on How to Get Ahead by Flirting. But she is forced to re-visit her career advancement strategy when her PR agency boss takes the innuendos to a whole new level, threatening her job and her safety.

It is 1994; Ellen Parker, a thirteen-year-old rural Ohio girl, is mourning the death of her cousin Eileen, killed by a wild bullet from a fight between the Steel Riders and a rival outlaw motorcycle gang, both struggling to control the methamphetamine trade out of Butler County. As Ellen and her family try to comfort one another, county Deputy Sheriff JJ Jeffers works with a federal task force to break up the trade but is becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress and his minor role. The summer stretches on and Ellen finds a sanctuary on the farm of her grandfather Tom. Then...

For the first time, the complete, exciting story of the landmark trial that led to the abolition of slavery in the Western world. The 1772 London trial of James Somerset, rescued from a ship bound for the West Indies slave markets, was a decisive turning point in history. As in the Scopes trial, two encompassing world views clashed in an event of passionate drama.