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Space Marines can be found fighting hundreds of wars across every sector of the Imperium - they are the will of the emperor made manifest. These audio dramas will bring you into their battles as never before, as bolt shells and chainswords lay waste to any who would stand against them.

On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through a quiet Chicago townhouse like a summer tornado and stabbed, strangled, and killed eight young nurses in a violent sexual rampage. By morning, only one nurse, Corazon Amurao, had miraculously survived, and her scream of terror was heard around the world. As the eight bodies were carried out of the small building, the coroner, who had seen the carnage up close, told a gathering crowd: "It is the crime of the century!"

The Adeptus Astartes are humanity's champions, superhuman warriors armed with the finest weapons and clad in mighty armour. They defend the Imperium of Mankind from all its myriad foes - the alien, the heretic and the daemon. There are a thousand Chapters of Space Marines across the Imperium, each with its own traditions and ways of waging war, but all have one thing in common - their total dedication to eradicating their enemies in the name of the Emperor. This audio drama anthology contains seven stories of the Space Marines.

Based on the early life of the West’s most quintessential hero, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, this book will keep you on your toes. Ned Beale crossed the country on horseback over 13 times. He was the hero of the Battle of San Pasqual, the leader of the great camel experiment, and carried the first evidence of the California gold rush to Congress. From there, Beale fought the slave trade, was an Indian agent in California, and so much more. Beale's exploits eclipsed those of Fremont, Stockton, Custer, and even Kit Carson's, who said of Beale, "I can't believe this man, Ned Beale." "What a ...

For more than 200 years, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind fought to reconquer the galaxy – led by the superhuman primarchs, the Space Marine Legions brought countless worlds back under the rule of ancient Terra. Now Horus, once honoured Warmaster and favoured son of the Emperor, has been corrupted by the whispered promises of Chaos. At his command the Imperium is torn apart by a terrible and bloody civil war, the likes of which the galaxy has never seen. This audio drama anthology contains 10 tales from the best-selling Horus Heresy series.

These stories will transport you to the heart-breaking internecine conflict known as the Horus Heresy. Each one of these audio dramas is a stirring tale of a long, vicious war that rages on into the 41st Millennium. Some of Black Library's best-known names have crafted thrilling, revealing and sometimes surprising audio dramas that shed more light on the galaxy spanning conflicts of the Horus Heresy.

As the Imperium of Mankind spreads across the galaxy, bringing all of humanity into its embrace, the advance is spearheaded by the primarchs, superhuman sons of the immortal Emperor. Each of these heroes is a warrior born and a leader bred, but darkness lurks in the hearts of some and threatens to tear apart all that they have worked to build. This audio drama anthology contains three full-cast tales, starring the primarchs Konrad Curze, better known as the sinister Night Haunter, and Perturabo, the Lord of Iron.

Spend an afternoon antiquing, and it’s not hard to figure out why picking has become one of America’s fondest pastimes. It’s treasure hunting while connecting with history. But what if those treasures hunt us back? From old books, vinyl records, antique mirrors, vintage figurines, and a Bob’s big boy piggy bank, curses have no limits.

They slaughtered his family… then handed him a badge. McBain comes home from the Civil War broken in body and spirit, carrying memories he can’t outrun and a rage he barely contains. He dreads facing what’s left of his past, until he learns there is nothing left at all. His sister and her family are dead. Murdered. Grief hardens into purpose. The same men who destroyed his bloodline now expect him to uphold the law. But the war taught McBain one thing: justice isn’t always clean. And some debts can only be paid in blood. They made him a lawman. He intends to make them pay. This wild...

TouchPoint Press presents Nightmares of Strangers, an anthology of 13 eerie stories that will spark feelings of unease and paranoia with just the right helping of fear to last beyond the night - a devilish deal, the return of the murderous H.H. Holmes, a ghost that isn’t what it seems, and other spine-tingling tales that will make you double-check the locks, look under the bed, and wonder what really made that loud “thump” in the attic.

Nobody knew how it began. Nobody knew how it would end. All they knew was that they had to survive another day. ... and another night.

Young Bradon McTavish watches the bluecoats brutally hang his father and destroy everything he's known, and he escapes their wrath into the gun smoke and blood of war. Captured and paroled, only if he'll head west of the war, he rides the river into the wilds of the new territory of Montana where savages and grizzlies await. He discovers new friends and old enemies, and a woman formerly forbidden to him.

Harold's a city boy, but when daddy buys the Bar H it's time he gets his soft hands dirty...and all the good ol' boys on the cattle drive Harold joins are going to make damn sure he gets that and lots more. It's grow up, get tough, or get home with your tail twixt your legs!

Molly Mae has embarked on a new journey in the opposite direction of where she'd once been heading, and was unknowingly predestined to go due to the sins of her forefathers. Leaving behind the small town in rural Victoria where she was born, she relocates to Melbourne to start a new life. Having battled substance abuse for a decade and haunted by her own secrets and demons, she is determined to make a fresh start away from the scandal of her father's arrest, gaining him the notorious title of the country's most prolific serial killer.

That Fated Night is a short prequel novella outlining exactly what happened on that night in 1875 when Abigail was abandoned at Emiliani House in Scotland. I wrote it as a heartfelt thank-you to those who have enjoyed everything in this series and still wanted more.

Abigail makes her choice and marries the love of her life, leaving heartbreak behind and consequences that she must face in the future. Basking in the glow of her newfound life, a life so different from her time spent in the orphanage, it is unrecognizable to her as she tries to adjust to situations she has never encountered before.

Abigail’s journey to Melbourne, Australia, has blessed her with friendships that will last a lifetime—but has left her even more confused by the auras she has seen since she could first remember. Finding the further she travels from home, the more common they become, and she cannot confide in another soul for fear of retribution. Feeling even more alone when she arrives in Geelong, Abigail finds all is not what it seemed or was promised. She faces an impossible choice that will impact her future—a future she feels she has no control over that leaves her torn between two men.

When word finally reaches him that his sister and her family have died a horrid death at the hands of a cattle baron and his craven cowhands, Taggart McBain comes down off the mountain with bear traps, a double barrel coach gun, two LeMats, and a Winchester. He's on the hunt. When the task is done and blood soaks the Nemesis, NV, desert, he receives a shock - his sister is still alive.

Beau Boone, starving, with half a left leg, at the end of his rope, falls off the train in the hell-on-wheels town of Nemesis. But Mr. Pettigrew intervenes. Beau owes him, but does he owe him his very life? Can a one-legged man sit shotgun in one of the toughest saloons on the Transcontinental? He can, if he doesn't have anything to lose.

Do you want to increase sales, rise to the top of your game, train yourself or you employees in customer relations? The counter person, the telephone person, the delivery person are the keystones of a successful business. The customer is the ultimate boss. Oscar Rudnick, who arrived a teenager from Russia and built a ranching and meat packing empire, was fond of saying, "The customer is not always right, the customer is not always wrong…but the customer is always the customer." I don't know how it could be better said. Unless as by the fella who founded the world’s largest chain of ...