A deeply revealing memoir of big wins and hard lessons from a seasoned executive caught smack in the middle of the trillion-dollar soft power struggle pitting China against Hollywood, the NBA, and American business."Paced like a thriller, . . . Chris Fenton's bracingly candid business memoir Feeding the Dragon takes [listeners] deep behind the scenes of Hollywood's shaky foothold in China. Dealing at the highest levels with Chinese government officials and...

He’s known by many names: Thanatos. Horseman. God’s last angel. And then, of course, there's the one I’m all too familiar with—Death.The day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond’s town and kills everyone in one fell swoop, the last thing he expects to see is a woman left alive and standing. But Lazarus has her own extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed—not by humans, not by the elements, not by Death himself.She is the one soul Death doesn’t recognize....

"An exciting novelette set in Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress world.A romantic getaway for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband Bones is cut short when they’re called on to guard a spoiled heiress with a price on her head, and an undead hitman on her trail.What starts as a simple bodyguard job ends up being a fight for survival that neither Cat, nor Bones saw coming.Performed by Yasmin Tuazon, Danny Gavigan, Carolyn Kashner, Holly Adams, Shawn K. Jain, Christopher...

"Penny could've had no idea of the amount of explosive magic that runs through her blood. Now she is on the run, fighting for her life and her freedom from a ruthless organization that would use her to dominate the magical world.Something has always been missing from my life. A hole that I could never seem to fill.When I accidentally turn a coven of witches into nightmares, I find out what that something is.Magic.And it turns out, I have a crap load of it.

The question was, “What am I supposed to do in life?”The answer: “Be generous.”Think about the most successful people you know—those with wealth, power, and status. Are they happy? Are they enlightened? Are they fulfilled? Maybe, and maybe not. Sometimes the glitz of a social-media façade hides a lonely, unfilled, and unrewarding life.Chances are, the happiest, most grateful, and most graceful people you know are the ones who have p...

When Sheldon enters an entrepreneurship competition, he expects challenges — not distractions. But Shane, a flamboyant, chaotic man with too many rings and far too much charisma, becomes both. Between business deals, banter, and a disastrous "platonic date," Sheldon learns that success isn't always about winning… sometimes, it's about who you meet along the way.It turns out even the most serious man can fall for a fool — or maybe, two fools can fall together.

Hugo has one goal - to conquer the Impossible Thing.At the edge of the forest stood the Impossible Thing. All the animals in the forest often wondered what was beyond the Impossible Thing, but since everyone said getting through it would be impossible, no animal ever tried.Until a brave little dog named Hugo decides he just might be up to the challenge. With determination and some unexpected help from his friends, Hugo learns that what may seem impossible m...

Mercy Thompson is a shapeshifter, and while she was raised by werewolves, she can never be one of them, especially after the pack ran her off for having a forbidden love affair. So she’s turned her talent for fixing cars into a business and now runs a one-woman mechanic shop in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State. But Mercy’s two worlds are colliding.A half-starved teenage boy arrives at her shop looking for work, only to reveal that he’s a newly changed werewolf—on the run and...

Prompted by the need for accessible teaching materials on Central Asian literature and history, this anthology surveys the literature of modern Central Asia from the late 19th century to the present. Genres range from oral literature and folk tales to essays, prose, drama, and poetry. The anthology is divided into five sections: oral literature; pre-Revolutionary written literature; Soviet literature through the Stalin era; Soviet literature of the post-Stalin era; and literature of contem...

"U.S. Marshal Will Tanner is a man of the law, not a gun for hire. Except when a friend’s in danger and needs the Tanner brand of help that comes out the barrel of a gun.There’s serious trouble brewing in the Choctaw nation, and it goes by the name of Tiny McCoy. This small-time cattle rustler is expanding his brand by brewing batches of whiskey in the Chocktaw territory of Muddy Boggy Creek. Tiny and his partner have also turned the illegal brewery into a robber’s roost for outlaw...

The bestselling post-apocalyptic saga continues!When they wander into a war-torn prairie, Ryan and his Companions are rapidly forced to pick a side. Aiding a Baron more mystic than man, they face off against a ravenous army.Battle rages, ancient mysticism takes hold, but the feud becomes personal when a tyrant sets his sights on Ryan's lover, Krysty. Each dawn brings bloodshed, each night - terror. As mythology mixes with warfare, no one can guess what will emerge from the ...

"Sometimes there's a town called Indianola.And sometimes there isn't.June, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and sweltering, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast.Except there is something remarkable. Memories shimmer and change. Lizards whisper riddles under the pecan trees. People disappear as if they never existed. Yes...