This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It’s 1975, and Ray Hayward is stuck…A successful Safeway manager in Southern California, Ray has spent decades doing everything right. He’s built a career, raised a family, bought a house on the hill, and settled into the comfortable routines of middle-class American life. But after a frightening bout of pneumonia leaves him confronting his own mortality, Ray finds himself awake night after night, filled with anxiety.The...

This volume contains three short stories of speculative fiction - "Press The Record Button," "In The Heavens As On Earth" and "Real Life Fiction." Each story explores possibilities at the end of our known world. Time travel, manipulation of reality, nuclear war, reincarnation, chance, and a host of other ideas are woven through these various stories.

What happened in 2012? Where was the big, end of the world event everyone was waiting for? When would the Golden Age begin? These questions and more are answered by Billy Hero, who is on the move. He’s recovering from partial amnesia and narcolepsy due to his most recent battle with the Nagas. The story follows him from New Mexico to Denver, through some Deep Underground Bases on his way to Minneapolis to meet with his old friend, the Reverend T.J. Clemons, who broadcasts his gospel messag...

How far would you pursue a dreamif it meant requisite isolation?If every artless responsebegan to fester a mutiny amongst your closest of friends,would you stay true?On who would you depend for encouragementif everyone you knew arched their chest against you,or turned and sank away?What would you do to protect an idea,to keep safe your future?What did God do?Elohiyms decision to give his creation the ab...

From haunted Civil War battlefields to a severed ear discovered on a nightly run; from lab-grown dinosaurs to forest creatures that steal away children under the cover of night; from deadly bio-engineered fleas to a burning teenage desire for cybernetic amputations: Deaf and hard of hearing authors from around the world bring you this fun, though oftentimes disturbing, collection of short fiction."So often the future we imagine is homogenous: everyone has the same baseline abilitie...

It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes.Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings—but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.A word from Louis L'Amour:"Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote s...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It’s 1975, and Ray Hayward is stuck…A successful Safeway manager in Southern California, Ray has spent decades doing everything right. He’s built a career, raised a family, bought a house on the hill, and settled into the comfortable routines of middle-class American life. But after a frightening bout of pneumonia leaves him confronting his own mortality, Ray finds himself awake night after night, filled with anxiety.The...

The Canadian Federal Election of 2011 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters, written by leading academics, examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties the Conservatives (Faron Ellis and Peter Woolstencroft), the Liberals (Brooke Jeffrey), the New Democrats (David McGrane), the Bloc Qubcois (Eric Belanger and Richard Nadeau), and the Green Party (Susan Harada).Also featured in this vo...

The Canadian General Election of 2004 is the definitive study of the campaign and the election. The 2004 edition includes analyses of:The campaigns of the 4 major parties and smaller partiesThe role of newspapers, television and the internet in the campaignsThe pre-election pollsVoting patterns across the countryThe rise in non-votingArticles are contributed from leading Canadian political writers, commentators a...

The Canadian Federal Election of 2008 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters are written by leading professors of political science, journalism, and communications. They examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties – the Conservatives (Faron Ellis and Peter Woolstencroft), Liberals (Brooke Jeffrey), New Democrats (Lynda Erickson and David Laycock), Bloc Québécois (Eric Belanger and Richard Nad...

Many saw it as a gamble for Jean Chretien: against the advice of party members, he called an early election. But the gamble paid off, and the Liberal Party cruised to their third straight majority government.The Canadian General Election of 2000 is the authoritative study of the campaign and election. As with previous volumes in the Canadian General Election series, the 2000 edition includes analyses of:the campaigns of all five major partiesthe rol...

Frank and Sunny’s humans are bringing home their nibling for a visit. But what exactly is a “nibling”? Frank says it’s a small bite of something, and Sunny thinks that sounds delicious.But then there is a knock on their door, and this nibling is a far cry from what they expected! Nelly has strong ideas about how to play and what constitutes fun, including a nauseating basket ride around the house and a mandatory play wedding—with costumes!—between Frank and Captain Keith, the parro...